News from the Projects

European Action Plan on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Digital Key Technologies

In December, the European Commission presented a coordinated plan prepared with Members States to foster the development and use of AI in Europe. The BDVA, in which the working group of Prof. Dr. Klaus Pohl is an active member, welcomes the plan of the EU.

New Security Technology Protects Deployed Smart Contracts

Information and System Security

Since smart contracts can autonomously transfer values and rights on a blockchain, they are an attractive target for cyberattacks. The working group of Prof. Dr. Lucas Davi has developed a solution for protecting smart contracts in cooperation with NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH.

Speech about Requirements Engineering for Autonomous Self-learning Systems

Development Methods and Tools

Dr. Thorsten Weyer will present fundamental approaches for specifying highly automated self-learning systems at a meeting of the Requirements Engineering group of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI, German Informatics Society). The meeting will take place on November 29-30, 2018 in Nuremberg.

EU funding of digitization projects: position paper published

Digital Key Technologies

The European initiative NESSI emphasizes in a now published position paper the fundamental role of software for the digital transformation of Europe. The paper identifies important research topics in the field of software technology which, according to the experts, should be focused on in the next EU Research and Innovation Framework Programme. The Chair of Software Systems Engineering of Prof. Dr. Klaus Pohl played a major role in writing the paper.

Computer Science Connects Cultures

Human-Computer Interaction

From 1-4 October, a "Teach the Teacher" workshop and a "Geek for Social Good" hackathon took place at the German University in Cairo (GUC). The events are part of the "ComIC - Computing for Intercultural Competence" project.

How can uncertainties in the context of cyber-physical systems be documented?

Innovative Software Systems

In order to develop robust and reliable cyber-physical systems, it is important to understand which aspects of the system environment may not be exactly determinable. At this year's IEEE CASE, Torsten Bandyszak from Prof. Pohl's research group presented a new approach to modeling such uncertainties.

BMBF Project CrESt: Visit by Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek

Development Methods and Tools

Autonomous vehicles, intelligent factories and dynamic power grids — the backbone of these future technologies are networks of collaborative, embedded systems. The BMBF research project CrESt (Collaborative Embedded Systems) is developing and testing solutions for "systems of cyber-physical systems".