Our faculty research interests can be broadly grouped under the following areas: (i) Net-Centric, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, (ii) Security, Information Assurance and Database Systems, and (iii) Nature/Bio-Inspired Intelligent and Cognitive Computing Systems. We will leverage and complement existing strengths of the department’s faculty in these and related areas for engineering complex and large-scale software systems, appropriately bolstered by complimentary strengths within the college and UALR to focus on achieving critical strengths through new hires and replacements. This will have an immediate impact on our Department’s interdisciplinary collaboration, competitiveness for funding and its ability to gain national recognition. Bridging these three areas of research expertise are several integrated software development projects. These include: (i) Developing scalable integrated software systems for problem-solving in distributed, parallel and networked computing environments, (ii) modeling, analysis and simulation for medical and real-time applications, and, (iii) agent-driven, knowledge engineering applications.
