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VSR at HCI International Conference
Our VSR team member Sebastian Heil participated in the HCI International Conference 2022 and presented our latest research findings on the topic of Benchmarking Neural Networks-Based Approaches for Predicting Visual Perception of User Interfaces in the "AI-assisted Evaluation of UX Aspects in the Development Process" session.
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Outstanding Paper Award at the e-society 2022 conference
We are very happy and proud to announce, that our research on "Enhancement of AI-based Implementation using a One-Stage Detector Algorithm for the Detection of Counterfeit Products" received special recognition through an Outstanding Paper award at the 20th International Conference on e-Society 2022. Congratulations to our VSR authors Eduard Daoud, Nabil Khalil and Martin Gaedke!
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1st PhD Thesis Defence in 2022
We are happy to announce that our external PhD student Markus Ullrich successfully defended his PhD thesis "Performance Modelling for Optimized Resource Management and Application Deployment in Cloud Environments" on 10th of February 2022.
We congratulate Markus for his achievement and wish him all the best for his future.
Successful Completion of AI4EU KE4WoT Challenge
We are very happy and proud to announce, that VSR has successfully reached the final third milestone and completed the IoTxKG project in the context of AI4EU. Within the last six months, our team was working as a solution provider for the KE4WoT challenge, investigating novel AI-driven models for knowledge extraction in the Web of Things domain. We designed a method to identify and represent core concepts which we successfully applied to Ontologies from the Smart Home, Smart Weather, Smart Transportation and Smart Energy domains and validated it with domain experts. Our research has contributed to the advancement of the European AI on Demand platform, AI4EU (https://www.ai4europe.eu/), and our models are available via the AI4EU Experiments marketplace (https://aiexp.ai4europe.eu/#/marketPlace). Stay tuned for further details about our NLP-based clustering models and interactive concept visualizations to be published in 2022.
Congratulations to our IoTxKG team Mahda Noura, Sebastian Heil and Martin Gaedke!
Challenge Winners at ISWC2021
We are very happy and proud to announce, that our paper "WAT: Autonomous Hypermedia-driven Web Agents for Web of Things Devices" was announced as the Challenge winner at the The 20th International Semantic Web Conference in the All The Agents Challenge 2021. Congratulations to our VSR members Mahda Noura, Valentin Siegert and Martin Gaedke!
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VSR at Dagstuhl Seminar on Autonomous Agents on the Web
Our VSR team member Mahda Noura participated in the Dagstuhl seminar on Autonomous Agents on the Web and presented our current research findings and a demo of WoTDL2API which showed how to webify Internet of Things devices.
We received a Best Paper award at the SEMAPRO2020 conference
We are very happy and proud to announce, that our research on "Querying the Semantic Web for Concept Identifiers to Annotate Research Datasets" got an Outstanding Paper award at the 14th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing SEMAPRO 2020 . Congratulations to our VSR members André Langer, Christoph Göpfert and Martin Gaedke!
Candidate for the Best paper at IoT2020
We are very happy and proud to announce, that our research paper titled "Natural Language Goal Understanding for Smart Homes Environments" was selected as the candidate for Best Paper at the 10th International Conference on the Internet of Things organized in Malmö, Sweden. The contribution is a collaborative work of Mahda Noura, Sebastian Heil and Martin Gaedke.
Congratulations to the authors!
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