Publications & Results

Informatics Institute

Research groups

Computational Science

Can we understand nature as an information processing system? Can we understand the spread of an infectious disease as transmission of information, coded in the RNA of a retro-virus? Is the emergence of morphology of an organism a refactoring of information, deeply coded in its DNA, and processed through biological, chemical, and physical computing processes? Is human physiology a robust multi-scale information processing system?

System and Network Engineering

Internet user demands are increasing and increasingly varied. Think of a Hollywood movie production where the film studio needs to send the film to the editing department in high resolution with an enormous amount of bytes. Moreover, the number of Internet users is still growing rapidly and data is no longer sent from one user to another but from one to many or even from many to many - an infinite stream of small messages. A further important aspect of this is real-time Internet, which covers web television, videoconferencing and gaming.

Theory of Computer Science

A computer needs programmes to function, but what is a programme? To address this fundamental question, syntax (the linguistic characteristics of programme text) and semantics (the relation between a programme and the behaviour of a machine that executes it) must be studied systematically.

Computer Systems Architecture

Faster, more intelligent yet smaller appliances; what will future chips look like?
Nowadays, embedded computer systems can be found everywhere. The most common examples are cars, televisions and mobile phones, but you can also find them in less obvious places such as traffic lights. Embedded systems are essentially computer systems that have been integrated in products.

Federated Collaborative Networks

Participating in networks, co-development, and problem solving in groups has become popular both in the market and in society. Networking has proven to benefit its involved organizations and people.

Intelligent Sensory Information Systems

Trying to find a specific video clip on the Internet can be a time-consuming affair. In many cases, such images will not have been tagged with an adequate description. In order to recognize an object or setting in a photograph or video, a computer needs to know what it is looking for. This is why novel video search engines require a large amount of learning examples.

Intelligent Autonomous Systems

Autonomous systems can help to make our lives safer, easier, and more efficient. According to Frans Groen’s research group, in the near future cars will drive themselves, traffic lights will adjust to changing traffic patterns, robots will come to the rescue in disaster scenarios and assist elderly people in their daily lives, and our homes will be smarter, anticipating our every need.

Information and Language Processing Systems

Many people use the web to find and share information. Despite the volumes of information available online, it may be difficult to locate the truly important information on a specific issue, or to find content that can be trusted or that covers the issue at hand from multiple perspectives, possibly in multiple languages.