Information and Software Engineering Group (IFS)

News / Brief Notes

Starting with summer term consultation hours are held again in presence as well as, initially, also via video conferencing. Please use the following link to enter the waiting room of a Zoom session during office hours if you prefer to get in contact on-line: https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/98122298379

The Faculty of Informatics has set up a secure data infrastructure for the COVID19 Future Operations Clearing Board supporting data visiting in a secured and monitored environment to allow researchers to work with sensitive data that cannot be shared. This infrastructure will now be enhanced with support from the European Open Science Cloud via the EOSC-Secretariat Co-Creation framework: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~andi/secure_data_infrastructure.html

The RDA Working Group on Dynamic Data Citation - Making Dynamic Data Citeable (RDA-WGDC) has released the final version of its recommendations, available at https://rd-alliance.org/system/files/documents/RDA-DC-Recommendations_151020.pdf

We have released a number of tools assisting with capturing, documenting, preserving and re-executing research/business processes Software Tools for Resilient Business & e-Science Processes

The SOMToolbox has been released as OpenSource Package. It is written in Java and features a module for SOM training as well as an advanced viewer application, which implements a large range of different visualisations and quality measures of the SOM. These allow in-depth analysis and evaluation of the trained maps and the characteristics of the data, resulting in a powerful tool for data mining.
Details: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dm/somtoolbox