The Programming Languages and Software Engineering Lab was founded on the January of 1998 and initially consisted of 4 members of the teaching and research staff of the Department of Informatics.

PLaSE serves educational and research needs in the following fields:

• Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Processing
  • Logic programming, constraint satisfaction, Knowledge representation and reasoning, Semantic web, Planning and Scheduling, Intelligent information extraction, Intelligent Web services, Intelligent agents
• Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery
  • Multi-label learning, Ensemble methods, Reinforcement learning, Text mining, Periodicity detection, Knowledge discovery from biological data
• Software Engineering
  • Open Source Software, Software Project Management, Enterprise Information Systems, Embedded Software Systems, Software Cost Estimation, Software Quality, Agile methods
• Operating Systems
  • Routing of processes and requests of storage means, I/O sub-systems, Modern operating systems and programming techniques, Evolutionary and parallel algorithms, Internet applications and data technologies, data storage/caching techniques, content delivery networks and data on cloud computing, Web mining, clustering on the Web, directory services and information management, Web 2.0 data management and communities
• Statistics and Operations Research
  • Statistical methods and models with applications to software engineering and information systems, operations research, simulation in management.