Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly permeating all areas of life and not only changing coexistence in society for the better. Unfortunately, there is an increasing number of examples where AI systems show problematic behavior, such as discrimination or insufficient accuracy, missing data privacy or transparency. ...

Due to the rapid growth of the tourism industry, associated effects like overcrowding, overtourism, and increasing greenhouse gas emissions lead to unsustainable development. A prerequisite for avoiding those adverse effects is the prediction of occupancy. The present study elaborates on the applicability and performance ...

An deutschen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen erschließt sich aktuell im Bereich der Struktur und des Aufbaus von Laborarbeit eine neue Arbeitsweise: Dokumentation mittels elektronischer Laborbücher (ELB). Forschende produzieren und nutzen eine bunte Mischung an Daten wie Grafikdateien, Formeln, Tabellen oder ...

Application-specific quality metrics support getting suitable data from large databases to pre-train deep neural networks or getting good statistical measures. Especially when using high-dimensional or multimodal sensor data from industrial processes the small amount of training examples from each device or plant must ...

In the public sector, the use of algorithmic decision-making (ADM) systems can be directly linked to crucial state assistance, such as welfare benefits. Prominent examples such as an algorithm of the Public Employment Service Austria, that predicted below-average placement chances for women, underline the high risks of ...

In fall line cultivation of vineyards, the vines are planted vertically to the hill's slope. Therefore, steep slope vineyards require a high amount of manual labor, doubling production costs. Working in such environments is exhausting and laborious. Therefore, autonomous robots should assist humans in reducing costs and ...