Friederike Wall is elected Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Austrian Research Association

On 28 June 2018, Friederike Wall was elected a Scientific Advisory Board Member by the Executive Committee, chaired by Christiane Spiel.

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Friederike Wall receives the “Best Application Paper Award“

For her paper “Coordination and Search for New Solutions: An Agent-based Study on the Tension in Boundary Systems”, researcher Friederike Wall received the “Best Application Paper Award” at the International Conference on Decision Economics (DECON 2019) in Ávila (Spain) in June 2019.

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Studying coincidence in literature and films

A position as post-doctoral researcher at the Department of English and American Studies brought Matthias Klestil to Klagenfurt from Bayreuth. His research currently focuses on material from literature and films, which addresses versionality and coincidence. In our interview with Matthias Klestil, he tells us about the paths that led him to Klagenfurt, and he reveals what he finds fascinating about the USA.

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Finding faults in Excel

A familiar situation for many: A large Excel file that includes many sheets, rows and columns – and in the end, the correct result stubbornly refuses to materialize. Troubleshooting can be complicated whenever numerous formulas and references are involved. Patrick Koch is working on the project “Debugging of spreadsheet programs (DEOS)”, funded by the FWF, which aims to simplify the search for errors. He recently received the “ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award” for his publication on this subject.

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