Research

ECoNA promotes interdisciplinary projects in the following research areas:

Psychology of cognitive processes
Neural Networks
Non-linear Dynamics
Natural Language Processing
Logics, languages and methods of programming
Psychophysiology and Neuropsychology
Modeling human mental processes
Pedagogical communication
Education with support of intelligent processors
Probabilistic approaches to uncertainty situations
Learning processes

These projects are particularly intended to practical applications, with innovations arising from the ECoNA's interdisciplinarity.
Special attention is given to the following topics:

Pattern recognition
Communication systems (linguistic or generic)
Issues of human-machine interaction
Intelligent Educational Systems
Data-base management
Optimization of cognitive strategies according to their complexity
Learning methods in natural and artificial systems
Knowledge representation
Expert systems and decision-making supports
Problems of adaptation and organism-environment relations
Systems for extraction and classification of features
Robotics
Planning problems and strategy-making
Issues of environmental planning
Automatic methods of software development