Overview

Director: Professor Jessie Kennedy

Institute WIKI

The Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation (previously known as CIR, the Centre for Informatics Research) is an umbrella research centre within the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Creative Industries and acts as a focus for the the research centres below. Research covers a wide range of areas and projects which cross the research centres.
The research in the Centre was submitted to 3 Units of Assessment in the 2008 RAE:

UoA 23 Computer Science, Informatics
UoA 37Library and Information Management and
UoA 27 Civil Engineering

The overall profile of our research was 4* 2%, 3*26%, 2*54%, 1* 19% This equates to over 80% of our research being Internationally recognised and some of our research being World Leading.

CENTRES

RESEARCH AREAS

	Artificial Immune Systems
	Biodiversity Informatics
	Combinatorial Optimisation
	Companions
	Component and Service Based Software Reuse
	Concurrent and Parallel Systems
	Data Quality and Data Cleaning
	e-Democracy
	e-Health
	Evolutionary Computing
	Forensic/Security Framework
	Group Communications
	Information Society
	Information Visualisation
	Interaction Design
	International Teledemocracy Centre
	Knowledge bases and Document Management
	Knowledge management
	Library and Information Science
	Location tracking of mobile devices
	Mobile Agents
	Mobile IP
	Network Emulators
	Pedestrian Behaviour
	Pervasive Adaptation
	Presence
	Project Management
	Risk Analysis in e-Crime
	Social computing
	Wireless Mesh Networks

Centres

Institute of Informatics and Digital Innovation, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, EH10 5DT, Tel: (0131) 455 2700