News 2018
CoDeLON
Patrick Lambrix's project CoDeLON - Completing and Debugging Large Ontologies
and their Networks - has been approved 3.96 MSEK from The Swedish Research
Council.
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Best student paper award at PRIMA 2018
The 21st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent
Systems "Best student paper", has been awarded the paper "An Anytime Algorithm
for Simultaneous Coalition Structure Generation and Assignment" by Fredrik
Präntare and Fredrik Heintz.
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DN Debatt

Ola Leifler has together with some collegues participated with an article in
the daily Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) Debatt October 31, regarding
the universities’ work for sustainability.
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Lilla Polhem Prize
Fredrik Präntare has been awarded the Lilla Polhem prize for the best
Engineering Master's Thesis 2018. The title of his thesis is "Simultaneous
coalition formation and task assignment in a real-time strategy game". The
thesis has been supervised by Ingemar Ragnemalm at ISY and Fredrik Heintz at
IDA has been the examiner. Fredrik is now a PhD student at AIICS where he
continues the work he started in the Master's thesis.
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The Swedish Risk Academy Award to a Young Researcher 2018
Amy Rankin has been awarded the Swedish Risk Academy Award to a Young
Researcher 2018 for research relevant for increasing our knowledge about risks
and for contributions to the research front, mainly in the field of Resilience
Engineering. The prize is awarded to researchers in the beginning of their
careers, who have made important and promising contributions to the field of
risk research. In 2017, Amy defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled Making Sense of
Adaptations: Resilience in High-Risk Work.
The Swedish Risk Academy is a non-profit association aiming to increase
knowledge about risks, how they are perceived and handled. The members form a
network of persons interested in risk issues. The Swedish Risk Academy is also
awarding prizes to outstanding researchers in the field of risk.
High Quality PhD Education in Computer Science
The PhD education at Linköping University in computer science is of the highest
quality, shows the most recent assessment carried out by the
Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ).
Of the 14 universities in Sweden that offer PhD education in computer science,
eight were assessed to be of high quality, while six have their
quality questioned in the UKÄ evaluation.
Linköping University’s PhD education program in computer science, which was the
first such program
in Sweden, covers a broad range of topics in the area and is part of a vibrant
research environment provided by the department of computer and information
science (IDA).
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European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI

Fredrik Heintz has been appointed to the new European Commission High-Level
Expert Group on AI (AI HLG).
The AI HLG will have as ageneral objective to support the implementation of the
European strategy on AI. This will include the elaboration of recommendations
on future
AI-related policy development and on ethical, legal and societal issues related
to AI, including socio-economic challenges.Moreover, the AI HLG will serve as
the steering group for the European AI Alliance's work, interact with other
initiatives, help stimulate a multi-stakeholder dialogue, gather participants'
views and reflect them in its analysis and reports.
This is a great opportunity to take an active part in the European AI efforts
and to influence the work. It is also another indication of Linköping
University's leading role in AI.
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Distinguished teaching achievements 2018
Marco Kuhlmann, Associate Professor of Computer Science at IDA, received the 2018 award for distinguished teaching achievements from the Institute of Technology. The award acknowledges Marco's work with the course Mathematics on the Bachelor's programme in Innovative Programming as well as the development of several new Bachelor's and Master's level courses in natural language processing.
More efficient bug handling in large-scale software development
In a recent PhD thesis Leif Jonsson has studied how one can use machine
learning (ML) to make bug handling in large-scale software development more
efficient. This was done by empirically studying which ML techniques are
suitable to use and which accuracy is reachable, but also implementing a
mathematically correct and very efficient version of a very popular ML
technique for Topic Modeling. Based on this, a new Bayesian classifier called
DOLDA is developed.
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Topic Model Inference for Textual Data
Textual data, such as news items, literature, and political speeches are today
available in digital formats. Probabilistic topic models is a versatile class
of models to analyze topic compositions in corpora. Måns Magnusson has in his
thesis developed scalable and efficient methods to enable statistically
correct, large-scale inference for very large corpora.
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Marco Kuhlmann gets the Distinguished Teaching Award
Each year since 1990, the Union of Technology and Science Students awards the "Golden Carrot" for distinguished teaching on the programmes at the Institute of Technology. This year, the winner of this distinction is Marco Kuhlmann, Associate Professor of Computer Science at IDA, who had been nominated by the students in Computer Science and Engineering.
Prize for the best Bachelor and Master theses 2017
The computer science department together with the computer society in Sweden
has for the 19th time awarded the annual prize for the best Master and Bachelor
theses in 2017. The winners were among 6 thesis that were nominated this year.
Alexander Ernfridsson was awarded for the Bachelor level and Tova Linder
together with Ola Jigin at the Master level.
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Best thesis prize awarded by ITSM
Two Information Technology students, Rasmus Lindström and Nicklas Östman, were
awarded the best Master thesis prize for their work on how agile development
scales in different types of organisations. The prize was awarded by ITSM, the
knowledge network for active professionals within IT service management.
The thesis studies how the agile software development process scales in
different types of organisations including those with a rigid and hierarchical
steering when defining requirements. The prize was awarded due to the work
"being of a high scientific quality and a strong grounding in both scientific
literature and empirical evidence."
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Programming and Optimization Techniques for GPU-based Systems
Today's computer systems are increasingly heterogeneous, where one or several
general-purpose processors (CPU) are complemented by hardware accelerators such
as graphics processors (GPU) that can perform certain computations faster
and/or more energy-efficiently. But writing and optimizing portable programs
for such heterogeneous systems is notoriously difficult.
In his PhD thesis, Dr. Lu Li has developed a number of techniques and software
tools that can help the programmer with this task. He has proposed a number of
techniques and tools to help the programmer in:
- writing portable programs for heterogeneous computer systems,
- automatically optimizing the program execution flow as well as data transfers
and memory management,
- modeling optimization-relevant platform properties for program adaptivity and
tool retargetability, and
- conveniently and portably measuring time and energy consumption of program
parts in heterogeneous systems.
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Honoring ceremony for the Head of the Department
IDA's departing head of the department, Professor Mariam Kamkar, was honored at
a ceremony held during the institution's Christmas dinner. Mariam took office
in 2000, and by the end of 2017/2018 she will have been prefect for 18 years,
more than half the time that IDA has existed. In 2008, she was the inaugural
recipient of the University Leadership Prize.
The farewell ceremony included speeches by Sweden’s first computer science
professor, Erik Sandewall, LiTH's Dean, Ulf Nilsson, and incoming prefect,
Henrik Eriksson. The speakers highlighted Mariam's wise leadership, her
commitment to gender equality, and the enthusiasm she brought to the role of
department head. They spoke warmly of her forthright interpersonal style, her
conflict resolution skills, and her emphasis on the importance of all new
international employees learning Swedish. Gifts from IDA staff were presented
during the ceremony, along with thanks for Mariam’s many years of work
developing the department and university.
Efficient streaming and enabling tomorrow's streaming services
Online video streaming has gained tremendous popularity over recent years and
currently constitutes the majority of Internet traffic. As large-scale
on-demand streaming continues to gain popularity, several important questions
and challenges remain unanswered. In his thesis, Dr. Vengatanathan
Krishnamoorthi and colleagues address open questions in the areas of efficient
content delivery for regular/linear HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming (HAS) videos
and efficient content delivery for interactive HAS videos.
In the context of regular/linear videos, Vengatanathan first investigates how
HAS clients and proxy-caches can cooperate so as to improve viewers' Quality of
Experience (QoE). Second, he investigates client-based prefetching techniques
that download beginnings of recommended/alternative videos so as to enable
instantaneous playback of these videos. Finally, the thesis presents a novel
machine learning framework, called BUFFEST, which can be used by network
operators to estimate clients' buffer conditions even when the transfer is
encrypted and clients are streaming over HTTPS. These contributions all help
improve users' everyday video streaming experiences.
In the context of interactive streaming services, Vengatanathan's thesis
presents optimized solutions for two new applications: interactive branched
videos and multi-video stream bundles. These solutions leverage properties of
HAS to provide users with the best possible interactive user experience,
allowing the viewers to influence and select the content that is being shown
during playback.
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