Projects
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DISCAP - Digital Infrastructure for Sustainable Consumption and Production
The goal of this project is to lay the technological foundations for empowering various stakeholders to make fact-based decisions to achieve sustainable consumption and production. In particular, we will evaluate how various data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence methods can be used to extract ...
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DataInc – Intelligent Data Integration and Cleaning
Clean, reliable data is crucial to an increasingly digitized financial industry. We currently observe a lack of consistent, high-quality data across asset classes which requires costly and time-intensive human intervention. We propose an AI-driven solution to address this issue.
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Smart Hospital – Integrated Framework, Tools & Solutions (SHIFT)
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ETH Accessible Video Player
This project is about analyzing the ETHZ Video Paella Player as well as other video editing tools regarding accessibility and advising the corresponding development team.
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Accessible Teaching in Higher Education
The project aims to improve the accessibility of teaching at Swiss universities and to guarantee it in the long term. One of the main problems is the lack of awareness among responsible faculty and staff of the diversity needs of their students, which is why the development of an online training and short films to ...
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Accessible digital map and navigation for pedestrians with disabilities
The aim of this research is to develop concepts for accessible urban trip-planning and navigation for pedestrians with visual and mobility impairments, and to implement two proof-of-concept mobile application for accessible trip-planning and map exploration.
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Machine Learning for Software User Interface Testing
In this project, various technical aspects for tracing functional/non-functional requirements within user interface test cases were investigated. Originally, this project aimed to detect bugs in user interfaces automatically by using machine learning algorithms. During the execution of the project, we decided to ...
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Malicious node for the detection of lateral movement
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Digital Transformation at the Local Tier of Government in Europe: Dynamics and Effects from a Cross-Countries and Over-Time Comparative Perspective (DIGILOG)
Digital transformation constitutes one of the most important innovations at the local level of government and is expected to reshape local service delivery, public administration, and governance in Europe fundamentally. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the fundamental importance of a well-prepared ...
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GraphQueryML – Using Machine Learning to Optimize Queries in Graph Databases (SNSF/DFG)
Optimizing the brain of databases with machine learning: Query optimization is one of the hardest problems of database systems research. A query optimizer can be considered as the “brain” of the system that makes sure that queries are executed efficiently. Even after several decades of research, many sub-problems of ...
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Actionable Insights and Business Intelligence based on Applied Sciences Messaging Patterns
Researchers in an applied sciences context, including at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, have no adequate means to gain insights into their past e-mail and chat communication. Usually this communication archive is a treasure - a hidden gem - when trying to remember contacts, project opportunities, ...
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DOSSMA – Detection of Suspicious Social Media Activities
The DOSSMA project will investigate suspicious and malicious behaviour on social media platforms. In a first phase, we will compile an extensive survey report on the areas that are currently being researched, including the respective state-of-the-art, existing solutions and initiatives. This report will serve as a ...
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FASTscan: Fully Automated Security Testing with scanmeter
In this R&D project, scanmeter - a service for the automated security analysis of IT systems - is being extended by three innovative components. This will significantly increase the level of automation and test coverage, significantly improve customer benefits, and expand the fields of applications. Specifically, ...
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Accessible Scientific PDFs for All
PDF is the most popular document format to provide and distribute information on the internet. It was developed by Adobe 1996 but has been an open format since 2008. It was estimated in 2015 that more than 2.5 trillion PDF documents exist on the internet, covering all aspects of life and research, and their number ...
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Scansor 2.0 – AI driven monitoring of complex system landscapes
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RACCOON – Rapid Application-Centric Composition and Online Orchestration iNvestigation
The RACOON project explores novel methods to compose online applications across the engineering lifecycle. In particular, it extends beyond the state of technology in user-friendly cloud application design, implementation and deployment. Furthermore, it investigates application scenarios for turning such methods ...
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ARIES: Exploiting User Journeys for Supporting Mobility as a Service Platforms
Emerging Mobility As A Services (MAAS) are pushing the boundaries of DevOps practices and processes, with new challenges to handle for both practitioners and researchers. MAAS providers such as BOND (Bike ON Demand start-up in Switzerland) employ DevOps innovations to sustain the evolution of future MAAS services ...
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Speech-to-Text for Swiss German
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COSMOS – DevOps for Complex Cyber-physical Systems of Systems
Much of the increasing complexity of ICT systems is being driven by the more distributed and heterogeneous nature of these systems, with Cyber Physical Systems accounting for an increasing portion of Software Ecosystems. This basic premise underpins the COSMOS proposal which focuses on blending best practices DevOps ...
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Digital Literacy Skills in University Context
Writing in most contexts today is done with digital, computer-assisted support. Technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) such as intelligent tutoring (IT), automated writing evaluation (AWE) and machine translation (MT) present new opportunities, perspectives, and risks for tertiary education. The ...