There is a huge amount of valuable information hidden in a company's database which is not easily accessible to business people. To query these databases, end users need to know the technical query language SQL as well as the database structure. However, typical end users do not have enough SQL skills to formulate complex queries. Even more so, ...

In this project, a virtual reality environment will be created to bring concepts around smart mobility closer to a broad audience. These concepts include smart sharing offers (and thus a change of mentality from owning to using), automated driving (which could reduce the number of vehicles in cities to one tenth within the framework of a shared ...

Development and teaching of a course on various aspects of secure software development and hacking methods.

This project involves the playful communication of Smart City themes in a high-end virtual reality environment. The VR game "Virtual Energy Hero", already developed by the ZHAW, is to be expanded into the "Virtual Smart Winti Hero". The further developed game for young and old will take up current and future Smart City themes (energy, mobility, ...

The project implements an online service for companies to monitor suppliers for violations of environmental, social, or governance norms. To do so, a vast variety of sources, such as news outlets, is monitored using machine learning and natural language processing with near human-level accuracy.

Tamedia would like to develop a software system that automatically generates news articles from hockey game data. ZHAW will explore the different state-of-the-art technologies to evaluate the feasibility of developing a natural language system that generates rich contextual ice hockey game report and, if so, how much effort it would be to develop ...

Research on security requirements and innovation opportunities for a product for data capture and management in the domain of pharmaceutical product development.

This research project will investigate how a communication strategy for the marketing and communication of the diverse cultural activities and sites in the Lake Constance region could be shaped. For a sustainable strategy development the digitization of the communication, by which also the cultural sector has undergone a profound change, is ...

The industrial project partner offers online brokering of loans, mortgages and insurances. The brokering process involves several phone calls of a call agent with a potential client. This is time-consuming and highly repetitive. For this reason, we want to develop a dialogue system which can take over part of the tasks: it will initiate calls to ...

VSHN PaaS product APPUiO is transforming the DevOps culture in Switzerland. APPUiO currently lacks usage-based accounting. This project will enable a robust usage-based billing for APPUiO, and develop capabilities such as price simulators, cost forecasts and sand-boxing to test new billing models.

Entry, discharge, radiology and pathology reports and other clinical documents are a valuable resource to be harvested for precision medicine. They are typically stored in a free text format, only little structure is imposed and terminology is heterogeneous. We will apply natural language processing (NLP), machine and statistical learning methods ...

In the SCAI project, ZHAW and legartis investigate how content of contracts can automatically be evaluated legally by applying methods from the areas of Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning.

The goal of the research project is to develop an application that enables the statistical comparison of risk- and insurance profiles. With this information at hand, users of the e-Broker platform can compare themselves against peers and identify coverage gaps and unnecessary insurance coverages.

SecureSafe is an established and highly secure online storage service. In this project, SecureSafe will be extended with novel functionality and security components so that it supports secure and privacy-preserving collaboration between multiple parties, e.g. between a bank and its customers.

This project extends Exeon Analytics’ ExeonTrace product with HostDetective, a tool to identify and mitigate Web-related data breaches. HostDetective implements a novel active and passive Web server assessment method to determine the type, purpose and risk score of a Web server.

Due to the success of relational databases, new trends in big data technologies and Open Data, the query languages SQL and SPARQL are the most-widely used techniques to access databases. Even though SQL and SPARQL are very powerful, significant technical knowledge and training is required. Today, business users and scientists are restricted in ...