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How can anomaly detection on a production line be improved? It was in response to a very concrete problem encountered at the company where he works that Arnaud Bougaham, with the support of his employer, decided to devote his thesis to this topic at the UNamur School of Computer Science. The goal? To develop an artificial intelligence model that assists operators in detecting anomalies on an industrial production line by reducing false alarms and making the diagnosis easier to understand. This approach also holds promise for deployment in the medical field. 

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Preparatory Courses Discover university-level education and life at UNamur while reviewing the subjects essential to your future program of study.To help you start your first year of studies on the right foot, UNamur offers a program of preparatory courses tailored to the academic program of your choice during the last two weeks of August.Several modules are available: academic work methodology; producing and managing information in communication and politics; Dutch; English.These preparatory courses allow you to:review the knowledge you acquired in high school; refine your study skills; meet teaching assistants and professors in a more informal setting before the semester starts; start building relationships with other students. Explore the preparatory course program Do you have what it takes? Test your knowledge and skills with the “Passports to the Baccalaureate.”Starting in the first year, the “Passports to the Bac” allow you to compare your knowledge and skills with your professors’ expectations. Based on your results, the Faculty will offer you remedial sessions. This will help you fill in any gaps in your knowledge and increase your chances of success. The results of these tests are not factored into your end-of-year evaluation. Are your methods appropriate? To succeed in your first year, you need effective strategies.Sessions on academic study skills are organized to familiarize you with learning techniques such as:taking clear and comprehensive notes;summarizing and synthesizing course material;gaining a deep understanding of the material;memorizing large amounts of information;managing your time during the regular school term and exam periods;organize your work;anticipate instructors’ expectations.In addition, the Interfaculty Academic Support Unit offers individual guidance. Throughout the year, an advisor is available to review your study methods and techniques and help you improve them. What if you run into difficulties? The Faculty offers remedial sessions, office hours, and other services between exam periods.Remedial SessionsRemedial sessions are held in small groups; they allow you to thoroughly review the material covered in class and prepare effectively for exams. The details of these sessions vary by course and are specified by the instructors.Office HoursInstructors or teaching assistants regularly hold group question-and-answer sessions. Outside of these office hours, they are also available to meet with you by appointment.Between Exam SessionsAfter the January and June exams, you have the opportunity to review your exam papers, attend a grading session, receive additional explanations, have your homework assignments graded, and more.All these activities are coordinated by the Faculty’s Academic Coordination Office, which serves as a liaison between students and faculty members. How can you prepare for exams?    Study regularly, develop good study habits, and familiarize yourself with your professors’ expectations and their testing styles.In the first year, formative assessments are held in late October in certain subjects. Your exams, corrected and annotated, will be returned to you.These tests do not factor into your end-of-year grades. They are a tool to help you assess the professors’ expectations and the effectiveness of your study methods. You can discuss your results with your professors or the head of the Academic Coordination Office and, if necessary, contact the Interfaculty Academic Support Unit to improve your study habits.Beyond the first year, you should tailor your efforts more effectively to the nature and importance of each subject in the curriculum. Exam Administration January, June, and, if necessary, August… three sessions to demonstrate your mastery of the material.In January, you take exams covering the courses from the first quarter. If you fail, you can retake the exam in June and/or August. You have three chances to pass, but only during your first year of the bachelor’s program. Starting in the second year of the bachelor’s program, any exam failed during the January or June session is automatically rescheduled for the August session. Image The studies See content Image Studying at UNamur See content Image Campus life See content

Preparatory Courses Discover university-level education and life at UNamur while reviewing the subjects essential to your future program of study.To help you start your first year of studies on the right foot, UNamur offers a program of preparatory courses during the last two weeks of August, tailored to the university program of your choice.Several modules are available: academic research methods; producing and managing information in communication and politics; Dutch; English.These preparatory courses allow you to:review the knowledge you acquired in high school; refine your study skills; meet teaching assistants and professors in a more informal setting before the semester starts; start building relationships with other students. Explore the preparatory course program Do you have what it takes? Test your knowledge and skills with the “Passports to the Baccalaureate.”Starting in the first year, “Passports to the Bac” allow you to compare your knowledge and skills with your professors’ expectations. Based on your results, the Faculty will offer you remedial sessions. This will help you fill in any gaps in your knowledge and increase your chances of success. The results of these tests are not factored into your end-of-year evaluation. Are your methods appropriate? To succeed in your first year, you need effective strategies.Sessions on academic study skills are organized to familiarize you with learning techniques such as:taking clear and comprehensive notes;summarizing and synthesizing course material;gaining a deep understanding of the material;memorizing large amounts of information;managing your time during the regular school term and exam periods;organize your work;anticipate instructors’ expectations.In addition, the Interfaculty Academic Support Unit offers individual guidance. Throughout the year, an advisor is available to review your study methods and techniques and help you improve them. What if you run into difficulties? The Faculty offers remedial sessions, office hours, and other services between exam periods.Remedial SessionsRemedial sessions are held in small groups; they allow you to thoroughly review the material covered in class and prepare effectively for exams. The details of these sessions vary by course and are specified by the instructors.Office HoursInstructors or teaching assistants regularly hold group Q&A sessions. Outside of these office hours, they are also available to meet with you by appointment.Between Exam SessionsAfter the January and June exams, you have the opportunity to review your exam papers, attend a grading session, receive additional explanations, have your homework assignments graded, and more. All these activities are coordinated by the Faculty’s Academic Coordination Office, which serves as a liaison between students and faculty. How can you prepare for exams? Study regularly, develop good study habits, and also familiarize yourself with your teachers’ expectations and their testing styles.In the first year, formative assessments are held in late October in certain subjects. Your exams, marked and annotated, will be returned to you. These tests do not count toward your end-of-year grades. They are a tool to help you assess the level of expectation set by your professors and the effectiveness of your study methods.You can discuss your results with your professors or the head of the Academic Coordination Office and, if necessary, contact the Interfaculty Academic Support Unit to improve your study habits.Beyond the first year, you should tailor your efforts more effectively to the nature and importance of each subject in the curriculum.  Exam Administration January, June, and, if necessary, August… three sessions to demonstrate your mastery of the material.In January, you take the exams covering the first semester’s courses. If you fail, you can retake the exam in June and/or August. You have three chances to pass, but only during your first year of the bachelor’s program.Starting in the second year of your bachelor’s degree, any exam failed during the January or June session is automatically rescheduled for the August session. Image The studies See content Image Studying at UNamur See content Image Campus life See content

Preparatory Courses Discover university-level education and life at UNamur while reviewing the subjects essential to your future program of study.To help you start your first year of studies on the right foot, UNamur offers a program of preparatory courses tailored to your chosen academic program during the last two weeks of August.For prospective students in economics and management: mathematics; academic research methods; Dutch; English.These preparatory courses allow you to:review the knowledge you acquired in high school; refine your study skills; meet teaching assistants and professors in a more informal setting before the semester starts; start building relationships with other students. Explore the preparatory course program Do you have the skills? Test your knowledge and skills with “Passports to the Baccalaureate.”Starting in the first year, the “Passports to the Baccalaureate” allow you to compare your current knowledge and skills with your teachers’ expectations.Based on your results, the Faculty will offer you remedial sessions. This will help you fill in any gaps in your knowledge and increase your chances of success. The results of these tests are not factored into your end-of-year evaluation. Are your methods appropriate? To succeed in your first year, you need effective strategies.Study skills workshops are held to help you become familiar with university learning techniques:taking clear and comprehensive notes;summarizing and synthesizing course material;gaining a deep understanding of the material;memorizing large amounts of information;managing your time during the regular semester and exam periods;organize your work;anticipate instructors’ expectations.In addition, the Interfaculty Academic Support Unit is available. Throughout the year, an advisor is available to review your study methods and techniques and help you improve them. What if you run into difficulties? The Faculty offers remedial sessions, office hours, and other services between exam periods.TutoringRemedial sessions are held in small groups; they allow you to thoroughly review the material covered in class and prepare effectively for exams.The details of these sessions vary by course and are specified by the instructors.Office HoursInstructors or teaching assistants regularly hold group Q&A sessions. Outside of these office hours, they are also available to meet with you by appointment.Between Exam SessionsAfter the January and June exams, you have the opportunity to review your exam papers, observe a grading session, receive additional explanations, have your homework assignments graded, and more.All these activities are coordinated by the Faculty’s Academic Coordination Office, which serves as a liaison between students and faculty. How can you prepare for exams?   Study regularly, develop good study habits, and familiarize yourself with your professors’ expectations and their testing styles.In the first year, formative assessments are held in late October in certain subjects. Your exams, corrected and annotated, will be returned to you.These tests do not factor into your end-of-year grades. They are a tool to help you assess the professors’ expectations and the effectiveness of your study methods.You can discuss your results with your professors or the head of the Academic Coordination Office and, if necessary, contact the Interfaculty Academic Support Unit to improve your study habits.Beyond the first year, you should tailor your efforts more effectively to the nature and importance of each subject in the curriculum. Exam Administration January, June, and, if necessary, August… three sessions to demonstrate your mastery of the material.In January, you take the exams covering the first quarter’s courses. If you fail,you can retake the exam in June and/or August. You have three chances to pass, but only during your first year of the bachelor’s program.Starting in the second year of your bachelor’s program, any exam you fail in the January or June session is automatically rescheduled for the August session. Image The studies See content Image Studying at UNamur See content Image Campus life See content

Abstract  The design of a content-aware urban traffic management and monitoring system based on a swarm of drones is a challenging problem due to real-time data processing, multi-agent coordination, and decision-making under dynamic conditions. The complexity of this design problem increases with the number of options and the number of cues that traffic controllers must consider when making a decision. The research presented in this thesis addresses this challenge by exploring the potential of swarm intelligence and reinforcement learning-based controllers as design tools for developing adaptive, content-aware decision-making mechanisms for urban traffic management and monitoring using a swarm of drones. The main objective is to design distributed control mechanisms that support the emergence of robust, scalable, and effective autonomous traffic monitoring and management, while proposing and evaluating alternative solutions compared to previous research. In particular, we propose alternative approaches to elements such as the use of predefined correlations between traffic dynamics and driving characteristics, as well as the use of fixed monitoring mechanisms—such as cameras or radar sensors—combined with fixed control strategies.With regard to traffic monitoring, this thesis focuses on the evaluation of swarms of drones for traffic data collection. With regard to traffic management, this thesis focuses on the evaluation of two traffic control methodologies applied to three different urban scenarios. The control methodologies are: the centralized Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (SPSA) and the decentralized Deep Q-Network (DQN). Briefly, in the former method, the agents operating on traffic collectively evaluate the effects of their actions on traffic quality to update their decision-making policy. The latter method requires agents managing traffic to collectively select the best action from among several alternatives based on the estimated quality of those actions.In the centralized SPSA controller, we investigate both single- and multi-agent intersection maps using a cell transition traffic model (CTM) to simulate traffic. The experimental results indicate that the proposed drone-based traffic controller can successfully mitigate traffic jams and coordinate the swarm of drones, despite constraints on individual exploration and limited communications at a single urban intersection. However, in multi-urban intersections, reducing traffic in one direction inevitably creates traffic problems in other parts of the road network due to a lack of coordination among agents managing traffic. The study also highlights the trade-off between adjacent intersections in the traffic pattern, where limiting communication can improve the swarm’s adaptability to changes. The evolved optimization controllers outperform traditional mechanisms—such as fixed traffic timing—in terms of accuracy, speed of convergence, varying vehicle input rates, and variations in the traffic model.In the second scenario, we first evaluate the performance of a centralized SPSA controller under realistic traffic dynamics using the Vissim simulator to simulate road traffic, rather than the CTM model. The aim is to evaluate the controller’s robustness against external disturbances arising from heterogeneous driving behavior. Next, we design and analyze a decentralized DQN controller for a multi-agent intersection map using the Vissim simulator. In this scenario, we extend the investigation to a more complex task in which drones must collectively transfer the collected data between intersections, and each agent selects its timing action based on both its own traffic data and information shared by other agents. The evolved drone-based DQN controllers enable the traffic units to learn about perceptual driving behavior and external disturbances from the Vissim traffic model. The results demonstrate the robustness and scalability of the evolved strategy under various conditions, including different initial conditions and driving behaviors. The swarm of drones also demonstrates adaptability to changes in traffic conditions, although this adaptability depends on the specific nature of the traffic dynamics and the information shared by other agents in the decision-making process.In the final scenario, we investigate multi-intersection traffic control on a simulated real map of the Belgian city of Namur, using a decentralized Deep Q-Network controller for traffic management and a swarm of drones for monitoring. The traffic model incorporates realistic features such as vehicle acceleration and deceleration, lane-changing behavior, and heterogeneous vehicle types. External disturbances, including parking events and pedestrian crossings, are also considered. The results demonstrate that the proposed autonomous traffic management and monitoring system is robust against disturbances and scalable to real urban areas. The study also highlights the effect of using a swarm of drones for data monitoring, compared to the same control strategy employing fixed cameras, in terms of convergence performance.In conclusion, this thesis contributes to the field of intelligent traffic management and monitoring by evaluating the potential of a swarm of drones as an effective tool for designing adaptive and coordinated traffic control and monitoring mechanisms. In the scenario under consideration, the results indicate that drone-based traffic controllers outperform conventional fixed-time traffic control and fixed-camera monitoring systems in terms of robustness, scalability, and adaptability. The findings of this research have implications for developing more resilient and autonomous drone-based traffic management systems capable of making informed collective decisions in complex and dynamic urban environments. Jury Prof. Elio Tuci - University of Namur, BelgiumProf. Laurent Schumacher - University of Namur, BelgiumProf. Marie-Ange Remiche - University of Namur, BelgiumProf. Alexandre Mauroy - University of Namur, BelgiumProf. Seyed Amir Tafrishi - University of Cardiff, UKProf. Ahmad Fakharian - Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran Sign me up

Researchers at UNamur have developed a new method that has uncovered 32 previously undetected bugs in some of the most widely used software libraries for training artificial intelligence models. Originating from a master’s thesis, this research has already led to fixes in several software programs used by millions of developers around the world. 

Since the 2023-2024 academic year, the Faculty Economics Management Communication Politics (EMCP) has been offering an innovative mobility program within the Bachelor of Economic and Management Sciences: a 3-year double degree (DD) with Ghent University.

The ERINN 2026 annual conference, organized by the CRED Research Center at the DeFiPP Institute, took place on June 15 and 16, 2026, at the EMCP Faculty. Funded by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation’s ARC IDnomics project, the conference explored the interaction between rapidly evolving social identities and public policy, as well as the impact of these factors on societal behaviors and economic choices.It also welcomed a distinguished guest: Professor George Arthur Akerlof, a 2001 recipient of the Alfred Nobel Prize in Economic Science.  In the interview Professor Akerlof granted us, he reflects on the origins of his career but does not discuss equations or economic models. He talks about people.