TY - CHAP A1 - Ye Tao, A1 - Guozhu Liu, A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Hackenberg, Rudolf A1 - Hagel, Georg T1 - Just-in-Time-Teaching experience in a Software Design Pattern course T2 - 2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 18-20 March 2015, Tallinn, Estonia Y1 - 2015 SP - 915 EP - 919 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Martin, Felix A1 - Sailer, Andreas A1 - Deubzer, Michael A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Automatische Multicore-Echtzeitvalidierung – Ein Prozess für modellbasierte Softwareentwicklung T2 - Tagungsband 8th Embedded Software Engineering Kongress (ESE), 30.11. - 04.12.2015, Sindelfingen Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Beslmeisl, Magdalena A1 - Schroll-Decker, Irmgard A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Turning to adaption through exploration in the education of Software Engineering T2 - Proceedings of the Exploring Teaching for Active Learning in Engineering Education (ETALEE), 11 - 12 November 2015, Copenhagen Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Martin, Felix A1 - Sailer, Andreas A1 - Deubzer, Michael A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Automation of a Closed Loop Model-Based Development Process T2 - Applied Research Conference 2015 (ARC 2015), 3rd July 2015, Nürnberg Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Beslmeisl, Magdalena A1 - Schroll-Decker, Irmgard A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Application of a Reflective Learning Approach in Software Engineering. Circularity as a relevant characteristic of a reflective teaching and learning approach T2 - European Conference of Software Engineering Education (ECSEE2016), 30 June and 1 July 2016 in Seeon Monastery, Germany N2 - The pedagogic motivation of this contribution is to develop, to adapt and to examine a specific tertiary teaching-learning situation and its changes due to a constant reflection. Within the scope of the BMBF fostered project " EVELIN " the learning teaching-Arrangement (TLA) " The Online Learning Journal (OLJ) – a tool complementing the software engineering lecture " is realized a second time at the OTH Regensburg. This further development is examined from a pedagogic perspective. This paper deals with issues concerning the conscious modification of specific teaching actions, therefore the changes of the teachers' attitude as well as the reaction of the students regarding this teaching actions. Two important findings are: (1) The teaching staff is able to adapt their teaching–actions on given conditions because of the awareness of their own teaching-attitude. (2) Due to a reflective teaching practice, there is a great potential for goal oriented learning in the context of higher education. Y1 - 2016 SP - 19 EP - 33 PB - Shaker CY - Aachen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Soska, Alexander A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Wolff, Christian T1 - An experimental card game for software testing: Development, design and evaluation of a physical card game to deepen the knowledge of students in academic software testing education T2 - IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 10-13 April 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE N2 - Teaching software testing is a challenging task. Especially if you want to impart more in-depth and practical knowledge to the students. Therefore, most lectures still teach in a classic lecture format despite the fact that this way of instruction is in any case the optimal way of instruction for today's requirements anymore. In this paper we present our implementation of an active learning method to deepen the knowledge in academic software test education. We describe a card game for advanced learning that promotes students' collaboration and knowledge exchange in a playful and competitive manner. The design of the game is based on constructive and cooperative theories. A subsequent evaluation shows that the use of this card game for teaching software testing is a suitable method. KW - software testing KW - playful learning KW - game-based learning KW - card game Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2016.7474609 SP - 576 EP - 584 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Nivala, Markus A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Gruber, Hans T1 - Developing visual expertise in software engineering: An eye tracking study T2 - IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 10-13 April 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE N2 - Program comprehension and the ability to find program errors are key skills of software engineering. The aim of this pilot study was to examine the visual processes of novice and advanced programmers in authentic tasks. Fifteen novices and eight advanced programmers were given eight short pieces of code. Their task was to either identify an error or give the output of the code. Eye movements and keyboard activity were recorded. On average, the novices spent more time reading the code than composing the response, whereas the more advanced programmers started composing the response sooner and spent more time on it. In general, the advanced programmers had shorter fixations and saccades. The results suggest that the advanced programmers are quicker to grasp the essence of the code and able to see more details in it. The advanced programmers had shorter fixations and saccade lengths during the second phase which might indicate the process of chunking. KW - program comprehension KW - debugging KW - software engineering KW - visual expertise KW - eye tracking Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2016.7474614 SP - 613 EP - 620 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Soska, Alexander A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Wolff, Christian T1 - A Study on Cognitive Decits in Learning to Program T2 - European Conference of Software Engineering Education (ECSEE2016), 30 June and 1 July 2016 in Seeon Monastery, Germany N2 - For many students learning to program is a crucial task. In this research, we took a glance into the current literature and identified most ocurring cognitive deficits. Thereby we identified three elements that apear most significant throughout the study. We think that these deficits are fundamental basics for learning how to program. The stu-dents' education of cognitive abilities in programming needs revision and should receive far more training. In future research we want to establish a guideline for promoting these deficits through adequate teaching and learning arrangements in pre-programming education. Y1 - 2016 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304988534_A_Study_on_Cognitive_Deficits_in_Learning_to_Program SP - 209 EP - 214 PB - Shaker CY - Aachen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Beslmeisl, Magdalena A1 - Reuter, Rebecca A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Auer, M. ED - Guralnick, D. ED - Uhomoibhi, J. T1 - Importance of Writing in Software Engineering Education T2 - Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2016, proceedings of the 19th ICL Conference, Volume 1 N2 - In this paper we present our first steps in defining the type, scope and relevance of writing in higher education of software engineering. We aim to identify lacks of scientific research and raise a new and necessary research interest to push research in this area. First we clarify the relevance of writing in higher education in general. In a second step we highlight the relevance of writing in the domain of software engineering in particular. Soft skills to be taught to students of engineering professions and especially to software engineering students are highly discussed. We discuss the skill of writing from a theoretical view as well as reasons for the high relevance of this skill for future engineers. An obligation of teaching writing in the higher education is formulated. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50337-0_29 SP - 315 EP - 321 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sailer, Andreas A1 - Deubzer, Michael A1 - Lüttgen, Gerald A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Comparing Trace Recordings of Automotive Realtime Software T2 - RTNS '17: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems, Grenoble, France, IEEE N2 - The process of engineering models of existing real-time system components is often difficult and time consuming, especially when legacy code has to be re-used or information about the exact timing behaviour is needed. In order to tackle this reverse engineering problem, we have developed the tool CoreTAna. CoreTAna derives an AUTOSAR compliant model of a real-time system by conducting dynamic analysis using trace recordings. Motivated by the challenge of assessing the quality of reverse engineered models of real-time software, we present a novel mathematical measure for comparing trace recordings from embedded real-time systems regarding their temporal behaviour. We also introduce a benchmark framework based on this measure, for evaluating reverse engineering tools such as CoreTAna. This considers common system architectures and also includes randomly generated systems and three systems of industrial automotive projects. Finally, an industrial case study demonstrates other use cases of our measure, such as impact analysis. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3139258.3139265 SP - 118 EP - 127 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sailer, Andreas A1 - Deubzer, Michael A1 - Lüttgen, Gerald A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - CoreTAna: A Trace Analyzer for Reverse Engineering Real-Time Software T2 - IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER), March 14 to March 18 2016, Suita, Osaka, Japan N2 - With the availability of the AUTOSAR standard, model-driven methodologies are becoming established in theautomotive domain. However, the process of creating models ofexisting system components is often difficult and time consuming, especially when legacy code has to be re-used or informationabout the exact timing behavior is needed. In order to tackle thisreverse engineering problem, we present CoreTAna, a novel toolthat derives an AUTOSAR compliant model of a real-time systemfrom a dynamic analysis of its trace recordings. This paper givesan overview of CoreTAna's current features and discusses itsbenefits for reverse engineering. KW - AUTOSAR KW - tracing KW - profiling KW - timing model KW - reverse engineering Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER.2016.36 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Haas, Kerstin A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Research oriented learning in a research association - Evaluated in a maturity model T2 - Teaching and Learning in a Digital World, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), September 27 to 29, 2017, in Budapest, Hungary - Volume 1 N2 - Research-oriented learning provides students the opportunity to develop their research competences by experiencing research practice, this often happens in the surrounding of research associations with different universities and companies. This paper introduces a two-step approach to evaluate the research-oriented learning within a research association. First we conduct the evaluation of the research environment with the instrument of the adapted Collaboration Maturity Model (Col-MM) to see whether the collaboration network and the management is able to support the students in their learning process. Additionally, we take into account the evaluation of the students’ research competence. This approach targets the assessment of the starting conditions of the students and to compare their performance level until the end of the research association project phase. These two evaluation phases provide the potential to create an ideal research environment and consequently enable the students to develop and improve their research competence. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73210-7_81 SP - 695 EP - 701 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Waegemann, Tobias A1 - Langer, Tobias A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Osinski, Lukas A1 - Stappert, Friedhelm A1 - Tayakoli Kolagari, Ramin T1 - Models for Dependable Heterogenous Multi- and Many-Core System Software Design Revisited T2 - ARCS 2016, 29th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, 4-7 April 2016, Nuremberg, Germany N2 - Modelling approaches have to satisfy certain criteria in order to sufficiently encompass the characteristics of dependable heterogenous multi- and many-core system architectures. This work-in-progress paper gives an overview of modern modelling approaches and their related research projects, particularly those regarding domain specific architecture description languages, as well as of the specific challenges of dependable systems and heterogenous multi- and many-core designs, i.e. scheduling techniques for real-time requirements and concerns regarding functional safety. Furthermore, an ongoing research effort in order to identify a set of criteria for evaluating the eligibility of modelling approaches for the task of adequately representing these systems and their specific characteristics is presented. Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Merk, Josef A1 - Falter, Thomas T1 - A multi dimensional view of the Graves value systems model on teaching and learning leading to a students-centered learning: Graves model revisited T2 - IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 10-13 April 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE N2 - A cultural change at the university eco-system is possible with diverse learning approaches in faculties. Diverse learning offers will cope with the diversity of students regarding their value systems. Currently teaching at universities is dominated by "teacher-centered teaching", also there are approaches to use different methods to accelerate and intensify the teaching and learning process. Nevertheless these approaches do often not show the desired impact with all students. This paper is offering insights how that comes using the Graves value systems model and is proposing a set of methods which fits to different value systems of students. KW - Graves Value Systems Model KW - Teaching methods KW - Students-centered teaching KW - Inside-outside classroom learning , KW - Scaffolding KW - Cultural set up Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2016.7474600 SP - 503 EP - 512 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tao, Ye A1 - Liu, Guozhu A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Hackenberg, Rudolf A1 - Hagel, Georg T1 - Ranking task activity in teaching software engineering T2 - IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 10-13 April 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE N2 - In this research, we investigate the possibility of applying ranking task activity in teaching and learning software engineering courses. We introduce three types of ranking tasks, conceptual-, contextual- and sequential ranking questions, which cover most core topics such as requirement analysis, architecture design and quality validation in the course. We have also done experiments on a group of students to see if ranking tasks could increase their conceptual knowledge in specific areas. Assessments were given in order to evaluate the effectiveness of this activity, showing an obvious increase in complex conceptual understanding. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2016.7474678 SP - 1023 EP - 1027 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Reiß, Markus A1 - Nivala, Markus A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Gruber, Hans T1 - Eye tracking applied: Visual expertise in code reviews T2 - 9th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, EDULEARN17, 3-5 July, 2017, Barcelona, Spain, Proceedings Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2017.1084 SP - 379 EP - 389 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Haas, Kerstin A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Evaluation of the Research-oriented Learning Environment in a Research Association T2 - 9th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, EDULEARN2017, 3-5 July 2017, Barcelona, Spain, Proceedings Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2017.0872 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Soska, Alexander A1 - Reuter, Rebecca A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Reiß, Markus A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Scaffolding in der Lehre von Design Pattern. Neue Konzepte für anwendungsorientiertes und aktivierendes Lernen T2 - Tagungsband zum 3. Symposium zur Hochschullehre in den MINT-Fächern, 25. / 26. September 2017, TH Nürnberg N2 - Design Pattern sind wiederverwendbare Entwurfsmuster für Probleme in objektorientierten Programmiersprachen. Gene-rell wird dieser Lerninhalt als sehr abstrakt, theoretisch und schwer verständlich beurteilt. Eine durchgeführte Studie mit Studierenden zu den Lernhindernissen während unseres Soft-ware Engineering Curriculums belegen diese Annahmen. Trotz heterogener Studierendengruppe mit unterschiedlichen Vor-kenntnissen, wird das Verständnis der Konzepte von Design Pattern, verglichen mit anderen Lehrinhalten, als die größte Herausforderung angesehen. Zur Verbesserung des Lernens von Design Pattern, wurde aufgrund dieser Erkenntnisse ein Lehrkonzept zur Beseitigung der Lernhindernisse entwickelt. Dieses basiert auf einem angepassten Scaffolding-Ansatz, welcher u.a. durch die systematische Anwendung von studie-rendenzentrierten Methoden die Aneignung von theoretischen als auch praktischen Inhalten sukzessive fördert. Eine anschlie-ßende Evaluation belegt die Wirkungsweise des Lehrkonzepts. Y1 - 2017 UR - https://www.th-nuernberg.de/fileadmin/abteilungen/sll/Dokumente/Hochschuldidaktik/MINT_Symposium/Tagungsband_MINT_Symposium_2017.pdf SP - 112 EP - 116 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Langer, Tobias A1 - Osinski, Lukas A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - A Survey of Parallel Hard-Real Time Scheduling on Task Models and Scheduling Approaches T2 - ARCS 2017; 30th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, 3-6 April 2017, Vienna, Austria N2 - The trend towards multi-core systems becomes increasinglyomnipresentandhasalreadyreachedhardreal-time systems. In the recent years more and more researchers tackle the problem of scheduling parallel tasks with real-time constraints. We present a discussion of these recent approaches to hard real-time scheduling tasks consisting of multiple threads. We identify categories in scheduling mechanisms and task systems and discuss their features, as well as the research already achieved in their ???elds. In the domain of task models we identi???ed the gang constrained task model, the order constrained task model and the unconstrained task model. These task models differ regardingtheamountandtypeofthreadexecutionconstraints, which can be expressed using the model. Regarding scheduling algorithms, we identi???ed transformation based and nontransformation based scheduling schemes. The former rely on off-line task transformation, whereas the latter doesn???t require any prior information about task structures. The presented classi???cations show, that applied scheduling algorithms mostly are not restricted to certain task models, but that they are applied quite independently. Y1 - 2017 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7948560 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Soska, Alexander A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Wolff, Christian T1 - Pattern oriented card game development: SOFTTY - A card game for academic learning of software testing T2 - IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 25-28 April 2017, Athens, Greece N2 - One of the biggest problems of educational games is the adequate integration of learning content into the game environment. Thereby the main challenge is to create a balance between gameplay and learning objectives and the correct transfer of learning principles into the game design. A useful approach is to identify game components and their specific learning constraints and the relationship between each other. By mapping learning elements to Game Design Pattern, we elaborate fundamentals for the concrete game design, focusing on card games. A shared description and an understanding of how the game design aligns with learning content facilitates the development of high quality educational games. A short illustration of our further developed implementation summarizes our experiences and shows an exemplary realization. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7942996 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Osinski, Lukas A1 - Langer, Tobias A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - A Survey of Fault Tolerance Approaches at Different Architecture Levels T2 - 30th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2017, 3-6 April 2017, Vienna, Austria N2 - In the recent years the development trends for computing platforms moved to multicore systems. Associated with this trend, feature sizes decreased with each new hardware generation and consequently led to a rise of transient and permanent error frequency in memory and CPUs. In this context, researchers presented several approaches which exploit the inherent redundancy of multicore platforms to provide fault tolerance. We present a discussion of fault tolerance approaches based on redundancy at different levels of architecture regarding theirsphereofreplication,performanceaswellaserrordetection and recovery capability. Y1 - 2017 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7948561 SP - 1 EP - 9 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Reuter, Rebecca A1 - Beslmeisl, Magdalena A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Work in Progress: Teaching-Obstacles in Higher Software Engineering Education T2 - 8th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2017), Athens, Greece N2 - Software Engineering is very abstract and complex by nature. Teaching Software Engineering in higher education is therefore still a big challenge. Although we implemented inductive teaching and learning methods in our courses for several years, we do not have a panacea. This paper aims to identify the remaining teaching obstacles in our Software Engineering courses with regard to the concrete teaching content. We present first ideas on how to overcome these teaching obstacles by the application of Augmented and/or Virtual Reality techniques with regard to the identified obstacles. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7943067 SP - 1631 EP - 1635 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Reuter, Rebecca A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Gold-Veerkamp, Carolin A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Abke, Jörg T1 - Towards a Definition and Identification of Learning Obstacles in Higher Software Engineering Education T2 - EDULEARN17 Proceedings, 9th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 3-5 July, 2017, Barcelona, Spain KW - Hochschuldidaktik KW - Software Engineering Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-84-697-3777-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2017.0943 SN - 2340-1117 SP - 10259 EP - 10267 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Nivala, Markus A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Jossberger, Helen A1 - Reiß, Markus A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Gruber, Hans T1 - Detecting errors in program flow diagrams: Comparing novices and advanced programmers T2 - EARLI Biennial Conference 2017, 17th European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, 29 August - 2 September, 2017 - University of Tampere, Finland Y1 - 2017 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Reuter, Rebecca A1 - Kuhn, Martina A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - A Two-Sided Approach of Applying Software Engineering Perspectives in Higher Education T2 - Teaching and Learning in a Digital World, ICL 2017, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning - Volume 1 Y1 - 2017 SP - 460 EP - 467 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kampmann, Matthias A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - A ‘laboratory’ as an approach to foster writing skills at software engineering studies learning software engineering is easier when writing courses are directly dpplied to lecture’s content and the problems and examples enrolled in T2 - 2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2018, Santa Cruz de Teneriffe, Spanien N2 - Writing, with no doubt, is besides reading a core competency which allows us to "exploit" knowledge in general. It also makes possible the exploration of software engineering's core issues. Especially within this context it is necessary to master the reading of complex texts as well as to be able to write in an appropriate academic expression. With regard to studies in software engineering this seems to be obvious, but in fact the opposite is the reality. Therefore measures to improve these skills seemed to be necessarily applied. At the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH, University of Applied Sciences, Regensburg) a new format, the so called c*lab, was installed during the winter semester 2017. This was a course which followed the principle of "Writing Across the Curriculum" (WAC). Organized parallel to a lecture of learning how to program the language C, and addressing students of the first semester, the course was a complete voluntary offer in addition to the general standard courses and lectures of the faculty. Students who participated not only reflected on C and its principles, nor only on writing as a self purpose, but they also learned to express technical thoughts and ideas by the use of didactic methods. The idea to transfer also basic LTeX concepts to write a paper based on the IEEE bare_conf.tex-template were also planned. The course followed the idea of student's-centred learning. This paper presents the main structure, goals, and means of the c*lab, and the theory behind. It also embeds the course within the horizon of experiences of teaching writing skills at the Laboratory for Safe and Secure Systems (LaS 3 ) at the faculty of electronic and information engineering at the OTH Regensburg. First experiences have shown that participants increase writing skills and their idea of the importance of writing. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2018.8363326 SP - 900 EP - 908 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Osinski, Lukas A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Control Flow Errors: A Discussion of Different Injection Strategies T2 - 32nd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS Workshop 2019, 20-21 May 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark N2 - Among the available dependability assessment techniques, fault injection (FI) is widely adopted and strongly recommended by safety standards for the validation that functional and technical safety mechanisms are implemented correctly and effectively. The main challenge in fault injection assessments is the increasing complexity of system-on-chips as well as the increasing size of memory, which leads to enormous efforts to test every possible fault introduced to the system. Therefore, a number of publicly available fault injection frameworks utilize fault space pruning techniques to reduce the overall fault space and consequently the overall experiment duration. Most of the fault space pruning techniques mainly discuss the reduction of the number of data errors which have to be injected into registers and memory locations. However, control flow errors represent a further domain of possible errors on the application level. Usually for the evaluation of effectiveness of fault tolerance mechanisms against data errors, a single fault assumption at microarchitectural level (e.g. bit-flips) is assumed. In most cases, this assumption is equivalently applied to the program counter to investigate possible control flow errors. Due to this approach, the error space is consciously or unconsciously reduced to the possible erroneous jump targets that can be reached by a specific set of bit-flips in the program counter at a specified time during the program execution. This approach is considered valid regarding the corresponding fault assumption, but leads to negative effects on the significance of the injection and the resulting effectiveness of the tested fault tolerance mechanism. In this paper, we discuss different strategies for the analysis and injection of control flow errors and the resulting differences by considering the single fault assumption at microarchitectural and application level. Y1 - 2019 UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8836207&isnumber=8836190 SP - 1 EP - 7 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lalo, Erjola A1 - Weber, Raphael A1 - Sailer, Andreas A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Siemers, Christian T1 - On Solving Task Allocation and Schedule Generation for Time-Triggered LET Systems using Constraint Programming T2 - 32nd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS Workshop 2019, 20-21 May 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark N2 - The amount of safety-critical embedded systems in automotive development is heavily growing. Ensuring their reliability not only increases the complexity of functions but also requires determinism at design and execution time, which is considerably challenging to fulfill and verify for multi-core processors. The Logical Execution Time (LET) is recently recognized in automotive industry as an approach for ensuring deterministic functional behavior. However, to decrease the manual design effort and time for deploying such complex systems to multi-core platforms and for ensuring their strict timing and safety requirements, automatic solutions are needed. This work presents a solution for allocating tasks to multi-core processors and generating a time-triggered schedule for embedded systems considering safety, timing, and LET semantics. The approach we propose solves both challenges by defining them as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). To examine our CSP formulation, we use MiniZinc, which is a solver-independent constraint modeling language that can employ a variety of solvers. In a case study, we explore optimizations of an industrial system that are enabled by scheduling and task allocation design decisions. Further, the performance of the proposed solutions is evaluated based on large set of synthetically generated system models. Y1 - 2019 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8836201 SP - 1 EP - 8 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schmid, Michael A1 - Langer, Tobias A1 - Osinski, Lukas A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Parallel Active Object Pattern T2 - 31th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS Workshop 2018,9-12 April 2018, Braunschweig, Germany N2 - With parallel applications becoming more and more popular even in real-time systems, the demand for safe and easyto- use software libraries and frameworks for parallel and concurrent computations is growing immensely. These frameworks usually provide an implementation for different sets of software patterns. A very well known software pattern for concurrency is the Active Object pattern, that allows various threads to have synchronized access to an object in question. This paper presents the Parallel Active Object pattern, which extends the common Active Object pattern to support the use of objects, whose computations are profoundly enhanced by a parallel execution. Furthermore, a C++ software framework is introduced, which implements the Parallel Active Object pattern and thus provides the possibility of using task or data parallel patterns, for example Map, Reduce and Divide-and-Conquer, on the active object's calculations. The proposed framework is evaluated against two other popular libraries, namely OpenMP and Intel Threading Building Blocks. Through utilization of the C++11 standard and template classes a simple user interface is provided, which abstracts the distribution of workloads among the worker threads. By making use of the C++ Standard Template Library the framework can easily be ported to embedded systems and by extending the pattern through real-time capabilities, which ensure a timely and reliable execution of the method requests, the intention of providing the framework for time critical environments is also targeted in the future. Y1 - 2018 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8385426 SN - 978-3-8007-4559-3 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Nagengast, Christian A1 - Osinski, Lukas A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Synchronization Techniques for Parallel Redundant Execution of Applications T2 - 32nd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS Workshop 2019, 20-21 May 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark N2 - In fault tolerant systems, applications are replicated and executed to enable error detection and recovery. If one replica application fails, another is able to take its place and provide the correct results. This concept can benefit from parallel execution on separate execution units. The rise of multicore platforms supports the development of parallel software, by providing the adequate hardware. However, this raises challenges regarding the synchronization of the redundant strings of execution. Replica determinism means that given the same input, identical programs provide the same output. To ensure replica determinism, requirements regarding the synchronization can be split in two domains: data and time. This paper examines the state of the art of synchronization techniques for parallel replicated execution in the context of fault tolerant systems. We analyze the requirements regarding synchronization within the time and data domain and compare different concepts of hardware (multicore, multiprocessor and multi-PCB) and software (processes, threads). Y1 - 2019 UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8836209&isnumber=8836190 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Osinski, Lukas A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - A Multicore Fault Tolerance Approach Based on Coded Processing T2 - Embedded Real-Time Software and Systems Conference (ERST²), Jan 2018, Toulouse/France N2 - Development trends for computing platforms moved from increasing the frequency of a single processor to increasing the parallelism with multiple cores on the same die. Multiple cores have strong potential to support cost-efficient fault tolerance due to their inherent spatial redundancy. This work makes a step towards software-only fault tolerance in the presence of permanent and transient hardware faults. Our approach utilizes software-based spatial triple modular redundancy and coded processing on a shared memory multi-core controller. We evaluate our approach on an Infineon AURIX TriBoard TC277 and provide experimental evidence for error resistance by fault injection campaigns with an iSystem iC5000 On-chip Analyzer. Y1 - 2018 UR - https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02156233 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Reichenberger, Marcus T1 - Use of Static Analysis and Coding Guidelines in embedded Systems Software T2 - 1st Applied Research Conference, ARC 2019, 8 July 2019, Regensburg Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-96409-182-6 SP - 571 EP - 578 PB - Pro BUSINESS ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Osinski, Lukas A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Das FORMUS³IC Forschungsvorhaben im Verbund – Vom Stand der Technik zu neuen Entwicklungen T2 - Embedded Software Engineering Kongress (ESE 2018), 3.-7.12.2018, Sindelfingen, Tagungsband Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Reuter, Rebecca A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Gold-Veerkamp, Carolin A1 - Stark, Theresa A1 - Kis, Juliane A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Abke, Jörg A1 - Meyer, Dany T1 - Towards the construction of a questionnaire for the identification of learning obstacles T2 - 2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2018), 17-20 April, 2018, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain N2 - This paper deals with the identification of learning ob-stacles using the questionnaire method. Therefore, two iterations were proceeded: The first one was part of a survey that was carried out at four lo-cations at universities of applied sciences. We asked students about obstructive facts in general providing items for five learning ob-stacle dimensions that were set up before; emotional/motivational, epistemological/cognitive, didactical, resource-related and meta-cognitive learning obstacle dimensions. After the general part, we asked them to answer the same question, but in relation to the – in their opinion – most difficult learning content. With this question, we aim to get indications regarding to epistemological obstacles. In a second step, we used the “Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire”, which was developed by Pintrich [1] as a basis to develop a questionnaire that extracts learning obstacles. In its original version, the “Motivated Strategies for Learning Question-naire” was intended to measure students’ learning strategies, but, as the obstacle dimensions were partly derived from learning strategy classification, we chose this already validated question-naire [2]. Within this iteration, we could confirm a five-factor structure of the questionnaire that could be mapped to the five be-fore set learning obstacle dimensions. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2018.8363266 SP - 457 EP - 466 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Reuter, Rebecca A1 - Gruber, Hans A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Research competence: Modification of a questionnaire to measure research competence at universities of applied sciences T2 - IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 17-20 April 2018, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain N2 - This paper deals with the validation and modification of the German questionnaire "F-Komp". In its original version, it was intended to measure university students' research competences. In the beginning of this study, there were only a few tools available which were reliable. For the purposes of this study, they were not suitable. At the same time, there was no validated version of the F-Komp available, which made the whole validation process for further usage necessary. This questionnaire is based on a structure, which consist of different skills and knowledge and is focused on measuring research competence in general. The validation and modification of the F-Komp is therefore the aim of our contribution as well as a revised version of the questionnaire. We proceeded an explorative factor and a reliability analysis to do a general evaluation of the tool. Some modifications were done in the questionnaire to make it more suitable to the requirements of technical oriented universities of applied sciences [5]. Our revised version is slightly longer and contains several items to gather data about the participants demographics. The modified questionnaire is based on a more appropriate factor structure. This structure is more practically oriented and pays attention to ethical issues. In future cases, this questionnaire will be used in research oriented courses to measure students' progress in acquiring the knowledge and methods which are necessary to perform as a scientist in different research areas. KW - research oriented teaching KW - research competence KW - competence model KW - modification of a questionnaire Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2018.8363216 SP - 109 EP - 117 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schmid, Michael A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Schoeberl, Martin ED - Hochberger, Christian ED - Uhrig, Sascha ED - Brehm, Jürgen ED - Pionteck, Thilo T1 - Asynchronous Critical Sections in Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems T2 - Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2019, 32nd International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 20-23, 2019, Proceedings N2 - Sharing data across multiple tasks in multiprocessor systems has intensively been studied in the past decades. Various synchronization protocols, the most well-known being the Priority Inheritance Protocol or the Priority Ceiling Protocol, have been established and analyzed so that blocking times of tasks waiting to access a shared resource can be upper bounded. To the best of our knowledge, all of these protocols share one commonality: Tasks that want to enter a critical section, that is already being executed by another task, immediately get blocked. In this paper, we introduce the Asynchronous Priority Ceiling Protocol (A-PCP), which makes use of aperiodic servers to execute the critical sections asynchronously, while the calling task can continue its work on non-critical section code. For this protocol, we provide a worst-case response time analysis of the asynchronous computations, as well as necessary and sufficient conditions for a feasibility analysis of a set of periodic tasks using the proposed synchronization model on a system that preemptively schedules the tasks under the rate-monotonic priority assignment. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18656-2_5 SP - 56 EP - 67 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Weilkiens, Tim A1 - Huwaldt, Alexander A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Roth, Stephan A1 - Willert, Andreas T1 - Modellbasierte Softwareentwicklung für eingebettete Systeme verstehen und anwenden N2 - Die Beherrschung von Komplexität ist eine der größten Engineering-Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Themen wie das „Internet der Dinge“ (IoT) und „Industrie 4.0“ beschleunigen diesen Trend. Die modellgetriebene Entwicklung leistet einen entscheidenden Beitrag, um diesen Herausforderungen erfolgreich begegnen zu können. Die Autoren geben einen fundierten Einstieg und praxisorientierten Überblick über die Modellierung von Software für eingebettete Systeme von den Anforderungen über die Architektur bis zum Design, der Codegenerierung und dem Testen. Für jede Phase werden Paradigmen, Methoden, Techniken und Werkzeuge beschrieben und ihre praktische Anwendung in den Vordergrund gestellt. Darüber hinaus wird auf die Integration von Werkzeugen, funktionale Sicherheit und Metamodellierung eingegangen sowie die Einführung eines modellbasierten Ansatzes in einer Organisation und die Notwendigkeit zum lebenslangen Lernen erläutert. Der Leser erfährt in diesem Buch, wie ein modellbasiertes Vorgehen nutzbringend in der Praxis für die Softwareentwicklung eingesetzt wird. Das Vorgehen wird unabhängig von Modellierungswerkzeugen vorgestellt. Zahlreiche Beispiele – exemplarisch auch auf Basis konkreter Werkzeuge – helfen bei der praktischen Umsetzung. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-86490-524-7 PB - dpunkt.Verlag CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Renner, Sebastian A1 - Pozzobon, Enrico A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Hackenberg, Rudolf T1 - Benchmarking Software Implementations of 1st Round Candidates of the NIST LWC Project on Microcontrollers T2 - 3rd Lightweight Cryptography Workshop at NIST, Gaithersburg, USA N2 - This paper introduces a custom framework for benchmarking software implementations from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Lightweight Cryptography (LWC) project on embedded devices. We present the design and core functions of the framework and apply it to various NIST LWC authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD) ciphers. Altogether, we evaluate the speed of 213 submitted algorithm vari-ants on four different microcontroller units (MCUs), including 32 bit ARM and 8 bit AVR architectures. To allow a more meaningful comparison, we also conduct code size tests on all four boards and RAM utilization tests on one test platform. Y1 - 2019 UR - https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Events/lightweight-cryptography-workshop-2019/documents/papers/benchmarking-software-implementations-lwc2019.pdf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Gegenfurtner, Andreas A1 - Hutzler, Ivonne A1 - Reuter, Rebecca A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Eye movement patterns in source code review T2 - EARLI SIG 17 and 25 Biennial Conference 2018, Cambridge, United Kingdom N2 - This study is based on the work of Uwano, Nakamura, Monden and Matsumoto (2006) who tried to identify programmers’ eye movements in source code reviews by using eye tracking technology. The researchers were able to identify certain eye movement patterns but due to the technical limitations of earlier eye tracking systems and a small sample they could not find a valid proof for their existence. Now, twelve years later, the eye tracking technology has made significant improvements and is able to capture programmers’ reading behavior in an unobtrusive and precise way. Now the goal is to verify the described patterns by using eye tracking data from expert and novice programmers. In the experiment they have to detect errors in six different codes and take part in a retrospective interview. At the moment, data collections are ongoing. At the time of the conference, we will present the results of our analyses. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hutzler, Ivonne A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Reuter, Rebecca A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Gruber, Hans T1 - Will the noun/verb analysis be used to generate class diagrams? An eye tracking study T2 - IATED, 11th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2018), 12-14 November 2018, Seville, Spain Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2018.1103 SP - 505 EP - 514 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Reuter, Rebecca A1 - Hutzler, Ivonne A1 - Gruber, Hans T1 - Eye movement patterns in software engineering – What differs the expert from the novice? T2 - IATED, 11th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2018), 12-14 November 2018, Seville, Spain Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2018.1129 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Baier, Wolfgang T1 - Eye movement patterns im Software Engineering T2 - Forschung 2018 / Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg Y1 - 2018 UR - https://doi.org/10.35096/othr/pub-1382 SP - 48 EP - 49 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Osinski, Lukas A1 - Langer, Tobias A1 - Schmid, Michael A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - PyFI – Fault Injection Plattform for Real Hardware T2 - 31th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS Workshop 9-12 April 2018, Braunschweig, Germany N2 - Today, due to the rapidly evolving technology within the automotive industry, the automation level of cars is continuously increasing. As a consequence, the software code base implementing the automated driving functionality is growing in both, complexity and size. Simultaneously, the semiconductor industry continues with structure and voltage downscaling due to diminishing design margins and stringent power constraints. This trend leads to highly integrated hardware on the one hand, whilst provoking an increase in sensitivity against external causes for hardware faults, e.g., radiation effects or electromagnetic interference. Among the available dependability assessment techniques, fault injection (FI) is widely adopted and ISO 26262 strongly recommends applying it to validate, that functional and technical safety mechanisms are implemented correctly and effectively. We present PyFI (Python backend for Fault Injection), a fault injection backend for the Infineon Aurix TriCore which utilizes an iSystem On-chip Analyzer to inject faults into the application data or instructions that are visible at the assembly level. PyFI allows the injection of bit flips and stuck-at faults in memory and register cells of the hardware which trigger our error symptoms on application level. Furthermore, it implements fault collapsing algorithms to reduce the number of faults and the duration for single experiments by gathering statistics about the static and dynamic application execution. Y1 - 2018 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8385427 SP - 1 EP - 7 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Langer, Tobias A1 - Osinski, Lukas A1 - Schmid, Michael A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Work-in-Progress: Real-Time Scheduling of Parallel Applications with Gang Scheduling T2 - International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) Workshop, 9-12 April 2018, Braunschweig, Germany N2 - Future embedded systems demand increasingly more computation performance, which can only be provided by exploiting parallelism in real-time applications. Due to scheduling and scalability issues, parallelism still is an open issue especially in hard real-time systems. In this work-in-progress paper, we describe and discuss a hierarchical gang-scheduling based approach to address the scalability issue. We use gang scheduling to schedule tasks consisting of multiple kernel level threads. The execution budget provided by the kernel level threads is used for scheduling of user level threads using a lightweight threading library running in user space. Further, the first steps towards an implementation in the realtime operating system kernel Erika OS are described and possible benefits and risks of this approach are shown. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bartel, Alexander A1 - Soska, Alexander A1 - Wolff, Christian A1 - Hagel, Georg A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Burghardt, M. ED - Wimmer, R. ED - Wolff, Christian ED - Womser-Hacker, C. T1 - Entwicklung eines Manifests für spielifizierte Hochschullehre T2 - Mensch und Computer 2017, Tagungsband N2 - In dieser Veröffentlichung präsentieren die Autoren erste Ergebnisse Ihrer Forschungsarbeit an einem Manifest für spielifizierte Hochschullehre. Ausgehend von einer Literaturrecherche über den aktuellen Forschungsstand werden erste Auszüge der aktuellen Arbeit dargestellt, auf deren Basis ein aktiver wissenschaftlicher Diskurs angeregt werden soll. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2017-mci-0277 SP - 299 EP - 304 CY - Regensburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Knietzsch, Marco A1 - Muckelbauer, Daniel A1 - Reuter, Rebecca A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Chova, L. G. ED - Martínez, A. L. ED - Torres, I. C. T1 - Experimental Verification of Indicated Benefits Of Integrating Augmented Reality into Academic Software Engineering Classes T2 - IATED, 11th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2018), 12-14 November 2018, Seville, Spain Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-84-09-05948-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2018.1057 SN - 2340-1095 SP - 243 EP - 252 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Seidl, M. A1 - Krämer, Stefan A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Improving the reliability of an embedded real-time system by applying coded processing T2 - 4th Applied Research Conference, 5th July 2014, Ingolstadt Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-8440-2875-1 SP - 70 EP - 74 PB - Shaker CY - Aachen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hansch, G. A1 - Staudte, Ch. A1 - Gerhager, S. A1 - Hackenberg, Rudolf A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Ziemann, Olaf T1 - Migration path for secure and economic smart power grid devices with transitional smart metering support T2 - Applied Research Conference 2012 (ARC 2012), 25./26. June 2012 Nuremberg Y1 - 2012 SN - 2012 978-3-8440-1093-0 SP - 63 EP - 69 PB - Shaker CY - Aachen ER - TY - GEN ED - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Ziemann, Olaf T1 - 2nd Applied Research Conference 2012 (ARC 2012), 25./26. June 2012, Nuremberg Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-8440-1093-0 PB - Shaker Verlag CY - Aachen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Renner, Sebastian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Trinitis, Carsten ED - Pionteck, Thilo T1 - Towards Key Management Challenges in the Smart Grid T2 - ARCS Workshop 2019 - 32nd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, 20-21 May 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark N2 - The used technology in the power system is subject of great change. Through the use of smart devices, the systems in the power grid get interconnected between each other and remote networks. Especially the remote access to the critical smart grid environment involves new challenges in the area of security. To ensure the transmitted data and the access to the system is secured, cryptographic mechanisms have to be implemented. One critical part in this task is the management of cryptographic keys. This paper explains and defines a set of basic requirements for cryptographic key management in the smart grid. These requirements are derived from challenges present in common corporate environments. Then, basic approaches in the field of key management are stated and evaluated for the applicability in the power system. Different protocols for the implementation of key management strategies are shown and an assessment regarding their suitability for the defined requirements is conducted. KW - Cryptographic key management KW - smart grid security KW - post-quantum cryptography Y1 - 2019 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8836205 SN - 978-3-8007-4957-7 PB - VDE-Verlag CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - De, Sangita A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Brada, Premek ED - Pinker, Jiří T1 - Design Approach to Platform Agnostic Service API Modeling for Interoperability of Cross-enterprise Vehicle Applications T2 - 26th 2021 International Conference on Applied Electronics (AE): 7-8 September 2021, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republik N2 - In the last few years, the collaboration of services between the service-oriented, cross-enterprise vehicle application frameworks has gradually increased to generate novel and more complicated vehicle services for the automotive industry. In these service collaboration scenarios, where heterogeneous application frameworks participate to realize complex vehicle services, a source of discord that emerges is that the service providers must always check, before the service deployment, whether the clients or service consumers on the other side of the communication link are compatible with a given service's API (Application Program Interface). While using standardized templates like ontologies for API's semantic specifications are crucial for a service discovery and semantic interoperability, nevertheless, accessing these service APIs' semantic data using a standardized and understandable syntactical specification template is also equally substantial to ease services interoperability. In fact, such complex service collaboration scenarios motivate this research work which proposes a design approach towards standardized, domain-specific, platform-agnostic semantic and syntactic specification of vehicle services API models. This paper also uses a typical vehicle domain case study to illustrate the design approach and a reference mapping between the platform-agnostic semantics specifications of a vehicle service API ontological model and its corresponding language-neutral, syntactic representation using the OpenAPI standard. KW - interoperability KW - Semantic Web KW - API KW - RESTful KW - ontology Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-80-261-0973-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.23919/AE51540.2021.9542890 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - De, Sangita A1 - Niklas, Michael A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Brada, Přemek T1 - A Semantic Analysis of Interface Description Models of Heterogeneous Vehicle Application Frameworks: An Approach Towards Synergy Exploration T2 - MODELSWARD 2019: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, 20.02.2019 - 22.02.2019, Prague, Czech Republic N2 - As the world is getting more connected, the demands of services in automotive industry are increasing with the requirements such as IoT (Internet of Things) in cars, automated driving, etc. Eventually, the automotive industry has evolved to a complex network of servi ces, where each organization depends on the other organizations, to satisfy its service requirements in different phases of the vehicle life cycle. Because of these heterogeneous and complex development environments, most of the vehicle component interface models need to be specified in various manifest ations to satisfy the semantic and syntactic requirements, specific to different application development environments or frameworks. This paperdescribes an approach to semantic analysis of components interfaces description models of heterogeneous frameworks, that are used for vehicle applications. The proposed approach intends to ensure that interface description models of different service-based vehicle frameworks can be compared, correlated and re-used based on semantic synergies, across different vehicle platforms, development environments and organizations. The approach to semantic synergy exploration could further provide the knowledge base for the increase in interoperability, overall efficiency and development of an automotive domain specific general software solutions, by facilitating coexistence of components of heterogeneous frameworks in the same high-performance ECU for future vehicle software. KW - Application: Framework KW - IDL KW - Semantic: Mapping Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-989-758-358-2 SP - 394 EP - 401 PB - SCITEPRESS ER - TY - CHAP A1 - De, Sangita A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Niklas, Michael A1 - Brada, Premek ED - Trinitis, Carsten ED - Pionteck, Thilo T1 - Semantic Synergy Exploration in Interface Description Models of Heterogeneous Vehicle Frameworks: Towards Automotive Meta Interface Description Model T2 - ARCS 2019: 32nd GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems May 20 - 21, 2019, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Workshop, Proceedings N2 - This The vehicle is evolving to a complex network of heterogeneous subsystems of ECUs, sensors and actuators, each with different computational requirements. These sub-systems are connected via bus systems following different communication paradigms like e.g. signal based or service-oriented communications. This has led to the heterogeneous syntax of describing interfaces even though the semantics of the interfaces are similar. The wide variety of Interface Description Languages (IDLs) in automotive industry hinders partly with the efficient collaboration between different suppliers and the OEMs in the automotive industry. Given this wide variety of automotive IDLs, what could be more beneficial, from a software engineering point of view, is a generic automotive domain specific IDL that can satisfy all the fundamental requirements of the heterogeneous subsystems. This paper describes an approach to compare and correlate IDLs based on semantic similarities of the languages, considering the two aspects: application description and underlying message frameworks used in the different domains of given automotive subsystems. With the exploration of semantic synergies between the IDLs, various domain specific and domain-agnostic frameworks can be compared and correlated. The results can be generalized and abstracted to define a generic Meta IDL which could support use cases like e.g. domain-agnostic functional models and migration of software components between different kinds of automotive subsystems. Y1 - 2019 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8836199 SN - 978-3-8007-4957-7 SP - 63 EP - 70 PB - VDE VERLAG CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Thomeczek, Ludwig A1 - Attenberger, Andreas A1 - Kolb, Johannes A1 - Matoušek, Vaclav A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Trinitis, Carsten ED - Pionteck, Thilo T1 - Measuring Safety Critical Latency Sources using Linux Kernel eBPF Tracing T2 - ARCS 2019: 32nd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems : workshop proceedings, May 20- 21, 2019, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Y1 - 2019 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8836200 SN - 978-3-8007-4957-7 PB - VDE VERLAG GMBH CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmid, Michael A1 - Fritz, Florian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Fine-Grained Parallel Applications in Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems JF - Journal of Systems Architecture N2 - Lately, parallel task models have received much attention in the development of real-time multiprocessor systems, as they allow highly compute-intensive tasks to have shorter deadlines which is very much required in modern reactive systems. However, missing modularity and portability can make parallel programming a cumbersome endeavor. As a consequence, compute-intensive sectors in the desktop and server segment have relied on parallelism frameworks such as Intel Threading Building Blocks, Cilk and OpenMP. These parallelism frameworks, however, are optimized for decent average case performance and consequently, do not meet the strict requirements imposed by real-time systems. In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept parallelism framework which was implemented in particular for soft real-time systems and having tight timing and safety requirements of such critical systems in mind. The proposed runtime system implements static memory allocation in a work-stealing environment that conforms to the strict space and tight probabilistic time bounds of work-stealing schedulers. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance of this framework by conducting multiprogrammed benchmarks on a real-time embedded multicore architecture. KW - Real-time KW - Work-stealing KW - Thread pool KW - Task model KW - Parallel programming Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2022.102393 VL - 124 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiss, Nils A1 - Pozzobon, Enrico A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Matoušek, Václav T1 - Automated Reverse Engineering of CAN Protocols JF - Neural Network World N2 - Car manufacturers define proprietary protocols to be used inside their vehicular networks, which are kept an industrial secret, therefore impeding independent researchers from extracting information from these networks. This article describes a statistical and a neural network approach that allows reverse engineering proprietary controller area network (CAN)-protocols assuming they were designed using the data base CAN (DBC) file format. The proposed algorithms are tested with CAN traces taken from a real car. We show that our approaches can correctly reverse engineer CAN messages in an automated manner. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14311/NNW.2021.31.015 SN - 1210-0552 VL - 31 IS - 4 SP - 279 EP - 295 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - De, Sangita A1 - Niklas, Michael A1 - Brian, Rooney A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Brada, Premek T1 - Semantic Mapping of Component Framework Interface Ontologies for Interoperability of Vehicle Applications JF - Procedia Computer Science N2 - Over the past few years, ontology merging, and ontology semantic alignment has gained significant interest as research topics in automotive application domain for finding solutions to semantic data heterogeneity. To accomplish the complex and novel vehicle service requirements such as autonomous driving, V2X (Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication), etc. the automotive applications involve collaborations of several platform-specific data from heterogeneous enterprises component frameworks and consequently there has been increase in data interoperability issues. At the application component level, data interoperability relies on the semantic alignment or mapping between the various component framework interfaces data models represented as XML schemas (XSD). With the XML schemas being the preferred standard for the interface description exchange between most of the automotive application domain components, however, the data interoperability between the semantically equivalent but structurally different data constructs of multiple heterogeneous XSDs stands as a challenge in the absence of an ontology-based approach. To confront this crucial requirement for data interoperability and to increase in effect the reuse of existing components through their interfaces, we propose an approach to semantically map the various component framework interface data models when expressed as ontology schemas, based on the exploration of semantic synergies. The transformation between XSD and RDF (Resource Description Framework) schema representations and the use of queries over the ontology schemas for semantic mapping are demonstrated including a real-world case study. KW - component KW - interface KW - mapping KW - ontology KW - semantic Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2020.03.151 VL - 170 IS - 2 SP - 813 EP - 818 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schmid, Michael A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Queudet, Audrey T1 - Response Time Analysis of Parallel Real-Time DAG Tasks Scheduled by Thread Pools T2 - 29th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2021): 07.04. - 09 04 2021, Nantes, France N2 - Modern high-end embedded systems nowadays have to process enormous amounts of data. In order to speed up the computations and fully exploit the resources of the underlying hardware architectures, software developers can avail parallelism frameworks such as Intel Threading Building Blocks or compiler extensions as OpenMP. They ease the development of parallel applications by providing interfaces for common parallel design patterns and by internally distributing the work among the workers of a thread pool. However, such frameworks and compiler extensions do not yet support the stringent timing requirements of real-time systems and therefore, an adaption of their computation model to the sector of real-time systems needs to be conducted. In this paper, we address the problem of scheduling parallel real-time directed acyclic graphs tasks on multiprocessor architectures where the subtasks are dispatched among and executed by the workers of a thread pool. In contrast to existing work in the state-of-the-art, we limit the maximum parallelism of real-time tasks not by the number of processors in the system, but by the number of worker threads used in the thread pool of each real-time application. For this model, we derive a worst-case response time analysis for task sets scheduled by a preemptive global fixed-priority scheduler. In order to evaluate the performance of our response time analysis, we further perform schedulability tests on generated task sets and compare the results to existing feasibility analyses in the current state-of-the-art. KW - directed acyclic graph KW - parallel task KW - Real-time systems KW - real-time, scheduling KW - response time analysis KW - thread pool Y1 - 2021 SN - 9781450390019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3453417.3453419 SP - 173 EP - 183 PB - Association for Computing Machinery CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kopp, Felix A1 - Köhler, Thorsten A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Ivanov, Artem ED - Bicker, Marc ED - Patzelt, Peter T1 - Bildgebende Verfahren zur dreidimensionalen Rekonstruktion aus Bildsequenzen basierend auf der Bundler SFM Toolchain T2 - 4. Landshuter Symposium Mikrosystemtechnik : Mikrosystemtechnik als Schlüsseltechnologie der Systemintegration, Tagungsband zum Symposium 12./13. März 2014, Hochschule Landshut N2 - Vorgestellt wird der Structure from Motion (SFM)Toolchain Bundler zur Erzeugung von Punktwolken aus unkalibrierten Kameraaufnahmen und deren Optimierungsmöglichkeiten durch zeitnahe Verfahren zur Interessenpunktextraktion. Das Extrahieren markanter Punkte aus Bildern beinhaltet eines der zeitintensivsten sowie herausforderndsten Aufgaben im dreidimensionalen Rekonstruktionsprozess. Vor allem im Hinblick auf die Integration von Structure from Motion Verfahren auf eingebettete Systeme sind Rechenzeit und Speicherverbrauch von hohem Interesse. Für dreidimensionale Rekonstruktionsalgorithmen ist das Finden akkurater Punktkorrespondenzen von hoher Priorität. Die Anforderungen an Punktdetektor, -deskriptor und -matcher sind dementsprechend hoch. Untersucht wurden die Ansätze zur Interessenpunktextraktion. Hierzu gehören, der von der Bundler SFM Toolchain genutzte, Scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) sowie Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF), Binary Robust Invariant Scalable Keypoints (BRISK) und Fast Retina Keypoint (FREAK). Es wird gezeigt, dass das Ersetzen von SIFT in der Toolchain vor allem durch die binären Deskriptoren BRISK und FREAK zu wesentlich kürzeren Laufzeiten führen kann. Dies ist vor allem für eingebettete Systeme mit eingeschränkter Rechenleistung von Bedeutung. In Bezug auf die Genauigkeit der gefundenen Punktkorrespondenzen übertreffen sowohl FREAK als auch BRISK die nicht binären Ansätze im Anwendungsprofil. Zur Beschreibung von Interessenpunkten sind die binären Ansätze eine sinnvolle Optimierungsmöglichkeit hinsichtlich Laufzeit und Genauigkeit, während der in BRISK enthaltene Detektor nicht an die Performance der nicht binären Alternativen herankommt. Insgesamt betrachtet wurden die besten Ergebnisse (Laufzeit und Genauigkeit) mit den Kombinationen SURF/FREAK und SURF/BRISK erreicht. Die evaluierten Algorithmen(SIFT,SURF,BRISK,FREAK) sollen künftig in der Umgebung einer kompletten 3D-Rekonstruktions-Toolchain getestet und ausgewertet werden. Hierbei ist auch auf die Abhängigkeit von verschiedenen Matching-Verfahren zu achten. Darüber hinaus sollen weitere Optimierungsmöglichkeiten für Anwendungen basierend auf Bündelausgleichung untersucht werden. KW - Bildfolge KW - Bildgebungsverfahren KW - Bildrekonstruktion KW - Bündelung KW - dreidimensionale Struktur KW - Oberflächenrekonstruktion Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-9812696-5-9 SP - 118 EP - 125 CY - Landshut ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bayer, Michael A1 - Noebauer, Josef A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Weiterentwicklung eines portablen OSEK-OS basierten Echtzeitbetriebssystems zu einem konfigurierbaren AUTOSAR-OS T2 - 4. Landshuter Symposium Mikrosystemtechnik, Mikrosystemtechnik als Schlüsseltechnologie der Systemintegration, Tagungsband zum Symposium 12./13. März 2014, Hochschule Landshut N2 - AUTOSAR spezifiziert ein statisches Echtzeitbetriebssystem (AUTOSAR-OS), welches auf die Bedürfnisse der Automobilindustrie zugeschnitten ist. Dabei stellt die AUTOSAR-OS-Spezifikation im Wesentlichen eine Weiterentwicklung von OSEK-OS dar. Die Unterschiede zu einem OSEK-OS sind im Wesentlichen eine erweiterte Programmierschnittstelle für Counter, Schedule Tables zur Abbildung komplexer zeitgesteuerter Abläufe und Stack Monitoring. Der Scheduler arbeitet prioritätsbasiert und unterstützt unterbrechbare und nicht unterbrechbare Tasks. Eine Ressourcenverwaltung mit Priority Ceiling Protokoll verhindert Deadlocks und Prioritäteninversion. Tasks sind entweder als "Basic Tasks" oder "Extended Tasks" konfiguriert. Nach einer kurzen Vorstellung der OS-Spezifikation wird eine darauf basierte Architektur für das Betriebssystem hergeleitet. Die konkrete Implementierung ist aufgeteilt in einen konfigurationsabhängigen Teil und einen statischen Quellcodeteil. Der konfigurationsabhängige Teil wird von einem Quellcodegenerator erzeugt. Der statische Teil wird in einer Schichtenarchitektur erstellt, um eine Trennung zwischen plattformabhängigem und plattformunabhängigem Quellcode zu erreichen, da die hierfür vorgesehene AUTOSAR-Methode nicht ausreicht. Die Portierung des OS auf eine neue Hardwareplattform zeigt, dass nur die plattormabhängige Quellcodeschicht des Betriebssystems geändert werden muss. Bei der Validierung des Betriebssystems wurde neben einem funktionellen Test auch die Performance für charakteristische Aufgaben, wie beispielsweise einem Kontextwechsel, gemessen. Diese Werte werden mit einem kommerziellen, stark optimierten AUTOSAR-OS verglichen. KW - Auftragsverwaltung (DV) KW - Automobilindustrie KW - Echtzeitbetriebssystem KW - Echtzeitsystem KW - eingebettetes System KW - Quellencodierung KW - Systemarchitektur KW - Task-Management KW - Validierung Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-9812696-5-9 SP - 154 EP - 161 CY - Landshut ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gegenfurtner, Andreas A1 - Boucheix, Jean-Michel A1 - Gruber, Hans A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Lehtinen, Erno A1 - Lowe, Richard K. T1 - The gaze relational index as a measure of visual expertise JF - Journal of Expertise N2 - Eye tracking is a powerful technique that helps reveal how people process visual information. This paper discusses a novel metric for indicating expertise in visual information processing. Named the Gaze Relational Index (GRI), this metric is defined as the ratio of mean fixation duration to fixation count. Data from two eye-tracking studies of professional vision and visual expertise in using 3D dynamic medical visualizations are presented as cases to illustrate the suitability and additional benefits of the GRI. Calculated values of the GRI were higher for novices than for experts, and higher in non-representative, semi-familiar / unfamiliar task conditions than in domain-representative familiar tasks. These differences in GRI suggest that, compared to novices, experts engaged in more knowledge-driven, top-down processing that was characterized by quick, exploratory visual search. We discuss future research aiming to replicate the GRI in professional domains with complex visual stimuli and to identify the moderating role of cognitive ability on GRI estimates. KW - eye tracking KW - fixations KW - information processing KW - professional vision KW - visual expertise Y1 - 2020 UR - https://www.journalofexpertise.org/articles/volume3_issue1/JoE_3_1_Gegenfurtner.pdf SN - 2573-2773 VL - 3 IS - March SP - 32 EP - 40 PB - Michigan State University ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Gruber, Hans ED - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Eye Tracking Metrics in Software Engineering T2 - Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference of Software Engineering Education (ECSEE'18); Seeon/ Bavaria Germany, 14.06.2018 -15.06.2018 N2 - This paper aims to provide an overview of the interdisciplinary combination of educational science, psychology, software engineering and the eye tracking methodology. The domain of software engineering is offering great potential for applied eye tracking research and in turn it can benefit from the possibilities of this upcoming technology as well. Nevertheless, software engineering has to struggle with some obstacles. These are namely the different terms, missing guidelines for experimental setups and a lack of common and standardized metrics. If eye tracking should be used in a broader way these problems must be solved. The main purpose of this paper is to list all eye tracking metrics which are relevant for software engineering and to give guidelines to help beginners by avoiding possible pitfalls. Y1 - 2018 SN - 9781450363839 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3209087.3209092 SP - 39 EP - 44 PB - ACM CY - New York, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Thomeczek, Ludwig A1 - Attenberger, Andreas A1 - Kolb, Johannes A1 - Matoušek, Václav A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Unger, Herwig T1 - Betrachtungen zu Latenzquellen und deren Beobachtung in POSIX-Systemen am Beispiel von Container-Runtimes T2 - Echtzeit 2019 N2 - Die am weitesten verbreiteten autonomen Systeme der Zukunft sind aller Voraussicht nach intelligente Fahrzeuge, welche selbständig im Straßenverkehr navigieren und mit der Umgebung interagieren. Diese neuen Funktionen erfordern den Einsatz von performanten Mehrkernprozessoren sowie von komplexen (POSIX-kompatiblen) Betriebssystemen. Gleichzeitig erfordert der Einsatz im Automobil hohe funktionale Sicherheit (ASIL-Level), was unter anderem robuste Echtzeiteigenschaften der verwendeten Hard- und Software voraussetzt. Den Echtzeiteigenschaften steht die erhöhte Komplexität mit neuen Quellen für nichtdeterministische Latenzen gegenüber. In diesem Paper präsentieren wir eine Übersicht über diese neuen Einflussfaktoren, und vermessen anschließend Containerlaufzeitumgebungen und deren Latenzverhalten. Wir zeigen dabei, das Netzwerkbrücken unter Last erheblichen Einfluss (Faktor 4–5) auf die Netzwerklatenz ausüben können. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-658-27807-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27808-3_12 VL - 35 SP - 109 EP - 118 PB - Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Freiling, Felix A1 - Grimm, Rüdiger A1 - Großpietsch, Karl-Erwin A1 - Keller, Hubert B. A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Münch, Isabel A1 - Rannenberg, Kai A1 - Saglietti, Francesca T1 - Technische Sicherheit und Informationssicherheit. Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten JF - Informatik-Spektrum Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00287-013-0748-2 VL - 37 IS - 1 SP - 14 EP - 24 PB - Springer ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Thomeczek, Ludwig A1 - Attenberger, Andreas A1 - Matoušek, Václav A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Latenzen von POSIX Betriebssystemen im Kontext von Hypervisoren in Real-Time Systemen T2 - Echtzeit und Sicherheit - Echtzeit 2018, Fachtagung des gemeinsamen Fachausschusses Echtzeitsysteme von Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft für Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik (GMA) und Informationstechnischer Gesellschaft im VDE (ITG), Boppard, 15. und 16. November 2018 N2 - Neu eingeführte Funktionen in der Automobilindustrie, wie zum Beispiel das autonome Fahren, erfordern den Einsatz von performanten Mehrkernprozessoren sowie von komplexen (POSIXkompatiblen) Betriebssystemen. Im Rahmen des branchenspezifischen Preisdrucks kommt es zudem zu einer Konsolidierung von Steuergeräten. Gleichzeitig erfordert der Einsatz im Automobil hohe funktionale Sicherheit (ASIL-Level), was unter anderem robuste Echtzeiteigenschaften der verwendeten Hard- und Software voraussetzt. Als Folge dessen werden zur Trennung von harten und weichen Echtzeitsystemen auf derselben Hardware Hypervisoren eingesetzt. Dieses Paper beleuchtet die Latenzauswirkungen diverser Softwarekonfigurationen auf Hardware der nächsten Generation mithilfe eines vorgestellten Testsetups und dessen Ergebnissen. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-662-58095-0 SN - 978-3-662-58096-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58096-7_11 SP - 99 EP - 108 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mucha, Matthias A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Krämer, Stefan T1 - Estimation of Worst Case Response Time Boundaries in Multi-Core Real-Time Systems T2 - 2017 International Conference on Applied Electronics (AE), 5-6 Sept. 2017, Pilsen N2 - We address a novel probabilistic approach to estimate the Worst Case Response Time boundaries of tasks. Multi-core real-time systems process tasks in parallel on two or more cores. Tasks in our contribution may preempt other tasks, block tasks with semaphores to access global shared resources, or migrate to another core. The depicted task behavior is random. The shape of collected response times of a task within a processing time is multimodal. Extreme Value approaches need unimodal response time distributions to estimate the Worst Case Response Time of tasks. The new proposed method derives a set of three task set shapes from the source task set. It is used to minimize the uncertainty of random task behavior by maximizing the coverage of possible Worst Case Response Times. The case study evaluates the new proposed estimation method by the use of dynamically generated random tasks with varying task properties. Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-80-261-0641-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.23919/ae.2017.8053598 SN - 1803-7232 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - IEEE ER - TY - JOUR A1 - De, Sangita A1 - Brada, Premek A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Niklas, Michael T1 - The Empirical Evaluation of Semantic Alignment Quality Metrics for Vehicle Domain Component Frameworks Interface Ontologies JF - FLAIRS 2021 : The 34th International FLAIRS Conference. Proceedings N2 - Semantic alignment of application software components’ ontologies represents a great interest in vehicle application domains that manipulate heterogeneous overlapping knowledge application frameworks. In the past few years, with the growth in the novel vehicle service requirements such as autonomous driving, V2X (Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication) and many others, automotive application software component models are becoming increasingly collaborative with other qualified cross-enterprise industrial partners to accomplish these complex service requirements. The most daunting impediment to this cross-enterprise collaboration is semantic interoperability. For efficient services collaboration through cross-enterprise semantic interoperability between the vehicle application frameworks’ software components, aligning the interface ontologies of these components by identifying the depth of semantic alignment relationships between the concepts of the interface ontologies is the major focus of this paper. In contrast to several existing ontology structural metrics, this work defines, evaluates and validates ontology metrics to measure the depth of semantic alignment between the vehicle domain software component frameworks’ interface ontological models. To emphasize the substantial role of semantic alignment of software component frameworks’ interface ontologies in semantic interoperability, a typical vehicle domain case study involving vehicle applications is considered for demonstration. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.v34i1.128512 VL - 34 IS - 1 PB - LibraryPress@UF ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pozzobon, Enrico A1 - Renner, Sebastian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Matoušek, Václav T1 - An optimized Bitsliced Masked Adder for ARM Thumb-2 Controllers T2 - 27th International Conference on Applied Electronics (AE): Sep 6, 2022 - Sep 7, 2022, Pilsen, Czech Republic N2 - The modular addition is used as a non-linear operation in ARX ciphers because it achieves the requirement of introducing non-linearity in a cryptographic primitive while only taking one clock cycle to execute on most modern architectures. This makes ARX ciphers especially fast in software implementations, but comes at the cost of making it harder to protect against side-channel information leakages using Boolean masking: the best known 2-shares masked adder for ARM Thumb micro-controllers takes 83 instructions to add two 32-bit numbers together. Our approach is to operate in bitsliced mode, performing 32 additions in parallel on a 32-bit microcontroller. We show that, even after taking into account the cost of bitslicing before and after the encryption, it is possible to achieve a higher throughput on the tested ciphers (CRAX and ChaCha20) when operating in bitsliced mode. Furthermore, we prove that no first-order information leakage is happening in either simulated power traces and power traces acquired from real hardware, after sufficient countermeasures are put into place to guard against pipeline leakages. KW - ARM Thumb KW - bitsliced KW - side-channel KW - Boolean masking Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/AE54730.2022.9919884 PB - IEEE ER - TY - GEN A1 - Renner, Sebastian A1 - Pozzobon, Enrico A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - 3rd Round Ciphers Evaluation on Microcontrollers T2 - Lightweight Cryptography Workshop (virtual): May 9-11 2022 Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.nist.gov/video/day-1-part-2-lightweight-cryptography-workshop-2022 PB - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) CY - Gaithersburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - De, Sangita A1 - Niklas, Michael A1 - Rooney, Brian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Brada, Premek T1 - Towards Semantic model-to-model Mapping of Cross-Domain Component Interfaces for Interoperability of Vehicle Applications : An Approach towards Synergy Exploration T2 - MDE4IoT & ModComp 2019: Model-Driven Engineering for the Internet of Things (MDE4IoT) & Interplay of Model-Driven and Component-Based Software Engineering (ModComp); joint proceedings of the Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for the Internet of Things (MDE4IoT) & of the Workshop on Interplay of Model-Driven and Component-Based Software Engineering (ModComp); co-located with the IEEE/ACM 22nd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2019), Munich, Germany, September 15 and 17, 2019 N2 - With the increase in demand of services in the automotive industry, automotive enterprises prefer to collaborate with other qualified cross-domain partners to provide complex automotive functions (or services), such as autonomous driving, OTA (Over The Air) vehicle update, V2X (Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication), etc. One key element in cross-domain enterprise collaboration is the mutual agreement between interfaces of software components. In this context, model-to-model mappings of software component models of heterogeneous frameworks for automotive services and to explore the synergies in their interface semantics, have become an essential factor in improving the interoperability among the automotive and other cross-domain enterprises. However, one of the challenges in achieving cross-domain component interface model-to-model mappings at an application level lies in detecting the interface semantics and the semantic relations that are conveyed in different component models in different frameworks. This paper addresses this challenge using a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) based analytical approach to explore interface semantic synergies in the cross-domain component meta-models that are used for automotive services. The approach applies manual semantic checking measurements at an application interface level to understand the meanings and relations between the different meta-model entities of cross-domain framework software components. In this research, we attempt to ensure that interface description models of software components from heterogeneous frameworks can be compared, correlated and re-used for automotive services based on semantic synergies. We have demonstrated our approach using component meta-models from cross-domain enterprises, that are used for the automotive application domain. Y1 - 2019 UR - https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2442/paper8.pdf U6 - https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28765.15840 PB - RWTH Aachen CY - Aachen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Renner, Sebastian A1 - Pozzobon, Enrico A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Li, Wenjuan ED - Furnell, Steven ED - Meng, Weizhi T1 - The Final Round: Benchmarking NIST LWC Ciphers on Microcontrollers T2 - Attacks and Defenses for the Internet-of-Things, 5th International Workshop, ADIoT 2022: Copenhagen, Denmark, September 30, 2022, Revised Selected Papers N2 - In this work, we present our benchmarking results for the ten finalist ciphers of the Lightweight Cryptography (LWC) project initiated by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). We evaluate the speed and code size of various software implementations on five different platforms featuring four different architectures. Moreover, we benchmark the dynamic memory utilization of the remaining NIST LWC algorithms on one 32-bit ARM controller. We describe our test cases and methodology and provide some information regarding the design and properties of the finalists before showing and discussing our results. Altogether, we evaluated almost 300 implementations of the 3rd round candidates and pick the most appropriate and best (primary) implementation of each cipher for our comparisons. We include a variant of AES-GCM in our benchmarking in order to be able to compare the state-of-the-art to the novel LWC ciphers. Our research gives an overview over the performance of the latest software implementations of the NIST LWC finalists and shows under which circumstances which candidate is performing the best in our individual test cases. Additionally, we make all benchmarking results, the code for our test framework and every tested implementation available to the public to ensure a transparent testing process. Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-031-21311-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21311-3_1 SP - 1 EP - 20 PB - Springer Nature CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Renner, Sebastian A1 - Pozzobon, Enrico A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Li, Wenjuan ED - Furnell, Steven ED - Meng, Weizhi T1 - Evolving a Boolean Masked Adder Using Neuroevolution T2 - Attacks and Defenses for the Internet-of-Things, 5th International Workshop, ADIoT 2022: Copenhagen, Denmark, September 30, 2022, Revised Selected Papers N2 - The modular addition is a popular building block when designing lightweight ciphers. While algorithms mainly based on the addition can reach very high performance, masking their implementations results in a huge penalty. Since efficient protection against side-channel attacks is a requirement in lots of use cases, we focus on optimizing the Boolean masking of the modular addition. Contrary to recent related work, we target evolving a masked full adder instead of parts of a parallel prefix adder. We study how techniques typically found in neural network evolution and genetic algorithms can be adapted in order to help in evolving an efficiently masked adder. We customize a well-known neuroevolution algorithm, develop an optimized masked adder with our new approach and implement the ChaCha20 cipher on an ARM Cortex-M3 controller. We compare the performance of the protected neuroevolved implementation to solutions found by traditional search methods. Moreover, the leakage of our new solution is validated by a t-test conducted with a leakage simulator. We present under which circumstances our masked implementation outperforms related work and prove the feasibility of successfully using neuroevolution when searching for complex Boolean networks. Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-031-21310-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21311-3_2 SP - 21 EP - 40 PB - Springer Nature CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - De, Sangita A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Brada, Premek ED - Miraz, M.H. ED - Southall, G. ED - Ali, Maaruf ED - Ware, A. T1 - Evaluation of Semantic Interoperability of Automotive Service API Models Based on Metamodels Similarity Metrics Using a Semi-automated Approach T2 - iCETiC 2022 : 5th International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computing 2022: Aug 15, 2022 - Aug 16, 2022, Chester, UK N2 - In recent years, mapping of application software components’ ontologies semantically emerged as a big research challenge in automotive application domain that manipulates several cross-enterprise synergy knowledge application frameworks. The same knowledge formalized by different experts in different vehicle application frameworks leads to heterogeneous representations of components’ interface data. Consequently, this causes the most daunting impediment in semantic interoperability between the service components in cooperative automotive systems. From a modeling perspective, in the absence of standardized domain-based unified modeling techniques, the orchestration and resolution of semantic data interoperability between various vehicle application frameworks’ components’ interface models remain a challenge. However, this challenge could be addressed using ontological metamodeling by specifying semantic associations between components’ interface model concepts based on the domain knowledge. Apart from the semantic mapping of interface ontological metamodels, this work also defines quality metrics to determine the degree of semantic alignment achieved between the various interface ontologies. Additionally, to reduce development time and cost towards semantic interoperability, this work proposes a semi-automated plugin tool for the applicability of the evaluated quality metrics to semantic mapping of real-world components’ interface models. KW - Framework KW - Interface KW - Metamodel KW - Metrics KW - Ontology KW - Semantic Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25161-0_2 SP - 14 EP - 28 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Evaluating Graph-based Modeling Languages T2 - Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Software Engineering Education, Seeon/Germany, June 19 - 21, 2023 N2 - As humans, we tend to use models to describe reality. Modeling languages provide the formal frameworks for creating such models. Usually, the graphical design of individual model elements is based on subjective decisions; their suitability is determined at most by the prevalence of the modeling language. With other words: there is no objective way to compare different designs of model elements. The present paper addresses this issue: it introduces a systematic approach for evaluating the elements of graph-based modeling languages comprising 14 criteria – derived from standards, usability analyses, or the design theories ‘Physics of Notations’ and ‘Cognitive Dimensions of Notations’. The criteria come with measurement procedures and evaluation schemes based on reasoning, eye tracking, and questioning. The developed approach is demonstrated with a specific use case: three distinct sets of node elements for causal graphs are evaluated in an eye tracking study with 41 subjects. Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-1-4503-9956-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3593663.3593664 SP - 120 EP - 129 PB - ACM ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Something Short Gets Even Shorter: Adapting the LIST-K for the Use in an Online Learning Management System T2 - Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Software Engineering Education, Seeon/Germany, June 19 - 21, 2023 N2 - This study examines how Klingsieck’s LIST-K questionnaire [22] can be shortened and adapted to the requirements of an online learning management system. In a study with 213 participants, the questionnaire is subjected to an exploitative factor analysis. In a next step, the results are evaluated in terms of their reliability. This process creates a modified factor structure for the LIST-K, comprising a total of eight factors. The reliability of the modified questionnaire is at an α of .770. The shortened version of the LIST-K questionnaire is currently being used on an experimental basis in different courses. Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-1-4503-9956-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3593663.3593684 SP - 65 EP - 72 PB - ACM ER - TY - JOUR A1 - De, Sangita A1 - Premek, Brada A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Derivation of Optimized Threshold of Semantic Alignment Metrics for Intepretation of Interoperability and Reusability of Cross-enterprise Vehicle Service Interface Models JF - Informatica N2 - Over the past decade, cars have turned gradually into real cyber physical systems. The collaboration of services between the service-oriented, cross-enterprise vehicle application frameworks has increased to generate novel, smart and complicated vehicle services. Consequently, from an interoperability perspective, semantically mapping of vehicle service component’s interface ontological models emerged as a big research interest in automotive application domain that manipulates several cross-enterprise synergy knowledge applications frameworks. The ontological metamodeling lays the foundation for building semantic bridge and exploring semantic associations between service components’ interface models based on the domain knowledge for semantic interoperability. Also, several semantic quality metrics has been defined over time for the vehicle service interface ontological metamodels. The empirically evaluated values of these metrics can be used to assess progress in cross-enterprise interoperability between the service and the clients’ APIs ontological models in vehicle domain. Despite potential benefits of semantic alignment quality metrics, the effective use of these metrics for vehicle service interface ontologies have proven elusive. Yes, such metrics can be used successfully for quantification, but then they mostly fail to provide adequate annotations in subsequent decision-making in the direction of semantic interoperability and reusability. The effective use of ontology semantic alignment quality metrics is basically hindered in the absence of the meaningful thresholds. In fact, the absence of an effective and meaningful threshold for the semantic similarity measure between various vehicle service interface ontological metamodels, motivates this research work which not only proposes a design approach to an optimized threshold for the semantic similarity metrics but also applies this threshold on few defined semantic alignment quality metrics. This paper also uses a real-world vehicle domain industrial case study to illustrate the design approach. KW - interface KW - automotive services KW - semantic KW - metrics KW - optimized threshold KW - framework KW - metamodels KW - ontologies Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.31449/inf.v47i7.4739 SN - 0350-5596 VL - 47 IS - 7 PB - Slovenian Society Informatika ER - TY - INPR A1 - Linz, Tilo A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Application of Causal Models in Scenario-based Testing N2 - This paper presents a new methodology for scenario-based testing of automated driving functions in the context of ISO 21448 (safety of the target function). By using structural causal models (SCMs), the evaluation process of highly automated vehicle systems is to be improved, thus increasing their safety and reliability. Using SCMs, the presented methodology systematically analyzes causal relationships between various risk factors of the investigated system and its operating environment and automatically identifies potential parameter combinations that influence system safety. This approach makes it possible to safeguard automated driving functions, such as an emergency brake assistant, by determining foreseeable risks and providing them as test parameters for relevant scenarios. The HolmeS3 approach combines expert knowledge with probabilistic data analysis to develop robust causal models that can be validated through both simulation and real-world testing. The use of causal inference enables the generation of critical test cases, known as "edge and corner cases", which are essential for testing vehicle systems under investigation. This focused testing approach helps to limit the test case explosion that occurs with conventional approaches by specifically identifying highly relevant parameter combinations that potentially (negatively) influence system performance. The methodology presented, which was developed as part of the HolmeS3 R&D project, offers transparency, comparability, explainability and traceability in the modeling and testing processes. It supports compliance with the ISO 21448 standard and lays the foundation for the causality-driven development of safe and reliable automotive technology. The project's tools and methods can be applied beyond the automotive sector to all cyber-physical systems that require rigorous safety validation. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34160.06402 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Frauenschläger, Tobias A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Problems and New Approaches for Crypto-Agility in Operational Technology T2 - 12th European Congress Embedded Real Time Systems (ERTS 2024), 11-12 June 2024, Toulouse, France N2 - In recent years, cybersecurity has also become relevant for Operational Technology (OT). Critical systems like industrial automation systems or transportation systems are faced with new threats, and therefore require the implementation of thorough security measures. Regulations further mandate the deployment and regular verification of these security measures. However, OT systems differ from well-known systems of classic Information Technology (IT), such as mission times spanning decades, infrequent updates only during on-site maintenance, or diverse devices with varying support for security measures. The growing field of crypto-agility examines approaches to integrate security measures in an agile and flexible way, making updates easier and, therefore, encouraging a more frequent deployment of them. This paper contributes to this research field in the context of secure communication in two ways. We first examine the current state of crypto-agility by providing an overview of existing measures for OT systems. Then, we propose a new architecture concept with different deployment approaches to integrate security measures in a crypto-agile way. Based on a security library with a generic interface and a flexible proxy application, our architecture is capable of securing both new OT systems and existing ones via retrofit. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383709526_Problems_and_New_Approaches_for_Crypto-Agility_in_Operational_Technology ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schwind, Philipp A1 - Frauenschläger, Tobias A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Implementation of a Bump-in-the-Wire Security Gateway T2 - Proceedings of the 12th Prague Embedded Systems Workshop, June 27 - 29, 2024, Horoměřice, Czech Republic N2 - In the face of escalating cyber threats, the integration of Operational Technology (OT) with Information Technology (IT) systems presents heightened vulnerabilities to critical infrastructures. This paper focuses on the need for cybersecurity, showcasing the design and implementation of a security gateway to achieve bump-in-the-wire security between two units to be protected (assets). For that, each asset is assigned one security module that safeguards its communication paths. To ease bump-in-the-wire capability, the communication between the asset and the security-gateway must be stateless and operate on OSI layer 2. This is necessary to safeguard the whole communication bandwidth, regardless of the used protocols. For this objective, Linux-based packet sockets are used. An encrypted tunnel is established between two security gateways using the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol. The results show that the implemented solution is capable of securing the asset’s network traffic without the need of any modifications. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://pesw.fit.cvut.cz/2024/PESW_2024.pdf SN - 978-80-01-07303-2 SP - 26 EP - 35 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Horn, Luca A1 - Frauenschläger, Tobias A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Integration and Evaluation of Different FPGA based Hardware Accelerators for the AES Algorithm in the TLS Protocol to be Used in Critical Automation Systems T2 - 4. Symposium Elektronik und Systemintegration, Tagungsband: Symposium am 17. April 2024 Hochschule Landshut N2 - This thesis addresses the challenges of hardware-assisted cryptography in the context of automation systems in critical infrastructures. While hardware accelerators enhance cryptographic calculations in both performance and security, their permanence poses issues in adapting to evolving security concerns. To overcome this problem, we integrated and evaluated a hardware accelerator for the AES algorithm on an FPGA within a TLS application, comparing its performance with other accelerators. Employing a hybrid FPGA-CPU processor system, this setup achieves over 800 Mbit/s data rates, showcasing a more than 27 times acceleration in TLS transmissions compared to purely software-based solutions. The FPGA's flexibility and upgradability therefore make it an ideal platform for critical infrastructure, ensuring longevity and superior acceleration in TLS data transfers. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www.haw-landshut.de/static/ITZ/Bilder/Cluster_MST/ESI_Symposium/ESI_2024/Tagungsband/1B2_Frauenschlaeger_OTH-R_TB-ESI2024_s18-27.pdf SN - 978-3-9818439-9-6 SP - 18 EP - 27 PB - Hochschule Landshut CY - Landshut ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Gruber, Hans T1 - Visual Expertise in Code Reviews: Using Holistic Models of Image Perception to Analyze and Interpret Eye Movements T2 - ETRA '23: 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, Tubingen Germany 30 May 2023- 2 June 2023 N2 - This study uses holistic models of image perception to analyze and interpret eye movements during a code review. 23 participants (15 novices and 8 experts) take part in the experiment. The subjects’ task is to review six short code examples in C programming language and identify possible errors. During the experiment, their eye movements are recorded by an SMI 250 REDmobile. Additional data is collected through questionnaires and retrospective interviews. The results implicate that holistic models of image perception provide a suitable theoretical background for the analysis and interpretation of eye movements during code reviews. The assumptions of these models are particularly evident for expert programmers. Their approach can be divided into different phases with characteristic eye movement patterns. It is best described as switching between scans of the code example (global viewing) and the detailed examination of errors (focal viewing). Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3588015.3589189 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - ACM ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pozzobon, Enrico A1 - Weiß, Nils A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Matoušek, Václav T1 - An evolutionary fault injection settings search algorithm for attacks on safe and secure embedded systems JF - Neural Network World (NNW) Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14311/NNW.2023.33.020 VL - 33 IS - 5 SP - 357 EP - 374 PB - Czech Technical University in Prague ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Füreder, Lukas A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Assessment of a MACsec-based Security System for Use in Critical Infrastructure Communication T2 - Proceedings of the 12th Prague Embedded Systems Workshop, June 27 - 29, 2024, Horoměřice, Czech Republic N2 - This paper investigates the integration of Media Access Control Security (MACsec) into the communication of critical infrastructure, specifically within power grid applications, such as Substation Automation Systems (SAS) using the IEC 61850 standard. Building on the principles of both standards, this study aims to determine if MACsec can meet the security and performance requirements set by IEC 62351 for power system communications. Furthermore, a test environment containing a number of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) supporting communication compliant to all IEC 61850 message types is established to evaluate this integration. The results of the measurements executed in this environment indicate that MACsec could secure all types of messages, such as Manufacturing Message Specification (MMS), Sampled-Value (SV) and Generic Object Oriented Substation Events (GOOSE), within the required time periods without significant delays. Even with additional encryption activated in the cipher suite, the resulting transmission times are well below the required times. This suggests that MACsec can enhance the security goals for industrial communication by providing confidentiality in addition to the already mandated assurance of authenticity and integrity to all messages without compromising performance. Only the requirement for end-to-end security cannot be met by MACsec in this configuration, as the security system re-encrypts with every hop of the transmission. For this reason, we propose a hybrid approach of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and MACsec as part of future work. KW - MACsec KW - IEC61850 KW - IEC62351 KW - GOOSE KW - Secure Communication Y1 - 2024 UR - https://pesw.fit.cvut.cz/2024/PESW_2024.pdf SN - 978-80-01-07303-2 SP - 51 EP - 59 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bittner, Dominik A1 - Hendricks, Ricky-Ricardo A1 - Horn, Luca A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - In-depth Benchmarking of Transfer Learning Techniques for Improved Bottle Recognition T2 - 2023 IEEE 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems (ICPRS), Guayaquil, Ecuador, 04-07 July 2023 N2 - An immense diversity in bottle types requires high accuracy during sorting for recycling purposes by breweries. This extremely complex and time-consuming procedure can result in enormous additional costs for them. This paper presents transfer learning-based algorithms for classifying beer bottle brands using camera images, applicable in individual sorting solutions for different use cases. The problem is tackled using customised EfficientNet, InceptionResNet and VGG models along with an augmented dataset. In addition, a detailed analysis of different model and parameter combinations is performed, enabling tailor-made technologies for specific conditions and resource limitations. In accompanying validations and subsequent tests, a test accuracy of 100% in the recognition of beer brands could be achieved, proving the proposed method fully contributes to the solution of the problem. KW - Analytical models KW - Costs KW - Transfer learning KW - Benchmark testing KW - Cameras KW - Pattern recognition KW - Recycling Y1 - 2023 SN - 979-8-3503-3337-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPRS58416.2023.10178995 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Röhrl, Simon A1 - Staufer, Susanne A1 - Nadimpalli, Vamsi Krishna A1 - Bugert, Flemming A1 - Bugert, Flemming A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Bittner, Dominik A1 - Ezer, Timur A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - PYTHIA - AI SUGGESTED INDIVIDUAL LEARNING PATHS FOR EVERY STUDENT T2 - INTED2024 Proceedings: 18th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain. 4-6 March, 2024 N2 - During the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of digital course rooms, where teachers provide their learning materials, increased dramatically. While these platforms are crucial for providing teaching materials, they often fall short in addressing individual student needs. A system within an academic setting, capable of creating and presenting individual learning paths for each student, can solve these issues. These paths are composed of various learning elements - defined in our previous work as units of educational content with which a learner works. Currently, there is no suitable system that enables the integration of learning path generating algorithms into a digital course room. Therefore we present an application that enables this integration into the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS). More precisely, this paper presents a Moodle plugin together with its framework. It describes the mechanism for effectively collecting data from Moodle, which AI algorithms then use to generate personalized learning paths. Subsequently these paths are visualized with the help of the Moodle plugin. We started with a set of requirements and use cases for the interface connecting Moodle to the AI system, which were established with a group of experts. Based on the requirements, various relevant technologies were assessed, and the best ones were chosen for implementation. Following that, the paper develops a strategy for software structuring as well as an architecture, focusing on performance, modularity, and ease of deployment for widespread use. Furthermore, the architecture ensures a simple method for integrating the algorithms. Afterwards, the framework's concrete implementation is described. A technique for enriching learning elements with metadata is presented, and additionally a concept for presenting these learning elements within a hierarchy. Moreover, it is shown how questionnaire responses and learning analytics are utilized for data collection. We cover in detail techniques for extracting and storing data from the Moodle database, as well as methods for customizing Moodle course rooms and a standard API for incorporating AI algorithms. Finally, the paper discusses the application of the proposed framework in an actual course and how student feedback is collected, which could enhance the framework. It concludes with an assessment of the outcomes obtained and prospects for the framework's future advancements. KW - Personalized Learning Paths KW - Learning Management System KW - Software Architecture KW - Moodle KW - Artificial Intelligence Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-84-09-59215-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2024.0783 SN - 2340-1079 SP - 2871 EP - 2880 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fuxen, Philipp A1 - Schönhärl, Stefan A1 - Schmidt, Jonas A1 - Gerstner, Mathias A1 - Jahn, Sabrina A1 - Graf, Julian A1 - Hackenberg, Rudolf A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - A Cybersecurity Education Platform for Automotive Penetration Testing JF - International Journal On Advances in Security N2 - The paper presents a penetration testing framework for automotive IT security education and evaluates its realization. The automotive sector is changing due to automated driving functions, connected vehicles, and electric vehicles. This development also creates new and more critical vulnerabilities. This paper addresses a possible countermeasure, automotive IT security education. Some existing solutions are evaluated and compared with the created Automotive Penetration Testing Education Platform (APTEP) framework. In addition, the APTEP architecture is described. It consists of three layers representing different attack points of a vehicle. The realization of the APTEP is a hardware case and a virtual platform referred to as the Automotive Network Security Case (ANSKo). The hardware case contains emulated control units and different communication protocols. The virtual platform uses Docker containers to provide a similar experience over the internet. Both offer two kinds of challenges. The first introduces users to a specific interface, while the second combines multiple interfaces, to a complex and realistic challenge. This concept is based on modern didactic theories, such as constructivism and problem-based/challenge-based learning. Computer Science students from the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH) Regensburg experienced the challenges as part of a elective subject. In an online survey evaluated in this paper, they gave positive feedback. Also, a part of the evaluation is the mapping of the ANSKo and the maturity levels in the Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) practice Education & Guidance as well as the SAMM practice Security Testing. The scientific contribution of this paper is to present an APTEP, a corresponding learning concept and an evaluation method. KW - Challenge-based Learning KW - Education Framework KW - Penetration Testing KW - Automotive KW - IT-Security Education Y1 - 2022 UR - http://www.iariajournals.org/security/sec_v15_n34_2022_paged.pdf SN - 1942-2636 VL - 15 IS - 3&4 SP - 106 EP - 118 PB - IARIA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Staufer, Susanne A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Bittner, Dominik A1 - Nadimpalli, Vamsi Krishna A1 - Bugert, Flemming A1 - Ezer, Timur A1 - Röhrl, Simon A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Learning elements in LMS - a survey among students T2 - INTED2024 Proceedings: 18th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain. 4-6 March, 2024 N2 - In higher education, improving learning and learning success are goals of general improvement. Lecturers teaches content and students acquire that content in an efficient way. To structure content, learning element categories are evaluated from the student's point of view in higher education area. The aim is to validate given definitions of ten learning element categories within a Learning Management System (LMS). This paper evaluates a categorization of learning elements for organizing learning content in online education within LMSs. Therefore, ten categories of learning elements and corresponding definitions were defined in a previous work as base for this paper. The learning elements to examine are manuscript, exercise, quiz, brief overview, learning goal, summary, collaboration tool, auditory additional material, textual additional material, and visual additional material. To validate the definitions and to get improvements to each learning element a survey is processed. Beside the demographic data questions, the survey consists of two questions to the acceptance of the definitions and asks for improvements. 148 students between the ages 19 and 35 participate in the survey in summer term 2023. The education level of the participants ranges from undergraduates to Ph.D. students. The results of this paper are that more than 80% accept the given definitions. Some definitions of the learning elements are changed, but the changes are restricted to additions of maximal four words. This categorization of learning elements could lead to improvements in learning by giving the content more structure. With the structure students get the possibility to learn with preferred learning elements which could lead to more success in learning and to a decreasing dropout rate in universities. In the future, the learning elements allow to classify content within LMSs with the goal of generating individual learning paths. Furthermore, our project will integrate these learning elements, use them to generate learning paths, and could set a new standard in the way of personalized learning. KW - Learning elements KW - learning management system KW - learning objects KW - questionnaire KW - higher education area KW - content organization Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-71135 SN - 978-84-09-59215-9 SN - 2340-1079 SP - 4224 EP - 4231 PB - IATED ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Ezer, Timur A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - The impact of eyenalyzer T2 - ICERI2024 Proceedings: 17th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 11th-13th November 2024, Seville, Spain N2 - Empirical research poses numerous challenges for beginners. This is especially true for data analysis – a task that usually requires knowledge from two distinct areas: statistics and programming. To support prospective researchers with that task, we developed a web-based tool called eyenalyzer. It supports common activities in the data analysis phase of empirical studies in a way that is suitable for novices in both, statistics and programming. The present article describes a controlled experiment investigating the impact of this tool with a total of 20 participants. All of them are given a set of common data analysis tasks. Half of the participants complete the tasks using eyenalyzer, the other half can use anything except for eyenalyzer. For each task and participant, we record the time in minutes, the task score, and the perceived difficulty. The results confirm that our tool is a valuable support for novice researchers: With eyenalyzer, the participants are significantly faster, achieve higher scores, and perceive the tasks to be less difficult. KW - tool evaluation KW - data analysis KW - eye tracking KW - empirical research Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-78215 SN - 978-84-09-63010-3 SN - 2340-1095 SP - 695 EP - 701 PB - IATED ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jahn, Sabrina A1 - Weiss, Nils A1 - Akcakoca, Ugur A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Gómez Chova, Luis ED - López Martínez, A. ED - Candel Torres, I. T1 - Under The Hood - A Concept for Virtualized Automotive Security Education T2 - EDULEARN21: Proceedings, 13th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Online Conference. 5-6 July, 2021 N2 - In recent years, our society faced a massive interconnection of computer-based everyday objects, which opens these items for cyber-attacks. Dependent on the physical capabilities, successful attacks can vary from data exposure or a loss of functionality to a threat to life and limb. Connected- and autonomous vehicles are extremely safety-critical systems with a huge damage potential. This global trend, together with existing and upcoming regulations (ISO 270xx, ISO 21434, UNECE WP.29, UNECE R155), and the lack of qualified professionals create a tension field for the entire automotive industry. Hence, new education concepts for engineers of safety-critical and connected systems are necessary to secure our daily and future systems against cyber-attacks and raise awareness and knowledge of the topic of IT-Security. Existing automotive security education systems have one common problem: All systems are hardware-based and therefore have very steep learning curves for beginners. Hardware-based systems, in general, are expensive in their initial costs, require regular maintenance, and add diverse operational difficulties independent of the aspired education goal. Additionally, the global pandemic increased the necessity of virtual education concepts for security training in cyber-physical systems. Therefore, we present a novel concept for the education of cyber-security professionals for automotive systems based on discovery and problem-based learning in a virtual learning environment (VLE). Our concept contains individual exercises focusing on the topics of vulnerabilities and attacks in automotive networks and systems. Each exercise relates those topics to the corresponding security goals and countermeasures for mitigation. The learners work collaboratively in a self-contained manner within the VLE to acquire the necessary information to answer questions or find a solution to the given problem. To consider the heterogeneous background (e.g. knowledge, experience, preconceptions) of the learners, the topics can be presented in different difficulties, enabling an adaptable learning environment and different learning trajectories within the exercises. The concept is based on a VLE, consisting of automotive networks and components, which simulate the behavior of a vehicle. This environment provides a hands-on, "real-life" scenario, which allows discovery and problem-based learning in a realistic, but cheap and scalable education environment. Furthermore, virtualization removes common difficulties, always present in training on real hardware. This aims to decrease complexity, prevent learning obstacles related to hardware handling, and enables a location-independent learning environment. The target group of our education concept is Bachelor and Master students of computer science, engineering (e.g. electrical engineering, mechatronics), or similar studies, and (experienced) engineers from the industry. In summary, our publication contains two contributions. We present an adaptable virtual learning environment for automotive security education, combined with an educational concept based on discovery and problem-based learning techniques. The goals of our concept are the education of cyber-security professionals for safety-critical, connected automotive systems and the support of life-long learning reaching from academic education to training in the industry. KW - automotive systems KW - discovery learning KW - higher education KW - inductive teaching KW - problem-based learning KW - security education KW - virtual learning environment Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-84-09-31267-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2021.1231 SN - 2340-1117 SP - 6109 EP - 6118 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ezer, Timur A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Staufer, Susanne A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - EYE TRACKING AS TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION: FURTHER INVESTIGATION OF DATA QUALITY AND IMPROVEMENTS T2 - INTED2024 Proceedings: 18th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain. 4-6 March, 2024 N2 - Eye tracking serves as a powerful tool across a variety of empirical research areas: From usability research over cognitive research to educational research and applications in classrooms. However, data noise in eye tracking data poses a challenge to researchers and educators, as it leads to gaze positions being measured imprecisely under unfavorable conditions. In our previous study, we systematically investigated factors that influence data quality and are easily controllable in a classroom or laboratory environment, such as illumination, sampling frequency, and head orientation. However, no recommendations regarding the light source and light orientation could be provided, as these influences could not be analyzed in sufficient detail. Yet, a further examination of these factors, eliminating human influences by using an artificial head, revealed significant differences between individual settings. Hence, in this empirical study of eye tracking as an educational technology, we delve deeper into examining the impact of both light source and light orientation on data quality. This is investigated with an artificial head together with the Tobii Pro Spectrum eye tracking device. To measure data quality, we use the metrics precision and standard deviation as indicators of data noise. The obtained results derive practical advice for educators and researchers, such as not to illuminate the subject from the rear, in order to gather useful data for research and future classroom applications. Thereby, this study serves as a complement to our previous research, answering open questions regarding best practices for researchers and educators when using eye trackers. It aims to provide valuable insights into producing data of the highest quality possible when using eye trackers, both in laboratory settings and in future classrooms applications. KW - Eye tracking KW - data quality KW - best practices KW - lighting conditions KW - standard deviation KW - precision Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-84-09-59215-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2024.0802 SN - 2340-1079 SP - 2955 EP - 2961 PB - IATED Academy ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ezer, Timur A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Staufer, Susanne A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - EYE TRACKING METRICS FOR DISTINGUISHING GLOBAL AND FOCAL GAZE PATTERNS: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW T2 - INTED2024 Proceedings: 18th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain. 4-6 March, 2024 N2 - Global and focal eye tracking gaze patterns are distinguished in a variety of domains, such as radiology research, empirical software engineering, behavioral psychology, and cartography research. A global gaze pattern is present if a participant in an eye tracking study gains an overview of the stimulus, whereas a focal pattern emerges during a more detailed evaluation of a specific part of the stimulus. With this higher-level measure of global and focal gaze patterns, cognitive effort, expertise levels, and even neurological characteristics - such as autism - can be quantified. Furthermore, with this measure, cognitive efforts of students in certain tasks can be investigated and clues for targeted support can be provided. These properties in particular make this eye tracking measure valuable for the education domain. In the field of eye tracking research, many researchers have established distinct criteria for differentiating global and focal gaze patterns. Moreover, it is rarely quantitatively measured which of these patterns is present, but rather determined based on qualitative considerations. However, some studies explicitly use quantitative metrics like saccade-length or fixation-duration to distinguish between global and focal gaze patterns. This is the focus of the present systematic literature review: It searches for and compiles the eye tracking metrics used in the literature to distinguish global from focal gaze patterns in a quantitative way. In doing so, this study fills the yawning gap in quantitative metrics for determining global and focal gaze patterns. In the long run, this can be used to answer questions about cognitive load and problems in processing tasks during eye tracking studies and to provide further insights into the cognitive processes of students. The present paper first discusses definitions of global and focal gaze patterns and presents examples in which this metric has already been applied. Then, the research questions together with search strings and search engines used for the systematic literature review are described. Finally, the results are summarized, presenting a compilation of and connections between quantitative metrics utilized in the literature to distinguish between global and focal viewing patterns. KW - Eye tracking KW - cognitive load KW - expertise KW - global KW - focal KW - ambient KW - local KW - metrics Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-84-09-59215-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2024.0814 SN - 2340-1079 SP - 3005 EP - 3014 PB - IATED Academy ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ezer, Timur A1 - Greiner, Matthias A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Gómez Chova, Luis ED - González Martínez, Chelo ED - Lees, Joanna T1 - Eye tracking al technology in education; data quality analysis and improvements T2 - Proceedings of the 16th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2023), Seville, Spain, 11/13/2023 - 11/14/2023 N2 - Eye tracking has proven to be a powerful tool in a variety of empirical research areas; hence, it is steadily gaining attention. Driven by the expanding frontiers of Artificial Intelligence and its potential for data analysis, eye tracking technology offers promising applications in diverse fields, from usability research to cognitive research. The education sector in particular can benefit from the increased use of eye tracking technology - both indirectly, for example by studying the differences in gaze patterns between experts and novices to identify promising strategies, and directly by using the technology itself to teach in future classrooms. As with any empirical method, the results depend directly on the quality of the data collected. That raises the question of which parameters educators or researchers can influence to maximize the data quality of an eye tracker. This is the starting point of the present work: In an empirical study of eye tracking as an (educational) technology, we systematically examine factors that influence the data quality, such as illumination, sampling frequency, and head orientation - parameters that can be varied without much additional effort in everyday classroom or research use - using two human subjects, an artificial face, and the Tobii Pro Spectrum. We rely on metrics derived from the raw gaze data, such as accuracy or precision, to measure data quality. The obtained results derive practical advice for educators and researchers, such as using the lowest sampling frequency appropriate for a certain purpose. Thereby, this research fills a gap in the current understanding of eye tracker performance and, by offering best practices, enables researchers or teachers to produce data of the highest quality possible and therefore best results when using eye trackers in laboratories or future classrooms. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2023.1127 SP - 4500 EP - 4509 PB - IATED ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Homann, Alexander A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - An Eye Tracking Study on MISRA C Coding Guidelines T2 - ECSEE '23: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Software Engineering Education, Seeon/Germany, June 19 - 21, 2023 N2 - C is one of the most widely used programming languages - MISRA C is one of the most known sets of coding guidelines for C. This paper examines the usefulness and comprehensibility of the MISRA C:2012 guidelines in an eye tracking study. There, subjects encounter non-compliant code in four different code review settings: with no additional reference, with an actual MISRA C guideline, with a case-specific interpretation of a MISRA C guideline, and with a compliant version of the code. The data collected was analyzed not only in terms of the four presentation styles, but also by dividing the subjects into experience levels based on their semesters of study or years of work experience. Regarding the difference between actual and interpreted guidelines, we found that for interpreted guidelines the error detection rate is higher whereas the duration and frequency of visits to the guideline itself are mainly lower. This suggest that the actual guidelines are less useful and more difficult to understand. The former is contradicted by the subjects’ opinions: when surveyed, they rated the usefulness of the actual guidelines higher. Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-1-4503-9956-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3593663.3593671 SP - 130 EP - 137 PB - ACM ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bock, T. A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Köhler, Thorsten ED - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Ziemann, Olaf T1 - A gesture-based human-machine interface using stereoscopic depth images T2 - 2nd Applied Research Conference 2012 (ARC 2012), 25./26. June 2012, Nuremberg N2 - Reasonable integration of gesture-based automotive HMI-functionality offers potential safety benefits by reducing driver distractions and glance times to operate tertiary in-car devices. Stereo camera systems are a well investigated choice to perform the task of generating depth data for spatial gesture recognition. This paper describes the functionality of our stereo vision software, which is intended for application in a target system based on CMOS wafer-level cameras. The retrieved point cloud data was passed to a gesture-based sample application. Y1 - 2012 SP - 166 EP - 169 PB - Shaker CY - Aachen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Maier, Robert A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Trapp, Mario ED - Saglietti, Francesca ED - Spisländer, Marc ED - Bitsch, Friedemann T1 - BayesianSafety - an Open-Source Package for Causality-Guided, Multi-Model Safety Analysis T2 - Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, 41st International Conference (SAFECOMP 2022): Munich, Germany, September 6–9, 2022, Proceedings T2 - Lecture notes in computer science ; 13414 N2 - Development and verification of modern, dependable automotive systems require appropriate modelling approaches. Classic automotive safety is described by the normative regulations ISO 26262, its relative ISO/PAS 21448, and their respective methodologies. In recent publications, an emerging demand to combine environmental influences, machine learning, or reasoning under uncertainty with standard-compliant analysis techniques can be noticed. Therefore, adapting established methods like FTA and proper tool support is necessary. We argue that Bayesian Networks (BNs) can be used as a central component to address and merge these demands. In this paper, we present our Open-Source Python package BayesianSafety. First, we review how BNs relate to data-driven methods, model-to-model transformations, and causal reasoning. Together with FTA and ETA, these models form the core functionality of our software. After describing currently implemented features and possibilities of combining individual modelling approaches, we provide an informal view of the tool’s architecture and of the resulting software ecosystem. By comparing selected publicly available safety and reliability analysis libraries, we outline that many relevant methodologies yield specialized implementations. Finally, we show that there is a demand for a flexible, unifying analysis tool that allows researching system safety by using multi-model and multi-domain approaches. KW - Package BayesianSafety KW - Causality KW - Bayesian Networks KW - Event Tree Analysis KW - Fault Tree Analysis Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14835-4_2 SP - 17 EP - 30 PB - Springer Nature CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Maier, Robert A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Urlhart, David A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Seguin, Christel ED - Zeller, Marc ED - Prosvirnova, Tatiana T1 - Towards Causal Model-Based Engineering in Automotive System Safety T2 - Model-Based Safety and Assessment, 8th International Symposium, IMBSA 2022: Munich, Germany, September 5–7, 2022, Proceedings N2 - Engineering is based on the understanding of causes and effects. Thus, causality should also guide the safety assessment of complex systems such as autonomous driving cars. To ensure the safety of the intended functionality of these systems, normative regulations like ISO 21448 recommend scenario-based testing. An important task here is to identify critical scenarios, so-called edge and corner cases. Data-driven approaches to this task (e.g. based on machine learning) cannot adequately address a constantly changing operational design domain. Model-based approaches offer a remedy – they allow including different sources of knowledge (e.g. data, human experts) into safety considerations. With this paper, we outline a novel approach for ensuring automotive system safety. We propose to use structural causal models as a probabilistic modelling language to combine knowledge about an open-context environment from different sources. Based on these models, we investigate parameter configurations that are candidates for critical scenarios. In this paper, we first discuss some aspects of scenario-based testing. We then provide an informal introduction to causal models and relate their development lifecycle to the established V-model. Finally, we outline a generic workflow for using causal models to identify critical scenarios and highlight some challenges that arise in the process. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15842-1_9 SP - 116 EP - 129 PB - Springer Nature CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maier, Robert A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Urlhart, David A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Causal Models to Support Scenario-Based Testing of ADAS JF - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems N2 - In modern vehicles, system complexity and technical capabilities are constantly growing. As a result, manufacturers and regulators are both increasingly challenged to ensure the reliability, safety, and intended behavior of these systems. With current methodologies, it is difficult to address the various interactions between vehicle components and environmental factors. However, model-based engineering offers a solution by allowing to abstract reality and enhancing communication among engineers and stakeholders. Applying this method requires a model format that is machine-processable, human-understandable, and mathematically sound. In addition, the model format needs to support probabilistic reasoning to account for incomplete data and knowledge about a problem domain. We propose structural causal models as a suitable framework for addressing these demands. In this article, we show how to combine data from different sources into an inferable causal model for an advanced driver-assistance system. We then consider the developed causal model for scenario-based testing to illustrate how a model-based approach can improve industrial system development processes. We conclude this paper by discussing the ongoing challenges to our approach and provide pointers for future work. KW - automated driving systems KW - Automation KW - Bayesian networks KW - Causal inference KW - Data models KW - ISO Standards KW - model-based testing KW - Safety KW - Task analysis KW - Testing KW - Vehicles Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.3317475 SN - 1524-9050 SP - 1 EP - 17 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Maier, Robert A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Causality and Functional Safety - How Causal Models Relate to the Automotive Standards ISO 26262, ISO/PAS 21448, and UL 4600 T2 - 27th International Conference on Applied Electronics (AE): 06-07 September 2022, Pilsen, CZ N2 - With autonomous driving, the system complexity of vehicles will increase drastically. This requires new approaches to ensure system safety. Looking at standards like ISO 26262 or ISO/PAS 21448 and their suggested methodologies, an increasing trend in the recent literature can be noticed to incorporate uncertainty. Often this is done by using Bayesian Networks as a framework to enable probabilistic reasoning. These models can also be used to represent causal relationships. Many publications claim to model cause-effect relations, yet rarely give a formal introduction of the implications and resulting possibilities such an approach may have. This paper aims to link the domains of causal reasoning and automotive system safety by investigating relations between causal models and approaches like FMEA, FTA, or GSN. First, the famous “Ladder of Causation” and its implications on causality are reviewed. Next, we give an informal overview of common hazard and reliability analysis techniques and associate them with probabilistic models. Finally, we analyse a mixed-model methodology called Hybrid Causal Logic, extend its idea, and build the concept of a causal shell model of automotive system safety. KW - Causality KW - Reliability KW - Functional Safety Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/AE54730.2022.9920053 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kristen, Meret A1 - Engl, Fabian A1 - Mottok, Jürgen T1 - Enhancing Phishing Detection: An Eye-Tracking Study on User Interaction and Oversights in Phishing Emails T2 - SECURWARE 2024 : The Eighteenth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, November 03-07, 2024, Nice, France N2 - Phishing remains a significant threat to organizational security, necessitating effective countermeasures. This paper presents findings from an in-depth eye-tracking study with 103 participants, evaluating the effectiveness of phishing awareness tools and trainings. The study examines how a phishing awareness system influences user behavior, efficiency, and the ability to identify phishing attempts. By analyzing eye movements, the study reveals real-time interactions and oversights, providing insights into the decision-making process. Results indicate that while the system improves the efficiency of users already proficient in phishing detection, it does not universally enhance recognition rates. Notably, participants using the tool spent significantly less time looking at attachment-related phishing markers, indicating partial efficiency improvements. Since phishing attempts containing suspicious attachments were successful in 19% of cases, as compared to an overall phishing success rate of 15%, the phishing awareness tool is particularly useful here. A usability evaluation revealed that users reporting a higher perceived usability score profited more from the help of the tool. Additionally, no improvement in phishing detection rates was observed in users who had completed prior IT-security training, highlighting the necessity for a paradigm shift in phishing training to adequately prepare users for phishing attempts. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www.thinkmind.org/library/SECURWARE/SECURWARE_2024/securware_2024_2_80_30041.html SN - 978-1-68558-206-7 SP - 71 EP - 80 PB - IARIA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Staufer, Susanne A1 - Hauser, Florian A1 - Grabinger, Lisa A1 - Bittner, Dominik A1 - Nadimpalli, Vamsi Krishna A1 - Mottok, Jürgen ED - Gómez Chova, Luis ED - González Martínez, Chelo ED - Lees, Joanna T1 - Learning elements in online learning management systems T2 - Proceedings of the 16th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2023), Seville, Spain, 11/13/2023 - 11/14/2023 Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-67725 SP - 3121 EP - 3130 PB - IATED ER -