Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network ma

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund's main train station, and from there, the S-Bahn takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network ma

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund's main train station, and from there, the S-Bahn takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Technical focus

Specialization "Logics, Information, and Knowledge

Contents of the specialization "Logics, Information, and Knowledge

An important goal of modern computer science is to automatically extract knowledge from data and information. Many of the methods and modeling tools needed for this are provided by logics.

Logics of different power can represent relationships of different complexity semantically unambiguously, and automatic inference methods can be used to derive new knowledge. The importance of logic here ranges from databases to ontologies to comprehensive knowledge-based systems.

In this focus, you can learn about logics, information, and knowledge from very different perspectives to get a comprehensive picture. Formalisms for representing knowledge on the information level and general logics for deriving new knowledge (also) under uncertainty are considered. The principal possibilities and limitations of automated handling of logics will be taught, as well as the role of logic in software creation. The focus is rounded off by methods for automatic knowledge acquisition based on automatic learning.

Prerequisites for the specialization "Logics, Information, and Knowledge

Master thesis

The supervisor of the master thesis must assign the thesis to the subject-specific focus.

You must acquire at least 30 credit points with the following modules:

Basic modules

Architecture and Implementation of Database Systems
Commonsense Reasoning
Complexity Theory
Pattern Recognition
Knowledge discovery in databases

Advanced modules

Database Theory
Advanced topics in knowledge presentation
Functional and rule-based programming
Logic and Complexity
Logical-algebraic system design
Logical methods of software engineering
Probabilistic graphical models
Speech Recognition

Seminars and student research project

The supervisors of the seminars and the student research project have to assign the achievements to the subject focus, if seminars or student research project are to contribute to the 30 credit points. How many seminars you can take can be found in the examination regulations.