Section: Overall Objectives

Application domains

Our application domains are related to funds and contracts we have got thanks to long-term relations with academic and industrial partners. These application domains serve us both as providers of real challenging problems and as test-beds for our research development. They should not be seen as distinct research areas but as distinct experimentation fields, enabling the confrontation of similar methodologies and techniques to various application contexts. The following application domains are investigated:

• large component-based system monitoring applications, the two focused ones being telecommunication networks, and software systems as those found in embedded systems or web services.

• surveillance systems for monitoring interaction data in telecommunication networks (internet) or electrical consumption data.

• health-care applications for monitoring physiological signals, e.g. from patients in hospital or from cows in big dairy herds.

• environmental protection, and more precisely the development of decision support systems to help the management of agricultural plots with the objective of preserving water quality threatened by pollution.