Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems
Head: Prof. A Min Tjoa
The Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems investigates the engineering and science dimensions of the following topics:
- Data Engineering: Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Non-standard Data Modelling
- Information & Knowledge Engineering: Semantic Web, Information Visualization, Plan Management, E-Learning, Digital Libraries, Text Mining
- Process Engineering: Adaptive Workflow Management, Service Oriented Architectures
- Software Engineering: Software Quality Management, Verification and Validation, Management of Software Projects
- Web Engineering: Ubiquitous Web Applications, Integration of Web & Database Systems
- Model Engineering: Model Transformation, Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies, Model-driven Software Development, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
- Media Processing: Multimedia Information Retrieval, Media Understanding, Image and Video Analysis
- Privacy and Security
- Business Informatics: e-commerce and e-government, business modelling, m-commerce, recommender systems, diffusion and acceptance research
The leading role of the institute in the competence centers EC3 (Electronic Commerce Competence Center) and SBA (Secure Business Austria) reflects important aspects of the research orientation of the institute.
Research Groups
- E188/1 — Information & Software Engineering
- E188/2 — Interactive Media Systems
- E188/3 — Business Informatics