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The SEIT lab is part of the Computer Science Department of the University of Cyprus and is directed by Professor George A. Papadopoulos. It undertakes research in the areas of component based software engineering, open and distance learning, mobile computing, parallel and distributed computing, e-Commerce and bioinformatics.

The lab is actively involved in the 5th Framework, where it participates in seven EU funded projects, five IST ones (in the areas of tele-medicine, bioinformatics, grid technology, component-based systems) and two more belonging to the EUMEDIS (in Open and Distance Learning) initiative. The current research budget of the Laboratory from its involvement in these projects is around 1.4 MEUR. The Laboratory has also been involved in other EU funded initiatives, notably ESIS (European Survey in Information Society, but also the Leonardo Da Vinci framework on Vocational Training where it has participated in 8 such funded projects.

We intend to adapt middleware platforms for mobile devices and to consider quality of service aspects for specifying a good "quality" in the computing environment under different modes of adaptation.
These activities are related to IST projects which are already running in our lab. We also consider enriching the content of relevant undergraduate and postgraduate courses with the results of the proposal. Finally, a least one doctoral thesis could focus (and thus derive benefit) on the objectives of the proposal.