(16.10.2024) Three PhD students of the cii research group participated in the “Forschungsmethoden der Wirtschaftsinformatik” course at LMU Munich. The course was open to PhD students from research groups affiliated with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) Munich, and the University of the Bundeswehr Munich.

(24.09.2024) The cii Student Papers - 2024 collection is published. The cii research group proudly presents outstanding student seminar papers for the fourth time. It will be freely available online via KITOpen within the next days.

(20.09.2024) The article "A design theory for transparency of information privacy practices" by Tobias Dehling and Ali Sunyaev has been awarded awarded the best paper award for junior researchers of the Wirtschaftsinformatik e.V.

(05.09.2024) On August 12, 2024, the kick-off meeting for the new research project GameUp took place in Bonn.

(16.08.2024) Richard Guse from the cii research group presented the accepted paper on “The Development of Value Proposition in Healthcare in the Course of Digital Transformation”. The article was co-authored by Scott Thiebes, Philipp Winterhoff, Martín V. Alzate, Jonas Stangier, and Ali Sunyaev. Additionally, he presented his current dissertation research at the doctoral consortium.

(08.08.2024) Within the DIRECTIONS (Data Protection Certification for Educational Information Systems) project researchers from the cii research group and the University of Kassel presented a catalog of criteria for a data protection certification to establish higher security for information systems in schools.

(17.07.2024) On Wednesday, July 17, the final event of the course “Team Projects Business & Technology” took place in the Tulla building of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). This event is organized by the Institute of Information Systems and Marketing (IISM) and deals with interdisciplinary issues in information systems.

(23.07.2024) We are pleased to announce that our article, titled "Mapping Distributed Ledger Technology Characteristics to Use Cases in Healthcare: A Structured Literature Review," authored by Shanshan Hu, Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin, Scott Thiebes, and Ali Sunyaev, has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (ACM Health).

(02.07.2024) In this year’s cii “Angewandte Informatik - Internet Computing” Guest Speaker Series, two guest speakers provided their insights on current industry trends. The different perspectives on latest internet computing topics and issues included: System Integration and DevOps & Kubernetes.

(27.05.2024) Ali Sunyaev, Daniel Fürstenau & Elizabeth Davidson published an editorial for their BISE special issue in the topic area "Reimagining Digital Health: Advances in Patient-Centeredness, Artificial Intelligence, and Data-Driven Care Research". The article is available online: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12599-024-00870-x

(10.05.2024) This year the cii research group again held a doctoral seminar in Bad Herrenalb. For the three-day retreat doctoral students worked together on their current research ideas at the Haus der Kirche Evangelische Akademie Baden, Bad Herrenalb, from May 6th through May 8th. They were joined by Prof. Dr. Kalle Lyytinen who shared his knowledge on various topics throughout the seminar.

(26.04.2024) In contribution to this year’s nationwide “Girls’ Day - Future Prospects for Girls” on the 25th of April 2024, the cii research group conducted the workshop ‘Another cat video?! The science behind recommendations on TikTok & Co.‘ - “ Noch ein Katzenvideo?! Die Wissenschaft hinter Empfehlungen auf TikTok & Co.“ as a part of the overall KIT program.

(15.04.2024) Two papers of the cii research group have been accepted for publication at the 32nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), which will take place in Paphos, Cyprus from 13th-19th June 2024.

(13.03.2024) At the Harnack House in Berlin Richard Guse presented the cii research group's current research on digital transformation in healthcare at the conference "Work. Transform? Repeat" of the DFG Priority Program 2267. At the three-day conference from 11.03.2024 to 13.03.2024, current research contributions on the topic of "Digitalization of Working Worlds" were presented and discussed by associated DFG project members and other external researchers.

(07.03.2024) Our article “Open Science: Towards Greater Transparency and Openness in Science” by Alexander Maedche, Edona Elshan, Hartmut Höhle, Christiane Lehrer, Jan Recker, Ali Sunyaev, Benjamin Sturm, and Oliver Werth was published in the Journal „Business & Information Systems Engineering“ (BISE) as a discussion article.

(23.02.2024) This year’s nationwide Girls’ Day - Future Prospects for Girls - takes place on April 25th, 2024. We are excited to open our doors at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) for our cii workshop as part of the broader KIT Girls’ Day program. The workshop ‘Another cat video?! The science behind recommendations on TikTok & Co.‘ - “ Noch ein Katzenvideo?! Die Wissenschaft hinter Empfehlungen auf TikTok & Co.“ will be conducted at KIT in Karlsruhe (however, only in the German language).

(08.02.2024) On February 8th, 2024, Niclas Kannengießer successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! His dissertation is entitled “Purposeful Information System Decentralization based on Distributed Ledger Technology”

(05.02.2024) Prof. Dr. Ali Sunyaev is now part of the Member Board of Directors at German Informatics Society (GI). He will represent the interests of information systems and computer scientists in science, business, public administration, society, and politics on behalf of around 20,000 members.

(01.02.2024) The Karlsruhe Decision & Design Lab (KD²Lab) welcomed Prof. Dr. Ali Sunyaev, director of the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) and head of the critical information infrastructures (cii), as a new member.

(12.01.2024) Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin and Philipp Toussaint from the cii research group presented two papers at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). The conference took place on O‘ahu, Hawaii, from January 3-6, 2024.

(11.01.2024) The article “Exploring Contrasting Effects of Trust in Organizational Security Practices and Protective Structures on Employees’ Security-Related Precaution Taking” by Malte Greulich, Sebastian Lins, Dan Pienta, Jason Thatcher and Ali Sunyaev is published in the prestigious journal Information Systems Research and now online available (Open-Access).

(21.12.2023) The cii research group would like to say thank you for a wonderful year at KIT. Cheerful Holiday Greetings and Best Wishes for a Happy New Year 2024!

(19.12.2023) Our publication "Explainable artificial intelligence for omics data: a systematic mapping study" by Philipp A Toussaint, Florian Leiser, Scott Thiebes, Matthias Schlesner, Benedikt Brors, and Ali Sunyaev is now available as an open-access publication in Briefings in Bioinformatics.

(15.12.2023) Kathrin Brecker from the cii research group presented papers at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2023 and Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) 2023. The conferences took place in Hyderabad, India, from December 10-15, 2023.

(13.12.2023) Scott Thiebes was awarded this year’s dissertation award in the area IT security by the German Association for Data Protection and Data Security (GDD) for his outstanding dissertation on “A Socio-Technical Analysis of Genetic Privacy and its Role in Genetic Data Sharing”, which he completed at KIT last year. The award ceremony took place during GDD’s 46th Data Privacy Conference (DAFTA), this November in Cologne.

(29.11.2023) The paper “Artificial Intelligence as a Service: Trade-Offs Impacting Service Design and Selection” by Kathrin Brecker, Sebastian Lins, Manuel Trenz, & Ali Sunyaev has been nominated for the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2023.

(30.10.2023) Our article "The future of enterprise information systems" has now been published in Business & Information Systems Engineering.

(19.10.2023) Our publication "Medical informed machine learning: A scoping review and future research directions" by Florian Leiser, Sascha Rank, Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin, Scott Thiebes, and Ali Sunyaev is now available in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

(11.10.2023) On October 10th, 2023, Konstantin Pandl successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! His dissertation is entitled “Trustworthy Decentralized Machine Learning Systems“.

(04.10.2023) On September 25th, 2023, we welcomed our guests from TU Darmstadt in Karlsruhe to discuss the current status and future directions of the joint DFG project on “Accountable Artificial Intelligence-based Systems”.

(28.09.2023) The cii research group presented the work “Aggregating Random Forests in Federated Learning: A Synthesis of Aggregation Techniques” at the largest German IS conference where Prof. Dr. Ali Sunyaev and Florian Leiser participated from September 18-21, 2023, in Paderborn, Germany.

(26.09.2023) The cii Student Papers - 2023 collection is published. For the third time the cii research group proudly presents five outstanding student seminar papers. It is freely available online via KITOpen:  https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000162178

(06.09.2023) At the largest European human-computer-interaction conference, Florian Leiser presented our paper “From ChatGPT to FactGPT: A Participatory Design Study to Mitigate the Effects of Large Language Model Hallucinations on Users” in Rapperswil, Switzerland.

(28.08.2023) In the research project FLAIROP researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), with the participation of the Critical Information Infrastructures research group, have worked with partners to develop ways of learning together without having to share sensitive data and company secrets.

(18.08.2023) Mandy Goram, Tobias Dehling, Felix Morsbach, and Ali Sunyaev published a new book chapter entitled “Human-Centered Design for Data-Sparse Tailored Privacy Information Provision” in the book “Human Factors in Privacy Research”.

(07.08.2023) The article "A Design Theory for Certification Presentations" by Sebastian Lins, Jan-Michael Becker, Kalle Lyytinen, and Ali Sunyaev has been published in the journal ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems.

(05.08.2023) On August 1st and 2nd, 2023, we concluded the NephroCAGE project in Montreal, Canada hosted by our project partners at the McGill University Health Center (MUHC) and Le Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM).

(01.08.2023) The article “The Contingent Effects of IS Certifications on the Trustworthiness of Websites” by Martin Adam, Sebastian Lins, Ali Sunyaev, and Alexander Benlian has been accepted for publication at the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS).

(17.07.2023) Florian Leiser had the pleasure to present our paper "How Experts Rely on Intuition in Medical Image Annotation - A Study Proposal" he jointly worked on with Simon Warsinsky, Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin, Scott Thiebes, and Ali Sunyaev at NeuroIS Retreat 2023. The retreat was held in Vienna from May 30 to June 01, 2023.

(06.07.2023) The article "A Design Theory for Transparency of Information Privacy Practices" by Tobias Dehling and Ali Sunyaev has been accepted for publication at Information Systems Research.

(03.07.2023) Like every year, the cii research group held a doctoral seminar in 2023. The three-day retreat was held at the Haus der Kirche Evangelische Akademie Baden, Bad Herrenalb, from June 28th through June 30th.

(06.06.2023) At the end of the BloG3 project, all consortium partners came together once again for the hybrid (partial) final event at the FZI in the House of Living Labs. For the successful conclusion the results of all work packages of the individual consortium partners were presented.

(10.05.2023) The DIRECTIONS (Data Protection Certification for Educational Information Systems) expert advisory board meeting was held at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Berlin on the 10th of May 2023. The projects’ current status as well as next steps for the piloting phase were discussed.

(03.05.2023) On May 3rd, 2023, Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! His dissertation is entitled “Gamified Information Systems for Health Behavior Change“

(27.04.2023) In contribution to this year’s nationwide “Girls’ Day - Future Prospects for Girls” on the 27th of April 2023, the cii research group conducted the workshop ‘Become a Scientist and Shape the Future – An Introduction to our Research Projects & Your Opportunities‘ - “Als Wissenschaftlerin die Zukunft gestalten – Wir zeigen dir unsere Forschungsprojekte & deine Möglichkeiten“ as a part of the overall KIT program.

(27.04.2023) Driven by technological advancements such as blockchain technology, the decentralization of information systems has gained enormous importance in recent years. Nonetheless, the actual impact of current decentralization endeavors on future information systems is still unclear.

(03.04.2023) Our paper “Design Concerns for Multiorganizational, Multistakeholder Collaboration: A Study in the Healthcare Industry” by Scott Thiebes, Fangjian Gao, Robert O. Briggs, Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin, and Ali Sunyaev has just been published in the Journal of Management Information Systems.

(28.03.2023) The ReDiBlock research project, which involves KIT AIFB, KIT Thinktank, INEC, and ipoint-systems GmbH, has successfully developed a prototype application supporting circular economy using Blockchain technology. The project's use case is focused on gold recycling, with two industry partners, C. Hafner and egf, providing valuable insights and help in refining the concept behind the prototype. The internal project closing meeting, hosted by INEC at Pforzheim University, was attended by the project partners and marked the successful completion of the project.

The Late-Breaking Work paper "Narrative Transportation in Gamified Information Systems: The Role of Narrative-Task Congruence" by Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin, Scott Thiebes, Simon Warsinsky, Stacie Petter, and Ali Sunyaev has been accepted at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023) and will be presented by Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin on April 26th in Hamburg, Germany.

(09.03.2023) KIT master's graduate, M. Sc. Tim Rädsch, was awarded for his master's thesis titled "The Quest for High Quality Annotations. Quantifying the Impact of Labeling Instructions on Real-World Data" with the Anton Fink Science Award for Artificial Intelligence.

(02.02.2023) Are you interested in exploring research on Artificial Intelligence (AI), how accountability of AI is achieved, and how people perceive mechanisms that ensure accountability? Then apply now for a position as a research assistant at the cii research group at KIT!

(19.01.2023) Ali Sunyaev, Christof Weinhardt, Wil van der Aalst & Oliver Hinz published an editorial about “BISE Student” in Business & Information Systems Engineering. The article is available online via open access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12599-022-00781-9

(06.01.2023) Kathrin Brecker, Shanshan Hu, Florian Leiser, and Maximilian Renner from the cii research group presented papers at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). The conference took place in Maui, Hawaii, from January 4-6, 2023.

(30.12.2022) The cii research group would like to say thank you for a wonderful year at KIT. Cheerful Holiday Greetings and Best Wishes for a Happy New Year 2023!

(16.12.2022) Richard Guse from the cii research group presented a paper at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The conference took place in Copenhagen from December 11-14, 2021. The paper “How Do Employees Perceive Digital Transformation and its Effects? A Theory of the Smart Machine Perspective” was co-authored by Scott Thiebes, Phil Hennel, Christoph Rosenkranz, and Ali Sunyaev.

(21.11.22) The cii has published its lecture slides and exercises for the lecture Applied Informatics — Internet Computing; the materials are thus also available to people outside KIT.

(10.11.2022) Our paper “Data marketplaces for AI in Healthcare: Potentials, Challenges, and Management Strategies” by Richard Guse, Scott Thiebes, Phil Hennel, Christoph Rosenkranz, and Ali Sunyaev has been published in the Journal HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik. The article is published with open access and freely available to the public.

(24.10.2022) Our paper “How Do Employees Perceive Digital Transformation and its Effects? A Theory of the Smart Machine Perspective” by Richard Guse, Scott Thiebes, Phil Hennel, Christoph Rosenkranz, and Ali Sunyaev has been accepted at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The preprint is freely available online via KITOpen: https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000151848.

(20.10.2022) Following the invitation by Prof. Dr. Christian Janiesch, Enterprise Computing, TU Dortmund, Prof. Dr. Ali Sunyaev visits TU Dortmund University on October 18th.

(18.10.2022) The annual conference ‘Forum Privatheit’ took place on the 13th and 14th of October 2022. This years’ conference theme was defined as ‘Data Fairness in a Globalized World – Fundamental Rights Protection and Competition for an International Data Governance” (original.: „Daten-Fairness in einer globalisierten Welt – Grundrechtsschutz und Wettbewerb für eine internationale Data Governance“).

(15.09.2022) Our paper “Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing on Social Media: Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis of YouTube Users' Comments” by Philipp A. Toussaint, Maximilian Renner, Sebastian Lins, Scott Thiebes, and Ali Sunyaev has been published in the JMIR Infodemiology Journal. The article is published with open access and freely available to the public.

(09.09.2022) On September 7, 2022, State Secretary Sandra Boser visited the KIT and gained exciting insights into three selected KIT research projects.

(25.08.2022) Ali Sunyaev, Daniel Fürstenau & Elizabeth Davidson published a call for papers in the topic area "Reimagining Digital Health: Advances in Patient-Centeredness, Artificial Intelligence, and Data-Driven Care Research". The article is available online: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12599-022-00763-x

(22.08.2022) The cii Student Papers - 2022 collection is published. For the second time the cii research group proudly presents eight outstanding student seminar papers. It is freely available online via KITOpen:  https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000150078

(01.08.2022) After a more than two-year pause, the cii research group once again held a doctoral seminar in 2022. The three-day retreat was held at the Haus der Kirche Evangelische Akademie Baden, Bad Herrenalb from July 27th through July 29th.

(19.07.2022) Our paper “Perceived fairness of direct-to-consumer genetic testing business models” by Philipp A. Toussaint, Scott Thiebes, Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin, and Ali Sunyaev has been published in the Electronic Markets Journal. The article is published with open access and freely available to the public.

(12.07.2022) Marc Leinweber, Niclas Kannengießer, Hannes Hartenstein and Ali Sunyaev have published and presented a new paper at the 14th Wissenschaftsforum Mobilität. The paper can already be found here and will be published in the next months in the book "Toward the New Normal".

(27.06.2022) The first status conference on ‘DigitalPakt Schule’ took place on the 23rd and 24th of June 2022. Research project DIRECTIONS (Data Protection Certification for Educational Information Systems) presented at the World Conference Center Bonn, showing the projects’ current state on “Data Protection Certifications to Facilitate Digital Tool Selection”.

(01.06.2022) On May 24th, 2022, Scott Thiebes successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! His dissertation is entitled “A Socio-Technical Analysis of Genetic Privacy and its Role in Genetic Data Sharing“.

(21.05.2022) Our paper “A scoping review of distributed ledger technology in genomics: thematic analysis and directions for future research” by Mikael Beyene, Philipp A. Toussaint, Scott Thiebes, Matthias Schlesner, Benedikt Brors, and Ali Sunyaev has been published by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The article is published open access and freely available to the public.

On May 18th, 2022, Malte Greulich successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! His dissertation is entitled “Unveiling Adverse Effects of Organizational Information Security Practices“.

(29 April 2022) In contribution to this year’s nationwide “Girls’ Day - Future Prospects for Girls” on the 28th of April 2022, the cii research group conducted the workshop ‘Become a Scientist and Shape the Future – An Introduction to our Research Projects & Your Opportunities‘ - “Als Wissenschaftlerin die Zukunft gestalten – Wir zeigen dir unsere Forschungsprojekte & deine Möglichkeiten“ as a part of the overall KIT program.

(07.04.2022) The article "A Design Theory for Certification Presentations" by Sebastian Lins, Jan-Michael Becker, Kalle Lyytinen, and Ali Sunyaev has been accepted for publication in the Journal “ACM SIGMIS Database”.

(23.03.2022) On March 24, 2022 Sebastian Lins successfully defended his PhD thesis! His dissertation is entitled “Unveiling and Enhancing the Effectiveness of Information System Certifications“.

We say congratulations, Sebastian!

(02.03.2022) The paper “Linking Data Sovereignty and Data Economy: Arising Areas of Tension” von Florian Lauf; Simon Scheider; Jan Bartsch; Philipp Herrmann; Marija Radic; Marcel Rebbert; André T. Nemat; Christoph Schlueter Langdon; Ralf Konrad; Ali Sunyaev; and Sven Meister has been awarded with the Best Paper Award at the 17th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI22).

(18.02.2022) The annual report includes many of the highlights from 2021, including information on publications, lectures and research projects.

(31.01.2022) The kick-off was conducted virtually on 26 January 2022. Further information regarding the DIRECTIONS project (Data Protection Certification for Educational Information Systems) can soon be obtained on https://directions-cert.de/.

(21.12.2021) The cii research group wishes you a Merry Christmas, relaxing holidays and a good start into the New Year! We would also like to thank you for your cooperation in 2021 and are already looking forward to 2022.

(02.12.2012) The article "Architecture Matters: Investigating the Influence of Differential Privacy on Neural Network Design" by Felix Morsbach, Tobias Dehling und Ali Sunyaev has been accepted at Privacy in Machine Learning (NeurIPS 2021 Workshop) and will be presented by Felix Morsbach on 14.12.2021.

In December, the new research project DIRECTIONS - Data Protection Certification for Educational Information Systems will start, which is led by the research group cii. Together with the University of Kassel and datenschutz cert GmbH, the KIT is developing and testing a sustainably, applicable data protection certification for school information systems.

(29.10.21) On October 26, 2021, the kick-off meeting for the new research project „ISH: Intelligent Security Handwerk“ took place at the University of Kassel.

(15.10.2021) We are very pleased that for the first time we can present a collection in which student works are collected together. In total, we selected nine student research articles contributing to the design, development, and evaluation of critical information infrastructures. The collection is freely available via KITOpen.

(04.10.2021) Our new journal article “Challenges and Common Solutions in Smart Contract Development“ by Niclas Kannengießer, Sebastian Lins, Christian Sander, Klaus Winter, Hellmuth Frey, and Ali Sunyaev is now available as an early access article in the journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).

(29.09.2021) Our new journal article “Challenges and Common Solutions in Smart Contract Development“ by Niclas Kannengießer, Sebastian Lins, Christian Sander, Klaus Winter, Hellmuth Frey, and Ali Sunyaev has been accepted for publication in the journal Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).

(27.09.2021) Prof. Ali Sunyaev from the Critical Information Infrastructure Research Group at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) (https://cii.aifb.kit.edu) is offering a research internship in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Robert W. Gregory at the University of Miami (https://people.miami.edu/profile/rwg54@miami.edu). Bachelor students from the KIT can apply until November 1st, 2021 for an internship.

(10.09.2021) Our article "Conceptual Ambiguity Surrounding Gamification and Serious Games in Health Care: Literature Review and Development of Game-Based Intervention Reporting Guidelines (GAMING)" by Simon Warsinsky, Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin, Sascha Rank, Scott Thiebes und Ali Sunyaev has been published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research and is now online.

(23.08.2021) The German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) are funding the research project SPECK (Systemic Optimization of the Meat Value Chain using the Example of Pig Farming through the Development and Embedding of Digital Tools) on digitalization in food supply chains from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2024.

(21.07.2021) Prof. Dr. Ali Sunyaev was recognized as an AIS Distinguished Member - Cum Laude by the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

(12.07.2021) The paper „Security in Distributed Ledger Technology: An Analysis of Vulnerabilities and Attack Vectors“ by Efthimios-Enias Gojka, Niclas Kannengießer, Benjamin Sturm, Jan Bartsch, und Ali Sunyaev has been published in the proceedings of the Computing Conference 2021.

(28.06.2021) Die souveräne Dateninfrastruktur Gaia-X verspricht europäischen Unternehmen eine sichere Digitalisierung – und schwankt doch zwischen Hoffnung und Bangen. Die Hürden scheinen noch riesig, wie genau das Mega-Projekt in die Praxis kommt...

(11.06.2021) Citizens who have sovereignty over their data and at the same time the existence of organizations that create value with it —a dichotomy for many. However, the DaWID project aims to make this a reality by uniting data sovereignty for citizens and the data economy.

(04.05.2021) Our new journal article “How detection ranges and usage stops impact digital contact tracing effectiveness for COVID-19“ by Konstantin Pandl, Scott Thiebes, Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin, and Ali Sunyaev has been accepted for publication in the journal Scientific Reports.

(27.04.2021) Sebastian Lins will on 30th April present the AUDITOR project in his talk “AUDITOR – Development of a new data protection certification for cloud services” at 11:30 am during the COMMUNITY DAYS. This two-day online event is about “IT outsourcing, managed services and cloud computing: IT-GRC in the context of external IT services”.

(12.04.2021) On 16.04.2021, the status of the AUDITOR project's work will be presented and an outlook on upcoming practice will be given at "Datenschutz am Mittag". 

(15.03.2021) We published our article “When Data Fly: An Open Data Trading System in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks” by Markus Lücking, Felix Kretzer, Niclas Kannengießer, Michael Beigl, Ali Sunyaev and Wilhelm Stork successfully in “Electronics“ 2021.

(19.02.2021) The research group cii has published a new post on the digilog@bw knowledge blog. In the post, Benjamin Sturm and Ali Sunyaev discuss the potential of blockchain technology in the context of open knowledge.

(16.02.2021) The paper "Social Comparison in mHealth: The Role of Similar Others and Feelings of Envy" by Monica Fallon, Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin, Scott Thiebes, Simon Warsinsky, and Ali Sunyaev has been awarded with the Best Theory Paper Award in the track IS in Healthcare at the 41st International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2020).

(08.01.2021) The paper "Online at Will: A Novel Protocol for Mutual Authentication in Peer-to-Peer Networks for Patient-Centered Health Care Information Systems" by Imrana Abdullahi Yari, Tobias Dehling, Felix Kluge, Bjoern Eskofier und Ali Sunyaev has been awarded with the Best Paper Award at the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-54).

(22.12.2020) The cii research group wishes you a Merry Christmas, relaxing holidays and a good start into the New Year! We would also like to thank you for your cooperation in 2020 and are already looking forward to 2021. See you soon & stay healthy!

(14.12.2020) On December 8, 2020 Benjamin Sturm successfully defended his PhD thesis! We say congratulations, Benjamin!

(14.12.2020) Malte Greulich from the cii research group presented a paper at the Pre-ICIS Annual Workshop on Information Security and Privacy (WISP), which was held virtually as a pre-ICIS event on December 12, 2020.

(28.10.2020) We published our article “The Merits of a Decentralized Pollution-Monitoring System Based on Distributed Ledger Technology” von Markus Lücking, Niclas Kannengießer, Maurice Kilgus, Till Riedel, Michael Beigl, Ali Sunyaev und Wilhelm Stork in IEEE Access.

(16.10.2020) Four papers of the cii research group have been accepted for publication at the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), which will take place January 5-8, 2021.

(01.10.2020) Prof. Ali Sunyaev from the Critical Information Infrastructure Research Group at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) is offering a research internship in cooperation with Prof. Jakub Szefer at the Yale University. Bachelor students from the KIT can apply until November 1st, 2020 for an internship.

(17.09.2020) The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new research project on digitization in the healthcare sector as part of its priority program "Digitization of the Workplace".

(07.09.2020) Our project PANDIA investigates various aspects of privacy in the field of health apps.

(14.07.2020) In an interview published on June 10, 2020, Prof. Ali Sunyaev talks about the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Distributed Ledger Technology to create systems with trustworthy AI.

(29.06.2020) The DaWID project will provide the possibility of sovereign data handling for citizens while allowing a data centered value creation in form of a platform ecosystem.

(03.06.2020) Prof. Ali Sunyaev receives the teaching award of the KIT Faculty „Economics and Management" for outstanding interactive and practice-oriented courses on current topics such as "Cloud Computing, Blockchain, or IoT."

(12.11.2019) As the organizer of the symposium, Prof. Dr. Ali Sunyaev gave his inaugural lecture at the 35th AIK Symposium on "Blockchain - Proof-of-Worth" explaining the transformative character of the DLT and a multi-perspective consensus that must be reached across various disciplines (e.g., computer science, law, and economics) in order to make the DLT fit for the future.