COMPUTING SCIENCES DEPARTMENT - ACM CLASSIFIED RESEARCH AREAS - Association for Computing Machinery 

INFORMATION SYSTEMS

  • Data Management Systems
  • Information Systems Applications-data mining, spatial-temporal systems, mobile information processing systems, decision support systems (data warehousing, expert systems, data analytics)
  • Information Retrieval- information retrieval query processing; specialised information retrieval

Staff member(s):

  • Brenda Scholtz
  • Andre Calitz
  • Anthea van der Hoogen
  • Ife Fashoro
  • Dumani Kunjuzwa
  • Ntembeko Jafta 

APPLIED COMPUTING

  • Electronic Commerce– digital cash, online banking, Blockchain and Bitcoin
  • Enterprise Computing– Enterprise information systems, Business Process Management, Enterprise architectures 
  • Document Management and text processing
  • Life and Medical Sciences- bioinformatics, health informatics 
  • Education - e-learning, distance learning, interactive learning environments, learning management systems

Staff member(s):

  • Lynette Barnard
  • Andre Calitz
  • Brenda Scholtz
  • Janet Wesson 
  • Anthea van der Hoogen
  • Ntembeko Jafta

 

HUMAN-CENTERED COMPUTING

  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Interaction Design
  • Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
  • Visualization
  • User Experience

Staff member(s):

  • Janet Wesson
  • Brenda Scholtz
  • Dieter Vogts
  • Andre Calitz

COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

  • Artificial Intelligence- natural language processing; search methodologies; computer vision; knowledge representation and reasoning (cognitive robots; vagueness and fuzzy logic)
  • Machine Learining - machine learning approaches; machine learning algorithms; big data

Staff member(s):

  • MC du Plessis
  • Dieter Vogts
  • Jean Greyling

HARDWARE AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS ORGANISATION

  • Embedded and cyber-physical systems - sensor networks, robotics
  • Communication hardware, interfaces and storage,sensors and actuators, electro-mechanical devices; collaborative robots smart homes 

Staff member(s):

  • MC du Plessis
  • Dieter Vogts
  • Jean Greyling
  • Andre Calitz

SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL TOPICS

  • Professional Topics- computing industry (sustainability); management of computing and information systems; computing education

Staff member(s):

  • Lynette Barnard
  • Andre Calitz
  • Brenda Scholtz
  • Janet Wesson
  • Ntembeko Jafta