VSR News 2018

Starting again in 2019, we offer all our VSR students the great opportunity to exchange knowledge and experiences in our LAKS meetings.

Become part of LAKS, if you

• want to learn and try out topics that are not covered in any regular lecture
• like to work with other students in an informal, exciting way
• have questions and answers on study related topics that you want to exchange with others
• ask for feedback on an upcoming project or presentation.

LAKS is our way for effective Learning And Knowledge Sharing.
Our VSR group therefore provides

• a mailing list vsr-laks@tu-chemnitz.de where you can subscribe here 
• a regular meeting place each Wednesday ar 11:00 in our VSR lab 1/B203

LAKS works in an agile, unsupervised, self-organizing, facultative and open-space fashion.

See you on 16th January 2019 at 11:00 in our VSR lab 1/B203.

This is a brief reminder for all participants of the Seminar Web Engineering to upload the initial version of their report until 10th of January 2019 23:59 CET via our Seminar Workflow system.

The educational program on our VSR professorship will continue in the second week on 7th January 2019.

On Tuesday, 8th January, the lectures SSE and Current Trends in Web Engineering will be conducted regularly. The lecture EVS will not take place and is postponed to the folllowing week. The time slot for the XML lecture will be used for the XML tutorial in room 1/219.

The tutorials between 9th January and 11th January will not take place and are postponed to the following week.

The Planspiel Web Engineering sessions can be used by the groups for individual team-work activities.

In the third week of January, all lectures (except Current Trends in Web Engineering) and all tutorials will be conducted regularly. The lecture Current Trends in Web Engineering will be continued in the week after on 22nd January 2019.

We are pleased to announce, that our researcher Maik Benndorf won the Best Paper Award at the 7th International Conference on Network, Communication and Computing (ICNCC 2018) in Taipei, Taiwan. Congratulations to all authors.

In December 2018, our VSR research group participated in the ICT 2018: Imagine Digital - Connect Europe event of the European Commission, taking place in the Vienna International Center in Austria.

Regarding our H2020 activities, we had valuable sessions to exchange ideas and make new contacts.

If you are also involved in one of the current calls, feel free to contact us via email.

The lectures for SSE, XML, Planspiel and Current Trends in Web Engineering will not be conducted this week and are going to be postponed to the following week. Also the corresponding tutorials will not take place and will be continued in the week after.

The lecture for EVS is going to be conducted regularly.

Our team member André Langer visited the DILS post-conference "Open Research Knowledge Graph", hosted at the TIB Hannover at the end of November 2018.

In this workshop, we worked together with the group of Prof. Dr. Sören Auer and other researchers on new visionary ways for structured scientific publishing by using Linked Data.

Our VSR research team was able to support this project with our expertise in human-centered approaches to frontend input interfaces for the collection of Linked Data and the encouragement of users to provide qualitative meta data for scholarly artefacts.

This is to remind you that there will be no VSR lectures for all students on Tuesday, 20 November 2018.

Wednesday is a public holday in Germany, so there will also be no Planspiel session. Instead, all Planspiel teams will already meet on Monday, 19 November at 17:15 in room 1/204.

The tutorial for XML on Thursday, 22 November and Friday, 23 November will not take place and is postponed to the following week.

The tutorial for EVS will be conducted in a central fashion on Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 13:30 in 1/219 as a substitution for both the Wednesday and Friday group in that week.

The tutorial for SSE will be conducted regularly on Friday, 23 November at 11:30.

Please be aware that the room for the lecture SSE has changed from 1/204 to 1/201. 

The project focus for all Planspiel teams as well as a list of competitors in the same knowledge domain can be found on our VSR website at

https://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/edu/2018/planspiel/

We expect from each team a first pitch on its topic between 26 Nov and 28 Nov.
The presentation time per team is limited to 10 minutes sharp.
We will provide further details to all teams in advance.

Next week, there will be no Planspiel session. Neither on Monday nor on Wednesday. Each team should use the time to become familiar with the problem domain.
In the following week, there will be a Planspiel lecture on Monday, 19 Nov at 17:15 in room 1/204.
The lecture will focus on Design thinking and on how to prepare a first presentation.

The final pitches are going to take place in the first week of March 2019. The final pitch time is expected to be 30 minutes.