Telematics Engineering

 Telematics applications are complex, distributed systems which manage multimedia information, as well as structured and large sets of data. They have to be used by different categories of users that need to cooperate according to specific rules and constraints. The development of these applications is also a complex activity which demands advanced environments for managing and coordinating the analysis, design, development, integration, test, and distribution of the different hardware components and software artefacts to be produced and/or delievered to customers. In addition, the process involves people with different roles, working in physically apart locations, who are bound to cooperate with each other for the success of the project.

The principal goal of Telematics Engineering is to identify, assess, provide, and validate models, methods, techniques and tools to master the effective development and operation of complex systems and services in the telematics applications domain.

The research tasks covered by the FLUIDS project are related to two main areas of work, which are to be discussed in the following sections.