Deutsch Intern
Chair of Computer Science II - Software Engineering

Simon Eismann

Chair of Software Engineering (Informatik II)
Department of Computer Science
University of Würzburg

Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg

Informatikgebäude, 1.OG, Room A107/8

Phone: +49 (931) 31 89655

simon.eismann@uni-wuerzburg.de
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Research Interests

  • Performance Modeling and Prediction of Software Systems
  • Performance and Regression Testing of Cloud-native Applications
  • Design and Evaluation of Microservice Architectures
  • Analysis and Optimization of Serverless Functions
  • Empirical Analysis of Serverless Application Architectures

Functions and Memberships

Awards

Selected Publications

  • The State of Serverless Applications: Collection, Characterization, and Community Consensus. Eismann, Simon; Scheuner, Joel; van Eyk, Erwin; Schwinger, Maximilian; Grohmann, Johannes; Herbst, Nikolas; Abad, Cristina; Iosup, Alexandru; in Transactions on Software Engineering (2022). 48(10) 4152–4166.
  • Serverless Applications:Why, When, and How?. Eismann, Simon; Joel, Scheuner; van Eyk, Erwin; Schwinger, Maximilian; Grohmann, Johannes; Herbst, Nikolas; Abad, Cristina; Iosup, Alexandru; in IEEE Software (2021). 38(1) 32–39.
  • Sizeless: Predicting the Optimal Size of Serverless Functions. Eismann, Simon; Bui, Long; Grohmann, Johannes; Abad, Cristina; Herbst, Nikolas; Kounev, Samuel; in Proceedings of the 22nd International MIDDLEWARE Conference (2021). 248–259.
    Best Student Paper Award, ACM Artifacts Evaluated — Functional
  • Predicting the Costs of Serverless Workflows. Eismann, Simon; Grohmann, Johannes; van Eyk, Erwin; Herbst, Nikolas; Kounev, Samuel; in Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) (2020). 265–276.
    {Acceptance Rate: 23.4% (15/64)}
  • {Microservices: A Performance Tester’s Dream or Nightmare?}. Eismann, Simon; Bezemer, Cor-Paul; Shang, Weiyi; Okanovic, Dusan; van Hoorn, Andre; in Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) (2020).
    {Acceptance Rate: 23.4% (15/64), ACM Artifacts Evaluated — Functional}

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Teaching

  • Exercise coordination for the master lecture "Software Architektur"
  • Supervision of students during the "Seminar Software Engineering"
  • Supervision of students during the "Software Praktikum"

Supervised Theses

2020[ to top ]
  • Predicting the Impact of Function Size in Serverless Computing. Bui, Long; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2020).
  • Generating Statistical Response Time Models from Architectural Performance Models. Schaffarczyk, Kai; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2020).
  • Generating Performance-Aware Web Applications from BPMN Models. Hümmer, Simon; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2020).
2019[ to top ]
  • Exploring the {L}imitations of {S}tatistical {R}esponse {T}ime {M}odels in {A}rchitectural {P}erformance {M}odels. Trapp, Simon; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2019, Dezember).
  • {Erweiterung von Komponenten-basierten Performance Modellen f{ü}r Micro-service Architekturen}. Hick, Lars; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2019, Februar).
2018[ to top ]
  • {Blackbox Learning of Parametric Dependencies for Performance Models from Monitoring Data}. Ackermann, Vanessa; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2018, März).
  • {Automatic Identification of Parametric Dependencies for Performance Models}. Elflein, Sven; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2018, September).

Curriculum Vitae / Resume

since August 2017 Doctoral reseacher at the Chair of Software-Engineering (Informatik II)
Aug 2015 - Aug 2017 Master of Computer Science at the University of Würzburg, Germany
Oct 2012-  Aug 2015 Bachelor of Computer Science at the University of Würzburg, Germany