Research Center in Computer Science

The center groups researchers and PhD students working in one of the following directions:

Parallel Computing

• Parallel algorithms in numerical analysis, optimization, evolutionary computing, data mining, computational geometry, and computer graphics
• Applications of parallel computing to computational fluid dynamics in crystal growing or airfoil design, Web or medical data mining
• Scheduling techniques and scalability for HPC

Distributed Computing

(Group - Cloud Enhancing Research on Big Data and Applications)

• Building Web and Grid services platforms
• Applications of distributed computing to image processing in Earth observation, and to symbolic computing
• Cloud computing and sensor networks
• Workflow design and execution
• Task scheduling

Artificial Intelligence

• Intelligent systems
• Multi-agent systems
• Knowledge discovery
• Recommender systems
• Automated reasoning
• Intelligent ambient
• Applications of artificial intelligence to e-commerce, scientific computing and medicine
• Self-adapting and self-healing systems

Nature Inspired Computing

• Evolutionary algorithms in optimization and data mining
• Nature inspired meta-heuristics: ant systems, particle swarm optimization etc.
• Dynamics of neural networks
• Membrane computing

Theoretical Computer Science

(TCS Research Group)

• Probabilistic methods and algorithms
• Applications of game theory to theoretical computer science
• Interconnections of physics (mostly complex systems) and theory of computing
• Logic and its interconnections with symbolic computing and computational complexity
• Automated theorem proving
• Formal languages and its interrelation with XML processing

Computational Mathematics

• Numerical methods for nonlinear equations
• Estimation of stability domains
• Mathematical models in crystals growth and nano-technology
• Computational methods in flight control