FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Today the GLASS project consortium comes together for its first virtual constituent project meeting. As part of this EU research project, which will start its work in January 2021, a user-centered and citizen-oriented eGovernance platform is being created, that will fundamentally improve the processes and services of public administrations, the service quality and the exchange of data in the public sector.

In collaboration with the Scandinavian company Norigin Media, Fraunhofer FOKUS presents a solution to exchange advertising content in catch-up and streaming formats. The joint over-the-top (OTT) ad tech offering of the two companies will enable pay TV operators to identify and replace advertising on premium streaming services to target specific audiences.

What is artificial intelligence (AI) and how does it work? For many people, these questions are not easy to answer: this is due to the fact that many machine learning and deep learning algorithms can not be examined after their execution. The just started EU-funded XMANAI project will focus on explainable AI, a concept that contradicts the idea of the “black box“ in machine learning, where even the designers can not explain why the AI reaches at a specific decision.

For research purposes of the State Institute for Apiculture in Hohen Neuendorf, VISCON GmbH has developed a five-wall simulation environment for bees together with the Visual Computing and Analytics business unit (VISCOM) of Fraunhofer FOKUS.

Municipalities approach the mammoth task of digital transformation in very different ways. In a new publication, the Competence Center Public IT (ÖFIT) along with the Kommunale Gemeinschaftsstelle für Verwaltungsmanagement (KGSt) examines which types of digitalization strategies can be found, what their main focuses are, and what one municipality can learn from the other various types.

On the occasion of EclipseCon 2020, Fraunhofer FOKUS launches its simulation environment Eclipse MOSAIC. This solution is based on VSimRTI (Vehicle-2-X Simulation Runtime Infrastructure), which has been developed over the last 12 years in close cooperation with the DCAITI of the TU Berlin and has already been used by more than 600 partners to test mobility services and traffic scenarios. Eclipse MOSAIC is now partially available as open-source.