DBIS conducts its research based primary in two areas. These are Business and Technology. Topics covered under these categories are as follows:

Business-Oriented

"Business Models for E-commerce", in particular:

• "Infomediaries"
• "Web portals"
• "E-marketplaces"

"Behavior Analysis of Users of a Web site"

"Business Models for Open Source Software Companies", in particular:

• Open source and dual licensing

Technology-Oriented

"Web Technologies for E-commerce", in particular:

• Dynamic Profiling of Web visitors
• Clustering of Web portal subscribers based on behaviour
• Custom relationships support for Web portals visitors
• Web 2.0 (tags, mashups)