The Virtual Office of the Future competence center, a joint facility of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), is a unique research platform for document and knowledge management as well as software engineering. The competence center aims to establish research and development partnerships with companies and to invent innovative products in the field of intelligent office applications.

The Kaiserslautern-based DFKI focuses on innovative knowledge work in modern office environments and develops new solutions to support both reactive and proactive exchange of context-specific knowledge, individual and organizational process know-how, and goal-oriented information extraction. The background of these activities is the realization that modern knowledge-intensive work processes are not possible without effective office tasks. Corporate revenue and modern productivity rest on the structured management of information and knowledge sources in dynamic and goal-oriented process structures. The demands of a flexible, time and spatially distributed, potentially global work organization on the one hand, and the technical possibilities of modern information and communication techniques on the other will lead to completely new forms of cooperative, distributed and ad-hoc organized problem solving.

Head: Dr. Heiko Maus

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German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH
Trippstadter Strasse 122
D-67663 Kaiserslautern
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)631 / 205 75-1110
Fax: +49 (0)631 / 205 75-1420
eMail: Heiko Maus