hide random home http://www.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de/index.eng.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)


( gleiche Information in Deutsch)


Welcome to the FORWISS hypermedia information service!

FORWISS is a joint institute of the Erlangen University, Munich Technical University and the Passau University.

Through the Knowledge Bases group, FORWISS is member of the European ESPRIT Network of Excellence IDOMENEUS (Information and Data on Open MEdia for NEtworks of USers) coordinating research on networked multimedia information systems.

In addition to the phone list of our staff, further information about our three labs at Erlangen, München and Passau is available concerning our staff members, addresses, job offers, etc.

Research is conducted in the following groups:

Knowledge Bases (Prof. R. Bayer, PhD, München)

Knowledge Acquisition (Prof. Dr. H. Stoyan, Erlangen)

Knowledge Processing (Prof. Dr. H. Niemann, Erlangen)

Cognitive Systems (Prof. Dr. B. Radig, München)

Decision Support Systems (Prof. Dr. K. Donner, Passau)

Informatics in Business (Prof. Dr. P. Mertens, Erlangen)

Neural Nets & Fuzzy Logic (Dr. P. Protzel, Erlangen)
Special workgroups have been established on the topics Object-Oriented Systems, Neural Nets & Fuzzy Logic and Informatics in Medicine.

Our FORWISS-Reports are waiting for readers; besides, the complete Annual Report of 1992 can be inspected, as well as a list of FORWISS customers (currently in German only).

Please note that we provide only that information in English which is likely to be of any use to a foreign visitor (and which can be translated with reasonable effort).


Please email complaints and suggestions to

Peter Zoller , 1995-02-22