Zriadenie Fakulty informatiky a informačných technológií - FIIT STU

4 Research4.1 Research AreasThe economic and social development is featured by an exponential growth of new scientificknowledge today. Informatics and information technologies are playing the key role.They boost the development of all scientific branches with the creation of new methodologicalbase to do research and development. The development time decreases and thetraditional theoretical and experimental abilities are extended broadly.Informatics has developed to be an autonomous scientific area, which supports successnot only in the branch of information technologies, but it also has wide consequences asfor the lives of individuals and society. It is not a mere coincidence that research in theIIT area has become the priority among the research topics in the European Union.Research at FIIT STU is oriented on these main research areas that respect the organisation,existing technical and laboratory equipment and professional skills:− collaborative access, analysis and presentation of documents in the world-widewebby the use of modern software tools,− information development in distributed environment of intelligent agents,− methods and tools for software systems development,− the use of computer graphics in virtual and augmented reality systems,− “echo state” neural networks and recurrent neural networks,− application of evolutionary algorithms in theory of multi-agent systems,− methods and tools for security and administration of network and mobile computersystems,− parallel systems for real-time computing,− the design methods and tools for application-specific digital systems,− formal methods and tools for design and description of digital systems,− embedded computer systems,− fault-tolerant high-speed parallel and distributed computer structures.FIIT STU recognizes as part of its mission to serve the broader academic community inSlovakia and also internationally in promoting cooperation in relevant fields. In 2009, twoimportant events mark development in Slovakia, in both of which FIIT STU through itsmembers has been instrumental. First, thanks to initiative of several members of the ACM23