Centres and Groups

CSBE

The Center for Software Business and Engineering (CSBE) is a research unit comprising elements from both the University of Turku and Turku School of Economics, with the joint aim of collaborating on research with high-impact goals for both the academic body of knowledge and industrial practice.

CREST

The Centre for Reliable Software Technology (CREST) is a research center within Åbo Akademi University and TUCS. CREST is a Centre of Excellence for Formal Methods in Programming.

FUNDIM

Fundamentals of Computing and Discrete Mathematics (FUNDIM) is a research centre at University of Turku and Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS).

The roots of the research centre goes to the pioneering work of Academician A. Salomaa and Professor Emeritus A. Tietäväinengoing back to 1960's. Currently, the research covers a large spectrum of discrete mathematics connected to foundations of computing.

FUNDIM s a key factor of the topic of "Mathematical research" selected to one out of total five areas of strength in the strategy of the University of Turku for 2006-2011.

IST

Information Society Technologies

IST is an interdisciplinary research centre at University of Turku and TUCS. Research and education are practiced in interaction with the industry and trade for individual wellness and inclusive information society. Thematic focus areas include biomedicine and health care, safety and security, education and democracy.

IAMSR

The Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research (IAMSR) is a research institute within Åbo Akademi University and TUCS. IAMSR is carrying out theory-driven and applied research in approximate reasoning and fuzzy logic, real options, self-organizing maps and neural nets, interdependent multiple criteria optimization, software agents, mobile and electronic commerce methods and technology, industry foresight methods, scenario technologies, knowledge based support systems and hyperknowledge. [presentation, ppt ]

Other Groups and Laboratories

Algorithmics Group, Computational Biomodelling Laboratory, Software Engineering Laboratory