Peter Friess

The Institute For Desirable Being

The Metaverse is now promoted as the successor to the Internet. However, several questions remain: what are perspectives and use cases of the metaverse? Who drives is? Are we going to spend our entire life in a virtual world? How to engage people to develop a or several metaverse(s) which is/are beneficial for them and for the world rather being po...

THE_OTHERVERSE is an artwork exploring resilience as a proactive artistic attitude. Inspired by the revisited idea of a "Wunderkammer" for multidisciplinary exploration and as a representation of microcosms of the world, the artwork features a contemporary cabinet of curiosities with AI-generated content of other forms of existence and expands the...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can provide novel insight into how complex lifeforms will evolve. Investigating the hypothesis that this evolution will follow the 15 fundamental properties listed in Christopher Alexander’s Nature of Order, this art project recruits AI to impersonate Socrates and domain experts to probe refutational and constructive el...

The book aims to provide a broad overview of various topics of the Internet of Things (IoT) from the research and development priorities to enabling technologies, architecture, security, privacy, interoperability and industrial applications. It is intended to be a stand-alone book in a series that covers the Internet of Things activities of the IER...

Internet of Things (IoT) enables the objects in our environment to become active participants, i.e., they share information with other members of the network or with any other stakeholder and they are capable of recognizing events and changes in their surroundings and of acting and reacting autonomously in an appropriate manner. In this context the...

Foreword by Peter Friess & Gérald Santuci: It goes without saying that we are very content to publish this Clusterbook and to leave it today to your hands. The Cluster of European Research projects on the Internet of Things – CERP-IoT – comprises around 30 major research initiatives, platforms and networks work-ing in the field of identification te...

Gestaltung eines PM-Modells unter Anwendung neuer systemtheoretischer Konzepte zur Verbesserung des Projekterfolges. Projektmanagement fuer den tiefgreifenden organisatorischen Wandel mittelgrosser Einheiten. Design of a PM model using new system-theoretical concepts to improve project success. Project management for the far-reaching organisationa...