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Our research group is involved with several Asian universities (mostly in Hong Kong and Malaysia). We are glad to report to have received additional funding from BayFOR and FAU of about EUR 10.000 to continue our engagement with Malaysian universities. We intend to use the funds to drive forward our...

Today, the Inner Source Processes project started. It is funded by Elektrobit. For more information, please see bit.ly/fau-oss-inner.

Starting 2015-01-01, FAU is raising the overhead percentage for industry projects to 20%, up from 10%, to be included in any project offer made to industry. Overhead is used to pay for common costs (heating, electricity, machinery, etc.) at the university; those are typically not covered by specific...

The open access week at FAU started yesterday, informing researchers and interested parties about the ways of open access publishing. I'm stuck with teaching and administrative matters, so I sadly couldn't attend the opening talk by Mr Putnings; thankfully, they sent the slides around. While no lice...

HD-Diff is a tree-based algorithm to compute the differences between two documents. The algorithm was presented in a paper at the DocEng 2014 conference. Unlike other tree-based differencing algorithms HD-Diff can look into text nodes, splits them when necessary and produces a very fine-grained edi...

Abstract: Detecting and understanding changes between document revisions is an important task. The acquired knowledge can be used to classify the nature of a new document revision or to support a human editor in the review process. While purely textual change detection algorithms offer fine-gra...

Two years after our first public release of the Google-Sponsored Sweble 2.0 Alpha, we are happy to announce the release of Sweble 2.0! The most important innovation in the alpha release was the introduction of the engine component which allowed full Mediawiki template expansion. Since then many oth...

Die Graduiertenschule der FAU hat einen Leitfaden für die gute Praxis in der Promotion veröffentlicht. Externe Doktoranden sollten diesen Leitfaden vor einem Gespräch mit Prof. Riehle durcharbeiten, um ihre Erwartungshaltung für sich zu klären.

This post is joined at the hip with the prior post on University Job vs. Dissertation (Ph.D.) Work. If you haven't read that one, please do so first. This post mostly applies to the German system. Depending on who you ask, you will get different answers. A professor may say: "You can get a Ph.D. ...

Updated 2020-04-03 for better reading. To understand the German Ph.D. system, it is helpful to understand the difference between a university job and doctoral (dissertation) work. Many confuse the two; they are orthogonal (but do interact). A university job is just that: a job. You are em...