Institute for Complex Networks
We are part of the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Most complex systems have an underlying network structure. Examples of such networked systems include social networks, power grids, financial/economic networks, software-dependency networks, transportation systems, or computer networks. Our institute focuses on the (data) analysis of complex networked systems. See our research snapshot.
Research & Development Projects
HybriDLUX (Hybrid Domain-specific Language User EXperience)
Duration: 2019-2021
Contact: Prof. Dr. Stefan Sobernig
Description: HybriDLUX (Hybrid Domain-specific Language User EXperience) is a three-year national research project on improving the ease-of-use of DSL and DSL-based software-development tooling in industry, funded by the Austrian research funding association (FFG) within the funding programme ICT of the Future (6th call 2017) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), contract #867535. Four partner organisations contribute to HybriDLUX: AVL List GmbH, EclipseSource Services Vienna, TU Wien and WU Vienna. The project started in the first quarter of 2019 and is a continuation of the successful exploratory project DLUX (FFG #855465, ICT of the Future, 4th call).
Duration: 2019-2021
Contact: Prof. Dr. Stefan Sobernig
Description: HybriDLUX (Hybrid Domain-specific Language User EXperience) is a three-year national research project on improving the ease-of-use of DSL and DSL-based software-development tooling in industry, funded by the Austrian research funding association (FFG) within the funding programme ICT of the Future (6th call 2017) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), contract #867535. Four partner organisations contribute to HybriDLUX: AVL List GmbH, EclipseSource Services Vienna, TU Wien and WU Vienna. The project started in the first quarter of 2019 and is a continuation of the successful exploratory project DLUX (FFG #855465, ICT of the Future, 4th call).
DLUX - Domain Specific Language User Experience
Duration: 2017 - 2019
Contact: Dr. Stefan Sobernig
Description: DLUX (Domain-specific Language User EXperience) is a one-year national exploratory research project funded by the Austrian research funding association (FFG) within the funding programme ICT of the Future (4th call 2015) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), contract #855465. Three partner organisations contribute to DLUX: AVL List GmbH, EclipseSource Services Vienna, and WU Vienna.
Duration: 2017 - 2019
Contact: Dr. Stefan Sobernig
Description: DLUX (Domain-specific Language User EXperience) is a one-year national exploratory research project funded by the Austrian research funding association (FFG) within the funding programme ICT of the Future (4th call 2015) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), contract #855465. Three partner organisations contribute to DLUX: AVL List GmbH, EclipseSource Services Vienna, and WU Vienna.
Learn@WU
Duration: 2001-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: The main objective of Learn@WU was to provide an electronic learning environment for students and faculty in order to support the University's mass courses. However, it was not the goal to introduce a new distance education program (and to attract even more students).
Duration: 2001-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: The main objective of Learn@WU was to provide an electronic learning environment for students and faculty in order to support the University's mass courses. However, it was not the goal to introduce a new distance education program (and to attract even more students).
OpenACS
Duration: 1995-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: OpenACS is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. OpenACS is the foundation for many products and websites, including the .LRN (pronounced "dot learn") e-learning platform.
Duration: 1995-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: OpenACS is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. OpenACS is the foundation for many products and websites, including the .LRN (pronounced "dot learn") e-learning platform.
Next Scripting Framework
Duration: 2011-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: NX is a highly flexible, Tcl-based, object-oriented scripting language. It is a descendant of XOTcl and was designed based on 10 years of experience with XOTcl in projects containing several hundred thousand lines of code. While XOTcl was the first language designed to provide language support for design patterns and to provide a highly dynamic programming environment, the Next Scripting Framework (NSF) and NX add to these features support for language-oriented programming.
Duration: 2011-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: NX is a highly flexible, Tcl-based, object-oriented scripting language. It is a descendant of XOTcl and was designed based on 10 years of experience with XOTcl in projects containing several hundred thousand lines of code. While XOTcl was the first language designed to provide language support for design patterns and to provide a highly dynamic programming environment, the Next Scripting Framework (NSF) and NX add to these features support for language-oriented programming.
NaviServer
Duration: 2005-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: NaviServer is a programmable web server written in C and Tcl. It offers many features for building custom web sites. The implementation is high performance, but the interface is easy to use, at both the C and Tcl level.
Duration: 2005-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: NaviServer is a programmable web server written in C and Tcl. It offers many features for building custom web sites. The implementation is high performance, but the interface is easy to use, at both the C and Tcl level.
PENNI: Richtlinienbasiertes Internet der nächsten Generation
Duration: March 2020 to August 2022
Contact: Sabrina Kirrane
Description: The Policy Enabled Next geNeration Internet (PENNI) project will lay the foundations for a policy, trust and transparency enabled decentralised Next Generation Internet (NGI), that can support intelligent agents that act on behalf of humans. Our hypothesis being that decentralized applications that are able to understand constraints (in the form of goals, preferences, norms and usage restrictions) together with trust and transparency mechanisms will give citizens more control over how their data is utilised and will foster trustworthiness in NGI applications, such as intelligent agents.
Duration: March 2020 to August 2022
Contact: Sabrina Kirrane
Description: The Policy Enabled Next geNeration Internet (PENNI) project will lay the foundations for a policy, trust and transparency enabled decentralised Next Generation Internet (NGI), that can support intelligent agents that act on behalf of humans. Our hypothesis being that decentralized applications that are able to understand constraints (in the form of goals, preferences, norms and usage restrictions) together with trust and transparency mechanisms will give citizens more control over how their data is utilised and will foster trustworthiness in NGI applications, such as intelligent agents.
Supporting Educators' Pedagogical Activities with 360°-Video
Duration: September 2019 - August 2022
Contact: Michael S. Feurstein
Description: The SEPA360 project – Supporting Educators’ Pedagogical Activities with 360°-video – is a European funded, Erasmus+ project for lectures, researchers and universities working, or looking to engage with the learning opportunities brought about by innovative 360 video cameras. The project aims to demonstrate how the effective use of 360 video can support and enhance the learning of university students by immersing them in real life video scenarios that they can manipulate to view as if they were actually there. The partners are developing a unique interactive platform for these video scenarios that will allow lecturers to embed hotspots, hyperlinks and other interactive media within the 360 video and will also track their student’s interactions and movements through these scenarios.
Duration: September 2019 - August 2022
Contact: Michael S. Feurstein
Description: The SEPA360 project – Supporting Educators’ Pedagogical Activities with 360°-video – is a European funded, Erasmus+ project for lectures, researchers and universities working, or looking to engage with the learning opportunities brought about by innovative 360 video cameras. The project aims to demonstrate how the effective use of 360 video can support and enhance the learning of university students by immersing them in real life video scenarios that they can manipulate to view as if they were actually there. The partners are developing a unique interactive platform for these video scenarios that will allow lecturers to embed hotspots, hyperlinks and other interactive media within the 360 video and will also track their student’s interactions and movements through these scenarios.
Knowledge Graphs at Scale (KnowGraphs)
Duration: October 2019 to September 2023
Contact: Sabrina Kirrane
Description: Knowledge graphs (KGs) are a flexible knowledge representation paradigm intended to allow knowledge to be consumed by humans and machines. Hence, they are regarded as a key enabler for a number of technologies including question answering, personal assistants and artificial intelligence across all sectors including Industry 4.0, personalized medicine, legislation, economics and more.
Duration: October 2019 to September 2023
Contact: Sabrina Kirrane
Description: Knowledge graphs (KGs) are a flexible knowledge representation paradigm intended to allow knowledge to be consumed by humans and machines. Hence, they are regarded as a key enabler for a number of technologies including question answering, personal assistants and artificial intelligence across all sectors including Industry 4.0, personalized medicine, legislation, economics and more.