As data consolidates into relational databases, the need for text-to-SQL systems grows, democratizing access to information by allowing natural language queries. The potential for improvements brought by Large Language Models (LLMs) in text-to-SQL systems is mostly assessed on monolingual English datasets. However, ...

The Atfinity software is a Low-Code/No-Code (LCNC) solution that enables the faster and cheaper implementation and maintenance of digital processes. The company Atfinity currently focuses on banking as market segment, but it is expected that the Atfinity software has a much bigger impact potential also in other ...

Digital records of academic achievements, especially in the form of microcredentials, are becoming a strategic topic for universities and education-related government agencies. Moreover, private entities (employers, loan-granting banks) rely on trustworthy digital records with differentiated access levels ...

AI-SQUARE aims to develop a decision-support platform for software staging management. We use ML and NLP techniques together with Knowledge Graphs to integrate heterogeneous data sources and implement reinforcement learning from human feedback for context-specific adaptations.

Alptracker is the de-facto standard for tracking sheep and cow herds in the Swiss alps. This project advances communication and software support for wide-area herding. It contributes novel hub-spoke animal tracking, capturing movement and behaviour, deriving holistic herd models, and predicting predators and ...

The project aims at enhancing security testing methodologies for Android pre-installed applications. It encompasses empirically evaluation of hindering factors associated with dynamic analysis of pre-installed apps on the Android emulator. To be more precise, the feasibility of rehosting Android pre-installed apps, ...

The objectives of the ThingsAtScale project encompass various advances beyond the state of technology in software stacks for IoT/LoRaWAN, in particular the The Things Stack (TTS) Cloud. It is comprised of research and development tasks around TTS, in particular related to the two main topics audit logging and ...

The project will develop a platform that focuses on Augmented Reality (AR) Patterns and aims to improve collaboration between UX designers and software developers. The goal is to create and operate a public catalogue of AR Patterns that covers both technical and UX aspects. The resulting community platform ...

The employee survey 2022 shows that the cooperation between institutes and departments is not satisfactory. The project aims to develop a proof-of-concept for a user-centered app that allows ZHAW members to connect. The matching system is inspired by dating apps: user profiles with interests and competencies are ...

The goal of this project is to research and develop deep-learning based methods to automatically extract the data visualized in a chart, in order to generate a semantic description of the chart graphics for visually impaired readers using their screen readers.

The ambition of the EU NATWORK project funded by Horizon Europe - 6G SNS (2024-2026) is to set the foundations and deploy the very first economically realistic, energy efficient, and viable bio-inspired AI-based 6G cybersecurity and resilience framework for intelligent networking and services, taking a holistic ...

Climate change is affecting most of the world population faster than the population can adopt. This issue is present in daily lives, agriculture, urban planning and distribution of goods and utilities. Decisions need to be taken in real time, supported by knowledge captured in various data representations. The ...

Microcredentials are a growing activity in the space of higher education, continuous education, vocational training and corporate training. Customers who undergo education or training expect to get microcredentials that can be shared with their current and future employers. This project introduces extremely ...

This project explores the potential of using QR codes and solar-powered beacons to create learning spaces in educational settings. These spaces are meant to be informal, cyber-physical, decentralised and sustainable. QR codes are two-dimensional codes that can be scanned with a smartphone or other devices and used ...

The HD.ng++ project creates a system to support an analyst in a Security Operations Center (SOC). The developed system provides meta-information on domains and IP addresses to assist SOC-Analysts by the investigation of potentially malicious domains or IP addresses.

The monitoring of print and online media has been taking place more or less automatically for a long time. Since an ever greater proportion of new content is produced first or even exclusively for audiovisual (AV) media, the importance of monitoring these AV media has soared. Since the monitoring of AV media can ...

MBS (feasibility study): Use of XR (Mixed Reality) in plant engineering. By walking through large plants together in virtual space in the early stages of the development process:  shortened process time Reduction of planning errors and time-consuming coordination with international   customers Reduction in the ...

Public transport in Switzerland and in Latin America is organised differently and operated with different levels of reliability, innovation priorities, and acceptance of digital support solutions by passengers. The common element is that in both regions, operators struggle with optimising the offered services ...

Phones and notebooks do not require much power? Wrong, most usage patterns involve the heavy use of cloud services. In contrast to device consumption, the extent of this indirect consumption is unknown to users. This project delivers a tool to trace cloud use and convey a CO2 equivalent to the user.  ...