VSR News

Our Team presented multiple publications at the International Conference of Web Engineering 2025 (ICWE 2025) which took place in the Netherlands (Delft) from the 30th of June to the 3rd of July. Our Team member Dr. Sebastian Heil was invited to give a keynote speech during the PhD Symposium in which he provided valueable insights about the journey of early career researchers on their way to becoming PhDs. Additionally, he presented his publication UIQLab: Automatic Web User Interface Assessment. Jan Haas presented his PhD topic titled ResearchFlow: An End-User Development Approach to Research Data Management Workflow Composition. Tobias Muench shared his vision regarding the moral web through his publication MoralWeb: Reimagining the Web with Solid, Low-Code Tools, and Moral Codes for an Democratic and Equitable Future. Christoph Goepfert introduced his publication ShEx2SPARQL: Translating Shape Expressions into SPARQL Queries.

We were pleased to host Leonardo Germán Loza Bonora from LIFIA Faculty of Informatics, National University of La Plata, for a research visit in our group. His work focuses on the early detection of user profiles from web interaction events, combining user behavior analysis with semantic modeling and AI techniques.

During his stay, Leonardo collaborated closely with our team on profiling and personalization approaches in Web Engineering, contributing his expertise in behavioral analytics and intelligent systems. The visit fostered valuable knowledge exchange and laid the foundation for future collaboration.

Our team member Christoph Göpfert presented his latest research at the Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2025) workshop, held in conjunction with ESWC 2025 in Portorož, Slovenia.

The presented paper, titled "Facilitating RDF Querying in Research Data Management through ShEx-Based SPARQL Query Construction", explores an approach to simplifying RDF querying within research data infrastructures.

The second exam review for the exams written in the winter semester 2024/2025 will again be held in presence. Please note that we do not disclose sample solutions during the exam review.

The appointment will take place in presence on May 20 2025 from 13:30-15:00. You can freely choose, when you want to come in for the review, although you can do so only once. Please consider that each review per exam takes probably about 10 minutes. Thus, arriving later than 10 minutes to the end you might have no chance to review anymore. This adds up accordingly if you want to review more than one exam.

The exam review will take place in the FRIZ computer pool A11.201 (old: 1/B201). Please bring your student ID and wait at the door as you will be let in one by one. More information on the process of the presence exam review can be found in the edu FAQ. If you have further questions after reading the FAQ, you can send your question by mail to us via vsr-edu@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de.

The exam review for the exams written in the winter semester 2024/2025 will again be held in presence. Please note that we do not disclose sample solutions during the exam review.

The actual exam review will take place in presence on May 08 2025 from 13:30-16:00. You can freely choose, when you want to come in for the review, although you can do so only once. Please consider that each review per exam takes probably about 10 minutes. Thus, arriving later than 10 minutes to the end you might have no chance to review anymore. This adds up accordingly if you want to review more than one exam.

The exam review will take place in the FRIZ computer pool A11.201 (old: 1/B201). Please bring your student ID and wait at the door as you will be let in one by one. More information on the process of the presence exam review can be found in the edu FAQ. If you have further questions after reading the FAQ, you can send your question by mail to us via vsr-edu@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de.

We are currently looking for motivated student assistants for two positions:

Teaching Materials Creation, Curation and Integration
We are seeking a student assistant to assist with the creation, curation, and integration of teaching materials. Programming skills are strongly desired to help automate processes and manage technical content.

If you are interested, please send an email with a short application and your CV until 14.05.2025 to vsr-edu@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de

We are happy to announce that our colleague Maik Benndorf successfully defended his PhD thesis "Towards Vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring using Mobile Android Devices" on 15 April 2025.

We congratulate Maik to his achievement and wish him the best for his future career.

We are happy to announce that our colleague Mahda Noura successfully defended her PhD thesis "Goal-Oriented End User Development of Web of Things Compositions" on 16 January 2025.

We congratulate Mahda to her achievement and wish her the best for her future career.

We are happy to announce that we will help building the eCampus of ACROSS, the European Cross-border University, an alliance of TUC with 9 other European universities.

TUC as lead, represented by Prof. Martin Gaedke, and UNIUD as co-lead, represented by Prof. Christian Micheloni, will lead Task 2.1. This task focuses on building and integrating the digital infrastructure of ACROSS. The activities are supported by Dr. Daniel Pietschmann and Dr. Stefano Bonomi..

Our team member Dr. Sebastian Heil visited the centre of interdisciplinary cyber security research and education (CybSec) at University of Nottingham and worked on a study about human perception of trustworthy AI. He was invited by Prof. Steven Furnell as part of VSR's research in the European Network of Excellence (NoE) ENFIELD.