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SISTA and COSIC recently joined officially, so there's now a common Mission Statement for SISTA-COSIC.
SISTA-COSIC: Research Mission StatementSISTA-COSIC's central goal is to conduct high quality research in the broad field of mathematical engineering, with special emphasis on Signals, Systems and Control Theory & Applications activities, grouped under the heading SISTA, as well as Cryptography activities, grouped under the heading COSIC. SISTA-COSIC's major thrust is to bridge the gap between theoretical work, producing fundamental mathematical concepts and techniques, and engineering applications, where such techniques are then proved to lead to improved performance. Central to this is the translation of basic concepts and techniques into application-specific algorithmic implementations. SISTA-COSIC's research activities are targeted on three application fields, namely automation, with focus on systems identification and control, digital communications, focused on signal processing and cryptography, and biomedicine, focused on signal processing and signal analysis. SISTA: Signals, Identification, System Theory & AutomationSISTA's major research objective is to contribute to the development of improved digital (control and signal processing) systems, that incorporate advanced mathematical modeling techniques as a crucial new ingredient. To achieve this goal, a variety of research activities are set up, ranging from fundamental/theoretical work (signal theory, linear and nonlinear systems --including complex systems and neural networks-- theory, circuit theory and control theory), to applications driven algorithm design and implementation. SISTA's draws concepts from mathematical fields such as linear and multi-linear algebra, statistics, discrete mathematics, differential geometry, optimization, etc. Its strategic basic research is focused on generic translations of basic concepts into algorithmic implementations, focusing on numerical linear algebra issues as well as software and hardware implementation issues. The ultimate goal is to prove that such mathematical modeling based algorithms provide significant performance improvement. To this aim, three specific application fields are targetted, namely digital communications, biomedicine and modeling and control of industrial processes and mechatronic products COSIC: Computer Security and Industrial CryptographyThe goal of COSIC's research activities is to create an electronic equivalent for primitives in the physical world such as confidentiality, signatures, identification, anonymity, notarization, and payments. To achieve this goal, the research concentrates on the design, evaluation, and implementation of cryptographic algorithms and protocols, and on the development of security architectures for computer systems and telecommunications networks. COSIC's theoretical work on cryptographic algorithms and protocols is mainly based on discrete mathematics (number theory, finite fields, Boolean functions, finite geometry); other fields of mathematics relevant to our research include statistics and optimization. The goal is to achieve efficient and (provably) secure solutions. COSIC intends to integrate these solutions into different applications including computer systems, telecommunications systems (Internet security, mobile communications), and payment systems. Important aspect here are the efficient implementation (in both software and hardware) of cryptographic primitives and the security evaluation of components and systems. |
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