In few words

The Laboratory of Computer Sciences is composed by 39 Professors and Assistant professors, 32 PhD candidates and 6 PhD.

In a context of decision aid, the scientific interest of the Laboratory of Computer Science is to design and to develop models, methods and algorithms, and to produce resources and softwares for knowledge extraction, considering human-computer interaction, and solving combinatorial optimization problems, with the aim of obtaining good results in reasonable computation times.

Two major application domains federate the research activities of the lab:

• health and disability: many partnerships with the University Hospital of Tours, on technical aids for physical handicap, autism, the optimization of flow, image analysis for diagnosis aid, the visual data mining on medical data, etc..
• and bulk data: infrastructure for storing and data extraction, analysis and structuring of data exploitation, visualization and human-computer interactions.

The lab is organised in 5 research teams:

• databases and natural language processing (BDTLN)
• visual data mining and biomimetic algorithms (FOVEA)
• handicaps and new technologies (HaNT)
• scheduling and control (OC)
• pattern recognition and image analysis (RFAI)

The evaluation of the lab in November 2010 by AERES - we await the results - gave us the opportunity to stand back on our position in the national landscape of research in computer science.

The year 2011 will have the opportunity to enjoy the momentum of the evaluation to think about our organization, our future and start to prepare it, with the aim to establish a policy that allows us reaching the highest level of recognition.

We must complete this project for the sake of our laboratory, of its members (professors, assistant professors, and PhD students) but also that of our discipline and our departments, inside the University of Tours.