D-CIS research projects combine research in the human sciences with research and development in information & communication technologies. The quest is to shape human cognition and artificial intelligence into the best collaborative problem solver: actor agent communities for decision making in chaotic environments.
Current Projects
Bridge
The ultimate goal of BRIDGE is to increase the safety of citizens by developing technical and organisational solutions that significantly improve crisis and emergency management in the EU Member States. A BRIDGE platform will provide technical support for multi-agency collaboration in large-scale emergency relief efforts. The key to this is to ensure interoperability, harmonization and cooperation among stakeholders on the technical and organisational level.
AgentScape
AgentScape is a middleware layer that supports large-scale agent systems. The rationale behind its architecture is to provide a platform for large-scale agent systems, support multiple code bases and operating systems, and interoperability with other agent platforms.
The AgentScape middleware is part of the software framework that is used at D-CIS Lab to support research on actor-agent communities, providing agent-application developers with an environment to quickly develop and deploy large applications.
AgentScape was created in the early 2000s at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and is currently maintained and developed by D-CIS Lab in partnership with the TUDelft, NLnet foundation, UK universities of Bath, Warwick, and Cardiff, and the Book Depository.
For more information about AgentScape, please visit www.agentscape.org
Filter Expert
Sand filters are an essential part of the processes of treatment and purification of water. Just in the Netherlands, about 20000 sand filters are used just for the purification of drinking water and their use for the treatment of waste water is increasing. As part of the process of purification of drinking water, sand filters are used to eliminate particle in suspension and/or iron, ammonium, manganese, bacteria, with or without the help of chemical and biological processes taking place inside the filters.
DHRS CIM
Distributed Human-Robot System for Chemical Incident Management (DHRS CIM)
Since the events of 9/11 in New York there has been an increasing concern that security of Europe’s citizens and infrastructure is not adequate. National and EC initiatives including the Preparatory Action for Security Research (PASR) have started European activities to address this issue. The European Conference on Security Research SRC’07 in Berlin underlined the challenges facing Europe. The DHRS-CIM project is an EC FP7 Marie Curie project, started in Q4 2008. The project is coordinated by one of the D-CIS Lab partners: Thales Research & Technology Netherlands.
DIADEM
Distributed information acquisition and decision-making for environmental management (Diadem)
The Prime Objective of the Diadem project is to create an ICT system supporting collaborative situation assessment and decision making for effective protection of the population and the environment against chemical hazards in industrial areas.
Cardinal
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n future warfare, more and more sensor and intelligence (intel) information systems will be networked and thus information shared, potentially enhancing military situation awareness and mission efficacy. The challenge is to coordinate the information flows such that military actors get the right information (no more and noless) at the right time.
SIMS
Smart Information for Mision Succes
This consortium will deliver a proof of concept for Smart Information (dissemination) for Mission Success (SIMS) resulting in novel mission planning tool(s) and aids for force protection assets in an asymmetric warfare context in an urban and non-urban environment.
CSI The Hague
Digitize the crime scene: fiction becomes reality
You can only investigate a crime scene once. If you forget to secure possible evidence, it will be gone forever. But the ability to investigate a crime scene is restricted by our senses. Evidence we cannot see, smell or feel is difficult or impossible to collect. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could preserve the crime scene digitally? It seems science fiction, but it is almost reality.
