Deutsch Intern
Chair of Computer Science II - Software Engineering

Publications


Journal and Magazine Articles

  • Trust your local scaler: ...
    Trust your local scaler: A continuous, decentralized approach to autoscaling. Straesser, Martin; Geissler, Stefan; Lange, Stanislav; Schumann, Lukas Kilian; Hossfeld, Tobias; Kounev, Samuel; in Performance Evaluation (2025). 167 102452.
  • A literature review on op...
    A literature review on optimization techniques for adaptation planning in adaptive systems: State of the art and research directions. Henrichs, Elia; Lesch, Veronika; Straesser, Martin; Kounev, Samuel; Krupitzer, Christian; in Information and Software Technology (2022). 149 106940.

Full Papers

  • An Empirical Investigation of Container Building Strategies and Warm Times to Reduce Cold Starts in Scientific Computing Serverless Functions. Bauer, André; Gonthier, Maxime; Chard, Ryan; Pan, Haochen; Grzenda, Daniel; Straesser, Martin; Pauloski, J. Gregory; Kamatar, Alok; Baughman, Matthew E.; Hudson, Nathaniel; Foster, Ian; Chard, Kyle; in 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science) (2024).
  • Kubernetes-in-the-Loop: E...
    Kubernetes-in-the-Loop: Enriching Microservice Simulation Through Authentic Container Orchestration. Straesser, Martin; Haas, Patrick; Frank, Sebastian; Hakamian, Alireza; Van Hoorn, André; Kounev, Samuel; in Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (2023).
    In print.
  • An Empirical Study of Con...
    An Empirical Study of Container Image Configurations and Their Impact on Start Times. Straesser, Martin; Bauer, André; Leppich, Robert; Herbst, Nikolas; Chard, Kyle; Foster, Ian; Kounev, Samuel; in 2023 IEEE/ACM 23rd International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid) (2023). 94–105. IEEE.
  • Autoscaler Evaluation and...
    Autoscaler Evaluation and Configuration: A Practitioner’s Guideline. Straesser, Martin; Eismann, Simon; von Kistowski, Jóakim; Bauer, André; Kounev, Samuel; in Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2023). 31–41. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.
  • A Systematic Approach for...
    A Systematic Approach for Benchmarking of Container Orchestration Frameworks. Straesser, Martin; Mathiasch, Jonas; Bauer, André; Kounev, Samuel; in Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2023). 187–198. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.
  • Why Is It Not Solved Yet?...
    Why Is It Not Solved Yet? Challenges for Production-Ready Autoscaling. Straesser, Martin; Grohmann, Johannes; von Kistowski, Jóakim; Eismann, Simon; Bauer, André; Kounev, Samuel; in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering (2022). 105–115. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.
  • MiSim: A Simulator for Re...
    MiSim: A Simulator for Resilience Assessment of Microservice-based Architectures. Frank, Sebastian; Wagner, Lion; Hakamian, Alireza; Straesser, Martin; van Hoorn, Andre; in 2022 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS) (2022). 1014–1025. IEEE.
  • SuanMing: Explainable Pre...
    SuanMing: Explainable Prediction of Performance Degradations in Microservice Applications. Grohmann, Johannes; Straesser, Martin; Chalbani, Avi; Eismann, Simon; Arian, Yair; Herbst, Nikolas; Peretz, Noam; Kounev, Samuel; in Proceedings of the 12th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) (2021). ACM, New York, NY, USA.
    Acceptance Rate: 29%

Short Papers

  • Unveiling Temporal Perfor...
    Unveiling Temporal Performance Deviation: Leveraging Clustering in Microservices Performance Analysis. Bauer, André; Dittus, Timo; Straesser, Martin; Kamatar, Alok; Baughman, Matt; Beierlieb, Lukas; Hadry, Marius; Grillmeyer, Daniel; Lubas, Yannik; Kounev, Samuel; Foster, Ian; Chard, Kyle; in Companion of the 15th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2024). 72–76. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.
  • Searching for the Ground ...
    Searching for the Ground Truth: Assessing the Similarity of Benchmarking Runs. Bauer, André; Straesser, Martin; Leznik, Mark; Beierlieb, Lukas; Hadry, Marius; Hudson, Nathaniel; Chard, Kyle; Kounev, Samuel; Foster, Ian; in Companion of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2023). 95–99. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.
  • Automated Triage of Perfo...
    Automated Triage of Performance Change Points Using Time Series Analysis and Machine Learning. Bauer, André; Straesser, Martin; Beierlieb, Lukas; Meissner, Maximilian; Kounev, Samuel; in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering (2022). ACM.

Workshop Papers

  • An Empirical Study on the...
    An Empirical Study on the Impact of Selected Host Configuration Parameters on Container Start Times. Straesser, Martin; Erhard, Nicholas; Kounev, Samuel; (2024). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
    In print.

Poster Papers

  • Power to the Applications...
    Power to the Applications: The Vision of Continuous Decentralized Autoscaling. Straesser, Martin; Geißler, Stefan; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Kounev, Samuel; in 2023 IEEE/ACM 23rd International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing Workshops (CCGridW) (2023). 281–283. IEEE.

Extended Abstracts

  • Simulating Microservice-b...
    Simulating Microservice-based Architectures for Resilience Assessment Enriched by Authentic Container Orchestration. Frank, Sebastian; Straesser, Martin; Wagner, Lion; Haas, Patrick; Hakamian, Alireza; Kounev, Samuel; Van Hoorn, André; in Software Engineering 2024 (2024). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Bonn.

Talks

  • Autoscaling Rethought: A ...
    Autoscaling Rethought: A Continuous, Decentralized Approach Straesser, Martin; (2024).
  • Towards Explainable, Coor...
    Towards Explainable, Coordinated and Proactive Autoscaling for Microservices and Function Chains Straesser, Martin; (2024).
  • Generating Microservice A...
    Generating Microservice Applications for Performance Benchmarking Lubas, Yannik; Straesser, Martin; Kounev, Samuel; (2023).
  • Towards Simulation-Driven...
    Towards Simulation-Driven Optimization of Container Orchestration Mechanisms Dittus, Timo; Straesser, Martin; Kounev, Samuel; (2023).
  • Leveraging Kubernetes Sou...
    Leveraging Kubernetes Source Code for Performance Simulation Straesser, Martin; Haas, Patrick; (2022).
  • Container Start Times: Em...
    Container Start Times: Empirical Analysis and Predictability Straesser, Martin; (2021).
  • Predicting Performance De...
    Predicting Performance Degradations of Black-box Microservice Applications Straesser, Martin; (2020).

Master Thesis

  • Predicting Performance De...
    Predicting Performance Degradations of Microservice Applications. Straesser, Martin; (2020, May). University of Wuerzburg.
    Wuerzburg Software Engineering Award 2020: Best Master Thesis

Miscellaneous

  • SPEC Research Group Newsl...
    SPEC Research Group Newsletter, Issue 12. Kounev, Samuel; van Hoorn, Andre; Straesser, Martin; Bauer, André; (2023, April).
    Published by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
  • SPEC Research Group Newsl...
    SPEC Research Group Newsletter, Issue 11. Kounev, Samuel; van Hoorn, Andre; Straesser, Martin; Bauer, André; (2022, April).
    Published by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)

Press Coverage

  • Universität Würzburg (Press Release): Damit der Webshop rundläuft. August 2021. [ Link