News

Here you can see a selection of news from our research groups.

Many more can be found on the websites of the research groups:

Please also take a look at our AIFB Thematic Issue 2025 “KI und Angewandte Informatik” (in German),  which contains, among other things, information about the 40th AIK Symposium and current facts and figures about the institute. The AIK Symposium will take place on 24.10.2025, and its content will be organized by the Applied Technical Cognitive Systems (Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner) and Business Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Andreas Oberweis) research groups.

Applied Technical-Cognitive Systems
IEEE IV 202513 Papers and Best Paper Award at the IEEE IV 2025 (02.07.2025)

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".

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Girls‘ Day 2024Girls´Day 2024 (25/04/2024)

On Girls' Day 2024, 5 schoolgirls came to our research group "Applied Technical-Cognitive Systems" to get an insight into how we came to our profession, where you are allowed to "play" with robots.

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Autonomous Driving on Campus NorthAutonomous driving with Federal Minister for Digital and Transport Volker Wissing on Campus North (01/03/2024)

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.

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Cooperative Autonomous Systems
Robots Control Traffic – KIT Tests Future Technology for Safe School Routes (07.07.2025)

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

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-SIMON kickoff

The SIMON project has now been officially launched to revolutionize multimodal mobility. It builds on the RELAI project to improve safety and efficiency in road traffic. Particular attention is to be paid to vulnerable road users, such as cyclists. Our “trafficpilot” app will provide them with environmentally friendly driving recommendations in real time.

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Workshop on Connected Micromobility for Safe and Sustainable Communities (22.09.2024)

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.

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Information Service Engineering
logo ISWSISWS 2024

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

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Logo SemDHSemantic Digital Humanities Workshop (26.05.2024)

Sasha Bruns, Tabea Tietz and Harald Sack, together with external partners from the University of Bologna and Vrije University Amsterdam, are organizing a workshop on "Semantic Digital Humanities", which will be held as part of ESWC 2024. The main goal is to build a bridge between technical semantic web-based solutions and the research questions of the humanities community.

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Security • Usability • Society
Paper accepted at ACSAC (15-10-2025)

The paper “Fix It - If you Can! Towards Understanding the Impact of Tool Support and Domain Owners’ Reactions to SSHFP Misconfigurations" von Anne Hennig, Sebastian Neef, and Peter Mayer has been accepted for presentation at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2025). The paper sent notifications to domain owners with misconfigured SSHFP records, investigating the effect of tool support. While the sender of the notification itself has no effect, the results suggest that tool support might increase remediation when the sender of the notification is different than the institution providing the tool. By analyzing domain owners’ responses to the authors' notification, multiple reasons for non-remediation were identified, supporting the argument that remediation rate should not be considered a success measure for a notification campaign but instead individual challenges faced by domain owners should be taken into account. ACSAC will take place December 8 to 12, 2025, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

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Tobias Hilt receives Best Paper Award at E-Vote ID (08-10-2025)

The paper "Development and Expert Evaluation of an Informative Video concerning Verifiable Internet Voting" by Tobias Hilt, Florian Moser, Philipp Matheis, and Melanie Volkamer was awarded the Best Paper Award in the "Governance" track at E-Vote ID 2025. The paper describes the development and evaluation process of an informative video on the topic of online elections. It was emphasized that the paper bridges the gap between research and practical application and provides important insights for society as a whole.

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Prof. Vanessa Teague as guest speaker for the SECUSO Research Seminar (07-10-2025)

We are happy to welcome Prof. Dr. Vanessa as guest of the SECUSO research group in mid October. Prof. Teague is the CEO of Thinking Cybersecurity and an Associate Professor at the Australian National University. As part of her visit, she will give a talk titled "Auditing complex elections: what does it take to run a convincing RLA?" within the SECUSO Research Seminar. The talk will take place on October 13th, 11:00-12:00, at Kronenplatz, Building 05.20, Room 5A.09.

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Systems, Data, Simulation & Energy
Atieh & Sanja -SMC 2025Atieh Khodadadi Presents Recent Research at SMC 2025

[October 5-8, 2025] - We’re pleased to share that Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and our PhD student Atieh Khodadadi participated in the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) 2025, held October 5–8 in Vienna, Austria. Atieh presented our latest research, “Multidimensional Stochastic Petri Nets: A Novel Approach to Modeling and Simulation of Stochastic Discrete-Event Systems.” SMC 2025 serves as a premier International forum for researchers and practitioners in systems science, cybernetics, and human–machine systems to exchange pioneering ideas and advances.

You can read the full paper here.

 

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Ashkan Zare at ICAC 2025Ashkan Zare Presents Recent Research at ICAC 2025

[August 27-29, 2025] - We’re pleased to share that our SYDSEN-affiliated Ph.D. student at SDU, Ashkan Zare, presented his research "System Variations and Their Impact on the Validation of Digital Twin Models in Dynamic Manufacturing Environments" at the 30th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC 2025) in Loughborough, UK, on 27-29 Aug 2025.

 

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SYDSEN Contributions to the 2025 Winter Simulation Conference

[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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