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TransformingTransport Success Story on the EC website!

25.09.2020
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Big data offers big gains for transport operators: A huge EU-funded project has demonstrated how big data and artificial intelligence could transform Europe's transport sector, cutting costs and fuel consumption on road, rail, air and sea while boosting operational efficiency and improving customer experience.

Correct Positioning for Inductive Charging

11.09.2020
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Digital Key Technologies
Thick air in many cities—caused by, among other things, diesel exhaust gases from taxis. A new charging concept now aims to help clean electric taxis to make a breakthrough. It is being developed in the research project TALAKO, in which Prof. S. Eicker’s working group "Networked Embedded Systems" is responsible for the vehicle positioning.

AI Learns How to Handle Software Evolution

20.08.2020
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Innovative Software Systems
Development Methods and Tools
Machine learning facilitates the automated development of self-adaptive systems. A promising approach for the maintenance and further development of such systems has now been developed by paluno researchers. It is based on software product line engineering.

Understanding AI Players Better

10.08.2020
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Digital Key Technologies
Development Methods and Tools
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in the testing of computer games. The Visualization research group is investigating how test data can be visualized to gain more insights for improving the games.

Thanks to 5G: Better Emergency Care of the Severely Injured

28.07.2020
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Digital Key Technologies
Together with partners, Prof. Gruhn’s working group is developing a new telematics application in the 5G EURIALE project. The aim is that, based on 5G, this application will network first-aiders and emergency medical personnel with doctors in hospitals.
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Danger to Sensitive Data

15.07.2020
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Information and System Security
Security experts from paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology at the University of Duisburg-Essen revealed multiple vulnerabilities in security-critical software running in protected memory areas of modern Intel processors. In the worst-case scenario, harmful actions could be infiltrated into sensitive programs, e.g. into the software of fingerprint scanners. With the help of the researchers many vendors already patched their software.

Artificial Intelligence Takes over the Job of Software Engineers

09.07.2020
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Innovative Software Systems
Development Methods and Tools
Today, there are countless possibilities of application for self-adaptive software, but the development of these systems presents software engineers with new challenges. Scientists from the Software Technology Institute paluno at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have now achieved promising results with novel artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that automate the development process of self-adaptive systems.

E-Learning and E-Exams for Northrhine-Westphalia

17.06.2020
Press Release
Digital Education
The state government of Northrhine-Westphalia has selected five projects for the programme “Digital Tools in Higher Education. ” With it: the project Harness.nrw. Under the leadership of the software institute paluno of the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), existing applications for e-assessment are to be brought together in such a way that they can be used nationwide.

Rolling out Complex Temporal Behavior

17.06.2020
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Development Methods and Tools
Machine learning methods are powerful but hard to understand, especially if they show complex temporal behavior as part of their training process or when they are used as autonomous agents. The visualization group has developed two new interactive visualization approaches that "roll out" the complex behavior on the screen and make readable what is going on across time.