Semantische Suche

Freitag, 27. Januar 2023, 11:30 Uhr

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Ort: Raum 348 (Gebäude 50.34)
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Vortragende(r) Lea Strauch
Titel Semantic Interoperability in Decentralized Identity Ecosystems
Vortragstyp Bachelorarbeit
Betreuer(in) Ralf Reussner
Vortragsmodus in Präsenz
Kurzfassung In an identity ecosystem, actors exchange digital proofs, so called "credentials". Actors can also take on different roles: "Issuers" generate credentials and issue them to other actors. "Holders" store them and present them to "verifiers", who verify and accept the credential or reject it.

In decentralized identity ecosystems, actors can interact with each other on an equal basis, regardless of their current role. They are not subjected to permanent hierarchies. Instead, they are loosely coupled with each other and where it is possible, intermediaries are avoided.

In this thesis, the "semantic interoperability" of actors in decentralized identity ecosystems are examined. Semantic interoperability aims at a common understanding of credentials for all actors. For this purpose, two things have to be taken into account: First, the understanding of the properties and statements evidenced in the credential, e.g., "What does the content say and what does it not say? What level of trust is guaranteed? What kind of actor issued the credential?" Second, it is about the context of the credential in its own environment, e.g., "Is the evidence of these properties adequate to continue this process? Is the level of trust sufficient?" Regarding this, there are already promising approaches from researchers and practitioners, especially in the area of the "Semantic Web", which is closely connected to the topic of semantic interoperability. This is why we want to collect and classify various existing technologies and standards for creating semantic interoperability. These technologies and standards will also be evaluated for their use on the basis of requirements collected in the project "Schaufenster sichere digitale Identitäten Karlsruhe" (Showcase secure digital identities Karlsruhe).

Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2023, 10:00 Uhr

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Vortragende(r) Christoph Batke
Titel Improving Document Information Extraction with efficient Pre-Training
Vortragstyp Proposal
Betreuer(in) Edouard Fouché
Vortragsmodus online
Kurzfassung SAP Document Information Extraction (DOX) is a service to extract logical entities from scanned documents based on the well-known Transformer architecture. The entities comprise header information such as document date or sender name, and line items from tables on the document with fields such as line item quantity. The model currently needs to be trained on a huge number of labeled documents, which is impractical. Also, this hinders the deployment of the model at large scale, as it cannot easily adapt to new languages or document types. Recently, pretraining large language models with self-supervised learning techniques have shown good results as a preliminary step, and allow reducing the amount of labels required in follow-up steps. However, to generalize self-supervised learning to document understanding, we need to take into account different modalities: text, layout and image information of documents. How to do that efficiently and effectively is unclear yet. The goal of this thesis is to come up with a technique for self-supervised pretraining within SAP DOX. We will evaluate our method and design decisions against SAP data as well as public data sets. Besides the accuracy of the extracted entities, we will measure to what extent our method lets us lower label requirements.

Freitag, 3. März 2023, 11:30 Uhr

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Vortragende(r) Janek Speit
Titel Automated Classification of Design Decision in Software Architecture Documentation
Vortragstyp Masterarbeit
Betreuer(in) Jan Keim
Vortragsmodus in Präsenz
Kurzfassung Die Softwarearchitekturdokumentation (SAD) ist ein integrales Artefakt eines Softwareprojektes. Um die Qualität von SADs zu verbessern und nachgelagerte Aufgaben zu unterstützen, ist eine automatische Klassifizierung dieser Entwurfsentscheidungen erstrebenswert. In dieser Arbeit implementieren und evaluieren wir einen Ansatz zur automatischen Identifikation und Klassifizierung von Entwurfsentscheidungen auf der Grundlage einer feingranularen Taxonomie, bei der wir eine hierarchische Klassifikationsstrategie mit dem Einsatz von Transfer-Lernen durch vortrainierter Sprachmodelle kombinieren. Der Beitrag dieser Arbeit besteht darin, den Vorteil einer hierarchischen Klassifikationsstrategie für die automatische Klassifikation von Entwurfsentscheidungen gegenüber einem nicht-hierarchischen Ansatz zu untersuchen. Außerdem untersuchen und vergleichen wir die Effektivität verschiedener vortrainierter Sprachmodelle.
Vortragende(r) Stefanie Fischer
Titel Faster Feedback Cycles via Integration Testing Strategies for Serverless Edge Computing
Vortragstyp Masterarbeit
Betreuer(in) Robert Heinrich
Vortragsmodus in Präsenz
Kurzfassung Serverless computing allows software engineers to develop applications in the cloud without having to manage the infrastructure. The infrastructure is managed by the cloud provider. Therefore, software engineers treat the underlying infrastructure as a black box and focus on the business logic of the application. This lack of inside knowledge leads to an increased testing difficulty as applications tend to be dependent on the infrastructure and other applications running in the cloud environment. While isolated unit and functional testing is possible, integration testing is a challenge, as reliable results are often only achieved after deploying to the deployment environment because infrastructure specifics and other cloud services are only available in the actual cloud environment. This leads to a laborious development process. For this reason, this thesis deals with creating testing strategies for serverless edge computing to reduce feedback cycles and speed up development time. For evaluation, the developed testing strategies are applied to Lambda@Edge in AWS.

Donnerstag, 9. März 2023, 10:00 Uhr

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Vortragende(r) Dan Jia
Titel Reinforcement Learning for Solving the Knight’s Tour Problem
Vortragstyp Proposal
Betreuer(in) Edouard Fouché
Vortragsmodus online
Kurzfassung The knight’s tour problem is an instance of the Hamiltonian path problem that is a typical NP-hard problem. A knight makes L-shape moves on a chessboard and tries to visit all the squares exactly once. The tour is closed if a knight can finish a complete tour and end on a square that is a neighbourhood of its starting square; Otherwise, it is open. Many algorithms and heuristics have been proposed to solve this problem. The most well-known one is warnsdorff’s heuristic. Warnsdorff’s idea is to move to the square with the fewest possible moves in a greedy fashion. Although this heuristic is fast, it does not always return a closed tour. Also, it only works on boards of certain dimensions. Due to its greedy behaviour, it can get stuck into a local optimum easily. That is similar to the other existing approaches. Our goal in this thesis is to come up with a new strategy based on reinforcement learning. Ideally, it should be able to find a closed tour on chessboards of any size. We will consider several approaches: value-based methods, policy optimization and actor-critic methods. Compared to previous work, our approach is non-deterministic and sees the problem as a single-player game with a tradeoff between exploration and exploitation. We will evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the existing methods and new heuristics.

Freitag, 17. März 2023, 11:30 Uhr

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Vortragende(r) Rakan Al Masri
Titel Generating Causal Domain Knowledge for Cloud Systems Monitoring
Vortragstyp Bachelorarbeit
Betreuer(in) Pawel Bielski
Vortragsmodus in Präsenz
Kurzfassung While standard machine learning approaches rely solely on data to learn relevant patterns, in certain fields, this may not be sufficient. Researchers in the Healthcare domain, have successfully applied causal domain knowledge to improve prediction quality of machine learning models, especially for rare diseases. The causal domain knowledge informs the machine learning model about similar diseases, thus improving the quality of the predictions.

However, some domains, such as Cloud Systems Monitoring, lack readily available causal domain knowledge, and thus the knowledge must be approximated. Therefore, it is important to have a systematic investigation of the processes and design decision that affect the knowledge generation process.

In this study, we showed how causal discovery algorithms can be employed to generate causal domain knowledge from raw textual logs in the Cloud Systems Monitoring domain. We also investigated the impact of various design choices on the domain knowledge generation process through systematic testing across multiple datasets and shared the insights we gained. To our knowledge, this is the first time such an investigation has been conducted.