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At the IEEE IV 2025 in Romania, our research group was represented with 13 accepted papers. In addition, Ahmed Abouelazm won the Best Paper Award with his contribution "TPK: Trustworthy Trajectory Prediction Integrating Prior Knowledge For Interpretability and Kinematic Feasibility".

On March 1, 2024, the KIT Center for Mobility Systems and the Energy Lab at Campus North received an official visit from Dr. Volker Wissing, Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, and Members of the Bundestag Michael Theurer and Parsa Marvi.

A robot that helps children cross the street safely? What sounds like science fiction has become reality in Bratislava – with significant involvement from KIT. 

On September 22, 2024, the workshop takes place in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces. This workshop deals with the rise of micromobility services and Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) as a potential solution to problems like regulations, standardization and road safety.

The ISE group is one of the organizers of the International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS) 2024.

The paper "Grand Challenges in Human-Centered Privacy" by Ruba Abu-Salma, Pauline Anthonysamy, Zinaida Benenson, Benjamin Berens, Kovila P. L. Coopamootoo, Andreas Gutmann, Adam Jenkins, Sameer Patil, Sören Preibusch, Florian Schaub, William Seymour, Jose Such, Mohammad Tahaei, Aybars Tuncdogan, Max Van Kleek and Daricia Wilkinson has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Security & Privacy. The paper reports the most salient themes and future directions for human-centered privacy that emerged from the discussions at the Future of Human-Centered Privacy event, which brought together leading international experts from academia, industry, and government to discuss "grand challenges" in the field.

The article “RFC 9116 (”security.txt“) on German university servers” by Finn Eckstein, Ria Rosenauer, Pascal Huppert, Melanie Volkamer, and Dominik Herrmann was published this month in the journal Datenschutz und Datensicherheit (Data Protection and Data Security). The article examines the dissemination of the RFC 9116 standard at German universities. By implementing the standard, website operators can provide contact details for reporting security vulnerabilities. Notifying universities that had not implemented security.txt resulted in a threefold increase in implementation, albeit at a very low level. The way universities were addressed had no effect on implementation.

[September 19th, 2025] - We are pleased to announce that the SYDSEN – Systems, Data, Simulation & Energy Research Group at KIT has 8 contributions accepted for presentation at the 2025 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). WSC is the premier international conference for cutting-edge research and applications in modeling and simulation.

 Below is an overview of our accepted contributions:

- Khodadadi, A., Zare, A., Jungmann, M., Götz, M., Lazarova-Molnar, S.:  A Tutorial on Data-Driven Petri Net Model Extraction and Simulation for Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing.

- Khodadadi, A., Lazarova-Molnar, S.: Multi-flow Process Mining as an Enabler for Comprehensive Digital Twins of Manufacturing Systems.

- Zare, A., Lazarova-Molnar, S.: Preserving Dependencies in Partitioned Digital Twin Models for Enabling Modular Validation.

- Jungmann, M., Lazarova-Molnar, S.: Integrating Expert Trustworthiness into Digital Twin Models Extracted from Expert Knowledge and Internet of Things Data: A Case Study in Reliability.

- Šturek, D., Lazarova-Molnar, S.: Exploring Integration of Surrogate Models Through A Case Study on Variable Frequency Drives.

- Mostafa, O., Lazarova-Molnar, S.: Data Requirements for Reliability-Oriented Digital Twins of Energy Systems: A Case Study Analysis.

- Lee, H., Lazarova-Molnar, S.: Exploring Data Requirements For Data-Driven Agent-Based Modeling.

- Mahmoud, M., Lazarova-Molnar, S.: Explainability in Digital Twins: Overview and Challenges.

Learn more about WSC 2025:
https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2025/

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[May 28th, 2025] - From May 20–23, 2025, SYDSEN attended DMaaST and ONE4ALL conjoined project meetings and workshops.

- DMaaST 3rd Consortium Meeting (May 20–21):

During the consortium meeting Prof. Dr. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and PhD Student Michelle Jungmann presented the developments in Work Package 3, which is lead by the KIT. The Work Package aims to develop a cognitive Manufacturing Ecosystem Digital Twin encompassing both manufacturing services and value chains to enhance resiliency through innovative modeling and assessment capabilities. 

- Joint Workshop (May 21–22):

Projects’ participants from SYDSEN at KIT and MSDA at SDU delivered a collaborative workshop on the development and implementation of Digital Twins in smart manufacturing systems. Their workshop contained the model development, validation, and security of Digital Twins in smart manufacturing systems.

- ONE4ALL 5th Consortium Meeting (May 22–23):

Prof. Dr. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and SYDSEN Ph.D. students Atieh Khodadadi and Manuel Götz, SDU postdoctoral researcher Sani Abdullahi, and SYDSEN-affiliated Ph.D. student at SDU, Ashkan Zare, presented their recent developments in Work Packages 2, 3, and 4. These developments covered development of Multidimensional Digital Twins,  labor-intensive model extraction, Digital Twins model validation and Digital Twins’ cybersecurity.

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