LaSIGE
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LaSIGE (Large-Scale Informatic Systems Laboratory, Portuguese Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala) is a research unit of the Computer Science department of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, located at the Faculty's C6 building.
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[edit] Research Activities
LaSIGE's research activities are organized around different topics, promoting research, training and technology transfer, such as:
- Computer networks
- Distributed algorithms
- Computer security
- Real-time
- Database systems
- Information retrieval
- Bioinformatics
- Human-computer interaction
- Usability
- Accessibility
- Computer supported cooperative work
- Web standards
- Hypertext
[edit] Research Groups
Research at LaSIGE is currently organized in four different lines and corresponding groups:
- DIALNP - Distributed Algorithms and Network Protocols
- HCIM - Human Computer Interaction and Multimedia
- Navigators - Distributed Systems
- XLDB Group - Data management
[edit] DIALNP
The interest of this group are: Group Communication, Semantic-aware publish-subscribe systems, Probabilistic protocols and multi-user games and Replicated persistent object systems.
Current projects are Appia framework [1], GORDA, MICAS and P-SON.
Previous projects include IndiQoS, MOOSCO, SHIFT, RUMOR, GlobData and STRONGREP.
[edit] HCIM
This research group is focused on different topics over human-computer interaction, ranging from usability and cooperative work to hypermedia and adaptivity.
Current projects are E-Voting, JoinTS, and RiCoBA.
Previous projects include IPSOM, SCOPE, ERMES, SAVE, and UNIBASE.
[edit] Navigators
A research group on distributed systems, their architectures, their algorithms, in their several skins: fault tolerance, real-time, security, and combinations thereof.
Current projects are CRUTIAL, HIDENETS, ReSIST, AJECT, RITAS, TACID, DARIO and SecureIST.
Previous projects include CORTEX, MAFTIA, CaberNet, COPE, DEFEATS, DEAR-COTS and MICRA.
[edit] XLDB Group
The XLDB Group researches data management problems with a focus on systems for data analyses, information integration and user access to large quantities of complex data from heterogeneous platforms. Current research lines span geographic information retrieval, text mining and natural language processing, web archiving and search, information visualisation, and bioinformatics.
[edit] Awards
Some projects and researchers have been granted awards for their research work, namely:
- Honorable Mention on the Descartes Prize 2004, for project MAFTIA.
- 2004 IBM Scientific Prize, for researcher Nuno Ferreira Neves.
- Innovation Young Engineer 2004 Prize, for researcher Francisco Couto.
