LaSIGE (Large-Scale Informatic Systems Laboratory, Portuguese Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala) is a research unit of the Computer Science department of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, located at the Faculty's C6 building.
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Research Lines
LaSIGE's research activities are organized around different topics, promoting research, training and technology transfer. The current research lines are:
Research Teams
Research at LaSIGE is currently conducted by four research teams:
HCIM
This research team is focused on different topics over human-computer interaction, ranging from usability and cooperative work to hypermedia and adaptivity.
Current projects are E-Voting, JoinTS, and RiCoBA.
Previous projects include IPSOM, SCOPE, ERMES, SAVE, and UNIBASE.
Navigators
A research team on distributed systems, their architectures, their algorithms, in their several skins: fault tolerance, real-time, security, and combinations thereof.
Current projects are CRUTIAL, HIDENETS, ReSIST, AJECT, RITAS, TACID, DARIO, AIR-II and SecureIST.
Previous projects include CORTEX, MAFTIA, CaberNet, COPE, DEFEATS, DEAR-COTS, MICRA and AIR.
XLDB Team
The XLDB team researches data management problems with a focus on systems for data analyses, information integration and user access to large quantities of complex data from heterogeneous platforms. Current research lines span geographic information retrieval, text mining and natural language processing, web archiving and search, information visualisation, and bioinformatics.
Awards
Some projects and researchers have been granted awards for their research work, namely: