• Intelligent Driver Assistance Systems

o    Visual sensors: robust machine vision

o    Ontologies and reasoning

o    Driver monitoring concepts

o    Systems dynamics based performance assessment

o    Emotion detection concepts (in the frame of driver monitoring) involving both visual and acoustic sensors      

• Traffic Sensors and Surveillance Systems

o    Positioning and Navigation

o    Extended floating car data concepts

o    Spatio-temporal realtime road safety assessment

o    Sensor data quality issues

o    Virtual sensor concepts

o    Video surveillance systems    

• Traffic Control & Simulation

o    Online simulation concepts

o    Adaptive, self-organized traffic control under uncertainty

o    Real-time coupling with driver assistance systems   

• Intelligent Mobility Concepts

o    Mobility Middleware & Mobility Cloud

o    Neuro-computing based real-time vehicle-routing and scheduling

o    Human and social factors   

• Intelligent Vehicles Technologies

o    Cooperative systems (vehicle-to-infrastructrure, vehicle-to-vehicle)

o    Smart driver Co-pilot concepts

o    Autonomous driving & Mobile robotics

o    Hardware implementations: DSP/FPGA/GPU

o    Human factors

• Intelligent Logistics and Supply Chains

o    Advanced city logistics concepts

o    Intermodality cloud concepts

o    Customer-driven self-organized supply chains

o    System dynamics based performance assessment   

• Smart Energy Logistics

o    Modeling and managing smart electrical grids inspired from paradigms from the SCM (supply chain management) field

o    Realtime efficiency optimizing "energy demand & consumption" management

o    Involvement of dynamic storage and vehicle-to-grid concepts

o    Realtime energy saving aware traffic control concepts   

o    Ontologies and reasoning concepts (involving maily ASP -- Answer Set Programming)   

o    Neurocomputing based optimization, forecasting and scheduling concepts   

• Nonlinear dynamics and Synchronisation

o    System dynamics based modelling of socio-technical systems

o    Cellular neuronal networks (and other NN) based computing/processing

o    Pattern recognition and data mining

o    Neuro-computing based solving of differential equations (ODE, PDE, SDE)