Topics

The topics focus on the ERCIM institutes' scientific fields of competence.

The categories used for the informatics part of the ERCIM table of competences are the top two levels of the internationally accepted ACM Computing Classification System [1998 Version].

For details, see http://www.ercim.eu/activity/expertise

Computer Applications

  • Administrative Data Processing
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Computer-Aided Engineering
  • Computers in other Systems
  • Life and Medical Science
  • Physical Sciences and Engineering
  • Social and Behavioral Science

Computer Systems Organization

  • Computer Communication Networks
  • Computer System Implementation
  • Performance of Systems
  • Processor Architectures
  • Special-Purpose and Application-Based Systems

Computing Methodologies

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Graphics
  • Document and Text Processing
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Simulation and Modeling
  • Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation

Computing Milieux

  • Computer Industry
  • Computers and Education
  • Computers and Society
  • History of Computing
  • Legal Aspects of Computing
  • Management of Computing and Information Systems
  • Personal Computing
  • The Computing Profession

Data

  • Coding and Information Theory
  • Data Encryption
  • Data Storage Representations
  • Data Structures
  • Files

Hardware

  • Arithmetic and Logic Structures
  • Control Structures and Microprogramming
  • Input/Output and Data Communications
  • Integrated Circuit
  • Logic Design
  • Memory Structures
  • Performance and Reliability
  • Register-Transfer-Level Implementaion

Information Systems

  • Database Management
  • Information Interfaces and Presentation
  • Information Storage and Retrieval
  • Information Systems Applications
  • Models and Principals

Mathematics

  • Abstract harmonic analysis
  • Algebra
  • Algebraic topology
  • Approximations and expansions
  • Biology and other natural sciences
  • Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization
  • Combinatorics
  • Convex and discrete geometry
  • Difference and functional equations
  • Differential geometry
  • Dynamical systems and ergodic theory
  • Fourier analysis
  • Functional analysis
  • Functions of a complex variable
  • Game theory, economics, social and behavioral sciences
  • General
  • General algebraic systems
  • General topology
  • Geometry
  • Global analysis, analysis on manifolds
  • History and biography
  • Information and communication, circuits
  • Integral equations
  • Integral transforms, operational calculus
  • Manifolds and cell complexes
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Mathematical logic and foundations
  • Mathematics education
  • Measure and integration
  • Number theory
  • Numerical analysis
  • Operations research, mathematical programming
  • Operator theory
  • Order, lattices, ordered algebraic structures
  • Ordinary differential equations
  • Partial differential equations
  • Potential theory
  • Probability theory and stochastic processes
  • Real functions
  • Sequences, series, summability
  • Several complex variables and analytic spaces
  • Special functions
  • Statistics
  • Systems theory; control

Mathematics of Computing

  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Mathematical Software
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Probability and Statistics

Software

  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Programming Techniques
  • Software Engineering

Theory of Computation

  • Analysis of Algorithms and Problem Complexity
  • Computation by Abstract Devices
  • Logics and Meaning of Programs
  • Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages

Other topics

In addition, ERCIM institutes are interested in fellows with skills in areas such as:

  • Big Data
  • Complex Network Analysis
  • Interactive Information Access
  • Large-scale Data Analytics
  • Linked Open Data
  • Media Technology & Edutainment
  • Social Data Mining
  • Social Network Analysis
  • User access to scientific data
  • User media interaction
  • User-centred media design
  • Visual computing
  • Wireless networks
  • Ubiquitous Internet
  • Behaviour extraction from human generated data
  • Green ICT (or energy efficient computing and communication)
  • Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Next generation network infrastructures
  • Self-organizing networks
  • Mobile and online social networks
  • Internet of things
  • Pervasive computing and communications
  • Computing and Statistics
  • Constraints
  • Data and Information Spaces (DIS)
  • Dependable Software-Intensive Embedded Systems
  • Computational biology and bioinformatics
  • E-Mobility
  • Environmental Modelling
  • Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems
  • Cloud Computing, Grids, P2P and Services
  • Image and Video Understanding (MUSCLE)
  • IM2IM - IT and Mathematics applied to Interventional Medicine
  • Models and Logics for Quantitative Analysis
  • Security and Trust Management
  • Sensor Web
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Software Evolution
  • Software Engineering for Resilient Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimedia Pattern Recognition
  • Visual Analytics
  • Process Intelligence in Business Informatics
  • Adaptive Robotics
  • Cooperating Objects
  • eGovernment (electronic Government and Applications)
  • Design of Service-Oriented Architectures
  • Next generation network infrastructures
  • Networks for developing countries
  • Flexible and adaptive hardware
  • Communication System Design
  • Signal Processing
  • Mobile Communication
  • Satellite Communication