It is now time to begin the study of personal genome services based on the interdisciplinary theories and technologies of genomics and artificial intelligence (AI). Although recently much attention has been given to personal genome services for realizing personal medicine, little systematic research has been done on their communication and computational aspects for intelligent wellness service ...

RoboCup was started in 1997 by a group of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics researchers with the following grand challenge, to be achieved by 2050 [9]: “to build a team of robot soccer players, which can beat a human World Cup champion team.” Since then, RoboCup Federation1 established itself as a structured organization and as one of the major events in the research field of Artificial Inte...

Servitization is a grand challenge for all manufacturing companies to extend their business. As main result this paper presents an approach and corresponding research questions on how to integrate servitization in manufacturing businesses by making use of an innovation ecosystem. Companies might benefit from this approach, as it indicates how relevant characteristics to evolve in order to take ...

In March 2010, the Dagstuhl Seminar 10102 explored the grand challenges confronting research and practice in the domain of discrete event logistics systems. This Executive Summary describes the process of the seminar and discusses the key conclusions regarding grand challenges for research and practice. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar are put together in the online proce...

A grand challenge for power grid management lies in how to plan and operate with increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as solar photovoltaics and electric vehicles, which disturb the power grid stability. Existing approaches are unable to verify if a point is on a loadability boundary or characterize all loadability boundary points exactly. This inability leads to ...

Innerhalb der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) hat sich eine Gruppe auf die Suche gemacht nach den „Grand Challenges“ der Informatik. Eine "Grand Challenge" so der Versuch einer Definition stellt ein grundsätzliches Problem in der Informatik oder für die Informatik dar, dessen Lösung mit InformatikHilfsmitteln einen deutlich spürbaren Fortschritt in ökonomischer, sozialer oder gesellschaft...

Information is ubiquitous, and we are flooded with more than we can process. Somehow, we must rely less on visual processing, point-and-click navigation, and manual decision making and more on computer sifting and organization of information and automated negotiation and decision making. A resolution of these problems requires software with semantic understanding—a grand challenge of our time. ...

Due to the technical developments in electronics the amount of digital content is continuously increasing. In order to make digital content respectively multimedia content available to potentially large and geographically distributed consumer populations, Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) are used. The main task of current CDNs is the efficient delivery and increased availability of content ...

Virtual Reality is an exciting new area of human-computer interaction. Its use depends critically on having extremely low response times of the virtual environment to user interaction. The problem of reducing the lag between the user’s head position or orientation changing and the updating of the displayed view has been described as one of the grand challenges of computing. The techniques descr...

This paper reviews some common knowledge about establishing correctness of programs and the current status of program specification and verification. While doing so, it identifies several challenges related to the grand challenge of building a verifying compiler. The paper argues that invariants are central to establishing correctness of programs and that thus, a major part of an automatic prog...