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On Girls' Day 2024, 5 schoolgirls came to our research group "Applied Technical-Cognitive Systems" to get an insight into how we came to our profession, where you are allowed to "play" with robots.

The Applied Technical-Cognitive Systems research group headed by Prof. J. Marius Zöllner presented its latest autonomous vehicle at ITSC 2023. This research vehicle enables autonomous and networked operation in real road traffic situations.

The ISE group is one of the organizers of the International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS) 2024.

The privacy-friendly apps developed by the SECUSO research group will no longer be available via the Google Play Store, but only via the F-Droid Store. Reason for this decision is that the maintenance required to provide privacy-friendly apps in the Google Play Store is significantly greater than on F-Droid. This extra work no longer feasible for us as a research group. PFAs downloaded from the Google Play Store can continue to be used as usual. However, there will be no further updates for these apps in the future, which is why we recommend switching to the F-Droid versions. Updates will continue to be provided there in the future. Your existing data can be backed up using the BackUp app, which can also be found on F-Droid. The privacy-friendly apps can then be downloaded from F-Droid and used as usual. In our tutorial we explain every step in detail.

As one of more than 30 research groups, SECUSO supported this year's German HCI event at the conference Computer and Human Interaction (CHI 2025). This event is held every year in conjunction with the CHI conference, this year was no different and the event was held, on 30th April 2025 at the YOKOHAMA COAST garage+ in Yokohama, Japan. The event allowed participants of all academic levels as well as from industry and public organisations to network in an informal setting. Thanks a lot to the volunteers who made this great event possible.

[May 28th, 2025] - From May 20–23, 2025, SYDSEN attended DMaaST and ONE4ALL conjoined project meetings and workshops.

- DMaaST 3rd Consortium Meeting (May 20–21):

During the consortium meeting Prof. Dr. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and PhD Student Michelle Jungmann presented the developments in Work Package 3, which is lead by the KIT. The Work Package aims to develop a cognitive Manufacturing Ecosystem Digital Twin encompassing both manufacturing services and value chains to enhance resiliency through innovative modeling and assessment capabilities. 

- Joint Workshop (May 21–22):

Projects’ participants from SYDSEN at KIT and MSDA at SDU delivered a collaborative workshop on the development and implementation of Digital Twins in smart manufacturing systems. Their workshop contained the model development, validation, and security of Digital Twins in smart manufacturing systems.

- ONE4ALL 5th Consortium Meeting (May 22–23):

Prof. Dr. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and SYDSEN Ph.D. students Atieh Khodadadi and Manuel Götz, SDU postdoctoral researcher Sani Abdullahi, and SYDSEN-affiliated Ph.D. student at SDU, Ashkan Zare, presented their recent developments in Work Packages 2, 3, and 4. These developments covered development of Multidimensional Digital Twins,  labor-intensive model extraction, Digital Twins model validation and Digital Twins’ cybersecurity.

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[May 5th, 2025] - We're happy to welcome Johannes Deufel and Ohad Daniel as Ph.D. candidates at SYDSEN - Systems, Data, Simulation & Energy Research Group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Johannes and Ohad joined our research group on May 1st, 2025.

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