Research Areas


Our faculty work on many interesting problems. The following provides a rough categorization of the research in the department of Information and Software Engineering.


Areas Research Interests Faculty
Data Mining Data mining, clustering and classification, knowledge discovery, data cube, time series visualization, streaming data detection, and detection of anomalies and outliers in various data types Daniel Barbará
Carlotta Domeniconi
Larry Kerschberg
Jessica Lin
Database Constraints in databases, constraint databases and programming, expert database systems, user interfaces to databases, integrity and security of databases, and multiple database environments Daniel Barbará
Alex Brodsky
Larry Kerschberg
Amihai Motro
Edgar H. Sibley
Duminda Wijesekera
Information Systems Information policy and management, organizational informatics, inference channels, information sharing, information hiding, and information retrieval Alex Brodsky
Edgar H. Sibley
Information Security and Assurance System security and survivability, network security, virtual machine-based security, security multimedia, control and signaling, intrusion detection, and anomaly detection Paul Ammann
Alex Brodsky
Xuxian Jiang
Edgar H. Sibley
Angelos Stavrou
Duminda Wijesekera
Xinyuan (Frank) Wang
Software Engineering Software architecture, software testing, software performance and quality of service analysis, reliability analysis, fault tolerance, formal methods, change-impact analysis, embedded systems, real-time and distributed software, ubiquitous computing, and web software engineering Paul Ammann
Hassan Gomaa
Jeff Offutt
João Pedro Sousa
Sam Malek


Last updated: Fall 2007