Salzburg Research conducts applied research in information and communication technologies. We offer a combination of technological research and development, user requirements, market and socio-economic impact studies. Salzburg Research has long-standing, extensive experience in EU-funded projects as co-ordinator as well as partner.
Based on our technological expertise, we develop and pilot innovative solutions particularly in the application domains of electronic publishing and media archives, intermodal transport management, education, cultural heritage and tourism.
Areas of Expertise
Mobile and Web-based Information Systems: information systems (IS) for intermodal transport management, research in future navigation systems, research in transport routing and optimization problems, IS for mobile users, design and development of personal, digital travel assistants, location-based services, recommender systems, search and retrieval in multimedia archives, multimedia semantics
Knowledge-based Information Systems: design and development of distributed, knowledge based systems and applications in conjunction with semantic social software; Expertise with semantic web technologies; Design and implementation of domain ontologies; Tools and methods for knowledge elicitation and representation [Download: FP7 Information Folder (ENG)]
Next Generation Internet: quality of service (QoS), monitoring and measurement, wireless networking, routing, traffic engineering, network modeling and simulation, policy-based networking
Information Society Research: conducts technology monitoring and road mapping, market analysis and user surveys in the context of R&D for innovations in content and creative industries, education and lifelong learning, cultural heritage and tourism
Geo-Information Research: geo-collaboration, geoinformation in emergency management, location-based services, distributed GIS, value of geoinformation, spatial data infrastructures
Communication Management: dissemination management and promotion of innovation, print, web, and video production, organisation of events, workshops, and conferences