Projects in the DBIS group

1. System for simple acquisition, storage and management of information systems (SESAM) providing web-based services
   and enabling in automatic adaptation of the system and the screen play to the roles and rights of the actual user, to the current workflow and to the currently available and accessible data
   application in projects
   • e-Democracy-supporter for intelligent management of meeting, documents used during meetings, and communication among meeting parties and partners for representatives, inhabitants and everybody interested in current polical life
   • Content management system enabling in automatic renowal and recharging of large websites depending on the change of the basic data
   • City and region information systems, e.g., the city information system of the town Cottbus
   • Group and community websites
   Presentation of the system at the international computer fair CeBIT 2002
2. Merging media such as internet, TV and information systems
   towards a customer-oriented mit set-top-box based system
   for
   • TV bundle depending on profile of interest
   • Electronic companion and journal with adaptation and reminder facilities
   • Video, cinema and radio on demand and on profile
   • Internet on passion, profile of interest and last recently usage history
   Presentation and implementations in the set-top-box system Cottbus interaktiv
3. Rapid Application and Database Development (RADD)
   on the basis of an extended entity relationship model HERM
   aiming in developing a prototype workbench with components for
   automatic adaptation to the user and to the specific properties of the application,
   natural language acquisition of structure, semantics, functionality, and interaction,
   intelligent acquisition of integrity constraints,
   conceptual optimization and conceptual tuning, and
   transformation of/from HERM-schemata to/from relational, network, hierarchical and DBPL schemata
   DFG project (1991-1997) performed together with colleagues from the universities of Aachen, Dresden, Münster and Rostock
   Exhibition during CeBIT 1995
   
4. Dynamic Environmental Databases (Denda)
   Environmental database of the BTU innovation colleg with three components
   meta database on other projects, on experimental areas, on methods for measuring and data analysis
   selection of representative areas
   integration of chemical, physical, geological data for data analysis
   and with intelligent interfaces of high usability
   Project as a part of the DFG innovation colleg (1995-1999) together with collegues of the Faculty 4 of BTU Cottbus and other research institutions
5. Online community information system Cottbusnet
   with services for tourists, booking, inhabitant information and with e-commerce solutions
   Industrial project (1995-1999) together with local small companies
   Exhibition at Hannover Fair 1997 by a prototype
   Exhibition at CeBIT 1999 with the complete system
6. Dialogue management systems
   in the DFG graduate college Berlin-Brandenburger Gradiertenkollegs "Distributed information systems"
   (1996-02)
7. Online databases FuEline
   Online registration of research and development capacity of small companies in eastern Germany
   BMBF project (1993-97) together with companies (Verband Innovativer Unternehmen, Infoware GmbH, Schulte-Hillen BdU) and the chair of Production Technology at BTU Cottbus;
   Exhibition at Hannover Fair 1995, at CeBIT 1996 and at Leipzig Fair 1996.
8. Object-oriented frontends for relational databases (POLAR)
   Development of a SmallTalk based object-oriented frontend with relational backends
   Industrial project (1993-97) with IBL Ingenieurbüro Letters GmbH
   Exhibition at DevCon 95
9. Intelligent dispatcher(Template)
10. Component-based reuse of database designs
    
11. Town and regional information services (LIM)
    

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