Sebis Research News

A full paper has been accepted for presentation and publication for the Jurix Conference 2016 in Sofia Antopolis entiteled "Extending Full Text Search for Legal Document Collections using Word Embeddings". The authors examine the applicability to use Word Embeddings, a recent trend in natural languange processing, to extend traditional full text search methods to include semantically similar parts of texts in a given corpus. The authors attempt to extract obligations for processors from the recently publised EU Data Protection Directive. The authors also show the applicability of the proposed method to identify similar provisions in a small corpus of publicly available rental contracts.

A report entitled Digital Mobility Platforms and Ecosystems has been published. The authors of the TUM Living Lab Connected Mobility elaborate on how to support the digital transformation in the area of Smart Mobility and Smart City. The project bundles the relevant research, implementation, and innovation skills of the Technical University of Munich in the fields of informatic and transport research. The research project contributes to the design and implementation of open, provider-independent digital mobility platforms. The actual commercial implementation of these platforms is carried out by leading digital providers based on the market requirements of customer-oriented mobility solutions. Another significant achievement of the project is the networking of already established and currently arising mobility providers, service providers, developers and users on a personal, organizational and technical level. Thus, the project contributes to the establishment of a mobility ecosystem, which is necessary for the success of the mobility platform. Thereby, smaller companies and start-ups are enabled to develop their own digital mobility services with reduced financial, organizational and technical effort.

A paper has been accepted for publication at the SAGRA Workshop @ ECSA 2016 Conference. In the paper entitled "Meta-model Based Framework for Architectural Knowledge Management", the author team consisting of Manoj Mahabaleshwar, Klym Shumaiev, Andreas Biesdorf, Uwe Hohenstein, Michael Hassel, and Florian Matthes, elaborate on how a meta-model based knowledge management framework can support software architects to manage architectural knowledge. The components within the proposed framework including SyncPipes and rule engine allow software architects to consolidate projects’ data from disparate sources and to define domain-specific rules to address the challenges in inconsistency analysis, context-sensitive recommendations, and tracking of artifacts within projects.

The next Sebis Workshop will take place on Friday, 23rd of September 2016: Sebis Workshop