Information Systems

Information Systems is an active area of research at the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Lugano. We work on Business Process Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval and Privacy.

People

Fabio Crestani

Prof. Crestani started the local Information Retrieval Research group. His main areas of research are Information Retrieval, Text Mining, and Digital Libraries.

Marc Langheinrich

Prof. Langheinrich's main research interest lies at the intersection of privacy and ubiquitous computing. Prof. Langheinrich heads the Research Group for Ubiquitous Computing

Cesare Pautasso

Prof. Pautasso research lies at the intersection of service-oriented computing, autonomic computing, software architecture, Web engineering and business process modeling and management.

Research groups

Courses and Seminars

PhD Courses

HCI Reading Group (Marc Langheinrich, Monica Landoni)

Master's Courses

Business intelligence (Piero Fraternali)
Business Intelligence Lab (Piero Fraternali)
Cryptography (Christof Paar)
Decision Making (Balázs Kovács)
Design 101 (Michele Lanza)
Design Technologies (Giovanni De Micheli)
Distributed Systems (Fernando Pedone)
Embedded Databases (Fabio A. Schreiber, Letizia Tanca)
Enterprise Resource Planning (Chiara Francalanci)
Enterprise Resource Planning Lab (Chiara Francalanci)
Heuristics (Gianni A. Di Caro, Luca Maria Gambardella, Roberto Montemanni)
Heuristics Lab (Luca Maria Gambardella)
Human-Computer Interaction Design (Monica Landoni, Marc Langheinrich)
Intelligent Information Access (Fabio Crestani)
Pervasive Information Systems and Embedded Databases (Fabio A. Schreiber, Letizia Tanca)
Statistics (Claudio Ortelli)
Ubiquitous Computing (Marc Langheinrich)
Ubiquitous Computing Lab (Marc Langheinrich)
Uncertain Reasoning and Data Mining (Marco Zaffalon)

Bachelor's Courses

Software Atelier I: Software Tools (Marco D´Ambros)
Software Atelier II: Human Computer Interaction (Michael Bronstein)
Information and Knowledge Management I: DB (Data Bases) (Gabriella Pasi)
Information and Knowledge Management II: Multimedia Information Access (Fabio Crestani)
Information and Knowledge Management III: AI (Artificial Intelligence) (Luca Maria Gambardella)
Software Atelier III: Web 2.0 technologies (Cesare Pautasso)
Software Atelier IV: Software Engineering of Web Applications (Nate Nystrom)
Introduction to Information Security (Marc Langheinrich)