AI has gained significant traction in manufacturing, offering tremendous potential for enhancing production efficiency, cost reduction, and safety improvements. Consequently, developing AI-based software platforms that facilitate collaboration between human operators and AI services is crucial. However, integrating the different stakeholder perspectives into a common framework is a complex process that requires careful consideration. Our research has focused on identifying the individual relevance of varying quality characteristics per stakeholder toward such a software platform. Therefore, this work proposes an overview on the vital success factors related to human-AI teaming that can be used to measure fulfillment.

In this research, we explore the role of civic engagement platforms as tools designed to connect various groups in rural areas for collaborative advancement and to support sustainable growth in their communities. We examine these platforms’ essential features and influence on rural communities, conducting an overview to identify rural areas’ primary challenges and the functionalities needed to address them. Our findings reveal that the long-term capability of these civic engagement platforms can bring beneficial changes in rural territories by offering a unified way of communication, collaboration, and decision-making. The study concludes with suggestions for future research.

The integration of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) in the manufacturing industry can significantly enhance the efficiency and flexibility of production lines and improve product quality. By integrating and contextualizing information about devices, equipment, production resources, location, usage, and related data, KGs can be a powerful operational tool. Moreover, KGs can contribute to the intelligence of manufacturing processes by providing insights into the complex and competitive manufacturing landscape. This research work presents a comprehensive analysis of the current trends utilizing KG in the manufacturing sector. We provide an overview of the state of the art in KG applications in manufacturing and highlight the critical issues that need to be addressed to enable a successful implementation. Our research aims to contribute to advancing KG technology in manufacturing and realizing its full potential to enhance manufacturing operations and competitiveness.

The representation and exploitation of semantics has been gaining popularity in recent research, as exemplified by the uptake of large language models in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and knowledge graphs (KGs) in the Semantic Web. Although KGs are already employed in manufacturing to integrate and standardize domain knowledge, the generation and application of corresponding KG embeddings as lean feature representations of graph elements have yet to be extensively explored in this domain. Existing KGs in manufacturing often focus on top-level domain knowledge and thus ignore domain dynamics, or they lack interconnectedness, i.e., nodes primarily represent non-contextual data values with single adjacent edges, such as sensor measurements. Consequently, context-dependent KG embedding algorithms are either restricted to non-dynamic use cases or cannot be applied at all due to the given KG characteristics. Therefore, this work provides an overview of state-of-the-art KG embedding methods and their functionalities, identifying the lack of dynamic embedding formalisms and application scenarios as the key obstacles that hinder their implementation in manufacturing. Accordingly, we introduce an approach for dynamizing existing KG embeddings based on local embedding reconstructions. Furthermore, we address the utilization of KG embeddings in the Horizon2020 project Teaming.AI (www.teamingai-project.eu.) focusing on their respective benefits. Keywords Knowledge graph Representation learning Knowledge graph embedding Dynamic knowledge graph embedding Manufacturing Industry 5.0