SemIPort Project Partners

Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB), University of Karlsruhe

The Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods is part of faculty of Business Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe. The Institute was founded in 1971 at the School of Economics and Business Engineering of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and has since then been responsible for the education in Informatics within the renowned program of Business Engineering at Karlsruhe as well as the program of Economics Engineering. Additionally, it offers courses for the students of Business Mathematics, Industrial Mathematics, and of the recently created program of Information Engineering and Management. Our research and development projects cover a wide range of Applied Informatics. All projects are strongly influenced by the needs of economics and business environments. Close cooperations with enterprises support the transfer of know-how from academia into practice.

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken

Founded in 1988, DFKI today is one of the largest nonprofit contract research institutes in the field of innovative software technology based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods. DFKI is focusing on the complete cycle of innovation -- from world-class basic research and technology development through leading-edge demonstrators and prototypes to product functions and commercialization. Based in Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence ranks among the important "Centers of Excellence" worldwide. An important element of DFKI's mission is to move innovations as quickly as possible from the lab into the marketplace. Only by maintaining research projects at the forefront of science can DFKI have the strength to meet its technology transfer goals.

Fraunhofer's Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI), Darmstadt

IPSI focuses its research and development work on software applications for cooperative work, publication and information, and lifelong learning in real and virtual environments. Our research areas comprise knowledge management and e-commerce, systems for individual or group learning, security in media and document management, digital libraries and information systems, database-supported publication tools, distributed publication environments for the common maintenance of extensive data, and services for mobile communication. These activities also cover the fields of planning and installing modern working environments, i.e., building elements and furniture equipped with high-quality information technology.

Research Group for Databases and Information Systems (DBIS), University of Trier

"DBIS" stands for "Data Bases and Information Systems". The group, chaired by Prof. Bernd Walter, is part of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Trier.