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Apr 4, 2025

VS at ICEIS 2025

Distributed Systems attended the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems in Porto, Portugal, from April 4 to 6, 2025.

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Jens Leicht and Julien Lukasewycz presented their paper PriPoCoG: Empowering End-Users’ Data Protection Decisions in one of the poster sessions.

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The artefacts of the paper, the Data Protection Icon Set (DaPIS) v3+ and the developed user interface, are open source. An online demo of the user interface is available here.

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Mar 17, 2025

VS at PerCom 2025

The Distributed Systems Group attended the 23rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications in Washington, DC, USA, from March 17 to March 22, 2025.

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On the first day of the conference, Malte Josten and Peter Zdankin organized the fourth edition of the International Workshop on Negative Results in Pervasive Computing (PerFail 2025), featuring eight peer-reviewed papers and keynotes by Prof. Gregor Schiele, Prof. Kimberly A. Cornell, and Prof. Sara Khalifa.
During the workshop, Eileen Becks presented her paper Motivation Matters: Challenges and Pitfalls of Crowdsourced Online Studies.

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percom perfail best paper award

Malte Josten and Malte Singerhoff presented their research (and research plans) during the PhD Forum and in a poster session on the main track.
Their topics included Large Language Models as a Cyber Threat: Towards Countering LLM-based Spam Attacks and XTRTimeS — eXplainable Transformer for Robust Time Series Forecasting.

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Welcome to the Distributed Systems Chair

Welcome to the Distributed Systems chair under the direction of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Torben Weis at the Campus Duisburg of the University Duisburg-Essen.

The chair belongs to the Department of Core Informatics of the Faculty of Computer Science.

Contact

Please note: we only respond to messages about teaching matters if they were sent from an official university mail address (@uni-due.de or @stud.uni-due.de).

Info

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Torben Weis

Secretary: Marianne Appelt

Visit and delivery address

Bismarckstr. 90
Building BC
3. and 4. floor
47057 Duisburg

Postal address

Universität Duisburg-Essen
Fakultät für Informatik
Fachgebiet Verteilte Systeme
47048 Duisburg