Projects
List of Projects
Business Informatics Group, TU Wien
ebTransfer - Design and Realization of Know-How Transfer for electronic Billing based on ebInterface
Name: ebTransfer; Title: ebTransfer - Design and Realization of Know-How Transfer for electronic Billing based on ebInterface; Begins On: 2007-01-01; Ends On: 2007-11-30; Context: BM für Wirtschaft und Arbeit;
Astract: The definition of the Austrian e-Billing Standard ebInterface was successfully conducted by well-known ERP system vendors under the lead ot the TU Vienna. The project ebInvoice resulted in the implementation of the ebInterface standard in their ERP systems. A success of the ebInterface standard requires a wide-spread adoption by potential users of the ERP systems. In order to stimulate the adoption the ebTransfer project will design and realize an know-how transfer on ebInterface to consultants and multipliers.
Keywords: Document Standards, e-Billing, Electronic Invoicing, Electronic Data Interchange
Fundings:
| Type: | Contract/collaboration |
| Source: | BM für Wirtschaft und Arbeit |
Astract: The definition of the Austrian e-Billing Standard ebInterface was successfully conducted by well-known ERP system vendors under the lead ot the TU Vienna. The project ebInvoice resulted in the implementation of the ebInterface standard in their ERP systems. A success of the ebInterface standard requires a wide-spread adoption by potential users of the ERP systems. In order to stimulate the adoption the ebTransfer project will design and realize an know-how transfer on ebInterface to consultants and multipliers.
Name: MDWEnet; Title: Model-Driven Web Engineering net; Begins On: 2006-12-01; Ends On: 2010-12-31; Context: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz;
Astract: MDWEnet is an initiative started with the aims of improving the interoperability between existing Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) approaches and their tools for the development of Web systems, to widen their scope, and to provide better methods and solutions to the industry. The main research focus is on meta-modelling and on model transformations. MDWEnet is based on the strengths of current model-driven Web Engineering methods, and the existing experience and knowledge in this field. The main objective of the MDWEnet network is to improve current practices and tools for the Model-driven Development of Web applications.
Keywords: Web Modeling Languages, Model-Driven Software Development Tools, Integration of Modeling Languages
Partners:
| Partner: | Johannes Kepler Universität Linz |
| Linz | |
| Austria | |
| Partner: | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Münc |
| München | |
| Germany | |
| Partner: | Politecnico di Milano |
| ORT | |
| Italy | |
| Partner: | Universidad de Alicante |
| ORT | |
| Spain | |
| Partner: | Universidad de Málaga |
| ORT | |
| Spain |
Astract: MDWEnet is an initiative started with the aims of improving the interoperability between existing Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) approaches and their tools for the development of Web systems, to widen their scope, and to provide better methods and solutions to the industry. The main research focus is on meta-modelling and on model transformations. MDWEnet is based on the strengths of current model-driven Web Engineering methods, and the existing experience and knowledge in this field. The main objective of the MDWEnet network is to improve current practices and tools for the Model-driven Development of Web applications.
Name: TRACK™ Title: TRACK and TRADE: Creating a Data Mart for Floating Car Data; Begins On: 2006-10-01; Ends On: 2008-09-30; Context: European Commission;
Astract: With the number of vehicles, both private and commercial, in urban areas steadily increasing, accurate traffic information becomes an increasingly important commodity A change in transport policy, e.g., increased use of public transport and efficient inter-modal transport, will only have a medium to long-term effect on improving the traffic situations in inner-city areas. To create high-quality content for traffic management applications and mobility services, reliable and inexpensive real-time traffic is essential. The TRACK&TRADE project relies on floating car data (FCD) to solve a number of well-known problems generating traffic content. While conventional traffic data collection systems have a high infrastructure maintenance and communication expense, exploits the FCD approach synergies with existing GPS-based fleet disposition systems. The scope of the project is to develop an FCD data mart that allows for the collection and integration of FCD data from as many data suppliers as possible. In turn, the data mart will supply aggregated datasets as well as valued-added services. Services include the provision of maps visually illustrating travel times and the provision of current and predicted travel times for parts of the road network. These services will be provided using XML and Web services and should simplify the creation of more complex services such routing and navigation as well as traffic forecasts. Trading FCD data and the provision of related services would serve two main purposes. (i) It creates an additional income stream for the data producers from an otherwise worthless resource and (ii) given that such data becomes generally available, it allows for the provision of improved traffic information services through a series of more or less technological means. With an increasing number of commercial vehicles (e.g., taxi fleets) being equipped with GPS, a successful business case for the FCD technology can be demonstrated.
Keywords: urban road traffic data, floating car data, data exchange protocols, mobility services, business models
Partners:
| Partner: | Benizelos D. Kai Sia Oe |
| Athen | |
| Austria | |
| Partner: | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt E.V. |
| Berlin | |
| Germany | |
| Partner: | Ereynitiko Akadimaiko Instituouto Technologias Ypologiston |
| Rion | |
| Greece | |
| Partner: | Greenway Systeme GmbH |
| Frankfurt (Oder) | |
| Germany | |
| Partner: | Meletes Anaptykshs Kai Systhmata Plhpoforion Anonymous Etaipeia |
| Athen | |
| Greece | |
| Partner: | Talent Anonimos Etaireia Pliroforikis |
| Athen | |
| Greece | |
| Partner: | WIGEO-GIS Softwareerstellungs- und HandelsGmbH |
| Wien | |
| Austria |
Fundings:
| Type: | Grant funds |
| Source: | European Commission |
| Region: | EU |
| Body: | European Commission |
| Programs: | 6.FP: SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs, 6.Rahmenprogramm für Forschung, European Commission - Framework Programme |
| Call: | COOP-CT-2006 |
| Proposal: | 032823 |
Astract: With the number of vehicles, both private and commercial, in urban areas steadily increasing, accurate traffic information becomes an increasingly important commodity A change in transport policy, e.g., increased use of public transport and efficient inter-modal transport, will only have a medium to long-term effect on improving the traffic situations in inner-city areas. To create high-quality content for traffic management applications and mobility services, reliable and inexpensive real-time traffic is essential. The TRACK&TRADE project relies on floating car data (FCD) to solve a number of well-known problems generating traffic content. While conventional traffic data collection systems have a high infrastructure maintenance and communication expense, exploits the FCD approach synergies with existing GPS-based fleet disposition systems. The scope of the project is to develop an FCD data mart that allows for the collection and integration of FCD data from as many data suppliers as possible. In turn, the data mart will supply aggregated datasets as well as valued-added services. Services include the provision of maps visually illustrating travel times and the provision of current and predicted travel times for parts of the road network. These services will be provided using XML and Web services and should simplify the creation of more complex services such routing and navigation as well as traffic forecasts. Trading FCD data and the provision of related services would serve two main purposes. (i) It creates an additional income stream for the data producers from an otherwise worthless resource and (ii) given that such data becomes generally available, it allows for the provision of improved traffic information services through a series of more or less technological means. With an increasing number of commercial vehicles (e.g., taxi fleets) being equipped with GPS, a successful business case for the FCD technology can be demonstrated.
ModelCVS: A Semantic Infrastructure for Model-based Tool Integration
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Name: ModelCVS; Title: ModelCVS: A Semantic Infrastructure for Model-based Tool Integration; Begins On: 2006-01-01; Ends On: 2007-12-31; Context: ARIKAN Productivity Group GesmbH;
Astract: With the rise of model-driven software development, more and more development tasks are being performed on models. A rich variety of modeling tools is available supporting different tasks, such as model creation, model simulation, model checking, and code generation. Seamless exchange of models among different modeling tools increasingly becomes a crucial prerequisite for effective software development processes. Due to lack of interoperability, however, it is often difficult to use tools in combination, thus the potential of model-driven software development cannot be fully utilized, unless we find some scalable way of integration. We are aiming at providing a semantic infrastructure for model-based tool integration, enabling to facilitate any tool appropriate for the modeling task at hand. The key innovations provided are a set of scalable architectural model integration patterns supported by a high-level metamodel integration language, thus going beyond existing low-level model transformation approaches. Ontology-based metamodel integration considerably lowers the manual effort required for tool integration, enabling a novel synergic use of technologies from the model engineering and ontology engineering domains. An open knowledge base for tool integration captures essential knowledge about modeling languages and tools in terms of ontologies, fostering reuse within and beyond the scope of this project. These innovations will be realized within the ModelCVS prototype and case study. The core of the system will be based on a versioning system such as CVS, thus providing a loosely-coupled and well-proofed integration architecture. Transparent transformation of models between different tools, languages and exchange formats, as well as versioning capabilities exploiting the rich syntax and semantics of models represent the key functionalities of ModelCVS. In this way, ModelCVS will serve as both, a research vehicle and testbed for exploring applications of semantic technologies in model-based tool integration and a prototype for a succeeding industrial product.
Keywords: Model transformation, Model integration, ontologies, Modeling language
Fundings:
| Type: | Contract/collaboration |
| Source: | ARIKAN Productivity Group GesmbH |
| Type: | Grant funds |
| Source: | FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH |
| Region: | National |
| Body: | Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) |
Astract: With the rise of model-driven software development, more and more development tasks are being performed on models. A rich variety of modeling tools is available supporting different tasks, such as model creation, model simulation, model checking, and code generation. Seamless exchange of models among different modeling tools increasingly becomes a crucial prerequisite for effective software development processes. Due to lack of interoperability, however, it is often difficult to use tools in combination, thus the potential of model-driven software development cannot be fully utilized, unless we find some scalable way of integration. We are aiming at providing a semantic infrastructure for model-based tool integration, enabling to facilitate any tool appropriate for the modeling task at hand. The key innovations provided are a set of scalable architectural model integration patterns supported by a high-level metamodel integration language, thus going beyond existing low-level model transformation approaches. Ontology-based metamodel integration considerably lowers the manual effort required for tool integration, enabling a novel synergic use of technologies from the model engineering and ontology engineering domains. An open knowledge base for tool integration captures essential knowledge about modeling languages and tools in terms of ontologies, fostering reuse within and beyond the scope of this project. These innovations will be realized within the ModelCVS prototype and case study. The core of the system will be based on a versioning system such as CVS, thus providing a loosely-coupled and well-proofed integration architecture. Transparent transformation of models between different tools, languages and exchange formats, as well as versioning capabilities exploiting the rich syntax and semantics of models represent the key functionalities of ModelCVS. In this way, ModelCVS will serve as both, a research vehicle and testbed for exploring applications of semantic technologies in model-based tool integration and a prototype for a succeeding industrial product.
Name: ZELESSA; Title: ZELESSA: An Enabler for Real-time Business Intelligence; Begins On: 2006-01-01; Ends On: 2007-06-30; Context: Österr. Nationalbibliothek;
Astract: The dynamic business environment of many organizations require to monitor their business, IT and organizational processes in real-time in order to proactively respond to exceptions and to take advantage of time-sensitive business opportunities. The ability to sense and interpret events about a changing business environment or customer needs require an event-driven IT infrastructure for making fast and well-informed decisions and putting them into action. The proposed project aims to build an infrastructure that can efficiently and seamlessly meet the demanding requirements of business event stream-based analytical applications. We introduce Sense & Respond loops that support a complete Business Intelligence process to sense, interpret, predict, automate and respond to business processes and aim to decrease the time it takes to make the business decisions. Our approach enables real-time analytics across corporate business processes, notifies the business of actionable recommendations or automatically triggers business operations, effectively closing the gap between Business Intelligence systems and business processes. We propose a ZELESSA system for executing and managing Sense & Respond loops and illustrate our approach with a transportation service monitoring scenario.
Keywords: Zero-Latency Data Warehouse, OLAP, Sense & Response Loops, Service Oriented Architecture
Fundings:
| Type: | Grant funds |
| Source: | Vereine, Stiftungen, Preise |
| Group: | Vereine, Stiftungen, Preise |
| Programs: | Österr. Nationalbibliothek |
Astract: The dynamic business environment of many organizations require to monitor their business, IT and organizational processes in real-time in order to proactively respond to exceptions and to take advantage of time-sensitive business opportunities. The ability to sense and interpret events about a changing business environment or customer needs require an event-driven IT infrastructure for making fast and well-informed decisions and putting them into action. The proposed project aims to build an infrastructure that can efficiently and seamlessly meet the demanding requirements of business event stream-based analytical applications. We introduce Sense & Respond loops that support a complete Business Intelligence process to sense, interpret, predict, automate and respond to business processes and aim to decrease the time it takes to make the business decisions. Our approach enables real-time analytics across corporate business processes, notifies the business of actionable recommendations or automatically triggers business operations, effectively closing the gap between Business Intelligence systems and business processes. We propose a ZELESSA system for executing and managing Sense & Respond loops and illustrate our approach with a transportation service monitoring scenario.
Name: Admina.at; Title: Admina.at goes Austria; Begins On: 2005-12-01; Ends On: 2007-09-30; Context: Federal Ministry of Science and Research (bm:wf);
Astract: dmina is the short female form of system administrator. The Admina.at project offered by the Women's Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies provides a number of hands-on practical experience system administation workshops, created and held by women exclusively for women. Admina.at follows the example of the highly successful admina project created 1995 at the University of Hamburg. Admina.at workshops offer currect, immediately useful computer science knowledge outside of the regulations and exam pressure of the ordinary university course program. The focus on practical application on the one hand rapidly gives the participants a sense of achievement and allows them to identify their personal strengths, while on the other hand it also emphasizes the relevance of theoretical knowledge. Admina.at workshops are organized in small groups, allowing strong individual support for every participant. The workshops are offered on two different levels, for teenagers and university students. Their main focus lies on improving the communication between female students of the same peer group, thus encouraging networking activities, which are crucial for success in the academic and the professional world. Admina.at introduces the workshop participants to the large variety of topics in the world of computer science and hopes to stimulate their interest. Students at the workshops have fun and make new friends, while at the same time learning useful skills, all in line with the project's goals to increase the number of female beginners as well as graduates at the Faculty of Informatics as well as improving the students' academic success and career entry opportunities. Currently, Admina.at offers the following courses: * PC Hardware. How to take a computer apart and put it back together again. Includes the characteristics of the components, installation and basic configuration of an operating system, command line interaction, and tipps and advice for buying hardware and trouble shooting.
Keywords: Bioinformatics, High School Girls
Fundings:
| Type: | Grant funds |
| Source: | BM für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (bm:wfw) |
| Region: | National |
| Body: | Federal Ministry of Science and Research (bm:wf) |
Astract: dmina is the short female form of system administrator. The Admina.at project offered by the Women's Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies provides a number of hands-on practical experience system administation workshops, created and held by women exclusively for women. Admina.at follows the example of the highly successful admina project created 1995 at the University of Hamburg. Admina.at workshops offer currect, immediately useful computer science knowledge outside of the regulations and exam pressure of the ordinary university course program. The focus on practical application on the one hand rapidly gives the participants a sense of achievement and allows them to identify their personal strengths, while on the other hand it also emphasizes the relevance of theoretical knowledge. Admina.at workshops are organized in small groups, allowing strong individual support for every participant. The workshops are offered on two different levels, for teenagers and university students. Their main focus lies on improving the communication between female students of the same peer group, thus encouraging networking activities, which are crucial for success in the academic and the professional world. Admina.at introduces the workshop participants to the large variety of topics in the world of computer science and hopes to stimulate their interest. Students at the workshops have fun and make new friends, while at the same time learning useful skills, all in line with the project's goals to increase the number of female beginners as well as graduates at the Faculty of Informatics as well as improving the students' academic success and career entry opportunities. Currently, Admina.at offers the following courses: * PC Hardware. How to take a computer apart and put it back together again. Includes the characteristics of the components, installation and basic configuration of an operating system, command line interaction, and tipps and advice for buying hardware and trouble shooting.
Women's Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies
(Member) (Member) (Member) (Member) (Member) (Member) (Member) (Member) (Member) (Member) (Member) (Member) (Member) (Member) (Member)Name: WIT; Title: Women's Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies; Begins On: 2003-01-01; Ends On: 2007-12-31; Context: European Commission;
Astract: WIT stands for Women's Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies (WIT), and is the only programme of its kind in Austria. WIT is a five-year programme and gets financed by the Austrian government and the European Union. WIT offers 8 PhD positions for women in the area of internet technology and builds up a special support programme to encourage young girls and women to study computer science.
Keywords: InternetTechnologies, gender studies
Fundings:
| Type: | Grant funds |
| Source: | European Commission |
| Region: | EU |
| Body: | European Commission |
| Programs: | Other EU Research Initiative |
Astract: WIT stands for Women's Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies (WIT), and is the only programme of its kind in Austria. WIT is a five-year programme and gets financed by the Austrian government and the European Union. WIT offers 8 PhD positions for women in the area of internet technology and builds up a special support programme to encourage young girls and women to study computer science.