Contact

AddressBd de Pérolles 90
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
Emailjanick.spycher(at)unifr.ch

Janick Spycher

PhD Student in Computer Science

Research interests

My research is mainly focussed on the following topics:

  • Soft Computing
  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Open (Government) Data
  • Human-Computer Information Retrieval (HCIR)
  • (Open) Data Cooperatives

Teaching

Current lectures and seminars

  • Seminar Social Computing, University of Fribourg
  • Seminar Urban Computing, University of Fribourg

Publications

  • Spycher, J. and Portmann, E. (2026). The Limits of Crispness: A Systematic Evaluation and New Perspective for Open Government Data (OGD) Taxonomies. In Portmann, E., Kaskina, A., and Terán, L. (Eds.), FM2quare Foundation Jubilée Book 2026 (accepted - to be published). https://fm2.foundation
  • Spycher, J. and Portmann, E. (2026). The Limits of Crispness: A Systematic Evaluation and New Perspective for Open Government Data (OGD) Taxonomies. In: Marcelloni, F., Madani, K., van Stein, N., Filipe, J. (eds) Computational Intelligence. IJCCI 2025. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2827. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15632-7_31
  • Aldabbas, M., Teufel, S., Teufel, B., and Spycher, J. (2022). Forecasting the Quality of Life in a Future Smart Society, the Case of Switzerland. International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 107-112. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijssh.2022.V12.1075