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About the Navigators

The Navigators, leaded by Prof. Paulo Veríssimo, started its activities at INESC, where they stayed between 1985 and mid-1996. During the past few years, it has been very active in research in the fields of distributed systems, fault-tolerance and real-time, having also produced a number of successful technology transfers (past history of the Navigators).

The Navigators team moved to the University of Lisboa Faculty of Sciences (FC/UL), and is now located in the Department of Informatics. Together with some new faces, part of the old team is at FC/UL: Paulo Veríssimo, Luís Rodrigues, Henrique Fonseca, António Casimiro. José Rufino and Carlos Almeida stayed at the Technical University of Lisboa (IST). Other members you knew left in the meantime.

The strategic objectives of the team are: state-of-the-art research in disciplines relevant to the area of distributed systems; interaction with national and international research institutions and technological transfer to industry.

The team actively works in the following domains:

• fault-tolerant and real-time group communication;
• distributed, fault-tolerant and real-time systems and architectures;
• large-scale and security in distributed systems.

Ongoing work in the team comprises:

• dependability of large-scale interactive and cooperative systems;
• support for distributed and fault-tolerant real-time embedded systems;
• secure and reliable transaction servers.

The team currently aims at two technology transfer vectors:

• industrial systems - distributed computer control; mission critical C^3 applications; distributed industrial information (SCADA and management) systems;
• large-scale systems - reliable LS distributed information systems; secure on-line transactional systems and information servers; CSCW (cooperative editing, teleconf., etc.)

For detail about past projects, please click. There you will also find information about the current projects and activities of the Navigators:

• BROADCAST WG - ESPRIT Working Group On Distributed Systems
• CaberNet - ESPRIT Network of Excellence On Distributed Computing Systems
• Networks Shared Infrastructure (NSI) - The shared pan-european distributed information infrastructure, with 11 servers throughout the E.U., administered by the Group on behalf of CaberNet and available to all NoEs

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