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6 <name>German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, GmbH, DFKI</name>
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8 <url>http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de</url>
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16 <p>The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
17 GmbH, DFKI was founded in 1988. Today, DFKI is one of the largest
18 non-profit contract research institutes in the field of innovative
19 software technology based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods. DFKI
20 is focusing on the complete cycle of innovation - from world-class basic
21 research and technology development through leading-edge demonstrators
22 and prototypes to product functions and commercialization. Based in
23 Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken, the German Research Center for
24 Artificial Intelligence ranks among the important ``Centers of
25 Excellence'' worldwide. The key directors of DFKI are Prof. Dr. Wolfgang
26 Wahlster (CEO) and Dr. Walter G. Olthoff (CFO).DFKI's mission is
27 technology transfer, that is to move innovations in AI as quickly as
28 possible from the lab into the marketplace by maintaining research
29 projects at the forefront of science. Expertise and experience of the
30 company DFKI has strong expertise in each of the following domains:</p>
32 <li>Information Management and Document Analysis (Director: Prof. Dr.
34 <li>Intelligent Visualization and Simulation Systems
35 (Director: Prof. Dr. Hans Hagen)</li>
36 <li>Deduction and Multiagent Systems (Director: Prof.
37 Dr. Jorg Siekmann)</li>
38 <li>Language Technology (Director: Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit)</li>
39 <li>Intelligent User Interfaces (Director: Prof. Dr.
40 Wolfgang Wahlster)</li>
42 <p>DFKI is involved in numerous industrial, academian
43 projects including projects in the current EC IST programme dealing with
44 research and development in the broad areas of intelligent interface
45 agents, and multiagent systems for applications in supply-chain
46 management, virtual enterprises, e-commerce and advanced information
47 systems. The partners of the DFKI are leading large-scale
48 concerns such as DaimlerChrysler, SAP, and Alcatel, plus the two
49 universities of Kaiserlautern and Saarbrucken. In the range of
50 medium-sized firms INSIDERS, IDS Scheer, Tecmath and KIBG are to be added.
51 Finally, the two most important large-scale research centers on
52 international level, i.e. the Fraunhofer Society and GMD, round off the
53 circle of partners. DFKI is part of several European Networks of
54 Excellence such as AgentLink and CompuLog.</p>
55 <p>Recently, an Education Technology Group of DFKI, headed
56 by Prof. J.H. Siekmann, has been established. It has carried out basic
57 research and applications in several fields of AI, including presentation
58 planning (for education material), user modeling, proof planning,
59 knowledge representation (for educational and mathematical Web-documents)
60 and integration of (mathematical services). Its main prototypical product
61 so far has been the Web-based, user-adaptive, generative learning
62 environment ActiveMath that integrates several external services.
63 Members of the group are actively involved in the international academic
64 life by organizing or contributing to conferences and workshops.</p>
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