VSR News 2020

Today's lecture for Security of Distributed Software (SVS) has to be postponed to next Tuesday (16.06.)! More information will be sent via OPAL.

All three online lectures (SVS, CWA, Rechnernetze) will be held tomorrow in the BBB-rooms. You can find the links to the rooms and the access codes in the OPAL courses.

We are very happy and proud to announce, that our research on "Improving Fake Product Detection using AI-based Technology" got an Outstanding Paper award at the 18th International Conference on e-Society 2020 . Congratulations to our VSR members Eduard Daoud, Dang Vu Nguyen Hai, Hung Nguyen and Martin Gaedke!

Based on the Second Open letter from the President regarding the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), all educational courses from our VSR professorship are currently postponed.

In particular, this applies to the final pitches of the Planspiel Web Engineering and the regular start of the summer semester 2020 courses. Other activities such as staff member meetings, oral exams or thesis defenses can currently take place on an individual basis.

We will keep you up-to-date via our website and other communication channels.

In the meantime, you can find further information on the news site of the rectorat of Chemnitz University of Technology. 

Our external PhD student Christian Hochmuth successfully defended his PhD thesis "Strategic planning of technical capacity in complex production systems: mathematical optimization of graphical models with the software AURELIE" on 27 February 2020.

We congratulate Christian to his achievement and wish him all the best for his future.

Our VSR professorship is part of the newly established ESF-funded Young Researcher Group DYNAMIK

Within the next three years, we will do excellent research on a Dynamic navigation and orientation system for physically
impaired people in complex buildings, together with the Professorships for Circuit and System Design, Media Computer Science and Media Psychology.

We wish all our students excellent results in the up-coming exam period.

The VSR exams will take place as Open-Book exams in written form on the following dates:

• Design of Distributed Systems: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:30 - 13:30 in room 2/N115
• XML: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:00 - 17:00 in room 1/316 (+1/305)
• Software Service Engineering: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 14:00 - 16:00 PM in room 2/N114 + 2/N115
• Current Trends in Web Engineering: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:00 - 13:00 in room 1/316 (+1/305)

Please check the Prüfungsplan in advance for any changes.

In January 2020, the CRC 1410 Hybrid Societies started its activities at Chemnitz University of Technology.

Within this Collaborative Research Center, our VSR professorship leads the activities on a sustainable, cross-domamin information infrastructure together with the professorship for private law and intellectual property of Prof. Dr. Gesmann-Nuissl.

We wish all our students, customers, partners and colleagues a happy, healthy, prosperous and pleasant new year 2020. We continue to work hard on our mission of creating talents, developing the future of collaboration, and making the world a little smarter. With you already part of it.