Projects

E-Democracy

Democracy is constituted by democratic processes that follow rules. For a working democracy it is crucial that citizens have trust in the effectiveness and efficiency of these processes. Here, effectiveness means that democracy reaches its goal by representing the peoples' will, while efficiency means that this is achieved promptly and with little cost. Both effectiveness and efficiency can be increased by digitising democratic processes. [read more...]

GazeTheWeb

Framework for Eye Gaze-based Web Access

Framework for gaze-controlled Web browsing. Information access and communication over the World Wide Web is an essential tool for people with disabilities to stay in touch with the world. We develop a Web browser that takes eye-movements as input source and supports the user to interact with webpages. [read more...]

EU IST Integrated Project aceMedia

aceMedia focuses on generating value and benefits to end users, content providers, network operators, and multimedia equipment manufacturers, by introducing, developing and implementing a system based on an innovative concept of knowledge assisted, adaptive multimedia content management, addressing user needs. [read more...]

EU IST Integrated Project ASG - Adaptive Services Grid

The goal of Adaptive Services Grid (ASG) is to develop a proof-of-concept prototype of an open development platform for adaptive services discovery, creation, composition, and enactment. [read more...]

DFG Project: CAML

Argumentative Machine Learning

Classification is the problem of categorizing new observations by using a classifier learnt from already categorized examples. In general, the area of machine learning has brought forth a series of different approaches to deal with this problem, from decision trees to support vector machines and others. [read more...]

DFG Project: CAR

Conditional Argumentative Reasoning

Being able to provide decision-support in the light of uncertain and contradictory information is one of the core functionalities of modern and future AI systems. [read more...]

DFG Project: COFFEE

Collaborative Forgetting for Engineering Design

In engineering, product development is a collaborative activity reusing and adapting existing product models. While capturing design rationale is effective to deal with adaptations by teams, adaptation not only requires joint extension of models, as supported by existing methods for design rationale, but also removing what is no longer relevant or in conflict. [read more...]

EU Project Horizon 2020: Co-inform

Co-creating misinformation resilient societies

Misinformation generates misperceptions, which have affected policies in many domains, including economy, health, environment, and foreign policy. [read more...]

BMBF KMU innovativ Verbundprojekt Collaboration Cloud

The objective of nationally funded project CollabCloud is to develop a semantic information mediator which allows for scalable management of distributed heterogeneous data, knowledge discovery, and data anaylsis, all based on state-of-the-art technologies from data mining, semantic computing and cloud computing. [read more...]

DFG Project: CORG

Cognitive Reasoning

Cognitive computing addresses problems characterized by ambiguity and uncertainty, meaning that it is used to handle problems humans are confronted with in everyday life. [read more...]

EU Project Horizon 2020: CUTLER

Coastal Urban developmenT through the LEnses of Resiliency

Coastal urban development incorporates a wide range of development activities that are taking place as a result of the water element existing in the fabric of the city. [read more...]

EventMedia

Goal of the EventMedia Integrative Research Project (IRP) is the development of an event-centric approach for users to interactively explore, annotate, and share events through different kinds of media and media annotation. [read more...]

DFG Project: EVOWIPE

Explicit Forgetting of ontology - based knowledge in product development

In product development reuse of product models and product development processes leads to considerable savings of costs and time. Due to existing IT systems supporting product development, such models and processes can be retrieved as digital artefacts. [read more...]

DFG Project: EXCITE

Extraction of Citations from PDF Documents

The shortage of citation data for the international and especially the German social sciences is well known to researchers in the field and has itself often been subject to academic studies. [read more...]

BMBF Project: GazeMining

Recording, analysis and interpretation of eye tracking and interaction data on dynamic Web content. Approximately one billion Web pages are operated worldwide that want to address specific target groups and are under competitive pressure. Good usability, i. e. simple comprehensibility and intuitive operation, is essential for making information or goods accessible to visitors. [read more...]

DFG Project: HIBPM

Handling Inconsistencies in Business Process Modelling

Business rules and business process models are widely acknowledged as a useful means for the organization of businesses. Both these artifacts are usually created and maintained by human modelers. [read more...]

Koldfish

Koldfish is a system that supports application developers in implementing many use cases of the Web of Data. We are aiming at providing a suite of APIs for accessing, querying and processing linked data , while managing problems with, e.g., sparseness of schema information, data quality, provenance or availability for the application developer. [read more...]

KoMePol

Forschungsschwerpunkt Kommunikation, Medien und Politik

Political communication in social media has been gaining importance during the past years. [read more...]

EU IST Network of Excellence

K-Space - The Knowledge Space of Technology to Bridge the Semantic Gap

When working with audio-visual data, humans utilize komplex and subjective interpretations. In contrast to this rich meaning, computers can only generate simple content descriptions automatically. [read more...]

DFG Project: LISeQ

Language Integrated Semantic Queries

Graph-based data models allow for flexible data representation as needed for data exchange and integration. A graph-based data model includes structural information and it may include also, in the case of semantic data, schematic information as part of the data. [read more...]

EU STReP Live+Gov

Bringing policy makers closer to real life of citizens is the objective of Live+Gov. We will develop a mobile government solution that allows citizens to accurately express their needs to government by using a variety of mobile sensing technologies available in their smartphones. [read more...]

EU Project Horizon 2020: MAMEM

Multimedia Authoring and Management using your Eyes and Mind

MAMEM will integrate eye-tracking and brain-computer interfaces to help people with tetraplegia stay connected with society using their computers and common applications like e-mail or social networks. [read more...]

EU Project: MOST

Marrying Ontology and Software Technology

The global competition challenges the competitiveness of the European software industry, requiring increased efficiency and quality of software development, improved management of huge and complex software systems, and customer-tailored software products. [read more...]

Multilingual Retrieval Using Thesauri Alignments

The project targets the Semantic Web representation of relations between keywords in the German Schlagwortnormdatei (SWD) and classes in the Dewey-Decimalclassification (DDC). SWD and DDC are used by German and international libraries for annotating their collections and making them accessible. [read more...]

DFG Multipla

Multi-Ontology Learning: Crossing the Boundaries of Domains and Languages

The project MULTIPLA is devoted to new methods of collaborative learning of multilingual ontologies for semantic web applications. An important target of this project is to support the integration of different languages and domains for knowledge-based applications. [read more...]

EU IST Integrated Project NeOn - Lifecycle Support for Networked Ontologies

The objective of the NeOn project is to enable the usage and development of networked ontologies. Ontologies are formalized models of domain knowledge which can be understood by computers. Ontologies may e.g. contain the relevant terms of a domain, their properties and their relations among each other. [read more...]

EU Project: Net2

A Network for Enabling Networked Knowledge

The world wide web links continents and provides people worldwide with information. However, an efficient and effective handling of this information overload requires new methods enabling integration, cross-linking and realignment of knowledge. [read more...]

DFG Project: Open Argument Mining

Open debates include so many arguments that sound decision making exceeds cognitive capabilities of the interested public or responsible experts. [read more...]

REVEALing hidden concepts in Social Media

The world of media and communication is currently experiencing enormous disruptions: from one-way communication and word of mouth exchanges, we have moved to bi- or multi directional communication patterns. [read more...]

EU Integrated Project: Robust

Risk and Opportunity management of huge-scale BUSiness communiTy cooperation

Online communities generate major economic value and form pivotal parts of corporate expertise management, marketing, product support, CRM, product innovation and advertising. Communities can exceed millions of users and infrastructures must support hundreds of millions discussion threads that link together billions of posts. [read more...]

Schau genau!

Schau genau! (look closely!) is a video game that is controlled solely by eye movement. It uses a new generation of low-priced, low-sized eye trackers. The game started in 2013 as a practical teaching course at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Later, the technical system, control interface and hardware were optimised to pose an attractive exhibit at the 2015 State Garden Show in Landau. [read more...]

EU Project: Sense4us

Data Insights for Policy Makers and Citizens

Making and implementing policy at any level of government is fraught with difficulty. The impact of decisions made are not always obvious at the time the policy is formulated or enacted, and any short-comings of the policy become known too late to change it. [read more...]

Technical analysis and risk management in service oriented architectures in virtual organizations

Analysis and risk management for service oriented architectures in virtual organization [read more...]

DFG Project: Social Information Processing

Installing and operating a computing and storage cloud for the processing of information from the social and the semantic Web. [read more...]

EU Integrated Project SocialSensor

Social networks have become an integral part of modern life driving more and faster communication than ever before. For politics, business and pleasure these new connections are shaping our world – but how can trends, sentiments and discussions be surfaced quickly in ways that are both relevant and useful? [read more...]

Synthetische Dokumente

Umfassende und kompakte Antworten auf Ihre Suchanfrage

This project targets the development of methods and a prototype of a search engine providing extensive synthetic documents in response to user’s queries. [read more...]

EU IST Future and Emerging Technologies Project TAGORA

A new paradigm is quickly gaining impact in large-scale information systems: Folksonomies. In applications like Flickr, Connotea, Citeulike, Delicious, etc. [read more...]

UML + OWL + Model Transformation in Software Engineering

UML + OWL ontologies constitute modeling approaches with different strength and weaknesses that make them appropriate for different aspects of software design. [read more...]

EU Project: weGov

Social networking technology provides major new opportunities for policy makers (eGovernment) to engage with the community (eSociety). [read more...]

EU Integrated Project: WeKnowIt

Emerging, Collective Intelligence for personal, organisational and social use

Due to advances in communications, mobile devices and Web technologies, it is nowadays easy for users and organisations to generate and share content, individually or within communities. [read more...]

EU IST Integrated Project X-Media - Knowledge Sharing and Reuse across Media

X-Media addresses the issue of knowledge management in complex distributed environments. [read more...]