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News
Thomas Konrad holds workshop at “enterJS” in Darmstadt
Thomas Konrad gives a workshop on “Webapplication Security for JavaScript Developers” at today´s enterJS conference in Darmstadt.
Research Data Alliance Chairs Collaboration Meeting
Tomasz Miksa co-hosted RDA Chairs Collaboration Meeting which was held in the festive hall of the TU Wien 13-15 June 2018. Chairs representing working and interest groups met to discuss ongoing developments and to analyse future development directions.
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is an international organization focused on the development of infrastructure and community activities aimed to reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange, and promote the acceleration of data driven innovation worldwide.
With more than 7,000 members globally, RDA comprises individuals, organizations and policy makers representing multiple industries and disciplines, who are committed to building the social, organizational and technical infrastructure needed to reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange, and accelerating data driven innovation worldwide.
Ludwig Kampel presented a paper at LION
Yesterday at “Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference” [LION] Ludwig Kampel presented a paper titled “Combinatorial Methods for Testing Communication Protocols in Smart Cities” in the special session “Computational Intelligence for Smart Cities” ( Dimitris E. Simos, Ludwig Kampel, Murat Ozcan). This paper proposes a combinatorial method for testing the Building Automation Protocol BACnet. The talk and the presented content received much resonance from the audience.
Mathias Gusenbauer successfully defended his master thesis
Mathias Gusenbauer successfully defended his master thesis on “Bitstream – A Bottom-Up/Top-Down Approach to Data Loading for Interactive Bitcoin Visualizations” on June 4, 2018.
Kristoffer Kleine successfully defended his master’s thesis
Kristoffer successfully defended his master’s thesis “Efficient Algorithms and Tools for Practical Combinatorial Testing” advised by Dimitris E. Simos, at the Faculty of Informatics of TU Vienna.
Kristoffer gave an excellent presentation and graduated with distinction.
Matthias Eckhart at CPSS ‘18
Today, Matthias Eckhart speaks about “Towards Security-Aware Virtual Environments for Digital Twins” at the “4th ACM Workshop on Cyber-Physical System Security”, taking place at the Songdo Central Park Hotel in Incheon, South Korea.
Paper accepted @ RAID 2018
Our paper “Proof-of-Blackouts? How Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies Could Affect Power Grids”
by Johanna Ullrich, Nicholas Stifter, Aljosha Judmayer, Adrian Dabrowski and Edgar Weippl
has been accepted at the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID). Our work investigates whether cryptocurrencies are a threat for reliable power grid operation due to their high consumption. The conference will be held September 10-12th in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. A preprint will follow soon.
Link: https://www.raid2018.org/
Computers & Security (Elsevier) Special issue on Security and Privacy in Smart Cyber-Physical Systems
Computers & Security welcomes submissions to the special issue on Security and Privacy in Smart Cyber-physical Systems.
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: 30 November 2018
- Authors’ notification: 31 January 2019
- Revisions due: 30 April 2019
- Final decision: 30 June 2019
- Camera ready version due: 30 September 2019
- Tentative publication date: Late 2019
Guest Editors:
- Lotfi ben Othmane, Iowa State University, USA
- Doug Jacobson Iowa State University, USA
- Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria
Blocks and Chains now translated into Korean
Our book Blocks and Chains: Introduction to Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and Their Consensus Mechanisms (Aljosha Judmayer, Nicholas Stifter, Katharina Krombholz, Edgar Weippl) has been translated into Korean.
Edgar Weippl ACM Distinguished Speaker
Edgar Weippl offers three talks with ACM’s Distinguished Speaker program.
- Blockchains & Distributed Ledger Technology
- Secure Development Lifecycle of Production Environments
- Improvement of Security of Information Processing in the Industrial Production System Lifecycle
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