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This year's Herbsttreffen of the SYS division took place at the University of Stuttgart on October 24 and 25. On October 24, the Fachgruppen “Betriebssysteme" (FGBS) and “Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" (KuVS) first met for a joint meeting, at which the Townhall Meeting of the SYS department...

Last month, Luis has presented his recent work on improved Spectre mitigations for Linux eBPF at Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) and the 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID’24) (the former being located in Vienna, Austria and the latter in Padua, Italy)...

Last week, Eva Dengler took part at the ECRTS in Lille, France. She presented our work "Crêpe: Clock-Reconfiguration-Aware Preemption Control in Real-Time Systems with Devices", written together with Peter Wägemann. The paper targets the optimization of time-critical real-time systems with device ...

The third edition of the HotCarbon workshop takes place today in Santa Cruz, California. Our chair participates with the paper "CO2CoDe: Towards Carbon-Aware Hardware/Software Co-Design for Intermittently-Powered Embedded Systems", for which Phillip Raffeck recorded a video talk. With the help of an...

Last week, Phillip Raffeck attented the PLDI conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the co-hosted conference LCTES he presented our paper WoCA: Avoiding Intermittent Execution in Embedded Systems by Worst-Case Analyses with Device States, an approach to give forward progress guarantees for intermitte...

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...