Category: Research Activities

  • CT Competition at IWCT 2022

    On April 4, 2022, a combinatorial testing (CT) tool competition was held for the first time at the premier workshop on CT, IWCT 2022, that evaluated the performance of tools capable of generating covering arrays (CAs), the principal mathematical structure used in CT. The competition was enabled by a cooperation between SBA Research and the University of…

  • Journal Article: “In-Parameter-Order strategies for covering perfect hash families” by MATRIS Research Group

    Michael Wagner and Dimitris E. Simos from the MATRIS research group published an article for the Elsevier Applied Mathematics and Computation Journal. Generating optimal covering arrays is a very challenging task where asides its theoretical value has huge impact in software testing, when such mathematical structures are translated to software artifacts. In this work, an In-Parameter-Order algorithm for constructing…

  • Key Researcher Talk – Combinatorial Testing Methods and Algorithms for Detecting and Locating Cryptographic Trojans by Dimitris E. Simos (Remote)

    Join the 4th edition of our Key Researcher Talk Series! Combinatorial Testing Methods and Algorithms for Detecting and Locating Cryptographic Trojans Combinatorial methods have attracted attention as a means of providing strong assurance at reduced cost, but are these methods practical and cost-effective, in the case of malicious hardware logic detection? In this talk, we…

  • Dimitris E. Simos – Habilitation completed at TU Graz!

    Congratulations to Dimitris E. Simos (Lead of MATRIS Research Group) for completing his Habilitation at Graz University of Technology. As of Jan.1st 2021, Dimitris is now Associate Professor (non-tenured track, venia docendi for Applied Computer Science) with Graz University of Technology, further strengthening the cooperation between his MATRIS Research Group at SBA Research and the Institute of Software Technology at TU Graz.

  • Dimitris E. Simos appointed as Guest Researcher with US NIST

    As of March 13, 2020, Dimitris E. Simos holds a Guest Researcher appointment with US NIST and is affiliated with the Applied Computational Mathematics Division (ACMD) of the Information Technology Lab (ITL) [1]. In his capacity as an off-site collaborator, Dimitris will further strengthen the ties between MATRIS Research Group of SBA Research and ACMD…

  • NIST Researchers from the US Embassy in Vienna visit SBA Research and MATRIS Research Group

    On Fri, Nov 8, 2019, Amy Mahn and Andreas Lerch visited SBA Research on a mission from the US Embassy in Vienna and were welcomed by Markus Klemen. Amy Mahn is an international policy specialist working in the NIST Applied Cybersecurity Division. Amy’s primary focus in this role is support of the international aspects and alignment…

  • Jovan Zivanovic@ AST 2019

    Jovan Zivanovic from SBA’s MaTRIS research group (https://matris.sba-research.org/) attended the 14th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (http://ast2019.isti.cnr.it), in conjunction with ICSE 2019. Jovan Zivanovic presents the paper “Automated Combinatorial Testing for Detecting SQL Vulnerabilities in Web Applications” (Dimitris E. Simos, Jovan Zivanovic, and Manuel Leithner) Contributions from this paper include three new attack…

  • Combinatorial security testing tutorial @ DATAWorks 2019, Springfield, VA, USA

    Combinatorial security testing tutorial @ DATAWorks 2019, Springfield, VA, USA

    Dimitris E. Simos (MATRIS Research Group – SBA Research) and Rick Kuhn (NIST, Computer Security Division) were invited to jointly present a tutorial on Combinatorial Security Testing at the Defense and Aerospace Test and Analysis workshop (DataWorks 2019) on April 11th, 2019. The event takes place at Springfield, VA, USA and is organized by NASA, Institute for Defense…

  • Bernhard Garn successfully defended his Master Thesis

    Bernhard Garn successfully defended his Master Thesis “Algebraic Methods for Experimental Design Theory” advised by Dimitris E. Simos at the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation of TU Vienna. Bernhard gave an excellent presentation.

  • MATRIS Research Group, NIST and Adobe @ IWCT 2019

    An ambitious research collaboration between the MATRIS Research Group of SBA Research (Dimitris E. Simos, Ludwig Kampel, Manuel Leithner, Bernhard Garn), NIST (Rick Kuhn, Raghu Kacker) and Adobe (Riley Smith, Darryl Jarman, Jared Bellows, Gabe Gosney) resulted in two published papers (Measuring Combinatorial Coverage at Adobe, Applying Combinatorial Testing to Large-scale Data Processing at Adobe) in IWCT 2019. These two papers showcase successful…