VSR News

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Our team member Dr. Sebastian Heil chaired the the Web Technologies session at the 25th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE2024) at Qatar University. Also, he presented our work on a web-based client network simulator for Web Engineering education, which is now available as open educational resource (OER). WISE conference brings together researchers […]

Our team members Jan Haas and Christoph Göpfert presented their latest research at the 26th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Intelligence (iiWAS2024), held from December 2 to 4, 2024, in Bratislava, Slovakia. Jan Haas presented his paper titled “Facilitating End-User Development of Websites with Micro-Frontends”, which explores innovative approaches to empower end-users in […]

We are currently looking for motivated student assistants for two positions: Data management in Distributed Storage Systems We are seeking a student assistant to support data management tasks in distributed storage systems. Responsibilities include system setup, data handling, and performance optimization. Programming experience is required. Teaching Materials Creation, Curation and Integration We are seeking a […]

We are very happy and proud to announce, that our research on “FAIR Jupyter: A Knowledge Graph Approach to Semantic Sharing and Granular Exploration of a Computational Notebook Reproducibility Dataset” received special recognition through a Special Jury SaxFDM Open Data Award at the 5. SaxFDM-Tagung. Congratulations to Sheeba Samuel and Daniel Mietchen!

VSR is celebrating the completion of the first year of the ENFIELD project. To mark this milestone, VSR members Sebastian Heil and Abubaker Gaber attended the ENFIELD general assembly at the Technical University of Eindhoven, where they discussed plans for the upcoming year. They also took part in a human-centric AI workshop and co-organized the […]