The research group Critical Information Infrastructures (cii) is part of the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the KIT-Department of Economics and Management (WiWi Department), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). We are a member of the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (KASTEL), the KIT Center „Health Technologies“ (KITHealthTech), the KIT Center Information ˑ Systems ˑ Technologies (KCIST), and the Helmholtz Information and Data Science School for Health (HIDSS4Health).

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Current Research of the cii Group Presented at the Conference of the DFG Priority Program 2267 “Digitalization of Working Worlds”

(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.

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Two Articles Accepted at CHI 2024

(12.03.2024) The critical information infrastructure research group got two papers accepted at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. First, Florian Leiser collaborated with Sven Eckhardt, Valentin Leuthe, Merlin Knaeble, Alexander Maedche, Gerhard Schwabe, and Ali Sunyaev to develop HILL – A Hallucination Identifier for Large Language Models. Second, Jeanine Kirchner-Krath led a collaboration with Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin, Sofia Schöbel, Mathias Ulrich, Ali Sunyaev and Harald F. O. von Korflesch investigating gamification efforts to overcome procrastination in academia.

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Open Science
New Article published in the Business & Information Systems Engineering Journal

(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.

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Professor Dr. Ali Sunyaev is now Member of the Scientific Council Computer Science of the DFG

(29.02.2024) For the next four years, Professor Dr. Ali Sunyaev will be part of the DFG scientific council for computer science for the subject of data management, data-intensive systems, computer science methods in business informatics. He is thus part of the scientific representation of 49 review boards that decide on DFG funding decisions according to the DFG's own scientific standards and in the spirit of excellence in research, innovation, and the search for knowledge.

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Girls’ Day - Future Prospects for Girls, 25 April 2024: Our cii Workshop is now open for registration!

(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).

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Congratulations to Niclas Kannengießer for his successful doctoral examination

(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”

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