Department of Applied Informatics
Prof. Dipl.-Ing.Dr. Wolfgang Faber
- Head of Department
- Wolfgang [dot] Faber [at] aau [dot] at
Research Groups
Selected key research areas
- Knowledge-based planning of products and processes
- Logic-based knowledge representation and problem solving
- Recommender systems
- Practical applications of artificial intelligence
- Engineering of knowledge-intensive software systems
- User centered system design and development
- Active and assisted living
- Applied cryptography
- Security infrastructures
- IT risk management
- Robotics security
- Quantum cryptography and applications
Selected projects
- Productive 4.0: Scheduling of large scale production planning instances (H2020, ECSEL)
- E-Commerce Recommender Systems
- HBMS – Human Behaviour Monitoring Support
- CEBERUS – cross sectoral risk management for object protection of critical infrastructure
Department of Mathematics Education
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Andreas Vohns
- Head of Department
- Andreas [dot] Vohns [at] aau [dot] at
Selected key research areas
- General mathematical education („mathematische Allgemeinbildung“) and mathematical literacy (in the digital age)
- Basic competencies in mathematics education
- Professional development of mathematics teachers
- Contemporary approaches to subject matter didactics
Selected projects
- Final examinations in mathematics
- National educational standards for mathematics
- Reflection-oriented teaching of mathematics
- Imaginary dialogues for the learning of mathematics
Department of Informatics Didactics
Selected key research areas
- Computational thinking in primary and secondary education
- Competence models in computer-science education
- Maturity models for teachers
- Gender- and personality-optimized teaching
- Educational games and gamification
Selected projects
- Informatics-workshop for primary, secondary and tertiary education
- TeaM – Teaching Maturity Model
- IT-SG – Innovative Teaching and Serious Games
- COOL Informatics
- AMEISE – A Media Education Initiative for Software Engineering
Department of Informatics Systems
Research Groups
Selected key research areas
- Software evolution
- Software analytics
- Formal methods
- Program analysis
- End-user programming
- Integration of computerized components into everyday artefacts and devices
- Usability, User Experience, User centered design
- Virtual and augmented reality applications
- Smart home control and interaction
- Business process management
- Application interoperability
- Temporal information systems
- Information systems for medical research
Selected projects
- Software Dynamics2: Fine-Grained Evolution of Software Behavior (FWF)
- Safe Round-Trip Software Engineering (FFG Bridge 1)
- Composable Embedded Systems for Healthcare (FES Commit, NL)
- Re-engineering Service-Oriented Systems (NWO, NL)
- Casa Vecchia (FFG)
- WeCare – Community-based Configuration of Complex Products and Services (FFG)
- XPLAIN-IT: Intelligent Explanations of Financial Decision Making
- Dynamic controllability of processes with temporal constraints
- Biobank and biomolecular resources research infrastructure (EU, Austria)
- Anonymization of medical data sets (TMF)
- Interoperation of activity- and artifact-centric processes (FWF)
Department of Information Technology
Research groups
Selected key research areas
- Interactive image and video retrieval
- Computer games
- Medical multimedia information systems
- 360° video/VR streaming
- Standardization (ISO/IEC MPEG)
- Communication in UAV systems
- Multimedia quality of service and quality of experience (QoS/QoE)
- Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH)
- Parallel and distributed systems
- Cloud computing and simulation
- High-performance computing
- Performance analysis and prediction
- Resource management and scheduling
- Multi-objective optimization
- Programming and runtime environments
- Compiler technology
- Energy efficiency
Selected projects
- Knowledge & Information Sharing in Medical Expert Teams (KISMET, Storz, KWF)
- Endoscopic Video Processing 2 (ENDOVIP2, Storz)
- Next-generation video browsing (NGVB, FWF)
- Surgical Quality Assessment in Gynecologic Laparoscopy (SQUASH, MedUni Wien)
- Context-adaptive content ecosystem under uncertainty (FWF)
- Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management (EU)
- Self-organizing intelligent network of UAVs (Lakeside Labs)
- FFG Tiroler Cloud
- H2020 ASPIDE
Department of Smart Systems Technologies
Research groups
Selected key research areas
- Sensor design and optimization
- Robot sensing
- Autarkic wireless sensors and Internet of things
- Collaborative mobile robot autonomy in 3D space
- State estimation aware controll and motion planning
- Cellular neural networks (CNN) for systems science
- Nonlinear dynamics in transportation
- Neuro-computing based machine learning and data science
Selected projects
- IoSense – Flexible FE/BE Sensor Pilot Line for the Internet of Everything
- ICELift – Wirless sensors for Monitoring of Aircraft Wings
- Forest-IMATE: Forest Inventorying with Micro Aerial verhicles for autonomous Tree-parameter Estimation (forest.aau.at)
- NAAV (Karl Popper Kolleg): Networked Autnomous Aerial Verhicles
- Driver state (emotion and stress) detection and forecast
- Robust CCN-based dynamic vehicle routing and scheduling
- CCN-based predictive maintenance
Department of Mathematics
Research groups
Selected key research areas
- Efficient implementation of elliptic curve cryptosystems
- Mathematical analysis of algorithm
- Inverse problems
- Parameter identification in differential equations
- Qualitative theory of time-variant evolutionary equations
- Discrete and continuous models with delays
- Combinatorial optimization
- Optimization software
Selected projects
- Solving inverse problems without using forward operators (FWF)
- A two-step degradation model for power semicondutiors (K-AI / Infineon)
- Analytic Combinatorics: Digits, Automata, Trees (FWF)
- Asymptotic Analysis of Extremal Discrete Structures (FWF)
- Numerical dynamics of integrodifference equations
- Relaxations for some NP-hard Problems (FWF)
- MINOA: Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimisation Applications
Department of Statistics
Research groups
Selected key research areas
- Spatio-temporal statistical modelling
- Financial risk modelling
- Applied and Bayesian statistics
- Environmental monitoring networks
- Evaluation of medical studies
- Optimisation of billing schemes in health systems
- Experimental design with application in spatial data analysis
- Development of specific packages in R and octave and numerical solution of applied problems
- A comparison between classical statistical inference and resampling
- Probability and risk literacy
Selected projects
- Environmental surveillance and risk management (EU INTAMAP)
- Inspection of wafer back surfaces
- Optimisation of the care of patients in Carianthian care homes for elderly people
- Entropy-based sampling design with implementation in R
- A comparative study of statistical inference from an educational point of view
- Risk in health: More information – more uncertainty
Department of Networked and Embedded Systems
Research groups
Selected key research areas
- Mobile communications
- Self-organizing systems
- Multi-drone systems
- Smart microgrids
- Energy informatics
- Smart camera networks
- Resource coordination in sensor networks
- Power line communications
- Wireless communications
- Radio localization and navigation
Selected projects
- Interference dynamics in wireless networks (FWF)
- Energy monitoring – Load disaggregation
- Trustworthy sensing and collaboration in VSN (KWF/FWF)
- Electronics and systems in the electrical car for sustainable mobility
