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SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

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Blockchain Research at SBA

We have a large group working on cryptocurrencies, block chain, and distributed ledger technology. Recent publications include our user experience study (The other side of the coin) and our book Blocks & Chains. You can also watch our CCS tutorial on youtube. Our current projects explore… Read More

Tomasz Miksa on machine-actionable DMPs at the FORCE2017 Conference in Berlin

Tomasz Miksa co-organized a session on Changing the Culture of Data Management Plans: making DMPs machine-actionable and FAIR at the FORCE2017 Conference in Berlin, Germany. The FORCE2017 Research Communication and e-Scholarship Conference brought together a diverse group of people interested in changing the way in which scholarly and scientific information… Read More

ISWC 2017 co-organized by SBA Research

SBA Research co-organized the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) together with TU Wien and WU Wien. ISWC 2017 took place from October 21 – 25, 2017 at WU Campus and Messe Wien. We welcomed more than 550 participants!… Read More

Tomasz Miksa on reproducibility of computational workflows at the ISWC17

Tomasz Miksa presented his paper entitled “Using ontologies for verification and validation of workflow-based experiments” in the journal track of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC17) which is held 21 – 25 October in Vienna, Austria. The paper discusses how to ensure trust in results of computational workflows by documenting… Read More

Tomasz Miksa on Data Management Plans in the Horizon 2020 at the FFG

Tomasz Miksa delivered a webinar on Data Management Plans in the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Commission. The webinar was organised by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) which is the national contact point for the Horizon 2020. The webinar had a wide appeal and brought both practitioners… Read More

Sebastian Schrittwieser receives scientific recognition award

Sebastian Schrittwieser, who worked for SBA Research until 2013, received a scientific recognition award by the federal state of Lower Austria for his work and dissertation on code obfuscation. The full article can be found here. (in german)

(ISC)² Austria Chapter & ISACA Austria Chapter Event

The (ISC)² & ISACA Austrian Chapters jointly organized the one-day event “Cyber Sicherheit zeigt Zähne – Trends | Regularien | Vorgaben | Entwicklungen 2017+”, which took place on October 12, 2017 in the beautiful rooms of the Kunsthistorisches Musem Wien.  Stefan Jakoubi, SBA Research and Jimmy Heschl, Red Bull moderated… Read More

Tomasz Miksa on the next generation of Data Management Plans at the general assembly of the e-Infrastructures Austria+

Today, Tomasz Miksa gave a talk on “Machine-actionable Data Management Plans (DMPs)” at the general assembly of the e-Infrastructures Austria+ project. The talk presented benefits of the next generation machine-actionable Data Management Plans to stakeholders involved in the research data life-cycle: infrastructure operators, repository managers, researchers, funders, and policy makers. Read More

Austrian IEEE Chapter election finished

The election for the Austrian IEEE Chapter Systems, Men, and Cybernetics is finished and we are proud to announce that Peter Kieseberg and Edgar Weippl of SBA will continue their work as chair and first vice-chair respectively. For more information and interest in joining the chapter, please contact pkieseberg@sba-research.org.