2013-08-30: Best Paper Award - BPM 2013
Marcello La Rosa, Principal Researcher and co-author of Slice, Mine and Dice: Complexity Aware Automated Discovery of Business Process Models won the Best Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Business Process Management 2013 held in Beijing 27 - 28 August. More...

2013-08-20: Seminar Sabelfeld (Chalmers University of Technology) on Tracking Information Flow in Web Applications

This talk discusses a principled approach to web application security through tracking information flow in web applications. Although the agile nature of developments in web application technology makes web application security much of a moving target, we show that there are some fundamental challenges and tradeoffs that determine possibilities and limitations of automatically securing web applications.

2013-07-29: Best Student Paper Award - APSys 2013
Aaron Carroll PhD Student won Student Best Paper at Asia Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2013) for the paper The Systems Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy: Energy Usage in a Modern Smartphone. This paper is co-authored with Gernot Heiser. More...

2013-04-24: Seminar Thiagarajan (National University of Singapore) on Approximate Verification of the Symbolic Dynamics of Markov Chains
A finite state Markov chain M can be viewed as a linear transform operating on the space of probability distributions over its set of nodes. We discretize the probability value space [0,1] into a finite set of intervals.

2013-04-23: Seminar Rushby (SRI International) on The Challenge of High-Assurance Software

It is difficult to build complex systems that (almost) never go (badly) wrong, yet this is what we expect of airplanes and pacemakers and the phone system. In essence, we have to anticipate everything that could fail or go wrong, develop countermeasures, and then provide compelling evidence that we have done all this correctly. Dr Rushby outline's some of the intellectual challenges in construction of suitable evidence, particularly as applied to software.