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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 proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-Vote ID 2025) are now published. All contributions in the proceedings are open access. Editors of the book are David Duenas-Cid, Peter Roenne, Melanie Volkamer, Michelle Blom, Pierrick Gaudry, Isabelle Borucki, Leontine Loeber, and Alexandre Debant. E-Vote ID is the leading international event for e-voting experts from around the world. This year, the conference took place from October 1 to 3 in Nancy, France. At the conference, three papers involving SECUSO were presented.

The paper "'I believe it’s incredibly difficult to fight against this flood of spam': Towards Enhancing Strategies for Creating Effective Vulnerability Notifications" by Anne Hennig, Maxime Veit, Leoni Schmidt-Enke, Fabian Neusser, Dominik Herrmann, and Peter Mayer was accepted for publiction in the journal "Computers & Security". Within a notification experiment, the paper examined the influence of three different senders and three variations of a notification text on the remediation of website hacking. The authors were able to show that the notifications helped recipients to remediate the hacking, but that sender and framing do not seem to have any effect. In follow-up interviews, it became clear that many of the website operators who had not fixed the problem had perceived the notification as spam. Future research should therefore focus on developing strategies for effectively communicating the importance of vulnerability notifications.

[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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