The Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT-BAS), is Bulgaria’s leading research institution in ICT. Within the Section “Modelling and Optimization”, we focus on enhancing decision-making support systems, analyzing complex systems, and optimizing multi-source data.
The Section's research spans artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and intelligent systems. Our work encompasses the evaluation and optimization of large language models, machine-learning-based threat and anomaly detection for industrial control systems and edge infrastructure, and the development of data-driven methods for renewable energy management, wildfire behaviour modelling, and technology-enhanced education.
Scientists from the Section share their knowledge through teaching in a range of universities.
Current Projects
Methods for data generation, self-learning and model optimization in the lifecycle of AI tools in socially relevant domains
EdgeGuard — Graph-Augmented xAI for Threat Intelligence on Edge Infrastructure
NERO — Network for Education and Research On Wildfire
FBFMs — Fire Behaviour Fuel Models for Southern Europe Fire Risk Assessment
Current Activities
Current activities of the department are concentrated on research and development of optimization methods, algorithms and approaches, as well as of corresponding software products, realizing local and web-based optimization and decision support systems.
