The Department

The Department and its Mission

The Department of Computer and Management Sciences (DISA) has set itself the goal of building a research environment which integrates multi-disciplinary competences pertaining mainly to the fields of management and computer sciences but also involving applied mathematics and statistics. Each of the DISA members follows its own disciplinary interests but as a whole the research activities of the Department  focus on two main issues:

1. The models of decisional processes within organizations. The theoretical aspects of decisional processes are studied in the context of both classical decision theory and advanced computational modeling (fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence). Organizational and managerial aspects are analyzed by considering strategic and operating decisions from a specialized point of view. An important DISA area is that of applied research on automated decision support systems.
2. The strategic and organizational impact of information systems. Much of the research work carried out in DISA has been developed by applying both technological and managerial competences to information systems. The impact of information technology is a recurrent topic of the research in the fields of economics and management, for example in e-tourism, organizational models of software development, and intelligent systems for managing financial risk.