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Palladio Component Model (PCM)
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Dr.-Ing. Samuel Kounev | |
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Head of Descartes Research Group Tel: +49 721 608 7374 Fax: +49 721 608 5990 |
Chair Prof. Reussner |
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Former Homepage @ University of Cambridge Former Homepage @ Technische Universität Darmstadt |
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Publications
Publications are listed on a separate page.
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Upcoming Conferences and Events (I am involved in)
- WOSP-SIPEW 2010 - 1st Joint WOSP/SIPEW International Conference on Performance Engineering sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT and ACM SIGMETRICS in cooperation with and with the generous support of SPEC, San Jose, California, USA, January 28-30, 2010.
- QoSA 2010 - 6th International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures, Prague, Czech
Republic, June 23-25, 2010. - ROSSA 2009 - 1st International Workshop on Run-time mOdels for Self-managing Systems and Applications, In conjunction with Fourth International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2009), Pisa, Italy, October 19, 2009.
- QUASOSS 2009 - 1st International Workshop on the Quality of Service-Oriented Software Systems, In conjunction with the 7th ESEC/FSE Joint meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 25th, 2009.
- EPEW 2009 - 6th European Performance Engineering Workshop 2009, Imperial College London, July 9–10, 2009.
- QoSA 2009 - Fifth International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA 2009), East Stroudsberg University, Pennsylvania, USA, June 22-26, 2009.
- SPEC Benchmark Workshop 2009 to be held in conjunction with SPEC's Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 25, 2009.
- FESCA @ ETAPS 2009 - 6th International Workshop on Formal Engineering approaches to Software Components and Architectures, Satellite event of ETAPS, York, UK, March 28, 2009.
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Research Interests
Main research areas:
- Software and systems engineering
- System modeling and simulation
- Quality prediction (availability, performance, scalability and efficiency)
- System sizing and capacity planning
- Autonomic and self-adaptive run-time management
- Self-aware platforms and systems
- Cost and resource management in data centers
- Power/energy-efficient computing
- Experimental performance analysis
- Benchmarking and workload characterization
Target technology domains:
- Service-oriented architectures
- Virtualization and cloud computing (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
- Distributed component-based systems
- Event-based/message-oriented middleware
- Grid computing
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Professional Functions & Memberships
- SPEC - "Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation"
- Chair and Co-Founder of the SPEC Research Working Group (since 2010)
- Member of SPEC Workshop Steering Committee (since 2008)
- Release Manager of the Java Subcommittee (2003-2009)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Professional Member - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
IEEE Computer Society
Member - Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Member - Vereinigung von Freunden der Technischen Universität zu Darmstadt e.V.
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Projects
Current
- Modeling JEE Applications for Performance using the Palladio Component Model and the Oracle WebLogic Server
Project of University of Karlsruhe with Oracle USA, Inc.
Role: Project Manager - SPECjms2007: A Benchmark for Enterprise Message-Oriented Middleware
Project at SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Role: Project Manager, Benchmark Architect and Working Group Chair
Press Coverage: @SPEC, IT Jungle, @SYS-CON, @LexisNexis, @Innovations Report, @TU Darmstadt, etc. - QPME - Queueing Petri Net Modeling Environment
Project at University of Karlsruhe (TH).
Role: Project Manager and Development Lead - Performance and Scalability Analysis of Netweaver's JMS Provider
Project of TU Darmstadt with SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany.
Role: Consultant - Autonomic Quality of Service Management in Grid Environments
Joint project with Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). - A Transport Information Monitoring Environment (TIME): Event Architecture and Context Management (TIME-EACM)
Project at Cambridge University.
Role: Consultant
Past
- Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Event-based Systems
Project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), February 2006 - May 2008.
Role: Principal Investigator - NewOps IT Operations Concept - Infrastructure Design and Sizing Methodology
Project with Deutsche Post AG, 2005.
Role: Consultant - SPECjbb2005
Project at SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, May 2004 - June 2005.
Role: Release Manager - Performance and Scalability Analysis of SAP Web Application Server (Netweaver)
Project of TU Darmstadt with SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany, April 2004 - March 2005.
Role: Project Manager - SPECjAppServer2004
Project at SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, December 2002 - April 2004.
Role: Release Manager and Lead Developer - MALL2000 - "Mall for Online Business beyond the Year 2000"
Project No. 977041 of the INCO Copernicus Program funded by the European Commission.
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Teaching
Courses @ Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
- Graduate Course (SS09): "Performance Engineering of Enterprise Software Systems"
Courses @ Cambridge University, UK
- Part II Lectures (Lent Term 2008): "Computer Systems Modelling" - with R.J. Gibbens
- Part II Lectures (Lent Term 2007): "Advanced Systems Topics" - with K. Fraser and others.
- Part II Lectures (Lent Term 2007): "Computer Systems Modelling" - with R.J. Gibbens
- SRG Seminar (April 2006) - "A Practical Approach for Predicting the Performance and Scalability of Distributed Component Systems"
Courses @ Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
- Masters Course, "Performance Modeling and Evaluation of e-Business Systems", April 2007
- PhD Course, "Performance Engineering of Distributed E-Business Systems", June 2006
Former Courses @ TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Database Systems II - WS04-05, WS03-04, WS02-03, WS01-02.
- Middleware Lab (Praktikum) - SS03, SS02.
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Publications
Publications are listed on a separate page.
Selected Talks
| Performance-Engineering-Research an der Universität Karlsruhe. CA infoexchange 2009 Conference, Mannheim, Germany, May 20, May 2009. | |
| SOA2 - A Vision of Next Generation Service-Oriented Architectures. ABB Corporate Research, Ladenburg, Germany, April 3, April 2009. | |
| Keynote: SOA2 - Eine Vision für die nächste Generation dienstorienterter Software-Architekturen. Deutschepost Strategietagung - 6100 Application Service Management MAIL/Retail, St. Goar, Germany, February 9, February 2009. | |
| Descartes Projekt - Autonomes Performanz-und Ressourcen-Management in dynamischen, dienstorientierten Umgebungen. DFG Fachforum Informatik, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), Bonn, Germany, September 30, September 2008. | |
| QoS-aware resource allocation and load-balancing in enterprise Grids using online simulation. University of Oldenburg, Department of Computing Science, Oldenburg, Germany, August 26, August 2008. [ .html | .pdf ] | |
| Towards Autonomic QoS Management in Event-based and Service-Oriented Environments. University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK, March 11, March 2008. [ http ] | |
| Autonomic QoS control in enterprise Grid environments using online simulation. School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, February 12, February 2008. [ http ] | |
| Performance Prediction using QPN Models: From Capacity Planning to Online Performance Management. Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, January 16, January 2008. [ http | .pdf ] | |
| SPECjms2007 - A Novel Benchmark and Performance Analysis Framework for Message-Oriented Middleware. University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK, October 16, October 2007. [ http ] | |
| SPEC Enterprise Java Benchmarks: State of the Art and Future Directions. SPEC Benchmarking Joint US/Europe Colloquium, Dresden, Germany, June 22, June 2007. [ http | .pdf ] | |
| Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Distributed Component Systems using Queueing Petri Nets. University of Edinburgh, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, Edinburgh, UK, May 4, May 2007. [ .html | .pdf ] | |
| An Approach to Performance Modeling and Analysis of Distributed Event-Based Systems. University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK, March 13, March 2007. [ http ] | |
| A Practical Approach for Predicting the Performance and Scalability of Distributed Component Systems. University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK, April 13, April 2006. [ .html ] | |
| Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Event-based Systems. University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK, March 3, March 2006. | |
| Performance Engineering of Distributed Component Systems - From Benchmarking to Modeling and Performance Prediction. Technical University of Berlin, Institut für Technische Informatik und Mikroelektronik, Berlin, Germany, April 29, April 2005. [ .html ] | |
| E-Business Performance and Scalability - From Measuring to Predicting. SAP Research Forum, Walldorf, Germany, January 27, January 2005. | |
| Performance Modeling of Distributed E-Business Applications using Queueing Petri Nets. Dagstuhl - Workshop of five Informatik-Graduiertenkolles, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, June 16-18, June 2003. [ .pdf ] | |
| J2EE PERFORMANCE: From Benchmarking to Sizing and Capacity Planning. DVS-PhD Internal Workshop, Darmstadt, Germany, May 21, May 2002. [ .pdf ] | |
| Implementing and Optimizing Sun's ECperf Benchmark with BEA WebLogic Server. BEA Hochschul-Industrie-Kooperations-Tagung, Frankfurt, Germany, November 13, November 2001. [ .pdf ] | |
| Electronic Store: MALL2000 - Mall for Online Business beyond the Year 2000. Bulgarian Oracle User Group (BGOUG) Annual Conference 1999, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 4-5, November 1999. [ .pdf ] |
Supervised Theses
| [18] | Nikolaus Huber. Autonomic Performance and Resource Management in Dynamic Service-oriented Systems. PhD Thesis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, July 2009 - Present. |
| [17] | Fabian Brosig. Modeling of Dynamic Service-oriented Environments for Performance and Capacity Management. PhD Thesis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, June 2009 - Present. |
| [16] | Christoph Rathfelder. Performance Prediction in Message-Based Systems. PhD Thesis co-supervised with R. Reussner, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2009 - Present. |
| [15] | Philipp Meier. Transformation of Palladio Component Model Instances to Queueing Petri Nets. Master Thesis co-supervised with H. Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, January 2010 - Present. |
| [14] | Konstantin Bender. Performance and Capacity Management in Enterprise Data Fabric Infrastructures. Master Thesis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, August 2009 - Present. |
| [13] | Frederik Zipp, Filterung, Aggregation und Visualisirung von QPN-Analyseergebnissen Study Thesis (Studienarbeit), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, May 2009. |
| [12] | Fabian Brosig. Automated Extraction of Palladio Component Models from Running Enterprise Java Applications. Master Thesis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, May 2009. |
| [11] | Kai Sachs. Performance Modeling and Benchmarking of Message-oriented Middleware. PhD Thesis co-supervised with A. Buchmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, 2005-2009. |
| [10] | Ramon Nou. Aplicacion de la simulacion en tiempo real para mejorar la calidad de servicio del Middleware. PhD Thesis co-supervised with J. Torres, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 2006-2008. |
| [9] | Lavr Burin. Modeling Sensor-based Middleware for Workload Characterization and Performance Prediction. PhD Thesis co-supervised with K. Moody, University of Cambridge, England, 2006-2008. |
| [8] | Frank Heimburger. Performance Modelling of Java EE Applications using LQNs and QPNs. Master Thesis co-supervised with Kai Sachs, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, September 2007. |
| [7] | Christofer Dutz. QPE - A Graphical Editor for Modeling using Queueing Petri Nets. Master's thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, March 2006. |
| [6] | Björn Weis. Performance Optimierung von J2EE Anwendungen auf der JBoss Plattform. Master's thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, June 2004. |
| [5] | Anja Steih. Untersuchung der Performance von J2EE-Anwendungen mittels Simulation. Master's thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, March 2004. |
| [4] | Kai S. Juse. Performance von J2EE-basierten Web Services. Master's thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, June 2003. |
| [3] | Christofer Dutz. Deployment of SPECjAppServer2002 in JBoss Application Server. Study Thesis (Studienarbeit), Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, June 2003. |
| [2] | Bernhard Siedentop. Performance- und Kapazitätsanalyse der verteilten Web Anwendung TPC-W. Master's thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, October 2002. |
| [1] | Andreas Fleischmann. Profiling of Servlet Applications. Study Thesis (Semesterarbeit), Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, March 2002. |
Selected Reviewer and Conference Organization Activities
International Journals and Conferences
- The Computer Journal (Oxford University Press)
- IEEE Computer
- IEEE Transactions on Computers
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- IET Software
- Elsevier Performance Evaluation Journal
- Elsevier Journal of Applied Mathematical Modelling
- Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software
- Elsevier Computer Networks Journal
- Wiley InterScience Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
- Wiley InterScience Journal of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
- Springer Journal of Software and Systems Modeling
- ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)
- ACM SIGMOD Conference
- ACM SACMAT Conference
- ICST MobiQuitous Conference
- International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS)
- ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference
- WOSP-SIPEW International Conference on Performance Engineering
- International CMG Conference
- International Workshop on Distributed Event-Based Systems
- International Workshop on Electronic Commerce
Selected Program Committees
- QoSA 2010 - 6th International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures, Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-25, 2010.
- SPEC Benchmark Workshop 2010 - Paderborn, Germany, October 8, 2010.
- FESCA @ ETAPS 2010 - 7th International Workshop on Formal Engineering approaches to Software Components and Architectures, Satellite event of ETAPS, Paphos, Cyprus, March 27,
2010. - GVS 2010 - Workshop "IT-Governance in verteilten Systemen", Leipzig, Germany, September 29, 2010.
- ROSSA 2009 - 1st International Workshop on Run-time mOdels for Self-managing Systems and Applications, In conjunction with Fourth International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2009), Pisa, Italy, October 19, 2009.
- QUASOSS 2009 - 1st International Workshop on the Quality of Service-Oriented Software Systems, In conjunction with the 7th ESEC/FSE Joint meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 25th, 2009.
- QoSA 2009 - Fifth International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures, East Stroudsberg University, Pennsylvania, USA, June 22-26, 2009.
- EPEW 2009 - 6th European Performance Engineering Workshop 2009, Imperial College London, July 9–10, 2009.
- FESCA @ ETAPS 2009 - 6th International Workshop on Formal Engineering approaches to Software Components and Architectures, Satellite event of ETAPS, York, UK, March 28, 2009.
- SPEC Benchmark Workshop 2009 held in conjunction with SPEC's Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 25, 2009.
- QuaSM 2008 - International Workshop of Quality Management of Service, Sydney, Australia, December 10-12, 2008.
- QoSA 2008 - Fourth International Conference on Quality of Software-Architectures "Models and Architectures", Karlsruhe, Germany, October 14-17, 2008.
- EPEW 2008 - 5th European Performance Engineering Workshop, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 24-25, 2008.
- SACC 2008 - 4th International Conference on Self-organization and Adaptation of Computing and Communications, Glasgow, UK, July 22-24, 2008.
- SOAS 2007 – 3rd International Conference on Self-Organization and Autonomous Systems in Computing and Communications, Leipzig, Germany, September 24-27, 2007.
- WOMP'06 - Workshop on Middleware and Performance
Conference Organization
- General Co-Chair for ICPE 2011 - 2nd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT and ACM SIGMETRICS in cooperation with and with the generous support of SPEC, Karlsruhe, Germany, March 14-16, 2011.
- SIPEW Steering Committee Liaison and Industrial Chair for WOSP-SIPEW 2010 - 1st Joint WOSP/SIPEW International Conference on Performance Engineering sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT and ACM SIGMETRICS in cooperation with and with the generous support of SPEC, San Jose, California, USA, January 28-30, 2010.
- Local Organization Chair for OW2 Consortium - Germany Roadshow, Karlsruhe, Germany, March 24, 2009.
- Program Chair for SIPEW 2008 - SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop held in Darmstadt, Germany, June 27-28, 2008.
- Member of SPEC Benchmark Workshop Steering Committee.
PhD Committees
- David Carrera, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
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