Das Lebensumfeld von Schülerinnen und Schülern wird heutzutage immer mehr vernetzt. Wo früher noch Einkaufslisten per Hand geschrieben werden mussten, kann diese Aufgabe nun Assistenten wie Alexa, Cortana und Siri überlassen werden, oder aber der Kühlschrank sendet einfach selbst ein Bild seines Inhaltes in den Supermarkt. ...

Die Art und Weise, mit der Informatik über die letzten Jahrzehnte von der Industrie, den Medien und teils sogar (öffentlichen) Bildungseinrichtungen vermarktet wurde, führte in westlichen Kulturen zu einer deutlichen Geschlechterkluft in informatischen Berufen wie auch Studiengängen. Studien zu diesem aus diversen Gründen ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly. Therefore, there are more and more vendors, which led to IoT being a heterogeneous collection of different IoT platforms, isolated solutions and several protocols. It has been proposed to use Data Integration to overcome this heterogeneity. In addition, costs are on the ...

Security is a serious, and often neglected, issue in the Internet of Things (IoT). In order to improve IoT security, researchers proposed to use Security-by-Contract (S×C), a paradigm originally designed for mobile application platforms. However, S×C assumes that manufacturers equip their devices with security contracts, ...

Interoperable Intelligent Assistant Systems (IAS) could help realize the advantages of the Internet of Things (IoT). Yet, due to their insufficient skill set and persistent privacy concerns on the consumers' side, such IAS experience only limited popularity. While enabling IAS to communicate and exchange data with ...

The concepts of Microservices and Organic Computing contribute to a fully distributed architecture of the Internet of Things (IoT), avoiding single points of failure through massive service distribution. The distribution and the lack of structure, however, come with large communication overheads. We discuss the necessity ...

For a long time, the Internet of Things was considered the vision of interconnecting every device, leading to fundamentally new and pervasive application scenarios. In practice, however, the projected growth and realisation of IoT scenarios is often impeded by practical problems. The BASE MoVE research project, a cooperation ...

The increasing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) applications leads to a continuous expansion into further application areas. Since each application poses its own challenges and requirements, many different solutions have been developed to build parts of the IoT. However, this diversity results in new challenges as ...

Since Edge Computing (EC) became more important in industry and research several standardisation groups and initiatives are considering related technologies in their strategies and future roadmaps. The work includes the definition of reference architecture models, access interfaces but also addresses edge node autonomy ...

Recently, IoT usage has grown rapidly. Security risks are rising analogously, though. Our paper introduces an approach to identify and address security threats by applying the PASTA (Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis) threat model to the IoT domain. By adapting PASTA, we optimize the threat analysis based ...