Research Studios Austria

The Research Studios Austria Gesellschaft mbH (RSA FG) is a nonprofit research organization in the fields of eTechnologies and SmartMedia. Five research units (studios ) at four sites in Austria (Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck) develop, in cooperation with universities and colleges research synergies.

The company and its studios work in applied research and development with a specific sequence methodology and organization, based on the process of rapid Prototypsierens and the specific research approach "Modular Iterative Re - framing -MIR ".

The company and its studios operate contract research for the private and public sectors and apply for competitive national and European research funding according to the excellence principle. The RSA FG receives partial funding for independent research in the studios of the Austrian Ministry of Science.

History

Research Studios Austria were established in 2003 and were up to their spin-off in the spring of 2008, part of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT ) - the former Austrian Research Centers ( ARC). In April 2008, were spun off as an independent establishment as a non -profit GmbH, Research Studios Austria. The RSA FG is at the 100 % - owned by the Austrian Society of innovation economics and new technologies.

Studios and Research Centers

The company as an independent academic institution is the sponsor for at present ( 2010) five studios in applied research in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT).

Inter- Organisational Systems: eGovernment eBusiness (IOS, Vienna ) with the following priorities and key projects:

  • Media break free exchange of electronic business documents
  • Interorganizational Business Processes
  • UN / CEFACT standardization ( UPCC and UMM )
  • Project Public Private Interoperability (FFG Research Studio )
  • Service-oriented architectures
  • Service Engineering

ISPACE (Salzburg ) with the following priorities and key projects:

  • Georeferenced media and technologies for energy planning and security
  • GIS Based Energy Modeling
  • GIS Based Regional and Social Planning
  • Infra Safety and Earth Observations
  • Sensorwebs and Automated Data Engineering
  • Smart Cities
  • Energieautarktie
  • AlpHouse - Alpine building culture and ecology
  • Phylloxera - Regional lightning evaluation
  • AuWiPot - Wind Atlas and Wind Potential for Austria

Micro Learning and Information Environments (MINE, Innsbruck / Salzburg / Linz / Vienna ) with the following priorities and key projects:

  • Technology Enhanced Learning for Corporations and Public Adminsitrations
  • Micro Micro Learning and Learning Environments
  • Mobile Learning for Knowledge Build - Up and Certification Preparation
  • SMELL: SME collaborative learning environment

Pervasive Computing Applications ( PCA, Linz / Vienna ) with the following priorities and key projects:

  • Pervasive Computing Applications
  • Interactive Display Technologies
  • Multimedia Technologies and Smart Environments
  • Context and Sensors: Wireless Motion Tracking Board
  • Smart Appliances: Virtual Machines for Embedded Environments
  • Intuitive Interfaces: Tangible Remote Controls: Telekom Austria Cube

Smart Agent Technologies (SAT, Vienna)

  • Intelligent agents solutions for converged media
  • Recommender Systems and Personalization
  • Semantic Systems
  • Data Mining and Visualization
  • Multimedia and Data Mining
  • Personalization & Recommender Systems
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