Welcome @ WISE
About WISE
The Web & Information Systems Engineering (WISE) Laboratory is a research unit of the department of Computer Science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. WISE is headed by Professor Olga De Troyer and Professor Beat Signer.
The activities of WISE concentrate on innovative information systems, such as next generation web applications, mobile and context-aware applications, interactive paper and cross-media solutions as well as the multimodal and multi-touch interaction with these mixed-media information spaces. We develop new engineering methodologies, tools and software frameworks for the rapid prototyping and efficient realization of innovative information environments.
There is a strong emphasis on conceptual modeling and design, semantics, reasoning on designs, adaptation and personalization, localization and globalization, accessibility, and usability in general. Important technologies used in this context are Semantic Web technologies, Web 2.0 technologies, ontologies, graphical and visual design languages, and design patterns.
Important application domains are Web applications, augmented and virtual reality, games and serious games, and e-learning.
Latest News
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You can find the new thesis proposals under Thesis Proposals in the section 'For Students' .
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Wael Al Sarraj, one of the PhD students of WISE, will publically defense his PhD work on March 22, 2012. The defense will take place in the promotion room of the university, room D2.01 and starts at 16:00. The title of his work is "A usability Evaluation Framework for Web Mashup Makers for End-users".
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At the 12th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2011) in Sydney (Australia), the paper "Transparent Mobile Querying of online RDF sources using Semantic Indexing and Caching", by WISE members William Van Woensel, Elien Paret and Olga De Troyer, together with Sven Casteleyn of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), has won the best paper award!
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The paper 'Efficient Querying of Distributed RDF Sources in Mobile Settings based on a Source Index Model' by the WISE members Elien Paret, William Van Woensel, Sven Casteleyn, Beat Signer and Olga De Troyer won the MobiWIS 2011 best paper award!
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Our former student Björn Puype wins the Baudouin Elleboudt Award 2011 for his master's thesis Extending the iGesture Framework with Multimodal Gesture Interaction Functionality, which was supervised by Professor Beat Signer.
Contact
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Department of Computer Science
WISE
Pleinlaan 2
Building F, 10th floor
1050 Brussels BELGIUM
Tel: +32 2 629 33 08
Fax: +32 2 629 35 25
For the contact information of the WISE members, please see the WISE members page.
For information how to come to WISE see the WISE location page.