Category: Research Activities

Bernhard Garn participated as trainee in the 1st NERO Winter School on Fire Spread and Behavior Reconstruction, which was held between February 18 – 21, 2025, at the Command Center of the Autoridade Nacional de Emergência e Proteção Civil (engl.,Portuguese National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection; ANEPC) in Carnaxide, Portugal. The Winter School focused…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful — but are they consistent? Can they reliably produce the same output when presented with inputs that have the same meaning? This is a key question for trustworthiness in AI systems that is being addressed within the KomMKonLLM project (Netidee: Förderjahr 2024 / Projekt Call #19 / ProjectID: 7409).…

The research project combinatorial security testing of the MATRIS Research Group has been nominated in the category Non-University Research for the 2025 Houska Prize! Since its establishment in 2005, the Houska Prize is sponsored by the B&C Private Foundation to promote business-related research and innovation. The Houska Prize expresses the appreciation for outstanding research work…

At the 35th International Conference on Principles of Diagnosis and Resilient Systems (DX’24), an event co-organized by TU Graz and Ben Gurion University, and sponsored by AIJ, Dimitris Simos gave a keynote titled “Combinatorial Methods beyond Testing: Optimizing Disaster Scenarios to Strengthen Disaster Preparedness and Resilience”. In his keynote, Dimitris presented the application of combinatorial…

On October 18, 2024 Dimitris Simos gave an invited talk titled “COMBINATORIAL METHODS FOR TESTING AND ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS” [DS] in the Lecture Series of the Research Institute for Supply Chain Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) [LS-RI_SCM]. Dimitris started his talk with some background material on combinatorial testing for…

The annual international IT security event, Troopers 2024, recently marked its 15th anniversary in the historic city of Heidelberg. This milestone event took place from the 24th until the 28th of June, bringing together security experts, researchers, and enthusiasts from around the globe to share cutting-edge developments in the field of cybersecurity. As one of…

We are thrilled to announce that, Dimitris Simos (Key Researcher, MATRIS lead, and Head of Strategic Research) has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Applications of Computer Algebra Early Researcher Award (ACA-ERA). Recognized as “one of the most dynamic and active researchers” by the award committee, Dimitris Simos has made significant contributions to the field of…

We are pleased to share that Dhirendra Singh from CSIRO recently concluded a successful research visit at SBA Research. Invited by MATRIS Research Group of SBA, spent the end of May engaging in a productive collaboration with our researchers, especially the disaster research team, DEFSYS. During his stay, Dhirendra worked closely with the DEFSYS team…

Copyright: MATRIS Description: On May 15, 2024, Antonis Troumpoukis from one of the prominent research centers of Greece, NCSR-Demokritos, gave a remote talk at the MATRIS seminar. His talk titled “Preference Representation using Higher-Order LP” addressed extensions of logic programming for preference representation. In his talk, Antonis covered foundational aspects and applications of this framework.…

The project cooperation and partnership between Matris Applied Research Consulting (MARC) and Commend received a spotlight in the April issue of one of the most globally prominent magazines in cybersecurity: the Security System News. Last year, the lead of MARC, Reinhard Kugler, started a successful applied research-driven consulting project on cybersecurity with the security and…