Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”

The Center provides "third-party" evaluation and certification services in the area of Information Technology for Industry and the Public Administration.

Hardware development is focussed on:

1. Reliability prediction
2. Safety
3. Mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) of context-dependent systems
4. Quality control
5. Compliance to standards

The software activity is mainly concentrated on model set up and evaluation services:

1. Study of reliability evaluation criteria
2. Criteria for methodological analysis of projects
3. Models for quality control
4. Software process modeling

Further information at this link.

The Library Information Systems Group coordinates, develops and maintains the on-line services of the ISTI Library and of the Main Library of the Research Area.

Further information at this link.

The INTERNET Services Technology Center provides Internet services (E-mail, Mailing List, DNS, WEB). It is the largest Internet Service center in CNR.

The Center provides software and testing for the Certified Electronic Email (PEC) in behalf of the "Centro Nazionale per l'Informatica nella Pubblica Amministrazione - CNIPA".

The mandate of the Italian Office of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is to promote adoption of W3C recommendations by developers, application builders, and standards setters, and to encourage inclusion of stakeholder organizations in the creation of future recommendations by joining W3C.

The W3C Italy Office, hosted by ISTI-CNR, is one of the 18 World Offices, and began its activity in 1999, creating an initiative called WebLab as a meeting point between research activities and applications of web technologies.

The W3C Italy Office has participated in many projects, provided consulting services for the Italian Public Administration in sectors such as accessibility and e-government, supported the Italian Semantic Web scientific community, and has organized many events.

Further information at the W3C italian office.