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, ...

The purpose of this project is to create a user-centric privacy policy (UCPP), applicable in a variety of settings (e.g., websites, hospitals, or banks), which is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Most importantly, the majority of users should be able to understand it and act accordingly. In this way, UCPP gives users ...

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 these systems often proves to be ...

Every user has a unique digital signature with respect to typing, moving the mouse or accessing a web page. For instance, by analyzing the time between specific keystrokes of many users, we can verify whether user A really is user A or whether she/he has assumed the identity of another user. The goal of this project is to develop an advanced ...

Compared with earlier regulations, the 4th European Money Laundering Directive (MLD4) imposes rigorously increased requirements. It compels obliged entities to conduct in depth screenings of customers and their associations. The Libra Project aims at providing a one tool solution for meeting MLD4 compliance. The project will in particular offer a ...

Speech recognition systems baed on Deep Neural Networks (DNN) currently brake all records and is being applied already in different products. These systems normally are trained with thousands of hours of training material for applications and languages where these amounts of data are available. In this feasibility study a new training approach for ...

_Management Abstract Playing and enjoying music is amongst the most rewarding recreational activities of humankind for individuals as well as in group settings. Visiting concerts or sending one’s kids to music lessons - thus being enabled to discuss and co-shape the musical part of our culture - are hence important aspects of cultural ...

False alarms are a major cost driver for owners of alarm systems. To remedy this problem, we develop a novel alarm verification service by leveraging the power of an alarm data warehouse. By analyzing live streams of alarms, comparing them with historic alarms and enriching them with information from open data, our system learns how to identify ...