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Software Engineering Group

The Software Engineering Group, also called Descartes Group, is headed by Prof. Dr. Samuel Kounev and focuses on a range of topics related to the engineering of software for building dependable and efficient distributed systems, such as cloud-based systems, cyber-physical systems, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Our research is inspired by the vision of Self-Aware Computing Systems, designed with built-in model learning and reasoning capabilities enabling autonomic and proactive decision making at run-time.

Our research is aimed at novel methods, techniques and tools for the engineering of dependable and efficient computer-based systems, including classical software systems and cyber-physical systems.

Contact Information

Our Address:

Lehrstuhl für Informatik II
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg, Germany

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Secure Software Systems Group

Secure Software Systems is a research group headed by Prof. Dr. Alexandra Dmitrienko. It focuses on a wide range of topics related to the security and privacy of computing platforms and networks, ranging from secure software engineering to security and privacy of mobile, cyber-physical, IoT and decentralized systems. Our research aims to address new security and privacy-related challenges emerging due to ubiquitous digitization, resulting in increasing data collection and fast growing complexity and heterogeneity of systems, as well as technological shifts from centralized to more robust and resilient decentralized solutions.

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Current Information on Teaching in Summer Term 2020

All planned courses (lectures, seminars, and practical courses) of the chair in the summer semester 2020 will take place using online services.

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Prof. Dr. Alexandra Dmitrienko - speaker at the High-Tech Woman event in Darmstadt

The first speaker to hold a presentation at the Darmstadt Women in Tech event on March the 4th 2020 is Prof. Dr. Alexandra Dmitrienko. The presentation deals with side-channel protection for SGX using Data Location Randomization.

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FameLab Endausscheidung Bayern 2020, organisiert vom Stadtmarketing Regensburg, am 11.03.2020 in Regensburg, Bayern, Deutschland

André Bauer wins FameLab in Regensburg and will represents Bavaria in the German final

At first glance, supermarket queues and the cloud do not have much in common. In his presentation, André Bauer proved the opposite - and in just three minutes. Scientific facts and lots of entertainment value secured him first place at FameLab in Regensburg.

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