Over the last few years, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has gained significant attention as a framework for learning optimal decisions even in complex environments. Moreover, RL is currently considered one of the most promising research areas in machine learning and has already demonstrated immense potential for ...

The Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), in collaboration with the Swiss Occupational Therapists Association, is developing a digital brochure on the use of occupational therapy at a distance for occupational therapists in the Swiss healthcare system. Spatial distance occupational therapy circumscribes all ...

This project aims to identify nowcasting indicators to predict SME insolvency Risk.

Die Herausforderung: Künstliche Intelligenz ist überall. Sei es Produktempfehlungen in Onlineshops, die Personalisierung von Nachrichtenstreams oder die alltägliche Google-Suche. Die enormen Fortschritte in den letzten Jahren werden aber von vielen – insbesondere fachfremden – Menschen auch zunehmend als ...

The Institute for Marketing Management (IMM) provided Sitewerk AG with technical and methodological support in the development of the "Configurator as a Service" (CaaS). The success of the CaaS will essentially depend on the acceptance and on the application possibilities by the companies and end users. The ...

Embracing a product-as-a-service model represents an important opportunity for Swiss battery manufacturer Libattion. The project aims to address jointly the challenges of this transition: estimating battery health, the ability to deliver advanced services, and aligning with circular economy principles.  ...

The project's main focus is the analysis of readiness to pay of customers (students, staff) of university catering facilities, specifically in relatiom to vegetarian/vegan menus (with low environmental impact) vs. meat-based menus (with high environmental impact). The underlying goal is the leverage this obtained ...

Some 60,000 people in Switzerland cannot use public transport at all or only to a limited extent for example due to a motor or visual impairment. To participate in daily life, they are dependent on paratransit services. Various insurance providers, such as health insurance funds and the Swiss public disability ...

In many countries, renewable energy investment is starting to become economically viable without support. This disrupts the business of electric utilities and may result in significant grid expansion needs in order to accommodate the increasing amount of renewable electricity. A promising solution to this problem is ...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease most frequently affecting the knee, hand and hip in older adults. It is a major cause of disability and leads to substantial social costs. The aim of our study is to investigate the epidemiology, treatment and costs of OA in Switzerland using different data ...

The design thinking projects are carried out as part of the elective modules "Design Thinking" in the Master in Business Administration with specialization in Marketing and "Customer Centric Innovation" in the Master in Business Administration with specialization in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The projects aim ...

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 ...

Writing technology is developing at a breath-taking pace. However, there is a lack of empirical studies that reveal what these technologies mean for writing methodology and pedagogy, and of theoretical work guiding the understanding of digital writing within the academic domain. This fellowship aims to address these ...

In the canton of Zurich, the municipalities and cities pay for teaching material on preschool, elementary-school and secondary-school level. Until now, there has been no financial analysis of these teaching material expenditures. The Institute for Public Management (IVM) of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ...

Digitalisation is not a new topic for insurers. First IT-system were already introduced in the 1970’s. Subsequent digitalisation waves included the attempt to go direct via pure digital distribution channels in the noughties. Their limited success as a result of the hybrid interaction patterns of insurance customers ...

The electronic support tool myScripting was developed for the didactic design of digital learning environments, especially blended and online learning (e.g. MOOC production). The tool suggests context-dependent activities for a teaching context, which can be assigned to topics and learning phases. In addition, the ...

To investigate opportunities and feasibility of Pay Per Use business models for industrial goods, the project team conducted benchmark interviews with leading Swiss and German B-2-B companies on the current state of Pay Per Use business models to identify challenges, hurdles, drivers, trends and best practices. ...

The goal of the Paris Agreement to keep global warming well below 2°C can only be reached if countries commit to and adopt ambitious climate change mitigation action. However, we often witness a gap between international commitments and the policies and instruments aimed at implementing them domestically. This ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a disease affecting the structure and function of the kidney. CKD is associated with a substantially higher risk of death, mainly due to cardiovascular disease, and substantially lower health-related quality of life. Renal anemia is a frequent complication of CKD. The objective of ...

This project aims at developing a new, innovative platform service to review and rank sell-side analysts and their research reports. The planned platform product aims at uncovering and monitoring independency problems, update frequencies, thoroughness and preciseness in the research provided by sell-side analysts.  ...