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TransformingTransport: European Big Data Project at ICT 2018

Essen/Wien: The lighthouse project TransformingTransport (TT) is participating in the ICT 2018 in Vienna on December, 4-6. The ICT is the most important European event for research and innovation in information and communication technology and is organized by the European Commission. Live demonstrations will show how Big Data can be used for real-time decision making in the transport sector.

Speech about Requirements Engineering for Autonomous Self-learning Systems

Development Methods and Tools

Dr. Thorsten Weyer will present fundamental approaches for specifying highly automated self-learning systems at a meeting of the Requirements Engineering group of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI, German Informatics Society). The meeting will take place on November 29-30, 2018 in Nuremberg.

EU funding of digitization projects: position paper published

Digital Key Technologies

The European initiative NESSI emphasizes in a now published position paper the fundamental role of software for the digital transformation of Europe. The paper identifies important research topics in the field of software technology which, according to the experts, should be focused on in the next EU Research and Innovation Framework Programme. The Chair of Software Systems Engineering of Prof. Dr. Klaus Pohl played a major role in writing the paper.

Computer Science Connects Cultures

Human-Computer Interaction

From 1-4 October, a "Teach the Teacher" workshop and a "Geek for Social Good" hackathon took place at the German University in Cairo (GUC). The events are part of the "ComIC - Computing for Intercultural Competence" project.

How can uncertainties in the context of cyber-physical systems be documented?

Innovative Software Systems

In order to develop robust and reliable cyber-physical systems, it is important to understand which aspects of the system environment may not be exactly determinable. At this year's IEEE CASE, Torsten Bandyszak from Prof. Pohl's research group presented a new approach to modeling such uncertainties.

BMBF Project CrESt: Visit by Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek

Development Methods and Tools

Autonomous vehicles, intelligent factories and dynamic power grids — the backbone of these future technologies are networks of collaborative, embedded systems. The BMBF research project CrESt (Collaborative Embedded Systems) is developing and testing solutions for "systems of cyber-physical systems".

Big Data Meet-Up in Sofia

On May 16, the European Big Data Value PPP (Public-Private Partnership) met in Sofia, Bulgaria. The event was organized by the PPP with the twofold objective of strengthening collaboration among the community members and increasing the visibility and awareness of the PPP in Eastern Europe in general, and Bulgaria in particular. Representatives of the European Commission and from Bulgaria contributed to the success of the event with interesting keynote speeches. ...

TransformingTransport at the Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2018

Dr. Andreas Metzger represented the European Big Data lighthouse project "TransformingTransport" at this year's TRA. As the technical coordinator, he gave a panel lecture on the project. The project partner also had a booth at the event.

TransformingTransport: Steering Group Met in Essen

On March 15 and 16, 2018, the steering group of the European lighthouse project TransformingTransport met at paluno in Essen.