The Internet of Services and the Internet of Things are major building blocks of the Future Internet. The digital enterprise of the future is based not only on mobile, social, and cloud technologies, but also on semantic technologies and the future Internet of Everything. Semantic technologies now enable mass customization for the delivery of goods and services that meet individual customer needs and tastes with near mass production efficiency and reliability. This is creating a competitive advantage in the industrial economy, the service economy, and the emerging data economy, leading to smart products, smart services, and smart data, all adaptable to specific tasks, locations, situations, and contexts of smart spaces. Such technologies allow us to describe, revise, and adapt the characteristics, functions, processes, and usage patterns of customization targets on the basis of machine-understandable content representation that enables automated processing and information sharing between human and software agents.

This book explains the principal achievements of the Theseus research program, one of the central programs in the German government's Digital 2015 initiative and its High-Tech Strategy 2020. The methods, toolsets, and standards for semantic technologies developed during this program form a solid basis for the fourth industrial revolution (Industrie 4.0), the hybrid service economy, and the transformation of big data into useful smart data for the emerging data economy.

The contributing authors are leading scientists and engineers, representing world-class academic and industrial research teams, and the ideas, technologies, and representative use cases they describe in the book derive from results in multidisciplinary fields, such as the Internet of Services; the Semantic Web, and semantic technologies, knowledge management, and search; user interfaces, multimodal interaction, and visualization; machine learning and data mining; and business process support, manufacturing, automation, medical systems, and integrated service engineering.

The book will be of value to both researchers and practitioners in these domains."

In 1992 it seemed very difficult to answer the question whether it would be possible to develop a portable system for the automatic recognition and translation of spon taneous speech. Previous research work on speech processing had focused on read speech only and international projects aimed at automated text translation had just been terminated without achieving their objectives. Within this context, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) made a careful analysis of all national and international research projects conducted in the field of speech and language technology before deciding to launch an eight-year basic-research lead project in which research groups were to cooperate in an interdisciplinary and international effort covering the disciplines of computer science, computational linguistics, translation science, signal processing, communi cation science and artificial intelligence. At some point, the project comprised up to 135 work packages with up to 33 research groups working on these packages. The project was controlled by means of a network plan. Every two years the project sit uation was assessed and the project goals were updated. An international scientific advisory board provided advice for BMBF. A new scientific approach was chosen for this project: coping with the com plexity of spontaneous speech with all its pertinent phenomena such as ambiguities, self-corrections, hesitations and disfluencies took precedence over the intended lex icon size. Another important aspect was that prosodic information was exploited at all processing stages."

With contributions by leading scientists in the field, this book gives the first comprehensive overview of the results of the seminal SmartKom project - one of the most advanced multimodal dialogue systems worldwide.

In this book readers will find technological discussions on the existing and emerging technologies across the different stages of the big data value chain. They will learn about legal aspects of big data, the social impact, and about education needs and requirements. And they will discover the business perspective and how big data technology can be exploited to deliver value within different sectors of the economy. The book is structured in four parts: Part I "The Big Data Opportunity" explores the value potential of big data with a particular focus on the European context. It also describes the legal, business and social dimensions that need to be addressed, and briefly introduces the European Commission's BIG project. Part II "The Big Data Value Chain" details the complete big data lifecycle from a technical point of view, ranging from data acquisition, analysis, curation and storage, to data usage and exploitation. Next, Part III "Usage and Exploitation of Big Data" illustrates the value creation possibilities of big data applications in various sectors, including industry, healthcare, finance, energy, media and public services. Finally, Part IV "A Roadmap for Big Data Research" identifies and prioritizes the cross-sectorial requirements for big data research, and outlines the most urgent and challenging technological, economic, political and societal issues for big data in Europe. This compendium summarizes more than two years of work performed by a leading group of major European research centers and industries in the context of the BIG project. It brings together research findings, forecasts and estimates related to this challenging technological context that is becoming the major axis of the new digitally transformed business environment.

The Internet of Services and the Internet of Things are major building blocks of the Future Internet. The digital enterprise of the future is based not only on mobile, social, and cloud technologies, but also on se­mantic technologies and the future Internet of Everything. Semantic technologies now enable mass cus­tomization for the delivery of goods and services that meet individual customer needs and tastes with near mass production efficiency and reliability. This is creating a competitive advantage in the industrial econ­omy, the service economy, and the emerging data economy, leading to smart products, smart services, and smart data, all adaptable to specific tasks, locations, situations, and contexts of smart spaces. Such tech­nologies allow us to describe, revise, and adapt the characteristics, functions, processes, and usage patterns of customization targets on the basis of machine-understandable content representation that enables auto­mated processing and information sharing between human and software agents.   This book explains the principal achievements of the Theseus research program, one of the central pro­grams in the German government's Digital 2015 initiative and its High-Tech Strategy 2020. The methods, toolsets, and standards for semantic technologies developed during this program form a solid basis for the fourth industrial revolution (Industrie 4.0), the hybrid service economy, and the transformation of big data into useful smart data for the emerging data economy.   The contributing authors are leading scientists and engineers, representing world-class academic and in­dustrial research teams, and the ideas, technologies, and representative use cases they describe in the book derive from results in multidisciplinary fields, such as the Internet of Services; the Semantic Web, and semantic technologies, knowledge management, and search; user interfaces, multimodal interaction, and visualization; machine learning and data mining; and business process support, manufacturing, automa­tion, medical systems, and integrated service engineering.   The book will be of value to both researchers and practitioners in these domains.

The development of low-cost, compact digital storage, sensors and radio modules allows us to embed digital memories into products to record key events. Such computationally enhanced products can perceive and control their environment, analyze their observations, and communicate with other smart objects and human users. Digital product memories (DPMs) will play a key role in the upcoming fourth industrial revolution based on cyber-physical production systems, resulting in improvements in traceability and quality assurance, more efficient and flexible production, logistics, customization, and recycling, and better information for the consumer. SemProM was a major industrial and academic research project that examined all aspects of the design and implementation of semantic product memories, and this book is a comprehensive assessment of the results achieved. The introductory chapters explain the fundamental ideas and the organization of the related project, while the remaining parts explain how to build, model and process DPMs, multimodal interaction using them, and selected applications. This work is inherently multidisciplinary and the related ideas, technologies, and implementations draw on results in fields such as semantic technologies, machine-to-machine communication, intelligent sensor networks, instrumented environments, embedded systems, smart objects, RFID technology, security, and privacy. The contributing authors are leading scientists and engineers, representing key academic teams and companies. The book explains successful deployment in applications such as manufacturing, green logistics, retail, healthcare, and food distribution, and it will be of value to both researchers and practitioners.

User models have recently attracted much research interest in the field of artificial intelligence dialog systems. It has become evident that a flexible user-oriented dialog behavior of such systems can be realized only if the system disposes of a model of the user, containing assumptions about the users background knowledge as well as the users goals and plans in consulting the system. Research in the field of user models investigates how such assumptions can be automatically created, represented and exploited by the system in the course of an interaction with the user. This volume is the first survey pertaining to the field of user modeling. Most of the prominent international researchers in this area have contributed to this volume. Their papers are grouped into four sections: The introductory section contains a general view of the field as a whole, and a number of surveys of specific problems and techniques in user modeling. Sections two and three describe eight user modeling systems, with the focus lying on the automatic creation and exploitation of assumptions about the user respectively. The final section discusses several limits of current systems, and proposes solutions as to how some of the shortcomings might be overcome. In order to increase the quality and the coherency of the volume, each paper has been reviewed by all other contributors. Cross-references have been integrated wherever appropriate. All contributions are introduced in editorial prefaces pertaining to each section. A subject index and an extensive bibliography supplement the book.

In 1992 it seemed very difficult to answer the question whether it would be possible to develop a portable system for the automatic recognition and translation of spon taneous speech. Previous research work on speech processing had focused on read speech only and international projects aimed at automated text translation had just been terminated without achieving their objectives. Within this context, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) made a careful analysis of all national and international research projects conducted in the field of speech and language technology before deciding to launch an eight-year basic-research lead project in which research groups were to cooperate in an interdisciplinary and international effort covering the disciplines of computer science, computational linguistics, translation science, signal processing, communi cation science and artificial intelligence. At some point, the project comprised up to 135 work packages with up to 33 research groups working on these packages. The project was controlled by means of a network plan. Every two years the project sit uation was assessed and the project goals were updated. An international scientific advisory board provided advice for BMBF. A new scientific approach was chosen for this project: coping with the com plexity of spontaneous speech with all its pertinent phenomena such as ambiguities, self-corrections, hesitations and disfluencies took precedence over the intended lex icon size. Another important aspect was that prosodic information was exploited at all processing stages."

With contributions by leading scientists in the field, this book gives the first comprehensive overview of the results of the seminal SmartKom project - one of the most advanced multimodal dialogue systems worldwide.

From November 30 to December 2, 2005, INTETAIN 2005 was held in beautiful Madonna di Campiglio, on the majestic mountains of the Province of Trento, Italy.The ideato holdthe?rstinternationalconferencethat wouldhaveas topic Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment seemed to be timely. In thepreviouscoupleofyearstherehadbeenothermorespeci?c ormoregeneric events where some of the relevant themes had made it to the front stage. With INTETAIN we were aiming at establishing a conference where intelligent computational technologies are at the basis of any interactive application for entertainment. As intelligent computational technologies we mean adaptive media pres- tations, recommendation systems in media scalable crossmedia, a?ective user interfaces, intelligent speech interfaces, tele-presence in entertainment, colla- rative user models and group behavior, collaborative and virtual environments, crossdomain user models, animation and virtual characters, holographic int- faces, augmented, virtual and mixed reality, computer graphics and multimedia, pervasive multimedia, creative language environments, computational humor, and so on. We also believe that there is an important role for novel underlying inter- tive device technologies, for example, mobile devices, home entertainment c- ters, haptic devices, wallscreendisplays, holographicdisplays, distributed smart sensors, immersive screens and wearable devices. Interactive applications for entertainment include, but are certainly not l- ited to, intelligent interactive games, intelligent music systems, interactive c- ema, edutainment, interactive art, interactive museum guides, city and tourism explorer assistants, shopping assistants, interactive real TV, interactive social networks, interactive storytelling, personal diaries, websites and blogs, and c- prehensive assisting environments for special groups (challenged, children, the elderly)."

In der aktuellen Forschung wird zunehmend deutlich, dass fur "intelligente Systeme" die Fahigkeit, naturliche Sprachen zu verstehen, entscheidend ist und dass die theoretische Grundlegung eine wesentliche Voraussetzung fur das maschinelle Sprachverstehen darstellt. In dem Band werden vor allem die grammatikalischen und mathematischen Grundlagen der Sprachverstehenssysteme behandelt. Ausserdem werden auch kommunikationstheoretische und psycholinguistische Aspekte der Computersimulation angesprochen und die praktische Umsetzung theoretischer Resultate in Form von Grammatik-Werkzeugen. Das Buch soll die Aufmerksamkeit auf die theoretischen Aspekte der Computerlinguistik lenken und damit im deutschen Sprachraum eine Entwicklung fordern, die in der amerikanischen Wissenschaft schon vor einigen Jahren eingesetzt hat.

GWAI-82, die sechste Fachtagung uber Kunstl iche Intell igenz fand yom 27.9. - 1.10.1982 im Physikzentrum in Bad Honnef statt. Die Fachtagung wurde yom FachausschuB 6 Kogni- tive Systeme (UnterausschuB Kunstl iche Intell igenz) der Gesellschaft fur Informatik organisiert. Die diesjahrige Fachtagung wurde von 120 Teilnehmern (davon ca. 11% auslandische Ga- ste) besucht. Wegen der beschrankten Kapazitat des Tagungsgebaudes konnten rd. 30 weitere Interessenten nicht berucksichtigt werden. Die Mehrzahl der Teilnehmer arbei- tet an Hochschul instituten und GroBforschungseinrichtungen. Erstmals kamen uber 12% der Teilnehmer auch aus der Industrie. Dies dokumentiert das jetzt auch in der deut- schen Software-Industrie deutlich einsetzende Interesse an der anwendungsspezifischen Umsetzung und Vermarktung von Ergebnissen und Techniken der KI-Forschung. Die Tagung umfaBte 32 Beitrage aus folgenden Kategorien: 3 eingeladene Hauptvortrage (Vortragsdauer/Diskussionsdauer: 60 Min./30 Min.), 16 begutachtete Fachvortrage (30 Min./15 Min.), 5 begutachtete Kurzvortrage (15 Min./l0 Min.), 1 Projektfortschritts- bericht (30 Min./15 Min.), 3 unbegutachtete Kurzberichte (15 Min./l0 Min.) und 5 Systemvorfuhrungen. Der vorl iegende Band enthalt samtl iche Hauptvortrage und eine Aus- wahl der akzeptierten Fachvortrage. Die Arbeit des Programmkomitees wurde uberschattet durch den tragischen Tod unseres Kollegen J5rgen Foith, der als Mitgl ied des Programmkomitees die Tagung nicht mehr miterleben konnte.

In this book readers will find technological discussions on the existing and emerging technologies across the different stages of the big data value chain. They will learn about legal aspects of big data, the social impact, and about education needs and requirements. And they will discover the business perspective and how big data technology can be exploited to deliver value within different sectors of the economy. The book is structured in four parts: Part I "The Big Data Opportunity" explores the value potential of big data with a particular focus on the European context. It also describes the legal, business and social dimensions that need to be addressed, and briefly introduces the European Commission's BIG project. Part II "The Big Data Value Chain" details the complete big data lifecycle from a technical point of view, ranging from data acquisition, analysis, curation and storage, to data usage and exploitation. Next, Part III "Usage and Exploitation of Big Data" illustrates the value creation possibilities of big data applications in various sectors, including industry, healthcare, finance, energy, media and public services. Finally, Part IV "A Roadmap for Big Data Research" identifies and prioritizes the cross-sectorial requirements for big data research, and outlines the most urgent and challenging technological, economic, political and societal issues for big data in Europe. This compendium summarizes more than two years of work performed by a leading group of major European research centers and industries in the context of the BIG project. It brings together research findings, forecasts and estimates related to this challenging technological context that is becoming the major axis of the new digitally transformed business environment.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2017, held in Lyon, France, in August 2017. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: scheduling; knowledge engineering; modeling, simulation and reconfiguration; energy systems;and MAS in various areas.

Das essential stellt die Preistrager und Nominierten des Hermes Awards im Zusammenhang mit dem Paradigmenwechsel der industriellen Fertigung im Internetzeitalter vor. Zunachst erlautern drei Experten das Konzept der Industrie 4.0. Im Anschluss werden Gewinner und nominierte Firmen des Hermes Awards 2015 sowie die Preistrager der ersten Jahre unter Einbeziehung aktueller technischer Innovationen und wirtschaftlicher Auswirkungen der pramierten Leistungen vorgestellt.

Wissensbasierte Systeme wurden in den letzten Jahren uber die Stadien des Experimentierens, der Forschung und der Entwicklung hinaus zu interessanten Produkten der Informationsindustrie und werden immer mehr zu wichtigen Arbeitsmitteln fur Fachleute und Mitarbeiter in der Wirtschaft, in der Verwaltung und im Bildungsbereich. Die GI-Kongresse uber wissensbasierte Systeme sollen eine grossere Offentlichkeit uber den Stand der Entwicklung unterrichten, sowohl in den Entwurfsmethoden und Konstruktionstechniken als auch in der industriellen Anwendung. Ein wesentliches Ziel dabei ist es, auf das grosse Potential an Anwendungsmoglichkeiten hinzuweisen und intensivere Kooperationen zwischen verschiedenen Gebieten anzuregen. Im vorliegenden Tagungsband des 2. Internationalen GI-Kongresses "Wissensbasierte Systeme", der 1987 wieder im Rahmen der Fachmesse SYSTEMS in Munchen stattfand, werden neben den Expertensystemen im engeren Sinne auch graphische Systeme, Techniken der Computeranimation, kooperative Hilfssysteme, intelligente tutorielle Systeme und entscheidungsunterstutzende Systeme behandelt. Grossen Raum nimmt die Prasentation von Gemeinschaftsprojekten ein; insbesondere werden die KI-Verbundprojekte des BMFT und eine Reihe von ESPRIT-Projekten vorgestellt. Dieses Buch wendet sich an alle, die Interesse an Informatik und ihren Anwendungen haben; es soll nicht nur Wissenschaftler, sondern insbesondere auch Praktiker und mogliche Anwender informieren und zu neuen Ideen anregen. Und es soll Wissenschaft und Praxis zu fruchtbarer Diskussion und Zusammenarbeit stimulieren. Neben vielen deutschen Autoren aus Forschung und Praxis kommen Wissenschaftler aus mehreren europaischen Landern und aus den USA zu Wort.