Lakeside Labs: Self-Organizing Networked Systems (FOTO)

Klagenfurt (ots) -

John Na Brown from Canada has never really had trouble with
homesickness. He is happy travelling across Europe from university to
university, although, he admits that it would be nice to carry just a
little bag for a change.

Ekaterina Peshkova from Russia says that she has always been a
curious mind. These days she carries out research on multi-UAV
systems (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in Klagenfurt. What she likes most
in the ICE program is to be able to work with people from different
cultural backgrounds.

Coming from a well-educated family in Pakistan, Raheeb Muzaffar
always wanted to study abroad; still, occasionally he feels homesick.
"We all have to give up something to get something, right?" he says
and laughs knowingly. In the future, he sees himself as a contributor
to the global research community.

Chitra Hapsari Ayuningtyas from Java works in the area of pattern
recognition. Her parents are artists, and she tries to combine her
research with art and design.

Muhidul Islam Khan grew up in the metropolitan area of Bangladesh.
Besides research, he loves writing. He hopes to be able to combine
his two favorite activities in the future. Although small towns like
Klagenfurt are strange to him he says: "My daughter was born in
Klagenfurt - it has become our second home. A very nice place to work
and live."

ICE - Interactive and Cognitive Environments

The European doctoral school Interactive and Cognitive
Environments (ICE) offers candidates a 3-year scholarship to do
research and attain a doctoral degree in the field of Information and
Communication Technology

Studies are carried out in two of the undermentioned universities:

- University of Genoa, Italy

- Queen Mary University of London, Great Britain

- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands

- Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

In cooperation with the Carinthian Economic Promotion Fund (KWF),
Lakeside Labs boosted this program by offering funding for four more
scholarships.

John Na Brown and Alexander Gogolev have now been the first ones
to graduate in Klagenfurt. Six more will follow soon. Numerous
publications in journals and at international conferences support
this assumption.

Lakeside Labs is a hub for science and innovation in information
and communication technology, focusing on self-organizing networked
systems.

Self-Organizing Networked Systems

Flocks of birds, shoals of fish, colonies of ants and various
types of vegetation - nature knows how to combine simple small
components to large systems with amazing capabilities. In contrast to
technical systems, natural systems are distributed and
self-organizing. Lakeside Labs aims to integrate the concept of
self-organization into technical systems. This requires new
approaches for the design and operation of networked systems.
Approaches exploiting the concept of self-organization as known from
nature - involving self- configuration, self-optimization,
self-healing, and other self- properties - hold the promise of a
paradigm shift for the design and the evolution of ICT systems and
may help to master complexity challenges. The research activities at
Lakeside Labs focus on solutions for self-organization in networked
systems with application domains that promise to have high impact on
society, e.g. the Internet of Things or Cyber-Physical Systems.

Related links:
www.lakeside-labs.com
www.AAU.at
www.icephd.org

Contact:
Christian Philipp | Science Communication
+43 463 28704422 | philipp@lakeside-labs.com
+43 676 646 3572