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Is it possible to reduce the energy consumption of machine learning, while increasing its security and privacy? Work on the answer as PhD candidate in our research group! See the details and apply here by 20 September 2022: https://vacatures.

To end the academic year in style, the Complex Cyber Infrastructure group went on a sailing trip on the Markermeer. Before the sailing trip could take off, the group needed to gather in the harbour of Monnickendam — a beautiful old city with plenty of sightseeing and picture opportunities.

The paper titled Introducing Normative Advisors into MAS by Mostafa Mohajeri Parizi, Thomas van Binsbergen, Giovanni Sileno and Tom van Engers was accepted at The 19th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems.

Bas van den Brink’s work on applying model-based testing to microservices has been accepted as a proceedings contribution to BENEVOL’22. He is supervised by Ana Oprescu, Tannaz Zameni (University of Twente), Lammert Vinke (Info Support), and Dr.

I wrote this short piece about travelling with my baby. My point with this, is to bring attention to a compromise parents might not have to make anymore. Work traveling with Maria.

Please send your Bachelor and/or Master thesis nominations here. There is a special second track supporting diversity. Contact Ana at a.m.oprescu[at]uva.nl for any questions or clarifications.

Ana Oprescu presented her paper on the Energy Cost and Accuracy of K-anonymity in ICT4S (Mon 13 - Fri 17 June 2022 Plovdiv, Bulgaria). Abstract: ​​European Union has aggregated the current societal concerns into two seemingly orthogonal directions: the Green Deal and the GDPR.

Nuria Bruch, supervised by Ana Oprescu, Miroslav Zivkovic and Lodewijk Bergmans wins the VERSEN Master Thesis Award for her work on measuring the degree of library dependency! The usage of libraries, both commercial and open-source, encapsulating the implementation of certain functionalities is a widespread practice among developers.

During the Rijeka SusTrainable summer school (4-8 July 2022, Rijeka, Croatia) organised by the Erasmus+ project SusTrainable Ana Oprescu gave a lecture on the methodologies employed for Energy-driven Software Engineering research.

Last week we had a visit from Inder Monga, director ESnet, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In this visit we had many discussions on the already 2 decades of working together on different advanced networking topics.