ERCIM at NTNU

ERCIM

Cooperating for Excellence in Research

ERCIM – the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics – aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry.

Scientific Fields of Competence

Hardware
Research Area	Department	Person
B.1 Control Structures and Microprogramming (D.3.2)
B.2 Arithmetic and Logic Structures
B.3 Memory Structures	IDI	Lasse Natvig
B.4 Input/Output and Data Communications	IIK	Norvald Stol, Mohammad Derawi
B.6 Logic Design
B.7 Integrated Circuit	IES	Trond Ytterdal
B.8 Performance and Reliability (C.4)	IIK	Yuming Jiang

Computer Systems Organization
Research Area	Department	Person
C.1 Processor Architectures	IDI	Lasse Natvig
C.2 Computer Communication Networks	IIK	Norvald Stol
C.3 Special-Purpose and Application-Based Sys. (J.7)		Anne C. Elster
C.4 Performance of Systems	IDI	Kjetil Nørvåg, Lasse Natvig, Anne C. Elster
C.5 Computer System Implementation	IDI	Lasse Natvig, Anne C. Elster

Software
Research Area	Department	Person
D.1 Programming Techniques (E)	IDI	Anne C. Elster
D.2 Software Engineering (K.6.3)	IDI	Letizia Jaccheri
D.3 Programming Languages	IDI
D.4 Operating Systems (C)	IDI	Kjetil Nørvåg, Lasse Natvig

Data
Research Area	Department	Person
E.1 Data Structures	IDI
E.2 Data Storage Representations	IDI	Kjetil Nørvåg, Heri Ramampiaro, Bian Yang
E.3 Data Encryption	IIK, IMF	Stig Frode Mjølsnes, Danilo Gligoroski, Kristian Gjøsteen
E.4 Coding and Information Theory (H.1.1)	IES	Lars Lundheim
E.5 Files (D.4.3, F.2.2, H.2)	IDI	Kjetil Nørvåg

Theory of Computation
Research Area	Department	Person
F.1 Computation by Abstract Devices	IDI
F.2 Analysis of Algorithms and Problem Compl. (B.6, B.7, F.1.3)	IDI
F.3 Logics and Meaning of Programs	IDI
F.4 Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages	IDI

Mathematics of Computing
Research Area	Department	Person
G.1 Numerical Analysis (MSC 65, 33-35)	IMF	Brynjulf Owren
G.3 Probability and Statistics (MSC 60, 62)	IMF
G.4 Mathematical Software	IMF, IDI	Einar Rønquist, Anne C. Elster

Information Systems
Research Area	Department	Person
H.1 Models and Principals	IDI
H.2 Database Management (E.5)	IDI	Kjetil Nørvåg
H.3 Information Storage and Retrieval	IDI	Kjetil Nørvåg, Jon Atle Gulla, Heri Ramampiaro, Bian Yang
H.4 Information Systems Applications	IDI
H.5 Information Interfaces and Presentation (e.g., HCI) (I.7)	IDI	Ahmet Soylu

Computing Methodologies
Research Area	Department	Person
I.1 Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation
I.2 Artificial Intelligence	IDI	Sule Yildirim, Ali Shariq Imran
I.3 Computer Graphics	IDI
I.4 Image Processing and Computer Vision	IES, IDI	Andrew Perkis, Marius Pedersen, Faouzi Alaya Cheikh, Raghavendra Ramachandra, Ali Shariq Imran
I.5 Pattern Recognition	IDI	Mohammad Derawi, Raghavendra Ramachandra, Sule Yildirim, Ali Shariq Imran
I.6 Simulatin and Modeling (G.3)	IIK, IDI	Poul Heegaard; Lasse Natvig; Christopher Frantz
I.7 Document and Text Processing (H.4, H.5)	IDI	Kjetil Nørvåg, Jon Atle Gulla, Heri Ramampiaro, Sule Yildirim; Christopher Frantz, Ali Shariq Imran
I.8 Biometrics	IDI	Raghavendra Ramachandra, Bian Yang

Computer Applications
Research Area	Department	Person
J.1 Administrative Data Processing	IDI
J.2 Physical Sciences and Engineering	IDI, ITK, IES	Anne C. Elster, Marta Molinas, Peter Svensson
J.3 Life and Medical Science	IDI, IKM	Pål Sætrom, Finn Drabløs, Eivind Almaas
J.4 Social and Behavioral Science	IDI	Christopher Frantz
J.5 Arts and Humanities	IDI	Roger Midtstraum, Letizia Jaccheri
J.6 Computer-Aided Engineering	IDI
J.7 Computers in other Systems (C.3)	IDI	Lasse Natvig

Computing Milieux
Research Area	Department	Person
K.1 Computer Industry
K.2 History of Computing
K.3 Computers and Education	IDI	Monica Divitini, Ali Shariq Imran
K.4 Computers and Society	IDI	Letizia Jaccheri
K.5 Legal Aspects of Computing		Bian Yang
K.6 Management of Computing and IS.
K.7 The Computing Profession
K.8 Personal Computing		Bian Yang

Mathematics
Research Area	Department	Person
01 History and biography
03 Mathematical logic and foundations
05 Combinatorics
06 Order, lattices, ordered algebraic structures
08 General algebraic systems
11 Number theory
12-22 Algebra	IMF	Markus Szymik
26 Real functions	IMF
28 Measures and Integration	IMF
30 Functions of a complex variable	IMF	Kristian Seip
31 Potential theory	IMF	Peter Lindqvist, Eugenia Malinnikova
32 Several complex variables and analytic spaces	IMF
33 Special functions	IMF	Peter Lindqvist
34 Ordinary differential equations	IMF	Peter Lindqvist
35 Partial differential equations	IMF	Helge Holden
37 Dynamical systems and ergodic theory	IMF
39 Difference and functional equations
40 Sequences, series, summability	IMF
41 Approximations and expansions	IMF
42 Fourier analysis	IMF	Kristian Seip
43 Abstract harmonic analysis	IMF
44 Integral transforms, operational calculus
45 Integral equations
46 Functional analysis	IMF
47 Operator theory	IMF
49 Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization	IMF
51 Geometry	IMF	Helge Holden, Eldar Straume
52 Convex and discrete geometry
53 Differential geometry	IMF	Helge Holden
54 General topology
55 Algebraic topology	IMF	Markus Szymik
57 Manifolds and cell complexes	IMF	Markus Szymik
58 Global analysis, analysis on manifolds	IMF
60 Probability theory and stochastic processes	IMF	Helge Holden
62 Statistics	IMF
65 Numerical analysis	IMF	Brynjulf Owren
70-86 Mathematical Physics	IMF	Helge Holden
90 Operations research, mathematical programming
91 Game theory, economics, social and behavioral sciences		Christopher Frantz
92 Biology and other natural sciences	IMF, IKM	Steinar Engen, Finn Drabløs
93 Systems theory; control	ITK	Morten Hovd
94 Information and communication, circuits	IES	Lars Lundheim, Mohammad Derawi
97 Mathematics education