APIS aims at personalized service provisioning based on individual sets of personal preferences for each user. These preferences are part of a flexibly adaptable profile and more necessary information can be elicited on demand directly from users. Directly focusing on the users’ information needs APIS thus investigates technologies to efficiently provide ‘prime cuts’ of all available information in an interactive and cooperative query process.
The forklift truck enables the identification of pallets, picking them up and automatically putting them down again in another place. The essential innovation of the system is that the pallets do not have to be put at a pre-defined hand over point, but instead are picked up flexibly from varying positions and heights. A further significant innovation can be found in the localization equipment. The 3D ceiling localization system enables navigation in a highly changeable environment.
The aim of the BRICKS project is to design, develop and maintain an open user and service-oriented infrastructure to share knowledge and resources in the cultural domain. Typical usage scenarios are integrated queries among several knowledge resources. In order to fulfill these requirements of scalability, availability, interoperability and low-cost, the BRICKS architecture is based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) paradigm.
COOPER is dedicated to develop and test a model-driven, extensible environment that supports individual and collective competency building in virtual teams, whose members are geographically dispersed, have different backgrounds and competencies, and are working together in projects to solve complex problems.
After the World Wide Web another Internet revolution is emerging: Grid Computing. While the Web offers easy access to mostly static information, the grid adds another fundamental layer to the Internet, by enabling direct access to computers, storage, scientific instruments and experiments, sensors, applications, data, and middleware services. Based on widely accepted standards, resources communicate with each other and deliver results as services back to the user.
The DBLP@L3S project is based upon the DBLP data from University of Trier (http://dblp.uni-trier.de) and utilizes them to showcase several technologies developed and used at L3S research center.
Scientific visualization mainly aims at facilitating an understanding of results. Evita is a project concentrating on the visualization of large and complex data sets resulting from simulations running on supercomputers. The software developed makes use of the supercomputing environment to avoid bottlenecks. It enables interactive viewing of four-dimensional simulation results even when the simulation is still running.
Vast amounts of geospatial data have been gathered in the last decades. With the advent of commodity applications such as Google Earth, usage of geospatial data has become ubiquitous. However, most raw data must be processed before it can be put into a meaningful context. In the
GDI-Grid project, computationally demanding tasks such disaster and noise dispersion simulation will be deployed on existing Grid resources to dramatically decreased computation times.
The main objective of GRAPPLE is to support life-long learning by means of a personalized and adaptive TEL environment (henceforth abbreviated to ALE, for adaptive learning environment) that integrates with major learning management systems (or LMSs) using a service-oriented (web) framework approach. The key to creating a responsive learning environment that motivates, engages and inspires learners, and through this leads to better learning results, is personalization.
The HELCA project makes eLearning a constituent part of teaching at the Leibniz University of Hannover. In 2006 we focused on infrastructures and organizational activities, which resulted in increased usage and awareness of eLearning services. In 2007, it will be necessary to establish ELSA as a permanent institution within the university and to continue winning new users.
Year 2006 research results developed within iSearch have set high standards for the next year, the fourth of this German funded project. We managed to refine several significant ideas and presented them in the context of top research conferences in the area of information and internet technologies, including new and highly important Web site level spam detection technique. We look forward to facing new and innovative challenges in the year 2007, further improving the quality and user experiences in searching Web and other large collections.
The DFG Research Grant KIOP investigates indoor localization methods and algorithms using simulations and real-word measurement setups.
The Semantic Web is an extension of the World Wide Web designed to provide machines working on World Wide Web data with additional information about the meaning of that data. KnowledgeWeb brings together the work of eighteen first-class research institutes from all over Europe to support the deployment of Semantic Web technologies from academic environments to industrial settings.
L3SCPD means L3S Center for Professional Development. Goal of this work is to develop eLearning scenarios on an empirical way. Actually the work focuses on a self-directed eLearning scenario with lecture recordings. Further works focus on the split-attention problem during learning with lecture recordings.
The LivingKnowledge project will develop innovative technology for bias-aware, diversity-aware and evolution-aware information management and access. The resulting search technology is expected to provide the user with a high-level overview on the variety of opinions on a topic with the option for stepwise refinement and for learning about the underlying diversity and the temporal dimension.
It is the goal of the LiWA project is to turn classic web page stores into “living Web archives”. The LiWA project will build next-generation Web archiving technology for high-quality Web archives by improving archive fidelity, archive coherence and integrity as well as archive interpretability.
To supply the microsystem technology branch with well-educated and inter-discipline workers a high level of education and professional training is needed. The education has to include generic skills as well as professional subjects. The project mstbildung creates a net-based teaching and learning environment, which helps all participants to acquire new and important technical knowledge. These net-based teaching and learning strategies fulfill the demand for qualifications and lifelong learning. With the help of the Learning Management System Ilias, teachers and trainees can be qualified co-operatively.
The first year of NEPOMUK proved to be a very successful one, not only for L3S, but also across the entire project consortium. We managed to build solid foundations for the research to come in the next two years, while at the same time being already able to design and publish a series of initial results. We are confident in keeping up the good work within 2007 as well, for both local and social network environments.
The NetMeter project aims to develop a network calculus based methodology for measurement-based bandwidth estimation in networks of stochastic systems.
The OKKAM project will realize an innovative and comprehensive entity identifier management solution fostering entity identifier reuse. It will cover effective entity matching and ranking, “OKKAMization” of content, and entity-centric search applications exploiting the potential of the entity-centric approach.
Information systems such as digital libraries or learning object repositories are becoming increasingly interconnected. Currently, these networks are manually administered, leading to high effort and low flexibility. Thus, it is appealing to move towards self-organized networks, where information sources can join open information networks easily. P2P-IS conducts research to make such networks feasible.
PROLEARN is a Network of Excellence dealing with technology enhanced professional learning. Our mission is to bring together the most important research groups in the area of professional learning and training, as well as other key organizations and industrial partners. PROLEARN bridgets the currently existing gap between research and education at universities and similar organizations and training and continuous education that is provided for and within companies.
Protune provides an easy deployable framework in order to secure an application or a website. Security administrators specify which policies must be enforced in the system and Protune negotiates access to resources as well as generate explanations of the decisions taken.
This project aims at realizing personalized access to Semantic Web content. Personalization rules are defined which search, access and syndicate information in the Semantic Web according to the individual requirements of the end user. A user interface supports users to configure and combine personalization rules as they like. The enabling infrastructure is based on a Semantic Web service architecture and demonstrates a maximum flexibility for realizing personalized information access.
The Ultra-Wideband technology project, PULSERS, is dedicated to improving and investigating the application of Ultra-Wideband Radio Systems for Localization & Communications in Europe.
The Personalized Universal Media Access (PUMA) project embraces the vision of accessing multimedia data anywhere anytime from a variety of (mobile) client devices. Composing the necessary tasks as basic building blocks in a service-oriented architecture promises to introduce maximum flexibility and reusability for components when building advanced and highly personalizable
multimedia applications.
The objective of REWERSE is to establish Europe as a leader for the Web by creating a “Network of Excellence” among the community that needs these tools and by providing the basis for industrial software development of advanced Web applications. Education and Training as well as Technology Transfer and Awareness are also part of REWERSE.
The Semantic GrowBag is an algorithm to automatically create categorization systems (e.g., topic hierarchies) from tagged object collections.
STELLAR represents the effort of the leading institutions and projects in European Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) to unify our diverse community.
This Network of Excellence is motivated by the need for European research on TEL to build upon, synergize and extend the valuable work we have started by significantly building capacity in TEL research within Europe, which is required to allow the European Union to achieve its goals via the Bologna Agreement and the execution of the Lisbon Agenda. The European TEL agenda has been set for the last 4 years by the Kaleidoscope network – with a huge strength in pedagogy and scientific excellence, and the Prolearn network – with a complimentary strength in technical and professional excellence. Integrating this excellence and moving on to the higher strategic formation of policy based in leading research is the key challenge for the next stage.
STELLAR will move beyond the earlier networks by setting a new and critical foresight agenda for Technology Enhanced Learning. The Network will be executed via a series of integration instruments designed to increase the research capacity of European TEL at all levels.
STELLAR’s instruments will act upon the backbone of an interlocking set of 3 Grand Research Challenge actions, themed as Connecting People, Orchestration and Context.
The goal of SYNC3 is to create a framework for structuring, rendering more accessible and enabling collaborative creation of the extensive user-provided content that is located in personal blogs and refers to running news issues.
In this project a so-called electronic drawbar was developed for unmanned ground vehicles. This function enables robotic vehicles to follow autonomously a leading person or another vehicle in selectable distances. A prototype for this application was set up and demonstrated on various events throughout the year.
The Ultra-Wideband priority program, UKoLoS, is dedicated to improving and investigating the application of Ultra-Wideband Radio Systems for Localization, Communications and Sensor Applications in Europe.
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