IAMSR has been involved in several major externally funded research projects. These include Countess and Domino (Academy of Finland). The Valentine project was financed by the Ministry of Education. Some Tekes-financed projects are: Waeno, Mobile Commerce, Metal IT, Bullwhip, Smarter, Arvotek, Woodstrat, Enhanced Services for Mobile Actions, SmartBulls, OptionsPorts, Phoenix, Softlogs, OptionsStrat, SmartOpt and Mobile Value Services. IAMSR has also worked with Mobile Service Design and Implementation Enhancements (MobileExtended), a project financed by ICT-Turku. IAMSR was a contractor in the Imagine21 (ESPRIT-28732) project and CHIMER (IST-32695).


Presently running projects are OptionsStrat, SmartOpt, MVS, NIM Åland, MobitTour, MobiReal, eAgingWell and BelAMI. IAMSR is also involved in the EU-financed AssessGrid project.


As part of the research programs IAMSR is carrying out theory-driven and applied research in a number of areas.

They build theory, conceptual frameworks
They carry out interactive research processes
They do basic research
They carry out large projects and do project management, consulting
They do feasibility studies
They integrate systems from standard components
They publish our results in journals, edited books and at peer reviewed international conferences



Areas of research at IAMSR are: 

Approximate reasoning and fuzzy logic
Industry foresight methods
Information systems usability
Interdependent multiple criteria optimisation
Knowledge based support systems and hyperknowledge
Mobile and electronic commerce methods and technology
Neural fuzzy systems
Real options valuation
Scenario technologies
Self-organizing maps and neural nets
Soft decision analysis
Software agents
Strategic management suppor