Database and Information Techniques (ADIT)

The division Database and Information Techniques is part of the Department of Computer and Information Science. The division consists of several research groups, each of which has its own research profile.

Drone Research Groups at ADIT

The Air and Ground Information Security Group

This group conducts research on air security including manned air communication systems and drone identification and communication, as well as ground IT security including industrial internet, smartgrids, security and monitoring of vehicular systems (cars, ships, rails) and 6G.

The Database and Web Information Systems Group

This group conducts research on storage, management, search and integration of data. Important application areas are materials science and the life sciences.
Currently, our research focuses on: ontology engineering (alignment, debugging, evolution, visualization), efficient data management for the web, querying linked data, graph databases and sports analytics. Read more about our group.

The Security and Networks Group

Research within this group is done on a broad range of topics, spanning security, networks, and related areas such as performance evaluation and multimedia systems. Read more about our group.

The Communications for Networked Intelligent Systems Group

This group performs research on communication networks, such as semantics-aware goal-oriented communications, timeliness of information, tactile internet, wireless energy harvesting networks, performance analysis and stochastic modeling, and physical layer security. An important research direction is how to utilize the traffic properties and characteristics to increase the performance of wireless networks by reducing the amount of information that is generated, transmitted, and processed in a network. Typical examples include content caching and timing properties and requirements of traffic, which are crucial aspects towards 6G communications. Read more about our group.

News at ADIT

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New PhD thesis in Computer Science about social media interactions

In June, Alireza Mohammadinodooshan at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) successfully defended his thesis on understanding user engagement with news on social media platforms.

Winners of the regional exemplary student branch award, Gurjot Singh Gaba accepted the award on LiU's behalf

IEEE Linköping University Student Branch Wins 2023 Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award

The Student Activities Committee (SAC) of Region 8 (R8) IEEE has recognized the Linköping University Student Branch with the prestigious 2023 Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award.

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Best poster award for knowledge graph technology

Olaf Hartig at the Department of Computer and Information Science has won the Best Poster Award at the ESWC 2024 conference, which is one of the two top conferences on knowledge graphs and semantic web technologies.

Research activities at ADIT

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Adaptive Software for the Heterogenous Edge-Cloud-Continuum - ASTECC

ASTECC is a 5-year cooperative research project in software systems at the Department of Computer and Information Science. It is funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF).

Database and Web Information Systems

Database and Web Information Systems

The Database and Web Information Systems Group conduct research on storage, management, search and integration of data. An important application area are the Life Sciences.

Security and Networks

Security and Networks

The Security and Networks Group focuses on getting the right information to the right people at the right time. Information security is an important part of this aim: for a system to be trusted, it must also be secure.

Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is an extension of the traditional Web in which interlinked data with well-described semantics has been added in a machine-processable form.

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Sports Analytics

Sports analytics deals with using data related to sports events to obtain insights about the sport and its surroundings. The insights can relate to player and team performance, strategies, training, injuries, and rules of the game.

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Telecommunications for Smart Cities

Our research focuses on modeling and evaluating the communication and network architectures of such relevant Internet of Things deployments with applications in smart cities.

Latest publications

2025

Senthil Kumar Jagatheesaperumal, Ijaz Ahmad, Marko Hoyhtya, Suleman Khan, Andrei Gurtov (2025) Deep learning frameworks for cognitive radio networks: Review and open research challenges Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 233, Article 104051 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Xinyi Hu, Nikolaos Pappas, Howard H. Yang (2024) VERSION AGE-BASED CLIENT SCHEDULING POLICY FOR FEDERATED LEARNING 2024 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING WORKSHOPS, ICASSPW 2024, p. 695-699 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Giang T. Nguyen, Falko Dressler, Meryem Simsek, Nikolaos Pappas, Sharief M. A. Oteafy, Stefano Giordano (2024) Tactile Internet for a Cyber-Physical Continuum IEEE Network, Vol. 38, p. 128-129 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Bhavani A. Madhabhavi, Gangadhar Karevvanavar, Rajshekhar V. Bhat, Nikolaos Pappas (2024) Semantic Text Transmission via Prediction with Small Language Models: Cost-Similarity Trade-off 2024 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOPS, ICC WORKSHOPS 2024, p. 1244-1249 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Bartlomiej Siniarski, Chamara Sandeepa, Shen Wang, Madhusanka Liyanage, Cem Ayyildiz, Veli Can Yildirim, Hakan Alakoca, Fatma Gunes Kesik, Betul Guvenc Paltun, Giovanni Perin, Michele Rossi, Stefano Tomasin, Arsenia Chorti, Pietro G. Giardina, Alberto Garcia Perez, Jose Maria Jorquera Valero, Tommy Svensson, Nikolaos Pappas, Marios Kountouris (2024) ROBUST-6G: Smart, Automated, and Reliable Security Service Platform for 6G 2024 FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UBIQUITOUS AND FUTURE NETWORKS, ICUFN 2024, p. 384-389 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Nikolaos Pappas, Marios Kountouris, Xueyan Niu, Anthony Ephremides (2024) Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication and Networking IEEE Network, Vol. 38, p. 11-12 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Zhengchuan Chen, Kang Lang, Nikolaos Pappas, Howard H. Yang, Min Wang, Zhong Tian, Tony Q. S. Quek (2024) Timeliness of Status Update System: The Effect of Parallel Transmission Using Heterogeneous Updating Devices IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 72, p. 7093-7107 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Sebastian Ferrada, Benjamin Bustos, Aidan Hogan (2024) Similarity joins and clustering for SPARQL Semantic Web, Vol. 15, p. 1701-1732 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Fangming Zhao, Nikolaos Pappas, Chuan Ma, Xinghua Sun, Tony Q. S. Quek, Howard H. Yang (2024) Age-Threshold Slotted ALOHA for Optimizing Information Freshness in Mobile Networks IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 23, p. 17236-17251 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Ying Li, Patrick Lambrix (2024) Repairing Networks of EL_bot Ontologies Using Weakening and Completing The Semantic Web – ISWC 2024, p. 107-125 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI

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