VSR News

Our VSR team member Mahda Noura participated in the Dagstuhl seminar on Autonomous Agents on the Web and presented our current research findings and a demo of WoTDL2API which showed how to webify Internet of Things devices. 

We are very happy and proud to announce, that our research on ” Querying the Semantic Web for Concept Identifiers to Annotate Research Datasets” got an Outstanding Paper award at the 14th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing SEMAPRO 2020 . Congratulations to our VSR members André Langer, Christoph Göpfert and Martin Gaedke!

The entire VSR team wishes you as our business partner, colleague or student relaxing Christmas holidays and a good start into the New Year 2021. Our lectures and tutorials will regularly continue in a virtual format in calendar week 1 beginning on 4 January 2021.

The Coronavirus pandemic has affected the exam reviews for the Winter Semester 2019/2020 and Summer semester 2020. For this reason, we had to postpone this event until now. However, we remain determined to continue to serve the best for our students. We are announcing today a new way to conduct our exam reviews online. Starting […]

We are very happy and proud to announce, that our research paper titled “Natural Language Goal Understanding for Smart Homes Environments” was selected as the candidate for Best Paper at the 10th International Conference on the Internet of Things organized in Malmö, Sweden. The contribution is a collaborative work of Mahda Noura, Sebastian Heil and Martin […]

In September 2020, our VSR staff member Verena Traubinger participated in the the Mensch & Computer 2020 Conference in Magdeburg, Germany. Our ESF Young Researcher Group DYNAMIKpresented a research paper about ” Dynamic indoor navigation and orientation system for people with impairments“. Additionally, we contributed to the workshop ” Digitale Lösungen für eine inklusivere Mobilität in […]

Our VSR team members Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Gaedke and André Langer participated in a project meeting of the DFG Collaborative Research Center Hybrid Societiesand presented our current work progress and further strategy within the INF project about Interdisciplinary Research Dataset Publishing and Collaboration. Additionally, the Executive Board of the CRC Hybrid Societies approved André’s status […]

In September 2020, our VSR team member Valentin Siegert participated in the Digital Rail Summer School (DRSS) 2020in Jöhstadt, Germany, in the context of our project activities together with the Deutschen Bahn, HPI Potsdam, TU Berlin, TU Dresden, TU Braunschweig and the IFB.

Our VSR team member Sebastian Heil successfully defended his PhD thesis ” Web Migration Revisited Adressing Effort and Risk Concerns” on 24 September 2020. We congratulate Sebastian to his achievement and are happy to further work with him in our VSR research group at Chemnitz University of Technolgy in the future.

This year, our VSR team participated in the 20th International Conference on Web Engineering with three accepted research publications. #ICWE2020 Mahda Noura, Sebastian Heil and Martin Gaedke presented the contributionVISH: Does Your Smart Home Dialogue System Also Need Training Data? In a joint activity with the Novosibirsk State Technical University and C&A Europe, Maxim Bakaev, Maximilian Speicher, Sebastian […]