Program Announcement 2013 - 14 - Institute of Business ...

PhD (Computer Science)as research in Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols forMANETs and VANETs. The TRL is equipped with modernsimulation tools such as qualnet v5.0, NS2 and Matlab.During 2010/11, the TRL plans to expand research intocutting-edge areas such as Long Term Evolution (LTE)with the acquisition of OPNET simulation software andalso creation of a Wireless Sensor research lab. Amodern Cisco networking lab on core routing issues,network security and VOIP is also planned. Staff atTRL contributes frequently to publications ininternational conferences and journals. PhD studentsattend international workshops and training sessionsthat contribute to their self development skills in usingsimulation tools as well as in gaining hands-onexperience with advanced networking devices.Artificial Intelligence LabArtificial Intelligence Lab at IBA endeavors to providea platform for young researchers and experiencedprofessionals to manifest their innovative capabilitiesthrough development of sophisticated researchprojects. Being established in 2008, AI LAB at IBA isa dynamically growing research center focusing in thecore areas of AI namely probabilistic reasoning, datamining/machine learning, semantic web, computationalintelligence and cognitive/educational robotics. Thefollowing is a list of the current active projects:• AI Lab has partnered with the Innovation andEnterprise Research Lab of the University ofTechnology, Sydney to form a joint RoboCup Soccerteam under 3D simulation league. The team wasestablished in late 2010 and has since thenparticipated in Iran Open 2011 and has alsosuccessfully qualified for the World RoboCup to beheld in Istanbul, Turkey this year. This is aremarkable achievement for a team that is lessthan a year old as typically teams have towait for 2 years before they can qualify for the WorldRoboCup.• Several other educational robotics related projectshave also been initiated by the lab. This includesthe incorporation of a hands-on robotics exposurein "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course.Starting from Fall 09, a senior level course,Introduction to Game Programming and Robotics,has also been introduced in the BS(CS) curriculum.A series of robotics workshop for high schoolstudents has also been initiated. The purpose ofthese workshops is to expose our youth to theexciting field of Robotics/Artificial Intelligence.• AI Lab has developed and released BNOSA(Bayesian Network and Ontology based SemanticAnnotation) which is a framework for semanticannotation of unstructured, ungrammatical andincoherent data sources using Ontology andBayesian networks. The tool can be accessed andtested via the lab website.• Another tool released by the AI Lab is IBA yes whichis a probabilistic reasoning tool that allows a userto model uncertain situations and to performinference using Bayesian networks and InfluenceNets. It is freely available for download from thelab website.• An Anti-Money Laundering System (AMLS) iscurrently under development in partnership withCredit-Chex, a consumer credit bureau servicesand total risk management solution provider. Oncefully developed, AMLS would serve as a decisionsupport tool and would aid financial institutions andState Bank in identifying suspicious financialtransactions and in curbing anti money launderingactivities.For further details Visit:cs.iba.edu.pk/programs.html113