DBIS betreibt seine Forschung hauptsächlich in den folgenden Bereichen:

Web Science:

• Gugubarra: Behavior Analysis of Users of a Web site.

• (Digital) Self Revealing.
• Online Sociability.
• User Choice of Content on the Web.
• Web Technologies for the Web.
• Ontology-based Information Integration.

Databases:

• Green Computing and Databases.

Open Source Business:

• Business Models for Open Source Software Companies.