Information Systems
Information Systems is an active area of research at the Faculty of Informatics of USI Università della Svizzera italiana. We work on Business Process Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval and Privacy.
Fabio Crestani
Prof. Crestani started the local Information Retrieval Research group. His main areas of research are Information Retrieval, Text Mining, and Digital Libraries.
Patrick Thomas Eugster
Prof. Eugster is interested in software systems, with a particular focus on distributed systems and programming models/languages, and the intersection between the two. He has co-authored over 120 scientific articles on these topics. His research has been awarded by various funding agencies and companies.
Monica Landoni
Prof. Landoni's research interests are in the broad areas of Human Computer Interaction, Digital Libraries and Interactive Information Retrieval. In particular she has been actively exploring how e-books should be designed and evaluated by focusing on different readers and reading types.
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's research lies at the intersection of service-oriented computing, autonomic computing, software architecture, Web engineering and business process modeling and management. He's leading the Architecture, Design and Web Information Systems Engineering group.
Silvia Santini
Prof. Santini's research focus is on wireless sensor and actuator networks, mobile sensing, cyber-physical systems and stretches to the domains of ubiquitous computing and the internet of things.
