Institut für Verteilte Systeme

During this year's IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC), Prof. Frank Kargl and Artur Hermann from the Institute of Distributed Systems at Ulm University presented recent research results from the CONNECT project on trust assessment in connected, cooperative, and automated mobility (CCAM).
Our contributions to the conference included a full paper on "Quantification Methods for Trust in Cooperative Driving" and a demo showcasing our trust assessment framework (TAF).
IEEE VNC is the premiere conference dedicated exclusively to vehicular networking and the most important annual gathering of that research community.

On 27.01.25, Frank Kargl and Michele Segata jointly presented their paper „Challenges and Initial Measurements on Communication and Localization for Mountain Bike Safety Applications“ at IEEE WONS 2025 in Hintertux, Austria. The paper presents first results from our cooperation with Prof. Segata‘s group from University of Trento on using V2X for mountain bike scenarios. It included results from the M.Sc. theses of our co-authors Michele Zucchelli, Marcus Marx, and also Max Hörmann. The presentation was received with a lot of interest and spawned interesting discussion for our future research in this domain.

Conference Paper on "Consensus-Agnostic State-Machine Replication" at Middleware'24

Alexander Heß (Research Group Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz J. Hauck) presented our latest research results in the field of fault-tolerant, distributed systems at Middleware 2024 in Hong Kong. The paper, co-authored by Franz J. Hauck and Echo Meißner, describes a general approach and a prototypical toolkit that can implement state machine replication independently of specific consensus protocols. This approach simplifies the use of state machine replication as a fault tolerance strategy for clients and, based on an agnostic wrapper, allows the versatile selection or switch of the specific consensus protocol used.

Middleware is an important annual ACM/IFIP conference focusing on the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage and communication. This year's conference was held at the Polytechnic University in Hong Kong.

News article: https://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/vs/news-details/article/konferenzbeitrag-zu-consensus-agnostic-state-machine-replication-auf-der-middleware24/
Conference paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3652892.3700776

Am 11. Dezember 2024 trafen sich Experteninnen und Experten aus Industrie und Forschung am Institut für Verteilte Systeme der Universität Ulm zu einem Hybrid-Workshop, um Methoden zum Trust Assessment in der kooperativen, vernetzten und automatisierten Mobilität (CCAM) zu diskutieren.
Der Workshop befasste sich mit den vielschichten Herausforderungen bei der Bewertung der Vertrauenswürdigkeit im Kontext von Safety und Security, und wie diese unterschiedlichen Bereich zusammengeführt und integriert werden können.
Der Workshop fand im Rahmen der EU-geförderten Projekten CONNECT, EVENTS und PoDIUM sowie dem BMBF-geförderten Projekt ConnRAD statt.

Das Institut bedankt sich bei den Teilnehmenden, die zu diesem erfolgreichen Austausch beigetragen haben sowei bei den Geldgebern der beteiligten Projekte.

Details: https://www.uni-ulm.de/in/vs/news-detailansicht/article/workshop-zu-trust-assessment-fuer-safety-und-security-im-ccam-kontext/

On December 11, 2024, experts from industry and academia gathered at the Institute of Distributed Systems, Ulm University, for a hybrid workshop to advance methods for assessing trustworthiness in cooperative, connected, and automated mobility (CCAM).
The workshop addressed challenges that arise when considering the multifaceted nature of trustworthiness across safety and security domains and focused on integrating safety and security perspectives into a unified and holistic trust assessment approach.
The workshop was co-organized by the EU-funded projects CONNECT, EVENTS, and the PoDIUM, as well as the BMBF-funded project ConnRAD.

Full news entry: https://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/vs/news-details/article/workshop-zu-trust-assessment-fuer-safety-und-security-im-ccam-kontext/

Das Institut für Verteilte Systeme bietet für das Wintersemester 2024/2025 wieder ein Info-Veranstaltung für Studierende an, bei der wir über unser aktuelles Lehrangebot im Bachelor und Master informieren. Neben Informationen zum Institut und unseren (Wahl-)Veranstaltungen stellen wir außerdem unsere aktuellen Projektthemen und Abschlussarbeitsthemen vor.

Die Veranstaltung findet am Dienstag, den 15.10.2024, ab 12:30 Uhr in Raum O27/341 statt.

The Institute of Distributed Systems is again offering an information event for students for the winter semester 2024/2025, where we will provide information about our Bachelor's and Master's courses. We will also present our current project topics and thesis topics.

The event will take place on Tuesday, 15.10.2024, from 12:30 pm in room O27/341.

From now on the teaching offers for the winter semester are available on our web pages.

https://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/vs/news-details/article/lehrangebote-wintersemester-2024-2025/

Ab sofort ist unser Lehrangebot für das Wintersemester 2024/2025 auf den Webseiten verfügbar.

https://www.uni-ulm.de/in/vs/news-detailansicht/article/lehrangebote-wintersemester-2024-2025/

The summer term 2024 has begun and we are happy to kick it of with and info event in which we will present our current lectures, seminars, projects and thesis topics. It will take place on Tuesday, 16.04.23, at 10:15 am in O27/341.

Alternatively, a current overview of our courses can be found here: https://uni-ulm.de/in/vs/teach/portfolio/

Our current project and thesis topics can be found here: https://uni-ulm.de/in/vs/teach/open-theses/

Das Sommersemester 2023 steht vor der Türe. Zum Semesterauftakt stellen wir unsere aktuellen Vorlesungen, Seminare, Projekte und Abschlussarbeitsthemen in einem Info-Event vor. Es findet am Montag, 17.04.23, um 14:15 Uhr in O28/1002 statt. Wir freuen uns!

Alternativ ist hier eine aktuelle Übersicht unserer Lehrveranstaltungen zu finden: https://uni-ulm.de/in/vs/teach/portfolio/

Unsere derzeitigen Projekt- und Abschlussarbeitsthemen finden sich hier: https://uni-ulm.de/in/vs/teach/open-theses/

Wir gratulieren Dr. Gerhard Habiger (@GHabiger@digitalcourage.social) zur erfolgreichen Verteidigung seiner Dissertationsarbeit mit dem Titel "Optimizing Deterministically Scheduled Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems"!

Wir gratulieren Dr. Pascal Oser zur erfolgreichen Verteidigung seiner Dissertationsarbeit mit dem Titel "Security Risks of IoT Devices: From Device Characteristics to Future Risk Score Predictions"! 🎉

We are happy to announce that our project SunRise won the 2022 PENTA Innovation Award. We were happy to contribute to the project research on privacy-preserving machine learning.

Project info: https://www.project-sunrise.eu/
PENTA Innovation Award: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aeneas-association_sunrise-caviar-penta-activity-7001867756262277120-7Zs4/

👋 Ab sofort posten wir hier Neuigkeiten des Instituts für Verteilte Systeme an der Universität Ulm. #uulm