The ERCIM EEIG board of Directors has appointed Philipp Hoschka as manager of the ERCIM EEIG. Philipp Hoschka took office on 1st of December. He succeeds Jérôme Chailloux who served as manager since May 2005.

by Davide Moroni, Ovidio Salvetti (ISTI-CNR) and Elena Console (TEA)  

Over 40 researchers from academia and industry attended a workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding (IWCIM) organized by the ERCIM MUSCLE working group in Reggio Calabria, Italy, 27-28 October 2016.

by Erwin Schoitsch (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology) and Amund Skavhaug (NTNU)

In 2016 the ERCIM Working Group Dependable Embedded Software (DES) co-organised and co-hosted workshops and special sessions at a number of renowned conferences, including the Cyber-Physical Systems Week in Vienna, the SAFECOMP conference in Trondheim (Norway), and the Euromicro conferences on Digital System Design (DSD) and Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) in Limassol, Cyprus. At each of these conferences, ERCIM and the DES Working Group were introduced as one of the key elements in the European landscape of research in embedded systems, cyber-physical systems and systems-of-systems.

by Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR)

The yearly workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS) was organized as a joint event together with the workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS). The resulting FMICS-AVoCS 2016 workshop took place on 26-28 September in Pisa at the CNR premises.