Morphological
computing, Natural
computing, Info-computational
conceptual modelling, Foundations of information, Foundations of computing, Info-computational models
of cognition, Cognition and Intelligence, natural and
computational, Computing and philosophy, Computing ethics,
Information ethics, AI ethics, Robotic ethics and Critical
Robotics, Ethical aspects of
autonomous vehicles
Morphological
Computing in Cognitive Systems Morcom @ COGS (2016-current)
Project at Chalmers University of TEchnology,
funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR),
2016-01-01 - 2020-12-31
Morphological Computing in
Cognitive Systems is an area of research at the Department of
Cognition and
Communication, with comparative studies of cognitive
mechanisms in natural and
artificial systems.
Morcom@COGS project
investigates cognitive systems as information processing
mechanisms of
different complexity, with cognitive computation models based
on physical
(morphological) computation. The goal is to learn from nature
how to better
handle the complexity and the large amounts of data in a
robust and efficient
manner. The project builds on a framework of
info-computational naturalism in
which information is understood as a structure and computation
as its dynamics.
Cognition is a process that living organisms use to stay alive
as individuals
and species, while artificial computational systems use
cognitive capacities in
order to efficiently produce meaningful behaviour. Within the
project, we study
a generalized concept of computation as morphological process
- a process of
self-organization of information in a cognitive agent, natural
or artificial.
Mälardalen University, with TU
Dublin as
host institution.
PICO - Philosophy of Information and
Computing (2000-current)
Project at Mälardalen University, funded
initially by KKS, afterwards faculty funding.
Philosophy of Information
and Computing (PICO) combines scientific, philosophical and
ethic perspectives
on the two fundamental phenomena: computation (the process)
and information
(the structure) . Different aspects of the field are intensely
developing internationally
within Computing and Philosophy, Foundations of Information,
Computability in
Europe, Natural Computing, BITRUM and ISIS research
communities. Our
contributions to the field up to now: organization of the
E-CAP 2005, European
Computing and Philosophy Conference, followed by the
proceedings published in
tripleC (tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-operation),
Information and
Entropy journals and number of articles and book chapters and
four books within
the field. In 2012 two symposia organized within AISB/IACAP
Alan Turing World
Congress in Birmingham, on Natural/Unconventional Computing
and Social
Computing/ Multiagent Systems.Two special journal issues
prepared for journals
Information and Entropy. In 2013 COMUTING NATURE book have
been published in
Springer SAPERE Series.
ITS-EASY Post
Graduate School (2011-current)
Project at Mälardalen University funded by KKS.
ITS-EASY is an research
school in Embedded Software and Systems, affiliated with the
School of
Innovation, Design and Engineering (IDT) at Mälardalen
University (MDH), as an
integrated part of the MDH strategic research area Embedded
Systems (ES).
ITS-EASY envisions to be a
unique industrial research school par excellence in the
Embedded Systems domain
in Sweden. ITS-EASY is focused on topics of paramount
importance for dominating
parts of Swedish industry: Embedded Systems including
Software-Intensive
Systems, Dependable (reliable and safe) Systems, and Sensor
Systems. The main
industrial domains considered are automation,
telecommunication and vehicles.
Digitalisation for a Sustainable Society
- Summit of the International
Society for the Study of Information - 2017
Project at Chalmers University of Technology,
funded by the Swedish
Research Council FORMAS.
The aim of this project was to support organisation of
the summit of the International Society for the Study of
Information, is4si
2017 Gothenburg.
The stage for the
Gothenburg summit is set by the theme of Digitalisation for
sustainable
society, in light of information, computation and cognition.
As our previous
meetings, the summit 2017 reflects the moment we live in – a
nascent movement
of digitalization that has started to radically change our
society, globally,
in literally all its aspects. It is based on the computing
technology (in all
its forms, digital and analogue, that all now go under the
name “digital” that
stands for any kind of computational system), which in its
turn is based on
information and data processing, which all goes back to
cognition and
intelligence of a cognizing agent in order to acquire meaning.
Digitalization has a
potential to fundamentally transform the way we live, our
whole civilization
and our identities. Often mentioned definition from the
Business dictionary:
Digitalization is integration of digital technologies into
everyday life by the
digitization of everything that can be digitized – does not
tell it all.
Digitization as transformation of everything into digital data
is only part of
the story, telling that libraries will be digitized and turned
into formats
easy to process by computers. Sensors of various kinds,
controlling variety of
processes, from traffic control to health care, education,
entertainment,
production, monetary flows and government will produce
increasing amounts of
data suitable for further processing and analytics. Finished
31/12/2017. See: http://is4si-2017.org
PIFF
(2009-2010)
Project done at Mälardalen University in
collaboration with Lund University and BTH, funded by NSHU.
Programvaruexjobb för
Industri- och ForskningsFramgång (Supporting framework for
Software Engineering
diploma work done in collaboration between industry and
research in Sweden) Diploma degrees are awarded
by academia, while diploma work is often done in collaboration
with industry or
a research group. The aim of the PIFF project is to improve
knowledge exchange
between academia, industry and research during diploma work,
supporting both a
student and an advisor in the different phases (planning,
execution and
grading/assessment) of diploma work in Software Engineering.
The results of the
project will be generalizable to other multidisciplinary and
cross-disciplinary
fields.