VSR News

What is LAKS? LAKS means Learning and Knowledge Sharing. It is a platform where you can learn, share, discuss and even present exciting topics. The topics of LAKS are diverse, from technical challenges, hot trends in Web Engineering to academic writing, presentation best practices…

The LAKS meetings will be held every Wednesday, at 10:00 in our VSR lab 1/B203. 

We welcome all our students at Chemnitz University of Technology to come and join us! 

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After finishing the exam assessment and reporting the grades to the examination office, we will offer a central exam review date for the exams CWA, Rechnernetze and SVS/SDS from summer semester 2019.

The exam review will be possible on

Friday, 25 October 2019 between 10:00 AM and 16:00 PM in our VSR lab 1/B203.

The exam review will be conducted in a single session on one central day. Waiting times are possible.You have to register for the exam review in advance via this link.

Registration is possible until 23 October 2019 11:59 PM.

We welcome back all our students of Chemnitz University of Technology that will participate in one of our courses from the professorship for Distributed and Self-organizing systems (VSR) in winter semester 2019/2020.

The first VSR lecture will be held on Tuesday, 22 October 2019. 
The Planspiel opening meeting will take place on Wednesday, 23 October 2019.
The tutorials will start later in the semester.

We published further information on our educational courses of WS 2019/2020 in our Education section. Please stay up-to-date when our tutorials and seminars will start. Also keep in mind, that you have to register for some of our seminars via OPAL.

André Langer participated for our VSR professorship in the 15th semantics Conference in September 2019 in Karlsruhe.

We presented an analysis of current RDM applications for the interdisciplinary publication of research data and chaired two sessions on Semantic Information Management.

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:

• Security of Distributed Software: Wed, 17 July 2019 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM in room 1/201
• Cloud & Web Applications: Wed, 24 July 2019 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in room 2/N115
• Rechnernetze: Fri, 26 July 2019 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in room 2/N115

Please check the Prüfungsplan in advance for any changes.

We offer a facultative Q&A session for Rechnernetze on Friday, 19 July 2019 at 11:00 AM in room 1/346.

The Q&A session for Security of Distributed Software will take place on Wednesday, 10 July 2019 at 13:30 in room 1/219.

Pay attention, that there will be no SVS/SDS lecture on 18 June 2019. We will continue regularly in the following week.

All other VSR lectures will be conducted regularly.

This year, Mahda Noura and Valentin Siegert visited the 19th International Conference on Web Engineering in Daejeon, South Korea.

We presented our contributions about our latest findings and research results on Web of Things, Content Trust, and received positive and valuable feedback on our work.

Pay attention, that there will be no VSR lecture on Tuesday, 11 June 2019, as a lecture-free day for students wrt. https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/studentenservice/termine.php. We will continue regularly in the following week.

In May 2019, our VSR staff members participated in the 7. Leipziger Semantic Web Tag organized by AKSW/InfAI and sponsored by eccenca GmbH and Datev eG.

The event provided valuable information on current trends in data management based on Linked Data for research as well as smart city and business activities. Additionally, our Webind student team led a tutorial on SoLiD.