Daniel Burkhardt

• Master of Science
• Research Assistant at Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institut

In the immersive complexity of digital innovation, data-driven solution design often begins with a specific technology or potential solution already in mind. However, this predisposition narrows the design space and reduces the probability of discovering more suitable or novel alternatives. This thesis introduces a formally developed ontology to su...

This document is intended to define requirements for the use of large language models (LLMs) for the construction or validation of knowledge graphs (KGs) and – vice versa – for the use of knowledge graphs for generative large language models, e.g. to avoid hallucinations and generate factually more correct answers. Since this is a very dynamic and...

Digitale Menüplanung in der Außer-Haus-Verpflegung zur Erhöhung des bioregionalen Speiseanteils - eine technische Machbarkeitsstudie

Germany has a tradition of out-of-home catering in companies, education, and public administration. In 2021 the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture passed a law to increase the proportion of organic food in out-of-home catering up to 20 percent until 2025 (Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture 2021). The southwestern state Baden-Würt...

In contrast to the motivation of process improvements, many companies today face a high degree of complexity. The complexity is due to an increased dependency on partners, a rise in the amount of data and the proximity to customers. Digitalization enables companies to address this dependency but need decision-making in an even more complex environm...

“We know what you want” – the tagline used by author Marc-Uwe Kling in his novel, QualityLand, for an online e-commerce platform called TheShop. Data evaluations predict what customers actually want – consciously or subconsciously. Products are then sent to them by drones, without even needing to place an order. And as they open the package, the “u...

Data silos in many system landscapes complicate the creation of comprehensive information. Distributed Ledger Technology enables trust between assets via a distributed, secure and immutable storage of transactions. Deep Learning realizes intelligence to make decisions, conduct them and analyze their results based on the gathered data. In order to c...

The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the fusion of the physical and digital world which enables assets on the edge to send data to a platform where it gets analyzed. Defined actions are then triggered to influence cross-functional edge activities. Furthermore, on the platform tier functionalities and relations need to be identified and implemente...

With the emergence of Internet platforms in the manufacturing domain, new implications have evolved for existing businesses which force them to find new business areas or adapt their products and services in order to create added value. Furthermore, generic platforms build on these domain specific platforms to offer services across business areas,...

In the course of increasing the flexibility in the area of production, industrial enterprises have been presented with cyber-physical production systems (CPPS). Through the use of autonomously acting CPPS and CPPS components–which often receive multi-agent systems as their corresponding cyber parts–new challenges arise from the need for flexibility...

With the emergence of platforms in the manufacturing domain new implications evolve for existing businesses and force them to find new business areas or adapt its products and services in order to create added value. Furthermore, generic platforms build up on these specified platforms to offer services across domains which creates additional disrup...

Distributed Ledger (DL) has gained huge attention in the last years and will shift the conduction of business in the future. Until today, because of the great dynamics in the field a systematic approach to structure and define the field of DL does not exist. This led to a heterogeneous landscape of DL definitions and thus, misleading discussions. T...

It explains the basic principles of Distributed Ledger and describes its integration into the IoT

2 days content: business and technical deep dive, IoT integration, potentials, group work, prototyping

It is about the question how Blockchain and the Industrial Internet support the value creation of IoT Platforms

0,5 – 1 day DL basics, IoT integration, technology impacts, group work

2009 stellte eine Person oder Gruppe unter dem Pseudonym „Satoshi Nakamoto“ die digitale Währung Bitcoin vor, mit der Absicht die Bankenwelt zu disruptieren. Bitcoin ist ein prominentes Beispiel für sogenannte Blockchain-Protokolle. Daniel Burkhardt, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institut in Stuttgart, erklärt die Vielfalt v...

It speaks about the IIC and micro testbed which is a form of creating proof of concepts in a ecosystem.