Research & Development

Current research interests of EUROPEAN DYNAMICS are on the following thematic areas:

  • e-Government for governments at all levels, using open standards / FLOSS and facilitating access to information for all;
  • advanced ICT solutions and policy developments for collaborative working environments, applicable to e-Business, e-Government, e-Health and e-Learning;
  • Web 2.0 and Social Software (mashup, blogging, syndication, podcasting, advanced user interfaces);
  • cognitive systems and human-computer interaction;
  • digital libraries and technology-enhanced learning, Intelligent content, and Semantics (semantic Web services, semantically enhanced information retrieval, content annotation, ontology creation, advanced data and text mining and intelligent knowledge extraction);
  • information security design and implementation applicable to identity management, authentication and authorisation, as well as rights management and privacy enhancing technologies; and
  • use of Open Source Software for networked cooperative business processes (at global and regional level) and digital ecosystems, in cooperation with OW2 and other FLOSS consortia.

Open Source Software

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS is committed to Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). The company is a founding member of the OW2 consortium, which focuses on the development of middleware (a critical component of FLOSS application development). It also participates in the QualiPSo project, which aims at the definition and promotion of industry grade quality metrics to FLOSS, thus allowing direct competition with commercial software.

More specifically, we exploit our long expertise in e-collaboration platforms and invests in FLOSS in order to extend our expertise in the area of the Open Source Software development process. The main R&D driving concept is the provision of independent services over a common infrastructure which enables modular, highly customisable user interfaces offering seamless access to individual services, provided by independent service providers through an ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) architecture. The integration of such diverse services that may refer to common entities requires extension of the current state-of-the-art in technical and semantic interoperability.