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CISTER (Research Centre in Real-Time Computing Systems) is a top-ranked Research Unit based at the School of Engineering (ISEP) of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP), Portugal.

The IPP-HURRAY research group, created in mid 1997, is the core and genesis of the CISTER Research Unit. CISTER was, in the 2004 evaluation process, the only research unit in Portugal, in the area of electrical and computer engineering, to be awarded the level of Excellent.  This excellent rating was confirmed in the last evaluation process (2007) CISTER, in which only one other research unit in electrical and computer engineering received this rating.

HURRAY stands for HUgging Real-time and Reliable Architectures for computing sYstems. Therefore, the research unit focuses its activity in the analysis, design and implementation of real-time and embedded computing systems.

Since it was created, the unit grown to become one of the leading European research units in the area, contributing with seminal research works in a number of subjects, such as:
 
  • real-time communication networks and protocols;
  • wireless sensor networks (WSN);
  • real-time programming paradigms and operating systems;
  • distributed embedded real-time systems;
  • cooperative computing and QoS-aware applications;
  • scheduling and schedulability analysis (including multiprocessor systems);
  • cyber-physical systems (CPS).

This is a sufficiently broad spectrum of strategic research topics, which we will keep pursuing in the coming years.

Currently, the CISTER research unit is an active member of a number of international networks of research excellence: ArtistDesign; CONET and PT-CMU. The unit has also been involved in a number of international (RECOMP, EMMON, R-Fieldbus, REMPLI) and national R&D projects (REHEAT, RESCORE, CooperatES, REFLECT, etc.).

Researchers of CISTER research unit have been, consistently and throughout the past years, participating in the most reputed scientific events in the concerned research areas, as PC Chairs, General Chairs, Track Chairs or PC members. Notably, the research unit has hosted and organized in Porto WFCS'00, ECRTS'03, IRTAW'03 and Ada-Europe'06.

Contacts

CISTER Research Unit
ISEP/IPP
Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida 431
4200-072 PORTO
Portugal

Phone: +351-228340502
Fax: +351-228340509 

WWW: http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt
Email: hurray@hurray.isep.ipp.pt 

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