VSR News - feature

We are very happy to welcome Lucas Schröder to the VSR group as a researcher contributing to the Come2Data project.

We look forward to the valuable contributions he will make and will fully support his research as he embarks on this new chapter.

Our Team presented multiple publications at the International Conference of Web Engineering 2025 (ICWE 2025) which took place in the Netherlands (Delft) from the 30th of June to the 3rd of July. Our Team member Dr. Sebastian Heil was invited to give a keynote speech during the PhD Symposium in which he provided valueable insights about the journey of early career researchers on their way to becoming PhDs. Additionally, he presented his publication UIQLab: Automatic Web User Interface Assessment. Jan Haas presented his PhD topic titled ResearchFlow: An End-User Development Approach to Research Data Management Workflow Composition. Tobias Muench shared his vision regarding the moral web through his publication MoralWeb: Reimagining the Web with Solid, Low-Code Tools, and Moral Codes for an Democratic and Equitable Future. Christoph Goepfert introduced his publication ShEx2SPARQL: Translating Shape Expressions into SPARQL Queries.

We were pleased to host Leonardo Germán Loza Bonora from LIFIA Faculty of Informatics, National University of La Plata, for a research visit in our group. His work focuses on the early detection of user profiles from web interaction events, combining user behavior analysis with semantic modeling and AI techniques.

During his stay, Leonardo collaborated closely with our team on profiling and personalization approaches in Web Engineering, contributing his expertise in behavioral analytics and intelligent systems. The visit fostered valuable knowledge exchange and laid the foundation for future collaboration.

Our team member Christoph Göpfert presented his latest research at the Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2025) workshop, held in conjunction with ESWC 2025 in Portorož, Slovenia.

The presented paper, titled "Facilitating RDF Querying in Research Data Management through ShEx-Based SPARQL Query Construction", explores an approach to simplifying RDF querying within research data infrastructures.

We are happy to announce that our colleague Maik Benndorf successfully defended his PhD thesis "Towards Vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring using Mobile Android Devices" on 15 April 2025.

We congratulate Maik to his achievement and wish him the best for his future career.

We are happy to announce that our colleague Mahda Noura successfully defended her PhD thesis "Goal-Oriented End User Development of Web of Things Compositions" on 16 January 2025.

We congratulate Mahda to her achievement and wish her the best for her future career.

We are happy to announce that we will help building the eCampus of ACROSS, the European Cross-border University, an alliance of TUC with 9 other European universities.

TUC as lead, represented by Prof. Martin Gaedke, and UNIUD as co-lead, represented by Prof. Christian Micheloni, will lead Task 2.1. This task focuses on building and integrating the digital infrastructure of ACROSS. The activities are supported by Dr. Daniel Pietschmann and Dr. Stefano Bonomi..

Our team member Dr. Sebastian Heil visited the centre of interdisciplinary cyber security research and education (CybSec) at University of Nottingham and worked on a study about human perception of trustworthy AI. He was invited by Prof. Steven Furnell as part of VSR's research in the European Network of Excellence (NoE) ENFIELD.

Our team member Maheshika Hansamalee Walpola conducted a Data Infrastructure Workshop as part of the WiProFlex project. The workshop brought together participants from multiple work packages to discuss key aspects of designing a scalable and efficient data infrastructure.

The discussions covered topics such as data sources, storage systems, and the integration of Knowledge Graphs to contextualize and link diverse datasets. Participants also explored practical tools and workflows for improving data management and sharing across teams.

Through interactive activities, attendees shared insights and identified key requirements, which will guide the development of a collaborative and robust data infrastructure for the project.

Prof. Jose Garcia-Alonso from Universidad de Extremadura followed the invitation by our team member Dr. Sebastian Heil to teach as a guest lecturer in our Current Trends in Web Engineering module. Prof. Garcia-Alonso is an expert in the area of Quantum WebServices and shared his ideas and ongoing research on how to make Quantum Computing easier to integrate into modern Web Applications and maintaining important non-functional properties such as platform and location independence, decoupling, reliability, scalability, resilience and composability.