Research Partners

The NEDINE project is driven by research and technical development maintained and supervised by leading researchers of two European Universities

TUV - Technical University of Vienna  

The Distributed Systems Group (DSG) at TUV conducts teaching and research in all aspects of distributed and Internet-based systems with particular emphasis on software and networking technologies for distributed systems. In the networking area, DSG is active in Web-services, push technology, code mobility (mobile agents, nomadic applications), and their management. In the software area, DSG is interested in software architectures, software components, languages for distributed systems, distributed and mobile collaboration, long-term software evolution, and collaborative computing (workflow, groupware). More details can be found at http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at.

The Distributed Systems Group has 10 permanent staff, a varying number of research associates, and some 5 doctoral students. DSG teaches several undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science, e.g., computer networks and distributed systems, software architecture, requirements analysis and specification of distributed systems, design methods for distributed systems, reverse and re-engineering, programming Java and C++, Internet-applications (Workflow Management Systems), Network Services, Web-Service Engineering, etc.

UPM - Universidad Polytechnico de Madrid  

The Department of Artificial Intelligence (part of the Faculty of Computer Science of the Technical University of Madrid - UPM) includes 36 faculty members holding Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Decision Analysis and other fields, as well as several research assistants at the doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate levels.

There are several research groups and laboratories whose main areas of research are the following:

• Knowledge engineering (Knowledge acquisition, Reasoning, Industrial Diagnosis)
• Computer vision and robotics
• Neural networks and genetic algorithms
• Logical models
• Logic and constraint logic programming
• Natural language, intelligent man-machine interaction
• Information retrieval
• High performance implementation and parallel processing
• Decision analysis
• Medical informatics

The Department has participated in a large number of international and national research programmes and collaborations. In particular, the Department has contributed to several IST, ESPRIT and ATT projects, notably ARTIS, KITS, PEPMA, PRINCE, VALID, ACKNOWLEDGE, PIGMALION, FLUIDS and SPRINT. It has also participated in other collaborative research under CICYT, RACE, HCM and bi-national programmes.

Research projects active during last years are funded in part by EU funds (IST, ESPRIT, DRIVE, and ATT), by Spanish funding agencies (INEM, CAM, CYCIT, DGICYT), or by other Spanish organisations and companies.