Information exploitation and fusion of heterogeneous data and information

The world of the future will be increasingly digitized and networked. Modern communication technologies enable the dissemination of data and information in (almost) real time. Moreover, technological development in terms of sensors and platforms, databases, etc., as well as network technology and storage capabilities have developed rapidly in recent years, and even mass data can now often be shared and disseminated in a technically straightforward manner. The fusion of heterogeneous data and information is necessary to create a bundled, high-quality information basis for subsequent decisions. It often also makes it possible to recognize valuable connections in the extensive data and information stocks in the first place.

At Fraunhofer IOSB, we develop machine-implementable models and processes that enable IT systems and applications to provide humans with a “cognitive” way of accessing, formalizing, and combining different information contributions and making them usable in the best possible way for solving a specific task.