Industrial IT Centre 

Person in charge: professor, director Pekka Neittaanmäki, University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center 

The net planning and the control and optimisation of the use are based on the mathematical simulation models, optimisation models and adjustment models. As mathematical tools there are Fourier, Z, among others, queue models, integral conversions. (Laplace)stochastic methods (the Poisson processes, Markov chains, the birth processes and death processes a stochastic adjustment theory), signal analysis, optimisation and Neural Computing, datamining (DM) Knowledge Discovery (KD), Data Warehouse (DW). The quality and reliability of the present simulation software can be a crucial shortcoming in the net planning. The mathematical methods have been quite limitedly used for the present. 

The starting points for the building of the core competence group are good. The group includes in the fields which follow know-how: 
•	modelling and digital simulation methods
•	optimisation and adjustment theory (deterministic and stochastic)
•	they learn and intelligent systems 
•	statistical methods; signal processing;
•	net planning 
•	moving data processing 
•	merged systems;
•	software engineering. 

Industrial IT centre will be in a strategic position in the regional technology programmes and transfer of the new technology to the business world. 

The group includes eight professors, 10 postdoc researchers and 20 doctor students. The group wears out to the researcher school, COMAS (20 education places, director Pekka Neittaanmäki). The group has versatile national and international connections. The essential part is creation of the network of the international top know-how and as its consequence the transfer of the top know-how of its international field between the partners in cooperation is. Especially the connections are systemised to the following countries: USA (MIT; Berceley, Houston)to Japan (Wasada Tokyo University) France (Paris Vl, INRIA), Germany (CEASAR Institut Bonn GMD St August), Israel (Weizman Institute). 

The objective is to collect the new centre of the top know-how, the Industrial IT Centre. The project is carried out 1.1.2002 - 31.12.2004 by the co-operation group: 
professor Jarkko Vuori, University of Jyväskylä (the merged systems), 
professor Jyrki Joutsensalo (telecommunications),
professor Tapani Ristaniemi (telecommunications), 
doctor Alexandru Murgu (telecommunications), 
professor Tuomas Lukka (software engineering), 
professor Pekka Neittaanmäki (a scientific calculation), 
docent Marko Mäkelä (optimisation), 
docent Kaisa Miettinen (optimisation) and 
docent Osmo Pekonen (mathematics),
project manager Esa Kannisto (InBCT)

The research group includes persons furthermore: visiting professors (3x3x3 months = 27 person months) visiting researchers (3x3x3 months = 27 person months),  researcher, N.N, doctor (part-time) and study trainees (3x3x3kk=27 person months).