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The course critical information infrastructures (CII) introduces students to the world of complex sociotechnical systems that permeate societies on a global scale. Students will learn to handle the complexities involved in the design, development, operation, and evaluation of critical information infrastructures. In the beginning of the course, critical information infrastructures will be introduced on a general level.

The following sessions will focus on an in-depth exploration of selected cases that represent current challenges in research and practice. Students will work (in a group of 4) on a selected topic and have to write a course paper. Students can choose a topic from a variety of topics. To answer the research questions, students can use literature reviews but also interviews, surveys, programming tasks, and other research methods.

There will be a short introduction to the topics for the course paper in the following topic areas. In addition, it will be possible to propose your own topics as a group in the topic areas: 

• Distributed Ledger Technology
• Critical Cloud Services
• Health Information Infrastructures
• Vehicluar Fog Computing
• Information Privacy
• Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Since we offer topics in this course that also correspond to the research interests in our research group, there may be the opportunity to work on the topics in more depth in the course of a final thesis.

Learning objectives:

Students know concepts and technologies relevant for the design and reliable operation of critical information infrastructures and can leverage them to develop solutions for real-world challenges.

Notes:

The number of participants is limited to 24 students. Please register via the WiWi portal: https://portal.wiwi.kit.edu/ys/5035

The registration will be opened from August 17, 2021 until October 1, 2021.

Please make sure that you are available at the following dates if you want to take the course:

• 21.10.2021, Noon–01:30 pm: 1. Introduction & Topic Area Presentations
• 28.10.2021, Noon–01:30 pm: 2. Foundations to Critical Information Infrastructures
• 04.11.2021, Noon–01:30 pm: 3. Critical Information Infrastructure Landscape
• 11.11.2021, Noon–01:30 pm: 4. Research on Information Systems & Group Assignment
• 10.12.2021, 10:00 am–06:00 pm: Interim Presentation (estimated)
• 28.01.2022, 10:00 am–06:00 pm: Final Presentation (estimated)

Further information on the course structure will be announced in the first session. Depending on the number of participants the individual sessions can have a shorter duration.

The meetings will take place online via MS Teams, as currently planned. We will provide a link to join the team if your registration was approved. Interim and final presentation may take a hybrid or real-life form.

If you have any questions regarding course registration, please contact lins@kit.edu or dehling@kit.edu