IT Architecture Research and Solutions

iGSI performs research and leverages results on IT architectures in various sectors such as enterprise systems, emergency management systems, global climate change detection and analysis systems, vector-borne disease analysis and forecast systems, fire information systems, security, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems.

iGSI works on the development, integration and deployment strategies on numerous architectural frameworks to advance Enterprise Interoperability. The portfolio of frameworks and sector specific specifications and standards includes with the Service Oriented Computing paradigm and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Web Services, Grid Services, Resource oriented Architecture (ROA), Event-based systems, and peer-to-peer (P2P) services the major trends in IT architecture developments. The portfolio is enriched by developments in Semantic Web Services, Enterprise Modelling, as well as other modelling and process languages to describe business processes and their executions.

System engineering and the development of solutions to integrate complex systems in system of systems approaches complete the development of individual system architectures. Due to its continuous engagement in OGC standards-, information models-, and encodings development with focus on the OGC Sensor Web Enablement, its active participation in global efforts such as the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and the contribution to the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES), iGSI possesses an outstanding knowledge on IT architectures in the geo-spatial domain.