Category: Research Activities

Bluetooth Low Energy is one of the most widely used protocols used in Internet of Things (IoT) and multimedia devices. Security issues in these applications are prone to affect a significant number of end users and companies alike. In their latest work applying the Combinatorial Security Testing (CST) approach to Bluetooth Low Energy devices, Dominik…

The award ceremony for the 2025 Houska Prize was held on 9 April 2025 and MATRIS members participated in this prestigious event as a result of the project ‘Combinatorial Security Testing’ (CST) being nominated in the category ‘Non-University Research’. Represented by Dimitris Simos (CST Project Lead), Bernhard Garn and Manuel Leithner, as well as by…

Members of the MATRIS Research Group participated in the 14th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2025) in Naples, Italy. IWCT is among the premier venues for research dedicated to combinatorial testing and was held co-located with the 18th ICST on Monday, March 31, 2025. Andrea Bombarda (University of Bergamo) and Bernhard Garn (MATRIS)  served…

In March 2025, Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos visited the NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH “DEMOKRITOS” (NCSR-D) in Athens, Greece. During their visit, they met with Georgios Xilouris, Head of the Network Operations Center (NOC) at the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications (IIT) of NCSR-D. Both NCSR-D and SBA are partners in the INTACT project,…

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…