Research

Divisions

Orientation at the InfAI

The InfAI is mainly involved in managing third-party-funded, application-oriented research projects and executing project charters in collaboration with regional and supraregional organizations. In addition, the InfAI is concerned with fundamental application-oriented research in computer science, with the organization of events as well as with services in consultancy and placement.

Research Areas and Fields of Activity

• Service-Oriented Architectures and Web Services
• Semantic Web 
• GRID-Based Service Computing and High Performance Computing
• Component-Based Service Architectures
• Service Factories
• Service Modelling 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 Product Engineering Techniques for IT-Services such as Media Services, 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.