Research Areas

 

Artificial Inteligence

  • Natural language processing: Information extraction, Machine translation, Discourse, dialogue and pragmatics, Speech recognition, Lexical semantics, Language resources
  • Distributed artificial intelligence: Multi-agent systems, Intelligent agents, Mobile agents, Cooperation and coordination
  • Search methodologies:Heuristic function construction, Discrete space search, Continuous space search
  • Control methods: Computational control theory, Motion path planning
  • Computer vision: Computer vision tasks, Image and video acquisition, Computer vision representations, Computer vision problems

Machine learning

  • Learning paradigms: Supervised learning, Unsupervised learning, Reinforcement learning, Multi-task learning
  • Learning settings: Online learning settings, Learning from demonstrations, Learning from critiques, Learning from implicit feedback, Active learning settings, Semi-supervised learning settings
  • Machine learning approaches: Classification and regression trees, Kernel methods, Neural networks, Learning in probabilistic graphical models, Learning linear models, Bio-inspired approaches, etc.
  • Machine learning algorithms: Dynamic programming for Markov decision processes, Ensemble methods, Spectral methods, Feature selection, Regularization

Modeling and simulation

  • Model development and analysis: Modeling methodologies, Model verification and validation, Uncertainty quantification
  • Simulation theory: Systems theory, Network science
  • Simulation types and techniques: Uncertainty quantification, Discrete-event simulation, Agent / discrete models, Distributed simulation, Continuous simulation, Real-time simulation, Massively parallel and high-performance simulations, Simulation by animation
  • Simulation support systems: Simulation environments, Simulation languages, Simulation tools

Applied computing

  • Enterprise computing: Enterprise ontologies, taxonomies and vocabularies
  • Life and medical sciences: Health care information systems, Health informatics
  • Computer forensics: Surveillance mechanisms
  • Arts and humanities: Language translation, Sound and music computing
  • Document management and text processing: Document searching, Document capture, Document preparation

Our research areas are defined based on ACM Computing Classification System 

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