Speakers, Bios & Abstracts

Digital Transformation for Work-Life Boundary Management

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The creators of digital technology promised that their tools would increase our productivity and give us more autonomy over when and where we work. Instead, it often seems as though increased use of technology has reduced worker productivity (the productivity paradox) and led to us working always and from everywhere (the autonomy paradox). Whilst many advocate for digital detoxes to regain control, these are often difficult to implement in practice. Drawing on my research in Human-Computer Interaction, I will describe how supporting the creation of digital microboundaries can help us to become more productive, reclaim our work-life boundaries and enhance our wellbeing.

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Anna Cox is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC), in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences and Vice Dean (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) in the Faculty of Brain Sciences. She was Deputy-Director of UCLIC 2009-2017, chair of the Athena SWAN self-assessment team in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, achieving renewal of a silver award on 2 occasions, and Faculty Athena SWAN lead 2017-2019.

Professor Cox's first degree is in Cognitive Science (Hertfordshire), and her MSc is in Human-Computer Interaction (Queen Mary, University of London). She was awarded her PhD from the University of Hertfordshire in 2002. She became a lecturer in the Computer Science department at University of Hertfordshire before moving to UCL as a Lecturer in 2004. She was promoted to full professor in 2017.

Professor Cox has published widely, beginning with her PhD work on exploratory learning, to more recent work on human error, digital games, habit formation and personal informatics. Her current research aim is to systematically establish the relationships between the design of digital tools and behavioural outcomes, and leverage these relationships in the design of novel interfaces and systems to support people in managing their work and wellbeing.

Professor Cox is a member of both the CHI and the CHI PLAY steering committees. She was Specialist Advisor to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee at the House of Commons for their 2019 inquiry into immersive and addictive technologies. She has served in senior roles on the programme and organising committees of a number of top-tier HCI conferences, including as technical programme chair for CHI2018 and CHI2019 and general chair of CHI PLAY 2015 and 2016. More details on her research can be found at eworkresearch.org

Challenges and topics in Digital Transformation — from the viewpoint of a Computer Society

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Although digitalization brings a lot of opportunities to computer professionals, the national computer societies need to manage digital transformation as well. There is a huge demand within the political sphere for teaching and educating law makers and the legislature. In the society sphere, people feel uncomfortable with privacy loss, fake news and dependability issues. Computer societies therefore need formulate a trustworthy and clear position to actual incidents and risks and need to educate the public. In the field of computer science and data science, the computer societies are asked to further develop curricula, and finally computer societies itself need to manage the digital transformation with respect to the interests and needs of young professionals and more and more virtualized formats of collaboration and interaction. The talk will address theses aspects and hopefully stimulate a discussion afterwards.

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Dr. Hannes Federrath is professor at University of Hamburg and is head of the Security & Privacy (SnP) group. He earned a Ph.D. from Dresden University of Technology for his work on concepts for privacy-preserving cellular and mobile networks. After receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science, he was a visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute at University of Berkeley and a guest professor at Freie Universität Berlin. From 2003 to 2011 he was a full professor at University of Regensburg. In 2000 he was one of the initiators of the international workshop for privacy enhancing technologies, which is now known as the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (http://petsymposium.org). His research interests are security and privacy in communication networks, development of systems that provide anonymity and unobservability, location management strategies considering privacy in mobile communication systems, cryptography, steganography and data security. He is author and co-author of approximately 100 papers and book chapters on information security, privacy and mobile communications. From 2018-2021 he was president of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik, GI).

Information spreading in a disintermediated environment

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Do echo chambers exist on social media? By focusing on how both Italian and US Facebook users relate to two distinct narratives (involving conspiracy theories and science), we offer quantitative evidence that they do. The explanation involves users' tendency to promote their favored stories and hence to form polarized groups. Confirmation bias helps to account for users' decisions about whether to spread content, thus creating informational cascades within identifiable communities. At the same time, aggregation of favored information within those communities reinforces selective exposure and group polarization. We provide empirical evidence that users tend to assimilate only confirming claims and ignore apparent refutations because they focus on their preferred narratives.
The COVID-19 pandemic was the perfect storm for this phenomenon and the WHO coined the term infodemics to refer to the overabundance of information. We explored these processes during the pandemics' initial phase finding that reliable and questionable information spread similarly. We conclude the presentation by showing how different social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Gab, and Reddit) elicit very different polarization dynamics.

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Walter Quattrociocchi is a Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, leading the Center of Data Science and Complexity for Society (CDCS). His research interests include data science, network science, cognitive science, and data-driven modeling of dynamic processes in complex networks. His activity focuses on the data-driven modeling of social dynamics such as (mis)information spreading and the emergence of collective phenomena.

Professor Quattrociocchi has published extensively in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, including PNAS. His research in misinformation spreading has informed the Global Risk Report 2016 and 2017 of the World Economic Forum. They have been covered extensively by international media, including Scientific American, New Scientist, The Economist, The Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Fortune, Poynter, and The Atlantic). He published two books: “Misinformation. Guida alla società dell’informazione e della credulità” (Franco Angeli) and “Liberi di Crederci. Informazione, Internet e Post Verità” with Codice Edizioni for the dissemination of his results.

In 2017 Professor Quattrociocchi was the coordinator of the round table on Fake News and the role of Universities and Research to contrast fake news chaired by the President of Italy's Chamber of Deputies, Mrs. Laura Boldrini. In 2018 he was scientific Advisor of the Italian Communication Authority (AGCOM) and in 2020 a Member of the Task Force to contrast Hate Speech nominated by the Minister of Innovation.

How to: Digital Literacy and Competence in our society

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Since 1st August 2015 Dr. Michael Müller-Wünsch (Berlin, 1961) is Member of the OTTO Management Board Technology (CIO).
After graduating in 1985 from Technische Universität Berlin, Dr. Michael Müller-Wünsch initially stayed on at the University as a member of the academic staff. In 1990 he completed his MBA. In 1991 he was awarded a Doctorate in Engineering Sciences and continued to pursue his academic career as Assistant Lecturer in the Business IT Department (distributed systems and AI) until 1996.
In 1996 he changed careers and joined the Board of Directors of Herlitz AG in Berlin. There he was responsible for business development, the management of international group companies and headed Services & Operations Central Europe.
Between 2000 and 2004 Müller-Wünsch served as Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of myToys.de GmbH. He then moved to Frankfurt am Main to take up a position as a Member of the Executive Board of CEVA Logistics GmbH. Among other responsibilities, he was responsible at CEVA for Sales, IT and Operations.
As a partner at HiSolutions AG, Müller-Wünsch mainly devoted his time from 2010 to 2012 to providing consulting services. He then assumed responsibility for restructuring the European IT operations of the wholesaler Lekkerland AG & Co. KG as Chief Information Officer (CIO).
In the newly created function of Member of the OTTO Management Board Technology, Dr. Müller-Wünsch is responsible for further developing the online retailer’s IT environment.
Dr. Müller-Wünsch is married and has three children.
Further information is available online at https://www.otto.de/unternehmen/en.

IT for Good? Ethics in Computer Science Education & Practice

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Digital technologies are permeating and thereby affecting almost every aspect of our lives. How can we ensure that the technologies developed are not only technologically and scientifically good, but also good for society? To address this question, I will present three approaches to ethics in technologies: ethics in technology as the 1) ethics of the profession, 2) ethics of the use of technologies and 3) ethics of the technological artefacts themselves. I will argue that designing, developing and employing IT for good, requires a combination of these three approaches and their embedding in computer science education and practice.

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Judith Simon is Full Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies at the University of Hamburg. She is interested in ethical, epistemological and political questions arising in the context of digital technologies, in particular in regards to big data and artificial intelligence. Judith Simon is a member of the German Ethics Council as well as various other committees of scientific policy advice and has also been a member of the Data Ethics Commission of the German Federal Government (2018-2019). Her Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy has been published in June 2020.

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Suzana Alpsancar is a Junior Professor for Applied Ethics with a special focus on Ethics of Technology in digital worlds at the University of Paderborn. She is interested in questions of ethical, political, and epistemological nature, especially in the context of the development and application of digital systems and AI solutions. Lately, she researched the digitalization of epistemological infrastructures (plant collections) and the media-technical-user-arrangements of autonomous driving. She is a member of the Standard Committee of the “Experts in automotive and road transport; Assisted, automated and connected driving” (VDI-MT 5900) of the Association of German Engineers and serves as editor of the Jahrbuch für Technikphilosophie JTPhil (Yearbook of Philosophy of Technology). Moreover, she is an associate member of the Heinz-Nixdorf Institute as well as the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TRR 318 "Constructing Explainability" at the University of Paderborn.

Open access publication models for Informatics

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An alumnus of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Roberto Di Cosmo was associate professor for almost a decade at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 1999, he became a Computer Science full professor at University Paris Diderot, where he was head of doctoral studies for Computer Science from 2004 to 2009. President of the board of trustees and scientific advisory board of the IMDEA Software institute, and member of the national committee for Open Science in France, he is currently on leave at Inria.

His research activity spans theoretical computing, functional programming, parallel and distributed programming, the semantics of programming languages, type systems, rewriting and linear logic, and, more recently, the new scientific problems posed by the general adoption of Free Software, with a particular focus on static analysis of large software collections. He has published over 20 international journals articles and 50 international conference articles.

In 2008, he has created and coordinated the european research project Mancoosi, that had a budget of 4.4Me and brought together 10 partners to improve the quality of package-based open source software systems.

Following the evolution of our society under the impact of IT with great interest, he is a long term Free Software advocate, contributing to its adoption since 1998 with the best-seller Hijacking the world, seminars, articles and software. He created in October 2007 the Free Software thematic group of Systematic, that helped fund over 50 Open Source research and development collaborative projects for a consolidated budget of over 200Me. From 2010 to 2018, he was director of IRILL, a research structure dedicated to Free and Open Source Software quality.

He created in 2015, and now directs Software Heritage, an initiative to build the universal archive of all the source code publicly available, in partnership with UNESCO.

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Andrea Curley is a lecturer at the School of Computer Science at TU Dublin since 2005. Her teaching areas are Systems Infrastructure & Architecture, Algorithm Design & Problem Solving, Web & User Interface Design. Her research lies in the area of developing ethics within the computer science curriculum. Before taking up her lecturer post at TU Dublin, Andrea spent five years working as a software developer in Ericsson’s.

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Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic is Professor in Interaction Design at Chalmers University of Technology, and Professor in Computer Science at Mälardalen University. She holds PhD degrees in Physics and Computer Science. Her current research is in Morphological computing and the connection between computation, information and cognition via interacting agents on different levels of organization - from physics to biology and cognition, to morphogenetic and biomimetic computational design. Her research project MORCOM@COGS is funded by Swedish Research Council. Dodig-Crnkovic is a member of Faculty Board, Chalmers AI Ethics committee, European Network For Gender Balance in Informatics, Ethics4EU project, and Board of Directors of Informatics Europe.

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Digital Leadership

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In this talk we will discuss some challenges on leadership in general and focus on leadership for researchers/scientists at universities in particular. We will address the challenges from a holistic perspective spanning many opportunities which present themselves on a daily basis such as: (change of) mindset, habits for successful leadership, personal well-being, high-performance in teams, individualism and teamwork, amongst others. The goal of this talk will be to tease out relevant aspects regarding (digital) leadership and to jointly reflect on them.

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Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor of Computer Science heading the Research Division of Distributed Systems at TU Wien, Austria. He holds several honorary positions: Francqui Chair Professor at University of Namur, Belgium (2021-2022), University of California (USC) Los Angeles; Monash University in Melbourne, Shanghai University, Macquarie University in Sydney, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. He is founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (ACM TIoT) as well as Editor-in-Chief of Computing (Springer). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on the Web, and ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, as well as on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Computer. Dustdar is recipient of multiple awards: TCI Distinguished Service Award (2021), IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Leadership Award (2018), IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (2019), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009), ACM Distinguished Speaker (2021), IBM Faculty Award (2012). He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea: The Academy of Europe, where he is chairman of the Informatics Section, as well as an IEEE Fellow (2016), an Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) President (2021) and Fellow (2021). He is an EAI Fellow (2021) and an I2CICC Fellow (2021). He is a Member of the 2022 IEEE Computer Society Fellow Evaluation Committee (2022).

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Sebastian Gerling is the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of the University of Hamburg. In addition, he teaches IT-Security at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences as an external lecturer and works as a freelance consultant and speaker for IT-Security and the Digital Transformation. During his professional career, he has already been involved in IT, holistic strategy development and scientific support for more than 20 years. He contributed, first as administrative manager and later as head of scientific strategy, to the successful build-up of today‘s CISPA Helmholtz-Center of Information Security – one of the world‘s leading institutions for foundational research in IT-Security. Sebastian Gerling studied Computer Science at Saarland University and holds a PhD in Computer Science with a focus on IT-Security from there. He is author of numerous professional articles in the field of IT-Security and co-authored the German book “IT-Sicherheit für dummies”.

Rethinking the role of Informatics conferences

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Conferences have always played a prominent role in research diissemination in Informatics. Publishing in conferences is considered as a legitimate form of dissemination, as is publication in scientific journals. Publishing in premier conferences is a prestigious achievement, as is publication in a premier journal. In most other scientific areas, conferences have instead a lesser role in research dissemination. This has caused serious problems when research in different areas is evaluated and high quality work has to be recognized. The situation is further complicated by the proliferation of dissemination venues. While some consensus on the criteria to be used to objectively assess the quality of a journal are emerging, conferences are still mostly neglected. This is causing disconcert, especially in the young researchers.

While these problems have been traditionally recognized by the Informatics research community, new problems entered the research diffusion landscape in the recent years. First, new publication models, which tend to blend conferences and journals, have been experimented by certain communities. Second, the recognition that dissemination not only concerns papers, which describe the findings of a given research, but increasingly also artifacts (such as tools, prototypes, datasets, etc.). Third, the awareness of the need for sustainable research dissemination models, which point to negative impact of conferences on the carbon footprint.

The talk will try to elucidate the critical issues we need to understand better with respect to the traditional research dissemination strategies in Informatics. It will try to identify concrete actions through which the community can engage to develop strategies for research dissemination in the future.

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Carlo Ghezzi is an ACM Fellow (1999), an IEEE Fellow (2005), a member of the European Academy of Sciences and of the Italian Academy of Sciences. He received the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award (2015) and the Distinguished Service Award (2006). He has been President of Informatics Europe. He has been a member of the program committee of flagship conferences in the software engineering field, such as the ICSE and ESEC/FSE, for which he also served as Program and General Chair. He has been the Editor in Chief of the ACM Trans. on Software Engineering and Methodology and an associate editor of and IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, Communications of the ACM and Science of Computer Programming, and Computing. Ghezzi’s research has been mostly focusing on different aspects of software engineering. He co-authored over 200 papers and 8 books. He coordinated several national and international research projects. He has been the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant.

Open data and research data management in Informatics

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In this session we address the challenges to improve the quality of scientific results in form of publications in classic forms and new dissemination forms which are based on the data, software and other forms of empirical evidence supporting the claims. Computer Science / Informatics is not so bad to support this in an adhoc fashion on a website but finding and reusing such information on a long term basis is not supported this way and actually not happening.

The so-called FAIR-principles (Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable) have been globally defined and funding agencies start to require their support on a long term basis in funding proposals.

Thus, we address and discuss these principles in terms of Open Data and Research Data Management activities and the role national and international Informatics societies / associations play here.

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Michael Goedicke studied computer science at the University of Dortmund and completed his doctorate there in 1985 on specification languages for embedded systems. He then conducted research in the areas of specification of software architectures and description of software components, also at the University of Dortmund. In 1993 he completed his habilitation on the topic of specification of software components. Since 1994 Michael Goedicke has been Professor of Practical Computer Science / Specification of Software Systems at the University of Essen (since 2003 University of Duisburg-Essen).

Research Interests:

• Views and creating artifacts and methods to develop software systems
• Architecture of software systems with special emphasis on qualities like performance and scalability
• Technologies and platforms for softwares development
• eAssessment with task-specific feedback
• Research Data Management for research data in computer science

In addition to his research interests Michael Goedicke is currently engaged in various positions within his university and in national and international associations. He is one of the vice chairs of IFP TC2 as well as member of the IFIP publication committee. In the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), he is chair of the presidential board for Computer Science related research data management. He is chair of the consortium applying for funding at the national level to build an operate the informatics related research data management infrastructure (nfdixcs.org).

What’s Next for the Future of Work

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Work innovations such as ubiquitous communication technology, alternative work arrangements, and hyper-efficiency are revolutionizing our work experiences, making it easier to share information, collaborate with others, and achieve more with less effort. At the same time, it has become increasingly difficult to draw boundaries between work and other aspects of our lives. On an individual level, working one extra hour one day might not seem hugely problematic, but when amplified across time, failure to disconnect from work carries enormous costs to individuals and society at large. In this interaction lecture you will learn about some of the hidden and unintended costs of work innovations such as increased work flexibility. You will also get insights into how you, as a leader, could improve your digital dexterity and positively shape workplace culture by taking back your time and using technology to enhance performance without compromising well-being.

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Laura M. Giurge is an award-winning organizational scholar and behavioral scientist, and an assistant professor at the London School of Economics. She is also a research affiliate at the Digital Initiative Society (University of Zurich) and at the Wellbeing Research Center (University of Oxford) as well as the Research Lead at a Behavioral Science Consultancy in London. Prof. Dr. Giurge holds a PhD in management from Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management and has been a postdoctoral research fellow at Cornell University and London Business School. In 2019 and 2020 she was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School. Her research has been published in top academic journals in management and psychology as well as in leading media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review. It is also often featured in the news, including The Economist, New York Times, and Financial Times. Follow her on LinkedIn here.

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Svetlana has been a lecturer and researcher at the School of Computer Science at TU Dublin since 2004. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and MSc in Artificial Intelligence. Her research interests are in the areas of Data analytics, Machine learning, Knowlege representation and Computational linguistics. Svetlana is very passionate about encouraging more females to Computer science and has taken part in variety of projects and initiatives in this area over the last 10 years.

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Prof. Jean-Marc Jézéquel received an engineering degree in Telecommunications from Telecom Bretagne in 1986, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Rennes, France, in 1989. He then worked for the TRANSPAC company on an Intelligent Network project. Then, he became a researcher (Chargé de recherche) in the Irisa Lab for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). In this context, he has directed a project called EPEE (Eiffel Parallel Execution Environment), which is an object-oriented design framework for programming distributed computing systems. During the most of 1996, he has been visiting Pr. Yonezawa's lab., in the University of Tokyo, Japan. In March-April 1999, he visited the CS&SE Department of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He got an habilitation à diriger les recherches, Programmation fiable et efficace des architectures parallèlles distribuées, November 1997.

Since October 2000, Jean-Marc is a Professor at the University of Rennes. From 2001 to 2011, he was head of Inria's Triskell team. He has also been Deputy Director of MATISSE Doctoral School, Member of the Project Committee Board of INRIA Rennes, and Head of the Language and Software Engineering Department at IRISA. 

From January 2012 to December 2020, prof. Jean-Marc Jézéquel has been Director of IRISA. His team received the "10 Years Most lnfluential Paper Award" for the paper Weaving Executability into Object-Oriented Meta-Languages presented at ACM/IEEE 8th lnt. Conference on the Unified Modeling Language (MODELS/UML 2005). In 2016 he has been awarded the CNRS Silver Medal, in 2020 - the ACM/IEEE MODELS 2020 Career Award. Since January 2021, he is Vice President Informatics Europe. Since January 2022, he is a Visiting Professor at University McGill, Montreal, Canada. 

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Gerti Kappel is full professor at the Institute of Information Systems Engineering at TU Wien, chairing the Business Informatics Group. Prior to that, from 1993 to 2001, she was a full professor of computer science (database systems) and head of the Department of Information Systems at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

She received the MSc and PhD degrees in computer science and business informatics from University of Vienna and TU Wien in 1984 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 to 1989 she was a visiting researcher with an FWF Schroedinger scholarship at Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, Geneva, Switzerland.

From 2004 to 2007, she acted as dean of studies for Business Informatics. Moreover, from 2003 to 2007, she was head of the internationally renowned Women’s Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies (www.wit.at) paving theway for several ongoing female support programs at university level. From 2011 to 2015, she was head (”Sprecher”) of the Doctoral College “Adaptive Distributed Systems”, and from 2015 to 2018, she has been a faculty member in the Doctoral College „Cyber-Physical Production Systems“, both funded by TU Wien. From 2014 to 2017, she was a board member of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). From 2016 to 2019, she was a member of the dean’s team of the Faculty of Informatics responsible for research, diversity, and financial affairs. Since the beginning of 2020 she acts as the dean of the Faculty of Informatics at TU Wien.

Her current research interests include Model Engineering, Web Engineering, and Process Engineering, with a special emphasis on cyber-physical production systems. Striving for the unity of research and teaching, she co-authored and co-edited among others „UML@Work“ (dpunkt.verlag, 3rd ed, 2005), „UML@Classroom“ (Springer, 2015), and „Web Engineering“ (Wiley, 2006).

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Laura Kovacs is a full professor of computer science at the TU Wien, leading the automated program reasoning (APRe) group of the Formal Methods in Systems Engineering division. Her research focuses on the design and development of new theories, technologies, and tools for program analysis, with a particular focus on automated assertion generation, symbolic summation, computer algebra, and automated theorem proving. She is the co-developer of the Vampire theorem prover and a Wallenberg Academy Fellow of Sweden. Her research has also been awarded with a ERC Starting Grant 2014, an ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2018, an ERC Consolidator Grant 2020, and an Amazon Research Award 2020.

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Patricia Lago is professor of software engineering at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she leads the Software and Sustainability (S2) research group in the Computer Science Department. She has been guest professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in the period 2019-2021. She is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate at NTNU, Norway, for her contribution to the field of software sustainability.

Her passion in research is to create software engineering knowledge that makes software better, smarter, and more sustainable. Her research focuses on software architecture, software quality assessment, and software sustainability. She currently dedicates significant attention to two main research projects, (1) the creation of the Sustainability Assessment Framework (SAF) toolkit which helps software engineering professionals to frame the design- and quality concerns to be addressed for sustainability-aware software, and (2) the definition of an open library of software tactics to architect software with a special attention to sustainability in the future cloud.

Lago is initiator of the VU Computer Science Master Track in Software Engineering and Green IT, the director of the Master Information Sciences (with a special focus on the Digital Transformation and Sustainability), and co-founder of the Green Lab, a place where researchers, students and companies collaborate to measure the energy footprint of software solutions and the impact on software quality. She has a PhD in Control and Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and a Master in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, both in Italy.

She is program committee member and reviewer of the major international conferences and journals in her fields of interest; a member of the Steering Committees of IEEE ICSA, ECSA; currently the Steering Committee Chair of the ICT4S conference series; and a member of the management team of IPN (ICT-research Platform Netherlands). She has published over 200 articles in all major scientific conferences and journals of her field. She is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.

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Nicolas Markey is a CNRS senior researcher at IRISA (Univ. Rennes, France). He holds a PhD in computer science from Univ. Orléans (2003), and an habilitation thesis from ENS Cachan (2011). He studies formal verification techniques, in particular model checking and reactive synthesis, with a focus on quantitative aspects, in particular real-time constraints.

Nicolas Markey published 100+ articles in international cnoferences and journals. He recently received the test-of-time award from the ACM/IEEE LICS conference (Logic in Computer Science) for his paper "Temporal Logic with Forgettable Past". He was the PI of the H2020 project Cassting (2013-2016), and took an active role in several other national and international research projects.

Nicolas Markey is the head of the Language and Software Engineering department at IRISA. He has been managing the mentoring programme proposed by the gender-equality committe at IRISA and Inria Rennes since 2018, and has been co-head of that committee since 2021.

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Since 2014, Daniela Nicklas is full professor at the University of Bamberg, Germany, and holds the Chair of Mobile Systems. Before that, she was a Junior professor for database and internet technologies at the Universität Oldenburg and member of the Member of Executive Board in the Transportation division at the OFFIS institute for computer science. She came there from a PostDoc position at the Universität Stuttgart (2006-2008) where she also obtained her PhD in 2005, working on the integration of large-scale spatial context models for mobile applications.

Her research interests are computer systems that bridge the gap between the physical world and the digital world. She focuses on the continuous management of data from sensors and other active data sources and their incorporation in so-called context-aware applications. Currently, she works on data stream management technologies. She applies these technologies to the domains of smart cities, precision farming, pervasive computing, and situational awareness in general. In 2009, she received the IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award for „Data Stream Technology for Future Energy Grid Control“. Together with Prof. Dr. Marc Redepenning and Prof. Dr. Astrid Schütz, she manages the Smart City Research Lab. She is a member of many programme committees and organizing committees of pervasive computing and database conferences and workshops (e.g., PerCom, MDM, BTW, ...), a member of the editorial board of the Datenbankspektrum (German Journal on Databases) and the board of the German Society for Computer Science (GI).

Ethics4EU Project

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The Ethics4EU Project is an Erasmus+ international project that explores issues around teaching ethics in Computer Science. Ethics4EU has developed new curricula, best practices and learning resources for ethics for Computer Science lecturers. It follows a “train the trainer” model for up-skilling Computer Science lecturers across Europe. In this workshop we will present the outcomes of the Ethics4EU project including a number of case studies for the instruction of Computer Science ethics, our framework for developing and evaluating case studies and our newly formed Community of Practice for Computer Science Ethics.

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Dympna O'Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer and Assistant Head of School at the School of Computer Science at Technical University Dublin City Campus. Her research is in Applied Social Computing with a focus on Health Informatics and Digital Ethics.
In the area of Health Informatics, she is interested in the design, development and evaluation of Decision Support Systems to support clinician and patient decision making. This work involves research across many aspects of the domain including electronic and personal health records, machine learning and intelligent algorithms, explainable AI, sensors and smart home technologies, accessible user interfaces and theories of health behaviour change.
In terms of Digital Ethics, her work is focused on studying the societal impacts of various technologies and includes topics such as data ethics , data management, artificial intelligence, pervasive computing, social media platforms as well as relevant governance and legislation.

She is currently am PI of two large research projects. The first is an SFI Frontiers for the Future project titled Enabling Self-Care and Shared Decision Making for People Living with Dementia. The project is being undertaken in collaboration with Netwell Casala at DkIT and the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and is focused on the development of a new intelligent computer-based toolkit that will help and support people affected by dementia and in their daily living. Using a co-design approach, the toolkit will support self-management, empower participation in shared decision-making with relatives and carers and help people with dementia remain healthy and independent in their homes for longer.

Secondly, she leads a transnational Erasmus+ project titled Ethics4EU. TProject partners include Telecom SudParis, Mälardalen University Sweden, the European Digital Learning Network and Informatics Europe. The Ethics4EU project is developing new curricula, best practices and learning resources for teaching Digital Ethics to computer science students. It follows a ‘train the trainer’ model for up-skilling computer science lecturers across Europe.

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As Senior Expert BI for Forecasting at OTTO, Gabriel Orsini is responsible for business services around automated demand forecasts, inventory management and stock projections. This includes requirements engineering, responsibility for the business architecture and the coordination of the implementation teams.

Gabriel has a background in distributed systems and machine learning, and has worked as a business analyst for nearly fifteen years designing and implementing planning and forecasting processes and solutions with a focus on the retail sector.

A map of informatics in school education across Europe

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Informatics is still a relatively new discipline in school education, and the content and name of the related school subjects vary across European countries. The Eurydice report published in September 2022 describes the provision of informatics in school education across Europe and contributes to building a shared understanding of informatics in school education providing a comparative analysis on curricular approaches, learning outcomes and teachers’ qualifications and training in primary and secondary schools across Europe. The report covers all the members of the Eurydice network (the 27 EU Member States plus Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Turkey).

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Sonia Piedrafita is an analyst at the European Education and Culture Executive Agency, where she has published various reports and articles on education policies, education systems and schoolteachers in Europe. Doctorate in political science and graduate in economics, before joining EACEA, she was a researcher and lecturer in renowned European research centres and universities such as the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC) and the UAM university in Madrid and the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht.

Software can do Wrong: On Ethics in Agile Software Engineering

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Software can do wrong, as prominently witnessed by Cambridge Analytica and defeat devices in the automotive industries. But what is wrong, and who is responsible? As software continues to permeate our daily lives, this question, also at the core of the ongoing debate about regulation of AI in Europe, becomes increasingly relevant – for engineers, for companies, for educators, for regulators, and for society as a whole. One prominent approach today is the formulation of codes of conduct. Unfortunately, a common perception is that these catalogs of values specifically fail to provide useful guidance to engineers. This is because the respective values often are in conflict with each other (for instance, privacy vs. transparency), and because software and software engineering are fundamentally context-specific, which makes the existence of a universally applicable set of values very unlikely.

As a consequence, ethical considerations need to be embedded into software development activities in a project-specific manner, and not just for AI-based systems. As agile development methodologies fundamentally rest on the concepts of short-term planning, empowerment, incrementality, and learning, they turn out to be particularly well suited for embedding ethical deliberations into the development process. In this talk, we will first argue why this is the case. In a second step, we present our schema for ethical deliberation in agile processes, the result of a long-standing cooperation between software engineers and (business) ethicists at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation. We will close by discussing the applicability in industry and education.

Short Bio

Professor Pretschner studied computer science at RWTH Aachen and at the University of Kansas where he was a Fulbright grant recipient. After obtaining his doctorate at Technical University of Munich (TUM), he worked as a senior researcher at ETH Zurich for five years. Within the framework of the Fraunhofer Attract Program he then moved on to head a research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering in Kaiserslautern. Parallel to this he was an adjunct associate professor at TU Kaiserslautern. Before joining TUM as a full professor in 2012, Professor Pretschner was a full professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Prof. Pretschner has been founding director of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation since 2018. Since 2016 he has served as scientific director and since 2019 spokesman of the scientific board of fortiss, the Bavarian state research institute for software-intensive systems and services.

The research area of Professor Pretschner is software and systems engineering. His main focus is on testing and information security.

From APC to Repository – a tour of the French and Inria open science context

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Prof. Laurent Romary will give a quick introduction to the national open science context in France in particular from the point of view of the available scientific information infrastructures for publication, research data and software code. He will show the specific role of Inria and their recent successes (e.g. deposit mandate) as well as current challenges (dealing with the author-pays model).

Short Bio

Laurent Romary is Director for Scientific Information and Culture at Inria (France). For many years, he has carried out research on natural language processing and the modelling of semi-structured documents, with a specific emphasis on texts and linguistic resources. He has also been active in standardisation activities within ISO committee TC 37 and the Text Encoding Initiative. He has been active since many years on various issues related to the advancement of open science.

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Anne Siegel is a CNRS senior researcher at IRISA (Univ. Rennes, France). She holds a PhD in computer science from Univ. Marseille (2000), and an habilitation thesis from Univ Rennes (2008). She studies computational problems related to models of large-scale biological systems in order to facilitate knowledge discoveries in life sciences, and published 100+ articles in international conferences and journals of computer sciences, mathematics and life sciences.

In the IRISA laboratory, Anne Siegel was the head of the Dyliss team, and she headed the Data and Knowledge management department. She also founded and orchestrated the gender equality committee of the lab until 2021.

She is now Deputy Scientific Director at the headquarters of CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research), at the INS2I institute, where she is in charge of interactions between digital sciences and other disciplines and she coordinates the gender equality policy in the French computer science laboratories in which CNRS in involved.

Supporting Open Science: a Publisher’s Perspective

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Welmoed Spahr is a publishing executive with a passion for helping authors disseminate their work as widely as possible. She has spent most of her career in academic publishing and is currently the heading up Springer Nature’s Computer Science Books program, in which over 1,500 books are published each year and which includes the lighthouse proceedings series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, as well as a growing portfolio of Open Access books. Welmoed is based in Springer Nature’s New York offices. She holds an LL.M degree from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Tensions in time management: Implications for leadership

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Based on the talk by Prof. Giurge, in this workshop we invite you to reflect on why it is so hard to manage time and why it matters for how you lead yourself and others towards professional success.

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Jennifer L. Sparr is a passionate paradox and leadership researcher with experience in management consulting. Currently, she is a post-doctoral researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Zurich’s Center for Leadership in the Future of Work. Jennifer holds a doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Konstanz. She has extensive research and teaching experience at the intersection of psychology and management, gained at TUM School of Management, University of Konstanz, ETH Zurich and Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Her research has been published in renowned academic journals in management and psychology, including outlets such as the Academy of Management Perspectives or the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. Follow her on LinkedIn here.

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Dr. Ante Vilenica is head of a project team at the justice department of the city-state Hamburg which manages the digital transformation process of the courts and public prosecutors. One part of the job includes the responsibility for the development of highly available and audit-proof software systems. Ante has a background in self-organizing and distributed systems and has worked nearly ten years in different IT projects in the public sector.