Research activities of the Department concentrate on the issues from the following areas:

• Safety of computer systems
• Risk management
• Information and knowledge management
• Databases integration on the Internet
• System analysis using UML
• Software process improvement
• Methods and platforms of distant education
• Social aspects of informatics

This research is carried on in co-operation with national and international research and industrial partners.

 Selected recent projects:

	Personalised Information Platform for Health and Life Services - PIPS 6th FP Integrated Project
	Drugs in Virtual Enterprise - DRIVE 5th FP Project IST-1999-12040
	Trust-IT: Trust cases for IT solutions
	RiskGuide: Risk Management in Software Engineering Projects
	UML-HAZOP: HAZOP Inspections of UML models
	ANGEL: Advanced Networked Gateway to Enhance quality of Life, 6th FP Project Contract IST-033506
	Model-based Analysis of Security Protocols