DATALab has been active in the research about databases, big data management and its application in complex organizations for more than 20 years. The scientific topics have been to the study of novel approaches and edge and cloud architectures for delivering data services.
The main research activities concern:

  • Models and tools for managing polymorphic databases
  • Novel approaches to big Data for data science and analysis
  • Models and tools to support data governance and accountability in data management
  • Data service architectures models for edge computing
  • Models and tools Data Security and Privacy by Design

The main research field applications are smarticities and intelligent communities and critical infrastructures (like railways, postal offices, etc.). Specific attention is devoted to the data analysis coming from institutional sources (i.e. open data) for environmental monitoring and protection, especially in relationship with the impact with health and wellbeing.