Sebis Research News

Am 25. Oktober 2017 hat Prof. Matthes einen einstündigen Vortrag zum Thema "Blockchains – Funktionsweise, Chancen und Risiken" im vollbesetzten Ehrensaal des Deutschen Museums gehalten. Im Anschluss an den Vortrag fand eine lebendige Diskussion statt.

Das Video ist inzwischen auf YouTube verfügbar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3b8QhHtnug&feature=youtu.be

Die Folien des Vortrags sind auf Anfrage (matthes@in.tum.de) erhältich. 

Zusammenfassung

Der Vortrag  erklärt zunächst, wie die Konzepte, Funktionen und Akteure der Blockchain ineinandergreifen, um eine verteilte digitale Buchführung basierend auf kryptographischen Protokollen zu realisieren. Am Beispiel der Bitcoin als bisher erfolgreichster Anwendung der Blockchain-Technologie werden die Chancen und Vorteile aber auch Risiken und Einschränkungen Blockchain-basierter Anwendungen illustriert. Der Vortrag endet mit einem Ausblick auf Nutzungsszenarien im Rechtsverkehr (Smart Contracts und Distributed AutonomousOrganizations). 

Ankündigung beim Deutschen Museum.

Every time we buy something online, we are confronted with Terms of Services. However, only a few people actually read these terms, before accepting them, often to their disadvantage. In this paper, we present the SaToS browser plugin which summarises and simplifies Terms of Services from German webshops.

As part of the INLG2017 the 2nd SIGGEN Hackaton took place in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The winning team was:

• Daniel Braun (Technical University of Munich)
• Stephanie Inglis (University of Aberdeen)
• David Howcroft (Universität des Saarlandes)
• Roman Kutlak (Oxford University Press)
• Alberto Mariño (CiTIUS-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

Our first research paper on the topic of Scaled Agile IT Organizations and Enterprise Architecture Management was accepted by the IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference. The conference took place from October 10th to October 13th in Québec City, Canada. The aim of the paper was to describe different architect roles in scaling agile frameworks with the help of a structured literature review. On the second day of the conference, a banquet dinner took place in the Parliament Building of the Canadian Province of Québec.

 Picture on the Château Frontenac

 Picture on the presentation of the paper results at the EDOC conference

 Picture from the Banquet Dinner in the Parliament Building of the Canadian Province of Québec

The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) has assigned an interdisciplinary group of experts, consisting of Prof. Dr. Georg Borges, Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge, Prof. Dr. Erich Schweighofer, Dr. Matthias Grabmair, Prof. Burkhard Schafer, and members of the sebis group (Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes & Bernhard Waltl), to elaborate on the feasibility of an act governing algorithms and algorithmic decision making. 

In the focus of this research are discriminative decision making and consumer protection. The project will be finished in 2018.

The team of Florian Matthes, consisting of Bernhard Waltl, Elena Scepankova, Ingo Glaser, and Georg Bonczek, has published their recent results on Active Machine Learning for Classifying Legal Norms at the 30th international conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX). The paper is going to be presented at the conference from 13-15 December 2017, Luxembourg.

More details can be found here.