Dr. Alfons H. Salden

Research projects: Replicator, Metaverse and FIT4Green.

Research topics: In general: synergetics, cybernetics and renormalization, hybrid-agent system modelling. Topics which concern networks of people are: social network analysis, preference modelling, normative multi-agent systems, ethics, privacy and security, user and group (service usage) profiling. Related to networks of things: traffic light management, robust dynamic multi-project scheduling, energy network management. And topics concerning sensor networks involve: ambient Intelligence and contextualization, wireless networked embedded system modelling and simulation, emergence of self-organized distributed modular robotic vision and control - UAVs and UGVs and energy-aware and QoS-aware virtualisation of services and resources.

Biography : Alfons H. Salden has a master degree in Experimental Physics and a Ph.D. in Computer Science both from Utrecht University; subject dynamic scale-space paradigms within computer vision. He was part of the ICIS group (1992 - 1996), Utrecht, the Netherlands, under supervision of  Prof. Dr. Max Viergever and Prof. Dr. Bert ter Haar Romeny. He developed so-called Dynamic Scale-Space Paradigm, a field consistent theory for multi-scale computer vision.

From 1996 to 1998 he held a post-doc position in the Robotvis group of Prof. Dr. Olivier Faugeras, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France; he extended in line with his PhD research multi-scale geometric flow theories.

Next, he held an ERCIM fellowship (1998-2000) in the group AIR of Prof. Dr. Isabelle Herlin, Iniria, Rocquencourt, France, and in the group of Prof. Dr. Achim Sydow, GMD-FIRST, Berlin, Germany; he worked besides on a mathematical-physical framework for sustainable complex systems also on data-assimilation techniques for feeding reliable satellite image data  into air pollution forecast systems for the Berlin and Paris area.

From 2000 to 2006, he was member of the scientific staff of the Telematica Institute, Enschede, the Netherlands. As such he worked in various research fields ranging from psychophysics, cognitive science, computer vision, multimedia system theory and applications, multi-scale physics, ambient intelligence, mobile computing to communication and system research.

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Publications:

Ferro, D.N., Jonker C.M. and Salden A.H. (2009). The Windmill Method for Setting up Support for Resolving Sparse Incidents in Communication Networks. In: Proceedings of the 21th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence BNAIC'09, (extended abstract)

Xiaoyu Mao, Nico Roos, Alfons Salden - Stable Multi-project Scheduling of Airport Ground Handling Services with Heterogeneous Agents, In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS09), Decher, Sichman, Sierra and Castelfranchi (Eds.) May, 10-15, 2009, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 537-544.

Ferro, D.N., Jonker C.M. and Salden A.H. (2009). The Windmill Method for Setting up Support for Resolving Sparse Incidents in Communication Networks. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks(CASoN 2009).  

Ferro D.N. and Salden, A.H. (2008).  Self-organizing mobile surveillance security networks, In: Proceedings of the 20th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence BNAIC'08, (extended abstract) 

Xiaoyu Mao, Nico Roos, Alfons Salden - Distributed the Selfish Ambitions. Proceedings of the 20th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence BNAIC'08, pp.137-144, Enschede, Oct 30-31, 2008.