The main topics of research are the following (DS: Distributed Systems):
- Adaptive (self-managing) DS
- data grids
- clouds
- elastic services and applications
- networks and services
- Advanced networking:
- channel allocation
- residential gateways
- Applied DS: Clouds, smart and mobile things
- Data-intensive computation: large data sets
- machine learning, constraint programming
- recommenders
- secure storage
- Large scale DS
- advanced networking
- clouds
- cloud federation
- cloud economics
- security
- crowdsourcing
- data consistency, workflow
- data grid replication
- infrastructure federation
- programming models
- user interfaces
- synchronization-free programming with CRDTs
- Scalable decentralized DS
- incentives
- overlay/network simulation, cycle-sharing
- social networks
Candidate PhD students should select a few topics of interest to be included in the application form.