Current Projects

Under the umbrella of the PIDS, research is conducted in numerous projects in the fields of computer science, law, economics and humanities. You'll find a small selection of these projects below.

Awareness, Motivation and Implementation of Data Portability – Enabling Radical and Disruptive Innovation through enhanced Data Portability (amiDaPo)

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides for a basic right to data portability to strengthen the data sovereignty of users and to enable data interoperability between online services. However, the term data portability is rarely known by users of online services, although it brings advantages for them: Data portability describes the possibility of transferring personal data between different providers. This can strengthen data protection and provide better options to choose. In addition to the lack of awareness of users and their lacking motivation to make use of data portability, technical barriers (e.g. standardization, interoperability) make it difficult to transfer data between different service providers. The project addresses these complex problems to make data portability possible for all groups of users. The aim is to investigate how data portability can be implemented most effectively from a psychological, an economic and a technological angle in order to strengthen competition and data-driven innovation.

Project lead:
Prof. Dr. Johann Kranz, LMU München, Professur für Internet Business und Internet Services
Prof. Dr. Susanne Mayr, Universität Passau, Lehrstuhl für Psychologie mit Schwerpunkt Mensch‐Maschine-Interaktion
Prof. Dr. Jens Grossklags, TU München, Professur für Cyber Trust
Project period: 2020 – 2021 (or 2022)
Funded by: Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für digitale Transformation (bidt) der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation)

Multi-Resilience - Resilience in multimodal energy distribution systems (Multi-Res)

Energy distribution systems are increasingly based on the interconnection between different infrastructures (electricity, gas, heat, ICT), transforming them into smart multimodal energy distribution systems (SMEDSs). This mutual interconnection leads to a rising complexity in SMEDs that fosters additional challenges to arise both on intra- and inter-system level. In the project Multi-Resilience, the question how resilience in multiple interconnected infrastructures and their mutual interdependencies can be modeled and how overall resilience can be enhanced is investigated.

For more information, please visit the official project website.

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Hermann de Meer, University of Passau
Funded by: DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

SEMIoTICS

SEMIoTCS (Smart-End-to-end Massive IoT Interoperability, Connectivity, and Security) aims to develop a pattern-driven framework to enable and guarantee secure and dependable actuation and semi-autonomic behaviour in IoT/IIoT applications. The SEMIoTICS framework will support cross-layer intelligent dynamic adaptation, including heterogeneous smart objects, networks and clouds. The project results will be validated by industry, using three diverse usage scenarios in the areas of renewable energy, healthcare, and smart sensing and will be offered through an open API.

For more information, please visit the official project website.

Principal Investigator:Prof. Dr. Joachim Posegga (Chair of IT-Security)
Project Period: 01.02.2018 - 31.12.2020
Funded by: European Union (EU) > EU - 8th Research Framework Programme (Horizon 2020)

UNICARagil – Disruptive Modular Architectures for Agile, Automated Vehicle Concepts

UNICARagil is a collaborative project carried out by a consortium of seven German universities and six industrial partners, with funding provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany. In the scope of this project, disruptive modular structures for agile, automated vehicle concepts are researched and developed. Four prototype vehicles of different characteristics based on the same modular platform are going to be build up over a period of four years. The four fully automated and driverless vehicles demonstrate disruptive architectures in hardware and software, as well as disruptive concepts in safety, security, verification and validation.

The Chair of Computer Engineering is responsible for the development of a security concept such that attacks on the autonomous vehicles cannot be carried out easily. We aim to integrate security aspects already during design phase. In this way, we guarantee that our measures become an integral part of the future vehicle.

For more information, please visit the official project website

Project leader in Passau: Prof. Dr. Stefan Katzenbeisser
Project period: 01.09.2019 - 31.01.2022
Funded by: BMBF - Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung