Using simulation in firefighting operations? Until now, this was hardly conceivable due to the computing time required. At CREXDATA, we want to change that: We are now cooperating with FloodWaive, a German start-up from Aachen. The aim is to make data-based forecasts available for critical decisions – faster and more efficiently than ever before with simulations, especially in dynamic risk scenarios such as flood situations.
With FloodWaive, we…
It's almost a month away - the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum's big summer festival is just around the corner. On 6 July, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum invites you to a day full of innovation, technology and interactive experiences. Along the lawns behind the buildings, Fürstenallee and Zukunftsmeile will present exciting experiments, interactive workshops and fascinating insights into their fields of research. Our nine workgroups will bring science…
Data as a driver for sustainability in product engineering
Under the motto ‘Data-driven Industry - Shaping a New Era’, industry and science presented pioneering solutions for digital and sustainable industrial value creation at the Hannover Messe. At the joint stand of the Plattform Industrie 4.0, leading projects presented their solutions for so-called data ecosystems - systems in which companies can share data and use this data to offer…
Extreme weather, extreme data – challenges in fire brigade operations that we are tackling together. At the 75th annual conference of the German Fire Protection Association (GFPA, German “vfdb”), Dr.-Ing. Jens Pottebaum presented solutions from the EU project CREXDATA. For example, he demonstrated the use of AI surrogate models for on-site flood forecasting, which are being integrated in collaboration with FloodWaive. The data for this comes from…
SAIL doctoral candidates from our Data Science workgroup attended the SAIL Spring School 2025 at Bielefeld University from 26 to 28 March. Various tutorials were held under the topic "Innovating AI Evaluation - Beyond Accuracy and Precision". The event offered visitors the perfect opportunity to learn, discuss and network together.
The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering has launched the BeSsAr initiative together with the "Product Creation" workgroup - a project to improve the supervision of student theses. The result: a new, practical guide with illustrative examples and many best practices from all chairs of mechanical engineering. This is now being expanded to include a guide directly for students.
Academic staff in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering play a central…
As part of the LEMUR project, Prof. Axel Ngonga, head of our Data Science workgroup, gave a tutorial on "Learning with Multiple Representations (LMR)" alongside Barbara Hammer at the Responsible ML Winter School in Umeå. In addition to Prof. Axel Ngonga, research associate Louis Mozart Kamdem Teyou was also present at the tutorial.
Various approaches were presented at the tutorial, such as the improvement of machine learning through the use of…
Nikit Srivastava, a member of our Data Science workgroup, will lead a workshop at the AI Congress 2025, which will take place on Tuesday, 3 June, alongside other scientists from various universities. The workshop, entitled "KI-Akademie OWL - Perspektiven für eine sichere & inklusive Gestaltung von KI", will provide insights into research in the fields of the safety of AI procedures and the development of AI methods for applications with limited…
The 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the IJCAI, will be held in Montreal, Canada this year from 16 to 22 August. The IJCAI is the most important conference for the global AI community and promotes the exchange of groundbreaking advances and achievements in artificial intelligence research. The paper "Facets in Argumentation: A Formal Approach to Argument Significance" from our Date Science workgroup was accepted by…
From 1 to 5 June 2025, the ESWC25 (Extended Semantic Web Conference) will take place in Portoroz, Slovenia, under this year's main theme "Empowering Knowledge through Semantics: From Knowledge Graphs to Neurosemantics". Three papers from our Data Science workgroup were accepted by the ESWC:
"ANTS: Abstractive Entity Summarisation in Knowledge Graphs" written by Asep Fajar Firmansyah, Hamada Zahera, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif and Axel Ngonga.
"Robustn…
Since February 2025, our “Data Science” workgroup has been involved in the new research project "Learn2RAG ". The project is all about "Retrieval-Augmented Generation", or RAG. RAG is an AI technique that aims to improve the performance of generative language models through a combination of retrieval and generation models. "Learn2RAG" is working on automating the learning of company-specific RAG pipelines and their use.
In addition to Paderborn…
Ashwin Prasad, research assistant in our Secure Software Engineering workgroup, is spending the next three months on a research internship at Amazon in New York City.
We wish Ashwin an exciting and educdational time in the Big Apple!
At the invitation of the coordinator at the Technical University of Crete: On 9 and 10 April 2025, the 16 international partners of the EU project CREXDATA presented their interim results at the consortium meeting in Crete. Jens Pottebaum, Marcel Ebel, Deniz Özcan and Niklas Döhner from our Product Creation workgroup presented the current status of the integration of the overall CREXDATA system for extreme weather events. One focus is on…
We would like to congratulate Prof Dr Suzana Alpsancar on the conversion from a junior professorship to a tenured position. The name of her workgroup will also change with the permanent appointment. The workgroup, which was previously known as "Applied ethics with a focus on technology ethics in the digital world", is now called "Philosophy and Ethics of techno-scientific Cultures".
Congratulations!
On 26 June, the DiSerHub expert summit will take place in Munich at the end of the project. At this event, digital services, data-driven business models and new production methods will be presented and how they are changing the automotive industry's value chain will be analysed in more detail. At the expert summit, leading experts from the field of research will address the question "How can innovative technologies be used in a targeted manner to…
