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Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS

EU Network of Excellence for more resilient Critical Infrastructures

»CIPRNet« aims at establishing a European Infrastructures Simulation & Analysis Centre

The EU-sponsored Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience Research Network (CIPRNet) project will establish a European Infrastructures Simulation and Analysis Centre. This center will provide substantial improvements for fast and adequate responses by authorities and critical infrastructure owners to complex emergencies affecting or originating from critical infrastructures. The research network will integrate knowledge and technologies to create added-value decision support capabilities for national and multi-nation emergency management.

New big data survey shows potential for business

For the first time ever, a total 1.8 zettabytes of data were generated worldwide last year – and according to forecasts, the volume will continue to double every two years. So, one key question we can ask today is: How can we utilize these mountains of data better? A survey by the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS is now shedding light on the topic of “big data”. It reveals opportunities and challenges for business. To give companies some orientation concerning big data technologies and applications, the researchers develop an experimentation platform which will be shown at CeBIT fair 2013.

Joint venture to shape the future of the Web

University of Southampton in the UK and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany come together to launch SoFWIRed, a new collaborative venture in Web and Internet Science

Two of the world’s leading institutions at the forefront of Web and Internet Science have announced a major collaborative project, which will help shape the future of the World Wide Web and associated smart services and technologies. Researchers from the University of Southampton and Germany’s Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft will set the agenda of the digital age for decades through a series of activities that will lead to the development of comprehensive, interoperable platforms for data and knowledge-driven processing of open data. The project will also investigate aspects of collective intelligence through social collaboration and crowd sourcing, dynamic web objects and internet services.

BioVeL: A virtual laboratory to process biodiversity research data

BioVeL 2nd Annual Meeting at FRB's Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB)

The European research consortium BioVeL (Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory, www.biovel.eu) held its Second Annual Meeting at the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity's (FRB) research centre for the synthesis and analysis of biodiversity (CESAB, www.cesab.org) on the Technopôle de l'Arbois near Aix-en-Provence, France, September 3-7, 2012.

MINTify Rule – the Innovation in Fraud Prevention

Co-operation between PAYMINT AG and Fraunhofer IAIS to introduce modern Fraud-Mining-Technology in Fraud Prevention

In the past two years PAYMINT AG has established itself as specialist in payments fraud prevention. Substantial savings have been achieved for our customers in particular through consultancy services among others by reducing the fraud write-offs. PAYMINT has developed the advanced fraud management solution MINTify, which allows identification and analysis of fraud risks as well as case management with one single solution. The product will be enhanced by the MINTify rule module for automatic rule generation based on latest fraud-mining-technology. MINTify rule is a result of the co-operation between PAYMINT AG and Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information System IAIS with the purpose to create a most modern and highly efficient fraud-mining-technology.