The Distributed Systems research group carries out scientific research in various fields, such as Cloud / Edge / Fog Computing, IoT in Industry 4.0 and Smart City environments, IT service management and opportunistic networking, as demonstrated by hundreds of scientific articles published in international scholarly journals and conferences. The group has also established structural and ongoing scientific collaborations with prestigious international research institutions such as the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) of Pensacola, FL, USA and IBM TJ Watson Research Center in New York, NY, USA.