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Pinkwart, Niels, Prof. Dr. (Computing and Society and Didactics of Informatics)

Duration of Project: 01/2018 - 12/2020

Arbeitgeber, die Menschen mit Behinderungen eingestellt haben, sind von deren Leistungsfähigkeit in der Regel überzeugt. Mit Hilfe eines zugänglichen, digitalen, interaktiven und mobilen Informationsangebotes soll diese Erkenntnis bereits vor einer m ...

Using a mobile phone-based multimedia technology to support maternal health in rural southwestern Uganda

Pinkwart, Niels, Prof. Dr. (Computing and Society and Didactics of Informatics)

Duration of Project: 02/2018 - 12/2020

T-T-T

Eisert, Peter, Prof. Dr.-Ing. (Visual Computing)

Duration of Project: 06/2018 - 05/2019

TTT works as an addition to the traditional table tennis. Using cameras and sensors the ball and the player's movement is tracked, quantifying the gameplay. Using this tracking data the user’s actions are translated into audiovisual content that augm ...

Theoretical foundations for efficient enumeration of query results

Schweikardt, Nicole, Prof. Dr. (Theoretical Computer Science)

Duration of Project: 07/2016 - 12/2019

Query evaluation is one of the central tasks of a database system. The theoretical foundations of query evaluation rely on a close connection between database theory and mathematical logic, as databases correspond to finite relational structures, and ...

Technical Procedures for Closed Crop Production Systems to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change-Induced Abiotic Stress

Schmidt, Uwe, Prof. Dr. (Section Biological Systems Technology)

Duration of Project: 09/2018 - 08/2022

One of the major challenges of the 21st century is the mitigation of global climate change, which is mainly caused by greenhouse gas emissions. One contribution to this could be made by advanced and intelligently controlled greenhouse systems. Theref ...

Structural Flexibility in the Optical Design of the Arthropod Cornea

Scholtz, Gerhard, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Comparative Zoology)

Duration of Project: 11/2016 - 10/2019

The arthropod cuticle is a versatile bio-composite made of chitin fibers embedded in a protein matrix. The cuticle also forms the cornea of the arthropod compound eye – a characteristic feature of the phylum that has largely contributed to its incred ...

Sponsoring Nao Robots

Hafner, Verena, Prof. Dr. (Adaptive Systems)

Duration of Project: 04/2016 - 04/2017

NaoTH will get sponsoring for 6 new humanoid robots Nao Aldebaran.

RTG 2434: Facets of Complexity

Schweikardt, Nicole, Prof. Dr. (Theoretical Computer Science)

Duration of Project: 04/2018 - 09/2022

Complexity is a central topic both in mathematics and in computer science. It appears in various forms: there is combinatorial complexity (number) of mathematical structures; description complexity (the possibility of encoding a structure succinctly ...

RTG 1651: Service-Oriented Architectures for the Integration of Software-Based Processes, Exemplified by Health Care Systems and Medical Technology (SOAMED)

Leser, Ulf, Prof. Dr.-Ing. (Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics)

Duration of Project: 10/2014 - 12/2019

Service orientation is a promising architectural concept to quickly and cost efficiently couple encapsulated software components (“services”), and to adapt them to new requirements. Service orientation has mainly been suggested for co-operating busin ...

RG 2841/1: A Comprehensive Repository of Regulatory Elements and Their Variations in Human Disease (SP 05)

Leser, Ulf, Prof. Dr.-Ing. (Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics)

Duration of Project: 03/2020 - 09/2023

Though the introduction of whole exome sequencing (WES) has enabled the molecular diagnosis rate for patients with rare genetic disorders to rise considerably, it has levelled at a maximum of 50%. WES is limited to the coding regions, meaning that it ...

RG 1306/1: Stratosphere II – Information Management on the Cloud (SP D)

Leser, Ulf, Prof. Dr.-Ing. (Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics)

Duration of Project: 01/2014 - 12/2017

Processing iterative, stateful data analysis programs on vast amounts of “data in motion” under low-latency requires novel methods and techniques both from systems and an algorithmic point-of-view. In the proposed second phase of the research unit, w ...

Research platform „Literary field GDR“: authors, works, networks Pilot study: The students of the Institute of Literature „Johannes R. Becher“ Leipzig

Martus, Steffen, Prof. Dr. phil. (Modern German Literature / Literature of the 18th to the Present)

Duration of Project: 10/2019 - 09/2022

The project heuristically draws upon research on GDR literature viewed from the perspective of Bourdieu’s notion of literary field and, perspectively, aims at a complete coverage of this field. For this purpose, it is necessary to 1.) collect data fo ...

REconciling sCience, Innovation and Precaution through the Engagement of Stakeholders (SP: Financial risks and urban waste planning)

Mieg, Harald, Prof. Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)

Duration of Project: 01/2019 - 12/2021

Many European cities are facing the challenges of massively overhauling their urban water infrastructures. This is due to both the requirements of the European Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD), and the fact that most of their main water ...

re3data – Community Driven Open Reference for Research Data Repositories

Petras, Vivien, Prof. (Information Retrieval)

Duration of Project: 01/2020 - 12/2022

Scientific communities, funding organisations, research institutions and services rely on concise, current and specific repository descriptions and refer to re3data as a semi-authoritative source. As a registry and service of DataCite, re3data is cur ...

Prerequisites for an Artificial Self

Hafner, Verena, Prof. Dr. (Adaptive Systems)

Duration of Project: 02/2019 - 01/2023

Predictive Autonomous Behaviour - Internal Models and Predictive Self-regulation

Hafner, Verena, Prof. Dr. (Adaptive Systems)

Duration of Project: 09/2019 - 02/2020

PP 2207: What Matters? Key Passages in Literary Works (SP)

Martus, Steffen, Prof. Dr. phil. (Modern German Literature / Literature of the 18th to the Present)

Duration of Project: 04/2020 - 03/2023

This explorative project deals with the identification and characterization of key passages in literary works. We understand key passages as passages that are particularly important to expert readers when interpreting texts. Why do interpreting schol ...

PP 2172: Curating Digital Images: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Affordances of Digital Images in Heritage and Museum Contexts

Macdonald, Sharon, Prof. Dr. (Social Anthropology)

Duration of Project: 12/2019 - 11/2022

The DFG-funded project “Curating Digital Images” is located within the frame of the DFG priority programme “Das digitale Bild” / “The Digital Image” and focusses on ethnographic research on practices of digital curation related to the field of museum ...

PP 1926/1: Development and Application of Novel Optogenetic Tools in Specific Intracellular Compartments

Hegemann, Peter, Prof. Dr. (Experimental Biophysics)

Duration of Project: 09/2016 - 01/2019

The aim of this work is the development of novel optogenetic tools that allow investigations on subcellular compartments. In the first project, we will combine proton and chloride channels or chloride pumps with targeting motives for synaptic vesicle ...

PP 1748: Approximation and Reconstruction of Stresses in the Deformed Configuration for Hyperelastic Material Models

Farkas, Gavril-Marius, Prof. Dr. (Department of Mathematics)

Duration of Project: 09/2019 - 08/2022

Numerical simulation techniques are an essential component for the construction, design and optimisation of cutting-edge technologies as for example innovative products, new materials as well as medical-technical applications and production processes ...

PP 1748/2: Foundation and Application of Generalized Mixed FEM Towards Nonlinear Problems in Solid Mechanics

Carstensen, Carsten, Prof. (Numerical Handling of Differential Equations)

Duration of Project: 10/2018 - 03/2023

The research of this project aims at the mathematical foundation and the engineering application of generalized mixed FEM as well as the development and the analysis of new non-standard methods that yield guaranteed results for nonlinear problems in ...

PP 1748/1: Foundation and Application of Generalized Mixed FEM Towards Nonlinear Problems in Solid Mechanics

Carstensen, Carsten, Prof. (Numerical Handling of Differential Equations)

Duration of Project: 09/2014 - 11/2019

The research of this project aims at the mathematical foundation and the engineering application of generalised mixed FEM as well as the development and the analysis of new non-standard methods that yield guaranteed results for nonlinear problems in ...

PP 1593: ENsurance of Software evolUtion by Run-time cErtification II

Grunske, Lars, Prof. Dr. (Software Engineering)

Duration of Project: 01/2016 - 08/2019

Quality attributes play an important role in different classes of software systems, e.g. safety in embedded systems and performance in business information systems. Currently, quality requirements are typically checked at design time. For evolving sy ...

PP 1285: Spin-Dependent Electron in GaAs/AlGaAs Nanostructures (III)

Fischer, Saskia, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (New Materials)

Duration of Project: 10/2011 - 07/2014

The aim of this project within the DFG priority programme 1285 "Semiconductor Spinelectronics" is to investigate spin-dependent ballistic transport in nanoscale GaAs/AlGaAs field-effect heterostructures (FETs) of low spin-orbit coupling, and to exten ...

Photoactive antimicrobial coatings

Röder, Beate, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. (Experimental Physics / Photobiophysics)

Duration of Project: 04/2017 - 02/2020

Metallische und mineralische Oberflächen an Häusern und technischen Gebäuden sind aufgrund ihrer Funktion oft jahrzehntelang Witterungseinflüssen ausgesetzt und damit Angriffspunkt für die unerwünschte Ansiedlung von Bakterien, Pilzen und Algen welch ...

Optical Synchronization of ToF cameras

Meffert, Beate, Prof. Dr.-Ing. (Senior Professor and Professors retired)

Duration of Project: 09/2018 - 02/2021

The aim of the project is the development of a new optical method for the activity detection of ToF sensors and their synchronization. A variety of application scenarios requires the parallel use of multiple ToF cameras. There is a problem: In contra ...

Online - Reputation

Freytag, Johann-Christoph, Prof. Ph. D. (Data Bases and Information Systems)

Duration of Project: 03/2017 - 02/2018

Recognising bad recommendations, classify those and possibly generate references to the person of origin.

NW/1: Efficient preprocessing for hard problems: New techniques and tight models for data reduction

Kratsch, Stefan, Prof. Dr. (Algorithm Engineering)

Duration of Project: 09/2017 - 04/2018

Preprocessing, in the sense of data reduction, is of fundamental importance for the practical solution of NP-hard problems. A very successful example is the commercial tool CPLEX for solving integer linear programs. It is known for its strong preproc ...

Maximum Spectral Efficiency Through Parallelised Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output Transmission Using High-Resolution 3D Antenna Topologies, Second Phase

Graß, Eckhard, Prof. Dr. (Wireless Broadband Communication Systems)

Duration of Project: 02/2017 - 04/2019

With the rapid increase of mobile data traffic and further network densification, the design of efficient and flexible wireless front-/backhaul terminals with a feasible practical form factor is essential for providing high data rates, low latency an ...

Ludufactur

Eisert, Peter, Prof. Dr.-Ing. (Visual Computing)

Duration of Project: 10/2011 - 09/2012

In this project, funded by Exist, new technologies for the web-based 3D reconstruction are developed targeting customization of board games.

Long Term Analysis of a Trajectory to Investigate the Impact of a Metropolis on Its Waterbodies From the Ecological and Historical Point of View

Winklhöfer, Karin, Dr. rer. nat. (Evolution of Organismic Systems)

Duration of Project: 10/2011 - 06/2012

Investigation and comparisson of the impact of metropolian areas on rivers with low discharge. Compared were the cities of Milan, Berlin, Paris and Brussels during the time period 1860 to 2010. We focussed on ecological impact, administrative and pol ...

Learning Table Similarity Measures

Leser, Ulf, Prof. Dr.-Ing. (Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics)

Duration of Project: 10/2018 - 08/2021

Existing table similarity measures build on simple models of table metadata, structure, and content. They are designed mainly for tables with a horizontal layout where each column represents one attribute and data values are in rows, and they cannot ...

Learning Analytics for Diversity‐Inspired Adaptive Learning

Pinkwart, Niels, Prof. Dr. (Computing and Society and Didactics of Informatics)

Duration of Project: 12/2019 - 11/2023

JRG/3: Process-Awareness of Event-Driven Systems: Model, Analysis, and Optimisation

Weidlich, Matthias, Prof. Dr. (Process-Driven Architectures)

Duration of Project: 04/2019 - 09/2021

Process-aware information systems (PAIS) are software systems that monitor and control a process, broadly defined as the coordinated execution of actions towards a certain goal. They rely on an explicit representation of the process, a process model. ...

JRG/3: Efficient Preprocessing for Difficult Problems: New Techniques and Tight Models for Data Reduction

Kratsch, Stefan, Prof. Dr. (Algorithm Engineering)

Duration of Project: 10/2018 - 09/2021

Preprocessing, in the sense of data reduction, is of fundamental importance for the practical solution of NP-hard problems. A very successful example is the commercial tool CPLEX for solving integer linear programs. It is known for its strong preproc ...

JRG/2: Process-Awareness of Event-Driven Systems: Model, Analysis and Optimisation

Weidlich, Matthias, Prof. Dr. (Process-Driven Architectures)

Duration of Project: 04/2018 - 12/2019

Process-aware information systems (PAIS) are software systems that monitor and control a process, broadly defined as the coordinated execution of actions towards a certain goal. They rely on an explicit representation of the process, a process model. ...

JRG /2: Efficient Preprocessing for Hard Problems: New Techniques and Tight Models for Data Reduction

Kratsch, Stefan, Prof. Dr. (Algorithm Engineering)

Duration of Project: 09/2017 - 08/2019

Preprocessing, in the sense of data reduction, is of fundamental importance for the practical solution of NP-hard problems. A very successful example is the commercial tool CPLEX for solving integer linear programs. It is known for its strong preproc ...

JRG/1: Representation Complexity of Enumeration and Counting Algorithms

Berkholz, Christoph, Dr. (Theoretical Computer Science)

Duration of Project: 10/2019 - 10/2022

Analysing the complexity of algorithmic tasks is a core topic in theoretical computer science. For example, computational complexity provides notions of reductions to analyse the complexity of decision and counting problems in terms of the size and s ...

Image-Based Representation of Clothes for Realistic Virtual Try-On

Eisert, Peter, Prof. Dr.-Ing. (Visual Computing)

Duration of Project: 08/2011 - 07/2015

This research addresses the issue of realistic visualization of garments in real-time augmented reality environments, where virtual clothes are rendered into real video material. From a scientific point of view this scenario presents numerous challen ...

Image-based Representation of Clothes for Realistic Virtual Try-On

Eisert, Peter, Prof. Dr.-Ing. (Visual Computing)

Duration of Project: 08/2014 - 07/2015

The project addresses the photo-realistic rendering of faces. Faces show, similar to clothing, very complex appearance properties, and it is very difficult to photorealistically render human faces. Even more, as the human eye is very sensitive to see ...

i4G: Shaping the iSchools’ Identity and Interactions in a Globalized world

Petras, Vivien, Prof. (Information Retrieval)

Duration of Project: 10/2019 - 03/2021

HIVEOPOLIS – Futuristic beehives for a smart metropolis

Hafner, Verena, Prof. Dr. (Adaptive Systems)

Duration of Project: 04/2019 - 03/2024

Honeybees are important pollinators and support various important ecosystems with their ecological services. Rapid anthropogenic changes cause disruptive disturbances of their habitats which are currently endangering honeybee colonies around the worl ...

Historical industrial architecture and conflicting objectives of monument protection, urban development, creative industries and production of architecture. Transfer-of-knowledge project: Heritagemanagement and good-practice at the UNESCO World (industrial) Heritage Site Zollverein

Mieg, Harald, Prof. Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)

Duration of Project: 11/2016 - 10/2018

The DFG research project studied transformation processes of historic industrial architecture of four cases in Europe (DFG-Projekt: MI 788 4-1,2). The research question was how to bridge conflicts between monument protection, urban development, creat ...

High dynamic and fine granular traffic monitoring for increased urban safety

Eisert, Peter, Prof. Dr.-Ing. (Visual Computing)

Duration of Project: 08/2018 - 12/2021

This project addresses the detection and tracking of cars, pedestrians, and cyclists from cameras mounted in street lamps. The traffic data will be used to predict critical situations and warn the traffic participants.

Gendering MINT (STEM) digital

Schmitz, Sigrid, Dr. habil. (Gender and Science)

Duration of Project: 12/2017 - 12/2020

The joined project Gendering MINT digital with ALU Freiburg (part project I), the HU Berlin (part project II) und der Applied University Offenburg (part project III) targets the promotion of transfer knowledge between gender research, gender studies, ...

From Demolition to Immigration? New Perspectives for Peripheral Housing Estates

El-Kayed, Nihad, (Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research)

Duration of Project: 05/2019 - 09/2022

The joint research project „From Demolition to Immigration? New Perspectives for Peripheral Housing Estates” (StadtUmMig) investigates potentials and obstacles in the context of sustainable urban development in three former East-German large-scale re ...

Grunske, Lars, Prof. Dr. (Software Engineering)

Duration of Project: 02/2019 - 12/2022

Many software engineering tasks can be formulated as optimisation problems and can be automatically solved with different search heuristics/algorithms. Examples for typical software engineering problems, where optimisation methods can be used, are re ...

Fast Inexact Combinatorial and Algebraic Solvers for Massive Networks

Meyerhenke, Henning, Prof. Dr. (Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems)

Duration of Project: 10/2017 - 11/2020

Numerous groundbreaking technologies generate massive data sets, many of which can be modeled as networks. The produced data sets contain valuable information hidden inside, waiting to be extracted and further processed with suitable analysis algorit ...

Extended fetal monitoring by system analysis of the fetal autonomic cardiovascular regulation

Wessel, Niels, PD Dr. rer. nat. (Nonlinear Dynamics)

Duration of Project: 03/2018 - 03/2022

The clinically available procedures for assessing the fetal health and development status are still too imprecise today and are only partially suitable for prognostic applications. In the early gestational age, they are sometimes not applicable at al ...

EXC 314/1: Carbonylation of Alkanes (AG Braun)

Braun, Thomas, Prof. Dr. (Inorganic Chemistry)

Duration of Project: 01/2019 - 12/2022

Catalytic processes for C-H carbonylation will be developed by using heterobinuclear catalysts, which will involve a double C-H activation of an alkane such as cyclohexane or methane followed by a carbonylation. This can be achieved by implementing t ...