The availability of large molecular data demands accurate and fast bioinformatics methods to analyze these data. Molecular sequences of common origin are used to infer phylogenetic trees, which help to test various biological hypotheses or to support subsequent analyses. Phylogeny inference relies on sequence ...

Since 2009, low interest rates and asset purchases by central banks are severely distorting investment opportunities and trends in financial markets. The performance of active investment strategies decreased substantially since then. This project aims to provide an investment process that finds the optimal ...

On a scientific basis, an online expert system for the B2B business is being developed, which enables significant cost savings in the sales process and an increase in the quality of processing. Using the example of a highly fragmented niche market (promotional items), the new approach will be tested by taking into ...

Precision viticulture is precision farming applied to optimize vineyard performance, in particular maximizing grape yield and quality while minimizing environmental impacts and risk. This preliminary study seeks to determine the extent to which infra-red data from remote sensing can be used to determine decision ...

Flow cytometry (FC) devices count and measure cells in fluids in an automated procedure. We examine and develop computational methods for the identification of different phytoplankton species on the basis of FC measurements. https://pd.zhaw.ch/publikation/upload/206633.pdf

The app should pick up the mobile LSFM students in everyday life and offer an optimal added value. Concepts, which are already successfully used in apps by colleges and universities, should be integrated into the iStudent@ZHAW LSFM App. Although iPhone, iPad and Android are currently the most common mobile devices ...

Interdepartmental project: Evaluation of the combination of prosumer models with medium range wheather scenario forecasts.

This project funded by the Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI no. 12747) joins an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of St. Gallen, the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, and the University of Zurich (Institute of Biomedical Ethics & Department of Geography) together ...

The aim of the project is to develop a traffic jam forecasting system for the Swiss natioanl road network. The awarding authority for this project ist the federal office for roads (ASTRA). The project mandate covers the description of existing systems and methods for congestion forecasts, an analysis of the needs ...

Infrared (IR) spectra of wine from two datasets have been analyzed. Categories were created automatically via machine learning methods. These categories group the wine by specific type as well as color. The classification methods successfully achieved less than 5% error. Specific parameters were also quantified ...

The project was accompanied by a bachelor thesis dealing with the user-friendliness of the app. A web app serves as a preliminary study for the creation of the native app. The web app is already usable on any smartphone. Grasses can be indentified based on user-entered characteristics. In the project the digital ...

The Culture Collection of Switzerland (CCOS) is the national public culture collection for microorganisms in Switzerland. CCOS characterizes and provides biological material in high quality for research and industry applications. Based on the knowledge, CCOS provides customers with high quality services like backup ...

For a plant engineering and construction company a simulation tool for the planning and configuration of a partially automated production process is created. The goal is to fully automate the semi-automated process. Using simulation, bottlenecks can be detected, visualized and eliminated by experimenting with ...

Simulation of a highly dynamic transport and storage system. Development and testing of the control strategies and verification of the requirement profile for the transport units in the simulator. Dynamic verification and optimization of an automatic overhead conveyor system and its integration into the production ...