Knowledge represents the intellectual principal of any corporation. Its organization, structure and communication are essential for economic success, customer relations, and strategic planning.

Sustainable corporate governance nowadays requires active and extensive knowledge management based on powerful and efficient organizational memories. The main task is to enable lean, decentralized and continuously learning organizations to act both flexibly and coherently at the same time.

Directed by Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel, the Knowledge Management Department develops technologies that allow to prepare, update, allocate, store and communicate information, data and knowledge precisely and systematically. Our objective is to develop automated personal knowledge assistants that support the configuration of workflows as well as pro-actively provide relevant information in any setting.

Main research topics are:

• Agile Knowledge Workflow
• Business Process Oriented Knowledge Management
• Case-Based Reasoning
• Distributed Organizational Memories
• Document Analysis
• e-Learning
• Explanation-aware Computing
• Multi-Media Content Management
• Music Information Retrieval
• Ontologies
• Semantic Web
• Text 2.0
  
  

The following Competence Centers are located at the Knowledge Management Department:

• Competence Center Computational Culture
• Competence Center Human Centered Visualization
• Competence Center Semantic Web
• Competence Center Virtual Office of the Future
  
  

Our services include:

• Application-oriented fundamental research
• Evaluation and benchmarking of AI Systems
• Problem-oriented, tailor-made application development
• Artificial Intelligence components for complex software systems
• Realization of pilot studies
• Feasibility studies and consulting

Head: Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel
Deputy Head: Dr. rer. nat. Ansgar Bernardi

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

Phone: +49 (0)631 / 205-75 101
Fax: +49 (0)631 / 205-75 102
eMail: Brigitte.Selzer@dfki.de