Prof. Dr. Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, head of our “Data Science” work groupt, will be attending the “Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)” in Boise, Idaho, USA, from October 21 to 25, 2024. The conference provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of research results in the field of information and knowledge management as well as current advances in data and knowledge databases. The goal of the…

At the 18th European Conference on Software Architecture, which took place from September 3 to 6, 2024 in Luxembourg, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Soliman from the field of “Software Resilience” was awarded the Best Paper Award for his paper “Exploring Architectual Design Decisions in Mailing Lists and theier Traceability to Issue Trackers”. Congratulations to him! Click here for the conference paper.

From October 16-18, the IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering will take place in Perugia, Italy. The IEEE ISSE 2024 Symposium is designed to create an interactive forum for advancing the practice of systems engineering across the various disciplines and specialties associated with the engineering of complex systems. The symposium will provide an opportunity for practitioners, managers, researchers and educators in the field of…

From October 19 to 24, our “Data Science” workgroup will be attending the ECAI - European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. ECAI-2024 offers an extensive program of technical papers and numerous events on AI that will be of interest to researchers, students and industry professionals. These include workshops and tutorials, invited talks, special sessions and the ECAI Sister Conference on AI Applications…

Michael Hesse successfully completed his doctorate on the topic of “Interactive Commissioning of Control Applications for partially known dynamic Systems using Gaussian Process Regression”. The first supervisor and DART follow-up group leader was Dr Julia Timmermann, the chair of the doctoral committee was Prof. Dr Ansgar Trächtler. Abstract: The commissioning of control systems ensures that a mechatronic system functions properly and meets the…

Prof. Dr. Christoph Scheytt and research associates from “ System and Cricut Technology” workgroup are taking part in Quantum Photonics Spotlight 2024 (QPS2024) at the HNF from October 8th to 10th. The conference brings together international experts from various fields of quantum photonics, from fundamental quantum theory to photonic quantum applications. With exchanges on modeling, system design and technology as well as quantum information…

Jens Pottebaum, research associate in our Product Creation Group, attended the European Big Data Value Forum in Budapest, Hungary, from October 2 to 4. The “European Big Data Value Forum” is the flagship event of the BDVA - Big Data Value Association and brings together the entire European data-driven AI research and innovation community to share knowledge, collaborate and celebrate successes. On October 4th, he gave a presentation on the CREXD…

Prof. Dr. Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn) receives the NRW 2024 Innovation Award in the “Audience Award: innovation4transformation” category With the NRW 2024 Innovation Award, Minister President Hendrik Wüst and Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Mona Neubaur honor committed personalities who contribute significantly to the state's innovative strength through their creativity and…

The DFG Priority Program 2111 is coming to an end. At the final status meeting, results and outstanding work were discussed. An overview of the second phases and the outlook for a book publication were presented. A total of 30 participants met at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute on September 11th and 12th for a final status meeting. Each of the ten sub-projects presented the main results of their research work from the second project phase. Some…

The fourth consortium meeting of the LiRaS research project, in which our "System and Circuit Technology"  workgroup is involved, took place from September 9 to 10th. This time, Cycle invited all partners to Hamburg in the north of Germany. The two days were used to discuss current technical issues. The host took the opportunity to present not only its own premises on the DESY campus, but also the city of Hamburg during an evening trip on the…

Requirements are identified and initial concepts developed: the “collaboration and learning environment for value-based business model generation” is taking shape. Accordingly, the successful first milestone was celebrated by all project partners taking part in Paderborn. It is now clear, for example, that a digital business model in KLUG is always based on a sustainable understanding of value, which combines social, economic and ecological…

Prof. Dr. Rainer Dömer from UC Irvine, CA will support the System and Circuit Technology Group as guest professor until September 2025. His current research interests are system description languages and simulation. In winter semester 2024/25 he will give a lecture on “Embedded System Modeling & Design” (L.048.25025/L.048.92050 - 2L/2E - 6 ECTS).  He is also planning a cooperation with the project group “Electronic System Design” (L.048.98503)…

Annika Junker successfully completed her doctorate on the topic of “Data-driven modeling of nonlinear mechatronic systems in a form applicable for control engineering”. The first supervisor and DART follow-up group leader was Dr Julia Timmermann, the chair of the doctoral committee was Prof. Dr Ansgar Trächtler. Abstract: Model-based control design requires accurate insight into the dynamic behavior of the underlying physical system. Machine…

Our “Data Science” workgroup welcomes its new member Albert Khomich. In his workgroup, he works on the “Whale” project, which deals with the development of new methods to improve data integration and semantics on the web. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling and keeping fit with calisthenics. Welcome Albert!

From August 26th to 30th, Alexander Werning from our “Communications Engineering” workgroup attended the “32nd European Signal Processing Conference” (EUSIPCO 2024) in Lyon, France. There he presented his paper “Target-specific Dataset Pruning for Compression of Audio Tagging Models”. More information about the conference can be found here. Click here for the paper.