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As the SENSE project came to a close, we had the opportunity to wrap up our work with a dedicated workshop: SENTIS – Leveraging SEmaNtics for Transparency in Industrial Systems, co-located with SEMANTiCS 2025 in Vienna, Austria. The workshop was not only a platform to present and summarize the results of the SENSE project, but also a lively forum to exchange ideas with researchers working on similar challenges. With a packed room and lively disussions, the event highlighted the growing interest in transparency for industrial systems and featured engaging talks from multiple perspectives. It demonstrated just how relevant and timely...

Last week, some members of the SENSE team attended the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2025, held from June 1–5 in beautiful Portorož, Slovenia. A highlight of the week was Katrin’s presentation at the first Causal Neurosymbolic AI (CausalNeSy) Workshop 2025, where she introduced our recent work “Exploring LLMs for Causal Discovery in Cyber-Physical Systems”. The paper explores how large language models can support reasoning and discovery in complex technical domains — a key step toward more intelligent, explainable systems. Alongside the academic program, the team used the opportunity to push forward on the SENSE chatbot, fine-tuning features and wrapping...

We are pleased to congratulate Tobias Schwarzinger on successfully completing his proficiency evaluation — a significant milestone in his academic journey.  During his evaluation, Tobias presented compelling ideas focused on the complex and fascinating topic of event detection, particularly at the intersection of Cyber-Physical Systems and the Semantic Web. His approach not only showcased deep technical insight but also opened the door to new perspectives in these intertwined domains.  This work builds upon his contributions to the SENSE project — a research initiative nearing completion — which you can learn more about at sense-project.net. Tobias will now continue to develop...

SENSE Project Has Reached New Heights: Insights from the 5th General Assembly SENSE Project Has Reached New Heights: Insights from the 5th General Assembly SENSE Project Has Reached New Heights: Insights from the 5th General Assembly On February 24, 2025, the 5th General Assembly of the SENSE Project took place in the town of Öblarn, Austria. As the last general assembly before concluding the project, the agenda was designed to review progress, evaluate current developments, and define the next steps for the finalization of the project. The first half of the day was dedicated to reviewing the status of various proof-of-concepts...

Our colleague Gernot Steindl presented our research at the International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing (𝗜𝗦𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰) in Prague! This work, titled “Enabling Semantically Enriched Data Streams from OPC UA in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems,” was conducted as part of the 𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗘 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁. A special shoutout to 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘅 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿, whose thesis laid the foundation for this paper. Felix bridged the gap between OPC UA client-server architectures and RDF stream processing infrastructure, enabling the seamless integration of industrial data. A big thank you to the ISM organizers for providing this platform to share knowledge and foster collaboration. 🙏

In October, Katrin Schreiberhuber joined the DACH+ Energy Informatics Conference 2024 in the beautiful city of Lugano in Switzerland. The conference was a great experience to connect with interesting researchers, all working on information and communication technologies in the energy domain. In the last session of Thursday, Katrin presented our paper “Towards a State Explanation Framework in Cyber-Physical Systems”, a collaboration with our research partners from TU Wien and Siemens Österreich in the SENSE project. Overall, the 13th DACH+ Energy Informatics Conference in the beautiful Ticino region was an inspiring experience that showcased the growing importance of energy informatics in...

Poster on dynamic active power limits for Smart Charging Facility (for SENSE Smart Grid Use Case) presented at CIRED 2024 Vienna Workshop The CIRED 2024 Vienna Workshop which took place from 19th – 20th June 2024 was targeted towards experts from distribution system operators (DSO) as well as researchers from both academia and industry. This year’s workshop theme was “Increasing Distribution Network Hosting Capacity” and numerous interesting talks, posters and roundtables addressed topics such as using demand and generation flexibility to enhance network hosting capacity. Furthermore, the challenge of dealing with increasing risk and uncertainty in the distribution grid as...

First Year General Assembly of SENSE At the beginning of March, we concluded the first year of the SENSE project with a general assembly hosted in the scenic city of Öblarn in Styria. The meeting was filled with exciting ideas and interesting discussions. It showcased the progress of each project partner during the first project year and focused on coordinating the next steps of the project. During the first year of SENSE, we have been working on multiple fronts to explore the project and its requirements in full detail. The industry partners successfully completed the definition of their Use Cases...