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Information Fusion is the process
of combining information from various sources (sensors, data
bases, knowledge bases, text documents, images, annotated
documents) into one coherent representation that can be used
to answer specific queries about the domain that the information
describes.
Research focus: Higher-level information fusion. Situational
awareness. Ontology based fusion. Process refinement. Resource
and sensor management. Formal theory of multi-source information
fusion. Category theory based fusion. |
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Self-Controlling Software is software
that changes its own structure at the run time.
Research focus: Specification and design of self-controlling
software using the control theory metaphor. Formal methods
in Software Engineering (formalization of the UML language,
consistency checking). |
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UML |
UML is the Unified Modeling Language of software engineering.
It is used primarily for modeling software systems in the
development stage.
Research focus: Formalization of the UML language,
consitency checking of UML models vs. UML Metamodel and of
UML Metamodel vs. MOF (the Meta-Object Facility). |
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Semantic Web |
OWL is a markup language for the Semantic
Web. Agents will be able to "understand" OWL annotated
documents and thus will be able to make use of such documents
without human assistance.
Research focus: Ontology representation languages,
ontology development, annotation of information, logical reasoning
about OWL annotated documents, consistency checking. |
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Cognitive Radio (CR) is a mechanism
for software defined communication nodes to understand and
to modify the processing of communication packets as a result
of the understaning. CRs can negotiate communication protocols
and optimize communication.
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