Groupe des Ecoles des Mines - Research Centre on Computer Sciences and Production Engineering

Since its creation, the LG12P research center has striven to define and implement an original approach to doing research, developing models and tools for controlling complex systems (technical, social and economic ones) such as information systems, networks and telecommunications, production systems, and decision support systems.

In particular, this approach resulted in the creation of a complexity research team in 1999 with the CEA (Atomic Energy Commission). The research projects of the URC involve the study of complex systems and the analysis of the risks associated with the use of information and communication technologies.

The various educational programs at the École des Mines d'Alès benefit from the expertise and knowledge of the LG12P research center's staff.

The LGI2P's finalized research is applied in projects contracted with regional, national, and European companies.

The LGI2P research center supports a growing number of future business founders within the framework of the École des Mines d'Alès's new business incubator

Complex Systems: 3 Research Teams

Knowledge (and complex systems)

Objectives: elaborate models and procedures of information processing whose main quality is to help human operators who are faced with managing complex situations, which require their cognitive abilities.
Topics: object and system modeling, man-system integration, pattern classification and clustering, dynamical knowledge representation, collective cognition.
Areas of application: Information systems, conception engineering, document engineering, adaptive interface, knowledge management, decision making aids, technical diagnosis and supervision.

Heuristic (and complex systems)

Objectives: study and develop models, methods, and tools for creating numerical solutions to problems involving complex systems.
Topics:  constraint-based combinatory optimization: exact and approximate resolution methods, image data segmentation and mapping, self-organization and connectionism.
Areas of application: intelligent sensors and actuators, robotized systems, vision systems, virtual reality (3D reconstruction, color), production systems, optimization and decision making: configuration, scheduling, and assignment.

Validation (and complex systems)

Objectives: formalize concepts, methods, and models necessary for developing applications essentially for proof and analysis of properties in a variety of industrial domains.
Topics: modeling and proof validation of technical and organizational systems, formalization of system properties, modeling and simulation of imprecise and uncertain knowledge, specifications and requirement Engineering, Information systems security.
Areas of application: decision making aids, risk analysis, imprecision modeling, quality, security, system diagnosis.

Head: Yannick VIMONT