Research

Orientation

InfAI is mainly involved in carrying out third-party funded, application-oriented research projects in collaboration with regional and supraregional organizations. InfAI is furthermore concerned with fundamental research in application-oriented research through the organization of events, consultancy and placement.

Research areas

• Service Oriented Architectures and Web Services
• Semantic Web 
• GRID-based Service-Computing and High Performance Computing
• Component based Service Architectures
• Service Factories
• Service Modeling and Service Development processes
• Capability based Service Workflows
• Semantic Analysis of unstructured information sources
• Text-Mining
• IT in Business Information Systems, provision of services, finances, organizations, process modelling and -implementation, logistics, energy
• Advanced produkt engineering techniques for IT-services such as Mediendienste(?), internet services, financial services, eGovernment, eLearning and eScience-services
• Knowledge and Content Management for Business Systems (Enterprise Information Integration)
• System Integration for complex applications (Integration Engineering)
• Business Information Systems and their management
• Software product lines und Software System Families
• Software Factories
• Methods for the generation of code- und non-code artefacts in Software Engineering
• Software Economics (rate computation, licensing in the context of software families)
• Model Driven Software Engineering
• Software Processes
• Distributed and Mobile Business Processes
• Value Oriented Software Engineering
• Online Marketing
• eCommerce-Standards, Architectures and Applications
• Business Models in eCommerce

The research areas above are subject to regular changes depending on the scientific and technical state of the art.