The SAIL research collaboration (“SustAInable Life-cycle of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems”) focused on the question of how artificial intelligence (AI) can be designed in a sustainable and responsible manner. Together with partners from East Westphalia-Lippe, researchers from our institute investigated how such systems can be deployed safely, robustly and in a resource-efficient manner, whilst at the same time supporting people’s scope for…
Our “Product Creation” workgroup, led by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Iris Gräßler, presented three papers at this year’s Industrial Simulation Conference (ISC) in San Sebastián! As part of the KLUG project, Marcel Niemeyer presented the necessary competence profiles and roles for the introduction of predictive maintenance in SMEs. Niklas Döhner presented the process model developed as part of the EU research project CREXDATA for integrating simulation data…
The DaFoX-OWL project aimed to raise awareness of industrial data rooms, such as Factory-X, in the East Westphalia-Lippe (OWL) region and to support businesses – particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – in getting started with data rooms. To this end, the project established a ‘capability chain’ comprising the steps of informing, training, designing, implementing and networking, in order to introduce companies to the topic in a…
19th German Sustainability Award: The Circular One Eco Headlamp is among the nominees in the “Products, Climate Transformation” category. We were nominated for a headlamp that combines safety-critical automotive technology with the requirements for CO₂ reduction, resource conservation, and circularity.
This nomination confirms our commitment to integrated approaches throughout the entire value chain—from the selection of suitable raw materials,…
The six sub-projects of the DFG Priority Programme 2443 ‘Hybrid Decision Support in Product Development’ have developed concrete approaches for their future cross-project collaboration at the Interface Challenge in Paderborn. The identified interfaces make it possible to utilise and link data, models and methods across projects. In doing so, they lay the foundations for bringing together the different research approaches of the individual…
On 14 October 2026, from 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm, the new online event ‘The Future in Dialogue – Engineering Practice Meets Philosophy of Technology’ will begin, moderated by Prof. Dr Suzana Alpsancar, Head of our workgroup ‘Philosophy and ethics of techno-scientific cultures’.
The opening session will address the question of how robotics and physical AI can support people in the care and healthcare sectors, and what ethical, social and technical…
Our researchers are one of a kind. Here, they introduce themselves and reveal their personal side, beyond their academic work.
Faiza Tahir:
“I am a doctoral candidate and have a keen interest in AI security and the development of trustworthy and secure AI systems. My academic career began in Computer Science, followed by a Master’s degree in information security, which provided me with a solid grounding in software systems, cyber security and…
From 31 August to 2 September 2026, Sarah Pinno, a research assistant in our “Behavioural Economic Engineering and Responsible Management” workgroup, will be attending the International Sustainability Transitions Conference (IST) 2026 in Zurich.
There, she will present the poster ‘Regional Sustainability Maturity Model (RSMM): A foresight-based approach to regional sustainability transition – insights from a case study’. The poster illustrates…
Lisa Petzke, a research assistant in our “Advanced Systems Engineering” workgroup, attended the Norddesign 2026 conference in Tampere, Finland, from 11–14 August. As a co-author, she presented the paper “Simulation-Based Decision Support Tool for the Economic Evaluation of Circular Business Models”, which was authored by Anja Rasor, Lisa Petzke, Rik Rasor, Christian Koldewey and Roman Dumitrescu.
The paper presents a simulation-based decision…
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Bill Happi to our "Data Science" workgroup.
Bill is a postdoctoral researcher in the DICE group and his current research focuses on knowledge graphs and their applications. In particular, he concentrates on entity alignment, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and the generation of text from SPARQL. At the heart of his research is the question of how the vast repositories of structured knowledge on the Semantic…
Tentris, a spin-off company resulting from research at DICE, has secured pre-seed funding of two million euros.
Tentris emerged from many years of fundamental research carried out by the DICE Research Group at Paderborn University. The scientific work focused on investigating the equivalence of algebras for query processing. This laid the technological foundation for the company’s further development. Today, Tentris is developing TentrisDB, a…
Our “Data Science” workgroup presented a range of papers at conferences in Brazil, Norway and the United Arab Emirates.
In June, our research associate Daniel Vollmers presented the paper “Noisy Optimisation in Fine-Tuning LMs for Neural Ranking” by Daniel Vollmers, Arnab Sharma and Axel Ngonga at the Natural Language & Information Systems (NLDB 2026) conference in Trondheim, Norway.
Another paper from the research group was presented at the…
From 22 to 25 June, the International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (ICE IEEE/ITMC) took place in Porto, Portugal.
Our research associate Julia Vehmeyer from the “Advanced System Engineering” workgroup presented her paper “Forging the Ring: Collaboration Challenges and Tensions in Networks in the Circular Economy” at the conference. The paper addresses the challenges that can arise when collaborating within circular value…
In the “GenAI4PC” research project, scientists at our institute have made generative AI understandable, tangible and scientifically analysable. The research focused on the interaction between humans and technology.
Experts from our workgroups ‘Advanced Systems Engineering’, ‘Behavioural Economic Engineering and Responsible Management’ and ‘Control Engineering and Mechatronics’ have developed two fully functional AI demonstrators for this…
The SeRIUS project is off and running! The kick-off event for the development of solutions for‘Secure, Resilientand Intelligent UnmannedAircraft Systems’took place back in February. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Iris Gräßler, Head of our “Product Creation” workgroup, expertise from Paderborn University – particularly from the Heinz Nixdorf Institute – and Fraunhofer IEM is being pooled. In this way, we are making a significant…
