Two kilometres of flight data: Publication of arguably the largest pool of real-world drone flight measurement data

Typically, drone flight data is generated under laboratory conditions – thus limiting its use for real-world application development. A team of researchers from Klagenfurt, working with two researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has now published the first large pool of real-world measurement data. The data was generated in and around the Klagenfurt drone hall and in the context of the AMADEE20 Mars simulation in Israel.

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New Paper by Martin Wagner Published in Empirical Economics

Martin Wagner’s paper “Residual-based cointegration and non-cointegration tests for cointegrating polynomial regressions” has been published in Empirical Economics.

D!ARC Lectures: Cryptographic Engineering Research: Navigating Responsibility Univ.-Prof.Dr. Elisabeth Oswald

12th January 2023    17:30 Uhr/ 5.30pm     Hörsaal 2/ HS 2

 

Cryptographic Engineering Research: Navigating Responsibility

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Oswald

 

Abstract

This talk is about challenges that arise when engineering systems in such a way that as little information as possible is leaked about cryptographic secrets. Over the years a range of mathematical and engineering techniques have been researched (and in part deployed) to account for, and mitigate, information leakage. Research in this area requires to carefully consider how developed techniques (that describe and analyse information leakage) not only help developers and evaluators, but if and how these can play into the hands of potential adversaries.

 

CV

Elisabeth Oswald completed her PhD in Technical Mathematics at the Technical University in Graz. Thereafter she took up a lecturing position in the Computer Science Department at the University of Bristol, where she established a research group in the area of applied cryptography, with an emphasis on analysing side channels. Eventually she was promoted to the first female chair in the Bristol Computer Science department. Her scientific accomplishments were honoured by an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship, an ERC Consolidator grant, and a number of best paper awards. She serves as associate editor of the two most influential journals in the are of cryptography, and participates regularly in leading functions for research funding institutions. Since 2019 she holds a chair in Cybersecurity research at the University of Klagenfurt.

 

For those who can only participate in this D!ARC Lecture online, see added the corresponding link for the live stream:

Für jene, denen nur eine online-Teilnahme an dieser D!ARC Lecture möglich ist, finden Sie anbei den entsprechenden Link für den Livestream:

https://classroom.aau.at/b/sag-893-nqz-qhq

Invited Talk: Digital Product Innovation and Global Value Chains: An Agent-Based Analysis

Prof. Herbert Dawid (Bielefeld University) holds a talk on “Digital Product Innovation and Global Value Chains: An Agent-Based Analysis” on Mon. 23 January 2023 at 9:00am in room Z.1.09 (Main Building). Guests welcome!

We study the impact of digitization in the form of product innovation on the location of economic activities and value extraction on global supply chains and its effects on industry dynamics such as factor compensation. We develop a novel two-region agent-based model consisting of two traditional manufacturing sectors (upstream and downstream), an emerging digital goods sector and a service sector to account for structural change. In the wake of digitization final good producers incorporate digital components into their products, thereby increasing the product quality. We show that the region, where prior to digitization final good producers offer lower quality goods and are less competitive, is more likely to become dominant in the emerging digital goods sector. Whether digitization also results in a catch-up of the weaker region in the final goods sector depends crucially on the degree of complementarity between conventional and digital components in determining product quality. Furthermore, we analyze the implications of digitization on wage inequality within and between regions.