Anyone who recognizes the signs of the times ensures a decisive advantage in the market. In the» Signal Tracing«project, the Group Semantics Visualization at Fraunhofer IGD and the partners C21 Consulting and ConWeaver developed a solution to identify and evaluate market trends early. Companies must be aware of upcoming trends, market developments, and technological developments to respond to the increasing competitive pressures and rapid changes in their industry. They have to extract weak signals from the large amount of information available to pave the way well-founded.

The added value of semantics visualization is capitalized for detecting weak signals since these early signals are complex and hard to identify. In the background, semantic technologies (in particular SemaVis) are used to detect the content meaning of information. Based on this content, the semantics visualization allows conclusions to signal meanings representing a weak signal.

Signal Tracing (HA-Project-Nr.: 290/11-35) is funded in the context of »Hessen ModellProjekte« in LOEWE – Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz, Förderlinie 3: KMU-Verbundvorhaben. The project runs for a year and a half.