System Development Department
The System Development Department of the Computer and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI) was formed in 2000 to concentrate the development resources of the Informatics Division. The research and development activity of the System Development Department focuses mainly on innovative software technologies of the internet. The department is primarily financed by contract based projects with leading computing and telecommunication companies of the world. The people of the department are mainly young graduates and some of them are working part time at the department while they complete their university studies. The quality of the software produced by the department is guaranteed by the certified quality management system applied at the Institute, as well as by the experience and talent of the employees.
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Homepage: http://informatika.ilab.sztaki.hu/rfo
Email address: laszlo.varga@sztaki.hu
Phone number: +36 (1) 279-6167
Fax number: +36 (1) 209-5269
Address: 1111 Budapest, Lágymányosi u. 11.
Main room: L 410
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Ongoing projects
Past projects
- WIDENET - Offering World-wide Services through an International Network on Health Records
- Stereotactic and navigational operative management of the knee based on three-dimensional computed image of the joint geometry
- Participation in the exhibition at the eHealth 2003 Ministerial Conference
- Web2Agent: Integrating Web sources into the EU AgentCities Multi-agent initiative
- DemoGrid: Connecting Heterogenous Systems to Solve Data and CPU Intensive Problems
- Nokia collaboration
- Java
- 21st Century Software Technology: Open, standard, component based, integrated software development technology supporting the whole software life cycle
- CRISTAL software project: Object oriented database supported information and registry system for the control and management of the production and assembly of CERN detectors and high complexity unique industrial equipment
- Multi-level historisation software package for the storage and evaluation the decisions and their environment in different application areas
- Call Center: Development of an Integrated Call Center
- Hospital Monitoring
- Coordination in Multi-Agent Control Systems: Coordination of Beliefs with regard to Alarm Information in Multi-Agent
- Cooperation of Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems
- MMG-AM Collaboration
Description
The main activity of the System Development Department is in the field of research and innovative application of the newest software technology results. The development of highly distributed systems that satisfy the many sided and quickly changing customer demands needs suitable technology. Agent based and component based computing leverage the development of internet applications. The System Development Department focuses its research and development activity on these innovative technologies, working together with the leading research institutes (CERN), computing (IBM) and telecommunication (Nokia) companies of the world. The people of this department continuously improve their experience and knowledge gained in previous projects to be in a position to solve leading edge problems and base their research results on firm ground. The System Development Department is always open to adopt new technologies.
The research and development activity of the department currently focuses on the meta-modelling methods and tools promoting the interoperation of the distributed and heterogeneous systems in the following areas:
Java componentsThe goal of the System Development Department is to satisfy the software development requirements of its customers with high quality software services using innovative internet technologies, and to produce components for web enabled applications or turn-key software solutions. The software services are provided mainly to customers in the US and Europe by developers located in Hungary in the form of contract based projects. The projects usually have the size of a few person-month and are carried out by a team of 2 to 7 developers. Project management is carried out in accordance with the quality management system of SZTAKI. In case of a particular customer request this can follow the quality management system of the contracting partner, as well. The applied tools and methods are customised to each customer. The Java development activities of the department is oriented towards component based application development using Java Beans, server side Java programming, XML, SOAP, Web Services and UDDI technology.
Healthcare systemsCommunication of data between health care institutions and professionals is an essential component of modern healthcare delivery. Better collaboration between the different healthcare providers is critical for achieving the level of quality and continuity that European citizens increasingly expect. Efficient exchange of information is the key element for managing resources, evaluating quality, and raising cost-effectiveness. Our mission in this field is therefore to promote the adoption and extended use of Standardised Electronic Health Care Records and the required infrastructure. We contribute to the activities in which the European Network of PROREC centres is expanded and consolidated to continue the dissemination of information on Healthcare Records and the provision of health related added value services to all the agents involved in the sector.
One practical application of using standardised Electronic Healthcare Records is currently being implemented with intelligent smart cards. Issued by voluntary Health Insurance companies these cards support the use of a secure connection between various medical service providers and financing bodies, medical personnel and patients.
Another exciting field of medical information we are currently engaged in is the 3D modelling of the knee joint. The main aim of this work is to determine the dynamic details of the articular motion and the geometry of the contact surfaces. We build tools to support the diagnostic and surgical activities, as well as the design of invasive treatment.
The approaching accession of Hungary to the European Union requires significant efforts to widely present (among others) the results of research and development activities in the medical software domain. We have made our contribution to this objective together with 5 other partners by presenting sample best practices in medical service delivery at the eHealth 2003 ministerial conference and exhibition.
Intelligent agentsAn increasing number of complex computer systems are modelled as a network of autonomous agents and their design is based on agent technology methods. The promising research results can reach to the application level if the agent systems in research laboratories and the wealth of free information and services of the internet meet: the agents understand the "language" of the web and the internet service become agents. Our research goal on this field is to develop an interface technology that enables the generation of an agent layer from an internet information source. We work together in this field with Hungarian partners (National Szechenyi Library, T-Systems Dataware, AITIA) as well as the Agents and Web Services working group of the Agentcities initiative including Fujitsu Laboratories of America and Whitestein Technologies from Switzerland. The tools we developed in support of these techniques won the first prize of the first Agentcities Agent Technology Competition and Exhibition in the infrastructure category.
The System Development Department represents SZTAKI in the Agentlink Network of Excellence of the EU and keeps contact and works together with EU agent research centres to contribute to the infrastructure of the world wide testbed created by the Agentcities initiative. Within this testbed the different aspects of the semantic interoperability of service oriented approaches like the agent, grid and web services are investigated.
