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Intelligent and Distributed Systems

IslandViz: A Tool for Visualizing Modular Software Systems in Virtual Reality

The Intelligent and Distributed Systems department conducts research in the areas of distributed and decentralized software systems, intelligent and knowledge-based software systems, artificial intelligence (AI), and software engineering and software analytics. In these research and application areas, the department works across groups to make complex processes fully traceable, reproducible, and automatable, and to make complex systems tangible, understandable, and easy to use. 

In particular, we focus on designing and maintaining complex software and system architectures and improving their usability. Abstract graph-based data play a role in many applications (e.g., software dependencies, provenance graphs, or simulation networks), for which the department develops innovative approaches to analysis and visualization, for example in virtual and augmented reality.

Research Topics

Distributed and Decentralized Software Systems

• Distributed Computing
• Peer-to-peer Systems
• Workflow Systems
• Blockchains
• Mobile Systems
• Reproducibility
• Provenance

Software Engineering and Software Analytics

• Automated Software Testing
• Software Repository Mining
• Methods and Tools
• Software Integration
• Restructuring of Legacy Applications
• Licensing and Open Source

Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent and Knowledge-based Software Systems

• Explainable AI
• Intelligent User Interfaces
• Maschine Learning
• Metadata Management
• Knowledge Management
• Usability

Visual Computing

• Software Visualization
• Graph Visualization
• Visual Data Analytics