Institute for Information Systems (Hof University)
| Institute for Information Systems at Hof University - iisys | |
|---|---|
 Building of the iisys in courtyard |
|
| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | College yard |
| Seat of the wearer: | Hof (Saale) |
| Facility location: | Alfons-Goppel-Platz 1, 95028 Hof (Saale) |
| Type of research: | Applied research |
| Subjects: | Computer science |
| Areas of expertise: | Analytical information systems , empirical research and user experience (ERUX) , multimedia information systems , law in sustainability, compliance and IT , system integration , visual analytics , cyberphysical systems |
| Basic funding: | Free State of Bavaria , third-party funding through projects |
| Management: | Valentin Plenk, René Peinl (Deputy), Anne-Christine Habbel (Managing Director) |
| Employee: | 50 |
| Homepage: | www.iisys.de/ |
The Institute for Information Systems (iisys) is the central research facility for computer science at Hof University. The building is financed by the Free State of Bavaria, the staff is financed through third-party projects. The institute's research currently focuses on integrated information systems to support operational business processes.
With the help of technology projects carried out with international partners, the institute is expanding its competence in the field of information systems and can ensure connection to international research and development. Building on this competence, the institute carries out application projects in cooperation with software and system houses as well as IT departments of larger companies.
goals and tasks
The aim of these projects are new services and products that directly improve the management and use of data in medium-sized companies. The software and system houses form a multiplier so that a large number of companies can use the institute's expertise. The industry focus is currently mobility, health and Industry 4.0
The institute is currently working in the following research groups:
- Analytical information systems
Analysis and further development of procedures for the automatic evaluation of textual information (text mining). A special focus is the extraction of opinions (opinion mining).
- Cyberphysical Systems
Research topics related to networked production systems
- Empirical Research and User Experience (ERUX)
Implementation of user-related market research projects. One focus is on the analysis and evaluation of digital systems with regard to their usage and interaction options from a user perspective.
- Multimedia information systems
Support of structured and unstructured data in information systems, as well as searching and linking such data. A special focus is the administration of relational, textual and geographic data.
- Law in sustainability, compliance and IT
Information technology law, legal issues of digitization, privacy by design (data protection through IT conception) and legal fact research through IT methods.
- System integration
Networking of information systems on a technical level with the help of service-oriented architectures as well as relating the content with semantic technologies.
- Visual analytics
Research topics relating to intelligent user interfaces, especially the interaction between man and machine for the visual analysis of large and complex amounts of data.
The institute is a competence center for business applications of information systems. The iisys therefore sees its main task in checking the results of international research for applicability, adapting them if necessary and making them available to the economy and society. It thus forms the bridge between international research and development in this area and actual application in companies.
The following projects in particular are of supraregional importance:
- Digital mobility: Providing more rural, peripheral regions with appropriate mobility offers will be one of the major challenges for transport policy in the future. In addition, the age structure will change a lot in many areas of Germany over the next few years. There will be more elderly people. Attractive yet economically viable mobile offers in regions that are particularly hard hit by demographic change are therefore essential. They are a prerequisite for the accessibility of jobs and apprenticeships, access to adequate care and medical care, to shopping and leisure activities as well as maintaining social contacts. In particular, the project aims to make mobility in rural areas more economical, more attractive and more environmentally friendly and to strengthen Germany as a digital location through new solutions for data usage. In the project, the use of digital data resources for an innovative, comprehensive mobility model is conceptually developed, experimentally tested and evaluated using the example of the Upper Franconia region.
- Migraine Radar : The Headache Radar comprises the two projects Migraine Radar (Mira) and Cluster Headache Radar (Clura). The main idea is that those with cluster headaches or migraines often have an idea of what might be causing their seizures. Verifying these assumptions is often difficult, however, as there are many different trigger patterns and - especially with cluster headache - studies on seizure triggers are lacking due to the rarity of the disease. This is where the project comes in: For a year, seizure data is collected from a large number of those affected and examined for the previously expressed relationships.
The iisys also houses projects that serve the direct economic development:
- Digital Regions (8/2019 - 1/2023): The project aims to contribute to a better, Europe-wide exchange of experience and information on strategies and methodologies in the field of digitization. The potential of existing European, national and regional funding opportunities should be better used, best practice examples from different countries should be made known.
- Your way to the cloud (completed): As part of this project funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), the iisys offers support for software manufacturers who also want to offer their own software as a cloud service and who want to use the cloud services for SMEs.
- eBusiness-Lotsen Oberfranken (completed): As part of the funding initiative "eKompetenz-Netzwerk für Firmen" (eKompetenz-Netzwerk für Unternehmen), the iisys, together with the IGZ Bamberg and the eBusiness Lotsen Oberfranken, provides vendor-neutral and practical information for the eBusiness of companies, especially SMEs and trades . In particular, the topics of online marketing, the cloud and information systems for resource-efficient processes are in focus.
The iisys is currently working on two projects from the topic of Industry 4.0 at regional level:
- Economy 4.0 in SMEs : The Digital Transformation (“WiMiT”) The WiMiT project is a project funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to strengthen research, technological development and innovation. With the focus on Industry 4.0, WiMiT aims at technology transfer between universities and SMEs. It is intended to support medium-sized companies in the field of digitization.
- Digital transformation of medium- sized businesses with artificial intelligence (DAMMIT, 4/2020 - 9/2022): In the ongoing project (as of May 2020) "Economy 4.0 in medium-sized businesses" (WiMit), iisys has already helped numerous companies to take the first steps in To undertake towards Industry 4.0, or to introduce the first advanced Industry 4.0 solutions selectively. In the recently approved follow-up project DAMMIT, the focus is on advanced data analyzes and evaluations, which are made possible in a new quality using machine learning methods. These include in particular image and language processing with deep neural networks that can be used in many ways in an industrial context, e.g. B. in the optical detection of quality defects or voice input for tasks that require free hands. WiMit will take over the tried and tested trio of universities, application partners (industrial companies) and development partners (IT companies) who work together on these solutions. The short lead times for projects of 6–12 months and the advantage that the partner companies do not incur any additional costs beyond their own personnel deployment also remain the same.
Web links
- Homepage of the Institute for Information Systems at Hof University
- Homepage of the Hof University of Applied Sciences
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.bmvi.de/SharedDocs/DE/Artikel/DG/mfund-projekte/mobilitaet-digital-hochfranken-mobidig.html
- ↑ https://www.migraene-radar.de/
- ↑ https://cluster.kopfschmerz-radar.de/
- ↑ https://www.iisys.de/wirtschaft/interreg-de.html
- ↑ https://www.iisys.de/forschung/forschungsgruppen/cyber-physical-systems/projekte-cps.html
- ↑ https://www.iisys.de/forschung/forschungsgruppen/systemintegration/projekte-si.html
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 29.9 ″ N , 11 ° 56 ′ 24.8 ″ E