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Contact: Prof. dr. Viorel Negru
Member node: 067
Bd. V. Parvan 4
300223 Timisoara
ROMANIA
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Description
AIPARlab - a short description.
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The West University of Timisoara was founded on December 30, 1944
as a classic university meant to be representative for the western
part of Romania. The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
was one of the first faculties founded within the university in 1948 under
the name of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Science. The Department
of Computer Science started its activity in 1971. At the moment, the
faculty has three departments (Mathematics, Computer Science and Applied
Mathematics), the Institute of Research in Mathematics and the Center of
Research in Computer Science. The Artificial Intelligence and Parallel
Computing Laboratory (AIPARlab) is functioning within the Center of
Research in Computer Science.
The AIPARlab research is centered on: Artificial Intelligence, Parallel
& Distributed Computing and connected areas. The AI group has 15 members:
2 professors, 2 readers, 3 lecturers, 3 assist. professors, 5 PhD students.
One of the principal goal of our team is to develop distributed and multi-agent
models for problem solving with application especially in scientific computing
(complex problem solving).
Current interests / Key words:
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- parallel and distributed artificial intelligence in complex problem solving,
multi-agent models in information retrieval, agent-based technologies in
e-commerce applications, knowledge management environments, parallel and
distributed data mining, knowledge discovery in databases, semantic-based
knowledge systems,
- parallel and distributed computing, grid computing;
- numerical analysis, computer algebra, computational geometry;
- e-learning framework, networked business and governments;
- web technologies, systems security, open development platforms for software and services.
Research Experience:
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Participation as coordinators or members in about
40 national and international research projects - financed by EU (FP5, Phare,
Tempus), World Bank, Austrian Government, France Government and Romanian Government (e.g. Coupling symbolic and numeric calculus; Intelligent front ends for non-linear system of equations; Computational geometry in motion planning; Intelligent interfaces for non-linear problem solving - NESS; Intelligent environments for scientific software INTENSE; Distributed problem solving environments - for scientific computing DISPOSE; High performance computing technologies based on grid and cluster architectures; Expert System Creator: a software engineering tool for knowledge management by merging conventional CASE tool facilities with the expert system technology; WQ System: a framework for intermediating e-commerce transactions using multi-agent techniques; Distributed System for Open and Distance Learning in Information Technology ODILE; PARAGRAPH Parallel Computer Graphics, Motion Planning through Voronoi Diagrams, sequential and parallel algorithms; Agentlink II network,
The European Network of Excellence for Agent-based Computing, Theorema etc).
Selected Projects:
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Blackboard model for reometrical properties determination in polymers
putting in form, Mine School in Paris - Sophia Antipolis,
March -- September, 1992;
PARAGRAPH Parallel Computer Graphics; RISC section: Parallel Geometric
Modeling; Subject: Delaunay Triangulation and Voronoi Diagrams - 2D and 3D,
sequential and parallel algorithms, Motion Planning through
Voronoi Diagrams - University of the West from Timisoara,
Romania & Johannes Kepler University from Linz, Austria, 1993-1997
Coupling symbolic and numeric calculus, CNCSU grant, (supported by
National Ministry of Education), 1994-1997;
Intelligent interfaces for non-linear problem solving - NESS, CNCSIS (supported
by National Ministry of Education), 1998-2000;
Distributed environments for solving mathematical problems, CNCSIS grant
(supported by World Bank), 2000-2001;
Intelligent environments for scientific software - INTENSE, CNCSU grant
nr. 12623/1998 (supported by World Bank), 1998-2000;
Distributed and multi-agent problem solving environments - for scientific
computing - DISPOSE, CNCSIS grant (supported by National Ministry of Education),
2000 - 2003;
Distributed models for complex problem solving - a multi-agent perspective,
INFOSOC grant, 2001-2002;
Theorema, Johannes Kepler University, RISC, Linz, Austria, 2000, 2001, 2002;
Agentlink II network, The European Network of Excellence for Agent-based
Computing, IST-1999-29003, 2000-2003
High performance computing technologies based on grid and cluster models,
INFOSOC grant, 2002 - 2003;
Distributed modeling of knowledge management in e-learning, CNCSIS (supported
by National Ministry of Education), 2004 - 20007;
Prototype systems developed:
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NESS (Non-linear equation systems solver) - Intelligent interface for non-linear equation systems solving; rule based and task oriented expert system
MAS-NESS: extended NESS based on multi-agent model
EPODE (Expert system for ODEs) - Intelligent front-end system for ODEs
INTENSE - A multi-agent system for non-linear problem solving
WQ System: a framework for intermediating e-commerce transactions using
multi-agent techniques
Expert System Creator: a software engineering tool for knowledge
management by merging conventional CASE tool facilities with the expert system technology
International partners:
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More that 15 international partners (Reasearch Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) from Johhanes Kepler University, Linz, Austria; I3s, ESSI - Sophia Antipolis University from Nice, France; INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, OASIS Group, France; University of Heidelberg, Germany; etc)
Research Facilities:
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The AIPARlab research facilities include: Mathematics and Computer Science Library (about 50 journals; about 5000 books; Digital Library subscriptions (ACM, IEEE & Computer Society, SIAM, Zentralblatt); SUN Enterprise 250 server; 10 workstations SUN Ultra 5 and 10; Myrinet cluster with 8 IBM nodes; Glacier
IBM x Series 232 / bi-processor Pentium III 1.133Ghz server; 10 IBM PIV workstations.
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