Category: Research Activities

We are congratulating Bernhard Garn for being accepted to the IRDR’s (Integrated Research on Disaster Risk) Young Scientist Programme. IRDR is cosponsored by the International Science Council (ISC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and supported by the China Association of Science and Technology (CAST). The International Programme Office of IRDR…

We are happy to announce that the 13th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2024) will be held at the end of May 2024 in Toronto, Canada, co-located with ICST 2024. For interested parties, CfP is available via this link. MATRIS lead; Dimitris Simos will serve as the general chair, while the workshop’s PC will…

Description: On Oct 17, 2023, Bernhard Garn joined as MC member of Austria the meeting MC1 of the COST Action NERO (CA22164 – european Network on Extreme fiRe behaviOr). This meeting marks the start of this COST Action, which focuses on novel fire regimes characterized by extreme events. NERO’s objectives include: The goals and activities…

On Monday, October 9, 2023, Bernhard successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled ‘Design Theory Methods and their Applications to the Science of Security’ in his defensio. The committee was chaired by Martina Lindorfer (TU Wien) and in addition consisted of Edgar Weippl (University of Vienna), Rachel Tzoref-Brill (IBM Research), D. Richard Kuhn (US NIST) and…

Bernhard Garn from the DEFSYS team has joined the management committee of two COST Actions, where he will represent MATRIS/SBA and Austria: COST Action aims to build an interdisciplinary research network on pre-selected project topics by bringing researchers and innovators from distinct disciplines together to investigate a topic of their choice for 4 years. COST…

Copyright: MATRIS Description: Professor Lucia Moura from the University of Ottawa, Canada, visited the MATRIS Research Group for two days focusing on research discussion and mutual exchange, from the 29th-30th of June 2023. Prof. Moura is a distinguished researcher in the filed of combinatorial designs – their theory and their applications. During her visit, Prof.…

Reinhard KuglerCopyright: ITSN!23/dessy Description: You wouldn’t STEAL a CAR? – Security in Automotive Control Units: This year’s IT-S NOW conference was held at FH Campus Vienna of the University of Applied Sciences in June. Reinhard Kugler gave a talk on the first day of the conference about security in automotive control units and methods of…

5 Copyright: MATRIS Description: This year’s International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2023) took place in Dublin. MATRIS members contributed to the workshop through six talks by Ludwig Kampel, Manuel Leithner, and Michael Wagner. The first talk of Ludwig Kampel was an automotive case study on Combinatorial Testing Fault-localization (CT-FLA) methods for Automatic Emergency Braking…

Description: The third strategic workshop between MATRIS and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) took place virtually on the 11th, 13th, and 14th of October. MATRIS and NIST have been part of a successful and scientifically fruitful partnership for many years and officially cooperating on different research projects. Moreover, both parties have…

The section acts as the first umbrella journal that focuses on the combinatorial testing (CT), model-based testing (MBT), and property-based testing (e.g., metamorphic testing, statistical testing, etc.) communities where combinatorial aspects play a prominent role. All these methods can support largely both black-box and white-box testing approaches, through well-tuned models which may also be applied…