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The first workshop of the SeReCo doctoral college took place – and the Chair of Technical Information Systems was part of it! On 23rd and 24th of May 2022, the workshop was located at Campus Région numérique in Charbonnières-les-Bains, near Lyon (France), organized by our partners from Mines Saint-É...

Julian Gruemmer from the Chair of Accounting and Auditing (Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann) received the Dr. Michael Munkert sponsorship award in 2021. In his project, Mr. Gruemmer identified interconnections between members of the board of directors and the supervisory board using knowledge graphs to vi...

On October 27th 2021, the 3rd Nuremberg Dialogue Business and Science (NUEDialog), a virtual event organized by the FAU WiSo Nuremberg, took place and presented interesting insights about the focus topic “Work in Change”. Beside other program points like panels and presentations, a “science slam”...

From September 22th to 24th, Zhou Gui participated in the WomenHackAI Hackathon organized by Siemens Female Data Science Network and her team won the first prize after 48 hours of intensive work. More than 100 people applied and 30 got accepted into 4 challenges. Zhou Gui worked at the challenge of...

From July 26th to 30th 2021 the summer school on AI technologies for trust, interoperability and autonomy in Industry 4.0 took place as a hybrid event at Waischenfeld (Germany), Saint-Étienne (France), St. Gallen (Switzerland) and online. Almost 60 participants learned about challenges and state-of-...

From March 15th to 19th, 2021, the Dagstuhl Seminar on Autonomous Agents on the Web took place as a virtual event. Schloss Dagstuhl has been a prestigious venue for researchers in computer science since its foundation in 1990. Almost 40 highly-esteemed researchers from all over the world gathered...

On March 11th, 2021, Bavarian students of engineering, computer science and economics had the opportunity to get to know and to test current work of the Fraunhofer research group SCS. The workshop was part of the Praxistag, which took place for the 10th time. For this, the Chair prepared a portfolio...

The kickoff of working group 2 of Distributed Knowledge Graphs took place as a virtual meeting on January 20th, 2021, with over 20 interested researchers from many different countries. Distributed Knowledge Graphs is a COST Action, i.e., a research and innovation network to connect research initi...

The proceedings of the ESWC 2020 conference have been published by Springer (main proceedings and satellite events). ESWC is a major venue for presenting and discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations around semantic technologies. The conference took place in June 2020. Prof...

The W3C Web of Things Working Group has recently published the Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description document as W3C Recommendation. Dr. Victor Charpenay, formerly at Siemens and now a post-doc at the Chair of Technical Information Systems, is a co-editor of the document. He says: "The W3C Web of...