About us
The Federated Collaborative Networks (FCN) group is led by Prof. Dr. Hamideh Afsarmanesh at the Computer Science department of the University of Amsterdam. The group is originally established in 1990 and was formally called (COLNET).
Main activities
Teaching
Members of the FCN group are involved in teaching some courses at the bachelor IK (Information Science), the bachelor AI (Arificial Intelligence), and the bachlor IN (Computer Science) programs of the Computer Science department. At present, the following courses are offered by the group:
- Databases-IK
- Databases-AI
- Databases-1
- Conceptual modeling
Current research focus areas
Research key words
Collaborative networked organizations, virtual organizations and breeding environments, reference modeling, ontology engineering, schema matching/integration, competency discovery and management, rational trust assessment, qualitative reasoning, federated databases, agent-based federated architectures.
Research and development projects
- Collaborative networks
- Federated information management systems
- Information and services brokerage
- Integration of pre-existing multi-databases
- High performance Web-server / database integration
People
Members of the FCN group
Lunch in De Polder cafe, January 19, 2010.
From left to right: Ekaterina (Katja) Ermilova, Prof. Dr. Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Luis Osorio, Jafar Tanha, Dr. Victor Guevara, Dr. Ammar Benabdelkader, Naser Ayat.
