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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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Prof. Dr. Dmitrienko will be a panelist at NDSS’s CoronaDef Panel Discussion devoted to digital tracing of COVID-19

The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2021 and co-located workshops start virtually this very weekend, at 21st of February, and go until February, 25th. Prof. Dr. Dmitrienko is part of this year’s CoronaDef’s panelists.

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Intel launches Private AI Collaborative Research Institute

“Intel, in collaboration with Avast and Borsetta, launched the Private AI Collaborative Research Institute to advance and develop technologies in privacy and trust for decentralized artificial intelligence (AI). The companies issued a call for research proposals earlier this year and selected the first nine research projects to be supported by the institute at eight universities worldwide.”

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Prof. Dr. Dmitrienko participates in this year's CPDP Conference on January 29, 2021 at 10.30 am CET

“CPDP is a conference about privacy and data protection. It offers a forum where different voices are heard and where positions are compared, debated, approached or differentiated.”

At 10.30 AM CET on the 29th of January 2021 Prof. Dr. Dmitrienko will hold a talk on the topic of “Privacy of Contact Tracing Apps in Pandemic, the role of Giant data collectors, and EU Sovereignty”.

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