ITSI Research Institute

Institute of Technologies and Information Systems

The Institute of Technologies and Information Systems (ITSI), located on the Ciudad Real campus of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, was inaugurated on May 10, 2010.

ITSI's mission is to promote research in different areas of Computer Engineering in order to develop, and transfer to organizations, technologies and information systems that contribute to the progress and well-being of society, especially the Castilian Manchego.

ITSI's vision is to be the leading research institute in the field of information technologies and systems, of national and international reference, especially in the field of applied research.

The ITSI has approximately 70 researchers with extensive experience both in basic research (acquired by participating in multiple regional and national research projects, and in international research stays) and in applied research (in international projects, H2020 calls and contracts in collaboration with public bodies and companies). The researchers carry out their work in ten Research Groups that address different lines related to information technologies and systems, all of them cutting-edge and aligned with national and European social priorities.

In addition, the ITSI has the WeCareLab, a transversal initiative for all Research Groups, focused on the application of ICT to the Health and Well-being of society.

In its entrepreneurial facet, the ITSI hosts several Spin-Offs made up of members of the center, and which offer society a great diversity of services based on the knowledge generated as a result of the basic and applied experience gained over the years. , and the result of success in many competitive calls and contracts with companies.

The research groups and their members constitute the critical mass of the ITSI, and where all the potential for innovation and research with respect to Information Technologies and Systems is developed. These groups and their lines of research are as follows:

• AIR Research Group: Applied Artificial Intelligence; Visualization and Rendering; and electronic commerce; Technological development in health; Smart surveillance; Virtual reality and augmented reality; Knowledge-based systems.
• ALARCOS Research Group: Data and Information Quality; Quality in Software Development; Quantum Software Engineering; Global Software Development and Knowledge Management; Government, Audit and Security; Business Engineering; Maintenance, Reengineering and Modernization; Research Methods in Software Engineering and Information Systems; Software Processes; Software Testing; Software Sustainability; Analysis of Social and Demographic Data.
• ARCO Research Group: Embedded and High-Performance Systems, customized hardware solutions for the acceleration of heavy computing processes (computer vision, scientific applications, etc.), solutions and architectures for IoT based on Fog-Computing and Edge- computing; Cyber-physical systems, networks and advanced communications services, implementation and deployment of sensor networks for remote control and monitoring; Smart Environments, predictive maintenance of industrial equipment, e-health solutions, reasoning systems based on common sense; Innovation Management, technological advice, study and analysis of the R&D capabilities of organizations.
• CHICO Research Group: Design and specification of cooperative and collaborative user interfaces; Interaction design through the paradigms of mobile computing, ubiquitous and augmented reality; Evaluation using eye tracking techniques; Design of computational models in learning systems; and Integration of ontologies, standards and learning objects in e-Learning systems.
• DEC-TAU Research Group: Integration of Logical and Functional Languages; Design and Implementation of Fuzzy Logic Languages; and Program Transformation and Specialization.
• GSyA Research Group: Security in Big Data; Risk Analysis and Management; Security Architectures and Patterns; Security Management and Assessment; Security Metrics; security ontologies; Security in Databases and Data Warehouses; Security in Cloud Computing; Safety in Requirements Engineering for Software Product Lines; Security in Software Engineering; Security in MDA; Security in Business Processes; Security in Systems Based on Web Services; and Security in Mobile Grid Systems.
• MAmI Research Group: Ubiquitous Computing; Ambient Intelligence; Ambient Assisted Living; m-Health; GaitAnalysis; Behavior Analysis and Cognitive Rehabilitation.
• ORETO Research Group: Softcomputing techniques, approximate reasoning, fuzzy sets, neural networks, deep networks, Big data, cloud computing and Machine Learning applied to the study and synthesis of: 1) Intelligent analysis and study systems of temporary events. Temporary models of electrical consumption in buildings; 2) Analysis and modeling of video events. Surveillance and driving; 3) Data analysis and economic models; 4) Study and sports modeling.
• SciCom Research Group: Treatment of systems of interrelated elements (complex networks); and Development and application of computational models and techniques for the identification, description and control of the internal structure of complex networks.
• SMILe Research Group: Application of Soft-Computing techniques within the Retrieval of Information on the Internet, of Learning Systems and Decision Support, and more recently of the Analysis of Sentiments and Opinions and the Intelligent Analysis of Data and Big Data; Development of models that allow the semantic search of information on the Web and other large databases; Efficient management of dynamic document repositories, etc.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that the Institute's facilities have a wide variety of laboratories and equipment with highly powerful specialized hardware and software, as well as its own tools developed by the research groups.