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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.

Am Tag der offenen Tür und beim Campustag am KIT haben wir unsere Forschungsgruppe zahlreichen kleinen und großen Besucher*innen vorgestellt. In unseren Institutsräumen präsentierten wir verschiedene Systeme und Roboter, die in Forschung und Lehre bei uns zum Einsatz kommen. Darüber hinaus beteiligten wir uns an der Wissensrallye sowie am „Weg der Nachhaltigkeit“ und freuten uns über spannende Gespräche mit interessierten Gästen.

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.

Four papers from SECUSO were accepted at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing System (CHI 2026): "Why Johnny Checks but Doesn't Alert: Reporting as the Missing Step in Verifiable Internet Voting" by Tobias Hilt, Christian Mack, Benjamin Berens, and Melanie Volkamer, "Development, Evaluation, and Implementation of SEQR -- a Usable Secure QR code Scanner" by Mattia Mossano & Maxime Veit, Tobias Länge, Benjamin Berens, Filipo Sharevski, and Melanie Volkamer, "`It's Confusing, Insecure, and Messy'' -- Mapping the Gaps Between Stakeholders' Cybersecurity Mental Models in the Danish Economy" by Judith Kankam-Boateng, M. Peressotti, J. Stentoft, K. A. Wickstrøm, V. C. Keating, L. A. Tumchewics, O. Schmitt, A. Theussen, and Peter Mayer, as well as "From Fear to Control: Developing a Three-Factor Scale for Cybersecurity Anxiety (CybAS)" by N. Dall, H. Hagge, Peter Mayer, and Cori Faklaris. CHI is the leading international conference in human-computer interaction, and we congratulate all authors on this great success. CHI 2026 will take place from April 13 to 17 in Barcelona, Spain.

In addition to Melanie Volkamer and Peter Mayer, Benjamin Berens is also supporting the program committee of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2026) this year. As of January 2026, SOUPS has improved its ranking and is now rated as "A" conference. Papers had to be submitted until February 19. The PC members and reviewers now have time until mid of March to assess the submitted papers. SOUPS will take place from August 23 to 26, 2026 in Hannover, Germany. 

We are pleased to share that the paper titled “Data-driven artificial intelligence applications for tyre-road-noise prediction and road condition monitoring: A review and future directions” by Postdoc Dr. Mustafa Demetgül and Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, which focuses on data-driven artificial intelligence approaches, has been published in the journal Measurement (Elsevier – ScienceDirect). This publication was produced as part of the Tyre Road Noise (TyRoN) Project, which focuses on data-driven approaches for tyre–road noise prediction and road condition monitoring, drawing on signal processing, machine learning, and intelligent sensing. It highlights key AI approaches, data requirements, and future research directions in acoustic AI and smart mobility.

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[December 7-10, 2025] -  Last week, the SYDSEN research group had a strong presence at the 2025 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2025), held in Seattle, USA. WSC is the leading international conference in computer simulation, bringing together researchers and practitioners working on modeling, Digital Twins, decision support, and data-driven simulation.

At WSC 2025, SYDSEN contributed seven peer-reviewed papers addressing key challenges in research on Digital Twins. In addition, SYDSEN delivered a invited tutorial on data-driven Petri net model extraction and simulation for Digital Twins in smart manufacturing, providing practical methodologies for developing Digital Twins model extraction approaches.

📄 Paper Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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. 

👨‍🏫 Tutorial Session:

- 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. 

Overall, WSC 2025 provided an excellent platform for presenting our work, engaging with the global simulation and Digital Twin community, and contributing to the broader conference program.

Onwards to Glasgow for WSC2026!

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