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Newly accepted paper the ACM Computing Surveys journal

Trustworthy AI-based Performance Diagnosis Systems for Cloud Applications: A Review, ACM Computing Survey, 2025. This article systematically reviews trustworthiness requirements in AI-based performance diagnosis systems. We introduce trustworthiness requirements and extract six key requirements from a technical perspective, including data privacy, fairness, robustness, explainability, efficiency, and human intervention.

Newly accepted paper in INFOCOM: Enhancing Position Verification in Multi-Node Quantum Networks

Our work evaluates and analyzes the performance and security of the quantum position verification task under real-world constraints, bringing this quantum network application one step closer to practical deployment. This work was supported by the Dutch National Growth Fund (NGF), as part of the Quantum Delta NL program.

Operating ZKPs on Blockchain: A Performance Analysis Based on Hyperledger Fabric. Wins best paper in the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPS)

abstract: Preserving privacy in blockchain-based systems is crucial for ensuring anonymity and confidentiality during transactions. While cryptographic solutions can address on-chain privacy concerns, their implementation on blockchains may introduce performance overhead, which remains unclear to researchers and practitioners.

Newly Accepted paper in the Journal of Data and Information Quality

Data quality plays a vital role in scientific research and decision-making across industries. Thus it is crucial to incorporate the data quality control (DQC) process, which comprises various actions and operations to detect and correct data errors.

Senior Teaching Qualification certificates awarded

On Thursday 14 March, the Senior Teaching Qualification certificates were awarded during a festive ceremony. Dr. Zhiming Zhao from MNS together with the other fifteen UvA lecturers received the certificate.

UvA receives grant for OSCARS (Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research & Society)

The EU Horizon Europe project OSCARS (Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research & Society) has been successfully kicked off 13/March 2024 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Coordinated by CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), the project aims to bring together European Research Infrastructures (RIs) organized into five “Science Clusters” along the ESFRI thematic research domains1.

UvA receives grant for EVERSE (European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence)

The project has 18 partners from 8 countries and will last three years; the consortium includes five clusters of European research infrastructures, including environmental earth science, life science, particle physics, Photon and neutron, and social science.

Prof. Paola Grosso is the new director of the Informatics Institute. She passes the baton of the MNS group leader to dr. Zhao.

From March 01st prof. Grosso (Paola) is the new director of the Informatics Institute. She passes the baton of the MNS group leader to dr. Zhao.

Na Li gave a talk: Ocean Data Quality Assessment through Outlier Detection-enhanced Active Learning

Title: Ocean Data Quality Assessment through Outlier Detection-enhanced Active Learning BLUECLOUD 2026 partner CNR, 29th Jan 2024 This work has been partially funded by the European Union’s Horizon research and innovation program by the CLARIFY (860627), BLUECLOUD 2026 (101094227), ENVRI-FAIR (824068) and ARTICONF (825134), by the LifeWatch ERIC, and by the NWO LTER-LIFE project.

Na Li had an accepted paper in WWW2023 conference

Abstract: A computational notebook search system called CNSVRE has been proposed to address shortcomings in existing solutions for Virtual Research Environments (VREs). Existing approaches lack focus on the specific information needs of scientific researchers and struggle with relevance evaluation due to the mixed nature of text and code in computational notebooks.