Congratulations! Our principal investigator Prof. Dr. Franz Baader and team member Filippo De Bortoli (TUD Dresden University of Technology) won a Best Paper Award at the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2024). The award was presented to them for their paper “The Abstract Expressive Power of First-Order and Description Logics with Concrete Domains“. More information on the paper is available here. The paper has been submitted to the track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) in the Information Systems area. The best papers were awarded in five areas at SAC 2024:

• Software Design and Development
  “VeriFog: A Generic Model-based Approach for Verifying Fog Systems at Design Time” by Hiba Awad, Abdelghani Alidra, Hugo Bruneliere, Thomas Ledoux, Etienne Leclercq, and Jonathan Rivalan
• Information Systems
  “The Abstract Expressive Power of First-Order and Description Logics with Concrete Domains” by Franz Baader, and Filippo De Bortoli
• System Software and Security
  “An Asynchronous Scheme for Rollback Recovery in Message-Passing Concurrent Programming Languages” by Germán Vidal
• AI and Agents
  “Graph Learning-based Fleet Scheduling for Urban Air Mobility under Operational Constraints, Varying Demand & Uncertainties” by Steve Paul, Jhoel Witter, and Souma Chowdhury
• Distributed Systems
  “Rescuing QUIC Flows From Countermeasures Against UDP Flooding Attacks” by Junseok Lee, Minhyeong Kim, Wonjun Song, Younghoon Kim, and Dohyung Kim

SAC 2024

The 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2024) took place from 8.-12.04.2024 in Avila, Spain. The conference was sponsored by ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and hosted by University de Salamanca. More information on the conerence is available on the official website.