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From May 13th to May 16th a number of conferences and workshops took place during the Cyper-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week (CPS-IoT Week) in Hong Kong. This included the 30th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), where our colleague Harald Böhm prese...

A group from our chair attended the Eurosys 2024 in Athens from April 22 to 25. The largest European conference on system software once again covered a wide variety of topics, ranging from networking, storage systems, distributed systems, compilers, scheduling, to many papers on or using machine lea...

Signe Schwarz-Rüsch successfully defended her dissertation Blockchain-Based Architectures for Decentralized Data Access. Before joining the i4, Signe worked as research assistant at the Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks at the TU Braunschweig. Besides her doctoral superviso...

On March 14 and 15, Timo Hönig (Ruhr Universität Bochum) and Peter Ulbrich (TU Dortmund) jointly hosted this year's spring meeting of the Operating-Systems Special-Interest Group in Bochum. Under the motto Betriebssysteme im Revier, current developments in the operating systems community in Germany...

On March 7, Tobias Langer successfully defended his dissertation Software-based Memory Consistency Mechanisms for Non-Coherent Many-Core Systems, which he wrote as part of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center Invasive Computing. In addition to his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sc...

From February 27 to 29, the staff of the Chairs of Computer Science 4 and 16 met for a joint retreat at Kloster Schwanberg. The participants presented insights into their past year and their research work. The topics were discussed in group and new ideas were generated. The days were rounded off ...

Just before Christmas, on Wednesday, December 20th, Michael Eischer successfully defended his dissertation Geo-Replicated Byzantine Fault-Tolerant State-Machine Replication with Low Latency on the reduction of latency and latency variants of Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) systems in a geo-replicated...

On Tuesday, December 5, students and staff met up with their partners for a Christmas party at the Aquarium. The past year was reviewed in a convivial atmosphere with excellent dishes and desserts as well as the usual hot drinks for this time of year. The evening was rounded off, in keeping with tr...

On Friday, Andreas Ziegler successfully defended his dissertation Automated Tailoring of System Software Stacks on the application-oriented tailoring of Linux kernel and userspace in Hannover. Since his doctoral supervisor Prof. Daniel Lohmann joined Leibniz Universität Hannover in 2017, Andreas was...

Members of the I4's research staff have recently visited this year's ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'23) in Koblenz. Various talks from different areas of systems research have been presented and discussed at the main conference. Further, I4 staff member Maximilian Ott has pr...