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Panel 16 – systems science
PANEL 16 – SYSTEMS SCIENCE
CONTENTs
1. Foreword....................................................................................................452
2. Remarks regarding the material that was given to us...................................452
3. Overall assessment of Panel 16...................................................................453
4. Gender & Equal Opportunities issues..........................................................455
5. Department of Electrical and Information Technology................................ 456
6. Department of Computer Science.............................................................. 465
7. Department of Automatic Control...............................................................471
1. Foreword
The structure of the report was discussed and we came up with the following
adjustments with regard to the proposed generic format. One of
the main issues was that of the best grain for consideration: department
or group? We have decided differently for the different departments.
2. Remarks regarding
the material that was given to us
This material consisted of the Report for each panel. This report contained
text answering questions such as: achievements, SWOTs, future
plans, plus links to selected papers and other web site material. This
report had more or less adequate length, as we think. We have, however,
struggled finding the following information that we needed:
• Up to date publication lists
• Faculty for each group or each department; who did what for each
item in the report; sometimes it was hard to correlate the publication
lists that we had with the groups as they showed up in the report;
without names attached to the groups (or topics) our life was difficult.
Of course we’d have been much helped in having a bibliometric study.
We know how to trust and distrust it but it prevents us from expressing
totally wrong statements. Also, having productivity ratios (per individuum)
would have been useful.
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