The SMART Unit is situated in the Department of Computing Sciences which is involved in a number of research areas related to the ACM research categories

Data Management Systems

Information Systems Applications - Data Mining, Spatial-temporal systems, mobile information processing systems, decision support systems( data warehousing, expert systems, data analytics)

Staff

Brenda Scholtz
Anthea van der Hoogen
Dumani Kunjuzwa

 

Applied Computing

Electronic Commerce - Digital Cash, Online Banking, Blockchain & Bitcoin
Enterprise Computing - Enterprise information systems(ERP), Business process management, Enterprise architectures
Document management and text processing
Life and Medical science - bioinformatics, health informatics
Education - e-learning, distance learning, interactive learning environments, learning management systems

Staff

Janet Wesson
Lynette Barnard
Brenda Scholtz
Anthea van der Hoogen
Dumani Kunjuzwa
Dieter Vogts

Human Centred Computing

Human Computer Interaction - interaction design, ubiquitous and mobile computing, visualisation, user experience

Staff

Janet Wesson
Brenda Scholtz
Dieter Vogts

 

Hardware and Computer Systems Organisation

Embedded and cyber-physical systems - sensor networks, robotics
Communication hardware, interfaces and storage - sensors and actuators
Electro-mechanical devices - collaborative robots, smart homes

Staff

Dieter Vogts
Jean Greyling

 

Computing Methodologies and Software engineering

Artificial intelligence - natural language processing, search methodologies, computer vision, knowledge representation and reasoning( cognitive robots, vagueness and fuzzy logic)
Machine learning - machine learning approaches, machine learning algorithms, big data

Staff

M.C. du Plessis
Dieter Vogts
Jean Greyling

Social and Professional Topics

Professional topics - computing industry(sustainability), management of computing and information systems, computing education

Staff

Lynette Barnad
Brenda Scholtz
Janet Wesson
Anthea van der Hoogen
Dumani Kunjuzwa.