Chair of Distributed Information Systems

Prof. Dr. Harald Kosch's chair represents the field of distributed information and multimedia systems. His chair has made a significant contribution to MPEG and W3C standardization. In addition, the chair is currently conducting research in the areas of metadata standardization, the integration of data privacy in information systems, and intelligent information systems. Another area of interest for the chair is research into green IT.

IRIXYS (www.irixys.org) is an international research and innovation Center in Intelligent Digital Systems created in March 2016 by the departments of computer science of the Universität Passau (Germany), the INSA Lyon (France) and Università degli Studi of Milano (Italy). In addition to research workshops, national and international large-scale projects, IRIXYS supports and promotes through the international doctoral college MDPS joint PhDs. The academic programme of IRIXYS also offers German-French double master degree.

With a focus on multimedia, data security as well as distributed and pervasive systems, IRIXYS aims among others at stimulating disruptive technological innovation.

Our teaching puts the emphasis on applied computer science; subjects include information systems, multimedia data bases, distributed systems, data mining and data warehouses, and Web-based information systems.