Istar-Iscte

The ISTAR-Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Centre is an Iscte research unit that has the mission to carry out theoretical, applied and multidisciplinary research in the convergence of areas like Computer Science and Information Technologies, Mathematics (applied to computational problems), Architecture and Urbanism (in its digital dimensions, either conceptual, modelling, simulation or fabrication). ISTAR-Iscte is concerned with the analysis, design, and construction of human–based systems, focusing, in its creation, on the design of digital living spaces, on the design and construction of information systems and software, and on complexity studies and computational modeling as understanding tools. ISTAR-IUL is organised in four research groups: Digital Living Spaces (DLS), Information Systems (IS), Software System Engineering (SSE) and Systems Computational Modelling (SCM). ISTAR stimulates flexibility in its structure, diversity and cross-fertilization of scientific and technological ideas. Through a growing inter-dependence of the groups, we aim at empowering multidisciplinary research without losing the focus on the core areas. ISTAR has participates in a number of international research projects funded by programmes such as Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, Marie Curie Actions, AAL, H2020 and EEA Grants.