Distributed Systems

The Distributed Systems (DS) area of the IS group proposes methods, techniques and tools to advance research in distributed technologies in the context of the Information Systems. Our research is driven by user-centered and application-driven approaches to support the sustainability of the IS in the digital transformation movement and in the context of global ecological requirements. The rapid deployment of all kind of sensors, edge computing, distributed service infrastructures, machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence, which permeates the organizations and the user’s lives, raises challenging issues. The researchers of the DS area contribute to address these challenges by analyzing, designing and developing innovative prototypes and proof-of-concepts to IS business problems and applications.

Within the DS area we focus on the following main domains: blockchains, distributed ledger technologies, advanced databases, interoperability, knowledge representation and ontologies, semantic web, service science, cloud services and architectures.

Distributed technologies, user-centered, application-driven approaches, sustainability of the IS, digital transformation, edge computing, distributed service infrastructures, blockchains, distributed ledger technologies, machine learning applied to IS, advanced databases, interoperability, knowledge representation and ontologies, semantic web, service science, cloud services and architectures