Topics

The scientific areas in Informatics proposed in the application form are based on the first two levels of the internationally recognised ACM computer classification system [version 2012].

Applied computing

  • Arts and humanities
  • Computer forensics
  • Computers in other domains
  • Document management and text processing
  • Education
  • Electronic commerce
  • Enterprise computing
  • Law, social and behavioral sciences
  • Life and medical sciences
  • Operations research
  • Physical sciences and engineering

Computer systems organization

  • Architectures
  • Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
  • Embedded and cyber-physical systems
  • Real-time systems

Computing methodologies

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Computer graphics
  • Concurrent computing methodologies
  • Distributed computing methodologies
  • Machine learning
  • Modeling and simulation

Hardware

  • Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
  • Electronic design automation
  • Emerging technologies
  • Hardware test
  • Hardware validation
  • Integrated circuit
  • Power and energy
  • Printed circuit boards
  • Robustness
  • Very large scale integration design

Human-centered computing

  • Accessibility
  • Collaborative and social computing
  • Human computer interaction (HCI)
  • Interaction design
  • Ubiquitous and mobile computing
  • Visualization

Information systems

  • Data management systems
  • Information retrieval
  • Information storage systems
  • Information systems applications
  • World Wide Web

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

  • Continuous mathematics
  • Discrete mathematics
  • Information theory
  • Mathematical analysis
  • Mathematical software
  • Probability and statistics

Networks

  • Network algorithms
  • Network architectures
  • Network components
  • Network performance evaluation
  • Network properties
  • Network protocols
  • Network services
  • Network types

Security and privacy

  • Cryptography
  • Database and storage security
  • Formal methods and theory of security
  • Human and societal aspects of security and privacy
  • Intrusion/anomaly detection and malware mitigation
  • Network security
  • Security in hardware
  • Security services
  • Software and application security
  • Systems security

Social and professional topics

  • Computing / technology policy
  • Professional topics
  • User characteristics

Software and its engineering

  • Software creation and management
  • Software notations and tools
  • Software organization and properties

Theory of computation

  • Computational complexity and cryptography
  • Design and analysis of algorithms
  • Formal languages and automata theory
  • Logic
  • Models of computation
  • Randomness, geometry and discrete structures
  • Semantics and reasoning
  • Theory and algorithms for application domains

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