Research

Distributed Systems

• Grid Computing
  • Development of Grid- enabled applications
• Cloud Computing
• Trust and traceability of  distributed processes  (process provenance)

Software integration technology

• Development of software integration systems
• Wrapping of arbitrary application into software  integration systems
• Software environments for virtual product  development
• Object oriented interface for numerical applications

Management of scientific data and information

• Data management software DataFinder
• Big Data
• Distributed databases
• Best-practices-tools / expert systems for  computational fluid dynamics
• Origin and dependability of data (data provenance)
• Information visualization

Software Engineering

• Software Quality Assurance
• Automation of software engineering processes
• Code generation for automated tests
• Customizing of software engineering processes and  tools
• Development of software engineering tools (e.g.,  for code review, code analysis, or refactoring)

High Performance Computing

• Python for high performance and scientific computing

Web 2.0 Technologies

• Social Workplaces
• Social networks for science and research
• Collaboration platforms (Facebook, Google Wave)
• Wikis