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Centre for English and Foreign Languages Orientation Programs (Ceflop) |
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CEFLOP teaches English and foreign languages to help students of the first and the last semester to improve their communication skills. Languages taught include English, German, Arabic and French. |
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Amongst the communication skills that are emphasized are presentation skills, listening activities, interviewing skills, etc. CEFLOP also offers a movie screening once a week and a program known as Conversation Partners. During documentary/ movie sessions, students watch various clips and at the end they are encouraged to discuss these with each other. The language lab comprises computers with multimedia capabilities. |
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Centre for Research in Ubiquitous Computing |
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Ubiquitous Computing (computing everywhere for everyone) promotes the idea of integrating computation into the environment, rather than having computers in daily life. The idea will enable people and machines to move around and interact with information and computing in informal way, to sense changes in their environment and to automatically adapt and act based on these changes. At CRUC the research focuses on several topics: |
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Augmented and Virtual Reality |
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Virtual Reality uses tools and technologies to generate a computer based artificial environment which could be used with the support of augmented devices for simulation, training and entertainment. The group is working towards the development of low cost shared virtual environments which could be used in Medical and Engineering simulations. Specific file formats and protocols are being designed that can create shared virtual environments which could be programmed and are less resource hungry. |
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Communications and Signal Processing Research Centre |
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Communication engineering and signal processing are concerned with the efficient representation, processing and reliable transmission of information over wired and wireless links. Research activities at the Centre would focus on single and multi-user, and single and multi-carrier communication, error control coding, and design of efficient algorithms for reliable communication etc. Particular focus would be on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technologies. The Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) problem in OFDM systems is of particular interest. The group is also working on Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) OFDM systems especially on improving the error performance through novel mapping schemes. Improvement in error performance of Multi-carrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) systems is also being investigated. |
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The research centre has specialized Research Interest Groups (RIG) in the following areas, |
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Network Security [RIG-NS], (cryptography, techniques, applications, protocols, mathematical tools) |
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Multimedia [RIG-M], (compression, transmission, protocols) |
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Mobile Networks [RIG-MS], (tools & technologies used in cellular, ad-hoc, sensor, and similar networks) |
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Human Computer Interaction Group |
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HCI is the study of interaction between people (users) and computers. A basic goal of HCI is to make systems that are user-friendly and receptive to the user’s needs so that people can achieve their results faster, with lesser mistakes and greater satisfaction. Research areas in HCI are in the fields of Context-Aware Computing, Emotion-Aware/Affective Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Social Aspects of Computing, and Information Visualization, Programmable/autonomous physical environments etc. This group is working on basic interactive research projects like: |
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Interactive Shopping experience in a local Pakistani / Indian context |
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Interactive Traffic monitoring system |
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Interactive Lecture Delivery environment |
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Mapping and extracting Emotions from within chat sessions |
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These projects are expected to lead to the goal of adaptable interactive systems which are highly distributed but ubiquitous. |
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Information Retrieval Group |
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Information Retrieval on Ubiquitous computing is the accomplishment of computational tasks on a set of computers connected by a network. The concept is quite similar to distributed computing. Ubiquitous IR is a newly proposed initiative to implement a specific architecture for realizing IR on our Ubiquitous computing platform. We, in this group, are working towards a development of multi agents based information retrieval system. The system will provide the services of information extraction and filtering for ubiquitous system that’s infrastructure will be based on ad hoc grid. The group is working on following problems: |
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Development of framework for Multi-agent based information retrieval system |
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Agent based information retrieval system |
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Mobile Ubiquitous computing |
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Multi Agent Systems Group |
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For the last two years, the research group is actively involved in developing Software Agents and Multi-Agent Environments. We have been able to design certain Agent Models that follow FIPA models, and have designed Agents for Grid Computing, dotNet environment and now we want to re-think on our experiences by extending previous work and design more comprehensive Agent environment. Some of the areas in this regard include designing of a Multi-Agent Development Environment. This includes designing a UML type language for Agent Development Environments, Development and up-gradation of Social Agents, and Coordinating Agents: This is an extension of work that was done last year by two groups, which published two research papers in International Conferences. The theme area is Social Computing. The application areas are in Distributed Processing, Game Programming, Strategic Planning, etc. We are also working towards the development of framework for Mobile Agents on Grid architecture and ad-hoc networks. |
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Pattern Recognition Group |
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Character and Pattern recognition are probably the most developed areas in Computer Science. We are working on the creation of OCR for Arabic Style languages, such as Persian, Sindhi, etc, for last two years. There is no OCR for Sindhi and other Arabic style scripting languages in the world for the research community. A commercial Arabic version exists that is full of several shortcomings. We have done an extensive research and prototype design of designing one such OCR. Interestingly, our Original research has led us towards an ambition to design a Universal OCR. We have classified languages based on different parameters including geometric classifications. With a very strong background research work already done, a Group is sought that can work on this area. Partial Research Grant is also available for those who work on this Research topic. |
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Robotics & Sensor Networks |
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Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles for context sensitive environments using Neural Networks, fuzzy modelling, remote sensing and self-organized computing abilities are the goals of this group. The communication protocols are mostly Ad-hoc, wireless and sensor based for which new command and control systems are being studied and designed. |
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Wireless Networking Group |
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Welcome to the research webpage of Wireless Networks research group! Our main focus is in Ad Hoc Networking and Grid Computing. Ubiquitous computing is about distributed computing devices in the physical world, such as personal devices, wearable computers, devices embedded in everyday objects and sensors in the environment - it is about both the devices and the infrastructures needed to support ubiquitous computing applications. Both, Wireless Network and Grid share many computer science research challenges in the domain of ubiquitous computing. |
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The group is working towards the wireless ad hoc network, ad hoc grid, and service oriented grid and in the area of security. Much of the research work is in its initial phase with exciting research opportunities for students to be involved in truly cutting edge work. |
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