South-East European Research Centre (SEERC)

Through the Research Clusters that are active in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Research Track, SEERC fosters collaboration mainly among researchers from the University’s Departments of Computer Science at the International Faculty and the Faculty of Engineering, and the Information School. In addition, research topics of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature are investigated in collaboration with researchers from the Management School, the Informatics Collaboratory of the Social Sciences (ICOSS), the Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in Arts and Social Sciences (CILASS), the Department of Geography, and the Department of Business Administration & Economics at City College. In parallel, the ICT Research Track actively promotes collaboration with a great number of research institutions and organisations from the region of South East Europe and beyond.

Members of the Information and Communication Technologies Research Track, have a research record in the areas of:

• Formal Methods: Formal Specification Languages, Modelling and Model Checking for Safety Critical and Large Scale Systems, Formal Verification and Testing of Software Systems

• Artificial Intelligence: Multi-Agent Systems, Biologically Inspired Computation, Parallel Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Neural Networks , Semantic Web Technologies

• Software Engineering: Service Oriented Computing, Web Service Technologies, Cloud Computing, Software Engineering Processes, Agile Software Development, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

• Educational Informatics: Virtual Learning Environments, Networked and Ambient Learning, Learning Management Systems, Multiple Teaching Strategies

• Health Informatics: Electronic Health Records, Health Information Management, Affective and Physiological Computing

• Information Systems: Analysis, Design, and Management of IS, Business Information Systems, Geographical Information Systems, Information Security, IT Policy and Socio-Economic Effects

A brief profile of the ICT research track's activities can be downloaded here (in PDF format).

• Information & Knowledge Management

• GRACE

  Grounding RRI Actions to Achieve Institutional Changes in European Research Funding and Performing Organisations

  Duration: 01/01/2019 - 01/01/2022

  Budget: 91.600 €

  Funding: H2020 – SWAFS

• ARRANGE-ICT

  pArtneRship foR AddressiNG mEgatrends in ICT

  Duration: 01/09/2018 - 31/08/2020

  Budget: 29.967 €

  Funding: Erasmus+

• NetMIB

  Network of multidisciplinary ideation and business model generation

  Duration: 01/09/2015 - 01/09/2017

  Budget: 44.250 €

  Funding: ERASMUS+

• PaaSword

  A HOLISTIC DATA PRIVACY AND SECURITY BY DESIGN PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE FRAMEWORK INTRODUCING DISTRIBUTED ENCRYPTED PERSISTENCE IN CLOUD-BASED APPLICATION

  Duration: 01/01/2015 - 31/12/2017

  Budget: 325.000 €

  Funding: Horizon 2020

• INVENT

  Reinventing the Distribution and Delivery of Personal Services through Cloud Apps and Marketplaces.

  Duration: 20/01/2014 - 30/11/2015

  Budget: 61.150 €

  Funding: GSRT

• HOMER

  Home made explosives (HMEs) and recipes characterisation

  Duration: 01/11/2013 - 30/12/2016

  Budget: 361.920 €

  Funding: 7th Framework Programme - Capability, European Commission

• ICT2B

  Bridging the Entrepreneurial Gap: Transforming European ICT Research into Investment Opportunities

  Duration: 31/08/2013 - 30/09/2015

  Budget: 140.000 €

  Funding: FP7/ICT

• Broker@Cloud

  Enabling Continuous Quality Assurance and Optimization in Future Enterprise Cloud Service Brokers

  Duration: 31/10/2012 - 31/12/2015

  Budget: 557.000 €

  Funding: 7th Framework Programme - ICT, European Commission

• ISCOM

  Intelligent System in Supply Chain Monitoring and Optimization

  Duration: 01/07/2012 - 31/12/2014

  Budget: 47.970 €

  Funding:

• ICT-KOSEU

  Supporting Dialogue and Cooperation between Europe and Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244) in Collaborative ICT R&D

  Duration: 01/01/2012 - 30/04/2014

  Budget: 79.179 €

  Funding: 7th Framework Programme - ICT, European Commission

• RELATE-ITN

  Trans-European Research Training Network on Engineering and Provisioning of Service Based Cloud Applications

  Duration: 01/03/2011 - 28/02/2015

  Budget: 618.672 €

  Funding: FP7 People (Marie Curie), European Commission (Grant Agreement No. 264840)

• MORMED

  Multilingual Organic Information Management in the Medical Domain

  Duration: 01/03/2010 - 31/08/2012

  Budget: 455.500 €

  Funding: CIP ICT Policy Support Programme (Grant Agreement No. 250534)

• CAST

  Enabling Customisation of SaaS Applications by Third Parties

  Duration: 01/03/2009 - 30/11/2011

  Budget: 320.000 €

  Funding: Eurostars programme, EUREKA & European Commission

• ICT-WEB-PROMS

  Promoting ICT cooperation opportunities and policy dialogue with the Western Balkan Countries

  Duration: 01/01/2009 - 31/12/2010

  Budget: 40.150 €

  Funding: 7th Framework Programme - ICT, European Commission

• Embed4Auto

  Upskilling to Model-Based Software Development in the Automotive and Embedded Software Sector

  Duration: 01/10/2008 - 30/09/2010

  Budget: 76.671 €

  Funding: Leonardo da Vinci programme, DG Education and Culture, European Commission

• ELEVATE

  Integrating Pedagogically-Documented, Value-Added E-Training Add-ons in Commercial Software Products of European Software SMEs

  Duration: 01/10/2008 - 30/09/2010

  Budget: 200.000 €

  Funding: 7th Framework Programme - Research for the Benefit of SMEs, European Commission

• OrganiK

  An Organic Knowledge Management System for Small European Knowledge-intensive Companies

  Duration: 31/08/2008 - 30/08/2010

  Budget: 228.000 €

  Funding: 7th Framework Programme - Research for the Benefit of SMEs, European Commission

• S-Cube

  Software Services and Systems Network (Associate Partner)

  Duration: 01/03/2008 - 29/02/2012

  Budget: 0 €

  Funding: 7th Framework Programme - ICT, European Commission

• e-SDI NET+

  Network for promotion of cross border dialogue and exchange of best practices on Spatial Data Infrastructures throughout Europe

  Duration: 01/09/2007 - 31/08/2010

  Budget: 10.500 €

  Funding: eContentplus Programme, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission

• J-WeB

  Collaboration Environment for Judicial European Networking in Western Balkans

  Duration: 01/02/2007 - 30/04/2009

  Budget: 93.500 €

  Funding: 6th Framework Programme - IST, European Commission

• FUSION

  Business Process FUSION based on Semantically-enabled Service-Oriented Business Applications

  Duration: 01/02/2006 - 31/08/2008

  Budget: 325.594 €

  Funding: 6th Framework Programme - Information Society Technologies, European Commission (Contract no. 027385)

• Embedding Standards

  Embedding ICT/Multimedia Standardisation Initiatives into European Vocational Training Development Strategies

  Duration: 01/10/2004 - 30/09/2006

  Budget: 23.570 €

  Funding: Leonardo Da Vinci Programme, DG Education and Culture, European Commission

• Ambient Learning

  Ambient, Multimodal and Context-Sensitive Lifelong Learning

  Duration: 01/08/2004 - 31/01/2006

  Budget: 240.000 €

  Funding: eTen programme, DG Information Society & Media, European Commission

• EPOS

  E-Procurement Optimised System for the Healthcare Marketplace

  Duration: 01/06/2004 - 31/12/2005

  Budget: 178.000 €

  Funding: eTen programme, DG Information Society & Media, European Commission)

• Dr Thomas Lagkas, The University of Sheffield, International Faculty - CITY College, Computer Science Department
• Dr Michael Stannett, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science

• Dr Nikos Aletras, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science
• Adelina Basholli
• Prof. Peter Bath, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Social Sciences, Information School
• Fesal Baxhaku
• Dr Dimitris Bibikas, SEERC
• Prof Kalina Bontcheva, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science
• Dr Tony Cowling, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science
• Dr Konstantinos Dimopoulos, The University of Sheffield, International Faculty - CITY College, Computer Science Department
• Dr Dimitris Dranidis, The University of Sheffield, International Faculty - CITY College, Computer Science Department
• Dr George Eleftherakis, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield - CITY College, Department of Computer Science
• Dr Gordon Fraser, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science
• Dr Marian Gheorghe, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science
• Bekim Kasumi, SEERC
• Prof. Petros Kefalas, The University of Sheffield, International Faculty - CITY College, Computer Science Department
• Prof. Philippa Levy, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Social Sciences, Information School
• Anastasios Lytos
• Prof. Roger K. Moore, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science
• Edon Mustafa
• Marina Ntika
• Dr Miguel Baptista Nunes, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Social Sciences, Information School
• Dimitrios Pappas, SEERC
• Dr Iraklis Paraskakis, SEERC
• Dr Amanda Sharkey, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science
• Ioannis Spyridis
• Evi Tramantza
• Dr Ana Cristina Vasconcelos, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Social Sciences, Information School
• Dr Eleni Vasilaki, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science
• Dr Simeon Veloudis, SEERC
• Dr Andreas Vlachos, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science
• Sheila Webber, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Social Sciences, Information School
• Prof Jie Zhang, The University of Sheffield, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering