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