Research on artificial intelligence in real environments
The EU project AI-Dapt develops data-centred solutions for the entire life cycle of artificial intelligence (AI) in real-world environments. The services enable the automation of intelligent data AI pipelines – from data acquisition and the development of AI models to their execution and evaluation.
more infoBasic Services for the National Research Data Infrastructure
In the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), valuable data sets from science and research are made accessible, networked and usable for the German science system. Base4NFDI is a joint initiative of the NDFI to promote the development of reliable basic services.
more infoNeeds, Trends and ICT Tools for Advanced Data-Driven Public Sector
Big Policy Canvas’ Vision: to transform public sector to an effective, efficient, precise, consistent, and evidence-based policy making structure.
more infoPromoting and Incentivising Federated, Trusted, Fair Sharing and Trading of Interoperable Data Assets
In the EU project PISTIS, a platform is being created for the secure, trustworthy and controlled exchange and trading of data from companies and public institutions. The 31 project partners are piloting the project at several European locations in three large-scale demonstration hubs on energy, mobility and urban planning, and automotive.
more infoKNOWLEDGECommons Development of an urban data platform with model character and added value for urban society
In the project WISSENsAllmende (KNOWLEDGECommons), the name says it all: An open urban data platform shall bundle the data of the city of Jena and make it accessible to everyone in the future- for more transparency, trust and participation. We support the city administration at the development of this platform based on our piveau® technology.
more infoDevelopment of a component-based, service-centred IT platform
In the “Integrierte Software Berliner Jugendhilfe (ISBJ)” (Integrated Software for Berlin Youth Services) project, the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family is digitising all business processes for youth services in the state of Berlin. A component-based and service-centred IT platform based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is implemented for the specialist IT procedures and IT services. The platform is continuously adapted and further developed.
more infoA Cooperation between Microsoft and Fraunhofer FOKUS
Since the formation of the SC 38 Working Group WG 3 on Cloud Computing in 2009, an ongoing successful collaboration of Microsoft and Fraunhofer FOKUS has produced a number of contributions to this working group.
more infoUsing administrative services across national borders - simple, secure, data protection compliant
In the future, selected administrative services in the European Union are to be made digitally available across borders in all Member States in a way that they can be processed online without media discontinuity. In the ACROSS project, methods are being researched and a tool framework developed to guide citizens through these new services in an interactive, user-friendly and easy-to-understand manner - securely and in compliance with data protection laws.
more infoProject: Berlin PC
Duration: 01.08.2013 – 31.12.2014
Standardized IT workplace
The Berlin administrative authorities have around 75,000 PC workplaces which are very complicated to maintain due to a variety of non-homogeneous regional solutions. A standardized IT workplace (BerlinPC) should help establish a modern, secure, powerful and cost-efficient software, services and system architecture. BerlinPC is the central platform for running the special applications of each department. It enables location-independent access to applications and data, reduces the number of fault-prone interfaces and the amount effort expended on IT measures, and will make it easier to automate IT operations in the future.
Project: Carneades
Duration: 01.01.2012 – 31.12.2017
The Carneades argumentation system, being developed at Fraunhofer FOKUS, is a web-based, collaborative software system for the (re-) construction, evaluation, visualization and interchange of arguments.
In a five-year R&D project, together with Prof. Douglas Walton at the University of Windsor (Canada), funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, we are working on the following five topics:
Project: Cloudless
Duration: 01.01.2015 – 31.12.2017
The cloud computing software framework for privacy and data securityp
Cloudless is a JavaScript based technology-platform. As a software framework Cloudless is addressing typical cloud computing trends and challenges. The framework enables privacy assured administration and complete offline operation of software-as-a-service solutions. Thus Cloudless solves challenges in information security, data protection and privacy, resilience and performance of IT solutions as well as for mobile use cases. At the same time Cloudless facilitates the development of web applications by delivering basic functions like user- and identity management or database integration out of the box.
The Cloudless technology has advantages for various industries, but is particularly relevant to the professional secrecy segment. Here, Cloudless technological innovations solve the problem, that software-as-a-service can currently not be used in legally compliant way for professional secrecy keepers like doctors, lawyers, etc.. With Cloudless, a new, safe and right-to-the-generation generation of SaaS specialist applications is emerging for professions under professional secrecy regulation.
The Cloudless technology will be offered in 2017 via a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS.
Project: GeMo – Gemeinschaftliche Mobilität
Duration: 01.12.2011 – 31.10.2014
Shared use of electric mobility
Sharing cars instead of buying them – the concept of car-sharing already exists in many big cities. In the electro-mobile future, urban citizens will make common use of the infrastructure and a large number of vehicles. This is what scientists working at Fraunhofer Institute predict. In order to turn this vision into reality, scientists are working on the “Beyond Tomorrow Project” called “Shared use of e-mobility: vehicles, data and infrastructure“, or GeMo for short in German.
Less pollution, less noise, a better quality of life – very good reasons to focus on electricity when it comes to the topic of mobility. If the EU has its way, we will only be driving electric vehicles in all major European cities as early as 2050. A good thing to aim for, but experts go even further: citizens will be able to dispense with their own cars and share the use of electric vehicles.
GeMo is one of seven “Beyond Tomorrow Projects” in which scientists are working on finding solutions for the pressing issues of the future.
Contact:
Benjamin Dittwald, Deputy Head Open Service Engineering (OSE) at Business Unit DPS
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nikolay Vassilev Tcholtchev, Head of Quality Engineering for Urban ICT and Quantum Computing at Business Unit SQC
Project: OCEAN – Open Cloud for Europe, JApan and beyoNd
Duration: 01.10.2012 – 30.09.2014
The fundamental goal of OCEAN is to foster the emergence of a sustainable open source cloud ecosystem and boost market innovation in Europe, by generating greater efficiency and economies of scale among collaborative research projects on open source cloud computing. OCEAN is addressing European FP7 projects funded under the Objective ICT-2011.1.2 as well as other European, European national and Japanese open cloud collaborative projects.
OCEAN is to play a pivotal role among collaborative cloud research projects, especially those that are naturally following an open source approach, to help reveal commonalities, being either potential overlapping and/or opportunities for collaboration and synergies. The OCEAN project is launched in order to provide the following results:
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Yury Glikman, Groupleader Business Unit DPS
Project: Policy Compass
Duration: 01.10.2013 – 30.06.2016
The main goal of Policy Compass is to develop a research prototype of an easy-to-use, highly visual and intuitive tool for social networks and eParticipation platforms, enabling citizens and public officials to easily create, apply, share, embed, annotate and discuss causal models, charts and graphs of historical data from trusted open data sources. The aim is to develop methods and tools that facilitate more factual, evidence-based, transparent and accountable policy evaluation and analysis. The project aims also to facilitate more objective, evidence-based and transparent policy deliberations.
The research question the Policy Compass project will address is whether and how open public data, social media, eParticipation platforms, fuzzy cognitive maps and argumentation technology can be integrated and applied to provide better tools on the World Wide Web for constructing, sharing, visualising and debating progress metrics and causal models of policies.
The aim is to provide easy-to-use tools for both the lay public, on social networks, as well as professional policy makers, to improve the quality and transparency of the policy analysis and monitoring phases of the policy life-cycle. Policy Compass will make use of Europe’s increasing amount of public sector open and structured data resources. Policy Compass will make better use of Europe’s open public data resources and empower policy-makers and citizens (especially the younger generation) to better assess government policies in the policy analysis and monitoring phases of the policy cycle.
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Yury Glikman, Groupleader Business Unit DPS
Project: tag.check.score
Duration: 01.11.2011 – 31.10.2014
To open up the image archives of the Berlin Ethnological Museum to the public, the museum and Fraunhofer FOKUS developed the Tag.Check.Score. crowdsourcing app in the context of the Code for Europe initiative. The app is based on the idea of digital volunteer work. With the app, users can add metadata to the museum’s photos, correct existing tags and earn points doing so. The goal of Tag.Check.Score. is to develop an open-source solution that other museums, libraries and archives can also use to tackle similar challenges.
Project: Trusted Capital Cloud
Duration: 01.01.2013 – 30.11.2014
As part of the “Capital Cloud Initiative” of the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research and the ICT & Digital Business Association Berlin-Brandenburg (SIBB) the PROFIT funding project “Trusted Capital Cloud (TCC)“ was conducted by the partners StoneOne AG, TU Berlin and Fraunhofer FOKUS.
The aim was to create a B2B-marketplace for trusted and proven cloud services. Therefore the marketplace provides typical chargeable services in a structured and transparent manner covering the scope of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS).
Accordingly, medium sized enterprises in the capital region have the opportunity to get an access to appropriate cloud services and to minimize their occurring evaluation effort. In addition, cloud service provider can make their services accessible to a much broader customer base.
Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems
