Industry partners
AVL is one of the world’s leading mobility technology companies for development, simulation and testing in the automotive industry, and beyond. From ideation phase to serial production, the company covers vehicle architectures and platform solutions including the impact of new propulsion systems and energy carriers. As a global technology provider, AVL’s offerings range from simulation, virtualization and test automation for product development to ADAS/AD and vehicle software. The company combines state-of-the-art and highly scalable IT, software and technology solutions with its application know-how, thereby offering customers extensive tools in areas such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity or Embedded Systems.
AVL’s passion is innovation. Together with 11,200 employees at more than 90 locations and with 45 Tech and Engineering Centers worldwide, AVL is supporting customers in their mobility ambitions. In 2022, the company generated a turnover of 1.86 billion Euros, of which 11 % are invested in R&D activities to ensure continuous innovation.
EclipseSource stands out as a top-tier provider in the Eclipse ecosystem, specializing in open-source tool platforms and technologies. With offices in Austria, Germany, and France, our focus is on developing cutting-edge web-based IDEs and modeling tools, leveraging our leadership in open-source projects such as Eclipse Theia, GLSP, EMF Cloud, and Eclipse CDT Cloud. We’re at the forefront of incorporating state-of-the-art technologies like LSP and DAP, and we’re innovating by integrating advanced AI capabilities into custom IDEs and modeling tools. Our comprehensive offerings include sponsored open-source development, bespoke integration solutions, dedicated developer support, and specialized consulting and training across a wide array of Eclipse technologies.
GUEP Software GmbH is an ITC company based in Graz with a focus on accompanying our customer’s innovative IT projects. GUEP has been developing customer-specific IT solutions for more than 20 years and covers the entire process of full-stack software engineering. GUEP stands for years of experience in developing complex software projects in the automotive, energy and education sectors. The product PiReM Systems contributes to the sustainable asset management of supply networks in the areas of water, gas, electricity, and district heating.
Contributions to HybridAIR are based on experience in the two relevant domains of automotive and critical infrastructure. GUEP will transfer insights from one domain to another in the form of a feasibility study for critical infrastructures. To guarantee quality, usability, and applicability of the studies’ results the view of external consumers is integrated based on workshops and reviews.
Research partners
The Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, Graz University of Technology (TU-ISDS) performs research on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to make systems interactive and adaptive to humans based on data, and to support humans to interactively create insights from data. The Institute is home to several research groups that focus on topics such as Recommender Systems and Social Computing, Human-Computer-Interaction, Games Engineering, Immersive Analytics, or Data Science and Data Management. Assoc. Prof. PD DI Dr. Elisabeth Lex is a tenured associate professor at Graz University of Technology as well as the principal investigator of the Recommender Systems and Social Computing Lab and will lead all activities with regard to the multi-stakeholder recommender systems.
The Department of Information Systems and Operations Management (ISOM) at WU Vienna is a hub of research excellence, with a team of researchers who are experts in areas such as information systems (“Wirtschaftsinformatik”), artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and supply chain management. Focused on software-language engineering and empirical software engineering, the Institute for Complex Networks is actively engaged in world-class international (Sven Apel, University of Saarbrücken) and national collaborations (Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna; Manuel Wimmer, JKU). Among its key staff is Assoc. Prof. PD Dr. Stefan Sobernig, a postdoctoral researcher with several years of experience in conducting academic and applied research in the area of model-based engineering and empirical software engineering. He will lead project management efforts and supervise all aspects related to domain engineering and field evaluation.