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D-CIS Lab hosted one of the regular meetings of the innovation brokers “community of practice” of the Dutch Police, Royal Marechaussee and the Ministry of Justice and was presented with the opportunity to present some of its research on Actor Agent Communities. Topics that were presented included: “the Security Innovation Lab – next generation innovator facility”, “mission level control concepts for multiple UAV operation”, “construction and use of dynamic expertise integration networks”, “super-situational awareness – MOSAIC”, “flexible agent based re-planning solutions – MAS@NS” and results from some human factors investigation projects.
On Tuesday January 26th 2010 the ICIS community presented the results of five years of research on Interactive Collaborative Information Systems. More that 150 people attended the full day program at the Art Centre Delft. As chairman of the ICIS consortium board Prof. Jaap van den Herik opened the day with a plenary presentation of the highlights of ICIS. He first thanked the many universities, research institutes and businesses for their contribution to the project as research and as valorization partners. He then highlighted the scientific achievements. With more than 500 publications in journals, proceedings, technical papers series and a special scientific book there is good reason to celebrate the results. It deserves special mention that ICIS may take credit for some 20 dissertations. Van den Herik went on to explain to the audience how the project was built up and developed with numerous internal and public events. In a stepwise fashion the project expanded its efforts from scientific research to special valorization projects to integrate its results and to demonstrate their practical value.
The D-CIS Lab organized the 9th European Micro Aerial Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition 2009 (EMAV09) in collaboration with the Technical University Delft (TU Delft). The event took place from the 14th till the 17th of September.Micro Arial Vehicles (MAV¹s) are small unmanned air vehicles that fly and navigate autonomously. As "eyes in the sky", MAVs can be used for many tasks including surveillance, identification and tracking of vehicles. In crisis scenarios, MAV¹s will help improve the situational awareness of authorities and decision makers. The autonomy and artificial intelligence needed for the success of MAV technology is one of the research areas where D-CIS is active. This acts as a significant incentive for D-CIS to bring EMAV to the Netherlands. In 2011, the DECIS Lab will host the International Micro Aerial Vehicle Conference and Flight competitions (IMAV) in collaboration with the TUDelft.
For more information about EMAV 2009 please check the website: www.emav09.org
D-CIS has created a LinkedIn group to facilitate networking among current and former D-CIS colleagues. You can connect to this group using this link.
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