Department of Distributed Systems
The primary aim of the Department of Distributed Systems (DSD) is the research and development of distributed computer applications including World Wide Web-based software systems, groupware applications and services, digital library systems, digital art projects and audio/video conferencing environments. DSD has professional experiences with JAVA, CORBA, RDF and XML technologies.
Contact
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Homepage: http://dsd.sztaki.hu
Email address: laszlo.kovacs@sztaki.hu
Phone number: +36 (1) 279-6212
Fax number: +36 (1) 209-5288
Address: 1111 Budapest, Lágymányosi u. 11.
Main room: L 312
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Members
Ongoing projects
Past projects
- AQUA: Advanced Query User Interface Architecture
- GeneSyS: Generic Systems Supervision
- CORES: A Forum on Shared Metadata Vocabularies
- StreamOnTheFly: Personalized Community Radio Program with Collaborative Filtering Agents and Bandwidth
- EUTIST-AMI: European Take-Up of Essential Information Society Technologies
- PublicVoiceXML: VoiceXML Trial for an Open Source Reference Implementation
- Web4Groups - Transfer of Knowledge between Research, Education, Business and Public Administration through the World Wide Web
- Demand Driven Information Tools for E-Administration
- SELECT: Metadata Architecture for Rating, Filtering & Recommender Services
- KOPI Online Plagiarism Search and Information Portal
- DELOS NoE: DELOS Network of Excellence
- KNIXMAS: Knowledge Shared XPS-based Research Network Using Multi-Agent Systems
- DELOS
- MOVOT EUREKA: Modernization Of Electronic Voting Procedures
- VASIE: Value Added Software Information for Europe
Description
DSD develops and maintains World Wide Web home pages and other interactive Web services for Ministries and State Offices as well as other National Institutes. DSD runs several websites of the Prime Minister's Office as well as the the site of the Hungarian Government and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences besides many others.
DSD developed and runs popular on-line dictionaries.
Scientific Conferences
- MTA SZTAKI with major DSD involvments organizes WWW2003: The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (20-24 May 2003).
- DSD hosts the CORES Schema Creation Registration Workshop,(6-7 March 2003).
- DSD hosts the DELOS Workshop on Evaluation of digital libraries: Test beds, measurements, and metrics (6-7 June 2002).
Other Activities
- DSD runs the W3C Hungarian Office.
MTA SZTAKI DSD, the Department of Distributed Systems was one of the very first professional groups that ignited the World Wide Web revolution in Hungary including the invention of the Hungarian terminologies of this area.
