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Hamburg InformaticsTechnology-Center (HITeC)

Contact: Lothar Hotz

hotz@informatik.uni-hamburg.de

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HITeC Overview

� Goals

� Types of activities

� Projects and project departments

� Cooperation ideas

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Hamburg InformaticsTechnology-Center (HITeC)

Board Prof. Dr. Bernd NeumannProf. Dr. Winfried LamersdorfProf. Dr. Bernd PageProf. Dr. Heinz Züllighoven

Managing Director Dr. Andreas Günter

Legal form Registered non-profit association

Members Scientists of the Department of Informatics, companies as sponsoring members

Initiative of the Department of Informatics at Hambur g University

Research institution for cooperations between theDepartment of Informatics at

Hamburg University and companies and other universities

Research institution for cooperations between theDepartment of Informatics at

Hamburg University and companies and other universities

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R&D Projects

Types of projects:

� Cooperations

� Consultations and expert studies

� Subcontractual research

� Administrative project support

� General support (fairs, courses, seminars)

Important:

HITeC projects must be research-related

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Business Outline

� Registered non-profit association

� No basic funding, only project grants

� Independent research institute at the University of Hamburg

� Project volume Ø 1.5 Mio Euro p.a.

� Project dependent employment and some permanent employees

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Project Departments

� Distributed Systems Prof. Winfried Lamersdorf

� Software TechnologyProf. Heinz Züllighoven

� Intelligent SystemsProf. Bernd Neumann

� Learning with New MediaProf. Horst Oberquelle

� Logistics SimulationProf. Bernd Page

� VisualizationProf. Steffi Beckhaus

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Examples of EU-Projects

� Semantic-enabled software engineering:

– ReDSeedS (FP6): Requirements-driven Software Development System

– ConIPF (FP5): Configuration in Industrial Product Families

� High-level computer vision:

– Co-Friend (FP7): Cognitive Vision System able to adapt itself to unexpected situations

– eTRIMS (FP6): E-Training for Interpreting Images of Man-Made Scenes

� IT-Security:

– R4eGov (FP6): Towards eAdministration in the large

– Bionets (FP6): BIOlogically inspired NETwork and Services

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ReDSeeDS: Requirements-driven Software Development System

� Industry:

– Infovide S.A. (Poland) (Project Leader)

– Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (Germany)

– Algorithmus Sistemos, UAB (Lithuania)

– C/S Enformasyon Teknolojileri Limited Sirketi (Turkey)

– PRO DV Software AG (Germany)

� Research Institutes:

– Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)

– HITeC e.V. (Germany)

– University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany)

– University of Latvia (Latvia)

– Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

– Heriot-Watt University (UK)

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Scene Interpretation

Learning and RecognisingStructures in Facades (eTRIMS)

Modelling and Recognizing Airport Service Activities (Co-Friend)

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Spin-offs

� encoway GmbH, Knowledge-based configuration� epublica GmbH, Database web applications� Gentleware AG, UML modeling tool� IFU GmbH, Environmental informatics� ITQS GmbH, IT-Security� c1 wps GmbH, Object-oriented software� MediaAnalyzer GmbH, Marketing/Usability� NewH GbR, Web hosting� Racer Systems GmbH, Knowledge management� Wimmel + von Bargen GmbH, Knowledge management

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Typical Consortium (Sub-)Structure

� Applier: Need for new solutions

� Researcher (HITeC): Conceptualization and realization of prototypical solutions

� Software house, vendor: Product development also after the project

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Currently Interesting Topics

� Semantic-enabled systems

– Exp: Incorporating semantics in requirements engineering

� High-level video and image processing

– Exp: Development of an annotation tool for high-level descriptions of videos and images

� Knowledge-based configuration technologies for software and mechanical engineering

– Exp: Composing complex systems starting from requirements

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Summary

� Technology-tranfer interface to the Department of Informatics at Hamburg University

� Competence and experience in advancedtechnologies

� Various forms for cooperation:

– cooperative projects

– consultation, expert studies

– workshops, seminars, contact fairs

– sponsor membership

– thesis work

Contact: Lothar Hotz, hotz@informatik.uni-hamburg.d e