On 26 May 2019, the paper “What are Hybrid Development Methods Made of? An Evidence-based Characterization” won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP 2019) in Montreal, Canada. ICSSP is an A-category international conference co-located with the premier conference in the field of software engineering worldwide, […]

On the 12th of June, Toomas Krips defended his PhD on „Improving performance of secure real-number operations“ in which he describes methods on how to improve real-number computations on secure computations. In the following blog post, Toomas tells a story on secure computations, real numbers and his doctoral thesis. There are two main components of […]

On the 6th of June 2019, the paper “D2IA: Stream Analytics on User-Defined Event Intervals” won the best paper award in the 31st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’19), which was written by Ahmed Awad, Riccardo Tommasini, Mahmoud Kamel, Emanuele Della Valle and Sherif Sakr. CAiSE is one of the oldest and top […]

On June 7, Mohan Liyanage, who is an assistant in the Chair of Distributed Systems defended his doctoral thesis “A framework for mobile web of things” in which he presents an energy efficient lightweight mobile web service provisioning framework for mobile sensing utilizing the protocols that were designed for the constrained Internet of Things environment. […]

On 31st of May, the paper on Going Farther Together: The Impact of Social Capital on Sustained Participation in Open Source won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering.The conference is the premier conference in the field of software engineering world wide and they give out these […]