Swiss Priority Programme
for Information and Communications Structures (SPP ICS, 1996-1999)

The SPP ICS is a scientific research programme in information technologies and telecommunications sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Main research themes of the SPP ICS are Engineering of distributed applications and the associated networks in general as well as quality, security and management aspects. "Demonstrator projects" validate prototypes produced.

Following information is available:

• user guidelines for finding key results according to user groups and topics
• list of projects, with project descriptions and project results,
• contact, adresses of experts' group
• objectives and history of SPP ICS
• Competence Network for R&D in Electronic Commerce 1998-99
• Competence Network for R&D in Electronic Commerce 2000-01
• Descriptions of all projects at time of request (pdf 241 KB)
• Proceedings (collection of result reports, pdf 5'578 KB)

of the Closing Conference 2000 and
Symposium on Research Results in Electronic Commerce.
The print version is available at vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zuerich: www.vdf.ethz.ch .

Information reflects the state of 30 June 2000. Only the pages on Competence Network for R&D in Electronic Commerce 2000-01 are being maintained and updated.

At the end of 1997, the experts' group of the SPP ICS decided to start an additional initiative:
Competence Network for applied R&D in Electronic Commerce: CNEC 1998-99
This networked competence center will be active until the end of 2001 (CNEC 2000-01).

User guidelines to results of the SPP ICS:
The research result of the 50 projects of the SPP ICS have been condensed into key results and ordered according to groups of potential users and to topics. Consult the user guidelines, to gain an overview over results pertaining to particular user groups and themes

For project team members only: Closing activities for SPP ICS projects.

SPP IF: Swiss Priority Programme for Informatics Research 1992-1995
Attention: Information concerning this program reflects the state of 1996 and is no longer updated!

SPP IF (Swiss Priority Programme for Informatics research) was the name of the 1992-1995 phase of the same research programme. Research themes were "Secure, Distributed Systems", "Knowledge Based Systems" and "Massively Parallel Systems".

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