The area of ​​databases and web technologies is responsible for the creation of languages ​​and development tools for Web applications (WebML and WebRatio) and applications and advanced architectures for next-generation search engines (Search Computing).

The line of research in the coming years is to dell'Human computing, which is concerned with studying the role and benefits of the introduction of human activities within the definition of algorithms for computation.

It is a field of study and application in its infancy, on whose land they are also working MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Stanford University and ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule).