VSR News 2018

The todays lecture in "Current Trends in Web Engineering" will be postponed to another date in semester. It will continue regularly next week.

We are very happy and proud to announce, that our joint research on "Concept extraction from the Web of Things Knowledge Bases" won the Best Paper award at the 17th International Conference WWW/Internet 2018. The contribution is a collaborative work of Mahda Noura, Sebastian Heil and Martin Gaedke from our VSR professorship at Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany, and Amelie Gyrard from Kno.e.sis at the Wright State University in the United States of America.

Congratulations to the authors for winning the Best Research Paper Award of ICWI2018!

Our VSR team members André Langer, Mahda Noura and Eduard Daoud attended in October the ICWI 2018, the 17th International Conference on new WWW/Internet trends.

We presented recent research findings regarding Frontend User Interfaces for Linked Data, Popular IoT ontology concepts and Search-based dashboards.

Thanks to all VSR members for their valuable contribution.

Be aware, that the VSR lectures in this week, October 15th 2018 until October 19th 2018, are postponed and will be continued next week.

All VSR Lectures will start this week, on the 9th of October.

The Tutorials of EVS and SSE will start in the week of Monday, 22nd of October.

The Tutorials of XML will start on Thursday, November 1st and Friday, November 2nd.

The Tutorial for Current Trends in Web Engineering will start later in the semester.

Welcome back to all students of the Computer Science department and our professorship for Distributed and Self-organizing systems (VSR).

We already published further information on our educational courses of WS 2018/2019 in our Education section. Please stay up-to-date when our lectures and tutorials will start. Also keep in mind, that you have to register for some of our seminars via OPAL within the next days.

We offer an exam review for the exams CWA, RN, and SVS from summer semester 2018.

The exam review is possible on

Thursday, October 4th 2018 10:00 - 12:30 in room 1/B203.

Please provide us details on the exam you want to review by filling out the form https://mytuc.org/cxvv in advance!

Be aware, that waiting times are possible depending on the amount of attending students. We do not allow technical devices and any photocopies of your exam, and do not provide any sample solutions during the review.

At the end of August 2018, our VSR team member Bahareh Zarei participated in the 18th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

At the conference, we presented our current research activities on "GOWDA: A Goal-oriented Web Documents Querying tool" and received valuable feedback. Thanks to all authors for their contribution.

In August 2018, our VSR team member Valentin Siegert participated in a Smart Rail Connectivity Campus workshop, held in the TU Chemnitz project facility METEOR.

Focusing our expertise in security aspects of intelligent and collaborative systems, we got actively involved in a panel discussion on secure information exchange in the Data Economy regarding operational conepts of autonomous train traffic. Thereby the group achieved several concepts for possible future projects at the Smart Rail Connectivity Campus. 

Please be aware of the room change for the exam CWA on Friday, August 3rd at 2pm.

The new room is: 2/N115 on the main campus (Campus Reichenhainer Straße).