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The Advanced Computer Architecture and Processing Systems (ACAPS) Research Centre

The “Advanced Computer Architecture and Processing Systems” research centre is doing research, mainly in the following scientific domains: Advanced Computer Architectures, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Image Processing, High-Performance Computing, Embedded Systems, IoT, Smart City, Medical Imaging.

The researches are partially supported by some research grants and some companies (for example Siemens AG, CT IC Munich) or universities like UPC Barcelona (Department of Computer Architecture – DAC, led by Professor Mateo Valero), University of Augsburg, University of Hertfordshire, Politecnico di Milano, etc. The research results were published in some prestigious journals and international conferences – see http://acaps.ulbsibiu.ro/papersphp for details in this respect.

During the 1998-2009 period ACAPS already finished 14 institutional research grants and projects, financed by The Romanian National Research Council (CNCSIS), ICI - Bucharest, Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza Krakowie and INFOSOC research program (see http://acaps.ulbsibiu.ro/grants.php for details). Through these research grants ACAPS has been acquired some high-level equipments and software tools, including a powerful IBM Cell BE system, containing 2 blades with 36 cores – see for details section http://acaps.ulbsibiu.ro/equipmentsphp. Also, in ACAPS institute were developed five PhD theses up to 2011; one in cooperation with Siemens AG, CT IC Munich, focused on document classification (Professor’s Hartmut Raffler – Vice-President, research group), and other three PhD theses in cooperation with University of Augsburg, focused on developing some advanced micro-architectures (Professor Theo Ungerer was PhD co-supervisor for one of these PhDs, together with Professor Vintan).

Two of the researchers belonging to ACAPS (Prof. L. Vintan and Dr. A. Florea) received the prestigious "Tudor Tanasescu" Romanian Academy Prize, in 2005, for their valuable research in Computer Architecture field.

Latest News

Workshop-uri cu participare internationala in stiinta calculatoarelor

Ingineria sistemelor fizico-cibernetice, în cadrul școlii de vară CPS Summer School 3rd – 7th July 2017 de la Sibiu (link), au conferențiat, printre alții: Prof.dr. Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus University), Associate Prof. dr. Ken Pierce (Newcastle University), Prof.dr. Bernhard Thiele (Linköping University), Prof.dr. Alois Zoitl (Fortiss, Germany), Prof.dr. Frank Zeyda (University of York), Prof.dr. Hans Vangheluwe (University of Antwerp) etc. De asemenea, Prof.dr.ing. Lasse Berntzen (University of South-Eastern Norway) a expus in perioada 26-27 Februarie 2017 Sibiu, Romania, prelegerea “A Mobile Platform for Environmental Monitoring”.

Imagistică medicală, în cadrul scolii de vară https://ssima.eu/ssima-2018/, de către (printre alții): Bart Romeny (Eindhoven Technological University), Kim Mouridsen (Aarhus University), Michael Lustig (Berkeley University), Ovidiu Andronesi (Harvard Medical School), Michael Lindenbaum (Technion IIT, Israel). De asemenea, pe aceeași tematică, în cadrul școlii de vară organizate în cadrul proiectului Brain IT https://grants.ulbsibiu.ro/brainit/partners.php au conferențiat: Mario Monzón (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) și Ilaria Cacciotti (Universita Degli Studi Niccolo Cusano Telematica Roma).

Inteligență artificială, Prof.dr. Ugo Fiore (University of Naples), 16 - 19 October 2019, Sibiu, Romania, a expus in fața studenților doctoranzi prelegerea “Neural Networks in the Educational Sector: Challenges and Opportunities”. - metode de aplicare a conceptului de Design Thinking in dezvoltarea si implementarea de soluții inovative pentru rezolvarea problemelor ce presupun procese complexe, Prof.dr. Ulrich Weinberg, de la HPI School of Design Thinking din Germania a organizat în data de 9 iulie 2019 workshopul "Design Thinking: The Creative Power of Teams", link

Pe data de 2 aprilie 2013 ULBS va gazdui (Sala Senatului, Rectorat) un workshop stiintific care se va desfasura sub egida Academiei de Stiinte Tehnice din Romania precum si a singurei retele europene de excelenta in domeniul sistemelor de calcul de inalta performanta si compilatoarelor, finantata de catre Comisia Europeana, numita European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) – v. http://www.hipeac.net/. Scopul principal al acestei manifestari consta in prezentarea retelei de excelenta HiPEAC, urmata de sustinerea unor comunicari stiintifice focalizate pe cercetari de varf referitoare la sistemele de calcul ale viitorilor ani.

Din partea HiPEAC vor participa - cu prezentari consistente ale unor proiecte europene de cercetare stiintifica pe care le conduc - profesorii universitari Koen de Bosschere (Belgia), coordonatorul retelei europene de excelenta, Rainer Leupers (Germania) si Kostas Magoutis (Grecia), membri ai Steering Committee. Din Romania, vor participa cu expuneri stiintifice profesorii universitari Nicolae Tapus (UP București), Sergiu Nedevschi (UT Cluj-Napoca), Lucian Vintan (ULB Sibiu) si Marius Marcu (UP Timișoara), specialisti recunoscuti pe plan national si international in stiinta calculatoarelor, primii trei fiind și membri ai Academiei de Stiinte Tehnice.

Pe aceasta baza se are in vedere initierea unor proiecte de cercetare comuna in domeniul stiintei calculatoarelor. Anexat se poate consulta agenda aferenta workshop-ului.

July 6^th, 2012: Professor Lucian Vintan was elected full-member of the Academy of Technical Sciences from Romania (www.astr.ro). In 2005 he was elected correspondent member of this prestigious scientific institution.

Nov. 25th, 2011: Horia Calborean and Ciprian Radu successfully publicly defended their PhD theses entitled Multi-Objective Optimization of Advanced Computer Architectures using Domain-Knowledge and respectively Optimized Algorithms for Network-on-Chip Apllication Mapping. Both theses were supervised by Professor Lucian Vintan and had the following reviewers: Professor Nicolae Țăpus (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania), Professor Valentin Cristea (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) and Professor Mircea Popa (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania).

Nov. 4th, 2011: Radu Cretulescu successfully publicly defended his PhD thesis entitled (in romanian) Contribuţii la proiectarea sistemelor de clasificare a documentelor. The thesis was supervised by Professor Lucian Vintan.

Professor Lucian Vintan was invited to be member in the committee of the Championship Branch Prediction, co-organized by Intel, as a recognition of his merits in adaptive dynamic branch prediction, his novel ideas being cited in more than 160 works published all over the world.