Research Projects

RAVEN – Relation Analysis and Visualization for Evolving Networks. In Norse mythology, the two ravens Hugin and Munin (thought and memory, respectively) scout for the father of the gods Odin, keeping him up-to-date about the unfolding of events in the nine worlds. This resonates well with the intentions of RAVEN: Inform analysts and decision-makers about endogenous and exogenous information spaces, which reflect real-world processes. RAVEN aims to understand the evolution of these spaces by analyzing temporal-semantic relations between their elements.

IDIOM – Information Diffusion across Interactive Online Media: Linguists define "idiom" as expression whose meaning is different from the literal meanings of its component words. Similarly, the study of information diffusion promises insights that cannot be inferred from individual network elements. Media monitoring projects often focus on a particular medium, or neglect important aspects of the human language. IDIOM addresses these gaps to reveal fundamental mechanisms of information diffusion across media with distinct interactive characteristics (Web Sites, RSS feeds, blogs etc.).

AVALON – Acquisition and VALidation of Ontologies: Valuable knowledge that surrounds the workflows of business entities can be extracted automatically and represented as ontological structure. AVALON services build upon a cybernetic control system to automatically align extracted knowledge with business processes, external indicators and individual expertise. Such services are particularly useful in volatile business environments, which require dynamic reconfiguration of business processes and a flexible allocation of resources.

European eContent Tourism Survey. Longitudinal survey on behalf of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, which contrasted a sample of 500 Austrian tourism sites with the international competition. Selected results were presented at the European Forum Alpbach in August 2001.