Research


The research orientation of IICREST concerns three strategic research areas, namely: (i) Enterprise systems and aligned IT services; (ii) High-speed and media-rich networking; (iii) Enterprise optimization and applied numerical methods, as well as five strategic application domains, namely a) Wellbeing; b) Area and border security; c) Transport; d) Sustainability; e) Learning. Topics of interest in more detail:

ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS AND ALIGNED IT SERVICES
- business modeling
- enterprise service architectures
- inter-enterprise collaboration
- enterprise interoperability
- business-IT alignment
- enterprise application modeling
- model-driven development
- service-oriented infrastructures
- virtualization and integration approaches
- monitoring and self-adaptation approaches
- domain-specific applications

HIGH-SPEED AND MEDIA-RICH NETWORKING
- audio/video streaming
- IPv6 infrastructures
- media search and retrieval

ENTERPRISE OPTIMIZATION AND APPLIED NUMERICAL METHODS
- numerical methods in system design
- enterprise data analysis
- quantitative methods in information systems
- formal support for enterprise simulation.

IICREST has contributed to project initiatives, has organized scientific events, and has established collaborations with prestigious European universities / institutes. More information on all this can be found in the current website.