XLAB Research was established in the 2003 as part of XLAB company for
the purpose of both basic and applied research, development of complex
software, knowledge dissemination, and technology transfer to other
XLAB departments, products and services.
The focus of XLAB Research is put on distributed systems, with emphasis on (and links to some related projects):
- peer-to-peer systems,
- dependability of distributed systems (DeDiSys),
- fault-tolerance in distributed systems,
- resource discovery and management in distributed environments,
- supporting service discovery and composition in service oriented architectures through semantic knowledge (MetaServices, SLA@SOI),
- job scheduling in distributed systems (XtreemOS),
- network protocols,
- distributed database visualisation,
- semantic computing (SEKT),
- information retrieval,
- integration of peer-to-peer, Grid and agent system paradigms.
We are currently involved in three national and five FP6/7 research projects, mostly dealing with large-scale distributed systems.
The department also performs applied research for industrial partners
that require knowledge of distributed systems, currently focusing on
financial and market modelling and simulations, implemented on parallel
and distributed system architectures.
We are also outsourced by research institutions, usually due to our specific knowledge in distributed architectures, most notably service-oriented architecture and accompanying semantic-based service discovery and composition.
In cooperation with Laboratory for Algorithms and Data Structures of
the Faculty for computer science and informatics at the University of
Ljubljana we provide a unique environment where both undergraduate and
graduate students can experience industrial and academic type of work.
In this manner we are currently hosting five graduate students (2 PhD,
3 Master thesis), and several undergraduate students.
XLAB Research often leverages existing open source software (The Globus
Toolkit, Apache Foundation software stack, to name just a few) as part
of development and makes possible improvements or additions available
to the public, thus actively participating in the open source
community.
Sharing of knowledge and technology is an indispensable part of
any research: the XLAB Research team is well connected with a number of
research and open source communities, especially (but not limited to)
European ones.
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