Seminar: Current Topics in Dependable Systems

ANNOUNCEMENT:

30.11.2020: You can pick up the seminar certificate from Prof. Fetzer's secretary's office after 2.12.2020.

27.4.2020 --> For the students who did not yet select a topic, please select a paper until tomorrow, otherwise, your current registration to the seminar will be canceled.

8.4.2020--> Due to the current crisis, we have raised the limit of the number of students who can participate in the seminar to 16, so the registration for the seminar for the current semester is reopened.

7.4.2020--> The number of students who already registered for the seminar for the summer semester 2020 has reached its limit (10), so no new students will be accepted in the seminar.

7.4.2020--> The students who already registered for the seminar (see Summer semester 2020 ), should pick a paper from the given conference and send me an email with the chosen paper title.

1.4.2020--> The seminar for the summer semester 2020 will take place ONLINE if the current COVID-19 lockdown continued.
           - All students who are interested in participating in the seminar have to send me
              an email between 1.4.2020 -23.4.2020.
           - The max number of students who can participate in the seminar is 10, so first
              come first served. 
           - Other dates are already provided in this page but might be updated frequently.
 

12.06.2020--> The review discussion meeting will be held online using video conferencing, you should have already received the link to it.
If this is not the case, please contact me (Rasha Faqeh) per email.

The design and implementation of highly dependable systems have to match complex requirements. This seminar is about current techniques and systems that help to fulfill the dependability requirements. During the seminar, students should individually research a current topic in dependable systems and present it to the class.

The seminar will introduce you to research paper writing. Therefore, we organize it like a mini-conference with a hand-in submission, paper review process, and a full-day workshop.

Related Courses: The field is presented in-depth in the corresponding lecture.

Organization

The seminar has three goals:

• Research and study a (possibly unknown) topic on your own using corresponding literature.
• Practice writing a scientific article using LaTeX.
• Gain experience in giving presentations.

The procedure for the seminar is as follows:

• We provide a list of topics, each with a reference to a research paper that introduces the topic.
• You can choose your paper by sending me an e-mail.
• After choosing a paper you should read it to get a first impression of the topic. Make use of the references to find related work.
• In the first meeting, I will explain the details of the seminar and give you hints for your presentation and the hand-in.
• This is followed by a break giving you time for preparing the talk and the hand-in. You should study work related to the chosen paper in depth in order to become an expert in the topic.
• Based on these studies you must write a hand-in (8 pages) on the topic. At least 30% of the hand-in must cover a description of the research field and related work. You must submit the hand-in by the given deadline using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below).
• The hand-in should summarize the paper and related work so that other participants of the seminar are able to understand the topic. There is no need to present or repeat all the details of the original paper. Instead, the hand-in should present the results of your own research, how you understood the topic. The hand-in will then be distributed to the other students for reading.
• Per hand-in, two students are assigned to create a review. For the review, we will provide a questionary that will help you to focus on the important aspects. The reviews must be sent to EasyChair.
• Based on the reviews, you must prepare the final version of your hand-in that will be available to the other students.
• We will have a full-day workshop at the end of the semester where each student is to present the topic. You must prepare slides and give a presentation. Again, at least 30% of your talk must cover a description of the research field and related work. The presentation must not last longer than 20 minutes. In the following discussion about the topic, all students should participate, the reviewers in particular.
• The official language of the seminar is English, which means your talk is to be given and also the hand-in is to be written in English.
• Should you have any problems accessing/downloading the papers, contact me via e-mail.

To successfully pass the seminar each student must do the following timely:

Topics and material

• Summer semester 2020

• Summer semester 2019

• Summer semester 2018

• Summer semester 2017

• Summer semester 2015
• Summer semester 2014
• Summer semester 2013
• Summer semester 2012
• Summer semester 2011
• Summer semester 2010
• Summer semester 2009

Resources

• Introduction to the seminar(updated)
• EasyChair (requires you to login)
• Questionary for reviews
• The seminar hand-in template
• The seminar hand-in template LaTeX and BibTeX files

Please use the auditorium for discussing questions related to the course. The tutors will help with answers.

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