The Institute of Databases and Information Systems (DBIS) is pleased to announce that it will continue its long-term research collaboration with the Daimler AG and receive additional third-party funds. For the year 2015, DBIS has signed another research contract with Daimler AG continuing its internationally well recognized research on methods, concepts and tools enabling the flexible support of automotive engineering processes.

The research contract is related to the PROCEED project, which targets at the integration of product data in the engineering of electric/electronic components for modern vehicles. The PROCEED framework has been developed by Julian Tiedeken. It enables the integration of product data from heterogeneous applications in a common knowledge base. For this purpose, the framework allows for the semi-automated analysis of the complex inter-dependencies between corresponding product data from heterogeneous sources as well as for the mapping of respective schemes. In the newly contracted research, the PROCEED framework will be validated in a real-world application setting.

DBIS has been successfully collaborating with the Daimler AG for more than a decade. From this long-term research collaboration, for which DBIS has received a research grant of more than 1 million Euro so far, seven completed PhD projects resulted. In these projects, groundbreaking research was conducted that has resulted in high-quality publications and sophisticated frameworks for managing large process models, process model collections, and process structures. Current joint projects between DBIS and Daimler include PROCEED, SOPHINA and niPRO.

By continuing its research with the Daimler AG, DBIS further strengthens one of the main research areas of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology, i.e. "Automobile".