Description: The Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety (ISIS) is one of the seven Institutes which constitute the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. It is sited in Ispra, Italy. ISIS' mission is to be an impartial centre of expertise of the European Union in the Innovative applications of Information Technology, the multi-disciplinary analysis of industrial, socio-technical and environmental systems and the science and technology of safety management. ISIS develops and applies expertise in a variety of Industrial and Technical fields. The Institute whose staff exemplify the diversity of European culture, maintains a high standard of scientific quality and acts as a unique focus for International collaboration involving industrial, university and government research organisations throughout Europe. The Institute actually employs 300 permanent staff, 100 non-permanent and 50 trainees representing all EU Nations. ISIS has R&D and technology transfer activities in a variety of IT related domains, and in particular in the fields of dependable software applications, requirements engineering, multi-media applications, knowledge modelling, supervision software, intelligent control, visualisation and animation techniques, 3-D reconstruction of indoor environments. It understands industrial requirements due to its variety of contacts built up by means of networking (OLOS, COTCOS, EWICS, ENCRESS) and the organisation of specific industrial workshops.

Brief CVs of Key Researchers:

Name: Philip Morris

Nationality: UK

Academic Qualifications & Experience:
Philip Morris studied Philosophy in London, Helsinki and Birmingham, and Information Technology at the University of Hull, He worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. Since then he has worked for at the Joint Research Centre in Italy in policy support for the European Commission. This has largely focused on Requirements Engineering and has embraced such areas as defining industrial needs and ways to promote industrial interest in Requirements Engineering research activities. Foreseen  work includes the formation of a Special Interest Group in Requirements Engineering and participation in the ESPRIT project 'PRECEPT' [Promoting Requirements Engineering from Current Engineering Practises].

Name: Stefan Scheer

Nationality: German

Academic Qualifications & Experience:
Stefan Scheer  studied Computer Science Degree at the Technical University of  Munich (Germany)  with an  emphasis on software engineering, compiler construction, mathematical logic and theoretical informatics. Before working at the Joint Research Centre he worked as a project engineer at Messerschmitt-B=F6lkow-Blohm (MBB) aircraft maintenance division in Munich, a system engineer at Standard Elektrik Lorenz (Alcatel) aircraft division in Stuttgart and a Management and a Software engineer at Siemens safety and security division, pre-development department in Munich. Current research interests within the dependability domain of Requirements Engineering include Formal Methods. Particular emphasis has been put upon the application of these methods and tools. This includes a pilot project using VSE (Verification Support Environment) method and tool in safety critical robotic application.
 
Contact Details:

Principal Investigator: Philip Morris

Address: TP 210, 21020 Ispra, Varese, Italy

Telephone number: +39 332 78 96 37

Telefax number: +39 332 78 95 76

EMail: Philip.Morris@jrc.it
 

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