SoDa.Lab

The SoDa.Lab at the Univ of the Peloponnese supports both research and teaching activities within the Dept of Informatics and Telecommunications. More specifically, SoDa.Lab: - develops research activities in state-of-the-art areas related to software systems and databases, including information representation and management (e.g., information retrieval/filtering, knowledge bases, information semantics), distributed computing (mainly cloud, grid, P2P, multi-agent systems), databases with special features (such as object-oriented, spatial, temporal, XML), big data data streams, data & user anonymity/privacy, service-oriented computing as well as related applications (including, e-government, e-health, digital libraries); - coordinates and implements R&D projects funded under Greek/European funding bodies, or under private/public institutions, while its members participate in many national and international projects/collaborations with top research institutions; - provides a workplace for PhD candidates, postgraduate students, and affiliated researchers who specialise on areas relevant to the laboratory's interests; - provides the necessary infrastructure in terms of manpower and hardware/software for supporting a number of undergraduate courses including Databases, Data/Information Management, Information Retrieval, Systems Programming, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, and Data Management Systems. Moreover it supports a number of postgraduate courses including Big Data, Distributed Information Management, Internet Programming, Net centric Computing, Data/Knowledge Management taught at (inter-)departmental study programs; - is equipped with state-of-the-art workstations provided with specialized software including software development environments, database management systems, libraries for developing parallel/distributed applications, an intra-grid and a private cloud environment, as well as environments for distributed execution of programs.