Mission & Vision

to conduct research, develop applications, and to provide services in the areas of information management and large-scale information systems (research focus),

to conduct research within the scope of instituted research programs and respective research projects (project orientation),

to transfer resulting technologies to companies in the e-business, e-government, and e-learning domain (technology transfer),

to prototype, develop, and test simulation platforms for large scale systems (benchmarking),

to certify software products (certification), and

to perform tests and comparisons of new technologies and innovative services (studies).

to base its research on the principles of Excellence and to play a strategic role in the shaping of the Information Society at the national and international level (excellence in research),

to conduct interdisciplinary research and cooperation with disciplines beyond the boundaries of traditional aspects of information management (interdisciplinary),

to establish international cooperations in research and development (international cooperation), and

to accelerate technology transfer and exploitation of research results with respect to products (collaboration with industry) by entering strategic alliances with industry at the national and international level, creating spin offs, affecting industrial practices through cooperation with high-tech industries, and by being a catalyst for the development of new activities in the public and private sector.