Deutsch Intern
Chair of Computer Science II - Software Engineering

Nikolaus Huber

Dr.-Ing. Nikolaus Huber

Chair of Computer Science II

Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg
Informatikgebäude

Email: nikolaus.huber@uni-wuerzburg.de

Research Interests

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

Publications

List of all publications: Nikolaus Huber

Projects and Presentations

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.

Teaching

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 and Conference Organization Activities

International Conferences

  • Transactions on Computers, IEEE, 2012
  • Journal of Distributed and Parallel Computing, Elsevier, 2011
  • Int. Conference on Autonomic Computing, 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

Resume/Curriculum Vitae

since April 2014

Ph.D. Student in the Descartes Research Group at the University of Würzburg, funded by the Emmy Noether Programme
Jul 2009 - May 2014 Ph.D. Student in the Descartes Research Group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, funded by the Emmy Noether Programme
Jan 2008 - May 2008 Study Thesis at the Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Feb 2007 - Dec 2008 Internship and working student at the Silverstroke AG, Ettlingen, Germany
Oct 2003 - Apr 2009 Studies of Computer Science (Information Technology) at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Jun 2002 Abitur at the Martha Schanzenbach Gymnasium, Gengenbach

Last update: April 11, 2014