Information Systems Engineering

Dr.-Ing. Frank Pallas

Frank is a senior researcher and lecturer (tenured) in the ISE research group. He holds a diploma and a PhD (s.c.l.) in computer science, both from TU Berlin. Before joining ISE, he was interim professor at the chair for "Computer Science & Society / Computer Science & Law" at TU Berlin and held senior research positions at KIT's Center for Applied Legal Studies as well as at FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik.

In research and teaching, he particularly leads and coordinates the group’s activities on privacy engineering and on further aspects of security. He pursues a modern approach to privacy and security research that, beyond core technical aspects, consciously goes the extra mile towards actual applicability in real-world, enterprise-grade software systems and takes respectively arising challenges into account as equally relevant research subjects. Dedicatedly inter- and transdisciplinary contributions at the intersection of technology, law, and society complete his research and teaching profile.

Beyond this, Frank has a strong record of ELSA (ethical, legal and societal aspects) research in nationally and internationally funded projects and is a regular reviewer for a multitude of conferences and journals as well as for national and international funding agencies.

Key research areas

  • Systems-oriented privacy engineering
  • Experimental examination and assessment of technical privacy and security mechanisms
  • Techno-legal questions of modern information systems engineering
  • Overarching questions of computer science & society
Room E-N 251

Publikationen

2022

Pallas, Frank; Hartmann, David; Heinrich, Paul; Kipke, Josefine; Grünewald, Elias
Configurable Per-Query Data Minimization for Privacy-Compliant Web APIs
Proceedings of the 2022 ICWE International Conference on Web Engineering, Bari
2022

2021

Wolf, Karl; Pallas, Frank; Tai, Stefan
Messaging with Purpose Limitation – Privacy-Compliant Publish-Subscribe Systems
Proceedings of the 2021 EDOC Conference
Publisher: Ieee
2021
Pallas, Frank; Legler, Julian; Amslgruber, Niklas; Grünewald, Elias
RedCASTLE: Practically Applicable $k_s$-Anonymity for IoT Streaming Data at the Edge in Node-RED
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA
2021
ISBN
978-1-4503-9167-2/21/12
Pallas, Frank; Legler, Julian; Amslgruber, Niklas; Grünewald, Elias
RedCASTLE: Practically Applicable k_s-Anonymity for IoT Streaming Data at the Edge in Node-RED
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things
Publisher: Acm
2021
Grünewald, Elias; Pallas, Frank
TILT: A GDPR-Aligned Transparency Information Language and Toolkit for Practical Privacy Engineering
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and TransparencyfromFAccT '21
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA
2021
Grünewald, Elias; Wille, Paul; Pallas, Frank; Borges, Maria C.; Ulbricht, Max-R.
TIRA: An OpenAPI Extension and Toolbox for GDPR Transparency in RESTful Architectures
2021 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS\&PW)
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
2021
[de] Grünewald, Elias; Pallas, Frank
Datensouveränität für Verbraucher:innen: Technische Ansätze durch KI-basierte Transparenz und Auskunft im Kontext der DSGVO
fromAlexander Boden, Timo Jakobi, Gunnar Stevens, Christian Bala (Hgg.): Verbraucherdatenschutz - Technik und Regulation zur Unterstützung des Individuums, Page 1 – 17
2021
ISBN
978-3-96043-095-7

2020

Pallas, Frank; Staufer, Dimitri; Kuhlenkamp, Jörn
Evaluating the Accuracy of Cloud NLP Services Using Ground-Truth Experiments
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data
Publisher: IEEE
December 2020
Werner, Sebastian; Kuhlenkamp, Jörn; Pallas, Frank; Anders, Niklas; Mucaj, Nebi; Tsaplina, Olesia; Schmidt, Christian; Yildirim, Kann
Diminuendo! Tactics in Support of FaaS Migrations
In Maria Paasivaara and Philippe Kruchten, Editor, Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops, Page 125–132
In Maria Paasivaara and Philippe Kruchten, Editor
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
September 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-58858-8
Pallas, Frank; Ulbricht, Max-R.; Tai, Stefan; Peikert, Thomas; Reppenhagen, Marcel; Wenzel, Daniel; Wille, Paul; Wolf, Karl
Towards Application-Layer Purpose-Based Access Control
Proceedings of The 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '20), March 30-April 3, 2020, Brno, Czech Republic, Page 1288-1296
ACM
March 2020
Finck, Michèle; Pallas, Frank
They who must not be identified-distinguishing personal from non-personal data under the GDPR
International Data Privacy Law, 2020
March 2020
ISSN: 2044-3994
Pallas, Frank; Raschke, Philip; Bermbach, David
Fog Computing as Privacy Enabler
IEEE Internet Computing, 24 :15-21
2020

2018

Plebani, Pierluigi; Garcia-Perez, David; Anderson, Maya; Bermbach, David; Cappiello, Cinzia; Kat, Ronen; Marinakis, Achilleas; Moulos, Vrettos; Pallas, Frank; Tai, Stefan; others
Data and Computation Movement in Fog Environments: The DITAS Approach
Fog Computing
Page 249–266
Publisher: Springer
2018
249–266
Pallas, Frank
Datenschutz in Zeiten alles durchdringender Vernetzung: Herausforderungen für das Zusammenspiel von Technik und Regulierung
In A. Roßnagel and M. Friedewald and M. Hansen, Editor, Die Fortentwicklung des Datenschutzes - Zwischen Systemgestaltung und Selbstregulierung
Page 17-37
Publisher: Springer
2018
17-37
Plebani, Pierluigi; Garcia-Perez, David; Anderson, Maya; Bermbach, David; Cappiello, Cinzia; Kat, Ronen; Marinakis, Achilles; Moulos, Vrettos; Pallas, Frank; Pernici, Barbara; Tai, Stefan; others
DITAS: Unleashing the Potential of Fog Computing to Improve Data-Intensive Applications
European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, Page 154–158
Publisher: Springer
2018
Ulbricht, Max-R.; Pallas, Frank
Nutzungspräferenzen im Internet der Dinge
digma - Zeitschrift für Datenrecht und Informationssicherheit 4/2018, 2018 (4) :208-211
2018
Borges, Maria C.; Pallas, Frank; Peise, Marco
Providing Open Environmental Data - The Scalable and Web-Friendly Way
32nd International Conference on Environmental Information and Communication Technologies (EnviroInfo2018)
2018
Pallas, Frank; Grambow, Martin
Three Tales of Disillusion: Benchmarking Property Preserving Encryption Schemes
15th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business - TrustBus 2018
Page 39–54
2018
39–54

2017

Plebani, Pierluigi; Garcia-Perez, David; Anderson, Maya; Bermbach, David; Cappiello, Cinzia; Kat, Ronen; Marinakis, Achilles; Moulos, Vrettos; Pallas, Frank; Pernici, Barbara; Tai, Stefan; others
Information logistics and fog computing: The DITAS∗ approach
CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS, Page 129–136
CEUR-WS
2017