The heavy teaching load of some 20+ hours per week, makes it a little difficult to keep an active research record. But dispite of it, I manage to keep quite a few research projects running.

Most of my research activity recently has been very applied in nature, usually in connection with industry projects or the supervision of diploma and masters theses.

The topics I am involved with most are related to Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Multi-Agent Systems and Large Scale Enterprise Applications. Some of the more concrete activities relate to

• Reverse UML Tools
• Car Agent Systems
• Haus Agent Systems
• Test Driven Development

I also have been doing some extensive research into compression algorithms and developed two decent one's myself. Furthermore, over the years I have been actively following the developments in the area of symbolic-algebraic mathematics systems.

List of Publications

(authors ordered alphabetically)

• 'Teaching Databases Internationally, Teaching International Databases' by A. Monger, K. Wheeler and R. Lano, Workshop 'Do you teach Databases?' by Higher Education Academy of UK, July 2007.
• 'Electronic test item display as an image with overlay controls', by W.E. Lamarche and R.P. Lano, United States Patent No 6,988,895, January 2006.
• ‘Gravitational Phase Transition in Neutron Stars’ by R.P. Lano, gr-qc/9611023
• ‘Yang-Mills, Gravity, and 2D String Symmetries’, by Thomas Branson, R.P. Lano and V.G.J. Rodgers, hep-th/9610023, Phys.Lett. B412 253-258 (1997).
• ‘Quantum Gravity: Variations on a Theme’, by R.P. Lano, PhD Thesis, The University of Iowa, July 1996.
• ‘Gravitational Meissner Effect’, by R.P. Lano, hep-th/9603077.
• ‘A Study of Fermions Coupled to Gauge and Gravitational Fields on a Cylinder’, by R.P. Lano and V.G.J. Rodgers, hep-th/9401039, Nucl. Phys., B437, 45 (1995).
• ‘Application of Co-adjoint Orbits to the Loop Group and the Diffeomorphism Group of the Circle’, by R.P. Lano, M.S. Thesis, The University of Iowa, May 1994.
• ‘Applications of W-algebras to BF Theories, QCD, and 4D Quantum Gravity’, by R.P. Lano and V.G.J. Rodgers, hep-th/9203067, Mod. Phys. Lett. A7, 1725 (1992).
• ‘The Brightness of a Black Hole due to Gravitational Lensing’, by R.P. Lano, Astrophysics and Space Sciences 159, 125 (1989).