Research atDepartment of Computer and Systems Sciences – DSV

Key figures 2012

• Full professors: 12• Visiting professors: 7• Senior lecturers: 32• Scientific publications: approx. 225• Doctoral students: 91 of which are 24 female and

67 male• Licentiate Degrees awarded: 6• Doctoral Degrees awarded: 6

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Four strong profile areas

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• Research in Arts and Technology for Society (RATS)

• E-government and e-democracy (EGOV)• ICT for Development (ICT4D)• Design for Learning (DEL)

Research in Arts and Technology for Society (RATS)• Adding value for Expression, Participation and

Communication in cultural and societal events• information and communication technologies

(ICT) in the artistic process and expression• developing systems for personalised and

engaging interaction with users• New technologies are implemented and

evaluated in different activities 4

E-government and e-democracy

• Policy and Decision Support Systems & Social Network Analysis

• Argument Visualisation• Digital delivery tools• Open Data and Innovation (ODilab)• IoT & cloud services• Technology enhanced learning and Interaction design

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ICT for Development, ICT4DResearch focus• to strengthen democratic processes• increase educational opportunities• improve healthcare• empower girls and women• create jobs and reduce poverty

Broad collaborations with governments, NGOs and communities

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Design for Learning, DEL

• Ranging from psychological/pedagogic studies, over mobile learning, to simulation solutions with virtual actors

• Developing innovative learning systems as well as performing research on those and other TEL environments

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Business Process Management and Enterprise Modelling• Business Process Management (BPM) - language

analysis, methods for business process design, and open source implementations of process languages

• Enterprise Modelling (EM) - modeling organisational aspects such as goals, rules, actors, processes and information system requirements in an integrated way

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Consumer-oriented mobile services

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• Technology and services that put people at core• User experiences instead of only usability. • New roles for the operators• New business models• New methods for developing and marketing

services

Data and text mining

Methods, techniques and tools for analysing large data sets in order to support decision making • Ensemble methods• Interpretable models• Mining massive data sets• Resource lean text mining

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Digital games

• Game accessibility• Pervasive games• Believable game characters• Applications of computer games

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Cyber Systems Security

Research covers• mathematical modeling• artificial intelligence methods• heuristics and protocols• social, psychological and economic theories to understand, explain, predict, control, and generate any type of security systems.

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E-government, E-democracy, E-Society

• Modernisation of public sector systems• E-democracy and participative decision-making• Public e-services• Legislation and business models in the

information economy• Towards an open knowledge-based society

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ICT for Development

• IT products, services and models are developed, tested and evaluated in order to improve livelihoods, increase access to education, improve health care, enhance participatory democracy and combat corruption

• ICT4D projects in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

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Immersive participation

• Our research is focused on Participation, Engagement, and New Media on the Internet via ubiquitous, immersive sensing and visualisaton.

• At the intersection of Ubiquitous Connectivity, Networked Media, and Distributed Sensor & User Information

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Health Informatics

• Text mining for better health • High-performance data mining for drug effect

detection • Mobility for better health • Health communities • Information access for better health • Visualisation of business models within medical care• Simulation in health

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Interaction design

Four aspects of interaction design.• Developing theory and practice• Prototyping and testbeds • Design beyond the artifact • Evaluation

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IT management

• Business-IT Alignment • IT Governance• IT Outsourcing• IT Service Management

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Language Technology

• Automatic Text Summarisation • Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) • Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval • Email and Short Message Answering• Language Modelling and Lexical Semantics • Natural Language Processing of Health Records • Semantic Information Extraction • Web Mining

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Risk and decision analysis

• Decision modeling and evaluation with imprecise information

• Applications of risk and decision analysis in business and society

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Service Science & Innovation

• Study of the emerging service-based society• Design of innovative service systems• Research collaboration with the public and the

private sector • Citizens’ participation and a global academic

network

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Design for Learning

• ICT to support learning an teaching• Developing and designing innovative educational

applications• Mobile Learning• Social Media and Learning environments• Virtual cases for learning and assessment

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