Departement: Arquitectura i Tecnologia de Computadors
Contact Person: Jose Luis Marzo
Research Themes: analysis of bandwidth allocation in high performance networks,
performance evaluation and simulation.
Quality of Service Routing and Protection.
Activities: publishing scientific articles and joint co-supervising students.

Universitat de Girona, Girona, Espagne

Departement: Department of Applied Research in IT Technology
Contact Person: Habtamu Abie
Research Themes:encompass security for distributed systems, digital rights management (DRM),Trust, Privacy, distributed object computing (CORBA, EJB, DCOM/ActiveX), architecture and methodology, formal methods and tools, data acquisition and control systems, hard real-time systems, and mobile and personal computing.
Activities: publishing scientific articles and joint co-supervising students.

Norwegian Computing Center, NR

Department: Center of Software Reliability and Dependability (CSRD)
Contact Person: Prof. Peter RYAN
Research themes: Probabilistic trust, virtual enterprises, and intrusion tolerance. Activities: publishing scientific articles and joint co-supervising students.

LSU, USA

Department: Instituto di Informatica e Telematica (IIT)
Contact Person: Ing. Anna VACCARELLI
Research Themes: biometric authentication in network security
Activities: publishing scientific articles, joint co-supervising students, organization of the first Tunisian Italian Workshop on Information Security (TIWIS 2003), and submitting joint proposal to the TEMPUS program (2004).

CNR-IIT, ITALY

Department: Computer Science
Contact Person: Prof. Mohamed S. OBAIDAT,
Research Themes: performance evaluation and modeling and simulations of networks, traffic engineering
Activities: publishing scientific articles and joint co-supervising Doctoral thesis, joint organization of ICECS 2005

Monmouth University, USA

Department: Language and computing science
Contact Person: Prof. Javier LOPEZ
Research themes: Wireless Sensor Networks, Network security

University of Malaga, Spain