D-CIS Lab is a research partnership dedicated to innovation in information systems for collaborative decision making and enhanced situation awareness.

The D-CIS Lab Research Goal

The D-CIS Lab’s research goal is to become a centre of expertise on actor-agent communities (AACs).

We expect that adoption of the AAC concepts will represent a paradigm shift in the design of complex information systems. The research on AACs contains a great many topics from various well known research disciplines, both in science and technology.

The D-CIS Lab Research agenda

The D-CIS Lab research agenda could be considered as an 'engineering counterpart' of the complex systems research field as is covered by a number of international academic research programs, such as the NWO complexity programme in the Netherlands. Where the academic research programs explore existing complex systems to understand how they work, D-CIS Lab looks for the construction rules to make complex systems that meet specific functional and behavioral characteristics.  

The D-CIS Lab Research topics

Main research topics at D-CIS Lab are (among others) Collaborative Decision making Processes and Techniques, Multi Agent Systems Technology, Human Cognitive Performance Factors, Cognitive Capabilities and Shared Data Systems Architectures. These topics can be mapped, part-wise or completely, on the research portfolios of the D-CIS Lab partners and they form the structuring elements for the Joint Program of Activities (JPA). The JPA is the second step in the evolution towards an integrated open partners platform. To implement this strategy, D-CIS Lab will concentrate on three main activities: Fundamental research and applied research collaboration and networking. Communication and demonstration to implement the last two activities. D-CIS Lab has chosen a single expertise domain approach to “validate” and “market” its knowledge and technology. This preferred application domain is Disaster & Crisis Management.

D-CIS Lab research and development is focused on the crisis management domain and on domains closely related to it such as traffic control, communications, planning and training.

Partners

D-CIS Lab partners are: Thales Nederland, Delft University of Technology, University of Amsterdam, University of Tilburg and Neural Networks Foundations.