For the 16th time, the institute was represented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). In 2018, the submission of Michael Rathmair, Christoph Luckeneder, Hermann Kaindl and Carna Radojicic entitled “Semi-symbolic Simulation and Analysis of Deviation Propagation of Feature Coordination in Cyber-physical Systems” received a Best Paper Award in the Software Technology track (57 accepted papers).