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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

By means of NFC technology (Near Field Communication), objects / materials can be provided with a tag (consisting of a circuit, antenna and chip) that transmits information to a mobile device (e.g. smartphone) equipped with an NFC reader. A machine has been developed which applies NFC tags to cardboard and paper ...

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.  ...

The aim of this project is to set up a platform for lecturers and researchers with disabilities and chronic diseases as well as decision-makers in higher education. On the one hand, the platform serves the purpose of network building, and on the other, it helps decision-makers at the university to improve the level ...

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 ...

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Development of a tool to launch and evaluate phishing campaigns for the purpose of awareness training. Preparation of recommendations for an effective implementation of such training based on findings from scientific studies and analysis.

A new decision support system for predictive maintenance of laser cutting machines is developed. The system provides a platform for condition monitoring, fault detection and prediction of the remaining useful life of systems and components as well as data-driven decision support and prescriptive recommendations for ...

One of the major promises of Big Data lies in the simultaneous mining of multiple sources of data. This is particularly important in life sciences, where different and complementary data are scattered across multiple resources. To overcome this issue, the use of RDF/semantic web technology is emerging, but querying ...

The MOSAIC is working on providing a platform for delivering any kind of application as a service, with a focus on container-based applications. It features an integrated incident management system as well as a container-optimized storage system. The platform will be able to deploy hybrid applications split into ...