Department of Informatics – DDIS

Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group

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New Article in Nature Scientific Reports

8. August 2023 | Athina Kyriakou | Comments Off on New Article in Nature Scientific Reports

The article “Active querying approach to epidemic source detection on contact networks” has been published in Nature Scientific Reports by DDIS alumni Dr. Martin Sterchi in collaboration with Lorenz Hilfiker, Rolf Grütter & Abraham Bernstein! The paper’s problem of interest is the identification of an epidemic’s patient zero given a network of contacts and a set of infected […]

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Congratulations to Dr. Tobias Grubenmann

5. June 2023 | Athina Kyriakou | Comments Off on Congratulations to Dr. Tobias Grubenmann

We are delighted to congratulate our former colleague Dr. Tobias Grubenmann for becoming a Lecturer at the Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland, United Kingdom! Tobias pursued his PhD on “Monetization Strategies for the Web of Data” at DDIS. We wish him a great start and all the best in his future endeavours!

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New Paper in AAAI ’23

21. February 2023 | Athina Kyriakou | Comments Off on New Paper in AAAI ’23

A paper based on controllable models for simplifying medical text, co-authored by our colleague Rosni Kottekulam Vasu and external collaborators, was accepted at the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence! The paper is titled “Med-EASi: Finely Annotated Dataset and Models for Controllable Simplification of Medical Texts” and was jointly conducted with Chandrayee Basu, Michihiro Yasunaga […]

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Award for Paper Based on Student Thesis

25. January 2023 | Athina Kyriakou | Comments Off on Award for Paper Based on Student Thesis

In his Bachelor Thesis, Viktor Lakic investigated the decay happening in datasets when the resources that Web-URLs point to become unavailable. This Link-Rot can cause problems for reproducibility, as datasets can shrink over time, potentially changing the outcome of experiments which use them. A paper based on the data that Viktor collected in his thesis, […]

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Teaching Innovation Fund Granted to DDIS!  

20. December 2022 | Athina Kyriakou | Comments Off on Teaching Innovation Fund Granted to DDIS!  

Throughout our Advanced Topics in AI (ATAI) lecture, we introduce topics that explain the interplay between purely automatic AI methods and hybrid human-machine methods, emphasizing the importance of not only effective and efficient AI, but also responsible AI. Throughout the lecture, students have the opportunity to work on a practical project, in which they implement […]

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Liquid Democracy Workshop – Call For Papers

21. October 2022 | Athina Kyriakou | Comments Off on Liquid Democracy Workshop – Call For Papers

Our colleagues Lucien Heitz and Cristina Sarasua are co-organizing the first interdisciplinary workshop on liquid democracy together with Manon Revel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Chiara Valsangiacomo (University of Zurich and member of DemocracyNet). The workshop will be held at the University of Zurich on December 15 and 16, 2022! During the event, there will […]

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Dagstuhl Seminar “Challenges and Opportunities of Democracy in the Digital Society”

29. September 2022 | cristina_sarasua | Comments Off on Dagstuhl Seminar “Challenges and Opportunities of Democracy in the Digital Society”

Earlier this month, DDIS members Fynn Bachmann, Miklovana Tuci, Cristina Sarasua and Prof. Abraham Bernstein joined a seminar on “Challenges and Opportunities of Democracy in the Digital Society” at Dagstuhl. The seminar was co-organized by Prof. Bernstein, Anita Gohdes, Steffen Staab, and Beth Noveck. For five days, scholars in computer science, political science, law, and […]

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Major Congratulations, Dr. Baumgartner!

29. September 2022 | cristina_sarasua | Comments Off on Major Congratulations, Dr. Baumgartner!

On August 30, our colleague Matthias Baumgartner defended his PhD Thesis “How to Compare Apples to Oranges: Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources with Representation Learning” supervised by Prof. Abraham Bernstein. We wish Matthias all the best in his future endeavors!

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New Article by Baumgartner et al. at the Journal of Web Semantics

9. August 2022 | cristina_sarasua | Comments Off on New Article by Baumgartner et al. at the Journal of Web Semantics

Congratulations to our colleagues Matthias Baumgartner, former DDIS PostDoc Daniele Dell’Aglio, Heiko Paulheim (University of Mannheim), and Abraham Bernstein on their new journal article “Towards the Web of Embeddings: Integrating multiple knowledge graph embedding spaces with FedCoder” at the Journal of Web Semantics! Abstract: The Semantic Web is distributed yet interoperable: Distributed since resources are […]

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Paper “Capable but Amoral? Comparing AI and Human Expert Collaboration in Ethical Decision Making” wins Honorable Mention at CHI 2022

2. May 2022 | Abraham Bernstein | Comments Off on Paper “Capable but Amoral? Comparing AI and Human Expert Collaboration in Ethical Decision Making” wins Honorable Mention at CHI 2022

The paper “Capable but Amoral? Comparing AI and Human Expert Collaboration in Ethical Decision Making” by Suzanne Tolmeijer, Markus Christen, Serhiy Kandul, Markus Kneer, and Abraham Bernstein wins an honorable mention at CHI 2022, which takes place this week. The paper, which looks into how the kind of expert giving the advice — i.e., a […]

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