Department of Informatics – DDIS

Abraham Bernstein and Michael Böhlen were recently interviewed on their SNF NFP 75 project Privacy-preserving, stream analytics for non-computer scientists. The interview highlight the main takeaways of the project.

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Congratulations to Yasamin Klinger (former guest member of DDIS working at ZHAW) and colleagues for their paper at EDBT 2022! “Evaluation of Algorithms for Interaction-Sparse Recommendations: Neural Networks don’t Always Win“ Authors: Yasamin Klingler, Claude Lehmann, João Pedro Monteiro, Carlo Saladin, Abraham Bernstein, Kurt Stockinger Abstract: “In recent years, top-K recommender systems with implicit feedback […]

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In the context of his bachelor thesis, Alexander Theus developed a method for scene-text extraction in video called HyText, based on intermittent detection and bi-directional tracking. The method is able to match existing approaches in accuracy while being substantially faster. Alexander Theus, together with our colleagues Luca Rossetto (supervisor of the bachelor thesis) and Abraham […]

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Congratulations to our colleague Lucien Heitz on publishing two new publications! The first publication is a journal article published in the distinguished Digital Journalism journal. Written as a collaboration between computer science and communication science scholars, the article studies the effects of diverse news recommender systems in the context of democracy. “Benefits of Diverse News […]

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Our colleague Romana Pernisch published a journal paper in the renowned Journal of Web Semantics! Together with former DDIS postdoc Daniele Dell’Aglio and Prof. Bernstein, she investigated the evolution of ontologies and introduced measures to capture the impact of changes on the materialization. While this great achievement provides cause for celebration, we are also sad […]

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It is safe to say 2020 was a surprise to everyone. Among many big events, the global pandemic has influenced us all. In academia, attention was diverted to online teaching and experiments from home to keep courses and research running. Despite all challenges thrown our way, DDIS has continued its activities. In fact, it was […]

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Congratulations to our colleague Romana Pernischova, who has been awarded a GRC Travel Grant of 2’800 CHF. With this grant, she will be able to visit the University of Aalborg in Denmark for a two-month research stay with the Database and Web Technologies Group co-led by Prof. Katja Hose. During her stay in spring 2021, […]

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Last week, our colleague Romana Pernischova presented her paper titled ‘ChImp: Visualizing Ontology Changes and their Impact in Protégé’ at the workshop VOILA, colocated with ISWC 2020. Together with Mirko Serbak, Daniele Dell’Aglio, and Abraham Bernstein, she looked at the needs of ontology engineers and created Protege plugin ChImp to help visualize changes and their […]

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We are delighted to congratulate Carl Edwards for being accepted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where he will pursue a PhD. Carl visited DDIS as an undergraduate research intern during the fall term of 2018 in the scope of the EuroScholars student exchange program. During his stay at DDIS he worked on […]

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During 24th to the 26th of March 2020, the Human Robot Interaction 2020 was supposed to take place in Cambridge, UK. Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was canceled and paper presentations happened online. Our colleague Suzanne Tolmeijer and her coauthors got their paper accepted called ‘Taxonomy of Trust-Relevant Failures and Mitigation Strategies‘. The presentation […]

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