Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems

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Fraunhofer Institute for
Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS
Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS
Fraunhofer Institute Center "Schloss Birlinghoven"
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Fraunhofer Society
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Facility location: Saint Augustine
Type of research: Applied research
Subjects: Engineering , computer science
Areas of expertise: Computer science , mathematics , natural sciences , business administration , geo- and social sciences
Basic funding: Federal government (90%), states (10%)
Management: Stefan Wrobel
Employee: about 250
Homepage: www.iais.fraunhofer.de

The Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS is part of the Fraunhofer Society . The institute is based in Sankt Augustin at the Fraunhofer Institute Center Schloss Birlinghoven and conducts applied research in the field of information and communication technology. Fraunhofer IAIS develops IT solutions for companies and organizations to optimize products, services and processes as well as to implement intelligent information management.

history

The origin goes back essentially to the former institute Autonome Intelligente Systeme AIS of the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing GmbH (GMD) , which the former institute director Thomas Christaller founded in 1998. After the merger of the GMD with the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in July 2001, all GMD institutes at the Schloss Birlinghoven site became part of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. In July 2006 the institutes AIS and IMK (Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication) merged to form the new institute IAIS.

Research and Development

With their research activities, the scientists at Fraunhofer IAIS create the basis for the development of intelligent systems for data analysis and information retrieval. In various contract research projects, the institute's computer scientists, data scientists and IT consultants jointly develop solutions that help organizations from business, industry and the public sector through the holistic analysis and linking of large data sets (Big Data) in information management and decision-making. Among other things, data mining and pattern recognition techniques are used. Solutions for the automatic development of media content and adaptive learning environments open up new perspectives for networked media offers and innovative forms of knowledge transfer. Operational excellence solutions and flexible process models are used to optimize corporate and security processes, which enable comprehensive analyzes and increase the business success of companies and organizations.

The institute's research focuses on the development, analysis and targeted use of large amounts of data (big data). Selected research fields are:

  • Data Science : Research into high-performance machine learning processes and semantic technologies that can be used in scalable big data architectures for the analysis and development of large, heterogeneous databases.
  • Machine learning and data mining : Machine learning and data mining are sub-areas of computer science that deal with algorithms for analyzing patterns and dependencies in data.
  • Artificial intelligence : replicating human cognitive performance on computers.
  • Semantic Technologies & Linked Data : Automatic flexible linking of data through content analysis.
  • Multimedia Pattern Recognition : deals with algorithms and processes for the automatic segmentation and recognition of patterns and objects in voice and image data.
  • Visual Analytics : Algorithmic knowledge discovery from databases and (their) exploratory visualizations in order to generate models for decision support and prediction.
  • System modeling and analysis : Development of methods for the analysis, simulation and optimization of processes and systems.

Individual, market-oriented application solutions for companies and organizations from various industries are implemented in nine business areas:

  • Big data analytics : Conception of holistic big data strategies for companies, individual development of solutions and architectures for big data analytics, training of data scientists
  • Image processing : Development of algorithms and software for the automatic extraction of information from images.
  • Content Technologies and Services : Technologies and services for the automatic detection, analysis, enrichment of metadata and linking of media data for all media types.
  • Enterprise Information Integration : Studies, concepts and systems for the networking and integration of heterogeneous databases from different sources in different formats, individual information systems with specialized search.
  • Industrial Analytics: Support in the development of new business models, the analysis of data and the establishment of the necessary big data infrastructures in the context of Industry 4.0.
  • Intelligent media and learning systems : Development of adaptive, user-oriented learning environments, advice on the introduction of corporate learning, production of multimedia learning content, MINT young talent promotion with the “Roberta - Learning with Robots” initiative.
  • Marketing, market research & media analysis : Technologies for marketing, market research and media planning in order to use customer and market information in the best possible way while observing data protection and to advertise it efficiently.
  • Preventive security : Research, consulting, software and implementation of complete technical and organizational solutions for preventive security.
  • Company modeling and analysis : Models and systems for the observation, control and optimization of process landscapes with all their technical, organizational and economic components.

Infrastructure

Around 250 employees (scientists, doctoral students, assistants) in the fields of computer science , mathematics , natural science and engineering work at the institute .

In 2017, the institute's operating budget was 18.57 million euros. As an institute of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Fraunhofer IAIS generates a large part of its income with research and development contracts from the economy as well as with publicly funded research projects at state, federal and EU level. The annual research volume is supplemented by around 30 percent basic funding from the federal and state governments.

Fraunhofer IAIS is headed by Stefan Wrobel, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bonn (Chair of Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems), and Marta Kreuzová (Head of Administration). The deputy director of the institute is Dirk Hecker, Managing Director of the Fraunhofer Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Alliance .

Cooperations

The institute has joint research groups and collaborations at the University of Bonn , the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT) and the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences .

Since 2014, the office of the Fraunhofer Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Alliance, which was founded in that year, has been located at Fraunhofer IAIS, in which more than 30 Fraunhofer institutes (as of 2018) work together on the topics of artificial intelligence and big data. The institute also offers a training program for data scientists .

In addition, the institute is a member of the following Fraunhofer groups and alliances:

  • Fraunhofer Group for Information and Communication Technology (IuK)
  • Fraunhofer Adaptronics Alliance
  • Fraunhofer Transport Alliance
  • Fraunhofer Vision Alliance (image processing)
  • Research Alliance for Cultural Heritage
  • International Data Space Association
  • Head of the Machine Learning Research Center in the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Internet Technologies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/de/institut/ueber-uns/stefan-wrobel.html
  2. ↑ Training of data scientists . Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Roberta - Learning with Robots"
  4. ↑ Member institutes of the Fraunhofer IUK Technology Group. Retrieved January 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Fraunhofer Adaptronics Alliance
  6. ↑ Fraunhofer Transport Alliance
  7. ^ Research Alliance for Cultural Heritage


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