Main research areas:

• Software Performance Engineering
• Autonomic Computing
• Run-Time Performance and Resource Management
• Component-based Software Engineering
• System and Service Modeling and Simulation

Technology domains:

• Distributed Component-based Systems
• Virtualization
• Cloud Computing

Projects

Performance Modeling of Storage Virtualization
Project of the University of Karlsruhe with IBM Deutschland Research and Development GmbH, Germany.

Online Resource Management
in co-operation with Blue Yonder GmbH, Germany.

Presentations

Model-based Run-Time Adaptation in Dynamic Virtualized Resource Landscapes, RELATE ITN Open Excellence Workshop, Karlsruhe, December 4, 2012.

The Descartes Meta-Model for Self-Aware Quality-of-Service and Resource Management in Dynamic IT Infrastructures, Invited Talk, SAP Research, Karlsruhe, May 10, 2012.

From Offline to Online Component Models for Run-Time Resource Management, Invited Talk, Palladio Days, Karlsruhe, November 17, 2011.

Descartes Research Group: Engineering of Self-Aware IT Systems and Services, Invited Talk, Blue Yonder GmbH, Karlsruhe, November 10, 2011.

Analysis of the Performance-Influencing Factors of Virtualization Platforms, Invited Talk, Department of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, January 21, 2011.

I am involved in teaching the following regular lecture: Performance Engineering of Enterprise Software Systems. I also organize the study group Software Design and Quality and supervise students in the seminar Enterprise Software and IBM System z.

Supervised Theses:

[6] Waldemar Schott, Automated Model-based System Reconfiguration: A Case Study. Master's thesis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 2013.

[5] Dharminder Rattu, Infrastructure Reconfiguration Using Architecture-Level Performance Models. Master's thesis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 2012.

[4] Nikolas Herbst, Workload Classification and Forecasting. Master's thesis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 2012.

[3] Waldemar Schott, Verbesserte Performance-Vorhersage für virtualisierte Umgebungen durch Integration von Messergebnissen. Study thesis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 2012.

[2] Enrico Kusnady, QoS-aware Resource Allocation in Virtualized Environments. Master's thesis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 2011.

[1] Marcel von Quast, Automatisierte Performance-Analyse von Virtualisierungsplattformen. Master's thesis (in German), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 2010. [ bib ]

Selected Reviewer Activities

• Transactions on Computers, IEEE, 2012
• Journal of Distributed and Parallel Computing, Elsevier, 2011
• Int. Conference on Autonomic Computing 2013, 2014
• Int. Conference on Performance Engineering, ACM, 2011
• Int. SIGMETRICS/Performance Conference, ACM, 2012
• Int. Conference on Parallel Processing, IEEE, 2013
• Int. Conference Series on Quality of Software Architectures, ACM, 2010 - 2012
• Int. Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies, IEEE, 2011

Conference Organization

• Local Organization Co-Chair for ICPE 2011 - 2nd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT and ACM SIGMETRICS in cooperation with SPEC, Karlsruhe, Germany, March 14-16, 2011.
• Local Organization Co-Chair for PASM 2011 - 5th International Workshop on Practical Applications of Stochastic Modelling (PASM), Karlsruhe, Germany, March 17, 2011

Last update: April 11, 2014