ISCOD develops research on models, technologies and applications related to Decentralised, Cooperative and Open IT Systems. These research activities involve PhD students, fellows and researchers affiliated with the LSTI - Henri Fayol Institute of ENS Mines Saint-Etienne.
 
The main research subjects investigated in ISCOD are multi-agent-oriented computing, information retrieval, semantic web, security, trust and privacy, artificial intelligence and complex systems.
 
Inter-disciplinary projects are developed also in collaboration with the Industry, with academic partners.