Biography

Edy Portmann is chairman of the Mobiliar Cluster for Resilience and professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Fribourg. He is heading the resilient systems group at the Human-IST Institute, which focuses on computational ethics, computing with words, fuzzy systems, and perceptual computing. After an apprenticeship in electrotechnics, he studied business informatics and got a doctorate in fuzzy logic. He worked for EY, PwC and Swisscom, and was a researcher at the Universities of Berkeley, Bern and Singapore.

Research and publications

• Publication list
  193 publications

  FuzzyArcLoss: Dynamic margin adjustment for robust recognition across domains
  Expert Systems with Applications (2025) | Journal article

  Weighted multi-criteria decision-making with coalition strategies: a framework for citizens public participation
  Central European Journal of Operations Research (2025) | Journal article

  Evaluation of Public Services Through the Lens of Digital Ethics
  Conference on Digital Government Research (2025) | Journal article

  Fuzzy Design Science Research
  Edy Portmann, Gwen Wilke, Luis Téran, Sara D’Onofrio (2025) | Other

  FuzzyArcLoss: Dynamic Margin Adjustment for Robust Recognition Across Domains
  (2025) | Journal article

  Chatbots with Character - An Implementation of Fuzzy Conversational Character Computing
  Ramón Christen, Sophie Hundertmark, Edy Portmann (2025) | Book chapter

  Rezension „Literary Theory for Robots“
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2024) | Journal article

  Interaktionen in der Konversationstheorie und auf Basis eines Rechnens mit Worten
  Edy Portmann (2024) | Book chapter

  Grateful Chatbots: Public Sensemaking through Individual Gratitude Interventions
  Edy Portmann, Timo Schuler, (3.4.2023) | Conference

  Applied Large-Scale Group Decision Making Using Systemic Consensus and Fuzzy Method of Comparative Linguistic Expressions
  Edy Portmann, Benjamin Emmenegger, Georgiana Bigea (2023) | Book chapter

  Rezension „The Psychology of Totalitarianism“
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2022) | Journal article

  Gefühltes Wissen?
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2022) | Journal article

  Computational Ethics
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2022) | Journal article

  Rezension „The Age of A.I.: And Our Human Future“
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2022) | Journal article

  HMD 344 Digitale Ethik im KI-Zeitalter
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2022) | Journal article

  Distance Metrics for Evaluating the Use of Exogenous Data in Load Forecasting
  Ramón Christen, Luca Mazzola, Alexander Denzler, Edy Portmann (2022) | Book chapter

  A Methodology for Mapping Perceived Spatial Qualities
  Moreno Colombo, Jhonny Pincay, Oleg Lavrovsky, Laura Iseli, Joris van Wezemael, Edy Portmann (2022) | Book chapter

  GISTAM - Forecasting Travel Times with Space Partitioning Methods.
  Jhonny Pincay and Alvin Oti Mensah and Edy Portmann and Luis Terán (SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2020) | Book

  Schlusspunkt: Demokratie in Zeiten des Internets – (m)ein Reifungsprozess
  Informatik Spektrum (2020) | Journal article

  Semantic Similarity Between Adjectives and Adverbs—The Introduction of a New Measure
  Moreno Colombo and Edy Portmann (Germany: Springer International Publishing, 2020) | Book chapter

  A Proposal for an Explainable Fuzzy-based Deep Learning System for Skin Cancer Prediction
  Servio Lima and Luis Teran and Edy Portmann, 2020 Seventh International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG): IEEE (2020) | Conference

  Editorisches Interview: Demokratie in Zeiten des Internets
  Informatik Spektrum (2020) | Journal article

  Jingle Jungle Maps - Capturing Urban Sounds and Emotions in Maps
  Timo Spring and Donat Ajro and Jhonny Pincay and Moreno Colombo and Edy Portmann, 2020 Seventh International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG): IEEE (2020) | Conference

  Partitioning Space to Identify En-Route Movement Patterns
  Jhonny Pincay and Alvin Oti Mensah and Edy Portmann and Luis Teran, 2020 Seventh International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG): IEEE (2020) | Conference

  Artificial Intelligence – The Mindfire Foundation and Other Initiatives
  Moreno Colombo and Edy Portmann and Pascal Kaufmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2020) | Book chapter

  A Framework for a Crowdsourced Creation of Smart City Wheels
  Moreno Colombo and Saskia Hurle and Edy Portmann and Elias Schafer, 2020 Seventh International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG): IEEE (2020) | Conference

  Chatbots bei der Schweizerischen Post
  Toni Stucki and Sara D’Onofrio and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Wir gehören ins Team Human
  Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  essentials - Fuzzy Humanist: Trilogie Teil III: Von der Fuzzy-Logik zum Computing with Words
  Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book

  Herausforderungen in der digitalen Transformation
  Toni Stucki and Sara D’Onofrio and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  essentials - Fuzzy Leadership: Trilogie Teil I: Von den Wurzeln der Fuzzy-Logik bis zur smarten Gesellschaft
  Edy Portmann and Andreas Meier (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book

  Rezension „Small Data“
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2019) | Journal article

  Theoretische Grundlagen zu Chatbots
  Toni Stucki and Sara D’Onofrio and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Health Recommender Systems: A State-of-the-Art Review
  IEEE (2019) | Conference

  Frage-Antwort-Systeme als Computing with Words Use Case
  Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  essentials - Fuzzy Management: Trilogie Teil II: Einsatz der unscharfen Logik für Business Intelligence
  Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book

  Erfahrungsberichte
  Toni Stucki and Sara D’Onofrio and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Kollektive Intelligenz fürs Team Human
  Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Portfolio Management
  Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Zeitreise
  Edy Portmann and Andreas Meier (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  A Fuzzy-Based Recommender System: Case Börsenspiel for Swiss Universities
  José Mancera and Minh Tue Nguyen and Edy Portmann (Springer International Publishing, 2019) | Book chapter

  Zum μ der unscharfen Logik
  Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Ontological Design for Cognitive Cities: The New Principle for Future Urban Management
  Sara D’Onofrio and Astrid Habenstein and Edy Portmann (IGI Global, 2019) | Book chapter

  essentials - Chatbots gestalten mit Praxisbeispielen der Schweizerischen Post: HMD Best Paper Award 2018
  Toni Stucki and Sara D’Onofrio and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book

  Human Smart Cities
  Edy Portmann and Andreas Meier (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Performance Measurement und Controlling
  Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Wo führt die Reise hin
  Edy Portmann and Andreas Meier (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Fuzzy Leadership
  Edy Portmann and Andreas Meier (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Das Tao des Computing with Words
  Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Online-Reputationsmanagement
  Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  eSociety Reloaded
  Edy Portmann and Andreas Meier (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Fuzzy Logic = Computing with Words
  Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Fazit zur bewussten und unbewussten Business Intelligence
  Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  ICEIS (Revised Selected Papers) - A Fuzzy Reasoning Process for Conversational Agents in Cognitive Cities.
  Germany: Springer International Publishing (2019) | Conference

  Weiterentwicklung
  Toni Stucki and Sara D’Onofrio and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019) | Book chapter

  Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to Arouse Learning Processes in Cities , in Designing Cognitive Cities
  Sara D’Onofrio and Elpiniki Papageorgiou and Edy Portmann (Springer, 2018) | Book chapter

  A Dynamic Route Planning Prototype for Cognitive Cities , in Designing Cognitive Cities
  Patrick Kaltenrieder and Jorge Parra and Thomas Krebs and Noémie Zurlinden and Edy Portmann and Thomas Myrach, ed. by Edy Portmann and Marco E. Tabacchi and Rudolf Seising and Astrid Habenstein (Springer, 2018) | Book chapter

  FUZZ-IEEE - Fuzzy Reasoning in Cognitive Cities : An Exploratory Work on Fuzzy Analogical Reasoning Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
  IEEE (2018) | Conference

  Eine Architektur zur Transformation von Städten in Human Smart Cities
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2018) | Journal article

  Rezension „Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy“
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2018) | Journal article

  Wohin führen uns Distributed-Ledger-Technologien?
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2018) | Journal article

  Cognitive Computing - Theoretische Grundlagen und Praxisbeispiele der Schweizerischen Post
  Informatik Spektrum (2018) | Journal article

  An Exploration of Creative Reasoning
  Enric Trillas and Sara D’Onofrio and Edy Portmann (Springer International Publishing, 2018) | Book chapter

  Designing Cognitive Cities
  Marco Elio Tabacchi and Edy Portmann and Rudolf Seising and Astrid Habenstein (Springer International Publishing, 2018) | Book chapter

  Cognitive Computing – Teil 2
  Informatik Spektrum (2018) | Journal article

  ICEIS (1) - Fuzzy Analogical Reasoning in Cognitive Cities - A Conceptual Framework for Urban Dialogue Systems.
  SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications (2018) | Conference

  Chatbot – Der digitale Helfer im Unternehmen: Praxisbeispiele der Schweizerischen Post
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2018) | Journal article

  Cognitive Computing
  Informatik-Spektrum (2018) | Journal article

  ?Züri wie neu ?: Public Value von Online-Partizipation
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2017) | Journal article

  Advancing Cognitive Cities with Web of Things , in New Advances in the Internet of Things
  Sara D’Onofrio and Simone Marina Franzelli and Edy Portmann, ed. by Ronald R Yager and Jordán Pascual Espada (Springer International Publishing, 2017) | Book chapter

  Cognitive Computing in Smart Cities
  Informatik-Spektrum (2017) | Journal article

  Striving for Semantic Convergence with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Graph Databases
  Sara D’Onofrio and Marcel Wehrle and Edy Portmann and Thomas Myrach, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems: (2017) | Conference

  The Gradual Arrival of Fuzziness in Switzerland
  Archives for the Philosophie and History of Soft Computing (2017) | Journal article

  Sharing-Konzepte in Smart Cities: Praxisbeispiele der PostAuto Schweiz AG
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2017) | Journal article

  Analyzing and Integrating Dynamic Profiles on Voting Advice Applications
  Luis Teràn and Ulzhan Kakenova and Edy Portmann, 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance: (2017) | Conference

  FUZZ-IEEE - Striving for semantic convergence with fuzzy cognitive maps and graph databases
  IEEE (2017) | Conference

  Was ist „Wirtschaftsinformatik in Action“? Eine Wegleitung zu den folgenden Kapiteln
  Edy Portmann and Daniel Risch (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2017) | Book chapter

  A Proposal for the Next Generation of Courier Delivery and Storage in the Shared Economy
  Joël Vogt and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2017) | Book chapter

  Lösungsansätze für die Städte der Zukunft
  Innovative Verwaltung (2017) | Journal article

  Wirtschaftsinformatik in Theorie und Praxis - Wirtschaftsinformatik in Theorie und Praxis
  Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2017) | Book

  Gestaltungs- und praxisorientierte Promotionsarbeiten im Spannungsfeld zwischen Anwendung und Forschung
  Dona Mommsen and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2017) | Book chapter

  Wozu ist Soft Computing nützlich? Reflexionen anhand der Smart-City-Forschung
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2017) | Journal article

  The Application of Fuzzy Logic for Managerial Decision Making Processes - The Application of Fuzzy Logic for Managerial Decision Making Processes: Latest Research and Case Studies
  Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann and Kilian Stoffel and Luis Tern (Springer International Publishing, 2017) | Book

  „Züri wie neu “: Public Value von Online-Partizipation
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2017) | Journal article

  Synthetische Modellierung von Informationssystemen
  Michael Kaufmann and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2017) | Book chapter

  Advancing Cognitive Cities with the Web of Things
  Sara D’Onofrio and Simone Marina Franzelli and Edy Portmann (Germany: Springer International Publishing, 2017) | Book chapter

  The Application of Fuzzy Logic for Managerial Decision Making Processes Latest Research and Case Studies 1st ed 2017 Edition
  Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann and Kilian Stoffel (2017) | Other

  ICEGOV - Analyzing and Integrating Dynamic Profiles on Voting Advice Applications
  ACM Press (2017) | Conference

  Enhanced Knowledge Management by Synchronizing Mind Maps and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
  Sara D’Onofrio and Edy Portmann and Patrick Kaltenrieder and Thomas Myrach (2016) | Other

  Granular computing as a tool of human data interaction - a cognitive cities use case
  Granular Computing (2016) | Journal article

  Personal Digital Assistant 2.0 - A Software Prototype for Cognitive Cities
  Patrick Kaltenrieder and Timur Altun and Sara D’Onofrio and Edy Portmann and Thomas Myrach, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2016): IEEE (2016) | Conference

  Cognitive Cities: An Application for Nairobi. Text Message Participation of Slum Inhabitants to Improve Sanitary Facilities , in Towards cognitive cities: advances in cognitive computing and its applications to the governance of large urban systems
  Sara D’Onofrio and Noémie Zurlinden and Dominique Gadient and Edy Portmann, ed. by Edy Portmann and Matthias Finger (Springer International Publishing, 2016) | Book chapter

  Synchronizing Mind Maps with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Decision-Finding in Cognitive Cities
  Sara D’Onofrio and Noémie Zurlinden and Edy Portmann and Patrick Kaltenrieder and Thomas Myrach, New York: ACM (2016) | Conference

  Zukunftsstandort digitale Schweiz Voraussetzungen und Potenziale des elektronischen Bürgerdossiers für Schweizer Bürger/innen und Einwohner/innen
  Matthias Finger and Annett Laube-Rosenpflanzer and Edy Portmann and Christian Jaag and Pascal Sieber and Denis Morel and Urs Stalder and Peter Nobs and Renato Gunc and Alfred Bertschinger and Georg Ständike , Verein eGov Schweiz , eGov schweiz innovation and network (2016) | Other

  Open Smart City: Good Governance für smarte Städte , in Smart City - Strategie, Governance und Projekte
  Astrid Habenstein and Sara D’Onofrio and Edy Portmann and Matthias Stürmer and Thomas Myrach, ed. by Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann (Wiesbaden: Springer, 2016) | Book chapter

  Digital Personal Assistant for Cognitive Cities: A Paper Prototype , in Towards cognitive cities: advances in cognitive computing and its applications to the governance of large urban systems
  Patrick Kaltenrieder and Elpiniki Papageorgiou and Edy Portmann (Springer International Publishing, 2016) | Book chapter

  Intuitive Knowledge Connectivity: Design and Proto-typing of Cross-Platform Knowledge Networks
  Michael Kaufmann and Andreas Waldis and Patrick Siegfried and Gwendolin Wilke and Edy Portmann and Matthias Hemmje, KSEM 2016: (2016) | Conference

  Transforming Fuzzy Graphs into Linguistic Variables
  Marc Osswald and Marcel Wehrle and Edy Portmann and Alex Denzler, NAFIPS'2016 conference: IEEE IExplore (2016) | Conference

  Smarte Logistik- und Mobilitätslösungen für die Stadt der Zukunft: Entwicklungsbeispiele der Schweizerischen Post , in Smart City - Strategie, Governance und Projekte
  Claudia Pletscher and Stefan Regli and Roman Cueni and Thierry Golliard and Edy Portmann (Springer, 2016) | Book chapter

  Städte und Gemeinden im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung
  Edy Portmann , Netzmedien , IT for Gov (2016) | Other

  PostGrid: Das smarte Netzwerk der Schweizerischen Post für eine intelligentere Stadt
  Edy Portmann and Stefan Metzger , Springer , Informatik-Spektrum (2016) | Other

  Transdisziplinarität als Antwort auf die digitale Transformation
  Edy Portmann and Claudia Pletscher , Departement Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Universität Bern , BeWL Departement Betriebswirtschaftslehre (2016) | Other

  Verbalization of Dependencies Between Concepts Built Through Fuzzy Cognitive Maps , in Towards cognitive cities: advances in cognitive computing and its applications to the governance of large urban systems
  Marcel Wehrle and Marc Osswald and Edy Portmann, ed. by Edy Portmann and Matthias Finger (Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016) | Book chapter

  Smart City. Strategie, Governance und Projekte
  Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2016) | Book

  FUZZ-IEEE - Personal digital assistant 2.0 — A software prototype for cognitive cities
  IEEE (2016) | Conference

  What Are Cognitive Cities
  Matthias Finger and Edy Portmann (Springer International Publishing, 2016) | Book chapter

  Granular computing as a basis of human–data interaction: a cognitive cities use case
  Springer Science and Business Media LLC (2016) | Conference

  NAFIPS - Transforming fuzzy graphs into linguistic variables
  IEEE (2016) | Conference

  KSEM - Intuitive Knowledge Connectivity: Design and Prototyping of Cross-Platform Knowledge Networks
  Germany: Springer International Publishing (2016) | Conference

  Applying the Fuzzy Analytical Network Process in Digital Marketing
  Patrick Kaltenrieder and Sara D’Onofrio and Edy Portmann (IGI Global, 2016) | Book chapter

  ICEGOV - Synchronizing Mind Maps with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Decision-Finding in Cognitive Cities
  ACM Press (2016) | Conference

  Cognitive Cities: An Application for Nairobi
  Sara D’Onofrio and Noémie Zurlinden and Dominique Gadient and Edy Portmann (Springer International Publishing, 2016) | Book chapter

  Towards Cognitive Cities - Towards Cognitive Cities : Advances in Cognitive Computing and its Application to the Governance of Large Urban Systems
  Edy Portmann and Matthias Finger (Springer International Publishing, 2016) | Book

  Smart Cities
  Informatik-Spektrum (2016) | Journal article

  Fuzzy knowledge representation in cognitive cities
  Patrick Kaltenrieder and Edy Portmann and Thomas Myrach, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2015): IEEE (2015) | Conference

  Applying the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process in digital marketing , in Fuzzy Optimization and Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Digital Marketing
  Patrick Kaltenrieder and Sara D’Onofrio and Edy Portmann (Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015) | Book chapter

  Developing Initial State Fuzzy Cognitive Maps with Self-Organizing Maps
  Marcel Wehrle and Edy Portmann and Alex Denzler and Meier Andreas, International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition: (2015) | Conference

  Editorial
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2015) | Journal article

  Rezension ?Smart City konkret ? Eine Zukunftswerkstatt in Deutschland zwischen Idee und Praxis?
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2015) | Journal article

  Rezension "Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia. New York 2013."
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2015) | Journal article

  Smart Cities ? Ein Überblick!
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2015) | Journal article

  A Conceptual Model to Combine Creativity Techniques with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Enhanced Knowledge Management , in Integrated Systems: Innovations and Applications
  Patrick Kaltenrieder and Edy Portmann and Nicolas Kai Binggeli and Thomas Myrach, ed. by Madjid Fathi (Springer, 2015) | Book chapter

  Biomimetics in Design Oriented Information Systems Research
  Michael Kaufmann and Edy Portmann, At the Vanguard of Design Science: First Impressions and Early Findings from Ongoing Research Research-in-Progress Papers and Poster Presentations from the 10th International Conference: DESRIST 2015 (2015) | Conference

  Von Fuzzy-Sets zu Computing-with-Words
  Informatik-Spektrum (2015) | Journal article

  Enhancing multidirectional communication for cognitive cities
  Patrick Kaltenrieder and Edy Portmann and Sara D’Onofrio, Quito: IEEE (2015) | Conference

  Cognitive computing leads to the next level of answering questions on the Web
  Tiny Transactions on Computer Science (2015) | Journal article

  So wird Fiction zu Science
  Edy Portmann , Abteilung Kommunikation, Universität Bern , UniPress - Forschung und Wissenschaft an der Universität Bern (2015) | Other

  What are cognitive cities? , in Towards cognitive cities: advances in cognitive computing and its applications to the governance of large urban systems
  Edy Portmann and Matthias Finger (Springer International Publishing, 2015) | Book chapter

  The Web KnowARR Framework: Orchestrating Computational Intelligence with Graph Databases , in Information Granularity, Big Data, and Computational Intelligence
  Edy Portmann and Patrick Kaltenrieder, ed. by Witold Pedrycz and Shyi-Ming Chen (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015) | Book chapter

  Knowledge representation through graphs
  Edy Portmann and Patrick Kaltenrieder and Witold Pedrycz, Procedia Computer Science: Elsevier (2015) | Conference

  Smart-Logistics für Everywhere-Commerce: Wie die Post smarter logistische Dienstleistungen bereitstellen will.
  Edy Portmann and Stefan Regli , Verein Netzwerk Logistik (2015) | Other

  50 Jahre Fuzzy Sets
  Informatik-Spektrum (2015) | Journal article

  Developing Fuzzy Cognitive Maps with Self Organizing Maps
  Marcel Wehrle and Edy Portmann and Alexander Denzler and Meier Andreas (2015) | Other

  AIC - Developing Initial State Fuzzy Cognitive Maps with Self-Organizing Maps
  Marcel Wehrle and Edy Portmann and Alexander Denzler and Meier Andreas (2015) | Book

  Rezension „Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia“
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2015) | Journal article

  Rezension „Smart City konkret – Eine Zukunftswerkstatt in Deutschland zwischen Idee und Praxis“
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2015) | Journal article

  SCSE - Knowledge representation through graphs
  Elsevier BV (2015) | Conference

  FUZZ-IEEE - Fuzzy knowledge representation in cognitive cities
  IEEE (2015) | Conference

  Smart Cities - ein Überblick
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2015) | Journal article

  HMD - Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik - Smart City
  Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann (2015) | Other

  Modeling dependencies between cities through Verbalization of Fuzzy Cognitive Map
  Marc Osswald and Marcel Wehrle and Edy Portmann (2015) | Other

  Applying Fuzzy Ontologies to Implement the Social Semantic Web
  ACM SIGWEB Newsletter (2014) | Journal article

  Applying the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process in Cognitive Cities
  Patrick Kaltenrieder and Edy Portmann and Sara D’Onofrio and Matthias Finger, Conference Proceedings: ACM (2014) | Conference

  Combining Bottom-up and Top-down Generation of Interactive Knowledge Maps for Enterprise Search
  Michael Kaufmann and Gwendolin Wilke and Edy Portmann and Knut Hinkelmann, Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. 7th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: KSEM 2014: Springer (2014) | Conference

  FORA - A Fuzzy Set Based Framework for Online Reputation Management
  Fuzzy sets and systems (2014) | Journal article

  Towards an SMS-based Social Network for Health Workers in Rural Areas in Myanmar
  Joël Vogt and Eugenia Martin and Edy Portmann and Nasim Mahmud, 3rd International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV): (2014) | Conference

  Keeping citizens, companies, and organizations informed by Web KnowARR
  Edy Portmann, First International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG), 2014: IEEE (2014) | Conference

  Fuzzy Web Knowledge Aggregation, Representation, and Reasoning for Online Privacy and Reputation Management , in Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Applied Sciences and Engineering ? From Fundamentals to Extensions and Learning Algorithms
  Edy Portmann and Witold Pedrycz, ed. by Elpiniki I. Papageorgiou (Springer, 2014) | Book chapter

  "Applying fuzzy ontologies to implement the social semantic web" by Edy Portmann, Patrick Kaltenrieder and Noémie Zurlinden with Martin Vesely as coordinator
  ACM Sigweb Newsletter (2014) | Journal article

  KSEM - Combining Bottom-Up and Top-Down Generation of Interactive Knowledge Maps for Enterprise Search
  Germany: Springer International Publishing (2014) | Conference

  Fuzzy management methods
  Andreas Meier and Witold Pedrycz and Edy Portmann (2014) | Other

  ICEGOV - Applying the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process in cognitive cities
  ACM Press (2014) | Conference

  A Concept of Semantics Extraction from Web Data by Induction of Fuzzy Ontologies
  Michael Kaufmann and Edy Portmann and Madjid Fathi, South Dakota: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) (2013) | Conference

  Mobile competence network for community health workers in rural Myanmar: a supportive information system that facilitates the improvement of health services.
  E. Martin and J. Vogt and Edy Portmann , University of Fribourg (2013) | Other

  The FORA Framework - A Fuzzy Grassroots Ontology for Online Reputation Management
  Edy Portmann, ed. by Andreas Meier and Andreas Pedrycz and Edy Portmann (Heidelberg: Springer, 2013) | Book

  A Restriction-Centered Theory of Reasoning and Computation to materialize a Web 3.0
  Tiny Transactions on Computer Science Volume (2013) | Journal article

  Web 3.0 Monitoring im Stakeholder Management
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2013) | Journal article

  Web 3.0 Monitoring im Stakeholder-Management
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2013) | Journal article

  Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Applied Sciences and Engineering - Fuzzy Web Knowledge Aggregation, Representation, and Reasoning for Online Privacy and Reputation Management
  Edy Portmann and Witold Pedrycz (United States: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013) | Book

  The FORA Framework
  Edy Portmann (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013), ISBN: 9783642332326 | Book

  The FORA Framework: A Fuzzy Grassroots Ontology for Online Reputation Management
  Portmann, Edy (Springer, 2012), ISBN: 9783642332326 | Book

  The FORA frame-work
  Edy Portmann, Andreas Meier, Edy Portmann (2012) | Thesis

  Customized mashups for improved reputation visualization
  Nicolas Spycher and Edy Portmann, Piscataway (N.J.): IEEE (2012) | Conference

  A fuzzy risk attitude classification based on prospect theory
  Yang Li and Edy Portmann, Taichung, Taiwan: IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated (2012) | Conference

  Wie Social Media unser Gehirn verändert
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2012) | Journal article

  Nutzungspotentiale interner Weblogs bei RobinBook.ch
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2012) | Journal article

  Towards an Emergent Semantic Web
  Tiny Transactions on Computer Science (2012) | Journal article

  A distributed, semiotic-inductive and human-Oriented approach to web-scale knowledge retrieval
  Edy Portmann and Michael Alexander Kaufmann and Cédric Graf, New York: ACM (2012) | Conference

  Fuzzy Online Reputation Analysis Framework , in Fuzzy Methods for Customer Relationship Management and Marketing: Applications and Classification
  Edy Portmann and Tam Nguyen and Jose Sepulveda and Adrian David Cheok, ed. by Andreas Meier and Laurent Donzé (IGI Global, 2012) | Book chapter

  FGST - Customized mashups for improved reputation visualization
  Nicolas Spycher and Edy Portmann (IEEE, 2012) | Book

  Web-KRM@CIKM - A distributed, semiotic-inductive, and human-oriented approach to web-scale knowledge retrieval
  ACM Press (2012) | Conference

  Nutzungspotenziale interner Weblogs bei RobinBook.ch
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2012) | Journal article

  The FORA Framework: A Fuzzy Grassroots Ontology for Online Reputation Management
  Edy Portmann (2012) | Book

  Prometheus Framework for Fuzzy Information Retrieval in Semantic Spaces , in Human ? Computer Systems Interaction: Backgrounds and Applications 2
  Aliaksei Andrushevich and Michael Fercu and Jörn Hopf and Edy Portmann and Alexander Klapproth, ed. by Zdzislaw Hippe and Juliusz L. Kulikowski and Tteresa Mroczek (Springer, 2012) | Book chapter

  Führungsinformationssysteme unter Nutzung der unscharfen Logik ? Fallbeispiel coop@home
  Aleksandar Drobnjak and Daniel Fasel and Patrik Hugi and Michael Kaufmann and Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann and Roland and Luis Terán Schütze and Marcel Wehrle and Darius Zumstein (2011) | Other

  Soft Computing-Approximate Reasoning Method for the Semantic Web
  Edy Portmann , Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley (2011) | Other

  Führungsinformationssysteme unter Nutzung der unscharfen Logik – Fallbeispiel coop@home
  Aleksandar Drobnjak and Daniel Fasel and Patrik Hugi and Michael Kaufmann and Andreas Meier and Edy Portmann and Roland Schütze and Luis Terán and Marcel Wehrle and Darius Zumstein (2011) | Other

  A fuzzy grassroots ontology for improving social semantic web search
  Edy Portmann, Proceedings of 6th International Summer School on Aggregation Operators: Lulu (2011) | Conference

  Blogosphäre - Soziale Netzwerke als Trendsetter
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2011) | Journal article

  Führungsinformationssysteme unter Nutzung der unscharfen Logik – Fallbeispiel coop@home.
  Edy Portmann, Andreas Meier, Michael Kaufmann, Darius Zumstein, Luis Fernando Teran Tamayo, Daniel Fasel, (2011) | Working paper

  Weblogs: Einführung, Management und Übung
  Edy Portmann, CAS Business Information Analytics, Hochschule Luzern (23.10.2010) | Conference

  Suchmaschinen: Basiskonzepte, Benutzerverhalten und Übungen
  Edy Portmann, CAS Business Information Analytics, Hochschule Luzern (22.10.2010) | Conference

  Prometheus ? Fuzzy Information Retrieval for Semantic Homes and Environments
  Edy Portmann and Aliaksei Andrushevich and Rolf Kistler and Alexander Klapproth, 3rd International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI): IEEE (2010) | Conference

  Extraktion und kartografische Visualisierung von Informationen aus Weblogs
  Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2010) | Journal article

  Prometheus — Fuzzy information retrieval for semantic homes and environments
  IEEE (2010) | Conference

  Extraktion und kartographische Visualisierung von Informationen aus Weblogs
  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (2010) | Journal article

  A Fuzzy Grassroots Ontology for improving Weblog Extraction
  Journal of Digital Information Management (2010) | Journal article

  Prometheus – Fuzzy Information Retrieval for Semantic Homes and Environments
  In: Proceeding for the third International Conference on Human System Interaction, pp. 757-762, May 13-15, 2010, Rzeszów, Poland. (2010) | Journal article

  Auswertung Befragung eProcess
  Edy Portmann , Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts (2009) | Other

  Weblog extraction with fuzzy classification methods
  Edy Portmann, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies: IEEE (2009) | Conference

  Informationsextraktion aus Weblogs - Grundlagen und Einsatzmöglichkeiten der gezielten Informationssuche
  Edy Portmann (Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2008) | Book

  Informationsextraktion aus Weblogs. Grundlagen und Einsatzmöglichkeiten der gezielten Informationssuche.
  Edy Portmann (Buch, 2008) | Book

  Geschichte und Trends im IR
  Edy Portmann , Universität Basel (2007) | Other
• Research projects

  Swiss Digital Ethics Compass
  Status: Ongoing

  Start	01.01.2023
  End
  Funding	Innovation
  The project will develop artifacts (e.g., ethical heath maps, linguistic summaries) as minimum viable products (MVPs) with feedback loops in leading cooperation of Swiss Post as a business and implementation partner. The artifacts are expected to increase value for the Swiss Post and its customers.

  Die digitale Genossenschaft – Ein Alternativer Ansatz zum Umgang mit persönlichen Daten
  Status: Completed

  Start	01.03.2022
  End	01.04.2024
  Funding	Innovation
  Ein neuer Weg, User digitaler Services zum Teilen persönlicher Daten zu bewegen: Das Konzept der Genossenschaft soll in die digitale Welt überführt werden. User werden Gesellschafter des Geschäftsmodells, für das ihre Daten verwendet werden. Für nachhaltige Motivation und fairen Umgang miteinander.

  Scaling Smart City Projects - from Individual pilots towards a Common strategy of industry Emergence (SPICE)
  Status: Completed

  Start	01.03.2020
  End	31.05.2024
  Funding	SNSF  Open project sheet
  The SPICE project aims at accelerating the upscaling of Smart City (SC) solutions and the formation of a SC industry in Switzerland as a means to enhance innovation, efficiency, social welfare and quality of urban life. The core hypothesis of the proposal is that problems for scaling of SC solutions can be tackled by an integrative strategic approach, combining a user/citizen, organisational and system-level perspective. Accordingly, the project is structured into three different research streams (WP2-5) in addition to synthesis and dissemination in WP6. The first stream focuses on a human-centric design approach of SC solutions and tools to improve citizen integration and consideration of their needs. The second stream is on an organizational level with special attention to collaborative strategies at the digital-physical interface and development and evaluation of SC business models. The third research stream focuses on the system level, entailing an analysis of key driving forces and barriers and a subsequent strategy for the formation of an integrative SC sector. The project’s setup is both inter- and transdisciplinary, allowing the executing consortium to draw from its complementary competencies in transition research (ZHAW), strategic management (ETH), business model research (HSG), and informatics (UniFR). All findings will be further validated in applied settings involving practice-partners. The project addresses a large number of topics, which are listed under modules 2 and 3 of the NRP 77 call.

  LOKAHI INSIDE: Development of an intranet search engine with interactive knowledge map
  Status: Completed

  Start	15.05.2014
  End	15.12.2015
  Funding	Innovation
  Das F&E-Projekt entwickelt eine Intranetsuchmaschine mit Brows-Funktionalität in einer interaktiven,|automatisch generierten Wissenslandkarte. Die Wissenslandkarte visualisiert das Intranet-Wissen als|Netz von semantischen Zusammenhängen. Der Benutzer kann in den Konzepten und Ressourcen|browsen und das Wissensnetz manuell erweitern.

  Soft Computing - Approximate Reasoning Method for the Semantic Web
  Status: Completed

  Start	01.04.2012
  End	31.03.2013
  Funding	SNSF
  Today's Web search engines are mostly limited to keyword search and by now there is no engine capable of understanding and processing natural language or at least suggest users related linguistic terms during search. Through recently evolution in social Web technologies in respect of easy to handle tools on the other side, more and more users bustle in today's Social Web. Most of these users are not or only limitedly able to word their search needs through precise queries to exert Semantic Web full potential for example. Classical logical systems such as propositional logic, predicate logic and modal logic, as well as AI-based techniques for natural language processing and knowledge representation, interaction, and reasoning are concerned in a fundamental way with propositions expressed in a natural language. Unlike classical logical approach, soft computing is among other things based on fuzzy logic and provides an expressive language for knowledge representation, interaction, and reasoning. Fuzzy logic provides a mathematical power for the emulation of the higher order cognitive functions, the thought and perception. Considering that the fuzziness is ubiquitous and essential for the human beings, fuzzy systems offers new perspectives for improving the human-machine interactions. The proposed approach attempts to establish new interactive knowledge representation and reasoning techniques. For example, visualized interactive maps such as topic maps, cognitive maps, mind maps, etc. can help to find similar linguistic terms clustered around a topic. The inclusion of soft computing techniques to knowledge representation, interaction, and reasoning offers new ways for human-computer interaction that are not yet explored, as for example paraconsistent reasoning. In addition, a representation as map has the advantage that humans can interact with such a system in a natural way. The interactive visualization of these maps is a first step solely established for augmented user understanding but in future these maps ought to be enhanced to knowledge bases for machines to reason on users' vague natural language expressions too. Following a design science research approach, several research methods will be applied during the post-doc research stay: literature review, argumentative-deductive analysis, grounded theory, structured interviews and case studies, test installations, and controlled experiments. Based on simulations with a prototype the differences, advantages and problems of approximate reasoning in the Social Semantic Web should be determined.

  Fuzzy Weblog Extraction
  Status: Completed

  Start	01.09.2008
  End	01.09.2018
  Funding	Other  Open project sheet
  Due to information overload, it is important to know how to extract relevant information. This leads to the question: how can relevant information be found? The problem with representing documents and queries through sets of keywords is that they yield results which are only partially relevant to their actual semantic contents. As a consequence, the matching of a document to the query terms is vague. This can be clarified by considering that every query expression defines a fuzzy set and that each document has a degree of relationship in this set. To search for information from weblogs, a user types search terms and related relevance (user need) in an interface. This user need will be sent to the query engine. The query engine generates a search query and sends it to a meta search engine. The meta search engine then sends user requests to numerous other search engines and aggregates the results into a single list. The idea behind this is to bring these components together and create a search engine for weblogs with the use of fuzzy methods to search for related documents.

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