Performance-oriented funding of academic mid-level faculty for research groups at universities of applied sciences in Baden-Württemberg

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Announcement of the 3rd funding tranche dated March 11, 2019

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The Institute for Learning and Innovation in Networks (ILIN) works forcibly on the development of socio-technical competence in the field of conceptualization and evaluation of applied artificial intelligence (AI) methods in science, innovation and production processes. The goal is to design human-centered AI systems with transparent and comprehensible decision support and to test them with relevant stakeholders from science and industry.

Concretely, an AI demonstrator for the use case of a citation recommendation­service for supporting scientific work in science­institutions and research-based companies will be designed and built. Three main objectives are pursued with the development of the AI demonstrator:

• Commissioning and testing of the self-configured ML-suitable hardware,
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• Competency building in the fields of transparent AI and AI-assisted decision support,
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• Providing a demonstrator to investigate research questions related to the above fields,
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A working prototype could find direct application in research operations at the institute as well as with interested partners from academia and industry.

Project duration

• November 15, 2019 to November 14, 2022

Employees

• Prof. Dr. Steffen Kinkel
• Marco Baumgartner