With its vision of becoming a leading player in ICT, Cybersoft undertakes various research activities targeted to place it at the cutting age of technology. Cybersoft closely coordinates its research activities with those of the Computer Engineering Stream of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Addis Ababa University to come up with high-end solutions. The major areas of the company's research activities include:

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Research in the area of Software Engineering focuses on the processes, methodologies and tools used in the development of Software. Cybersoft's CASE tool supporting the UML standard of requirements definition is a product of this research activity. Here, the main emphasis is placed on the object-oriented (OO) methodology and the Component Object Model (COM) approach.

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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Cybersoft takes active interest in the area of knowledge management methodologies, which include neural networks, fuzzy systems and hybrid systems. Cybersoft has developed various reusable tools and components such as Neural Network System tools, Fuzzy Inference Engine and Function Class Library. It uses these components for expert system applications such as conflict early warning systems, speech recognitions, roots-searching of transcendental functions and optical character recognition with excellent results.

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INTERNET / INTRANET ENGINEERING

Another area of Cybersoft's research activity is focused on the Internet/Intranet Engineering technology aimed at assessing the various technologies, protocols, and tools available to deploy state-of-the-art Intranet solutions. Cybersoft's document management system is a result of this effort.

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DATABASE ENGINEERING

Cybersoft develops various tools for use in the area of database engineering which make it easy to develop databases and to provide all the required information online. Web-based, user-friendly online query system, a formula system with the capability of interlinking with databases, an easy user-driven data definition, database creation and report generation tools are some of the fruits of this research activity.

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SECURITY SYSTEMS

Cybersoft is developing various security systems that can be used for protecting software from piracy and to give users easy management of security policies for client/server applications. Among the products of this research activity are Application Security Management Systems (ASMS), Document Security Handling Component, Software Usage Licensing Component, and Software Installation Protection Component.

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DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

Cybersoft undertakes object-oriented distributed computing as one of its research focus areas. Among a number of research results in this area are: Distributed Document Management System (DDMS) - a multi-server and multi-platform document management system- and a Chess Game Software which can be played by any pair of individuals in different parts of the world, to play chess games through a wide area network.

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IMAGE AND MAP PROCESSING

Another area of interest is the field of image and digital map processing. Work in this area has led to Automatic Evaluation System for Grade 8 National Exams, Optical Character Recognition Software and a Map Based Global Information Provider.

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MULTILINGUAL SOLUTIONS

Cybersoft has put considerable effort to improve the condition of computing with Ethiopic characters, which are not yet fully supported although they have appeared in Unicode 3.0. Cybersoft has come-up with an advanced solution to the problem by developing various components among which are an Amharic dictionary, searching and sorting tools, font converters supporting the Unicode standard, keyboard driver, numeric converter and a calendar that works both in the Ethiopian and Gregorian calendars. These solutions are distributed under the CyberGéez software package.

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SIMULATION

Studies in the area of Simulation Techniques have resulted in the development of various products. Among these products are: LogSim97 - for the simulation digital logic circuits, Analog Circuit Simulation System and a Car Driving Simulator interfaced with appropriate hardware tools.

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