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Das Forschungsprojekt Serv.biz endet im Sommer 2009. Aus diesem Grund laden die Projektpartner zu einem kostenlosen Workshop (15. Juli 2009) zum Thema "Mehr Wert" schaffen durch intelligente Verknüpfung von Produkten mit Dienstleistungen ein. Details finden Sie hier (Flyer).

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The E-Cab final dissemination forum will take place at Airport Hamburg and the Airbus facilities in Hamburg Finkenwerder on Tuesday, 12th May 2009. In continuation of three successful E-Cab External Advisory workshops held in 2006, 2007 and 2008, the objective of this final dissemination forum is to demonstrate the realized systems and to discuss with you further developments after the completion of the E-Cab research project. This forum is also…

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The project Hydra, an integrated research project funded by the EU and part of the 6th Framework Programme, published its third newsletter. The newsletter gives new information about achievements and project results, which have been presented on numerous and well attended scientific conferences and commercial oriented events.The project consortium consists of 13 well-known discovery-led organizations, universities and industry partners, who are…

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Adding services such as maintenance services to a product is not a new business strategy. Solutions or product-service-systems however are highly integrated combinations of products and services. Embedded systems can create service interfaces to products and help to create solutions.For further information click here.

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At the 39th annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. there will be the second workshop on "Integration of Software Engineering and Usability Engineering". It is organized by the special interest groups Software-Ergonomics (Human-computer-interaction) and Requirement-Engineering (Software technology).The goal is to develop and formalize concepts for integration and to consolidate methods from both disciplines.The workshop…

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Results of the R&D project Hydra ("Networked Embedded System Middleware for Heterogeneous Physical Devices") are shown at the CeBIT 09 (Hall 9, B 36  - Fraunhofer booth). The Hydra middleware allows developers to incorporate heterogeneous physical devices into their applications by offering easy-to-use web service interfaces for controlling any type of physical device irrespective of its network technology.C-LAB mainly works in the areas of…

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The C-LAB Annual Report 2008 is now available as PDF document.

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C-LAB (Siemens AG & University of Paderborn) is together with Technical University of Berlin partner in the R&D project BIS-Grid which initiates the Grid Workflow Workshop (GWW). The project addresses the usage of Grid-technologies for integration of business information systems. Accordingly, the modeling of business processes spanning across different company information systems is important. The second workshop of the project focuses business…

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Affordable and highly available ubiquitous communcation systems nowadays facilitate the broad deployment of mobile services. The development of such services by utilising advanced (so called Beyond 3G) networks.For further information look here.

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Exciting presentations and discussions can be expected by the participants of the 5th Web Monday on 12 January 2009, 7 p.m. at the Technologiepark Paderborn. Besides others, Andreas Bleiker from C-LAB will give a presentation about latest findings of "Guerrilla-Usability: How startups can make their users happier".After the presentations all participants are invited to the Bistro for informal discussions. At Wiki http://www.webmontag.de/paderborn…

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C-LAB receives the prestigious European "ITEA Achievement Award" in gold for the funded research project LOMS (LOcal Mobile Services). Additionally, the booth at this year's ITEA Symposium in Rotterdam was presented the "ITEA-Exhibition Award" in silver.The result of the LOMS project is an innovative software platform making it easy to create mobile innovative services. With this software platform small and medium sized companies can create and…

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The IST FP6 Project PLASTIC deals with the development of a methodology for the design and effective implementation of mobile services. The methodology comprises the model-driven design of services particularly taking into account non-functional properties of the to be built services like for instance service level agreements (SLAs) or contextual information. The implementation as significantly eased by semi-automatically mapping the design to…

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The Hydra Project, an integrated research project within the EU’s 6th research framework program, has released its second project newsletter informing about recent results and project achievements. These results have been presented at several scientific conferences as well as on events targeting commercial exploitation.The Hydra project pursues the vision to create a widely deployed middleware for networked mobile and embedded systems that will…

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Hydra organises 1st "Internet of Things & Services" research workshop at EuroTrustAmI in Sophia Antipolis from 18th-19th September 2008.The 1st international Internet of Things & Services research workshop at EuroTrustAmI, organised by the Hydra consortium, is one out of three workshops related to security issues in ambient intelligence environments featured by the Smart Event'08 (September 16-19, 2008, Sophia Antipolis). The workshop is designed…

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C-LAB Mitarbeiter Rainer Glaschick und Dr. Gernot Gräfe sind Mitautoren des neu erschienen Buchs "Open Source - Kommerzialisierungsmöglichkeiten und Chancen für die Zusammenarbeit von Hochschulen und Unternehmen".Der Verlag (www.waxmann.de schreibt dazu:Open Source bedeutet die Offenlegung von Quellcode und ermöglicht somit eine kooperative Entwicklung von Software. Große Teile des Internets werden bereits von Open-Source-Programmen dominiert,…

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