Description

Leader of the group Intelligent and Autonomous Systems: Eric Pauwels.

Increasingly, our social and technological world is organised around complex systems. These are dynamic networks of interacting nodes (or agents) that continuously exchange digital or physical resources, including data or information, energy, materials and products. The agents in these systems face real challenges, as they often only have access to partial and noisy information and need to operate in a constantly changing and uncertain environment. As a consequence, there is an unrelenting pressure to improve the network’s overall performance and resilience by making the individual nodes more intelligent and autonomous.

In our research group, we study generic and fundamental mechanisms that enable the emergence of various degrees of organization, intelligence and autonomy in such systems, and apply them to concrete problems of societal relevance.

For more information on our seminars, visit the seminar webpage.

We invite talented Master's and PhD candidates to have a look at our internships.

News

Automatic image recognition technology spots endangered leatherback sea turtle

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Software agents arrange freight more efficiently

Traffic jams regularly bring Dutch highways to a halt. Freight is often a major cause of such bottlenecks. Interestingly enough almost one third of all trucks drive around empty. PhD student Valentin Robu of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research center for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, examined the efficiency in logistics and saw room for improvement through the use of intelligent software agents.

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Intelligent systems for green developments

Windmills, biomass, solar energy, and storage are essential for green developments in energy supplies, but increase the demands on electricity networks. The SenterNovem project ‘Intelligent and Decentralized Management of Networks and Data’ (IdeaNeD) investigates optimal control for future networks.

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FOCUS and GLANCE subsidy for CWI

NWO granted two FOCUS subsidies to CWI researchers. FOCUS is the open part of the Bsik programme BRICKS, which has been developed by CWI and NWO Physical Sciences to stimulate fundamental computer science research. The programme will deliver important building blocks for the computer of the future.

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Members

Associated Members

Current projects with external funding

Data-driven monitoring, prediction and real-time control for the smart grid and its users (project C)
Framework for demand-supply matching and ancillary service provision through distributed energy resources (project D)
Lectoraat Urban Analytics
PPS met Cofely
Samenwerkingsovereenkomst Bright Cape
Universality, critical indices and resilience in logistics networks: a mean field approach
Adaptive clustering for Decentralised Resilient Energy Management (ADREM)
Energy loan exchange (ELE)
Flexible Assets Bid Across Markets (FABAM)
Demand response for grid-friendly quasi-autarkic energy cooperatives (Grid-Friends)
Heat and Power Systems at Industrial Sites and Harbours (HaPSISH)
Energy Intranets (NEAT)
Developing algorithms for testing and use on Acumex's platform (PPS ACUMEX)
Representing Users in a Negotiation (RUN): An Autonomous Negotiator Under Preference Uncertainty (RUN)
Using small data and big data: Neighborhood Energy & Data Management Integration System (S&B NEDMIS)
Scalable Interoperability in Information Systems for Agile Supply Chains (SIISASC)
Stable and scalable decentralized power balancing systems using adaptive clustering (STASCADE)