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ICPE ’22: ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, Bejing, China, April 9 - 13, 2022, Companion Volume D. Feng; S. Becker; N. Herbst; P. Leitner; (D. Feng; S. Becker; N. Herbst; P. Leitner, Hrsg.) (2022). ACM.
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@proceedings{DBLP:conf/wosp/2022c, author = {Feng, Dan and Becker, Steffen and Herbst, Nikolas and Leitner, Philipp}, editor = {Feng, Dan and Becker, Steffen and Herbst, Nikolas and Leitner, Philipp}, keywords = {t_proceedings}, publisher = {{ACM}}, title = {{ICPE} '22: {ACM/SPEC} International Conference on Performance Engineering, Bejing, China, April 9 - 13, 2022, Companion Volume}, year = 2022 }

%0 Conference Proceedings %1 DBLP:conf/wosp/2022c %A Feng, Dan %A Becker, Steffen %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Leitner, Philipp %D 2022 %E Feng, Dan %E Becker, Steffen %E Herbst, Nikolas %E Leitner, Philipp %I ACM %T ICPE '22: ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, Bejing, China, April 9 - 13, 2022, Companion Volume %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3491204
A Survey on Secure Group Communication Schemes with Focus on IoT Communication T. Prantl; T. Zeck; A. Bauer; P. Ten; D. Prantl; A. E. Ben Yahya; L. Iffländer; A. Dmitrienko; C. Krupitzer; S. Kounev; in IEEE Access (2022).

Accepted but not yet published
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@article{PrZeBaTePrYaIfDmKrKo_IEEEAccess_SGCSurvey, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Zeck, Timo and Bauer, André and Ten, Peter and Prantl, Dominik and Ben Yahya, Ala Eddine and Iffländer, Lukas and Dmitrienko, Alexandra and Krupitzer, Christian and Kounev, Samuel}, journal = {IEEE Access}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, note = {Accepted but not yet published}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {A Survey on Secure Group Communication Schemes with Focus on IoT Communication}, year = 2022 }

%0 Journal Article %1 PrZeBaTePrYaIfDmKrKo_IEEEAccess_SGCSurvey %A Prantl, Thomas %A Zeck, Timo %A Bauer, André %A Ten, Peter %A Prantl, Dominik %A Ben Yahya, Ala Eddine %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Dmitrienko, Alexandra %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2022 %I IEEE %J IEEE Access %T A Survey on Secure Group Communication Schemes with Focus on IoT Communication
Experience and Guidelines for Sorting Algorithm Choices and Their Energy Efficiency M. Meissner; S. Kamthania; N. Rawtani; J. Bucek; K.-D. Lange; S. Kounev; in Companion of the 2022 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2022).
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@inproceedings{meissner2022experience, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Meissner, Maximilian and Kamthania, Supriya and Rawtani, Nishant and Bucek, James and Lange, Klaus-Dieter and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Companion of the 2022 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {t_workshop}, month = {April}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Experience and Guidelines for Sorting Algorithm Choices and Their Energy Efficiency}, year = 2022 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 meissner2022experience %A Meissner, Maximilian %A Kamthania, Supriya %A Rawtani, Nishant %A Bucek, James %A Lange, Klaus-Dieter %A Kounev, Samuel %B Companion of the 2022 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering %C New York, NY, USA %D 2022 %I ACM %T Experience and Guidelines for Sorting Algorithm Choices and Their Energy Efficiency
Towards Forecasting Future Snow Cover Dynamics in the European Alps - The Potential of Long Optical Remote-Sensing Time Series J. Koehler; A. Bauer; A. J. Dietz; C. Kuenzer; in Remote Sensing (2022). 14(18)
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@article{rs14184461, author = {Koehler, Jonas and Bauer, André and Dietz, Andreas J. and Kuenzer, Claudia}, journal = {Remote Sensing}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, number = 18, title = {Towards Forecasting Future Snow Cover Dynamics in the European Alps - The Potential of Long Optical Remote-Sensing Time Series}, volume = 14, year = 2022 }

%0 Journal Article %1 rs14184461 %A Koehler, Jonas %A Bauer, André %A Dietz, Andreas J. %A Kuenzer, Claudia %D 2022 %J Remote Sensing %N 18 %T Towards Forecasting Future Snow Cover Dynamics in the European Alps - The Potential of Long Optical Remote-Sensing Time Series %U https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/18/4461 %V 14
Retrospective Analysis of Training Intensity Distribution Based on Race Pace Versus Physiological Benchmarks in Highly Trained Sprint Kayakers M. Matzka; R. Leppich; B. Sperlich; C. Zinner; in Sports Medicine-Open (2022). 8(1) 1–12.
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@article{matzka2022retrospective, author = {Matzka, Manuel and Leppich, Robert and Sperlich, Billy and Zinner, Christoph}, journal = {Sports Medicine-Open}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, number = 1, pages = {1–12}, publisher = {SpringerOpen}, title = {Retrospective Analysis of Training Intensity Distribution Based on Race Pace Versus Physiological Benchmarks in Highly Trained Sprint Kayakers}, volume = 8, year = 2022 }

%0 Journal Article %1 matzka2022retrospective %A Matzka, Manuel %A Leppich, Robert %A Sperlich, Billy %A Zinner, Christoph %D 2022 %I SpringerOpen %J Sports Medicine-Open %N 1 %P 1--12 %T Retrospective Analysis of Training Intensity Distribution Based on Race Pace Versus Physiological Benchmarks in Highly Trained Sprint Kayakers %V 8
CortexVR: Immersive analysis and training of cognitive executive functions of soccer players using virtual reality and machine learning C. Krupitzer; J. Naber; J.-P. Stauffert; J. Mayer; J. Spielmann; P. Ehmann; N. Boci; M. Bürkle; A. Ho; C. Komorek; F. Heinickel; S. Kounev; C. Becker; M. E. Latoschik; in Frontiers in Psychology (2022). 5139.
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@article{krupitzer2022cortexvr, author = {Krupitzer, Christian and Naber, Jens and Stauffert, Jan-Philipp and Mayer, Jan and Spielmann, Jan and Ehmann, Paul and Boci, Noel and B{\"u}rkle, Maurice and Ho, Andr{\'e} and Komorek, Clemens and Heinickel, Felix and Kounev, Samuel and Becker, Christian and Latoschik, Marc Erich}, journal = {Frontiers in Psychology}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, pages = 5139, publisher = {Frontiers}, title = {CortexVR: Immersive analysis and training of cognitive executive functions of soccer players using virtual reality and machine learning}, year = 2022 }

%0 Journal Article %1 krupitzer2022cortexvr %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Naber, Jens %A Stauffert, Jan-Philipp %A Mayer, Jan %A Spielmann, Jan %A Ehmann, Paul %A Boci, Noel %A Bürkle, Maurice %A Ho, André %A Komorek, Clemens %A Heinickel, Felix %A Kounev, Samuel %A Becker, Christian %A Latoschik, Marc Erich %D 2022 %I Frontiers %J Frontiers in Psychology %P 5139 %T CortexVR: Immersive analysis and training of cognitive executive functions of soccer players using virtual reality and machine learning
Leveraging Kubernetes Source Code for Performance Simulation M. Straesser; P. Haas; (2022).
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@presentation{straesser2022leveraging, author = {Straesser, Martin and Haas, Patrick}, keywords = {container_orchestration}, title = {Leveraging Kubernetes Source Code for Performance Simulation}, year = 2022 }

%0 Generic %1 straesser2022leveraging %A Straesser, Martin %A Haas, Patrick %D 2022 %T Leveraging Kubernetes Source Code for Performance Simulation %U https://www.performance-symposium.org/2022/program/
MiSim: A Simulator for Resilience Assessment of Microservice-based Architectures S. Frank; L. Wagner; A. Hakamian; M. Straesser; A. van Hoorn; in Proceedings of the IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2022) (2022).

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@inproceedings{FrankWagnerHakamianStraesserVanHoorn2022MiSim, author = {Frank, Sebastian and Wagner, Lion and Hakamian, Alireza and Straesser, Martin and van Hoorn, Andre}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2022)}, keywords = {resilience}, note = {In print.}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {MiSim: A Simulator for Resilience Assessment of Microservice-based Architectures}, year = 2022 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 FrankWagnerHakamianStraesserVanHoorn2022MiSim %A Frank, Sebastian %A Wagner, Lion %A Hakamian, Alireza %A Straesser, Martin %A van Hoorn, Andre %B Proceedings of the IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2022) %D 2022 %I IEEE %T MiSim: A Simulator for Resilience Assessment of Microservice-based Architectures
Identification of clinically distinct and prognostically important phenogroups in patients with acute heart failure by a machine learning approach J. J. Albert; R. Leppich; V. Borst; F. Sahiti; N. Scholz; V. Cejka; C. Morbach; G. Ertl; C. Angermann; S. Frantz; others; in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2022). (Bd. 24) 179–179.
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@inproceedings{albert2022identification, author = {Albert, J Judith and Leppich, R and Borst, V and Sahiti, F and Scholz, N and Cejka, V and Morbach, C and Ertl, G and Angermann, C and Frantz, S and others}, booktitle = {EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE}, keywords = {t_interdisciplinary}, organization = {WILEY 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA}, pages = {179–179}, title = {Identification of clinically distinct and prognostically important phenogroups in patients with acute heart failure by a machine learning approach}, volume = 24, year = 2022 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 albert2022identification %A Albert, J Judith %A Leppich, R %A Borst, V %A Sahiti, F %A Scholz, N %A Cejka, V %A Morbach, C %A Ertl, G %A Angermann, C %A Frantz, S %A others, %B EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE %D 2022 %P 179--179 %T Identification of clinically distinct and prognostically important phenogroups in patients with acute heart failure by a machine learning approach %V 24
Retrospektive Analyse ausgewählter Belastungs-und Beanspruchungsparameter einer professionellen Fußball-mannschaft vor und während coronabedingter Kontakt-beschränkungen in der Spielsaison 2019/20 P. Kunz; P. Düking; R. Leppich; J. Lachmann; B. Sperlich; in Leipziger Sportwissenschaftliche Beiträge Jahrgang 63 (2022 Heft 1 (2022). 75.
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@article{kunz2022retrospektive, author = {Kunz, Philipp and D{\"u}king, Peter and Leppich, Robert and Lachmann, Jonas and Sperlich, Billy}, journal = {Leipziger Sportwissenschaftliche Beitr{\"a}ge Jahrgang 63 (2022 Heft 1}, keywords = {t_interdisciplinary}, pages = 75, publisher = {Lehmanns Media}, title = {Retrospektive Analyse ausgew{\"a}hlter Belastungs-und Beanspruchungsparameter einer professionellen Fu{\ss}ball-mannschaft vor und w{\"a}hrend coronabedingter Kontakt-beschr{\"a}nkungen in der Spielsaison 2019/20}, year = 2022 }

%0 Journal Article %1 kunz2022retrospektive %A Kunz, Philipp %A Düking, Peter %A Leppich, Robert %A Lachmann, Jonas %A Sperlich, Billy %D 2022 %I Lehmanns Media %J Leipziger Sportwissenschaftliche Beiträge Jahrgang 63 (2022 Heft 1 %P 75 %T Retrospektive Analyse ausgewählter Belastungs-und Beanspruchungsparameter einer professionellen Fußball-mannschaft vor und während coronabedingter Kontakt-beschränkungen in der Spielsaison 2019/20
ICPE ’22: ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, Bejing, China, April 9 - 13, 2022 D. Feng; S. Becker; N. Herbst; P. Leitner; (D. Feng; S. Becker; N. Herbst; P. Leitner, Hrsg.) (2022). ACM.
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@proceedings{DBLP:conf/wosp/2022, author = {Feng, Dan and Becker, Steffen and Herbst, Nikolas and Leitner, Philipp}, editor = {Feng, Dan and Becker, Steffen and Herbst, Nikolas and Leitner, Philipp}, keywords = {t_proceedings}, publisher = {{ACM}}, title = {{ICPE} '22: {ACM/SPEC} International Conference on Performance Engineering, Bejing, China, April 9 - 13, 2022}, year = 2022 }

%0 Conference Proceedings %1 DBLP:conf/wosp/2022 %A Feng, Dan %A Becker, Steffen %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Leitner, Philipp %D 2022 %E Feng, Dan %E Becker, Steffen %E Herbst, Nikolas %E Leitner, Philipp %I ACM %T ICPE '22: ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, Bejing, China, April 9 - 13, 2022 %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3489525
Proactive Critical Event Prediction based on Monitoring Data with Focus on Technical Systems M. Züfle; Thesis; Universität Würzburg. (2022).
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@phdthesis{Zu2022-phdthesis, author = {Züfle, Marwin}, keywords = {descartes}, school = {Universität Würzburg}, title = {Proactive Critical Event Prediction based on Monitoring Data with Focus on Technical Systems}, type = {Dissertation}, year = 2022 }

%0 Thesis %1 Zu2022-phdthesis %A Züfle, Marwin %D 2022 %T Proactive Critical Event Prediction based on Monitoring Data with Focus on Technical Systems
Self-Aware Optimization of Adaptation Planning Strategies V. Lesch; M. Hadry; S. Kounev; C. Krupitzer; in ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (2022).
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In today’s world, circumstances, processes, and requirements for software systems are becoming increasingly complex. In order to operate properly in such dynamic environments, software systems must adapt to these changes, which has led to the research area of Self-Adaptive Systems (SAS). Platooning is one example of adaptive systems in Intelligent Transportation Systems, which is the ability of vehicles to travel with close inter-vehicle distances. This technology leads to an increase in road throughput and safety, which directly addresses the increased infrastructure needs due to increased traffic on the roads. However, the No-Free-Lunch theorem states that the performance of one adaptation planning strategy is not necessarily transferable to other problems. Moreover, especially in the field of SAS, the selection of the most appropriate strategy depends on the current situation of the system. In this paper, we address the problem of self-aware optimization of adaptation planning strategies by designing a framework that includes situation detection, strategy selection, and parameter optimization of the selected strategies. We apply our approach on the case study platooning coordination and evaluate the performance of the proposed framework.

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%0 Journal Article %1 lesch2022selfaware %A Lesch, Veronika %A Hadry, Marius %A Kounev, Samuel %A Krupitzer, Christian %D 2022 %J ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems %T Self-Aware Optimization of Adaptation Planning Strategies %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3568680 %X In today’s world, circumstances, processes, and requirements for software systems are becoming increasingly complex. In order to operate properly in such dynamic environments, software systems must adapt to these changes, which has led to the research area of Self-Adaptive Systems (SAS). Platooning is one example of adaptive systems in Intelligent Transportation Systems, which is the ability of vehicles to travel with close inter-vehicle distances. This technology leads to an increase in road throughput and safety, which directly addresses the increased infrastructure needs due to increased traffic on the roads. However, the No-Free-Lunch theorem states that the performance of one adaptation planning strategy is not necessarily transferable to other problems. Moreover, especially in the field of SAS, the selection of the most appropriate strategy depends on the current situation of the system. In this paper, we address the problem of self-aware optimization of adaptation planning strategies by designing a framework that includes situation detection, strategy selection, and parameter optimization of the selected strategies. We apply our approach on the case study platooning coordination and evaluate the performance of the proposed framework.
The State of Serverless Applications: Collection, Characterization, and Community Consensus S. Eismann; J. Scheuner; E. van Eyk; M. Schwinger; J. Grohmann; N. Herbst; C. Abad; A. Iosup; in Transactions on Software Engineering (2022). 48(10) 4152–4166.
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Over the last five years, all major cloud platform providers have increased their serverless offerings. Many early adopters report significant benefits for serverless-based over traditional applications, and many companies are considering moving to serverless themselves. However, currently there exist only few, scattered, and sometimes even conflicting reports on when serverless applications are well suited and what the best practices for their implementation are. We address this problem in the present study about the state of serverless applications. We collect descriptions of 89 serverless applications from open-source projects, academic literature, industrial literature, and domain-specific feedback. We analyze 16 characteristics that describe why and when successful adopters are using serverless applications, and how they are building them. We further compare the results of our characterization study to 10 existing, mostly industrial, studies and datasets; this allows us to identify points of consensus across multiple studies, investigate points of disagreement, and overall confirm the validity of our results. The results of this study can help managers to decide if they should adopt serverless technology, engineers to learn about current practices of building serverless applications, and researchers and platform providers to better understand the current landscape of serverless applications.

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SPEC Research - Introducing the Predictive Data Analytics Working Group A. Bauer; M. Leznik; D. Seybold; I. Trubin; B. Erb; J. Domaschka; P. Jamshidi; in Companion of the 2022 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2022).
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@conference{bauer2022research, author = {Bauer, André and Leznik, Mark and Seybold, Daniel and Trubin, Igor and Erb, Benjamin and Domaschka, Jörg and Jamshidi, Pooyan}, booktitle = {Companion of the 2022 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {spec}, month = 4, series = {ICPE '22}, title = {SPEC Research - Introducing the Predictive Data Analytics Working Group}, year = 2022 }

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Towards a Cryptography Benchmark: A View on Attribute Based Encryption Schemes T. Prantl; T. Zeck; L. Iffländer; L. Beierlieb; A. Dmitrenko; C. Krupitzer; S. Kounev; in 2022 5th Conference on Cloud and Internet of Things (CIoT) (2022).
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@inproceedings{PrZeIfBeDmKrKo2022-CIoT-ABEBenchmark, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Zeck, Timo and Iffländer, Lukas and Beierlieb, Lukas and Dmitrenko, Alexandra and Krupitzer, Christian and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {2022 5th Conference on Cloud and Internet of Things (CIoT)}, keywords = {descartes}, organization = {IEEE}, title = {Towards a Cryptography Benchmark: A View on Attribute Based Encryption Schemes}, year = 2022 }

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FADE: Towards Flexible and Adaptive Distance Estimation Considering Obstacles M. Hadry; V. Lesch; S. Kounev; in Companion of the 13th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2022) (2022).
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@inproceedings{hadry2022towards, author = {Hadry, Marius and Lesch, Veronika and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Companion of the 13th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2022)}, keywords = {cyber-physical_systems}, month = {April}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {FADE: Towards Flexible and Adaptive Distance Estimation Considering Obstacles}, year = 2022 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 hadry2022towards %A Hadry, Marius %A Lesch, Veronika %A Kounev, Samuel %B Companion of the 13th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2022) %D 2022 %I ACM %T FADE: Towards Flexible and Adaptive Distance Estimation Considering Obstacles
Model Learning for Performance Prediction of Cloud-native Microservice Applications J. Grohmann; Thesis; Universität Würzburg. (2022, März).

Distinction
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One consequence of the recent coronavirus pandemic is increased demand and use of online services around the globe. At the same time, performance requirements for modern technologies are becoming more stringent as users become accustomed to higher standards. These increased performance and availability requirements, coupled with the unpredictable usage growth, are driving an increasing proportion of applications to run on public cloud platforms as they promise better scalability and reliability. With data centers already responsible for about one percent of the world's power consumption, optimizing resource usage is of paramount importance. Simultaneously, meeting the increasing and changing resource and performance requirements is only possible by optimizing resource management without introducing additional overhead. This requires the research and development of new modeling approaches to understand the behavior of running applications with minimal information. However, the emergence of modern software paradigms makes it increasingly difficult to derive such models and renders previous performance modeling techniques infeasible. Modern cloud applications are often deployed as a collection of fine-grained and interconnected components called microservices. Microservice architectures offer massive benefits but also have broad implications for the performance characteristics of the respective systems. In addition, the microservices paradigm is typically paired with a DevOps culture, resulting in frequent application and deployment changes. Such applications are often referred to as cloud-native applications. In summary, the increasing use of ever-changing cloud-hosted microservice applications introduces a number of unique challenges for modeling the performance of modern applications. These include the amount, type, and structure of monitoring data, frequent behavioral changes, or infrastructure variabilities. This violates common assumptions of the state of the art and opens a research gap for our work. In this thesis, we present five techniques for automated learning of performance models for cloud-native software systems. We achieve this by combining machine learning with traditional performance modeling techniques. Unlike previous work, our focus is on cloud-hosted and continuously evolving microservice architectures, so-called cloud-native applications. Therefore, our contributions aim to solve the above challenges to deliver automated performance models with minimal computational overhead and no manual intervention. Depending on the cloud computing model, privacy agreements, or monitoring capabilities of each platform, we identify different scenarios where performance modeling, prediction, and optimization techniques can provide great benefits. Specifically, the contributions of this thesis are as follows: Monitorless: Application-agnostic prediction of performance degradations. To manage application performance with only platform-level monitoring, we propose Monitorless, the first truly application-independent approach to detecting performance degradation. We use machine learning to bridge the gap between platform-level monitoring and application-specific measurements, eliminating the need for application-level monitoring. Monitorless creates a single and holistic resource saturation model that can be used for heterogeneous and untrained applications. Results show that Monitorless infers resource-based performance degradation with 97% accuracy. Moreover, it can achieve similar performance to typical autoscaling solutions, despite using less monitoring information. SuanMing: Predicting performance degradation using tracing. We introduce SuanMing to mitigate performance issues before they impact the user experience. This contribution is applied in scenarios where tracing tools enable application-level monitoring. SuanMing predicts explainable causes of expected performance degradations and prevents performance degradations before they occur. Evaluation results show that SuanMing can predict and pinpoint future performance degradations with an accuracy of over 90%. SARDE: Continuous and autonomous estimation of resource demands. We present SARDE to learn application models for highly variable application deployments. This contribution focuses on the continuous estimation of application resource demands, a key parameter of performance models. SARDE represents an autonomous ensemble estimation technique. It dynamically and continuously optimizes, selects, and executes an ensemble of approaches to estimate resource demands in response to changes in the application or its environment. Through continuous online adaptation, SARDE efficiently achieves an average resource demand estimation error of 15.96% in our evaluation. DepIC: Learning parametric dependencies from monitoring data. DepIC utilizes feature selection techniques in combination with an ensemble regression approach to automatically identify and characterize parametric dependencies. Although parametric dependencies can massively improve the accuracy of performance models, DepIC is the first approach to automatically learn such parametric dependencies from passive monitoring data streams. Our evaluation shows that DepIC achieves 91.7% precision in identifying dependencies and reduces the characterization prediction error by 30% compared to the best individual approach. Baloo: Modeling the configuration space of databases. To study the impact of different configurations within distributed DBMSs, we introduce Baloo. Our last contribution models the configuration space of databases considering measurement variabilities in the cloud. More specifically, Baloo dynamically estimates the required benchmarking measurements and automatically builds a configuration space model of a given DBMS. Our evaluation of Baloo on a dataset consisting of 900 configuration points shows that the framework achieves a prediction error of less than 11% while saving up to 80% of the measurement effort. Although the contributions themselves are orthogonally aligned, taken together they provide a holistic approach to performance management of modern cloud-native microservice applications. Our contributions are a significant step forward as they specifically target novel and cloud-native software development and operation paradigms, surpassing the capabilities and limitations of previous approaches. In addition, the research presented in this paper also has a significant impact on the industry, as the contributions were developed in collaboration with research teams from Nokia Bell Labs, Huawei, and Google. Overall, our solutions open up new possibilities for managing and optimizing cloud applications and improve cost and energy efficiency.

@phdthesis{Gr2022-Dissertation, abstract = {One consequence of the recent coronavirus pandemic is increased demand and use of online services around the globe. At the same time, performance requirements for modern technologies are becoming more stringent as users become accustomed to higher standards. These increased performance and availability requirements, coupled with the unpredictable usage growth, are driving an increasing proportion of applications to run on public cloud platforms as they promise better scalability and reliability. With data centers already responsible for about one percent of the world's power consumption, optimizing resource usage is of paramount importance. Simultaneously, meeting the increasing and changing resource and performance requirements is only possible by optimizing resource management without introducing additional overhead. This requires the research and development of new modeling approaches to understand the behavior of running applications with minimal information. However, the emergence of modern software paradigms makes it increasingly difficult to derive such models and renders previous performance modeling techniques infeasible. Modern cloud applications are often deployed as a collection of fine-grained and interconnected components called microservices. Microservice architectures offer massive benefits but also have broad implications for the performance characteristics of the respective systems. In addition, the microservices paradigm is typically paired with a DevOps culture, resulting in frequent application and deployment changes. Such applications are often referred to as cloud-native applications. In summary, the increasing use of ever-changing cloud-hosted microservice applications introduces a number of unique challenges for modeling the performance of modern applications. These include the amount, type, and structure of monitoring data, frequent behavioral changes, or infrastructure variabilities. This violates common assumptions of the state of the art and opens a research gap for our work. In this thesis, we present five techniques for automated learning of performance models for cloud-native software systems. We achieve this by combining machine learning with traditional performance modeling techniques. Unlike previous work, our focus is on cloud-hosted and continuously evolving microservice architectures, so-called cloud-native applications. Therefore, our contributions aim to solve the above challenges to deliver automated performance models with minimal computational overhead and no manual intervention. Depending on the cloud computing model, privacy agreements, or monitoring capabilities of each platform, we identify different scenarios where performance modeling, prediction, and optimization techniques can provide great benefits. Specifically, the contributions of this thesis are as follows: Monitorless: Application-agnostic prediction of performance degradations. To manage application performance with only platform-level monitoring, we propose Monitorless, the first truly application-independent approach to detecting performance degradation. We use machine learning to bridge the gap between platform-level monitoring and application-specific measurements, eliminating the need for application-level monitoring. Monitorless creates a single and holistic resource saturation model that can be used for heterogeneous and untrained applications. Results show that Monitorless infers resource-based performance degradation with 97% accuracy. Moreover, it can achieve similar performance to typical autoscaling solutions, despite using less monitoring information. SuanMing: Predicting performance degradation using tracing. We introduce SuanMing to mitigate performance issues before they impact the user experience. This contribution is applied in scenarios where tracing tools enable application-level monitoring. SuanMing predicts explainable causes of expected performance degradations and prevents performance degradations before they occur. Evaluation results show that SuanMing can predict and pinpoint future performance degradations with an accuracy of over 90%. SARDE: Continuous and autonomous estimation of resource demands. We present SARDE to learn application models for highly variable application deployments. This contribution focuses on the continuous estimation of application resource demands, a key parameter of performance models. SARDE represents an autonomous ensemble estimation technique. It dynamically and continuously optimizes, selects, and executes an ensemble of approaches to estimate resource demands in response to changes in the application or its environment. Through continuous online adaptation, SARDE efficiently achieves an average resource demand estimation error of 15.96% in our evaluation. DepIC: Learning parametric dependencies from monitoring data. DepIC utilizes feature selection techniques in combination with an ensemble regression approach to automatically identify and characterize parametric dependencies. Although parametric dependencies can massively improve the accuracy of performance models, DepIC is the first approach to automatically learn such parametric dependencies from passive monitoring data streams. Our evaluation shows that DepIC achieves 91.7% precision in identifying dependencies and reduces the characterization prediction error by 30% compared to the best individual approach. Baloo: Modeling the configuration space of databases. To study the impact of different configurations within distributed DBMSs, we introduce Baloo. Our last contribution models the configuration space of databases considering measurement variabilities in the cloud. More specifically, Baloo dynamically estimates the required benchmarking measurements and automatically builds a configuration space model of a given DBMS. Our evaluation of Baloo on a dataset consisting of 900 configuration points shows that the framework achieves a prediction error of less than 11% while saving up to 80% of the measurement effort. Although the contributions themselves are orthogonally aligned, taken together they provide a holistic approach to performance management of modern cloud-native microservice applications. Our contributions are a significant step forward as they specifically target novel and cloud-native software development and operation paradigms, surpassing the capabilities and limitations of previous approaches. In addition, the research presented in this paper also has a significant impact on the industry, as the contributions were developed in collaboration with research teams from Nokia Bell Labs, Huawei, and Google. Overall, our solutions open up new possibilities for managing and optimizing cloud applications and improve cost and energy efficiency.}, author = {Grohmann, Johannes}, keywords = {performance}, month = {March}, note = {Distinction}, school = {Universität Würzburg}, title = {Model Learning for Performance Prediction of Cloud-native Microservice Applications}, type = {Dissertation}, year = 2022 }

%0 Thesis %1 Gr2022-Dissertation %A Grohmann, Johannes %D 2022 %T Model Learning for Performance Prediction of Cloud-native Microservice Applications %U https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/26160 %X One consequence of the recent coronavirus pandemic is increased demand and use of online services around the globe. At the same time, performance requirements for modern technologies are becoming more stringent as users become accustomed to higher standards. These increased performance and availability requirements, coupled with the unpredictable usage growth, are driving an increasing proportion of applications to run on public cloud platforms as they promise better scalability and reliability. With data centers already responsible for about one percent of the world's power consumption, optimizing resource usage is of paramount importance. Simultaneously, meeting the increasing and changing resource and performance requirements is only possible by optimizing resource management without introducing additional overhead. This requires the research and development of new modeling approaches to understand the behavior of running applications with minimal information. However, the emergence of modern software paradigms makes it increasingly difficult to derive such models and renders previous performance modeling techniques infeasible. Modern cloud applications are often deployed as a collection of fine-grained and interconnected components called microservices. Microservice architectures offer massive benefits but also have broad implications for the performance characteristics of the respective systems. In addition, the microservices paradigm is typically paired with a DevOps culture, resulting in frequent application and deployment changes. Such applications are often referred to as cloud-native applications. In summary, the increasing use of ever-changing cloud-hosted microservice applications introduces a number of unique challenges for modeling the performance of modern applications. These include the amount, type, and structure of monitoring data, frequent behavioral changes, or infrastructure variabilities. This violates common assumptions of the state of the art and opens a research gap for our work. In this thesis, we present five techniques for automated learning of performance models for cloud-native software systems. We achieve this by combining machine learning with traditional performance modeling techniques. Unlike previous work, our focus is on cloud-hosted and continuously evolving microservice architectures, so-called cloud-native applications. Therefore, our contributions aim to solve the above challenges to deliver automated performance models with minimal computational overhead and no manual intervention. Depending on the cloud computing model, privacy agreements, or monitoring capabilities of each platform, we identify different scenarios where performance modeling, prediction, and optimization techniques can provide great benefits. Specifically, the contributions of this thesis are as follows: Monitorless: Application-agnostic prediction of performance degradations. To manage application performance with only platform-level monitoring, we propose Monitorless, the first truly application-independent approach to detecting performance degradation. We use machine learning to bridge the gap between platform-level monitoring and application-specific measurements, eliminating the need for application-level monitoring. Monitorless creates a single and holistic resource saturation model that can be used for heterogeneous and untrained applications. Results show that Monitorless infers resource-based performance degradation with 97% accuracy. Moreover, it can achieve similar performance to typical autoscaling solutions, despite using less monitoring information. SuanMing: Predicting performance degradation using tracing. We introduce SuanMing to mitigate performance issues before they impact the user experience. This contribution is applied in scenarios where tracing tools enable application-level monitoring. SuanMing predicts explainable causes of expected performance degradations and prevents performance degradations before they occur. Evaluation results show that SuanMing can predict and pinpoint future performance degradations with an accuracy of over 90%. SARDE: Continuous and autonomous estimation of resource demands. We present SARDE to learn application models for highly variable application deployments. This contribution focuses on the continuous estimation of application resource demands, a key parameter of performance models. SARDE represents an autonomous ensemble estimation technique. It dynamically and continuously optimizes, selects, and executes an ensemble of approaches to estimate resource demands in response to changes in the application or its environment. Through continuous online adaptation, SARDE efficiently achieves an average resource demand estimation error of 15.96% in our evaluation. DepIC: Learning parametric dependencies from monitoring data. DepIC utilizes feature selection techniques in combination with an ensemble regression approach to automatically identify and characterize parametric dependencies. Although parametric dependencies can massively improve the accuracy of performance models, DepIC is the first approach to automatically learn such parametric dependencies from passive monitoring data streams. Our evaluation shows that DepIC achieves 91.7% precision in identifying dependencies and reduces the characterization prediction error by 30% compared to the best individual approach. Baloo: Modeling the configuration space of databases. To study the impact of different configurations within distributed DBMSs, we introduce Baloo. Our last contribution models the configuration space of databases considering measurement variabilities in the cloud. More specifically, Baloo dynamically estimates the required benchmarking measurements and automatically builds a configuration space model of a given DBMS. Our evaluation of Baloo on a dataset consisting of 900 configuration points shows that the framework achieves a prediction error of less than 11% while saving up to 80% of the measurement effort. Although the contributions themselves are orthogonally aligned, taken together they provide a holistic approach to performance management of modern cloud-native microservice applications. Our contributions are a significant step forward as they specifically target novel and cloud-native software development and operation paradigms, surpassing the capabilities and limitations of previous approaches. In addition, the research presented in this paper also has a significant impact on the industry, as the contributions were developed in collaboration with research teams from Nokia Bell Labs, Huawei, and Google. Overall, our solutions open up new possibilities for managing and optimizing cloud applications and improve cost and energy efficiency.
A case study on the stability of performance tests for serverless applications S. Eismann; D. Costa; L. Liao; C.-P. Bezemer; W. Shang; A. van Hoorn; S. Kounev; in Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) (2022). 189
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Context: While in serverless computing, application resource management and operational concerns are generally delegated to the cloud provider, ensuring that serverless applications meet their performance requirements is still a responsibility of the developers. Performance testing is a commonly used performance assessment practice; however, it traditionally requires visibility of the resource environment. Objective: In this study, we investigate whether performance tests of serverless applications are stable, that is, if their results are reproducible, and what implications the serverless paradigm has for performance tests. Method: We conduct a case study where we collect two datasets of performance test results: (a) repetitions of performance tests for varying memory size and load intensities and (b) three repetitions of the same performance test every day for ten months. Results: We find that performance tests of serverless applications are comparatively stable if conducted on the same day. However, we also observe short-term performance variations and frequent long-term performance changes. Conclusion: Performance tests for serverless applications can be stable; however, the serverless model impacts the planning, execution, and analysis of performance tests.

@article{eismann2022study, abstract = {Context: While in serverless computing, application resource management and operational concerns are generally delegated to the cloud provider, ensuring that serverless applications meet their performance requirements is still a responsibility of the developers. Performance testing is a commonly used performance assessment practice; however, it traditionally requires visibility of the resource environment. Objective: In this study, we investigate whether performance tests of serverless applications are stable, that is, if their results are reproducible, and what implications the serverless paradigm has for performance tests. Method: We conduct a case study where we collect two datasets of performance test results: (a) repetitions of performance tests for varying memory size and load intensities and (b) three repetitions of the same performance test every day for ten months. Results: We find that performance tests of serverless applications are comparatively stable if conducted on the same day. However, we also observe short-term performance variations and frequent long-term performance changes. Conclusion: Performance tests for serverless applications can be stable; however, the serverless model impacts the planning, execution, and analysis of performance tests.}, author = {Eismann, Simon and Costa, Diego and Liao, Lizhi and Bezemer, Cor-Paul and Shang, Weiyi and van Hoorn, André and Kounev, Samuel}, journal = {Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, title = {A case study on the stability of performance tests for serverless applications}, volume = 189, year = 2022 }

%0 Journal Article %1 eismann2022study %A Eismann, Simon %A Costa, Diego %A Liao, Lizhi %A Bezemer, Cor-Paul %A Shang, Weiyi %A van Hoorn, André %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2022 %J Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) %T A case study on the stability of performance tests for serverless applications %U https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0164121222000498 %V 189 %X Context: While in serverless computing, application resource management and operational concerns are generally delegated to the cloud provider, ensuring that serverless applications meet their performance requirements is still a responsibility of the developers. Performance testing is a commonly used performance assessment practice; however, it traditionally requires visibility of the resource environment. Objective: In this study, we investigate whether performance tests of serverless applications are stable, that is, if their results are reproducible, and what implications the serverless paradigm has for performance tests. Method: We conduct a case study where we collect two datasets of performance test results: (a) repetitions of performance tests for varying memory size and load intensities and (b) three repetitions of the same performance test every day for ten months. Results: We find that performance tests of serverless applications are comparatively stable if conducted on the same day. However, we also observe short-term performance variations and frequent long-term performance changes. Conclusion: Performance tests for serverless applications can be stable; however, the serverless model impacts the planning, execution, and analysis of performance tests.
Why Is It Not Solved Yet? Challenges for Production-Ready Autoscaling M. Straesser; J. Grohmann; J. von Kistowski; S. Eismann; A. Bauer; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering (2022). 105–115.
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Autoscaling is a task of major importance in the cloud computing domain as it directly affects both operating costs and customer experience. Although there has been active research in this area for over ten years now, there is still a significant gap between the proposed methods in the literature and the deployed autoscalers in practice. Hence, many research autoscalers do not find their way into production deployments. This paper describes six core challenges that arise in production systems that are still not solved by most research autoscalers. We illustrate these problems through experiments in a realistic cloud environment with a real-world multi-service business application and show that commonly used autoscalers have various shortcomings. In addition, we analyze the behavior of overloaded services and show that these can be problematic for existing autoscalers. Generally, we analyze that these challenges are only insufficiently addressed in the literature and conclude that future scaling approaches should focus on the needs of production systems.

@inproceedings{10.1145/3489525.3511680, abstract = {Autoscaling is a task of major importance in the cloud computing domain as it directly affects both operating costs and customer experience. Although there has been active research in this area for over ten years now, there is still a significant gap between the proposed methods in the literature and the deployed autoscalers in practice. Hence, many research autoscalers do not find their way into production deployments. This paper describes six core challenges that arise in production systems that are still not solved by most research autoscalers. We illustrate these problems through experiments in a realistic cloud environment with a real-world multi-service business application and show that commonly used autoscalers have various shortcomings. In addition, we analyze the behavior of overloaded services and show that these can be problematic for existing autoscalers. Generally, we analyze that these challenges are only insufficiently addressed in the literature and conclude that future scaling approaches should focus on the needs of production systems.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Straesser, Martin and Grohmann, Johannes and von Kistowski, J\'{o}akim and Eismann, Simon and Bauer, Andr\'{e} and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {microservices}, pages = {105–115}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, series = {ICPE '22}, title = {Why Is It Not Solved Yet? Challenges for Production-Ready Autoscaling}, year = 2022 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 10.1145/3489525.3511680 %A Straesser, Martin %A Grohmann, Johannes %A von Kistowski, Jóakim %A Eismann, Simon %A Bauer, André %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering %C New York, NY, USA %D 2022 %I Association for Computing Machinery %P 105–115 %T Why Is It Not Solved Yet? Challenges for Production-Ready Autoscaling %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3489525.3511680 %X Autoscaling is a task of major importance in the cloud computing domain as it directly affects both operating costs and customer experience. Although there has been active research in this area for over ten years now, there is still a significant gap between the proposed methods in the literature and the deployed autoscalers in practice. Hence, many research autoscalers do not find their way into production deployments. This paper describes six core challenges that arise in production systems that are still not solved by most research autoscalers. We illustrate these problems through experiments in a realistic cloud environment with a real-world multi-service business application and show that commonly used autoscalers have various shortcomings. In addition, we analyze the behavior of overloaded services and show that these can be problematic for existing autoscalers. Generally, we analyze that these challenges are only insufficiently addressed in the literature and conclude that future scaling approaches should focus on the needs of production systems.
SPEC Research Group Newsletter, Issue 11 S. Kounev; A. van Hoorn; M. Straesser; A. Bauer; (2022, April).

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Same, Same, but Dissimilar: Exploring Measurements for Workload Time-Series Similarity M. Leznik; J. Grohmann; N. Kliche; A. Bauer; D. Seybold; S. Eismann; S. Kounev; J. Domaschka; in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering (2022). 89–96.
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Benchmarking is a core element in the toolbox of most systems researchers and is used for analyzing, comparing, and validating complex systems. In the quest for reliable benchmark results, a consensus has formed that a significant experiment must be based on multiple runs. To interpret these runs, mean and standard deviation are often used. In case of experiments where each run produces a time series, applying and comparing the mean is not easily applicable and not necessarily statistically sound. Such an approach ignores the possibility of significant differences between runs with a similar average. In order to verify this hypothesis, we conducted a survey of 1,112 publications of selected performance engineering and systems conferences canvassing open data sets from performance experiments. The identified 3 data sets purely rely on average and standard deviation. Therefore, we propose a novel analysis approach based on similarity analysis to enhance the reliability of performance evaluations. Our approach evaluates 12 (dis-)similarity measures with respect to their applicability in analysing performance measurements and identifies four suitable similarity measures. We validate our approach by demonstrating the increase in reliability for the data sets found in the survey.

@inproceedings{leznik2022dissimilar, abstract = {Benchmarking is a core element in the toolbox of most systems researchers and is used for analyzing, comparing, and validating complex systems. In the quest for reliable benchmark results, a consensus has formed that a significant experiment must be based on multiple runs. To interpret these runs, mean and standard deviation are often used. In case of experiments where each run produces a time series, applying and comparing the mean is not easily applicable and not necessarily statistically sound. Such an approach ignores the possibility of significant differences between runs with a similar average. In order to verify this hypothesis, we conducted a survey of 1,112 publications of selected performance engineering and systems conferences canvassing open data sets from performance experiments. The identified 3 data sets purely rely on average and standard deviation. Therefore, we propose a novel analysis approach based on similarity analysis to enhance the reliability of performance evaluations. Our approach evaluates 12 (dis-)similarity measures with respect to their applicability in analysing performance measurements and identifies four suitable similarity measures. We validate our approach by demonstrating the increase in reliability for the data sets found in the survey.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Leznik, Mark and Grohmann, Johannes and Kliche, Nina and Bauer, Andr\'{e} and Seybold, Daniel and Eismann, Simon and Kounev, Samuel and Domaschka, J\"{o}rg}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {analysis}, pages = {89–96}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, series = {ICPE '22}, title = {Same, Same, but Dissimilar: Exploring Measurements for Workload Time-Series Similarity}, year = 2022 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 leznik2022dissimilar %A Leznik, Mark %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Kliche, Nina %A Bauer, André %A Seybold, Daniel %A Eismann, Simon %A Kounev, Samuel %A Domaschka, Jörg %B Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering %C New York, NY, USA %D 2022 %I Association for Computing Machinery %P 89–96 %T Same, Same, but Dissimilar: Exploring Measurements for Workload Time-Series Similarity %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3489525.3511699 %X Benchmarking is a core element in the toolbox of most systems researchers and is used for analyzing, comparing, and validating complex systems. In the quest for reliable benchmark results, a consensus has formed that a significant experiment must be based on multiple runs. To interpret these runs, mean and standard deviation are often used. In case of experiments where each run produces a time series, applying and comparing the mean is not easily applicable and not necessarily statistically sound. Such an approach ignores the possibility of significant differences between runs with a similar average. In order to verify this hypothesis, we conducted a survey of 1,112 publications of selected performance engineering and systems conferences canvassing open data sets from performance experiments. The identified 3 data sets purely rely on average and standard deviation. Therefore, we propose a novel analysis approach based on similarity analysis to enhance the reliability of performance evaluations. Our approach evaluates 12 (dis-)similarity measures with respect to their applicability in analysing performance measurements and identifies four suitable similarity measures. We validate our approach by demonstrating the increase in reliability for the data sets found in the survey.
SPEC Research - Introducing the Predictive Data Analytics Working Group A. Bauer; M. Leznik; D. Seybold; I. Trubin; B. Erb; J. Domaschka; P. Jamshidi; in Companion of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering (2022).
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%0 Generic %1 noauthororeditor %A Bauer, André %A Leznik, Mark %A Seybold, Daniel %A Trubin, Igor %A Erb, Benjamin %A Domaschka, Jörg %A Jamshidi, Pooyan %B Companion of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering %D 2022 %T SPEC Research - Introducing the Predictive Data Analytics Working Group
Measurement, Modeling, and Emulation of Power Consumption of Distributed Systems N. Schmitt; (2022, Juni).
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Automated Triage of Performance Change Points Using Time Series Analysis and Machine Learning A. Bauer; M. Straesser; L. Beierlieb; M. Meissner; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering (2022).
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%0 Generic %1 bauer2022automated %A Bauer, André %A Straesser, Martin %A Beierlieb, Lukas %A Meissner, Maximilian %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering %D 2022 %I ACM %T Automated Triage of Performance Change Points Using Time Series Analysis and Machine Learning
An Experience Report on the Suitability of a Distributed Group Encryption Scheme for an IoT Use Case T. Prantl; S. Engel; A. Bauer; A. E. Ben Yahya; S. Herrnleben; L. Iffländer; A. Dmitrienko; S. Kounev; in 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022) (2022).
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@inproceedings{PrEnBaAlHeIfDmKo2022-IoT/CPS-DistributedGroupEncryption, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Engel, Simon and Bauer, Andre and Ben Yahya, Ala Eddine and Herrnleben, Stefan and Iffländer, Lukas and Dmitrienko, Alexandra and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022)}, keywords = {t_workshop}, organization = {IEEE}, title = {An Experience Report on the Suitability of a Distributed Group Encryption Scheme for an IoT Use Case}, year = 2022 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 PrEnBaAlHeIfDmKo2022-IoT/CPS-DistributedGroupEncryption %A Prantl, Thomas %A Engel, Simon %A Bauer, Andre %A Ben Yahya, Ala Eddine %A Herrnleben, Stefan %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Dmitrienko, Alexandra %A Kounev, Samuel %B 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022) %D 2022 %T An Experience Report on the Suitability of a Distributed Group Encryption Scheme for an IoT Use Case
Change Point Detection for MongoDB Time Series Performance Regression M. Leznik; M. S. Iqbal; I. A. Trubin; A. Lochner; P. Jamshidi; A. Bauer; in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering (2022).
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%0 Generic %1 leznik2022change %A Leznik, Mark %A Iqbal, Md Shahriar %A Trubin, Igor A. %A Lochner, Arne %A Jamshidi, Pooyan %A Bauer, André %B Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering %D 2022 %I ACM %T Change Point Detection for MongoDB Time Series Performance Regression
SPEC Efficiency Benchmark Development: How to Contribute to the Future of Energy Conservation M. Meissner; K.-D. Lange; J. Arnold; S. Sharma; R. Tipley; N. Rawtani; D. Reiner; M. Petrich; A. Cragin; in Companion of the 2022 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2022).
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A driving force behind the improvement of server efficiency in recent years is the use of SPEC benchmarks. They are used in mandatory government regulations, the ISO/IEC 21836:2020 standard, and product marketing, giving server manufacturers and buyers significant incentive to improve energy efficiency. To produce relevant results, benchmarks need to take into account future trends in hardware and software development, such as the introduction of new accelerators and workloads. To keep pace with the development of the fast moving IT landscape, SPEC plans to introduce a workload bounty program to encourage researchers to develop novel workloads. Submitted workloads will be considered for inclusion in future SPEC Efficiency benchmarks and rewarded. In this paper, we outline the process of energy-efficiency benchmark development. SPEC ensures the development of high-quality benchmarks for government regulations through its extensive experience and collaboration with stakeholders from industry, academia, and governments. One of the tools that emerged from this process is the Chauffeur Worklet Development Kit (WDK), which can be used by researchers to develop next-generation workloads to enhance the real-world relevance of future SPEC benchmarks, a critical element for the benchmarks to contribute to future energy conservation.

@inproceedings{meissner2022efficiency, abstract = {A driving force behind the improvement of server efficiency in recent years is the use of SPEC benchmarks. They are used in mandatory government regulations, the ISO/IEC 21836:2020 standard, and product marketing, giving server manufacturers and buyers significant incentive to improve energy efficiency. To produce relevant results, benchmarks need to take into account future trends in hardware and software development, such as the introduction of new accelerators and workloads. To keep pace with the development of the fast moving IT landscape, SPEC plans to introduce a workload bounty program to encourage researchers to develop novel workloads. Submitted workloads will be considered for inclusion in future SPEC Efficiency benchmarks and rewarded. In this paper, we outline the process of energy-efficiency benchmark development. SPEC ensures the development of high-quality benchmarks for government regulations through its extensive experience and collaboration with stakeholders from industry, academia, and governments. One of the tools that emerged from this process is the Chauffeur Worklet Development Kit (WDK), which can be used by researchers to develop next-generation workloads to enhance the real-world relevance of future SPEC benchmarks, a critical element for the benchmarks to contribute to future energy conservation.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Meissner, Maximilian and Lange, Klaus-Dieter and Arnold, Jeremy and Sharma, Sanjay and Tipley, Roger and Rawtani, Nishant and Reiner, David and Petrich, Mike and Cragin, Aaron}, booktitle = {Companion of the 2022 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {spec}, month = {April}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {SPEC Efficiency Benchmark Development: How to Contribute to the Future of Energy Conservation}, year = 2022 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 meissner2022efficiency %A Meissner, Maximilian %A Lange, Klaus-Dieter %A Arnold, Jeremy %A Sharma, Sanjay %A Tipley, Roger %A Rawtani, Nishant %A Reiner, David %A Petrich, Mike %A Cragin, Aaron %B Companion of the 2022 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering %C New York, NY, USA %D 2022 %I ACM %T SPEC Efficiency Benchmark Development: How to Contribute to the Future of Energy Conservation %X A driving force behind the improvement of server efficiency in recent years is the use of SPEC benchmarks. They are used in mandatory government regulations, the ISO/IEC 21836:2020 standard, and product marketing, giving server manufacturers and buyers significant incentive to improve energy efficiency. To produce relevant results, benchmarks need to take into account future trends in hardware and software development, such as the introduction of new accelerators and workloads. To keep pace with the development of the fast moving IT landscape, SPEC plans to introduce a workload bounty program to encourage researchers to develop novel workloads. Submitted workloads will be considered for inclusion in future SPEC Efficiency benchmarks and rewarded. In this paper, we outline the process of energy-efficiency benchmark development. SPEC ensures the development of high-quality benchmarks for government regulations through its extensive experience and collaboration with stakeholders from industry, academia, and governments. One of the tools that emerged from this process is the Chauffeur Worklet Development Kit (WDK), which can be used by researchers to develop next-generation workloads to enhance the real-world relevance of future SPEC benchmarks, a critical element for the benchmarks to contribute to future energy conservation.
A literature review on optimization techniques for adaptation planning in adaptive systems: State of the art and research directions E. Henrichs; V. Lesch; M. Straesser; S. Kounev; C. Krupitzer; in Information and Software Technology (2022). 149 106940.
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Context: Recent developments in modern IT systems including internet of things, edge/fog computing, or cyber–physical systems support intelligent and seamless interaction between users and systems. This requires a reaction to changes in their environment or the system. Adaptive systems provide mechanisms for these reactions. Objective: To implement this functionality, several approaches for the planning of adaptations exist that rely on rules, utility functions, or advanced techniques, such as machine learning. As the adaptation space with possible options is often extensively huge, optimization techniques might support efficient determination of the adaptation space and identify the system’s optimal configuration. With this paper, we provide a systematic review of adaptation planning as the optimization target. Method: In this paper, we review which optimization techniques are applied for adaptation planning in adaptive systems using a systematic literature review approach. Results: We reviewed 115 paper in detail out of an initial search set of 9,588 papers. Our analysis reveals that learning techniques and genetic algorithms are by far dominant; in total, heuristics (anytime learning) are more frequently applied as exact algorithms. We observed that around 57% of the approaches target multi-objectiveness and around 30% integrate distributed optimization. As last dimension, we focused on situation-awareness, which is only supported by two approaches. Conclusion: In this paper, we provide an overview of the current state of the art of approaches that rely on optimization techniques for planning adaptations in adaptive systems and further derive open research challenges, in particular regarding the integration of distributed optimization and situation-awareness.

@article{HENRICHS2022106940, abstract = {Context: Recent developments in modern IT systems including internet of things, edge/fog computing, or cyber–physical systems support intelligent and seamless interaction between users and systems. This requires a reaction to changes in their environment or the system. Adaptive systems provide mechanisms for these reactions. Objective: To implement this functionality, several approaches for the planning of adaptations exist that rely on rules, utility functions, or advanced techniques, such as machine learning. As the adaptation space with possible options is often extensively huge, optimization techniques might support efficient determination of the adaptation space and identify the system’s optimal configuration. With this paper, we provide a systematic review of adaptation planning as the optimization target. Method: In this paper, we review which optimization techniques are applied for adaptation planning in adaptive systems using a systematic literature review approach. Results: We reviewed 115 paper in detail out of an initial search set of 9,588 papers. Our analysis reveals that learning techniques and genetic algorithms are by far dominant; in total, heuristics (anytime learning) are more frequently applied as exact algorithms. We observed that around 57% of the approaches target multi-objectiveness and around 30% integrate distributed optimization. As last dimension, we focused on situation-awareness, which is only supported by two approaches. Conclusion: In this paper, we provide an overview of the current state of the art of approaches that rely on optimization techniques for planning adaptations in adaptive systems and further derive open research challenges, in particular regarding the integration of distributed optimization and situation-awareness.}, author = {Henrichs, Elia and Lesch, Veronika and Straesser, Martin and Kounev, Samuel and Krupitzer, Christian}, journal = {Information and Software Technology}, keywords = {sys:relevantfor:se-group}, pages = 106940, title = {A literature review on optimization techniques for adaptation planning in adaptive systems: State of the art and research directions}, volume = 149, year = 2022 }

%0 Journal Article %1 HENRICHS2022106940 %A Henrichs, Elia %A Lesch, Veronika %A Straesser, Martin %A Kounev, Samuel %A Krupitzer, Christian %D 2022 %J Information and Software Technology %P 106940 %T A literature review on optimization techniques for adaptation planning in adaptive systems: State of the art and research directions %U https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584922000891 %V 149 %X Context: Recent developments in modern IT systems including internet of things, edge/fog computing, or cyber–physical systems support intelligent and seamless interaction between users and systems. This requires a reaction to changes in their environment or the system. Adaptive systems provide mechanisms for these reactions. Objective: To implement this functionality, several approaches for the planning of adaptations exist that rely on rules, utility functions, or advanced techniques, such as machine learning. As the adaptation space with possible options is often extensively huge, optimization techniques might support efficient determination of the adaptation space and identify the system’s optimal configuration. With this paper, we provide a systematic review of adaptation planning as the optimization target. Method: In this paper, we review which optimization techniques are applied for adaptation planning in adaptive systems using a systematic literature review approach. Results: We reviewed 115 paper in detail out of an initial search set of 9,588 papers. Our analysis reveals that learning techniques and genetic algorithms are by far dominant; in total, heuristics (anytime learning) are more frequently applied as exact algorithms. We observed that around 57% of the approaches target multi-objectiveness and around 30% integrate distributed optimization. As last dimension, we focused on situation-awareness, which is only supported by two approaches. Conclusion: In this paper, we provide an overview of the current state of the art of approaches that rely on optimization techniques for planning adaptations in adaptive systems and further derive open research challenges, in particular regarding the integration of distributed optimization and situation-awareness.
Self-Aware Optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems in Intelligent Transportation and Logistics Systems V. Lesch; Thesis; Universität Würzburg. (2022, April).
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@phdthesis{Le2022-Dissertation, author = {Lesch, Veronika}, keywords = {internet_of_things}, month = {April}, school = {Universität Würzburg}, title = {Self-Aware Optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems in Intelligent Transportation and Logistics Systems}, type = {Dissertation}, year = 2022 }

%0 Thesis %1 Le2022-Dissertation %A Lesch, Veronika %D 2022 %T Self-Aware Optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems in Intelligent Transportation and Logistics Systems %U https://doi.org/10.25972/OPUS-27228
Ransomware Detection in Databases through Dynamic Analysis of Query Sequences C. Sendner; L. Iffländer; S. Schindler; M. Jobst; A. Dmitrienko; S. Kounev; in 2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) (2022).
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@conference{sendner2022ransomware, author = {Sendner, Christoph and Iffländer, Lukas and Schindler, Sebastian and Jobst, Michael and Dmitrienko, Alexandra and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)}, keywords = {sss-group}, title = {Ransomware Detection in Databases through Dynamic Analysis of Query Sequences}, year = 2022 }

%0 Generic %1 sendner2022ransomware %A Sendner, Christoph %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Schindler, Sebastian %A Jobst, Michael %A Dmitrienko, Alexandra %A Kounev, Samuel %B 2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) %D 2022 %T Ransomware Detection in Databases through Dynamic Analysis of Query Sequences
A data-driven Sensor Model for LIDAR Range Measurements used for Mobile Robot Navigation F. Spiess; N. Strobel; T. Kaupp; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the IEEE IRC 2022 Conference (2022).
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@conference{spiess2022datadriven, author = {Spiess, Florian and Strobel, Norbert and Kaupp, Tobias and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE IRC 2022 Conference}, keywords = {t_interdisciplinary}, title = {A data-driven Sensor Model for LIDAR Range Measurements used for Mobile Robot Navigation}, year = 2022 }

%0 Generic %1 spiess2022datadriven %A Spiess, Florian %A Strobel, Norbert %A Kaupp, Tobias %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the IEEE IRC 2022 Conference %D 2022 %T A data-driven Sensor Model for LIDAR Range Measurements used for Mobile Robot Navigation

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SARDE: A Framework for Continuous and Self-Adaptive Resource Demand Estimation J. Grohmann; S. Eismann; A. Bauer; S. Spinner; J. Blum; N. Herbst; S. Kounev; in ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (2021). 15(2)
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Resource demands are crucial parameters for modeling and predicting the performance of software systems. Currently, resource demand estimators are usually executed once for system analysis. However, the monitored system, as well as the resource demand itself, are subject to constant change in runtime environments. These changes additionally impact the applicability, the required parametrization as well as the resulting accuracy of individual estimation approaches. Over time, this leads to invalid or outdated estimates, which in turn negatively influence the decision-making of adaptive systems. In this article, we present SARDE, a framework for self-adaptive resource demand estimation in continuous environments. SARDE dynamically and continuously tunes, selects, and executes an ensemble of resource demand estimation approaches to adapt to changes in the environment. This creates an autonomous and unsupervised ensemble estimation technique, providing reliable resource demand estimations in dynamic environments. We evaluate SARDE using two realistic datasets. One set of different micro-benchmarks reflecting different possible system states and one dataset consisting of a continuously running application in a changing environment. Our results show that by continuously applying online optimization, selection and estimation, SARDE is able to efficiently adapt to the online trace and reduce the model error using the resulting ensemble technique.

@article{GrEiBaSpBlHeKo2021-TaaS-SARDE, abstract = {Resource demands are crucial parameters for modeling and predicting the performance of software systems. Currently, resource demand estimators are usually executed once for system analysis. However, the monitored system, as well as the resource demand itself, are subject to constant change in runtime environments. These changes additionally impact the applicability, the required parametrization as well as the resulting accuracy of individual estimation approaches. Over time, this leads to invalid or outdated estimates, which in turn negatively influence the decision-making of adaptive systems. In this article, we present SARDE, a framework for self-adaptive resource demand estimation in continuous environments. SARDE dynamically and continuously tunes, selects, and executes an ensemble of resource demand estimation approaches to adapt to changes in the environment. This creates an autonomous and unsupervised ensemble estimation technique, providing reliable resource demand estimations in dynamic environments. We evaluate SARDE using two realistic datasets. One set of different micro-benchmarks reflecting different possible system states and one dataset consisting of a continuously running application in a changing environment. Our results show that by continuously applying online optimization, selection and estimation, SARDE is able to efficiently adapt to the online trace and reduce the model error using the resulting ensemble technique.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Grohmann, Johannes and Eismann, Simon and Bauer, Andr\'{e} and Spinner, Simon and Blum, Johannes and Herbst, Nikolas and Kounev, Samuel}, journal = {ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, month = {jun}, number = 2, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, title = {SARDE: A Framework for Continuous and Self-Adaptive Resource Demand Estimation}, volume = 15, year = 2021 }

%0 Journal Article %1 GrEiBaSpBlHeKo2021-TaaS-SARDE %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Eismann, Simon %A Bauer, André %A Spinner, Simon %A Blum, Johannes %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Kounev, Samuel %C New York, NY, USA %D 2021 %I Association for Computing Machinery %J ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems %N 2 %T SARDE: A Framework for Continuous and Self-Adaptive Resource Demand Estimation %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3463369 %V 15 %X Resource demands are crucial parameters for modeling and predicting the performance of software systems. Currently, resource demand estimators are usually executed once for system analysis. However, the monitored system, as well as the resource demand itself, are subject to constant change in runtime environments. These changes additionally impact the applicability, the required parametrization as well as the resulting accuracy of individual estimation approaches. Over time, this leads to invalid or outdated estimates, which in turn negatively influence the decision-making of adaptive systems. In this article, we present SARDE, a framework for self-adaptive resource demand estimation in continuous environments. SARDE dynamically and continuously tunes, selects, and executes an ensemble of resource demand estimation approaches to adapt to changes in the environment. This creates an autonomous and unsupervised ensemble estimation technique, providing reliable resource demand estimations in dynamic environments. We evaluate SARDE using two realistic datasets. One set of different micro-benchmarks reflecting different possible system states and one dataset consisting of a continuously running application in a changing environment. Our results show that by continuously applying online optimization, selection and estimation, SARDE is able to efficiently adapt to the online trace and reduce the model error using the resulting ensemble technique.
Automatisierte Hybride Zeitreihenprognose A. Bauer; in Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2020, S. Hölldobler (Hrsg.) (2021). 29–38.
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@inproceedings{mci/Bauer2021, address = {Bonn}, author = {Bauer, André}, booktitle = {Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2020}, editor = {Hölldobler, Steffen}, keywords = {telescope}, pages = {29-38}, publisher = {Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.}, title = {Automatisierte Hybride Zeitreihenprognose}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 mci/Bauer2021 %A Bauer, André %B Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2020 %C Bonn %D 2021 %E Hölldobler, Steffen %I Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. %P 29-38 %T Automatisierte Hybride Zeitreihenprognose
A Case Study on Optimization of Warehouses V. Lesch; P. Müller; M. Krämer; S. Kounev; C. Krupitzer; in arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.12058 (2021).
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@article{lesch2021case, author = {Lesch, Veronika and M{\"u}ller, Patrick and Kr{\"a}mer, Moritz and Kounev, Samuel and Krupitzer, Christian}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.12058}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, title = {A Case Study on Optimization of Warehouses}, year = 2021 }

%0 Journal Article %1 lesch2021case %A Lesch, Veronika %A Müller, Patrick %A Krämer, Moritz %A Kounev, Samuel %A Krupitzer, Christian %D 2021 %J arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.12058 %T A Case Study on Optimization of Warehouses
Measuring the Performance Impact of Branching Instructions L. Beierlieb; L. Iffländer; A. Milenkoski; T. Prantl; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Software Performance 2021 (SSP’21) (2021).
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@inproceedings{Beierlieb_2021_MeasuringthePerformanceImpactofBranchingInstructions., author = {Beierlieb, Lukas and Iffländer, Lukas and Milenkoski, Aleksandar and Prantl, Thomas and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Software Performance 2021 (SSP'21)}, keywords = {sys:relevantfor:se-group}, month = {nov}, title = {Measuring the Performance Impact of Branching Instructions}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 Beierlieb_2021_MeasuringthePerformanceImpactofBranchingInstructions. %A Beierlieb, Lukas %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Milenkoski, Aleksandar %A Prantl, Thomas %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Software Performance 2021 (SSP'21) %D 2021 %T Measuring the Performance Impact of Branching Instructions
Teaching Software Testing Using Automated Grading L. Beierlieb; L. Iffländer; T. Schneider; T. Prantl; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop "Automatische Bewertung von Programmieraufgaben" (ABP 2021),virtual event, October 28-29, 2021, A. Greubel, S. Strickroth, M. Striewe (Hrsg.) (2021).
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@inproceedings{Beierlieb_2021_TeachingSoftwareTestingUsingAutomatedGrading, author = {Beierlieb, Lukas and Iffländer, Lukas and Schneider, Tobias and Prantl, Thomas and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop "Automatische Bewertung von Programmieraufgaben" (ABP 2021),virtual event, October 28-29, 2021}, editor = {Greubel, André and Strickroth, Sven and Striewe, Michael}, keywords = {sys:relevantfor:se-group}, publisher = {Gesellschaft für Informatik}, title = {Teaching Software Testing Using Automated Grading}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 Beierlieb_2021_TeachingSoftwareTestingUsingAutomatedGrading %A Beierlieb, Lukas %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Schneider, Tobias %A Prantl, Thomas %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop "Automatische Bewertung von Programmieraufgaben" (ABP 2021),virtual event, October 28-29, 2021 %D 2021 %E Greubel, André %E Strickroth, Sven %E Striewe, Michael %I Gesellschaft für Informatik %T Teaching Software Testing Using Automated Grading
Software Testing Strategies for Detecting Hypercall Handlerstextquotesingle Aging-related Bugs L. Beierlieb; A. Avritzer; L. Ifflander; N. Antunes; A. Milenkoski; S. Kounev; in 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW) (2021).
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@inproceedings{Beierlieb_2021_SoftwareTestingStrategiesforDetectingHypercallHandlersAgingRelatedBugs, author = {Beierlieb, Lukas and Avritzer, Alberto and Ifflander, Lukas and Antunes, Nuno and Milenkoski, Aleksandar and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {2021 {IEEE} International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops ({ISSREW})}, keywords = {security}, publisher = {{IEEE}}, title = {Software Testing Strategies for Detecting Hypercall Handlers{\textquotesingle} Aging-related Bugs}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 Beierlieb_2021_SoftwareTestingStrategiesforDetectingHypercallHandlersAgingRelatedBugs %A Beierlieb, Lukas %A Avritzer, Alberto %A Ifflander, Lukas %A Antunes, Nuno %A Milenkoski, Aleksandar %A Kounev, Samuel %B 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW) %D 2021 %I IEEE %T Software Testing Strategies for Detecting Hypercall Handlerstextquotesingle Aging-related Bugs
Machine Learning Model Update Strategies for Hard Disk Drive Failure Prediction M. Züfle; F. Erhard; S. Kounev; in 20th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) (2021).

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@inproceedings{zufle2021machine, author = {Z{\"u}fle, Marwin and Erhard, Florian and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {20th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)}, keywords = {online_monitoring_and_forecasting}, note = {(to appear)}, title = {Machine Learning Model Update Strategies for Hard Disk Drive Failure Prediction}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 zufle2021machine %A Züfle, Marwin %A Erhard, Florian %A Kounev, Samuel %B 20th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) %D 2021 %T Machine Learning Model Update Strategies for Hard Disk Drive Failure Prediction
Energy-Efficiency Comparison of Common Sorting Algorithms N. Schmitt; S. Kamthania; N. Rawtani; L. Mendoza; K.-D. Lange; S. Kounev; in 2021 29th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) (2021). 1–8.
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With the rising demand for information technology comes an increase in energy consumption to power it. Namely, cloud computing is constantly growing, in part due to a rising number of devices using the cloud to provide certain functionality. This growth leads to an increase in energy consumption in data centers and is estimated to climb to over 1PWh in 2030. Hardware manufacturers counter the rising demand for energy in cloud data centers by providing techniques to make servers more energy-efficient. However, the advances cannot fully compensate for the growth. To further increase energy efficiency, software needs to be addressed as well but is often neglected by the developers.In this paper, we compare six sorting algorithms, a common task in most programs, against each other in terms of energy efficiency to allow developers to select the best solution to their problem. We selected well-known algorithms in two variants, and two implementation languages, C and Python. We ran each algorithm on two, out of four, state-of-the-art server systems with different CPUs.

@inproceedings{9614299, abstract = {With the rising demand for information technology comes an increase in energy consumption to power it. Namely, cloud computing is constantly growing, in part due to a rising number of devices using the cloud to provide certain functionality. This growth leads to an increase in energy consumption in data centers and is estimated to climb to over 1PWh in 2030. Hardware manufacturers counter the rising demand for energy in cloud data centers by providing techniques to make servers more energy-efficient. However, the advances cannot fully compensate for the growth. To further increase energy efficiency, software needs to be addressed as well but is often neglected by the developers.In this paper, we compare six sorting algorithms, a common task in most programs, against each other in terms of energy efficiency to allow developers to select the best solution to their problem. We selected well-known algorithms in two variants, and two implementation languages, C and Python. We ran each algorithm on two, out of four, state-of-the-art server systems with different CPUs.}, author = {Schmitt, Norbert and Kamthania, Supriya and Rawtani, Nishant and Mendoza, Luis and Lange, Klaus-Dieter and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {2021 29th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)}, keywords = {power}, month = {nov}, pages = {1-8}, title = {Energy-Efficiency Comparison of Common Sorting Algorithms}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 9614299 %A Schmitt, Norbert %A Kamthania, Supriya %A Rawtani, Nishant %A Mendoza, Luis %A Lange, Klaus-Dieter %A Kounev, Samuel %B 2021 29th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) %D 2021 %P 1-8 %T Energy-Efficiency Comparison of Common Sorting Algorithms %U https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9614299/ %X With the rising demand for information technology comes an increase in energy consumption to power it. Namely, cloud computing is constantly growing, in part due to a rising number of devices using the cloud to provide certain functionality. This growth leads to an increase in energy consumption in data centers and is estimated to climb to over 1PWh in 2030. Hardware manufacturers counter the rising demand for energy in cloud data centers by providing techniques to make servers more energy-efficient. However, the advances cannot fully compensate for the growth. To further increase energy efficiency, software needs to be addressed as well but is often neglected by the developers.In this paper, we compare six sorting algorithms, a common task in most programs, against each other in terms of energy efficiency to allow developers to select the best solution to their problem. We selected well-known algorithms in two variants, and two implementation languages, C and Python. We ran each algorithm on two, out of four, state-of-the-art server systems with different CPUs.
Attack-aware Security Function Management L. Iffländer; Thesis; Universität Würzburg. (2021, Januar).
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Over the last decades, cybersecurity has become an increasingly important issue. Between 2019 and 2011 alone, the losses from cyberattacks in the United States grew by 6217%. At the same time, attacks became not only more intensive but also more and more versatile and diverse. Cybersecurity has become everyone’s concern. Today, service providers require sophisticated and extensive security infrastructures comprising many security functions dedicated to various cyberattacks. Still, attacks become more violent to a level where infrastructures can no longer keep up. Simply scaling up is no longer sufficient. To address this challenge, in a whitepaper, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) proposed multiple work packages for security infrastructure, leveraging the possibilities of Software-defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Security functions require a more sophisticated modeling approach than regular network functions. Notably, the property to drop packets deemed malicious has a significant impact on Security Service Function Chains (SSFCs)—service chains consisting of multiple security functions to protect against multiple at- tack vectors. Under attack, the order of these chains influences the end-to-end system performance depending on the attack type. Unfortunately, it is hard to predict the attack composition at system design time. Thus, we make a case for dynamic attack-aware SSFC reordering. Also, we tackle the issues of the lack of integration between security functions and the surrounding network infrastructure, the insufficient use of short term CPU frequency boosting, and the lack of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) against database ransomware attacks. Current works focus on characterizing the performance of security functions and their behavior under overload without considering the surrounding infrastructure. Other works aim at replacing security functions using network infrastructure features but do not consider integrating security functions within the network. Further publications deal with using SDN for security or how to deal with new vulnerabilities introduced through SDN. However, they do not take security function performance into account. NFV is a popular field for research dealing with frameworks, benchmarking methods, the combination with SDN, and implementing security functions as Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs). Research in this area brought forth the concept of Service Function Chains (SFCs) that chain multiple network functions after one another. Nevertheless, they still do not consider the specifics of security functions. The mentioned CSA whitepaper proposes many valuable ideas but leaves their realization open to others. This thesis presents solutions to increase the performance of single security functions using SDN, performance modeling, a framework for attack-aware SSFC reordering, a solution to make better use of CPU frequency boosting, and an IDPS against database ransomware. Specifically, the primary contributions of this work are: • We present approaches to dynamically bypass Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) in order to increase their performance without reducing the security level. To this end, we develop and implement three SDN-based approaches (two dynamic and one static). We evaluate the proposed approaches regarding security and performance and show that they significantly increase the performance com- pared to an inline IDS without significant security deficits. We show that using software switches can further increase the performance of the dynamic approaches up to a point where they can eliminate any throughput drawbacks when using the IDS. • We design a DDoS Protection System (DPS) against TCP SYN flood at tacks in the form of a VNF that works inside an SDN-enabled network. This solution eliminates known scalability and performance drawbacks of existing solutions for this attack type. Then, we evaluate this solution showing that it correctly handles the connection establishment and present solutions for an observed issue. Next, we evaluate the performance showing that our solution increases performance up to three times. Parallelization and parameter tuning yields another 76% performance boost. Based on these findings, we discuss optimal deployment strategies. • We introduce the idea of attack-aware SSFC reordering and explain its impact in a theoretical scenario. Then, we discuss the required information to perform this process. We validate our claim of the importance of the SSFC order by analyzing the behavior of single security functions and SSFCs. Based on the results, we conclude that there is a massive impact on the performance up to three orders of magnitude, and we find contradicting optimal orders for different workloads. Thus, we demonstrate the need for dynamic reordering. Last, we develop a model for SSFC regarding traffic composition and resource demands. We classify the traffic into multiple classes and model the effect of single security functions on the traffic and their generated resource demands as functions of the incoming network traffic. Based on our model, we propose three approaches to determine optimal orders for reordering. • We implement a framework for attack-aware SSFC reordering based on this knowledge. The framework places all security functions inside an SDN-enabled network and reorders them using SDN flows. Our evaluation shows that the framework can enforce all routes as desired. It correctly adapts to all attacks and returns to the original state after the attacks cease. We find possible security issues at the moment of reordering and present solutions to eliminate them. • Next, we design and implement an approach to load balance servers while taking into account their ability to go into a state of Central Processing Unit (CPU) frequency boost. To this end, the approach collects temperature information from available hosts and places services on the host that can attain the boosted mode the longest. We evaluate this approach and show its effectiveness. For high load scenarios, the approach increases the overall performance and the performance per watt. Even better results show up for low load workloads, where not only all performance metrics improve but also the temperatures and total power consumption decrease. • Last, we design an IDPS protecting against database ransomware attacks that comprise multiple queries to attain their goal. Our solution models these attacks using a Colored Petri Net (CPN). A proof-of-concept implementation shows that our approach is capable of detecting attacks without creating false positives for benign scenarios. Furthermore, our solution creates only a small performance impact. Our contributions can help to improve the performance of security infrastructures. We see multiple application areas from data center operators over software and hardware developers to security and performance researchers. Most of the above-listed contributions found use in several research publications. Regarding future work, we see the need to better integrate SDN-enabled security functions and SSFC reordering in data center networks. Future SSFC should discriminate between different traffic types, and security frameworks should support automatically learning models for security functions. We see the need to consider energy efficiency when regarding SSFCs and take CPU boosting technologies into account when designing performance models as well as placement, scaling, and deployment strategies. Last, for a faster adaptation against recent ransomware attacks, we propose machine-assisted learning for database IDPS signatures.

@phdthesis{ifflander2021attackaware, abstract = {Over the last decades, cybersecurity has become an increasingly important issue. Between 2019 and 2011 alone, the losses from cyberattacks in the United States grew by 6217%. At the same time, attacks became not only more intensive but also more and more versatile and diverse. Cybersecurity has become everyone’s concern. Today, service providers require sophisticated and extensive security infrastructures comprising many security functions dedicated to various cyberattacks. Still, attacks become more violent to a level where infrastructures can no longer keep up. Simply scaling up is no longer sufficient. To address this challenge, in a whitepaper, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) proposed multiple work packages for security infrastructure, leveraging the possibilities of Software-defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Security functions require a more sophisticated modeling approach than regular network functions. Notably, the property to drop packets deemed malicious has a significant impact on Security Service Function Chains (SSFCs)—service chains consisting of multiple security functions to protect against multiple at- tack vectors. Under attack, the order of these chains influences the end-to-end system performance depending on the attack type. Unfortunately, it is hard to predict the attack composition at system design time. Thus, we make a case for dynamic attack-aware SSFC reordering. Also, we tackle the issues of the lack of integration between security functions and the surrounding network infrastructure, the insufficient use of short term CPU frequency boosting, and the lack of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) against database ransomware attacks. Current works focus on characterizing the performance of security functions and their behavior under overload without considering the surrounding infrastructure. Other works aim at replacing security functions using network infrastructure features but do not consider integrating security functions within the network. Further publications deal with using SDN for security or how to deal with new vulnerabilities introduced through SDN. However, they do not take security function performance into account. NFV is a popular field for research dealing with frameworks, benchmarking methods, the combination with SDN, and implementing security functions as Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs). Research in this area brought forth the concept of Service Function Chains (SFCs) that chain multiple network functions after one another. Nevertheless, they still do not consider the specifics of security functions. The mentioned CSA whitepaper proposes many valuable ideas but leaves their realization open to others. This thesis presents solutions to increase the performance of single security functions using SDN, performance modeling, a framework for attack-aware SSFC reordering, a solution to make better use of CPU frequency boosting, and an IDPS against database ransomware. Specifically, the primary contributions of this work are: • We present approaches to dynamically bypass Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) in order to increase their performance without reducing the security level. To this end, we develop and implement three SDN-based approaches (two dynamic and one static). We evaluate the proposed approaches regarding security and performance and show that they significantly increase the performance com- pared to an inline IDS without significant security deficits. We show that using software switches can further increase the performance of the dynamic approaches up to a point where they can eliminate any throughput drawbacks when using the IDS. • We design a DDoS Protection System (DPS) against TCP SYN flood at tacks in the form of a VNF that works inside an SDN-enabled network. This solution eliminates known scalability and performance drawbacks of existing solutions for this attack type. Then, we evaluate this solution showing that it correctly handles the connection establishment and present solutions for an observed issue. Next, we evaluate the performance showing that our solution increases performance up to three times. Parallelization and parameter tuning yields another 76% performance boost. Based on these findings, we discuss optimal deployment strategies. • We introduce the idea of attack-aware SSFC reordering and explain its impact in a theoretical scenario. Then, we discuss the required information to perform this process. We validate our claim of the importance of the SSFC order by analyzing the behavior of single security functions and SSFCs. Based on the results, we conclude that there is a massive impact on the performance up to three orders of magnitude, and we find contradicting optimal orders for different workloads. Thus, we demonstrate the need for dynamic reordering. Last, we develop a model for SSFC regarding traffic composition and resource demands. We classify the traffic into multiple classes and model the effect of single security functions on the traffic and their generated resource demands as functions of the incoming network traffic. Based on our model, we propose three approaches to determine optimal orders for reordering. • We implement a framework for attack-aware SSFC reordering based on this knowledge. The framework places all security functions inside an SDN-enabled network and reorders them using SDN flows. Our evaluation shows that the framework can enforce all routes as desired. It correctly adapts to all attacks and returns to the original state after the attacks cease. We find possible security issues at the moment of reordering and present solutions to eliminate them. • Next, we design and implement an approach to load balance servers while taking into account their ability to go into a state of Central Processing Unit (CPU) frequency boost. To this end, the approach collects temperature information from available hosts and places services on the host that can attain the boosted mode the longest. We evaluate this approach and show its effectiveness. For high load scenarios, the approach increases the overall performance and the performance per watt. Even better results show up for low load workloads, where not only all performance metrics improve but also the temperatures and total power consumption decrease. • Last, we design an IDPS protecting against database ransomware attacks that comprise multiple queries to attain their goal. Our solution models these attacks using a Colored Petri Net (CPN). A proof-of-concept implementation shows that our approach is capable of detecting attacks without creating false positives for benign scenarios. Furthermore, our solution creates only a small performance impact. Our contributions can help to improve the performance of security infrastructures. We see multiple application areas from data center operators over software and hardware developers to security and performance researchers. Most of the above-listed contributions found use in several research publications. Regarding future work, we see the need to better integrate SDN-enabled security functions and SSFC reordering in data center networks. Future SSFC should discriminate between different traffic types, and security frameworks should support automatically learning models for security functions. We see the need to consider energy efficiency when regarding SSFCs and take CPU boosting technologies into account when designing performance models as well as placement, scaling, and deployment strategies. Last, for a faster adaptation against recent ransomware attacks, we propose machine-assisted learning for database IDPS signatures.}, author = {Iffl{\"a}nder, Lukas}, keywords = {security}, month = {01}, school = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, title = {Attack-aware Security Function Management}, type = {doctoralthesis}, year = 2021 }

%0 Thesis %1 ifflander2021attackaware %A Iffländer, Lukas %D 2021 %T Attack-aware Security Function Management %X Over the last decades, cybersecurity has become an increasingly important issue. Between 2019 and 2011 alone, the losses from cyberattacks in the United States grew by 6217%. At the same time, attacks became not only more intensive but also more and more versatile and diverse. Cybersecurity has become everyone’s concern. Today, service providers require sophisticated and extensive security infrastructures comprising many security functions dedicated to various cyberattacks. Still, attacks become more violent to a level where infrastructures can no longer keep up. Simply scaling up is no longer sufficient. To address this challenge, in a whitepaper, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) proposed multiple work packages for security infrastructure, leveraging the possibilities of Software-defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Security functions require a more sophisticated modeling approach than regular network functions. Notably, the property to drop packets deemed malicious has a significant impact on Security Service Function Chains (SSFCs)—service chains consisting of multiple security functions to protect against multiple at- tack vectors. Under attack, the order of these chains influences the end-to-end system performance depending on the attack type. Unfortunately, it is hard to predict the attack composition at system design time. Thus, we make a case for dynamic attack-aware SSFC reordering. Also, we tackle the issues of the lack of integration between security functions and the surrounding network infrastructure, the insufficient use of short term CPU frequency boosting, and the lack of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) against database ransomware attacks. Current works focus on characterizing the performance of security functions and their behavior under overload without considering the surrounding infrastructure. Other works aim at replacing security functions using network infrastructure features but do not consider integrating security functions within the network. Further publications deal with using SDN for security or how to deal with new vulnerabilities introduced through SDN. However, they do not take security function performance into account. NFV is a popular field for research dealing with frameworks, benchmarking methods, the combination with SDN, and implementing security functions as Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs). Research in this area brought forth the concept of Service Function Chains (SFCs) that chain multiple network functions after one another. Nevertheless, they still do not consider the specifics of security functions. The mentioned CSA whitepaper proposes many valuable ideas but leaves their realization open to others. This thesis presents solutions to increase the performance of single security functions using SDN, performance modeling, a framework for attack-aware SSFC reordering, a solution to make better use of CPU frequency boosting, and an IDPS against database ransomware. Specifically, the primary contributions of this work are: • We present approaches to dynamically bypass Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) in order to increase their performance without reducing the security level. To this end, we develop and implement three SDN-based approaches (two dynamic and one static). We evaluate the proposed approaches regarding security and performance and show that they significantly increase the performance com- pared to an inline IDS without significant security deficits. We show that using software switches can further increase the performance of the dynamic approaches up to a point where they can eliminate any throughput drawbacks when using the IDS. • We design a DDoS Protection System (DPS) against TCP SYN flood at tacks in the form of a VNF that works inside an SDN-enabled network. This solution eliminates known scalability and performance drawbacks of existing solutions for this attack type. Then, we evaluate this solution showing that it correctly handles the connection establishment and present solutions for an observed issue. Next, we evaluate the performance showing that our solution increases performance up to three times. Parallelization and parameter tuning yields another 76% performance boost. Based on these findings, we discuss optimal deployment strategies. • We introduce the idea of attack-aware SSFC reordering and explain its impact in a theoretical scenario. Then, we discuss the required information to perform this process. We validate our claim of the importance of the SSFC order by analyzing the behavior of single security functions and SSFCs. Based on the results, we conclude that there is a massive impact on the performance up to three orders of magnitude, and we find contradicting optimal orders for different workloads. Thus, we demonstrate the need for dynamic reordering. Last, we develop a model for SSFC regarding traffic composition and resource demands. We classify the traffic into multiple classes and model the effect of single security functions on the traffic and their generated resource demands as functions of the incoming network traffic. Based on our model, we propose three approaches to determine optimal orders for reordering. • We implement a framework for attack-aware SSFC reordering based on this knowledge. The framework places all security functions inside an SDN-enabled network and reorders them using SDN flows. Our evaluation shows that the framework can enforce all routes as desired. It correctly adapts to all attacks and returns to the original state after the attacks cease. We find possible security issues at the moment of reordering and present solutions to eliminate them. • Next, we design and implement an approach to load balance servers while taking into account their ability to go into a state of Central Processing Unit (CPU) frequency boost. To this end, the approach collects temperature information from available hosts and places services on the host that can attain the boosted mode the longest. We evaluate this approach and show its effectiveness. For high load scenarios, the approach increases the overall performance and the performance per watt. Even better results show up for low load workloads, where not only all performance metrics improve but also the temperatures and total power consumption decrease. • Last, we design an IDPS protecting against database ransomware attacks that comprise multiple queries to attain their goal. Our solution models these attacks using a Colored Petri Net (CPN). A proof-of-concept implementation shows that our approach is capable of detecting attacks without creating false positives for benign scenarios. Furthermore, our solution creates only a small performance impact. Our contributions can help to improve the performance of security infrastructures. We see multiple application areas from data center operators over software and hardware developers to security and performance researchers. Most of the above-listed contributions found use in several research publications. Regarding future work, we see the need to better integrate SDN-enabled security functions and SSFC reordering in data center networks. Future SSFC should discriminate between different traffic types, and security frameworks should support automatically learning models for security functions. We see the need to consider energy efficiency when regarding SSFCs and take CPU boosting technologies into account when designing performance models as well as placement, scaling, and deployment strategies. Last, for a faster adaptation against recent ransomware attacks, we propose machine-assisted learning for database IDPS signatures.
People Detection with Depth Silhouettes and Convolutional Neural Networks on a Mobile Robot F. Spiess; L. Reinhart; N. Strobel; D. Kaiser; S. Kounev; T. Kaupp; in Journal of Image and Graphics, (J. of Image; Graphics, Hrsg.) (2021). 9(4) 135–139.
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%0 Journal Article %1 spiess2021people %A Spiess, Florian %A Reinhart, Lucas %A Strobel, Norbert %A Kaiser, Dennis %A Kounev, Samuel %A Kaupp, Tobias %D 2021 %E of Image, Journal %E Graphics, %J Journal of Image and Graphics %N 4 %P 135-139 %T People Detection with Depth Silhouettes and Convolutional Neural Networks on a Mobile Robot %U http://www.joig.net/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=72&id=277 %V 9
Towards a Mobile Robot Localization Benchmark with Challenging Sensordata in an Industrial Environment F. Spiess; J. Friesslich; D. Bluemm; F. Mast; D. Vinokour; S. Kounev; T. Kaupp; N. Strobel; in 2021 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) (2021). 857–864.
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To arrive at a realistic assessment of localization methods in terms of their performance in an industrial environment under various challenging conditions, we provide a benchmark to evaluate algorithms both for individual components as well as multi-sensor systems. For several sensor types, including wheel odometry, RGB cameras, RGB-D cameras, and LIDAR, potential issues were identified. The accuracy of wheel odometry, for example, when there are bumps on the track. For each sensor type, we explicitly chose a track for the benchmark dataset containing situations where the sensor fails to provide adequate measurements. Based on the acquired sensor data, localization can be achieved either using a single sensor information or sensor fusion. To help evaluate the output of associated localization algorithms, we provide a software to evaluate a set of metrics as part of the paper. An example application of the benchmark with state-of-the-art algorithms for each sensor is also provided.

@inproceedings{9659355, abstract = {To arrive at a realistic assessment of localization methods in terms of their performance in an industrial environment under various challenging conditions, we provide a benchmark to evaluate algorithms both for individual components as well as multi-sensor systems. For several sensor types, including wheel odometry, RGB cameras, RGB-D cameras, and LIDAR, potential issues were identified. The accuracy of wheel odometry, for example, when there are bumps on the track. For each sensor type, we explicitly chose a track for the benchmark dataset containing situations where the sensor fails to provide adequate measurements. Based on the acquired sensor data, localization can be achieved either using a single sensor information or sensor fusion. To help evaluate the output of associated localization algorithms, we provide a software to evaluate a set of metrics as part of the paper. An example application of the benchmark with state-of-the-art algorithms for each sensor is also provided.}, author = {Spiess, Florian and Friesslich, Jonas and Bluemm, Daniel and Mast, Fabio and Vinokour, Dmitrij and Kounev, Samuel and Kaupp, Tobias and Strobel, Norbert}, booktitle = {2021 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)}, keywords = {t_interdisciplinary}, month = {dec}, pages = {857-864}, title = {Towards a Mobile Robot Localization Benchmark with Challenging Sensordata in an Industrial Environment}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 9659355 %A Spiess, Florian %A Friesslich, Jonas %A Bluemm, Daniel %A Mast, Fabio %A Vinokour, Dmitrij %A Kounev, Samuel %A Kaupp, Tobias %A Strobel, Norbert %B 2021 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) %D 2021 %P 857-864 %T Towards a Mobile Robot Localization Benchmark with Challenging Sensordata in an Industrial Environment %U https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9659355/ %X To arrive at a realistic assessment of localization methods in terms of their performance in an industrial environment under various challenging conditions, we provide a benchmark to evaluate algorithms both for individual components as well as multi-sensor systems. For several sensor types, including wheel odometry, RGB cameras, RGB-D cameras, and LIDAR, potential issues were identified. The accuracy of wheel odometry, for example, when there are bumps on the track. For each sensor type, we explicitly chose a track for the benchmark dataset containing situations where the sensor fails to provide adequate measurements. Based on the acquired sensor data, localization can be achieved either using a single sensor information or sensor fusion. To help evaluate the output of associated localization algorithms, we provide a software to evaluate a set of metrics as part of the paper. An example application of the benchmark with state-of-the-art algorithms for each sensor is also provided.
SPEC - Spotlight on the International Standards Group (ISG) N. Schmitt; K.-D. Lange; S. Sharma; A. Cragin; D. Reiner; S. Kounev; in Companion of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2021).
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@inproceedings{Schmitt_2021, author = {Schmitt, Norbert and Lange, Klaus-Dieter and Sharma, Sanjay and Cragin, Aaron and Reiner, David and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Companion of the {ACM}/{SPEC} International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {descartes}, month = {apr}, publisher = {{ACM}}, title = {{SPEC} - Spotlight on the International Standards Group ({ISG})}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 Schmitt_2021 %A Schmitt, Norbert %A Lange, Klaus-Dieter %A Sharma, Sanjay %A Cragin, Aaron %A Reiner, David %A Kounev, Samuel %B Companion of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering %D 2021 %I ACM %T SPEC - Spotlight on the International Standards Group (ISG) %U https://doi.org/10.1145%2F3447545.3451171
Towards Splitting Monolithic Workflows into Serverless Functions and Estimating Their Run-Time in the Earth Observation Domain D. Kaiser; B. Dovhan; A. Bauer; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Software Performance (SSP) (2021).

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@inproceedings{kaiser2021split, author = {Kaiser, Dennis and Dovhan, Bohdan and Bauer, Andr{\'e} and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Software Performance (SSP)}, keywords = {severless}, month = {November}, note = {Extended Abstract}, title = {{Towards Splitting Monolithic Workflows into Serverless Functions and Estimating Their Run-Time in the Earth Observation Domain}}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 kaiser2021split %A Kaiser, Dennis %A Dovhan, Bohdan %A Bauer, André %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Software Performance (SSP) %D 2021 %T Towards Splitting Monolithic Workflows into Serverless Functions and Estimating Their Run-Time in the Earth Observation Domain
A Case Study of Vehicle Route Optimization V. Lesch; M. König; S. Kounev; A. Stein; C. Krupitzer; (2021).
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@techreport{lesch2021studyvrp, author = {Lesch, Veronika and König, Maximilian and Kounev, Samuel and Stein, Anthony and Krupitzer, Christian}, institution = {Universit{ä}t W{ü}rzburg and PASS Logistics Solutions AG and Universit{ä}t Hohenheim}, keywords = {t_techreport}, title = {A Case Study of Vehicle Route Optimization}, year = 2021 }

%0 Report %1 lesch2021studyvrp %A Lesch, Veronika %A König, Maximilian %A Kounev, Samuel %A Stein, Anthony %A Krupitzer, Christian %D 2021 %T A Case Study of Vehicle Route Optimization %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09087
Tackling the Rich Vehicle Routing Problem with Nature-Inspired Algorithms V. Lesch; M. König; S. Kounev; A. Stein; C. Krupitzer; in Applied Intelligence (2021). 52 9476–9500.
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@article{lesch2021tackling, author = {Lesch, Veronika and König, Maximilian and Kounev, Samuel and Stein, Anthony and Krupitzer, Christian}, journal = {Applied Intelligence}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, pages = {9476–9500}, title = {Tackling the Rich Vehicle Routing Problem with Nature-Inspired Algorithms}, volume = 52, year = 2021 }

%0 Journal Article %1 lesch2021tackling %A Lesch, Veronika %A König, Maximilian %A Kounev, Samuel %A Stein, Anthony %A Krupitzer, Christian %D 2021 %J Applied Intelligence %P 9476–9500 %R https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-021-03035-5 %T Tackling the Rich Vehicle Routing Problem with Nature-Inspired Algorithms %V 52
ComBench: A Benchmarking Framework for Publish/Subscribe Communication Protocols Under Network Limitations S. Herrnleben; M. Leidinger; V. Lesch; T. Prantl; J. Grohmann; C. Krupitzer; S. Kounev; in Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, Q. Zhao, L. Xia (Hrsg.) (2021). 72–92.
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Efficient and dependable communication is a highly relevant aspect for Internet of Things (IoT) systems in which tiny sensors, actuators, wearables, or other smart devices exchange messages. Various publish/subscribe protocols address the challenges of communication in IoT systems. The selection process of a suitable protocol should consider the communication behavior of the application, the protocol's performance, the resource requirements on the end device, and the network connection quality, as IoT environments often rely on wireless networks. Benchmarking is a common approach to evaluate and compare systems, considering the performance and aspects like dependability or security. In this paper, we present our IoT communication benchmarking framework ComBench for publish/subscribe protocols focusing on constrained networks with varying quality conditions. The benchmarking framework supports system designers, software engineers, and application developers to select and investigate the behavior of communication protocols. Our benchmarking framework contributes to (i) show the impact of fluctuating network quality on communication, (ii) compare multiple protocols, protocol features, and protocol implementations, and (iii) analyze scalability, robustness, and dependability of clients, networks, and brokers in different scenarios. Our case study demonstrates the applicability of our framework to support the decision for the best-suited protocol in various scenarios.

@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-92511-6_5, abstract = {Efficient and dependable communication is a highly relevant aspect for Internet of Things (IoT) systems in which tiny sensors, actuators, wearables, or other smart devices exchange messages. Various publish/subscribe protocols address the challenges of communication in IoT systems. The selection process of a suitable protocol should consider the communication behavior of the application, the protocol's performance, the resource requirements on the end device, and the network connection quality, as IoT environments often rely on wireless networks. Benchmarking is a common approach to evaluate and compare systems, considering the performance and aspects like dependability or security. In this paper, we present our IoT communication benchmarking framework ComBench for publish/subscribe protocols focusing on constrained networks with varying quality conditions. The benchmarking framework supports system designers, software engineers, and application developers to select and investigate the behavior of communication protocols. Our benchmarking framework contributes to (i) show the impact of fluctuating network quality on communication, (ii) compare multiple protocols, protocol features, and protocol implementations, and (iii) analyze scalability, robustness, and dependability of clients, networks, and brokers in different scenarios. Our case study demonstrates the applicability of our framework to support the decision for the best-suited protocol in various scenarios.}, address = {Cham}, author = {Herrnleben, Stefan and Leidinger, Maximilian and Lesch, Veronika and Prantl, Thomas and Grohmann, Johannes and Krupitzer, Christian and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools}, editor = {Zhao, Qianchuan and Xia, Li}, keywords = {networking}, pages = {72–92}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, title = {ComBench: A Benchmarking Framework for Publish/Subscribe Communication Protocols Under Network Limitations}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 10.1007/978-3-030-92511-6_5 %A Herrnleben, Stefan %A Leidinger, Maximilian %A Lesch, Veronika %A Prantl, Thomas %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %B Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools %C Cham %D 2021 %E Zhao, Qianchuan %E Xia, Li %I Springer International Publishing %P 72--92 %R https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92511-6_5 %T ComBench: A Benchmarking Framework for Publish/Subscribe Communication Protocols Under Network Limitations %U https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-92511-6_5 %X Efficient and dependable communication is a highly relevant aspect for Internet of Things (IoT) systems in which tiny sensors, actuators, wearables, or other smart devices exchange messages. Various publish/subscribe protocols address the challenges of communication in IoT systems. The selection process of a suitable protocol should consider the communication behavior of the application, the protocol's performance, the resource requirements on the end device, and the network connection quality, as IoT environments often rely on wireless networks. Benchmarking is a common approach to evaluate and compare systems, considering the performance and aspects like dependability or security. In this paper, we present our IoT communication benchmarking framework ComBench for publish/subscribe protocols focusing on constrained networks with varying quality conditions. The benchmarking framework supports system designers, software engineers, and application developers to select and investigate the behavior of communication protocols. Our benchmarking framework contributes to (i) show the impact of fluctuating network quality on communication, (ii) compare multiple protocols, protocol features, and protocol implementations, and (iii) analyze scalability, robustness, and dependability of clients, networks, and brokers in different scenarios. Our case study demonstrates the applicability of our framework to support the decision for the best-suited protocol in various scenarios.
Sizeless: Predicting the Optimal Size of Serverless Functions S. Eismann; L. Bui; J. Grohmann; C. Abad; N. Herbst; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 22nd International MIDDLEWARE Conference (2021). 248–259.

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Serverless functions are an emerging cloud computing paradigm that is being rapidly adopted by both industry and academia. In this cloud computing model, the provider opaquely handles resource management tasks such as resource provisioning, deployment, and auto-scaling. The only resource management task that developers are still in charge of is selecting how much resources are allocated to each worker instance. However, selecting the optimal size of serverless functions is quite challenging, so developers often neglect it despite its significant cost and performance benefits. Existing approaches aiming to automate serverless functions resource sizing require dedicated performance tests, which are time-consuming to implement and maintain. In this paper, we introduce an approach to predict the optimal resource size of a serverless function using monitoring data from a single resource size. As our approach does not require dedicated performance tests, it enables cloud providers to implement resource sizing on a platform level and automate the last resource management task associated with serverless functions. We evaluate our approach on four different serverless applications on AWS, where it predicts the execution time of the other memory sizes based on monitoring data for a single memory size with an average prediction error of 15.3%. Based on these predictions, it selects the optimal memory size for 79.0% of the serverless functions and the secondbest memory size for 12.3% of the serverless functions, which results in an average speedup of 39.7% while also decreasing average costs by 2.6%.

@inproceedings{eismann2021sizeless, abstract = {Serverless functions are an emerging cloud computing paradigm that is being rapidly adopted by both industry and academia. In this cloud computing model, the provider opaquely handles resource management tasks such as resource provisioning, deployment, and auto-scaling. The only resource management task that developers are still in charge of is selecting how much resources are allocated to each worker instance. However, selecting the optimal size of serverless functions is quite challenging, so developers often neglect it despite its significant cost and performance benefits. Existing approaches aiming to automate serverless functions resource sizing require dedicated performance tests, which are time-consuming to implement and maintain. In this paper, we introduce an approach to predict the optimal resource size of a serverless function using monitoring data from a single resource size. As our approach does not require dedicated performance tests, it enables cloud providers to implement resource sizing on a platform level and automate the last resource management task associated with serverless functions. We evaluate our approach on four different serverless applications on AWS, where it predicts the execution time of the other memory sizes based on monitoring data for a single memory size with an average prediction error of 15.3%. Based on these predictions, it selects the optimal memory size for 79.0% of the serverless functions and the secondbest memory size for 12.3% of the serverless functions, which results in an average speedup of 39.7% while also decreasing average costs by 2.6%.}, author = {Eismann, Simon and Bui, Long and Grohmann, Johannes and Abad, Cristina and Herbst, Nikolas and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd International MIDDLEWARE Conference}, keywords = {descartes}, note = {Best Student Paper Award, ACM Artifacts Evaluated — Functional}, pages = {248–259}, title = {Sizeless: Predicting the Optimal Size of Serverless Functions}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 eismann2021sizeless %A Eismann, Simon %A Bui, Long %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Abad, Cristina %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 22nd International MIDDLEWARE Conference %D 2021 %P 248–259 %R 10.1145/3464298.3493398 %T Sizeless: Predicting the Optimal Size of Serverless Functions %U https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3464298.3493398 %X Serverless functions are an emerging cloud computing paradigm that is being rapidly adopted by both industry and academia. In this cloud computing model, the provider opaquely handles resource management tasks such as resource provisioning, deployment, and auto-scaling. The only resource management task that developers are still in charge of is selecting how much resources are allocated to each worker instance. However, selecting the optimal size of serverless functions is quite challenging, so developers often neglect it despite its significant cost and performance benefits. Existing approaches aiming to automate serverless functions resource sizing require dedicated performance tests, which are time-consuming to implement and maintain. In this paper, we introduce an approach to predict the optimal resource size of a serverless function using monitoring data from a single resource size. As our approach does not require dedicated performance tests, it enables cloud providers to implement resource sizing on a platform level and automate the last resource management task associated with serverless functions. We evaluate our approach on four different serverless applications on AWS, where it predicts the execution time of the other memory sizes based on monitoring data for a single memory size with an average prediction error of 15.3%. Based on these predictions, it selects the optimal memory size for 79.0% of the serverless functions and the secondbest memory size for 12.3% of the serverless functions, which results in an average speedup of 39.7% while also decreasing average costs by 2.6%.
A Simulation-based Optimization Framework for Online Adaptation of Networks S. Herrnleben; J. Grohmann; P. Rygielski; V. Lesch; C. Krupitzer; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUtools), H. Song, D. Jiang (Hrsg.) (2021). 513–532.
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Today's data centers face a rapid change of deployed services, growing complexity, and increasing performance requirements. Customers expect not only round-the-clock availability of the hosted services but also high responsiveness. Besides optimizing software architectures and deployments, networks have to be adapted to handle the changing and volatile demands. Approaches from self-adaptive systems can be used for optimizing data center networks to continuously meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between data center operators and customers. However, existing approaches focus only on specific objectives like topology design, power optimization, or traffic engineering. In this paper, we present an extensible framework that analyzes networks using different types of simulation and adapts them subject to multiple objectives using various adaptation techniques. Analyzing each suggested adaptation ensures that performance requirements and SLAs are continuously met. We evaluate our framework w.r.t. (i) general requirements and assessments of languages and frameworks for adaptation models, (ii) finding Pareto-optimal solutions considering a multi-dimensional cost model, and (iii) scalability. The evaluation shows that our approach detects the bottlenecks and the violated SLAs correctly, outputs valid and cost-optimal adaptations, and keeps the runtime for the adaptation process constant even with increasing network size and an increasing number of alternative configurations.

@inproceedings{HeGrRyLeKrKo2020-SIMUtools-Network-Online-Adaptation, abstract = {Today's data centers face a rapid change of deployed services, growing complexity, and increasing performance requirements. Customers expect not only round-the-clock availability of the hosted services but also high responsiveness. Besides optimizing software architectures and deployments, networks have to be adapted to handle the changing and volatile demands. Approaches from self-adaptive systems can be used for optimizing data center networks to continuously meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between data center operators and customers. However, existing approaches focus only on specific objectives like topology design, power optimization, or traffic engineering. In this paper, we present an extensible framework that analyzes networks using different types of simulation and adapts them subject to multiple objectives using various adaptation techniques. Analyzing each suggested adaptation ensures that performance requirements and SLAs are continuously met. We evaluate our framework w.r.t. (i) general requirements and assessments of languages and frameworks for adaptation models, (ii) finding Pareto-optimal solutions considering a multi-dimensional cost model, and (iii) scalability. The evaluation shows that our approach detects the bottlenecks and the violated SLAs correctly, outputs valid and cost-optimal adaptations, and keeps the runtime for the adaptation process constant even with increasing network size and an increasing number of alternative configurations.}, address = {Cham}, author = {Herrnleben, Stefan and Grohmann, Johannes and Rygielski, Pitor and Lesch, Veronika and Krupitzer, Christian and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUtools)}, editor = {Song, Houbing and Jiang, Dingde}, keywords = {networking}, month = {August}, pages = {513–532}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, series = {SIMUtools 2020}, title = {A Simulation-based Optimization Framework for Online Adaptation of Networks}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 HeGrRyLeKrKo2020-SIMUtools-Network-Online-Adaptation %A Herrnleben, Stefan %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Rygielski, Pitor %A Lesch, Veronika %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUtools) %C Cham %D 2021 %E Song, Houbing %E Jiang, Dingde %I Springer International Publishing %P 513--532 %R 10.1007/978-3-030-72792-5_41 %T A Simulation-based Optimization Framework for Online Adaptation of Networks %U https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72792-5_41 %X Today's data centers face a rapid change of deployed services, growing complexity, and increasing performance requirements. Customers expect not only round-the-clock availability of the hosted services but also high responsiveness. Besides optimizing software architectures and deployments, networks have to be adapted to handle the changing and volatile demands. Approaches from self-adaptive systems can be used for optimizing data center networks to continuously meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between data center operators and customers. However, existing approaches focus only on specific objectives like topology design, power optimization, or traffic engineering. In this paper, we present an extensible framework that analyzes networks using different types of simulation and adapts them subject to multiple objectives using various adaptation techniques. Analyzing each suggested adaptation ensures that performance requirements and SLAs are continuously met. We evaluate our framework w.r.t. (i) general requirements and assessments of languages and frameworks for adaptation models, (ii) finding Pareto-optimal solutions considering a multi-dimensional cost model, and (iii) scalability. The evaluation shows that our approach detects the bottlenecks and the violated SLAs correctly, outputs valid and cost-optimal adaptations, and keeps the runtime for the adaptation process constant even with increasing network size and an increasing number of alternative configurations. %@ 978-3-030-72792-5
Container Start Times: Empirical Analysis and Predictability M. Straesser; (2021).
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%0 Generic %1 straesser2021container %A Straesser, Martin %D 2021 %T Container Start Times: Empirical Analysis and Predictability %U https://www.performance-symposium.org/2021/
Automated Hybrid Time Series Forecasting: Design, Benchmarking, and Use Cases A. Bauer; Thesis; Universität Würzburg. (2021).
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@phdthesis{Bauer2021-phdthesis, author = {Bauer, Andr{\´e}}, keywords = {descartes}, school = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, title = {Automated Hybrid Time Series Forecasting: Design, Benchmarking, and Use Cases}, type = {doctoralthesis}, year = 2021 }

%0 Thesis %1 Bauer2021-phdthesis %A Bauer, Andr´e %D 2021 %T Automated Hybrid Time Series Forecasting: Design, Benchmarking, and Use Cases
Serverless Computing (Dagstuhl Seminar 21201) C. Abad; I. T. Foster; N. Herbst; A. Iosup; in Dagstuhl Reports, (C. Abad; I. T. Foster; N. Herbst; A. Iosup, Hrsg.) (2021). 11(4) 34–93.
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@article{abad_et_al:DagRep.11.4.34, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, annote = {Keywords: Cloud computing, Cloud continuum, data-driven, design patterns, DevOps, experimentation, model-driven, serverless computing, simulation, software architecture, systems management, vision}, author = {Abad, Cristina and Foster, Ian T. and Herbst, Nikolas and Iosup, Alexandru}, editor = {Abad, Cristina and Foster, Ian T. and Herbst, Nikolas and Iosup, Alexandru}, journal = {Dagstuhl Reports}, keywords = {resource_management}, number = 4, pages = {34–93}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, title = {{Serverless Computing (Dagstuhl Seminar 21201)}}, volume = 11, year = 2021 }

%0 Journal Article %1 abad_et_al:DagRep.11.4.34 %A Abad, Cristina %A Foster, Ian T. %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Iosup, Alexandru %C Dagstuhl, Germany %D 2021 %E Abad, Cristina %E Foster, Ian T. %E Herbst, Nikolas %E Iosup, Alexandru %I Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik %J Dagstuhl Reports %N 4 %P 34--93 %T Serverless Computing (Dagstuhl Seminar 21201) %U https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/14798 %V 11 %Z Keywords: Cloud computing, Cloud continuum, data-driven, design patterns, DevOps, experimentation, model-driven, serverless computing, simulation, software architecture, systems management, vision
The integration of training and off-training activities substantially alters training volume and load analysis in elite rowers G. Treff; R. Leppich; K. Winkert; J. M. Steinacker; B. Mayer; B. Sperlich; in Scientific reports (2021). 11(1) 1–10.
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@article{treff2021integration, author = {Treff, Gunnar and Leppich, Robert and Winkert, Kay and Steinacker, J{\"u}rgen M and Mayer, Benjamin and Sperlich, Billy}, journal = {Scientific reports}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, number = 1, pages = {1–10}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {The integration of training and off-training activities substantially alters training volume and load analysis in elite rowers}, volume = 11, year = 2021 }

%0 Journal Article %1 treff2021integration %A Treff, Gunnar %A Leppich, Robert %A Winkert, Kay %A Steinacker, Jürgen M %A Mayer, Benjamin %A Sperlich, Billy %D 2021 %I Nature Publishing Group %J Scientific reports %N 1 %P 1--10 %T The integration of training and off-training activities substantially alters training volume and load analysis in elite rowers %V 11
Buzzy: Towards Realistic DBMS Benchmarking via Tailored, Representative, Synthetic Workloads J. Domaschka; S. Eismann; M. Leznik; J. Grohmann; S. Kounev; D. Seybold; in Companion of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2021). (Bd. ICPE ’21) 175–178.
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Distributed Database Management Systems (DBMS) are a crucial component of modern IT applications. Understanding their performance and non-functional properties is of paramount importance. Yet, benchmarking distributed DBMS has proven to be difficult in practice. Either, a realistic workload is often mapped to a synthetic workload without knowing if this mapping is correct or available workload traces are replayed. While the latter approach provides more realistic results, real-world traces are hard to obtain and their scope is limited in time scale and variance.We propose collecting real-world traces and then applying data generation techniques to synthesize similar realistic traces based on it. Based in this approach, we can obtain workloads for benchmarking, exhibit variability with respect to different aspects of interest while still being similar to the original traces. Varying generation parameters, we are able to support benchmarking what-if scenarios with hypothetical workloads and introduced anomalies.

@inproceedings{domaschka2021buzzy, abstract = {Distributed Database Management Systems (DBMS) are a crucial component of modern IT applications. Understanding their performance and non-functional properties is of paramount importance. Yet, benchmarking distributed DBMS has proven to be difficult in practice. Either, a realistic workload is often mapped to a synthetic workload without knowing if this mapping is correct or available workload traces are replayed. While the latter approach provides more realistic results, real-world traces are hard to obtain and their scope is limited in time scale and variance.We propose collecting real-world traces and then applying data generation techniques to synthesize similar realistic traces based on it. Based in this approach, we can obtain workloads for benchmarking, exhibit variability with respect to different aspects of interest while still being similar to the original traces. Varying generation parameters, we are able to support benchmarking what-if scenarios with hypothetical workloads and introduced anomalies.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Domaschka, Jörg and Eismann, Simon and Leznik, Mark and Grohmann, Johannes and Kounev, Samuel and Seybold, Daniel}, booktitle = {Companion of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {descartes}, pages = {175–178}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, title = {Buzzy: Towards Realistic DBMS Benchmarking via Tailored, Representative, Synthetic Workloads}, volume = {ICPE '21}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 domaschka2021buzzy %A Domaschka, Jörg %A Eismann, Simon %A Leznik, Mark %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Kounev, Samuel %A Seybold, Daniel %B Companion of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering %C New York, NY, USA %D 2021 %I Association for Computing Machinery %P 175–178 %R 10.1145/3447545.3451175 %T Buzzy: Towards Realistic DBMS Benchmarking via Tailored, Representative, Synthetic Workloads %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3447545.3451175 %V ICPE '21 %X Distributed Database Management Systems (DBMS) are a crucial component of modern IT applications. Understanding their performance and non-functional properties is of paramount importance. Yet, benchmarking distributed DBMS has proven to be difficult in practice. Either, a realistic workload is often mapped to a synthetic workload without knowing if this mapping is correct or available workload traces are replayed. While the latter approach provides more realistic results, real-world traces are hard to obtain and their scope is limited in time scale and variance.We propose collecting real-world traces and then applying data generation techniques to synthesize similar realistic traces based on it. Based in this approach, we can obtain workloads for benchmarking, exhibit variability with respect to different aspects of interest while still being similar to the original traces. Varying generation parameters, we are able to support benchmarking what-if scenarios with hypothetical workloads and introduced anomalies. %@ 9781450383318
Performance Evaluation of a Post-Quantum Public-Key Cryptosystem T. Prantl; D. Prantl; L. Beierlieb; L. Iffländer; A. Dmitrienko; C. Krupitzer; S. Kounev; in 2021 IEEE 40th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) (2021).
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@inproceedings{PrPrBeIfDnKrKo2021-IPCCC-QuantumPublicKeyCryposystem, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Prantl, Dominik and Beierlieb, Lukas and Iffländer, Lukas and Dmitrienko, Alexandra and Krupitzer, Christian and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {2021 IEEE 40th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC)}, keywords = {t_workshop}, organization = {IEEE}, title = {Performance Evaluation of a Post-Quantum Public-Key Cryptosystem}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 PrPrBeIfDnKrKo2021-IPCCC-QuantumPublicKeyCryposystem %A Prantl, Thomas %A Prantl, Dominik %A Beierlieb, Lukas %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Dmitrienko, Alexandra %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %B 2021 IEEE 40th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) %D 2021 %T Performance Evaluation of a Post-Quantum Public-Key Cryptosystem
Benchmarking of Pre- and Post-Quantum Group Encryption Schemes with Focus on IoT T. Prantl; D. Prantl; A. Bauer; L. Iffländer; A. Dmitrenko; C. Krupitzer; S. Kounev; in 2021 IEEE 40th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) (2021).
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@inproceedings{PrPrBaIfDmKrKo2021-IPCCC-QuantumGroupEncryption, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Prantl, Dominik and Bauer, André and Iffländer, Lukas and Dmitrenko, Alexandra and Krupitzer, Christian and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {2021 IEEE 40th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC)}, keywords = {sss-group}, title = {Benchmarking of Pre- and Post-Quantum Group Encryption Schemes with Focus on IoT}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 PrPrBaIfDmKrKo2021-IPCCC-QuantumGroupEncryption %A Prantl, Thomas %A Prantl, Dominik %A Bauer, André %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Dmitrenko, Alexandra %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %B 2021 IEEE 40th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) %D 2021 %T Benchmarking of Pre- and Post-Quantum Group Encryption Schemes with Focus on IoT
Towards Situation-Aware Meta-Optimization of Adaptation Planning Strategies V. Lesch; T. Noack; J. Hefter; S. Kounev; C. Krupitzer; in Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems - ACSOS 2021 (2021).

Best Paper Award Runner Up, Full Paper Acceptance Ratio: 25%
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@inproceedings{lesch2021towards, author = {Lesch, Veronika and Noack, Tanja and Hefter, Johannes and Kounev, Samuel and Krupitzer, Christian}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems - ACSOS 2021}, keywords = {internet_of_things}, note = {Best Paper Award Runner Up, Full Paper Acceptance Ratio: 25%}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {Towards Situation-Aware Meta-Optimization of Adaptation Planning Strategies}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 lesch2021towards %A Lesch, Veronika %A Noack, Tanja %A Hefter, Johannes %A Kounev, Samuel %A Krupitzer, Christian %B Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems - ACSOS 2021 %D 2021 %I IEEE %T Towards Situation-Aware Meta-Optimization of Adaptation Planning Strategies
A Machine Learning-based Workflow for Automatic Detection of Anomalies in Machine Tools M. Züfle; F. Moog; V. Lesch; C. Krupitzer; S. Kounev; in ISA Transactions: The Journal of Automation (2021).

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Despite the increased sensor-based data collection in Industry 4.0, the practical use of this data is still in its infancy. In contrast, academic literature provides several approaches to detect machine failures but, in most cases, relies on simulations and vast amounts of training data. Since it is often not practical to collect such amounts of data in an industrial context, we propose an approach to detect the current production mode and machine degradation states on a comparably small data set. Our approach integrates domain knowledge about manufacturing systems into a highly generalizable end-to-end workflow ranging from raw data processing, phase segmentation, data resampling, and feature extraction to machine tool anomaly detection. The workflow applies unsupervised clustering techniques to identify the current production mode and supervised classification models for detecting the present degradation. A resampling strategy and classical machine learning models enable the workflow to handle small data sets and distinguish between normal and abnormal machine tool behavior. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no such end-to-end workflow in the literature that uses the entire machine signal as input to identify anomalies for individual tools. Our evaluation with data from a real multi-purpose machine shows that the proposed workflow detects anomalies with an average F1-score of almost 93%.

@article{zuefle2021anomalydetection, abstract = {Despite the increased sensor-based data collection in Industry 4.0, the practical use of this data is still in its infancy. In contrast, academic literature provides several approaches to detect machine failures but, in most cases, relies on simulations and vast amounts of training data. Since it is often not practical to collect such amounts of data in an industrial context, we propose an approach to detect the current production mode and machine degradation states on a comparably small data set. Our approach integrates domain knowledge about manufacturing systems into a highly generalizable end-to-end workflow ranging from raw data processing, phase segmentation, data resampling, and feature extraction to machine tool anomaly detection. The workflow applies unsupervised clustering techniques to identify the current production mode and supervised classification models for detecting the present degradation. A resampling strategy and classical machine learning models enable the workflow to handle small data sets and distinguish between normal and abnormal machine tool behavior. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no such end-to-end workflow in the literature that uses the entire machine signal as input to identify anomalies for individual tools. Our evaluation with data from a real multi-purpose machine shows that the proposed workflow detects anomalies with an average F1-score of almost 93%.}, author = {Züfle, Marwin and Moog, Felix and Lesch, Veronika and Krupitzer, Christian and Kounev, Samuel}, journal = {ISA Transactions: The Journal of Automation}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, note = {(in press)}, title = {A Machine Learning-based Workflow for Automatic Detection of Anomalies in Machine Tools}, year = 2021 }

%0 Journal Article %1 zuefle2021anomalydetection %A Züfle, Marwin %A Moog, Felix %A Lesch, Veronika %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2021 %J ISA Transactions: The Journal of Automation %T A Machine Learning-based Workflow for Automatic Detection of Anomalies in Machine Tools %U https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019057821003773 %X Despite the increased sensor-based data collection in Industry 4.0, the practical use of this data is still in its infancy. In contrast, academic literature provides several approaches to detect machine failures but, in most cases, relies on simulations and vast amounts of training data. Since it is often not practical to collect such amounts of data in an industrial context, we propose an approach to detect the current production mode and machine degradation states on a comparably small data set. Our approach integrates domain knowledge about manufacturing systems into a highly generalizable end-to-end workflow ranging from raw data processing, phase segmentation, data resampling, and feature extraction to machine tool anomaly detection. The workflow applies unsupervised clustering techniques to identify the current production mode and supervised classification models for detecting the present degradation. A resampling strategy and classical machine learning models enable the workflow to handle small data sets and distinguish between normal and abnormal machine tool behavior. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no such end-to-end workflow in the literature that uses the entire machine signal as input to identify anomalies for individual tools. Our evaluation with data from a real multi-purpose machine shows that the proposed workflow detects anomalies with an average F1-score of almost 93%.
Recommendations for Data-Driven Degradation Estimation with Case Studies from Manufacturing and Dry-Bulk Shipping N. Finke; M. Mohr; A. Lontke; M. Züfle; S. Kounev; R. Möller; in Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS) (2021). 189–204.
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@inproceedings{finke2021recommendations, author = {Finke, Nils and Mohr, Marisa and Lontke, Alexander and Z{\"u}fle, Marwin and Kounev, Samuel and M{\"o}ller, Ralf}, booktitle = {Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)}, keywords = {t_interdisciplinary}, organization = {Springer}, pages = {189–204}, title = {Recommendations for Data-Driven Degradation Estimation with Case Studies from Manufacturing and Dry-Bulk Shipping}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 finke2021recommendations %A Finke, Nils %A Mohr, Marisa %A Lontke, Alexander %A Züfle, Marwin %A Kounev, Samuel %A Möller, Ralf %B Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS) %D 2021 %P 189--204 %T Recommendations for Data-Driven Degradation Estimation with Case Studies from Manufacturing and Dry-Bulk Shipping
Establishing a cardiac training group for patients with heart failure: the “HIP-in-Würzburg” study G. Güder; J. Wilkesmann; N. Scholz; R. Leppich; P. Düking; B. Sperlich; C. Rost; S. Frantz; C. Morbach; F. Sahiti; others; in Clinical Research in Cardiology (2021). 1–10.
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@article{guder2021establishing, author = {G{\"u}der, G{\"u}lmisal and Wilkesmann, Joana and Scholz, Nina and Leppich, Robert and D{\"u}king, Peter and Sperlich, Billy and Rost, Christian and Frantz, Stefan and Morbach, Caroline and Sahiti, Floran and others}, journal = {Clinical Research in Cardiology}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, pages = {1–10}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {Establishing a cardiac training group for patients with heart failure: the “HIP-in-W{\"u}rzburg” study}, year = 2021 }

%0 Journal Article %1 guder2021establishing %A Güder, Gülmisal %A Wilkesmann, Joana %A Scholz, Nina %A Leppich, Robert %A Düking, Peter %A Sperlich, Billy %A Rost, Christian %A Frantz, Stefan %A Morbach, Caroline %A Sahiti, Floran %A others, %D 2021 %I Springer %J Clinical Research in Cardiology %P 1--10 %T Establishing a cardiac training group for patients with heart failure: the “HIP-in-Würzburg” study
A Predictive Maintenance Methodology: Predicting the Time-to-Failure of Machines in Industry 4.0 M. Züfle; J. Agne; J. Grohmann; I. Dörtoluk; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 21st IEEE IES International Conference on Industrial Informatics (2021).
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Predictive maintenance is an essential aspect of the concept of Industry 4.0. In contrast to previous maintenance strategies, which plan repairs based on periodic schedules or threshold values, predictive maintenance is normally based on estimating the time-to-failure of machines. Thus, predictive maintenance enables a more efficient and effective maintenance approach. Although much research has already been done on time-to-failure prediction, most existing works provide only specialized approaches for specific machines. In most cases, these are either rotary machines (i.e., bearings) or lithium-ion batteries. To bridge the gap to a more general time-to-failure prediction, we propose a generic end-to-end predictive maintenance methodology for the time-to-failure prediction of industrial machines. Our methodology exhibits a number of novel aspects including a universally applicable method for feature extraction based on different types of sensor data, well-known feature transformation and selection techniques, adjustable target class assignment based on fault records with three different labeling strategies, and the training of multiple state-of-the-art machine learning classification models including hyperparameter optimization. We evaluated our time-to-failure prediction methodology in a real-world case study consisting of monitoring data gathered over several years from a large industrial press. The results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed methodology for six different time-to-failure pre-diction windows, as well as for the downscaled binary prediction of impending failures. In this case study, the multi-class feed-forward neural network model achieved the overall best results.

@inproceedings{ZuAgGrDoKo-INDIN2021-PdM, abstract = {Predictive maintenance is an essential aspect of the concept of Industry 4.0. In contrast to previous maintenance strategies, which plan repairs based on periodic schedules or threshold values, predictive maintenance is normally based on estimating the time-to-failure of machines. Thus, predictive maintenance enables a more efficient and effective maintenance approach. Although much research has already been done on time-to-failure prediction, most existing works provide only specialized approaches for specific machines. In most cases, these are either rotary machines (i.e., bearings) or lithium-ion batteries. To bridge the gap to a more general time-to-failure prediction, we propose a generic end-to-end predictive maintenance methodology for the time-to-failure prediction of industrial machines. Our methodology exhibits a number of novel aspects including a universally applicable method for feature extraction based on different types of sensor data, well-known feature transformation and selection techniques, adjustable target class assignment based on fault records with three different labeling strategies, and the training of multiple state-of-the-art machine learning classification models including hyperparameter optimization. We evaluated our time-to-failure prediction methodology in a real-world case study consisting of monitoring data gathered over several years from a large industrial press. The results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed methodology for six different time-to-failure pre-diction windows, as well as for the downscaled binary prediction of impending failures. In this case study, the multi-class feed-forward neural network model achieved the overall best results.}, author = {Züfle, Marwin and Agne, Joachim and Grohmann, Johannes and Dörtoluk, Ibrahim and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st IEEE IES International Conference on Industrial Informatics}, keywords = {t_interdisciplinary}, month = {July}, publisher = {IEEE}, series = {INDIN'21}, title = {A Predictive Maintenance Methodology: Predicting the Time-to-Failure of Machines in Industry 4.0}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 ZuAgGrDoKo-INDIN2021-PdM %A Züfle, Marwin %A Agne, Joachim %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Dörtoluk, Ibrahim %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 21st IEEE IES International Conference on Industrial Informatics %D 2021 %I IEEE %R 10.1109/INDIN45523.2021.9557387 %T A Predictive Maintenance Methodology: Predicting the Time-to-Failure of Machines in Industry 4.0 %U https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9557387 %X Predictive maintenance is an essential aspect of the concept of Industry 4.0. In contrast to previous maintenance strategies, which plan repairs based on periodic schedules or threshold values, predictive maintenance is normally based on estimating the time-to-failure of machines. Thus, predictive maintenance enables a more efficient and effective maintenance approach. Although much research has already been done on time-to-failure prediction, most existing works provide only specialized approaches for specific machines. In most cases, these are either rotary machines (i.e., bearings) or lithium-ion batteries. To bridge the gap to a more general time-to-failure prediction, we propose a generic end-to-end predictive maintenance methodology for the time-to-failure prediction of industrial machines. Our methodology exhibits a number of novel aspects including a universally applicable method for feature extraction based on different types of sensor data, well-known feature transformation and selection techniques, adjustable target class assignment based on fault records with three different labeling strategies, and the training of multiple state-of-the-art machine learning classification models including hyperparameter optimization. We evaluated our time-to-failure prediction methodology in a real-world case study consisting of monitoring data gathered over several years from a large industrial press. The results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed methodology for six different time-to-failure pre-diction windows, as well as for the downscaled binary prediction of impending failures. In this case study, the multi-class feed-forward neural network model achieved the overall best results.
Serverless Applications:Why, When, and How? S. Eismann; S. Joel; E. van Eyk; M. Schwinger; J. Grohmann; N. Herbst; C. Abad; A. Iosup; in IEEE Software (2021). 38(1) 32–39.
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Serverless computing shows good promise for efficiency and ease-of-use. Yet, there are only a few, scattered and sometimes conflicting reports on questions such as Why do so many companies adopt serverless?, When are serverless applications well suited?, and How are serverless applications currently implemented? To address these questions, we analyze 89 serverless applications from open-source projects, industrial sources, academic literature, and scientific computing—the most extensive study to date.

@article{eismann2020serverless, abstract = {Serverless computing shows good promise for efficiency and ease-of-use. Yet, there are only a few, scattered and sometimes conflicting reports on questions such as Why do so many companies adopt serverless?, When are serverless applications well suited?, and How are serverless applications currently implemented? To address these questions, we analyze 89 serverless applications from open-source projects, industrial sources, academic literature, and scientific computing—the most extensive study to date.}, author = {Eismann, Simon and Joel, Scheuner and van Eyk, Erwin and Schwinger, Maximilian and Grohmann, Johannes and Herbst, Nikolas and Abad, Cristina and Iosup, Alexandru}, journal = {IEEE Software}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, number = 1, pages = {32–39}, title = {Serverless Applications:Why, When, and How?}, volume = 38, year = 2021 }

%0 Journal Article %1 eismann2020serverless %A Eismann, Simon %A Joel, Scheuner %A van Eyk, Erwin %A Schwinger, Maximilian %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Abad, Cristina %A Iosup, Alexandru %D 2021 %J IEEE Software %N 1 %P 32--39 %R 10.1109/MS.2020.3023302 %T Serverless Applications:Why, When, and How? %U https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2020.3023302 %V 38 %X Serverless computing shows good promise for efficiency and ease-of-use. Yet, there are only a few, scattered and sometimes conflicting reports on questions such as Why do so many companies adopt serverless?, When are serverless applications well suited?, and How are serverless applications currently implemented? To address these questions, we analyze 89 serverless applications from open-source projects, industrial sources, academic literature, and scientific computing—the most extensive study to date.
A Comparison of Mechanisms for Compensating Negative Impacts of System Integration V. Lesch; C. Krupitzer; K. Stubenrauch; N. Keil; C. Becker; S. Kounev; M. Segata; in Future Generation Computer Systems (2021). 116 117–131.
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@article{lesch2020comparison, author = {Lesch, Veronika and Krupitzer, Christian and Stubenrauch, Kevin and Keil, Nico and Becker, Christian and Kounev, Samuel and Segata, Michele}, journal = {Future Generation Computer Systems}, keywords = {platooning}, month = {March}, pages = {117-131}, title = {A Comparison of Mechanisms for Compensating Negative Impacts of System Integration}, volume = 116, year = 2021 }

%0 Journal Article %1 lesch2020comparison %A Lesch, Veronika %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Stubenrauch, Kevin %A Keil, Nico %A Becker, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %A Segata, Michele %D 2021 %J Future Generation Computer Systems %P 117-131 %R https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2020.10.029 %T A Comparison of Mechanisms for Compensating Negative Impacts of System Integration %V 116
A Case Study on Optimization of Warehouses V. Lesch; P. B. Müller; M. Krämer; S. Kounev; C. Krupitzer; (2021).
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@techreport{lesch2021study, author = {Lesch, Veronika and Müller, Patrick B.M. and Krämer, Moritz and Kounev, Samuel and Krupitzer, Christian}, keywords = {t_techreport}, title = {A Case Study on Optimization of Warehouses}, year = 2021 }

%0 Report %1 lesch2021study %A Lesch, Veronika %A Müller, Patrick B.M. %A Krämer, Moritz %A Kounev, Samuel %A Krupitzer, Christian %D 2021 %T A Case Study on Optimization of Warehouses %U http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12058
Towards a Group Encryption Scheme Benchmark: A View on Centralized Schemes with focus on IoT T. Prantl; P. Ten; L. Iffländer; S. Herrnleben; A. Dmitrenko; S. Kounev; C. Krupitzer; in 2021 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) (2021).
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@inproceedings{PrTeIfHeDmKo2021-ICPE-GroupEncryptionCentralizedBenchmark, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Ten, Peter and Iffländer, Lukas and Herrnleben, Stefan and Dmitrenko, Alexandra and Kounev, Samuel and Krupitzer, Christian}, booktitle = {2021 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)}, keywords = {Group\_Encyrption\_Scheme}, month = {April}, series = {ICPE'21}, title = {Towards a Group Encryption Scheme Benchmark: A View on Centralized Schemes with focus on IoT}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 PrTeIfHeDmKo2021-ICPE-GroupEncryptionCentralizedBenchmark %A Prantl, Thomas %A Ten, Peter %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Herrnleben, Stefan %A Dmitrenko, Alexandra %A Kounev, Samuel %A Krupitzer, Christian %B 2021 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) %D 2021 %T Towards a Group Encryption Scheme Benchmark: A View on Centralized Schemes with focus on IoT
Performance Impact Analysis of Securing MQTT Using TLS T. Prantl; L. Iffländer; S. Herrnleben; S. Engel; S. Kounev; C. Krupitzer; in 2021 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) (2021).
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@inproceedings{PrTeIfHeDmKo2021-ICPE-MQTT_TLS, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Iffländer, Lukas and Herrnleben, Stefan and Engel, Simon and Kounev, Samuel and Krupitzer, Christian}, booktitle = {2021 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)}, keywords = {IoT}, month = {April}, series = {ICPE'21}, title = {Performance Impact Analysis of Securing MQTT Using TLS}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 PrTeIfHeDmKo2021-ICPE-MQTT_TLS %A Prantl, Thomas %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Herrnleben, Stefan %A Engel, Simon %A Kounev, Samuel %A Krupitzer, Christian %B 2021 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) %D 2021 %T Performance Impact Analysis of Securing MQTT Using TLS
SuanMing: Explainable Prediction of Performance Degradations in Microservice Applications J. Grohmann; M. Straesser; A. Chalbani; S. Eismann; Y. Arian; N. Herbst; N. Peretz; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 12th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) (2021).

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Application performance management (APM) tools are useful to observe the performance properties of an application during production. However, APM is normally purely reactive, that is, it can only report about current or past performance degradation. Although some approaches capable of predictive application monitoring have been proposed, they can only report a predicted degradation but cannot explain its root-cause, making it hard to prevent the expected degradation. In this paper, we present SuanMing---a framework for predicting performance degradation of microservice applications running in cloud environments. SuanMing is able to predict future root causes for anticipated performance degradations and therefore aims at preventing performance degradations before they actually occur. We evaluate SuanMing on two realistic microservice applications, TeaStore and TrainTicket, and we show that our approach is able to predict and pinpoint performance degradations with an accuracy of over 90%.

@inproceedings{GrStChEiArHePeKo2021-ICPE, abstract = {Application performance management (APM) tools are useful to observe the performance properties of an application during production. However, APM is normally purely reactive, that is, it can only report about current or past performance degradation. Although some approaches capable of predictive application monitoring have been proposed, they can only report a predicted degradation but cannot explain its root-cause, making it hard to prevent the expected degradation. In this paper, we present SuanMing—a framework for predicting performance degradation of microservice applications running in cloud environments. SuanMing is able to predict future root causes for anticipated performance degradations and therefore aims at preventing performance degradations before they actually occur. We evaluate SuanMing on two realistic microservice applications, TeaStore and TrainTicket, and we show that our approach is able to predict and pinpoint performance degradations with an accuracy of over 90\%.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Grohmann, Johannes and Straesser, Martin and Chalbani, Avi and Eismann, Simon and Arian, Yair and Herbst, Nikolas and Peretz, Noam and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)}, keywords = {performance}, month = {April}, note = {Acceptance Rate: 29%}, organization = {ACM}, title = {SuanMing: Explainable Prediction of Performance Degradations in Microservice Applications}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 GrStChEiArHePeKo2021-ICPE %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Straesser, Martin %A Chalbani, Avi %A Eismann, Simon %A Arian, Yair %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Peretz, Noam %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 12th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) %C New York, NY, USA %D 2021 %R https://doi.org/10.1145/3427921.3450248 %T SuanMing: Explainable Prediction of Performance Degradations in Microservice Applications %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3427921.3450248 %X Application performance management (APM) tools are useful to observe the performance properties of an application during production. However, APM is normally purely reactive, that is, it can only report about current or past performance degradation. Although some approaches capable of predictive application monitoring have been proposed, they can only report a predicted degradation but cannot explain its root-cause, making it hard to prevent the expected degradation. In this paper, we present SuanMing---a framework for predicting performance degradation of microservice applications running in cloud environments. SuanMing is able to predict future root causes for anticipated performance degradations and therefore aims at preventing performance degradations before they actually occur. We evaluate SuanMing on two realistic microservice applications, TeaStore and TrainTicket, and we show that our approach is able to predict and pinpoint performance degradations with an accuracy of over 90%.
Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie auf Sportlerinnen und Sportler in Deutschland C. Zinner; M. Matzka; R. Leppich; S. Kounev; H.-C. Holmberg; B. Sperlich; in 53. asp Jahrestagung (2021).
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@article{zinner2021auswirkungen, author = {Zinner, Christoph and Matzka, Manuel and Leppich, Robert and Kounev, Samuel and Holmberg, Hans-Christian and Sperlich, Billy}, journal = {53. asp Jahrestagung}, keywords = {t_interdisciplinary}, title = {Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie auf Sportlerinnen und Sportler in Deutschland}, year = 2021 }

%0 Journal Article %1 zinner2021auswirkungen %A Zinner, Christoph %A Matzka, Manuel %A Leppich, Robert %A Kounev, Samuel %A Holmberg, Hans-Christian %A Sperlich, Billy %D 2021 %J 53. asp Jahrestagung %T Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie auf Sportlerinnen und Sportler in Deutschland
Libra: A Benchmark for Time Series Forecasting Methods A. Bauer; M. Züfle; S. Eismann; J. Grohmann; N. Herbst; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 12th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) (2021).
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In many areas of decision making, forecasting is an essential pillar. Consequently, there are many different forecasting methods. According to the "No-Free-Lunch Theorem", there is no single forecasting method that performs best for all time series. In other words, each method has its advantages and disadvantages depending on the specific use case. Therefore, the choice of the forecasting method remains a mandatory expert task. However, expert knowledge cannot be fully automated. To establish a level playing field for evaluating the performance of time series forecasting methods in a broad setting, we propose Libra, a forecasting benchmark that automatically evaluates and ranks forecasting methods based on their performance in a diverse set of evaluation scenarios. The benchmark comprises four different use cases, each covering 100 heterogeneous time series taken from different domains. The data set was assembled from publicly available time series and was designed to exhibit much higher diversity than existing forecasting competitions. Based on this benchmark, we perform a comprehensive evaluation to compare different existing time series forecasting methods.

@inproceedings{bauer2021benchmark, abstract = {In many areas of decision making, forecasting is an essential pillar. Consequently, there are many different forecasting methods. According to the "No-Free-Lunch Theorem", there is no single forecasting method that performs best for all time series. In other words, each method has its advantages and disadvantages depending on the specific use case. Therefore, the choice of the forecasting method remains a mandatory expert task. However, expert knowledge cannot be fully automated. To establish a level playing field for evaluating the performance of time series forecasting methods in a broad setting, we propose Libra, a forecasting benchmark that automatically evaluates and ranks forecasting methods based on their performance in a diverse set of evaluation scenarios. The benchmark comprises four different use cases, each covering 100 heterogeneous time series taken from different domains. The data set was assembled from publicly available time series and was designed to exhibit much higher diversity than existing forecasting competitions. Based on this benchmark, we perform a comprehensive evaluation to compare different existing time series forecasting methods.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Bauer, Andr{\'e} and Z{\"u}fle, Marwin and Eismann, Simon and Grohmann, Johannes and Herbst, Nikolas and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)}, keywords = {benchmark}, month = {April}, organization = {ACM}, title = {Libra: A Benchmark for Time Series Forecasting Methods}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 bauer2021benchmark %A Bauer, André %A Züfle, Marwin %A Eismann, Simon %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 12th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) %C New York, NY, USA %D 2021 %R 10.1145/3427921.3450241 %T Libra: A Benchmark for Time Series Forecasting Methods %U https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3427921.3450241 %X In many areas of decision making, forecasting is an essential pillar. Consequently, there are many different forecasting methods. According to the "No-Free-Lunch Theorem", there is no single forecasting method that performs best for all time series. In other words, each method has its advantages and disadvantages depending on the specific use case. Therefore, the choice of the forecasting method remains a mandatory expert task. However, expert knowledge cannot be fully automated. To establish a level playing field for evaluating the performance of time series forecasting methods in a broad setting, we propose Libra, a forecasting benchmark that automatically evaluates and ranks forecasting methods based on their performance in a diverse set of evaluation scenarios. The benchmark comprises four different use cases, each covering 100 heterogeneous time series taken from different domains. The data set was assembled from publicly available time series and was designed to exhibit much higher diversity than existing forecasting competitions. Based on this benchmark, we perform a comprehensive evaluation to compare different existing time series forecasting methods.
An Overview on Approaches for Coordination of Platoons V. Lesch; M. Breitbach; M. Segata; C. Becker; S. Kounev; C. Krupitzer; in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2021).

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%0 Journal Article %1 lesch2021overview %A Lesch, Veronika %A Breitbach, Martin %A Segata, Michele %A Becker, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %A Krupitzer, Christian %D 2021 %J IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems %T An Overview on Approaches for Coordination of Platoons
SPEC Research Group Newsletter, vol. 3 no. 2 S. Kounev; A. van Hoorn; A. Bauer; (2021, April).

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@misc{SPEC-RG-NEWSLETTER-10, author = {Kounev, Samuel and van Hoorn, Andre and Bauer, Andr{\'e}}, keywords = {SPEC}, month = {April}, note = {Published by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)}, title = {{SPEC Research Group Newsletter, vol. 3 no. 2}}, year = 2021 }

%0 Generic %1 SPEC-RG-NEWSLETTER-10 %A Kounev, Samuel %A van Hoorn, Andre %A Bauer, André %D 2021 %T SPEC Research Group Newsletter, vol. 3 no. 2 %U http://research.spec.org/en/newsletter.html
Utility-based Vehicle Routing Integrating User Preferences V. Lesch; M. Hadry; S. Kounev; C. Krupitzer; in Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Computing for Vehicular Systems (PerVehicle), 2021 (2021).
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@inproceedings{lesch2021utility, author = {Lesch, Veronika and Hadry, Marius and Kounev, Samuel and Krupitzer, Christian}, booktitle = {Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Computing for Vehicular Systems (PerVehicle), 2021}, keywords = {t_workshop}, month = {March}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {Utility-based Vehicle Routing Integrating User Preferences}, year = 2021 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 lesch2021utility %A Lesch, Veronika %A Hadry, Marius %A Kounev, Samuel %A Krupitzer, Christian %B Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Computing for Vehicular Systems (PerVehicle), 2021 %D 2021 %I IEEE %T Utility-based Vehicle Routing Integrating User Preferences
A Case Study on Optimization of Platooning Coordination V. Lesch; M. Hadry; S. Kounev; C. Krupitzer; (2021).
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@techreport{lesch2021studyplatooning, author = {Lesch, Veronika and Hadry, Marius and Kounev, Samuel and Krupitzer, Christian}, institution = {Universit{ä}t W{ü}rzburg and Universit{ä}t Hohenheim}, keywords = {t_techreport}, title = {A Case Study on Optimization of Platooning Coordination}, year = 2021 }

%0 Report %1 lesch2021studyplatooning %A Lesch, Veronika %A Hadry, Marius %A Kounev, Samuel %A Krupitzer, Christian %D 2021 %T A Case Study on Optimization of Platooning Coordination %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09665

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An Automated Forecasting Framework based on Method Recommendation for Seasonal Time Series A. Bauer; M. Züfle; J. Grohmann; N. Schmitt; N. Herbst; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2020). 48–55.
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Due to the fast-paced and changing demands of their users, computing systems require autonomic resource management. To enable proactive and accurate decision-making for changes causing a particular overhead, reliable forecasts are needed. In fact, choosing the best performing forecasting method for a given time series scenario is a crucial task. Taking the "No-Free-Lunch Theorem" into account, there exists no forecasting method that performs best on all types of time series. To this end, we propose an automated approach that (i) extracts characteristics from a given time series, (ii) selects the best-suited machine learning method based on recommendation, and finally, (iii) performs the forecast. Our approach offers the benefit of not relying on a single method with its possibly inaccurate forecasts. In an extensive evaluation, our approach achieves the best forecasting accuracy.

@inproceedings{BaZuGrScHeKo-ICPE20-Seasonal-Forecast, abstract = {Due to the fast-paced and changing demands of their users, computing systems require autonomic resource management. To enable proactive and accurate decision-making for changes causing a particular overhead, reliable forecasts are needed. In fact, choosing the best performing forecasting method for a given time series scenario is a crucial task. Taking the "No-Free-Lunch Theorem" into account, there exists no forecasting method that performs best on all types of time series. To this end, we propose an automated approach that (i) extracts characteristics from a given time series, (ii) selects the best-suited machine learning method based on recommendation, and finally, (iii) performs the forecast. Our approach offers the benefit of not relying on a single method with its possibly inaccurate forecasts. In an extensive evaluation, our approach achieves the best forecasting accuracy.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Bauer, Andr{\'e} and Z{\"u}fle, Marwin and Grohmann, Johannes and Schmitt, Norbert and Herbst, Nikolas and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {PRISMA}, month = {April}, pages = {48–55}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}, series = {ICPE '20}, title = {{An Automated Forecasting Framework based on Method Recommendation for Seasonal Time Series}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 BaZuGrScHeKo-ICPE20-Seasonal-Forecast %A Bauer, André %A Züfle, Marwin %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Schmitt, Norbert %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering %C New York, NY, USA %D 2020 %I Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) %P 48--55 %R 10.1145/3358960.3379123 %T An Automated Forecasting Framework based on Method Recommendation for Seasonal Time Series %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3358960.3379123 %X Due to the fast-paced and changing demands of their users, computing systems require autonomic resource management. To enable proactive and accurate decision-making for changes causing a particular overhead, reliable forecasts are needed. In fact, choosing the best performing forecasting method for a given time series scenario is a crucial task. Taking the "No-Free-Lunch Theorem" into account, there exists no forecasting method that performs best on all types of time series. To this end, we propose an automated approach that (i) extracts characteristics from a given time series, (ii) selects the best-suited machine learning method based on recommendation, and finally, (iii) performs the forecast. Our approach offers the benefit of not relying on a single method with its possibly inaccurate forecasts. In an extensive evaluation, our approach achieves the best forecasting accuracy. %@ 9781450369916
Elasticity of Cloud Platforms N. Herbst; A. Bauer; S. Kounev; in Systems Benchmarking: For Scientists and Engineers, S. Kounev, K.-D. Lange, J. von Kistowski (Hrsg.) (2020). 319–340.
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@inproceedings{bauer2020bookelasticity, author = {Herbst, Nikolas and Bauer, Andr{\'e} and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {{Systems Benchmarking: For Scientists and Engineers}}, editor = {Kounev, Samuel and Lange, Klaus-Dieter and von Kistowski, J{\'o}akim}, keywords = {t_bookchapter}, month = 1, organization = {Springer}, pages = {319-340}, title = {{Elasticity of Cloud Platforms}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 bauer2020bookelasticity %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Bauer, André %A Kounev, Samuel %B Systems Benchmarking: For Scientists and Engineers %D 2020 %E Kounev, Samuel %E Lange, Klaus-Dieter %E von Kistowski, Jóakim %P 319-340 %T Elasticity of Cloud Platforms
Learning to Learn in Collective Adaptive Systems: Mining Design Pattern for Data-driven Reasoning M. D’Angelo; S. Ghahremani; S. Gerasimou; J. Grohmann; I. Nunes; S. Tomforde; E. Pournaras; in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C) (2020). 121–126.
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Engineering collective adaptive systems (CAS) with learning capabilities is a challenging task due to their multidimensional and complex design space. Data-driven approaches for CAS design could introduce new insights enabling system engineers to manage the CAS complexity more cost-effectively at the design-phase. This paper introduces a systematic approach to reason about design choices and patterns of learning-based CAS. Using data from a systematic literature review, reasoning is performed with a novel application of data-driven methodologies such as clustering, multiple correspondence analysis and decision trees. The reasoning based on past experience as well as supporting novel and innovative design choices are demonstrated.

@conference{DaGhGeGrNuToPo2020-eCas-LearningInCAS, abstract = {Engineering collective adaptive systems (CAS) with learning capabilities is a challenging task due to their multidimensional and complex design space. Data-driven approaches for CAS design could introduce new insights enabling system engineers to manage the CAS complexity more cost-effectively at the design-phase. This paper introduces a systematic approach to reason about design choices and patterns of learning-based CAS. Using data from a systematic literature review, reasoning is performed with a novel application of data-driven methodologies such as clustering, multiple correspondence analysis and decision trees. The reasoning based on past experience as well as supporting novel and innovative design choices are demonstrated.}, author = {D'Angelo, Mirko and Ghahremani, Sona and Gerasimou, Simos and Grohmann, Johannes and Nunes, Ingrid and Tomforde, Sven and Pournaras, Evangelos}, booktitle = {2020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C)}, keywords = {t_workshop}, pages = {121–126}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {Learning to Learn in Collective Adaptive Systems: Mining Design Pattern for Data-driven Reasoning}, year = 2020 }

%0 Generic %1 DaGhGeGrNuToPo2020-eCas-LearningInCAS %A D'Angelo, Mirko %A Ghahremani, Sona %A Gerasimou, Simos %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Nunes, Ingrid %A Tomforde, Sven %A Pournaras, Evangelos %B 2020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C) %D 2020 %I IEEE %P 121--126 %R 10.1109/ACSOS-C51401.2020.00042 %T Learning to Learn in Collective Adaptive Systems: Mining Design Pattern for Data-driven Reasoning %U https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSOS-C51401.2020.00042 %X Engineering collective adaptive systems (CAS) with learning capabilities is a challenging task due to their multidimensional and complex design space. Data-driven approaches for CAS design could introduce new insights enabling system engineers to manage the CAS complexity more cost-effectively at the design-phase. This paper introduces a systematic approach to reason about design choices and patterns of learning-based CAS. Using data from a systematic literature review, reasoning is performed with a novel application of data-driven methodologies such as clustering, multiple correspondence analysis and decision trees. The reasoning based on past experience as well as supporting novel and innovative design choices are demonstrated.
Performance, Power, and Energy-Efficiency Impact Analysis of Compiler Optimizations on the SPEC CPU 2017 Benchmark Suite N. Schmitt; J. Bucek; J. Beckett; A. Cragin; K.-D. Lange; S. Kounev; in 2020 IEEE/ACM 13th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) (2020). 292–301.
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The growth of cloud services leads to more and more data centers that are increasingly larger and consume considerable amounts of power. To increase energy efficiency, both the actual server equipment and the software must become more energy efficient. Software has a major impact on hardware utilization levels, and subsequently, the energy efficiency. While energy efficiency is often seen as identical to performance, we argue that this may not be necessarily the case. A sizable amount of energy could be saved, increasing energy efficiency by leveraging compiler optimizations but at the same time impacting performance and power consumption over time. We analyze the SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark suite with 43 benchmarks from different domains, including integer and floating-point heavy computations on a state-of-the-art server system for cloud applications. Our results show that power consumption displays more stable behavior if less compiler optimizations are used and also confirmed that performance and energy efficiency are different optimizations goals. Additionally, compiler optimizations possibly could be used to enable power capping on a software level and care must be taken when selecting such optimizations.

@inproceedings{9302787, abstract = {The growth of cloud services leads to more and more data centers that are increasingly larger and consume considerable amounts of power. To increase energy efficiency, both the actual server equipment and the software must become more energy efficient. Software has a major impact on hardware utilization levels, and subsequently, the energy efficiency. While energy efficiency is often seen as identical to performance, we argue that this may not be necessarily the case. A sizable amount of energy could be saved, increasing energy efficiency by leveraging compiler optimizations but at the same time impacting performance and power consumption over time. We analyze the SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark suite with 43 benchmarks from different domains, including integer and floating-point heavy computations on a state-of-the-art server system for cloud applications. Our results show that power consumption displays more stable behavior if less compiler optimizations are used and also confirmed that performance and energy efficiency are different optimizations goals. Additionally, compiler optimizations possibly could be used to enable power capping on a software level and care must be taken when selecting such optimizations.}, author = {Schmitt, Norbert and Bucek, James and Beckett, John and Cragin, Aaron and Lange, Klaus-Dieter and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {2020 IEEE/ACM 13th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)}, keywords = {power}, month = {dec}, pages = {292-301}, title = {Performance, Power, and Energy-Efficiency Impact Analysis of Compiler Optimizations on the SPEC CPU 2017 Benchmark Suite}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 9302787 %A Schmitt, Norbert %A Bucek, James %A Beckett, John %A Cragin, Aaron %A Lange, Klaus-Dieter %A Kounev, Samuel %B 2020 IEEE/ACM 13th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) %D 2020 %P 292-301 %T Performance, Power, and Energy-Efficiency Impact Analysis of Compiler Optimizations on the SPEC CPU 2017 Benchmark Suite %U https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9302787/ %X The growth of cloud services leads to more and more data centers that are increasingly larger and consume considerable amounts of power. To increase energy efficiency, both the actual server equipment and the software must become more energy efficient. Software has a major impact on hardware utilization levels, and subsequently, the energy efficiency. While energy efficiency is often seen as identical to performance, we argue that this may not be necessarily the case. A sizable amount of energy could be saved, increasing energy efficiency by leveraging compiler optimizations but at the same time impacting performance and power consumption over time. We analyze the SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark suite with 43 benchmarks from different domains, including integer and floating-point heavy computations on a state-of-the-art server system for cloud applications. Our results show that power consumption displays more stable behavior if less compiler optimizations are used and also confirmed that performance and energy efficiency are different optimizations goals. Additionally, compiler optimizations possibly could be used to enable power capping on a software level and care must be taken when selecting such optimizations.
Evaluating the Performance of a State-of-the-Art Group-oriented Encryption Scheme for Dynamic Groups in an IoT Scenario T. Prantl; P. Ten; L. Iffländer; A. Dmitrenko; S. Kounev; C. Krupitzer; in 2020 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) (2020).

Acceptance Rate: 27%
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New emerging technologies, such as autonomous driving, intelligent buildings, and smart cities, are promising to revolutionize user experience and offer new services. The world has to undergo large scale deployment of billions of things — cost-efficient intelligent sensors that will be interconnected into extensive networks and will collect and supply data to intelligent algorithms — to make it happen. To date, however, it is challenging to secure such an infrastructure for many-fold reasons, such as resource constraints of things, large scale deployment, manyto-many communication patterns, and dynamically changing communication groups. All these factors rule out most of the state-of-the-art encryption and key-management techniques. Group encryption algorithms are well-suitable for many-tomany communication patterns typical for IoT networks, and many of them can deal with dynamic groups. There are, however, very few constructions that could potentially fulfill the computational and storage constraints of IoT devices while providing sufficient scalability for large networks. The promising candidates, such as construction by Nishat et al. [1], were not evaluated using IoT platforms and under constraints typical for IoT networks. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap and present the evaluation of a state-of-the-art group-oriented encryption scheme by Nishat et al. to identify its applicability to IoT systems. In detail, we provide a measurement workflow, a revised version of the approach, and describe a reproducible hardware testbed. Using this evaluation environment, we analyze the performance of the encryption scheme in a typical IoT scenario from a group member perspective. The results show that all calculation times can be assumed to be constant and are always below 2 seconds. The memory requirement for permanent parameters can also be considered to be constant and are below 8.5 kbit in each case. However, the information that has to be stored temporarily for group updates has turned out to be the bottleneck of the scheme, since their memory requirements increase linearly with the group size.

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%0 Conference Paper %1 PrTeIfDmKo2020-MASCOTS-GroupEncryption %A Prantl, Thomas %A Ten, Peter %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Dmitrenko, Alexandra %A Kounev, Samuel %A Krupitzer, Christian %B 2020 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) %D 2020 %T Evaluating the Performance of a State-of-the-Art Group-oriented Encryption Scheme for Dynamic Groups in an IoT Scenario %X New emerging technologies, such as autonomous driving, intelligent buildings, and smart cities, are promising to revolutionize user experience and offer new services. The world has to undergo large scale deployment of billions of things — cost-efficient intelligent sensors that will be interconnected into extensive networks and will collect and supply data to intelligent algorithms — to make it happen. To date, however, it is challenging to secure such an infrastructure for many-fold reasons, such as resource constraints of things, large scale deployment, manyto-many communication patterns, and dynamically changing communication groups. All these factors rule out most of the state-of-the-art encryption and key-management techniques. Group encryption algorithms are well-suitable for many-tomany communication patterns typical for IoT networks, and many of them can deal with dynamic groups. There are, however, very few constructions that could potentially fulfill the computational and storage constraints of IoT devices while providing sufficient scalability for large networks. The promising candidates, such as construction by Nishat et al. [1], were not evaluated using IoT platforms and under constraints typical for IoT networks. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap and present the evaluation of a state-of-the-art group-oriented encryption scheme by Nishat et al. to identify its applicability to IoT systems. In detail, we provide a measurement workflow, a revised version of the approach, and describe a reproducible hardware testbed. Using this evaluation environment, we analyze the performance of the encryption scheme in a typical IoT scenario from a group member perspective. The results show that all calculation times can be assumed to be constant and are always below 2 seconds. The memory requirement for permanent parameters can also be considered to be constant and are below 8.5 kbit in each case. However, the information that has to be stored temporarily for group updates has turned out to be the bottleneck of the scheme, since their memory requirements increase linearly with the group size.
An Overview of Design Patterns for Self-Adaptive Systems in the Context of the Internet of Things C. Krupitzer; T. Temizer; T. Prantl; C. Raibulet; in IEEE Access (2020).
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The Internet of Things (IoT) requires the integration of all available, highly specialized, and heterogeneous devices, ranging from embedded sensor nodes to servers in the cloud. The self-adaptive research domain provides adaptive capabilities that can support the integration in IoT systems. However, developing such systems is a challenging, error-prone, and time-consuming task. In this context, design patterns propose already used and optimized solutions to speciﬁc problems in various contexts. Applying design patterns might help to reuse existing knowledge about similar development issues. However, so far, there is a lack of taxonomies on design patterns for self-adaptive systems. To tackle this issue, in this paper, we provide a taxonomy on design patterns for self-adaptive systems that can be transferred to support adaptivity in IoT systems. Besides describing the taxonomy and the design patterns, we discuss their applicability in an Industrial IoT case study.

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%0 Journal Article %1 ieeeaccess2020:sasdesignpatterns %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Temizer, Timur %A Prantl, Thomas %A Raibulet, Claudia %D 2020 %J IEEE Access %T An Overview of Design Patterns for Self-Adaptive Systems in the Context of the Internet of Things %X The Internet of Things (IoT) requires the integration of all available, highly specialized, and heterogeneous devices, ranging from embedded sensor nodes to servers in the cloud. The self-adaptive research domain provides adaptive capabilities that can support the integration in IoT systems. However, developing such systems is a challenging, error-prone, and time-consuming task. In this context, design patterns propose already used and optimized solutions to speciﬁc problems in various contexts. Applying design patterns might help to reuse existing knowledge about similar development issues. However, so far, there is a lack of taxonomies on design patterns for self-adaptive systems. To tackle this issue, in this paper, we provide a taxonomy on design patterns for self-adaptive systems that can be transferred to support adaptivity in IoT systems. Besides describing the taxonomy and the design patterns, we discuss their applicability in an Industrial IoT case study.
REACT: A Model-Based Runtime Environment for Adapting Communication Systems M. Pfannemüller; M. Breitbach; C. Krupitzer; M. Weckesser; C. Becker; B. Schmerl; A. Schürr; in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS 2020) (2020).
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Trends such as the Internet of Things or edge computing lead to a growing number of networked devices. Hence, it is becoming increasingly important to manage communication systems at runtime. Adding self-adaptive capabilities is one approach to reduce administrative effort and cope with changing execution contexts. Existing frameworks for building self-adaptive software can help to reduce development effort in general. Yet, they are neither tailored towards the use in communication systems nor easily usable without profound knowledge in self-adaptive systems development. In this paper, we propose REACT, a reusable, model-based runtime environment to complement communication systems with adaptive behavior. It addresses the heterogeneity and distribution aspects of networks and reduces development effort. REACT empowers developers of communication systems to add adaptive behavior without having experience in self-adaptive systems development. We show the effectiveness and efficiency of our prototype in an experimental evaluation based on two distinct use cases from the communication systems domain: cloud resource management and software-defined networking. The first use case includes a comparison with Rainbow, which represents a state-of-the-art model-based framework for building self-adaptive systems. The second use case applies REACT in a sophisticated, real-world communication system scenario.

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%0 Generic %1 acsos2020:react %A Pfannemüller, Martin %A Breitbach, Martin %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Weckesser, Markus %A Becker, Christian %A Schmerl, Bradley %A Schürr, Andy %B Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS 2020) %D 2020 %T REACT: A Model-Based Runtime Environment for Adapting Communication Systems %X Trends such as the Internet of Things or edge computing lead to a growing number of networked devices. Hence, it is becoming increasingly important to manage communication systems at runtime. Adding self-adaptive capabilities is one approach to reduce administrative effort and cope with changing execution contexts. Existing frameworks for building self-adaptive software can help to reduce development effort in general. Yet, they are neither tailored towards the use in communication systems nor easily usable without profound knowledge in self-adaptive systems development. In this paper, we propose REACT, a reusable, model-based runtime environment to complement communication systems with adaptive behavior. It addresses the heterogeneity and distribution aspects of networks and reduces development effort. REACT empowers developers of communication systems to add adaptive behavior without having experience in self-adaptive systems development. We show the effectiveness and efficiency of our prototype in an experimental evaluation based on two distinct use cases from the communication systems domain: cloud resource management and software-defined networking. The first use case includes a comparison with Rainbow, which represents a state-of-the-art model-based framework for building self-adaptive systems. The second use case applies REACT in a sophisticated, real-world communication system scenario.
A Framework for Time Series Preprocessing and History-based Forecasting Method Recommendation M. Züfle; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS): Data Mining Competition of the International Symposium on Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications (2020).
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%0 Conference Paper %1 ZuKo-AAIA2020-Framework %A Züfle, Marwin %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS): Data Mining Competition of the International Symposium on Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications %D 2020 %T A Framework for Time Series Preprocessing and History-based Forecasting Method Recommendation
Predicting Performance Degradations of Black-box Microservice Applications M. Straesser; (2020).
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Survey and Experimental Comparison of RGB-D Indoor Robot Navigation Methods Supported by ROS and Their Expansion via Fusion with Wheel Odometry and IMU Data F. Spiess; J. Friesslich; K. Tobias; S. Kounev; N. Strobel; in International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research (IJMERR), (P. R. (Chunhui) Yang, Hrsg.) (2020). 9(12) 1532–1540.
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This paper presents an experimental evaluation and comparison of selected Visual Odometry (VO) and Visual-SLAM (V-SLAM) algorithms for indoor mobile robot navigation supported by the Robot Operating System (ROS). The focus is on algorithms involving RGB-D cameras. Since RGB-D cameras integrate color and depth information, they output coherent measurement data and facilitate an efficient processing pipeline. The various underlying methods of vision-based algorithms are described and evaluated on two datasets covering different indoor situations as well as various lighting and movement conditions. In general, V-SLAM algorithms yielded better results. They were superior with respect to handling drift, in particular when loop closures were involved. However, the results confirmed that VO algorithms could outperform V-SLAM methods under certain circumstances. This happened when there was a very good match between an algorithm’s design objectives and the situation at hand. While the experiments showed that there is no single best algorithm for every scenario, ORB-SLAM2 is recommended as a robust stand-alone RGB-D based localization method available under ROS. Furthermore, we observed that the position estimation error could be reduced by around 67% on average when combining vision-based position estimates with sensor data obtained from wheel odometry and an inertial measurement unit (IMU), respectively. This clearly demonstrates the potential of sensor fusion techniques. The best results in case of sensor fusion were obtained with RGB-DSLAMv2.

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An IoT Network Emulator for Analyzing the Influence of Varying Network Quality S. Herrnleben; R. Ailabouni; J. Grohmann; T. Prantl; C. Krupitzer; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUtools) (2020).
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IoT devices often communicate over wireless or cellular networks with varying connection quality. These fluctuations are caused, among others, by the free-space path loss (FSPL), buildings, topological obstacles, weather, and mobility of the receiver. Varying signal quality affects bandwidth, transmission delays, packet loss, and jitter. Mobile IoT applications exposed to varying connection characteristics have to handle such variations and take them into account during development and testing. However, tests in real mobile networks are complex and challenging to reproduce. Therefore, network emulators can be used to simulate the behavior of real-world networks by adding artificial disturbance. However, existing network emulators often require a lot of technical knowledge and complex setup. Integrating such emulators into automated software testing pipelines could be a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a framework for emulating IoT networks with varying quality characteristics. An existing base emulator is used and integrated into our framework enabling the user to utilize it without extensive network expertise and configuration effort. The evaluation proves that our framework can simulate a variety of different network quality characteristics as well as emulating real-world network traces.

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Intra-individual physiological response of recreational runners to different training mesocycles: a randomized cross-over study P. Düking; H.-C. Holmberg; P. Kunz; R. Leppich; B. Sperlich; in European Journal of Applied Physiology (2020). 1–9.
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@article{duking2020intra, author = {D{\"u}king, Peter and Holmberg, Hans-Christer and Kunz, Philipp and Leppich, Robert and Sperlich, Billy}, journal = {European Journal of Applied Physiology}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, pages = {1–9}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {Intra-individual physiological response of recreational runners to different training mesocycles: a randomized cross-over study}, year = 2020 }

%0 Journal Article %1 duking2020intra %A Düking, Peter %A Holmberg, Hans-Christer %A Kunz, Philipp %A Leppich, Robert %A Sperlich, Billy %D 2020 %I Springer %J European Journal of Applied Physiology %P 1--9 %T Intra-individual physiological response of recreational runners to different training mesocycles: a randomized cross-over study
Systems Benchmarking S. Kounev; K.-D. Lange; J. von Kistowski; (2020). (1. Aufl.) Springer International Publishing.
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%0 Book %1 KoLaKi-2020-SystemsBenchmarking %A Kounev, Samuel %A Lange, Klaus-Dieter %A von Kistowski, Jóakim %D 2020 %I Springer International Publishing %T Systems Benchmarking %7 1
Incremental Calibration of Architectural Performance Models with Parametric Dependencies M. Mazkatli; D. Monschein; J. Grohmann; A. Koziolek; in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2020) (2020). 23–34.
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Architecture-based Performance Prediction (AbPP) allows evaluation of the performance of systems and to answer what-if questions without measurements for all alternatives. A difficulty when creating models is that Performance Model Parameters (PMPs, such as resource demands, loop iteration numbers and branch probabilities) depend on various influencing factors like input data, used hardware and the applied workload. To enable a broad range of what-if questions, Performance Models (PMs) need to have predictive power beyond what has been measured to calibrate the models. Thus, PMPs need to be parametrized over the influencing factors that may vary. Existing approaches allow for the estimation of parametrized PMPs by measuring the complete system. Thus, they are too costly to be applied frequently, up to after each code change. They do not keep also manual changes to the model when recalibrating. In this work, we present the Continuous Integration of Performance Models (CIPM), which incrementally extracts and calibrates the performance model, including parametric dependencies. CIPM responds to source code changes by updating the PM and adaptively instrumenting the changed parts. To allow AbPP, CIPM estimates the parametrized PMPs using the measurements (generated by performance tests or executing the system in production) and statistical analysis, e.g., regression analysis and decision trees. Additionally, our approach responds to production changes (e.g., load or deployment changes) and calibrates the usage and deployment parts of PMs accordingly. For the evaluation, we used two case studies. Evaluation results show that we were able to calibrate the PM incrementally and accurately.

@inproceedings{MaMoGrKo2020-ICSA, abstract = {Architecture-based Performance Prediction (AbPP) allows evaluation of the performance of systems and to answer what-if questions without measurements for all alternatives. A difficulty when creating models is that Performance Model Parameters (PMPs, such as resource demands, loop iteration numbers and branch probabilities) depend on various influencing factors like input data, used hardware and the applied workload. To enable a broad range of what-if questions, Performance Models (PMs) need to have predictive power beyond what has been measured to calibrate the models. Thus, PMPs need to be parametrized over the influencing factors that may vary. Existing approaches allow for the estimation of parametrized PMPs by measuring the complete system. Thus, they are too costly to be applied frequently, up to after each code change. They do not keep also manual changes to the model when recalibrating. In this work, we present the Continuous Integration of Performance Models (CIPM), which incrementally extracts and calibrates the performance model, including parametric dependencies. CIPM responds to source code changes by updating the PM and adaptively instrumenting the changed parts. To allow AbPP, CIPM estimates the parametrized PMPs using the measurements (generated by performance tests or executing the system in production) and statistical analysis, e.g., regression analysis and decision trees. Additionally, our approach responds to production changes (e.g., load or deployment changes) and calibrates the usage and deployment parts of PMs accordingly. For the evaluation, we used two case studies. Evaluation results show that we were able to calibrate the PM incrementally and accurately.}, author = {Mazkatli, Manar and Monschein, David and Grohmann, Johannes and Koziolek, Anne}, booktitle = {2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2020)}, keywords = {performance}, month = {March}, pages = {23–34}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {Incremental Calibration of Architectural Performance Models with Parametric Dependencies}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 MaMoGrKo2020-ICSA %A Mazkatli, Manar %A Monschein, David %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Koziolek, Anne %B 2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2020) %D 2020 %I IEEE %P 23--34 %R 10.1109/ICSA47634.2020.00011 %T Incremental Calibration of Architectural Performance Models with Parametric Dependencies %U https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSA47634.2020.00011 %X Architecture-based Performance Prediction (AbPP) allows evaluation of the performance of systems and to answer what-if questions without measurements for all alternatives. A difficulty when creating models is that Performance Model Parameters (PMPs, such as resource demands, loop iteration numbers and branch probabilities) depend on various influencing factors like input data, used hardware and the applied workload. To enable a broad range of what-if questions, Performance Models (PMs) need to have predictive power beyond what has been measured to calibrate the models. Thus, PMPs need to be parametrized over the influencing factors that may vary. Existing approaches allow for the estimation of parametrized PMPs by measuring the complete system. Thus, they are too costly to be applied frequently, up to after each code change. They do not keep also manual changes to the model when recalibrating. In this work, we present the Continuous Integration of Performance Models (CIPM), which incrementally extracts and calibrates the performance model, including parametric dependencies. CIPM responds to source code changes by updating the PM and adaptively instrumenting the changed parts. To allow AbPP, CIPM estimates the parametrized PMPs using the measurements (generated by performance tests or executing the system in production) and statistical analysis, e.g., regression analysis and decision trees. Additionally, our approach responds to production changes (e.g., load or deployment changes) and calibrates the usage and deployment parts of PMs accordingly. For the evaluation, we used two case studies. Evaluation results show that we were able to calibrate the PM incrementally and accurately.
Optimizing Parametric Dependencies for Incremental Performance Model Extraction S. Voneva; M. Mazkatli; J. Grohmann; A. Koziolek; in Companion of the 14th European Conference Software Architecture (ECSA 2020), H. Muccini, P. Avgeriou, B. Buhnova, J. Cámara, M. Caporuscio, M. Franzago, A. Koziolek, P. Scandurra, C. Trubiani, D. Weyns, U. Zdun (Hrsg.) (2020). (Bd. 1269) 228–240.
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Model-based performance prediction in agile software development promises to evaluate design alternatives and to reduce the cost of performance tests. To minimize the differences between a real software and its performance model, parametric dependencies are introduced. They express how the performance model parameters (such as loop iteration count, branch transition probabilities, resource demands, and external service call arguments) depend on impacting factors like the input data. The approaches that perform model-based performance prediction in agile software development have two major shortcomings: they are either costly because they do not update the performance models automatically after each commit, or do not consider more complex parametric dependencies than linear. This work extends an approach for continuous integration of performance model during agile development. Our extension aims to optimize the learning of parametric dependencies with a genetic programming algorithm to be able to detect non-linear dependencies. The case study results show that using genetic programming enables detecting more complex dependencies and improves the accuracy of the updated performance model.

@inproceedings{VoMaGrKo-ECSA-Dependencies, abstract = {Model-based performance prediction in agile software development promises to evaluate design alternatives and to reduce the cost of performance tests. To minimize the differences between a real software and its performance model, parametric dependencies are introduced. They express how the performance model parameters (such as loop iteration count, branch transition probabilities, resource demands, and external service call arguments) depend on impacting factors like the input data. The approaches that perform model-based performance prediction in agile software development have two major shortcomings: they are either costly because they do not update the performance models automatically after each commit, or do not consider more complex parametric dependencies than linear. This work extends an approach for continuous integration of performance model during agile development. Our extension aims to optimize the learning of parametric dependencies with a genetic programming algorithm to be able to detect non-linear dependencies. The case study results show that using genetic programming enables detecting more complex dependencies and improves the accuracy of the updated performance model.}, address = {Cham}, author = {Voneva, Sonya and Mazkatli, Manar and Grohmann, Johannes and Koziolek, Anne}, booktitle = {Companion of the 14th European Conference Software Architecture ({ECSA} 2020)}, editor = {Muccini, Henry and Avgeriou, Paris and Buhnova, Barbora and C{\'{a}}mara, Javier and Caporuscio, Mauro and Franzago, Mirco and Koziolek, Anne and Scandurra, Patrizia and Trubiani, Catia and Weyns, Danny and Zdun, Uwe}, keywords = {t_workshop}, month = {September}, pages = {228–240}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science}, title = {Optimizing Parametric Dependencies for Incremental Performance Model Extraction}, volume = 1269, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 VoMaGrKo-ECSA-Dependencies %A Voneva, Sonya %A Mazkatli, Manar %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Koziolek, Anne %B Companion of the 14th European Conference Software Architecture (ECSA 2020) %C Cham %D 2020 %E Muccini, Henry %E Avgeriou, Paris %E Buhnova, Barbora %E Cámara, Javier %E Caporuscio, Mauro %E Franzago, Mirco %E Koziolek, Anne %E Scandurra, Patrizia %E Trubiani, Catia %E Weyns, Danny %E Zdun, Uwe %I Springer %P 228--240 %R 10.1007/978-3-030-59155-7_17 %T Optimizing Parametric Dependencies for Incremental Performance Model Extraction %U https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59155-7_17 %V 1269 %X Model-based performance prediction in agile software development promises to evaluate design alternatives and to reduce the cost of performance tests. To minimize the differences between a real software and its performance model, parametric dependencies are introduced. They express how the performance model parameters (such as loop iteration count, branch transition probabilities, resource demands, and external service call arguments) depend on impacting factors like the input data. The approaches that perform model-based performance prediction in agile software development have two major shortcomings: they are either costly because they do not update the performance models automatically after each commit, or do not consider more complex parametric dependencies than linear. This work extends an approach for continuous integration of performance model during agile development. Our extension aims to optimize the learning of parametric dependencies with a genetic programming algorithm to be able to detect non-linear dependencies. The case study results show that using genetic programming enables detecting more complex dependencies and improves the accuracy of the updated performance model.
Baloo: Measuring and Modeling the Performance Configurations of Distributed DBMS J. Grohmann; D. Seybold; S. Eismann; M. Leznik; S. Kounev; J. Domaschka; in 2020 28th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) (2020). 1–8.

Acceptance Rate: 27%
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Correctly configuring a distributed database management system (DBMS) deployed in a cloud environment for maximizing performance poses many challenges to operators. Even if the entire configuration spectrum could be measured directly, which is often infeasible due to the multitude of parameters, single measurements are subject to random variations and need to be repeated multiple times. In this work, we propose Baloo, a framework for systematically measuring and modeling different performance-relevant configurations of distributed DBMS in cloud environments. Baloo dynamically estimates the required number of configurations, as well as the number of required measurement repetitions per configuration based on a desired target accuracy. We evaluate Baloo based on a data set consisting of 900 DBMS configuration measurements conducted in our private cloud setup. Our evaluation shows that the highly configurable framework is able to achieve a prediction error of up to 12% while saving 80% of the measurement effort. We also publish all code and the acquired data set to foster future research.

@inproceedings{GrSeEiLeKoDo2020-MASCOTS-DBMSPerformance, abstract = {Correctly configuring a distributed database management system (DBMS) deployed in a cloud environment for maximizing performance poses many challenges to operators. Even if the entire configuration spectrum could be measured directly, which is often infeasible due to the multitude of parameters, single measurements are subject to random variations and need to be repeated multiple times. In this work, we propose Baloo, a framework for systematically measuring and modeling different performance-relevant configurations of distributed DBMS in cloud environments. Baloo dynamically estimates the required number of configurations, as well as the number of required measurement repetitions per configuration based on a desired target accuracy. We evaluate Baloo based on a data set consisting of 900 DBMS configuration measurements conducted in our private cloud setup. Our evaluation shows that the highly configurable framework is able to achieve a prediction error of up to 12% while saving 80% of the measurement effort. We also publish all code and the acquired data set to foster future research.}, author = {Grohmann, Johannes and Seybold, Daniel and Eismann, Simon and Leznik, Mark and Kounev, Samuel and Domaschka, Jörg}, booktitle = {2020 28th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)}, keywords = {automated_model_learning}, month = {November}, note = {Acceptance Rate: 27%}, pages = {1–8}, publisher = {IEEE}, series = {MASCOTS '20}, title = {Baloo: Measuring and Modeling the Performance Configurations of Distributed DBMS}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 GrSeEiLeKoDo2020-MASCOTS-DBMSPerformance %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Seybold, Daniel %A Eismann, Simon %A Leznik, Mark %A Kounev, Samuel %A Domaschka, Jörg %B 2020 28th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) %D 2020 %I IEEE %P 1--8 %R 10.1109/MASCOTS50786.2020.9285960 %T Baloo: Measuring and Modeling the Performance Configurations of Distributed DBMS %U https://doi.org/10.1109/MASCOTS50786.2020.9285960 %X Correctly configuring a distributed database management system (DBMS) deployed in a cloud environment for maximizing performance poses many challenges to operators. Even if the entire configuration spectrum could be measured directly, which is often infeasible due to the multitude of parameters, single measurements are subject to random variations and need to be repeated multiple times. In this work, we propose Baloo, a framework for systematically measuring and modeling different performance-relevant configurations of distributed DBMS in cloud environments. Baloo dynamically estimates the required number of configurations, as well as the number of required measurement repetitions per configuration based on a desired target accuracy. We evaluate Baloo based on a data set consisting of 900 DBMS configuration measurements conducted in our private cloud setup. Our evaluation shows that the highly configurable framework is able to achieve a prediction error of up to 12% while saving 80% of the measurement effort. We also publish all code and the acquired data set to foster future research.
Quantifying measurement quality and load distribution in Tor A. Greubel; S. Pohl; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2020) (2020).
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Tor is a widely used anonymization network. Traffic is routed over different relay nodes to conceal the communication partners. However, if a single relay handles too much traffic, de-anonymization attacks are possible. The Tor Load Balancing Mechanism (TLBM) is responsible for balanced and secure load distribution. It must verify that relays cannot attract more traffic than they should by lying about their self-reported bandwidth. This work shows that the current bandwidth measurement method used for bandwidth verification is not suitable to verify the bandwidth of many relays. Most importantly, multiple measurements of high-bandwidth relays are uncorrelated to each other. Furthermore, we analyze the current load distribution in Tor. We show that the current load distribution reduces the resources necessary for several large-scale de-anonymization attacks by more than 80%. Additionally, as Tor favors fast relays during path selection, verifiable relays only handle a small fraction of Tor’s traffic. More precisely, we show that only 7.21% of all paths consist of entry and exit relays verifiable by measurements. We discuss these results’ security implications and argue that future TLBM research should focus at least as much on secure load distribution as on high traffic performance.

@article{greubel2020quantifying, abstract = {Tor is a widely used anonymization network. Traffic is routed over different relay nodes to conceal the communication partners. However, if a single relay handles too much traffic, de-anonymization attacks are possible. The Tor Load Balancing Mechanism (TLBM) is responsible for balanced and secure load distribution. It must verify that relays cannot attract more traffic than they should by lying about their self-reported bandwidth. This work shows that the current bandwidth measurement method used for bandwidth verification is not suitable to verify the bandwidth of many relays. Most importantly, multiple measurements of high-bandwidth relays are uncorrelated to each other. Furthermore, we analyze the current load distribution in Tor. We show that the current load distribution reduces the resources necessary for several large-scale de-anonymization attacks by more than 80\%. Additionally, as Tor favors fast relays during path selection, verifiable relays only handle a small fraction of Tor’s traffic. More precisely, we show that only 7.21\% of all paths consist of entry and exit relays verifiable by measurements. We discuss these results’ security implications and argue that future TLBM research should focus at least as much on secure load distribution as on high traffic performance.}, author = {Greubel, Andre and Pohl, Steffen and Kounev, Samuel}, journal = {Proceedings of the 36th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2020)}, keywords = {tor}, title = {Quantifying measurement quality and load distribution in Tor}, year = 2020 }

%0 Journal Article %1 greubel2020quantifying %A Greubel, Andre %A Pohl, Steffen %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2020 %J Proceedings of the 36th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2020) %T Quantifying measurement quality and load distribution in Tor %X Tor is a widely used anonymization network. Traffic is routed over different relay nodes to conceal the communication partners. However, if a single relay handles too much traffic, de-anonymization attacks are possible. The Tor Load Balancing Mechanism (TLBM) is responsible for balanced and secure load distribution. It must verify that relays cannot attract more traffic than they should by lying about their self-reported bandwidth. This work shows that the current bandwidth measurement method used for bandwidth verification is not suitable to verify the bandwidth of many relays. Most importantly, multiple measurements of high-bandwidth relays are uncorrelated to each other. Furthermore, we analyze the current load distribution in Tor. We show that the current load distribution reduces the resources necessary for several large-scale de-anonymization attacks by more than 80%. Additionally, as Tor favors fast relays during path selection, verifiable relays only handle a small fraction of Tor’s traffic. More precisely, we show that only 7.21% of all paths consist of entry and exit relays verifiable by measurements. We discuss these results’ security implications and argue that future TLBM research should focus at least as much on secure load distribution as on high traffic performance.
The impact of the German strategy for containment of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 on the training characteristics, physical activity, sleep of highly trained kayakers and canoeists: A retrospective observational study C. Zinner; M. Matzka; R. Leppich; S. Kounev; H. Holmberg; B. Sperlich; in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2020). 2 127.
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@article{zinner2020impact, author = {Zinner, Christoph and Matzka, Manuel and Leppich, Robert and Kounev, Samuel and Holmberg, HC and Sperlich, Billy}, journal = {Frontiers in Sports and Active Living}, keywords = {covid19}, pages = 127, publisher = {Frontiers}, title = {The impact of the German strategy for containment of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 on the training characteristics, physical activity, sleep of highly trained kayakers and canoeists: A retrospective observational study}, volume = 2, year = 2020 }

%0 Journal Article %1 zinner2020impact %A Zinner, Christoph %A Matzka, Manuel %A Leppich, Robert %A Kounev, Samuel %A Holmberg, HC %A Sperlich, Billy %D 2020 %I Frontiers %J Frontiers in Sports and Active Living %P 127 %T The impact of the German strategy for containment of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 on the training characteristics, physical activity, sleep of highly trained kayakers and canoeists: A retrospective observational study %V 2
SPEC Research Group Newsletter, vol. 3 no. 1 S. Kounev; A. van Hoorn; A. Bauer; N. Herbst; (2020, April).

Published by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
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@misc{kounev2020research, author = {Kounev, Samuel and van Hoorn, Andre and Bauer, Andr{\'e} and Herbst, Nikolas}, keywords = {se2}, month = {April}, note = {Published by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)}, title = {{SPEC Research Group Newsletter, vol. 3 no. 1}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Generic %1 kounev2020research %A Kounev, Samuel %A van Hoorn, Andre %A Bauer, André %A Herbst, Nikolas %D 2020 %T SPEC Research Group Newsletter, vol. 3 no. 1 %U http://research.spec.org/en/newsletter.html
A Survey on Human Machine Interaction in Industry 4.0 C. Krupitzer; S. Müller; V. Lesch; M. Züfle; J. Edinger; A. Lemken; D. Schäfer; S. Kounev; C. Becker; (2020).
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@techreport{Krupitzer2020ASurvey, author = {Krupitzer, Christian and M{\"u}ller, Sebastian and Lesch, Veronika and Z{\"u}fle, Marwin and Edinger, Janick and Lemken, Alexander and Sch{\"a}fer, Dominik and Kounev, Samuel and Becker, Christian}, institution = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg and University of Mannheim and ioxp GmbH and Syntax Systems GmbH}, journal = {arXiv}, keywords = {t_interdisciplinary}, month = {feb}, title = {{A Survey on Human Machine Interaction in Industry 4.0}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Report %1 Krupitzer2020ASurvey %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Müller, Sebastian %A Lesch, Veronika %A Züfle, Marwin %A Edinger, Janick %A Lemken, Alexander %A Schäfer, Dominik %A Kounev, Samuel %A Becker, Christian %D 2020 %J arXiv %T A Survey on Human Machine Interaction in Industry 4.0 %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01025
A Concept for Crowd-sensed Prediction of Mobile Network Connectivity S. Herrnleben; B. Zeidler; M. Züfle; C. Krupitzer; S. Kounev; in GI/ITG Workshop on Machine Learning in the Context of Communication Networks 2020 (2020).
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@inproceedings{HeZeZuKrKo-FGMLN2020-Prediction-of-Mobile-Network-Connectivity, author = {Herrnleben, Stefan and Zeidler, Bernd and Z{\"u}fle, Marwin and Krupitzer, Christian and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {GI/ITG Workshop on Machine Learning in the Context of Communication Networks 2020}, keywords = {t_workshop}, month = {February}, title = {{A Concept for Crowd-sensed Prediction of Mobile Network Connectivity}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 HeZeZuKrKo-FGMLN2020-Prediction-of-Mobile-Network-Connectivity %A Herrnleben, Stefan %A Zeidler, Bernd %A Züfle, Marwin %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %B GI/ITG Workshop on Machine Learning in the Context of Communication Networks 2020 %D 2020 %T A Concept for Crowd-sensed Prediction of Mobile Network Connectivity
Energy Efficiency Analysis of Compiler Optimizations on the SPEC CPU 2017 Benchmark Suite N. Schmitt; J. Bucek; K.-D. Lange; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 11th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2020) (2020).
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@inproceedings{ScLaBuKo-ICPE20-SPEC-CPU2017, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Schmitt, Norbert and Bucek, James and Lange, Klaus-Dieter and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2020)}, keywords = {Power}, month = {April}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {{Energy Efficiency Analysis of Compiler Optimizations on the SPEC CPU 2017 Benchmark Suite}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 ScLaBuKo-ICPE20-SPEC-CPU2017 %A Schmitt, Norbert %A Bucek, James %A Lange, Klaus-Dieter %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 11th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2020) %C New York, NY, USA %D 2020 %I ACM %T Energy Efficiency Analysis of Compiler Optimizations on the SPEC CPU 2017 Benchmark Suite %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3375555.3383759
Predicting Failures by Means of Machine Learning Methods on the Example of an Industrial Press J. Agne; Thesis; University of Würzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany. (2020, Februar).
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@mastersthesis{Agne2020, address = {Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{\"a}ude, 97074 W{\"u}rzburg, Germany}, author = {Agne, Joachim}, keywords = {Industry_4_0}, month = {February}, school = {University of W{\"u}rzburg}, title = {{Predicting Failures by Means of Machine Learning Methods on the Example of an Industrial Press}}, type = {{MasterThesis}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Thesis %1 Agne2020 %A Agne, Joachim %C Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany %D 2020 %T Predicting Failures by Means of Machine Learning Methods on the Example of an Industrial Press
Microservices: A Performance Tester’s Dream or Nightmare? S. Eismann; C.-P. Bezemer; W. Shang; D. Okanovic; A. van Hoorn; 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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In recent years, there has been a shift in software development towards microservice-based architectures, which consist of small services that focus on one particular functionality. Many companies are migrating their applications to such architectures to reap the benefits of microservices, such as increased flexibility, scalability and a smaller granularity of the offered functionality by a service. On the one hand, the benefits of microservices for functional testing are often praised, as the focus on one functionality and their smaller granularity allow for more targeted and more convenient testing. On the other hand, using microservices has their consequences (both positive and negative) on other types of testing, such as performance testing. Performance testing is traditionally done by establishing the baseline performance of a software version, which is then used to compare the performance testing results of later software versions. However, as we show in this paper, establishing such a baseline performance is challenging in microservice applications. In this paper, we discuss the benefits and challenges of microservices from a performance testers point of view. Through a series of experiments on the TeaStore application, we demonstrate how microservices affect the performance testing process, and we demonstrate that it is not straightforward to achieve reliable performance testing results for a microservice application.

@inproceedings{EiBeShOkHo2020-ICPE-ServerlessWorkflows, abstract = {In recent years, there has been a shift in software development towards microservice-based architectures, which consist of small services that focus on one particular functionality. Many companies are migrating their applications to such architectures to reap the benefits of microservices, such as increased flexibility, scalability and a smaller granularity of the offered functionality by a service. On the one hand, the benefits of microservices for functional testing are often praised, as the focus on one functionality and their smaller granularity allow for more targeted and more convenient testing. On the other hand, using microservices has their consequences (both positive and negative) on other types of testing, such as performance testing. Performance testing is traditionally done by establishing the baseline performance of a software version, which is then used to compare the performance testing results of later software versions. However, as we show in this paper, establishing such a baseline performance is challenging in microservice applications. In this paper, we discuss the benefits and challenges of microservices from a performance testers point of view. Through a series of experiments on the TeaStore application, we demonstrate how microservices affect the performance testing process, and we demonstrate that it is not straightforward to achieve reliable performance testing results for a microservice application.}, author = {Eismann, Simon and Bezemer, Cor-Paul and Shang, Weiyi and Okanovic, Dusan and van Hoorn, Andre}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)}, keywords = {se2}, month = {April}, note = {{Acceptance Rate: 23.4% (15/64), ACM Artifacts Evaluated — Functional}}, series = {ICPE'20}, title = {{Microservices: A Performance Tester's Dream or Nightmare?}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 EiBeShOkHo2020-ICPE-ServerlessWorkflows %A Eismann, Simon %A Bezemer, Cor-Paul %A Shang, Weiyi %A Okanovic, Dusan %A van Hoorn, Andre %B Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) %D 2020 %T Microservices: A Performance Tester's Dream or Nightmare? %U https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3358960.3379124 %X In recent years, there has been a shift in software development towards microservice-based architectures, which consist of small services that focus on one particular functionality. Many companies are migrating their applications to such architectures to reap the benefits of microservices, such as increased flexibility, scalability and a smaller granularity of the offered functionality by a service. On the one hand, the benefits of microservices for functional testing are often praised, as the focus on one functionality and their smaller granularity allow for more targeted and more convenient testing. On the other hand, using microservices has their consequences (both positive and negative) on other types of testing, such as performance testing. Performance testing is traditionally done by establishing the baseline performance of a software version, which is then used to compare the performance testing results of later software versions. However, as we show in this paper, establishing such a baseline performance is challenging in microservice applications. In this paper, we discuss the benefits and challenges of microservices from a performance testers point of view. Through a series of experiments on the TeaStore application, we demonstrate how microservices affect the performance testing process, and we demonstrate that it is not straightforward to achieve reliable performance testing results for a microservice application.
Toward a Framework for Self-Learning Adaptation Planning through Optimization V. Lesch; in Organic Computing: Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium 2020 (2020).
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@incollection{lesch2020toward, author = {Lesch, Veronika}, booktitle = {Organic Computing: Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium 2020}, keywords = {cyber-physical_systems}, title = {Toward a Framework for Self-Learning Adaptation Planning through Optimization}, year = 2020 }

%0 Book Section %1 lesch2020toward %A Lesch, Veronika %B Organic Computing: Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium 2020 %D 2020 %T Toward a Framework for Self-Learning Adaptation Planning through Optimization
A Review of Serverless Use Cases and their Characteristics S. Eismann; J. Scheuner; E. van Eyk; M. Schwinger; J. Grohmann; N. Herbst; C. Abad; A. Iosup; (2020).
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The serverless computing paradigm promises many desirable properties for cloud applications - low-cost, fine-grained deployment, and management-free operation. Consequently, the paradigm has underwent rapid growth: there currently exist tens of serverless platforms and all global cloud providers host serverless operations. To help tune existing platforms, guide the design of new serverless approaches, and overall contribute to understanding this paradigm, in this work we present a long-term, comprehensive effort to identify, collect, and characterize serverless use cases. We survey 89 use cases, sourced from white and grey literature, and from consultations with experts in areas such as scientific computing. We study each use case using 24 characteristics, including general aspects, but also workload, application, and requirements. When the use cases employ workflows, we further analyze their characteristics. Overall, we hope our study will be useful for both academia and industry, and encourage the community to further share and communicate their use cases.

@techreport{eismann2020review, abstract = {The serverless computing paradigm promises many desirable properties for cloud applications - low-cost, fine-grained deployment, and management-free operation. Consequently, the paradigm has underwent rapid growth: there currently exist tens of serverless platforms and all global cloud providers host serverless operations. To help tune existing platforms, guide the design of new serverless approaches, and overall contribute to understanding this paradigm, in this work we present a long-term, comprehensive effort to identify, collect, and characterize serverless use cases. We survey 89 use cases, sourced from white and grey literature, and from consultations with experts in areas such as scientific computing. We study each use case using 24 characteristics, including general aspects, but also workload, application, and requirements. When the use cases employ workflows, we further analyze their characteristics. Overall, we hope our study will be useful for both academia and industry, and encourage the community to further share and communicate their use cases.}, author = {Eismann, Simon and Scheuner, Joel and van Eyk, Erwin and Schwinger, Maximilian and Grohmann, Johannes and Herbst, Nikolas and Abad, Cristina and Iosup, Alexandru}, keywords = {t_techreport}, month = {June}, publisher = {SPEC RG}, title = {A Review of Serverless Use Cases and their Characteristics}, year = 2020 }

%0 Report %1 eismann2020review %A Eismann, Simon %A Scheuner, Joel %A van Eyk, Erwin %A Schwinger, Maximilian %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Abad, Cristina %A Iosup, Alexandru %D 2020 %I SPEC RG %T A Review of Serverless Use Cases and their Characteristics %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11110 %X The serverless computing paradigm promises many desirable properties for cloud applications - low-cost, fine-grained deployment, and management-free operation. Consequently, the paradigm has underwent rapid growth: there currently exist tens of serverless platforms and all global cloud providers host serverless operations. To help tune existing platforms, guide the design of new serverless approaches, and overall contribute to understanding this paradigm, in this work we present a long-term, comprehensive effort to identify, collect, and characterize serverless use cases. We survey 89 use cases, sourced from white and grey literature, and from consultations with experts in areas such as scientific computing. We study each use case using 24 characteristics, including general aspects, but also workload, application, and requirements. When the use cases employ workflows, we further analyze their characteristics. Overall, we hope our study will be useful for both academia and industry, and encourage the community to further share and communicate their use cases.
Model-based Performance Predictions for SDN-based Networks: A Case Study S. Herrnleben; P. Rygielski; J. Grohmann; S. Eismann; T. Hossfeld; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 20th International GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems (2020).
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Emerging paradigms for network virtualization like Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) form new challenges for accurate performance modeling and analysis tools. Therefore, performance modeling and prediction approaches that support SDN or NFV technologies help system operators to analyze the performance of a data center and its corresponding network. The Descartes Network Infrastructures (DNI) offers a high-level descriptive language to model SDN-based networks, which can be transformed into various predictive modeling formalisms. However, these modeling concepts have not yet been evaluated in a realistic scenario. In this paper, we present an extensive case study evaluating the DNI modeling capabilities, the transformations to predictive models, and the performance prediction using the OMNeT++ and SimQPN simulation frameworks. We present five realistic scenarios of a content distribution network (CDN), compare the performance predictions with real-world measurements, and discuss modeling gaps and calibration issues causing mispredictions in some scenarios.

@inproceedings{HeRyGrEiHoKo-MMB2020-Model-based-SDN-Performance, abstract = {Emerging paradigms for network virtualization like Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) form new challenges for accurate performance modeling and analysis tools. Therefore, performance modeling and prediction approaches that support SDN or NFV technologies help system operators to analyze the performance of a data center and its corresponding network. The Descartes Network Infrastructures (DNI) offers a high-level descriptive language to model SDN-based networks, which can be transformed into various predictive modeling formalisms. However, these modeling concepts have not yet been evaluated in a realistic scenario. In this paper, we present an extensive case study evaluating the DNI modeling capabilities, the transformations to predictive models, and the performance prediction using the OMNeT++ and SimQPN simulation frameworks. We present five realistic scenarios of a content distribution network (CDN), compare the performance predictions with real-world measurements, and discuss modeling gaps and calibration issues causing mispredictions in some scenarios.}, address = {Cham}, author = {Herrnleben, Stefan and Rygielski, Piotr and Grohmann, Johannes and Eismann, Simon and Hossfeld, Tobias and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th International GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems}, keywords = {SDN}, month = {March}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {MMB 2020}, title = {{Model-based Performance Predictions for SDN-based Networks: A Case Study}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 HeRyGrEiHoKo-MMB2020-Model-based-SDN-Performance %A Herrnleben, Stefan %A Rygielski, Piotr %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Eismann, Simon %A Hossfeld, Tobias %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 20th International GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems %C Cham %D 2020 %I Springer %R 10.1007/978-3-030-43024-5_6 %T Model-based Performance Predictions for SDN-based Networks: A Case Study %U https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43024-5_6 %X Emerging paradigms for network virtualization like Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) form new challenges for accurate performance modeling and analysis tools. Therefore, performance modeling and prediction approaches that support SDN or NFV technologies help system operators to analyze the performance of a data center and its corresponding network. The Descartes Network Infrastructures (DNI) offers a high-level descriptive language to model SDN-based networks, which can be transformed into various predictive modeling formalisms. However, these modeling concepts have not yet been evaluated in a realistic scenario. In this paper, we present an extensive case study evaluating the DNI modeling capabilities, the transformations to predictive models, and the performance prediction using the OMNeT++ and SimQPN simulation frameworks. We present five realistic scenarios of a content distribution network (CDN), compare the performance predictions with real-world measurements, and discuss modeling gaps and calibration issues causing mispredictions in some scenarios. %@ 978-3-030-43024-5
Towards a Self-Aware Prediction of Critical States M. Züfle; in Organic Computing: Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium 2020, S. Tomforde, C. Krupitzer (Hrsg.) (2020).

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%0 Book Section %1 zufle2020towards %A Züfle, Marwin %B Organic Computing: Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium 2020 %D 2020 %E Tomforde, Sven %E Krupitzer, Christian %T Towards a Self-Aware Prediction of Critical States
Introduction to the Special Issue ``Applications in Self-Aware Computing Systems and their Evaluation’’ C. Krupitzer; B. Eberhardinger; I. Gerostathopoulos; C. Raibulet; (2020).
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The joint 1st Workshop on Evaluations and Measurements in Self-Aware Computing Systems (EMSAC 2019) and Workshop on Self-Aware Computing (SeAC) was held as part of the FAS* conference alliance in conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) and the 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) in Umea, Sweden on 20 June 2019. The goal of this one-day workshop was to bring together researchers and practitioners from academic environments and from the industry to share their solutions, ideas, visions, and doubts in self-aware computing systems in general and in the evaluation and measurements of such systems in particular. The workshop aimed to enable discussions, partnerships, and collaborations among the participants. This special issue follows the theme of the workshop. It contains extended versions of workshop presentations as well as additional contributions.

@misc{KrEbGeRa2020_Computers_seacSI, abstract = {The joint 1st Workshop on Evaluations and Measurements in Self-Aware Computing Systems (EMSAC 2019) and Workshop on Self-Aware Computing (SeAC) was held as part of the FAS* conference alliance in conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) and the 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) in Umea, Sweden on 20 June 2019. The goal of this one-day workshop was to bring together researchers and practitioners from academic environments and from the industry to share their solutions, ideas, visions, and doubts in self-aware computing systems in general and in the evaluation and measurements of such systems in particular. The workshop aimed to enable discussions, partnerships, and collaborations among the participants. This special issue follows the theme of the workshop. It contains extended versions of workshop presentations as well as additional contributions.}, author = {Krupitzer, Christian and Eberhardinger, Benedikt and Gerostathopoulos, Ilias and Raibulet, Claudia}, journal = {MDPI Computers}, keywords = {se2}, number = 1, publisher = {MDPI}, title = {{Introduction to the Special Issue ``Applications in Self-Aware Computing Systems and their Evaluation''}}, volume = 9, year = 2020 }

%0 Generic %1 KrEbGeRa2020_Computers_seacSI %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Eberhardinger, Benedikt %A Gerostathopoulos, Ilias %A Raibulet, Claudia %D 2020 %I MDPI %J MDPI Computers %N 1 %T Introduction to the Special Issue ``Applications in Self-Aware Computing Systems and their Evaluation'' %U https://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/9/1/22 %V 9 %X The joint 1st Workshop on Evaluations and Measurements in Self-Aware Computing Systems (EMSAC 2019) and Workshop on Self-Aware Computing (SeAC) was held as part of the FAS* conference alliance in conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) and the 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) in Umea, Sweden on 20 June 2019. The goal of this one-day workshop was to bring together researchers and practitioners from academic environments and from the industry to share their solutions, ideas, visions, and doubts in self-aware computing systems in general and in the evaluation and measurements of such systems in particular. The workshop aimed to enable discussions, partnerships, and collaborations among the participants. This special issue follows the theme of the workshop. It contains extended versions of workshop presentations as well as additional contributions.
Beyond Microbenchmarks: The SPEC-RG Vision for A Comprehensive Serverless Benchmark E. van Eyk; J. Scheuner; S. Eismann; C. Abad; A. Iosup; in Companion of the 2020 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2020).
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Serverless computing services, such as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), hold the attractive promise of a high level of abstraction and high performance, combined with the minimization of operational logic. Several large ecosystems of serverless platforms, both open- and closed-source, aim to realize this promise. Consequently, a lucrative market has emerged. However, the performance trade-offs of these systems are not well-understood. Moreover, it is exactly the high level of abstraction and the opaqueness of the operational-side that make performance evaluation studies of serverless platforms challenging. Learning from the history of IT platforms, we argue that a benchmark for serverless platforms could help address this challenge. We envision a comprehensive serverless benchmark, which we contrast to the narrow focus of prior work in this area. We argue that a comprehensive benchmark will need to take into account more than just runtime overhead, and include notions of cost, realistic workloads, more (open-source) platforms, and cloud integrations. Finally, we show through preliminary real-world experiments how such a benchmark can help compare the performance overhead when running a serverless workload on state-of-the-art platforms.

@inproceedings{10.1145/3185768.3186293, abstract = {Serverless computing services, such as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), hold the attractive promise of a high level of abstraction and high performance, combined with the minimization of operational logic. Several large ecosystems of serverless platforms, both open- and closed-source, aim to realize this promise. Consequently, a lucrative market has emerged. However, the performance trade-offs of these systems are not well-understood. Moreover, it is exactly the high level of abstraction and the opaqueness of the operational-side that make performance evaluation studies of serverless platforms challenging. Learning from the history of IT platforms, we argue that a benchmark for serverless platforms could help address this challenge. We envision a comprehensive serverless benchmark, which we contrast to the narrow focus of prior work in this area. We argue that a comprehensive benchmark will need to take into account more than just runtime overhead, and include notions of cost, realistic workloads, more (open-source) platforms, and cloud integrations. Finally, we show through preliminary real-world experiments how such a benchmark can help compare the performance overhead when running a serverless workload on state-of-the-art platforms.}, author = {van Eyk, Erwin and Scheuner, Joel and Eismann, Simon and Abad, Cristina and Iosup, Alexandru}, booktitle = {Companion of the 2020 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {SPEC}, title = {{Beyond Microbenchmarks: The SPEC-RG Vision for A Comprehensive Serverless Benchmark}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 10.1145/3185768.3186293 %A van Eyk, Erwin %A Scheuner, Joel %A Eismann, Simon %A Abad, Cristina %A Iosup, Alexandru %B Companion of the 2020 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering %D 2020 %T Beyond Microbenchmarks: The SPEC-RG Vision for A Comprehensive Serverless Benchmark %U https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3375555.3384381 %X Serverless computing services, such as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), hold the attractive promise of a high level of abstraction and high performance, combined with the minimization of operational logic. Several large ecosystems of serverless platforms, both open- and closed-source, aim to realize this promise. Consequently, a lucrative market has emerged. However, the performance trade-offs of these systems are not well-understood. Moreover, it is exactly the high level of abstraction and the opaqueness of the operational-side that make performance evaluation studies of serverless platforms challenging. Learning from the history of IT platforms, we argue that a benchmark for serverless platforms could help address this challenge. We envision a comprehensive serverless benchmark, which we contrast to the narrow focus of prior work in this area. We argue that a comprehensive benchmark will need to take into account more than just runtime overhead, and include notions of cost, realistic workloads, more (open-source) platforms, and cloud integrations. Finally, we show through preliminary real-world experiments how such a benchmark can help compare the performance overhead when running a serverless workload on state-of-the-art platforms.
Telescope: An Automatic Feature Extraction and Transformation Approach for Time Series Forecasting on a Level-Playing Field A. Bauer; M. Züfle; N. Herbst; S. Kounev; V. Curtef; in Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (2020).
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@inproceedings{BaZuHeKoCu-ICDE-Telescope, author = {Bauer, Andr{\'e} and Z{\"u}fle, Marwin and Herbst, Nikolas and Kounev, Samuel and Curtef, Valentin}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)}, keywords = {Prediction}, month = {April}, title = {Telescope: An Automatic Feature Extraction and Transformation Approach for Time Series Forecasting on a Level-Playing Field}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 BaZuHeKoCu-ICDE-Telescope %A Bauer, André %A Züfle, Marwin %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Kounev, Samuel %A Curtef, Valentin %B Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) %D 2020 %T Telescope: An Automatic Feature Extraction and Transformation Approach for Time Series Forecasting on a Level-Playing Field
Methodological Principles for Reproducible Performance Evaluation in Cloud Computing A. V. Papadopoulos; L. Versluis; A. Bauer; N. Herbst; J. von Kistowski; A. Ali-Eldin; C. L. Abad; J. N. Amaral; P. Tuma; A. Iosup; in Software Engineering 2020, Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs Softwaretechnik, 24.-28. Februar 2020, Innsbruck, Austria, M. Felderer, W. Hasselbring, R. Rabiser, R. Jung (Hrsg.) (2020). (Bd. P-300) 93–94.
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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/se/PapadopoulosVBH20, author = {Papadopoulos, Alessandro Vittorio and Versluis, Laurens and Bauer, Andr{{\'e}} and Herbst, Nikolas and von Kistowski, J{{\'o}}akim and Ali{-}Eldin, Ahmed and Abad, Cristina L. and Amaral, Jos{{\'e}} Nelson and Tuma, Petr and Iosup, Alexandru}, booktitle = {Software Engineering 2020, Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs Softwaretechnik, 24.-28. Februar 2020, Innsbruck, Austria}, editor = {Felderer, Michael and Hasselbring, Wilhelm and Rabiser, Rick and Jung, Reiner}, keywords = {se2}, pages = {93–94}, publisher = {Gesellschaft f{{\"u}}r Informatik e.V.}, series = {{LNI}}, title = {{Methodological Principles for Reproducible Performance Evaluation in Cloud Computing}}, volume = {{P-300}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 DBLP:conf/se/PapadopoulosVBH20 %A Papadopoulos, Alessandro Vittorio %A Versluis, Laurens %A Bauer, André %A Herbst, Nikolas %A von Kistowski, Jóakim %A Ali-Eldin, Ahmed %A Abad, Cristina L. %A Amaral, José Nelson %A Tuma, Petr %A Iosup, Alexandru %B Software Engineering 2020, Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs Softwaretechnik, 24.-28. Februar 2020, Innsbruck, Austria %D 2020 %E Felderer, Michael %E Hasselbring, Wilhelm %E Rabiser, Rick %E Jung, Reiner %I Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. %P 93--94 %T Methodological Principles for Reproducible Performance Evaluation in Cloud Computing %U https://doi.org/10.18420/SE2020_27 %V P-300
Time Series Forecasting for Self-Aware Systems A. Bauer; M. Züfle; N. Herbst; A. Zehe; A. Hotho; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the IEEE (2020). 108(7) 1068–1093.
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@article{BaZuHeZeHoKo-PIEEE-Forecasting, author = {Bauer, Andr{\'e} and Z{\"u}fle, Marwin and Herbst, Nikolas and Zehe, Albin and Hotho, Andreas and Kounev, Samuel}, journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, month = 7, number = 7, pages = {1068 - 1093}, title = {{Time Series Forecasting for Self-Aware Systems}}, volume = 108, year = 2020 }

%0 Journal Article %1 BaZuHeZeHoKo-PIEEE-Forecasting %A Bauer, André %A Züfle, Marwin %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Zehe, Albin %A Hotho, Andreas %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2020 %J Proceedings of the IEEE %N 7 %P 1068 - 1093 %R 10.1109/JPROC.2020.2983857 %T Time Series Forecasting for Self-Aware Systems %V 108
A Taxonomy of Techniques for SLO Failure Prediction in Software Systems J. Grohmann; N. Herbst; A. Chalbani; Y. Arian; N. Peretz; S. Kounev; in Computers (2020). 9(1) 10.
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Failure prediction is an important aspect of self-aware computing systems. Therefore, a multitude of different approaches has been proposed in the literature over the past few years. In this work, we propose a taxonomy for organizing works focusing on the prediction of Service Level Objective (SLO) failures. Our taxonomy classifies related work along the dimensions of the prediction target (e.g., anomaly detection, performance prediction, or failure prediction), the time horizon (e.g., detection or prediction, online or offline application), and the applied modeling type (e.g., time series forecasting, machine learning, or queueing theory). The classification is derived based on a systematic mapping of relevant papers in the area. Additionally, we give an overview of different techniques in each sub-group and address remaining challenges in order to guide future research.

@article{grohmann2020-MDPI-taxonomy, abstract = {Failure prediction is an important aspect of self-aware computing systems. Therefore, a multitude of different approaches has been proposed in the literature over the past few years. In this work, we propose a taxonomy for organizing works focusing on the prediction of Service Level Objective (SLO) failures. Our taxonomy classifies related work along the dimensions of the prediction target (e.g., anomaly detection, performance prediction, or failure prediction), the time horizon (e.g., detection or prediction, online or offline application), and the applied modeling type (e.g., time series forecasting, machine learning, or queueing theory). The classification is derived based on a systematic mapping of relevant papers in the area. Additionally, we give an overview of different techniques in each sub-group and address remaining challenges in order to guide future research.}, author = {Grohmann, Johannes and Herbst, Nikolas and Chalbani, Avi and Arian, Yair and Peretz, Noam and Kounev, Samuel}, journal = {Computers}, keywords = {automated_model_learning}, number = 1, pages = 10, publisher = {Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)}, title = {A Taxonomy of Techniques for SLO Failure Prediction in Software Systems}, volume = 9, year = 2020 }

%0 Journal Article %1 grohmann2020-MDPI-taxonomy %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Chalbani, Avi %A Arian, Yair %A Peretz, Noam %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2020 %I Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) %J Computers %N 1 %P 10 %R https://doi.org/10.3390/computers9010010 %T A Taxonomy of Techniques for SLO Failure Prediction in Software Systems %U https://doi.org/10.3390/computers9010010 %V 9 %X Failure prediction is an important aspect of self-aware computing systems. Therefore, a multitude of different approaches has been proposed in the literature over the past few years. In this work, we propose a taxonomy for organizing works focusing on the prediction of Service Level Objective (SLO) failures. Our taxonomy classifies related work along the dimensions of the prediction target (e.g., anomaly detection, performance prediction, or failure prediction), the time horizon (e.g., detection or prediction, online or offline application), and the applied modeling type (e.g., time series forecasting, machine learning, or queueing theory). The classification is derived based on a systematic mapping of relevant papers in the area. Additionally, we give an overview of different techniques in each sub-group and address remaining challenges in order to guide future research.
A Survey on Predictive Maintenance for Industry 4.0 C. Krupitzer; T. Wagenhals; M. Züfle; V. Lesch; D. Schäfer; A. Mozaffarin; J. Edinger; C. Becker; S. Kounev; (2020).
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@techreport{Krupitzer2020ASurveyPdM, author = {Krupitzer, Christian and Wagenhals, Tim and Z{\"u}fle, Marwin and Lesch, Veronika and Sch{\"a}fer, Dominik and Mozaffarin, Amin and Edinger, Janick and Becker, Christian and Kounev, Samuel}, institution = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg and University of Mannheim and Syntax Systems GmbH and MOZYS Engineering GmbH}, journal = {arXiv}, keywords = {Reliability}, month = {feb}, title = {{A Survey on Predictive Maintenance for Industry 4.0}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Report %1 Krupitzer2020ASurveyPdM %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Wagenhals, Tim %A Züfle, Marwin %A Lesch, Veronika %A Schäfer, Dominik %A Mozaffarin, Amin %A Edinger, Janick %A Becker, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2020 %J arXiv %T A Survey on Predictive Maintenance for Industry 4.0 %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08224
Towards Self-Aware Multirotor Formations D. Kaiser; V. Lesch; J. Rothe; M. Strohmeier; F. Spiess; C. Krupitzer; S. Montenegro; S. Kounev; in Computers (2020). 9(7)

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@article{Kaiser2020Towards, author = {Kaiser, Dennis and Lesch, Veronika and Rothe, Julian and Strohmeier, Michael and Spiess, Florian and Krupitzer, Christian and Montenegro, Sergio and Kounev, Samuel}, journal = {Computers}, keywords = {Intelligent_Transportation_Systems}, month = {Februar}, note = {Special Issue on Self-Aware Computing}, number = 7, publisher = {MDPI}, title = {{Towards Self-Aware Multirotor Formations}}, volume = 9, year = 2020 }

%0 Journal Article %1 Kaiser2020Towards %A Kaiser, Dennis %A Lesch, Veronika %A Rothe, Julian %A Strohmeier, Michael %A Spiess, Florian %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Montenegro, Sergio %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2020 %I MDPI %J Computers %N 7 %T Towards Self-Aware Multirotor Formations %V 9
To Fail Or Not To Fail: Predicting Hard Disk Drive Failure Time Windows M. Züfle; C. Krupitzer; F. Erhard; J. Grohmann; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 20th International GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems (2020). 19–36.
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Due to the increasing size of today's data centers as well as the expectation of 24/7 availability, the complexity in the administration of hardware continuously icreases. Techniques as the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) support the monitoring of the hardware. However, those techniques often lack algorithms for intelligent data analytics. Especially, the integration of machine learning to identify potential failures in advance seems to be promising to reduce administration overhead. In this work, we present three machine learning approaches to (i) identify imminent failures, (ii) predict time windows for failures, as well as (iii) predict the exact time-to-failure. In a case study with real data from 369 hard disks, we achieve an F1-score of up to 98.0% and 97.6% for predicting potential failures with two or multiple time windows, respectively, and a hit rate of 84.9% (with a mean absolute error of 4.5 hours) for predicting the time-to-failure.

@inproceedings{ZuKrErGrKo-MMB2020-ToFailOrNotToFail, abstract = {Due to the increasing size of today's data centers as well as the expectation of 24/7 availability, the complexity in the administration of hardware continuously icreases. Techniques as the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) support the monitoring of the hardware. However, those techniques often lack algorithms for intelligent data analytics. Especially, the integration of machine learning to identify potential failures in advance seems to be promising to reduce administration overhead. In this work, we present three machine learning approaches to (i) identify imminent failures, (ii) predict time windows for failures, as well as (iii) predict the exact time-to-failure. In a case study with real data from 369 hard disks, we achieve an F1-score of up to 98.0% and 97.6% for predicting potential failures with two or multiple time windows, respectively, and a hit rate of 84.9% (with a mean absolute error of 4.5 hours) for predicting the time-to-failure.}, address = {Cham}, author = {Z{\"u}fle, Marwin and Krupitzer, Christian and Erhard, Florian and Grohmann, Johannes and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th International GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems}, keywords = {Reliability}, month = {March}, pages = {19–36}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {MMB 2020}, title = {{To Fail Or Not To Fail: Predicting Hard Disk Drive Failure Time Windows}}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 ZuKrErGrKo-MMB2020-ToFailOrNotToFail %A Züfle, Marwin %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Erhard, Florian %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 20th International GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems %C Cham %D 2020 %I Springer %P 19--36 %R 10.1007/978-3-030-43024-5_2 %T To Fail Or Not To Fail: Predicting Hard Disk Drive Failure Time Windows %U https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43024-5_2 %X Due to the increasing size of today's data centers as well as the expectation of 24/7 availability, the complexity in the administration of hardware continuously icreases. Techniques as the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) support the monitoring of the hardware. However, those techniques often lack algorithms for intelligent data analytics. Especially, the integration of machine learning to identify potential failures in advance seems to be promising to reduce administration overhead. In this work, we present three machine learning approaches to (i) identify imminent failures, (ii) predict time windows for failures, as well as (iii) predict the exact time-to-failure. In a case study with real data from 369 hard disks, we achieve an F1-score of up to 98.0% and 97.6% for predicting potential failures with two or multiple time windows, respectively, and a hit rate of 84.9% (with a mean absolute error of 4.5 hours) for predicting the time-to-failure. %@ 978-3-030-43024-5
Predicting the Costs of Serverless Workflows S. Eismann; J. Grohmann; E. van Eyk; N. Herbst; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) (2020). 265–276.

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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms enable users to run arbitrary functions without being concerned about operational issues, while only paying for the consumed resources. Individual functions are often composed into workflows for complex tasks. However, the pay-per-use model and nontransparent reporting by cloud providers make it challenging to estimate the expected cost of a workflow, which prevents informed business decisions. Existing cost-estimation approaches assume a static response time for the serverless functions, without taking input parameters into account. In this paper, we propose a methodology for the cost prediction of serverless workflows consisting of input-parameter sensitive function models and a monte-carlo simulation of an abstract workflow model. Our approach enables workflow designers to predict, compare, and optimize the expected costs and performance of a planned workflow, which currently requires time-intensive experimentation. In our evaluation, we show that our approach can predict the response time and output parameters of a function based on its input parameters with an accuracy of 96.1%. In a case study with two audio-processing workflows, our approach predicts the costs of the two workflows with an accuracy of 96.2%.

@inproceedings{EiGrEyHeKo2020-ICPE-ServerlessWorkflows, abstract = {Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms enable users to run arbitrary functions without being concerned about operational issues, while only paying for the consumed resources. Individual functions are often composed into workflows for complex tasks. However, the pay-per-use model and nontransparent reporting by cloud providers make it challenging to estimate the expected cost of a workflow, which prevents informed business decisions. Existing cost-estimation approaches assume a static response time for the serverless functions, without taking input parameters into account. In this paper, we propose a methodology for the cost prediction of serverless workflows consisting of input-parameter sensitive function models and a monte-carlo simulation of an abstract workflow model. Our approach enables workflow designers to predict, compare, and optimize the expected costs and performance of a planned workflow, which currently requires time-intensive experimentation. In our evaluation, we show that our approach can predict the response time and output parameters of a function based on its input parameters with an accuracy of 96.1%. In a case study with two audio-processing workflows, our approach predicts the costs of the two workflows with an accuracy of 96.2%.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Eismann, Simon and Grohmann, Johannes and van Eyk, Erwin and Herbst, Nikolas and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)}, keywords = {se2}, month = {April}, note = {{Acceptance Rate: 23.4% (15/64)}}, pages = {265–276}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}, series = {ICPE '20}, title = {Predicting the Costs of Serverless Workflows}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 EiGrEyHeKo2020-ICPE-ServerlessWorkflows %A Eismann, Simon %A Grohmann, Johannes %A van Eyk, Erwin %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) %C New York, NY, USA %D 2020 %I Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) %P 265--276 %R 10.1145/3358960.3379133 %T Predicting the Costs of Serverless Workflows %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3358960.3379133 %X Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms enable users to run arbitrary functions without being concerned about operational issues, while only paying for the consumed resources. Individual functions are often composed into workflows for complex tasks. However, the pay-per-use model and nontransparent reporting by cloud providers make it challenging to estimate the expected cost of a workflow, which prevents informed business decisions. Existing cost-estimation approaches assume a static response time for the serverless functions, without taking input parameters into account. In this paper, we propose a methodology for the cost prediction of serverless workflows consisting of input-parameter sensitive function models and a monte-carlo simulation of an abstract workflow model. Our approach enables workflow designers to predict, compare, and optimize the expected costs and performance of a planned workflow, which currently requires time-intensive experimentation. In our evaluation, we show that our approach can predict the response time and output parameters of a function based on its input parameters with an accuracy of 96.1%. In a case study with two audio-processing workflows, our approach predicts the costs of the two workflows with an accuracy of 96.2%. %@ 9781450369916
SIMPL: Secure IoT Management Platform T. Prantl; A. E. Ben Yahya; A. Dmitrienko; S. Kounev; F. Lipp; D. Hock; C. Rathfelder; M. Hofherr; in ITG Workshop on IT Security (ITSec) (2020).
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The proliferation of IoT devices is increasing at a fast pace, whether for private or business use. However,despite their growing popularity, their safe operation is often not guaranteed. To tackle the security challenges of modern IoT environments, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the SIMPL project in order to support research in this area. The contribution of this paper is to introduce the main goal, objectives, and key features of SIMPL

@inproceedings{PrYaDmKoLiHoRaHo2020-ITSec-SIMPL, abstract = {The proliferation of IoT devices is increasing at a fast pace, whether for private or business use. However,despite their growing popularity, their safe operation is often not guaranteed. To tackle the security challenges of modern IoT environments, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the SIMPL project in order to support research in this area. The contribution of this paper is to introduce the main goal, objectives, and key features of SIMPL}, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Ben Yahya, Ala Eddine and Dmitrienko, Alexandra and Kounev, Samuel and Lipp, Fabian and Hock, David and Rathfelder, Christoph and Hofherr, Martin}, booktitle = {ITG Workshop on IT Security (ITSec)}, keywords = {t_workshop}, title = {SIMPL: Secure IoT Management Platform}, year = 2020 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 PrYaDmKoLiHoRaHo2020-ITSec-SIMPL %A Prantl, Thomas %A Ben Yahya, Ala Eddine %A Dmitrienko, Alexandra %A Kounev, Samuel %A Lipp, Fabian %A Hock, David %A Rathfelder, Christoph %A Hofherr, Martin %B ITG Workshop on IT Security (ITSec) %D 2020 %T SIMPL: Secure IoT Management Platform %X The proliferation of IoT devices is increasing at a fast pace, whether for private or business use. However,despite their growing popularity, their safe operation is often not guaranteed. To tackle the security challenges of modern IoT environments, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the SIMPL project in order to support research in this area. The contribution of this paper is to introduce the main goal, objectives, and key features of SIMPL

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The SPEC-RG Reference Architecture for FaaS: From Microservices and Containers to Serverless Platforms E. van Eyk; J. Grohmann; S. Eismann; A. Bauer; L. Versluis; L. Toader; N. Schmitt; N. Herbst; C. L. Abad; A. Iosup; in IEEE Internet Computing (2019). 23(6) 7–18.
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Microservices, containers, and serverless computing belong to a trend toward applications composed of many small, self-contained, and automatically managed components. Core to serverless computing, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms employ state-of-the-art container technology and microservices-based architectures to enable users to manage complex applications without the need for systems-level expertise. Victim of its own success, and partially due to proprietary technology, currently the community has a limited overview of these platforms. To address this, we propose a reference architecture and ecosystem for FaaS platforms. Based on a year-long survey of real-world platforms conducted within the SPEC-RG Cloud Group, we highlight specific components and identify common operational patterns.

@article{vEGrEiBaVeToScHeAbIo-IC-FaaS, abstract = {Microservices, containers, and serverless computing belong to a trend toward applications composed of many small, self-contained, and automatically managed components. Core to serverless computing, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms employ state-of-the-art container technology and microservices-based architectures to enable users to manage complex applications without the need for systems-level expertise. Victim of its own success, and partially due to proprietary technology, currently the community has a limited overview of these platforms. To address this, we propose a reference architecture and ecosystem for FaaS platforms. Based on a year-long survey of real-world platforms conducted within the SPEC-RG Cloud Group, we highlight specific components and identify common operational patterns.}, author = {van Eyk, Erwin and Grohmann, Johannes and Eismann, Simon and Bauer, Andr{\'e} and Versluis, Laurens and Toader, Lucian and Schmitt, Norbert and Herbst, Nikolas and Abad, Cristina L. and Iosup, Alexandru}, journal = {IEEE Internet Computing}, keywords = {SPEC}, month = {nov}, number = 6, pages = {7–18}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {The SPEC-RG Reference Architecture for FaaS: From Microservices and Containers to Serverless Platforms}, volume = 23, year = 2019 }

%0 Journal Article %1 vEGrEiBaVeToScHeAbIo-IC-FaaS %A van Eyk, Erwin %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Eismann, Simon %A Bauer, André %A Versluis, Laurens %A Toader, Lucian %A Schmitt, Norbert %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Abad, Cristina L. %A Iosup, Alexandru %D 2019 %I IEEE %J IEEE Internet Computing %N 6 %P 7--18 %R 10.1109/MIC.2019.2952061 %T The SPEC-RG Reference Architecture for FaaS: From Microservices and Containers to Serverless Platforms %U https://doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2019.2952061 %V 23 %X Microservices, containers, and serverless computing belong to a trend toward applications composed of many small, self-contained, and automatically managed components. Core to serverless computing, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms employ state-of-the-art container technology and microservices-based architectures to enable users to manage complex applications without the need for systems-level expertise. Victim of its own success, and partially due to proprietary technology, currently the community has a limited overview of these platforms. To address this, we propose a reference architecture and ecosystem for FaaS platforms. Based on a year-long survey of real-world platforms conducted within the SPEC-RG Cloud Group, we highlight specific components and identify common operational patterns.
Measuring the Energy Efficiency of Transactional Loads on GPGPU J. von Kistowski; J. Pais; T. Wahl; K.-D. Lange; H. Block; J. Beckett; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 19th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2019).

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General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) are becoming more and more common in current servers and data centers, which in turn consume a significant amount of electrical power. Measuring and benchmarking this power consumption is important as it helps with optimization and selection of these servers. However, benchmarking and comparing the energy efficiency of GPGPU workloads is challenging as standardized workloads are rare and standardized power and efficiency measurement methods and metrics do not exist. In addition, not all GPGPU systems run at maximum load all the time. Systems that are utilized in transactional, request driven workloads, for example, can run at lower utilization levels. Existing benchmarks for GPGPU systems primarily consider performance and are intended only to run at maximum load. They do not measure performance or energy efficiency at other loads. In turn, server energy-efficiency benchmarks that consider multiple load levels do not address GPGPUs. This paper introduces a measurement methodology for servers with GPGPU accelerators that considers multiple load levels for transactional workloads. The methodology also addresses verifiability of results in order to achieve comparability of different device solutions. We analyze our methodology on three different systems with solutions from two different accelerator vendors. We investigate the efficacy of different methods of load levels scaling and our methodology's reproducibility. We show that the methodology is able to produce consistent and reproducible results with a maximum coefficient of variation of 1.4% regarding power consumption.

@inproceedings{KiPaWaLaBlBeKo2019-ICPE-GPGPUPower, abstract = {{General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) are becoming more and more common in current servers and data centers, which in turn consume a significant amount of electrical power. Measuring and benchmarking this power consumption is important as it helps with optimization and selection of these servers. However, benchmarking and comparing the energy efficiency of GPGPU workloads is challenging as standardized workloads are rare and standardized power and efficiency measurement methods and metrics do not exist. In addition, not all GPGPU systems run at maximum load all the time. Systems that are utilized in transactional, request driven workloads, for example, can run at lower utilization levels. Existing benchmarks for GPGPU systems primarily consider performance and are intended only to run at maximum load. They do not measure performance or energy efficiency at other loads. In turn, server energy-efficiency benchmarks that consider multiple load levels do not address GPGPUs. This paper introduces a measurement methodology for servers with GPGPU accelerators that considers multiple load levels for transactional workloads. The methodology also addresses verifiability of results in order to achieve comparability of different device solutions. We analyze our methodology on three different systems with solutions from two different accelerator vendors. We investigate the efficacy of different methods of load levels scaling and our methodology's reproducibility. We show that the methodology is able to produce consistent and reproducible results with a maximum coefficient of variation of 1.4\% regarding power consumption.}}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {von Kistowski, J{\'o}akim and Pais, Johann and Wahl, Tobias and Lange, Klaus-Dieter and Block, Hansfried and Beckett, John and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {Power}, note = {{<b>Best Industry Paper Award</b>}}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {ICPE '19}, title = {{Measuring the Energy Efficiency of Transactional Loads on GPGPU}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 KiPaWaLaBlBeKo2019-ICPE-GPGPUPower %A von Kistowski, Jóakim %A Pais, Johann %A Wahl, Tobias %A Lange, Klaus-Dieter %A Block, Hansfried %A Beckett, John %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 19th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering %C New York, NY, USA %D 2019 %I ACM %T Measuring the Energy Efficiency of Transactional Loads on GPGPU %X General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) are becoming more and more common in current servers and data centers, which in turn consume a significant amount of electrical power. Measuring and benchmarking this power consumption is important as it helps with optimization and selection of these servers. However, benchmarking and comparing the energy efficiency of GPGPU workloads is challenging as standardized workloads are rare and standardized power and efficiency measurement methods and metrics do not exist. In addition, not all GPGPU systems run at maximum load all the time. Systems that are utilized in transactional, request driven workloads, for example, can run at lower utilization levels. Existing benchmarks for GPGPU systems primarily consider performance and are intended only to run at maximum load. They do not measure performance or energy efficiency at other loads. In turn, server energy-efficiency benchmarks that consider multiple load levels do not address GPGPUs. This paper introduces a measurement methodology for servers with GPGPU accelerators that considers multiple load levels for transactional workloads. The methodology also addresses verifiability of results in order to achieve comparability of different device solutions. We analyze our methodology on three different systems with solutions from two different accelerator vendors. We investigate the efficacy of different methods of load levels scaling and our methodology's reproducibility. We show that the methodology is able to produce consistent and reproducible results with a maximum coefficient of variation of 1.4% regarding power consumption.
A survey on adaptive authentication P. Arias-Cabarcos; C. Krupitzer; C. Becker; in ACM Computing Surveys (2019). 52 Art. 80.
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@article{ArKrBe2019_CSUR_surveyAdaptiveAuthentication, address = {New York, NY}, author = {Arias-Cabarcos, Patricia and Krupitzer, Christian and Becker, Christian}, journal = {ACM Computing Surveys}, keywords = {Self-adaptive-systems}, pages = {Art. 80}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {A survey on adaptive authentication}, volume = 52, year = 2019 }

%0 Journal Article %1 ArKrBe2019_CSUR_surveyAdaptiveAuthentication %A Arias-Cabarcos, Patricia %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Becker, Christian %C New York, NY %D 2019 %I ACM Press %J ACM Computing Surveys %P Art. 80 %T A survey on adaptive authentication %U https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/50229/ %V 52
Beyond position-awareness -- Extending a self-adaptive fall detection system C. Krupitzer; T. Sztyler; J. Edinger; M. Breitbach; H. Stuckenschmidt; C. Becker; in Pervasive and Mobile Computing (2019). 58
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Ambient Assisted Living using mobile device sensors is an active area of research in pervasive computing. Multiple approaches have shown that wearable sensors perform very well and distinguish falls reliably from Activities of Daily Living. However, these systems are tested in a controlled environment and are optimized for a given set of sensor types, sensor positions, and subjects. We propose a self-adaptive pervasive fall detection approach that is robust to the heterogeneity of real life situations. Using the data of four publicly available datasets, we show that our system is not only robust regarding the different dimensions of heterogeneity, but also adapts autonomously to spontaneous changes in the sensorâ€™s position at runtime. In this paper, we extend our self-adaptive fall detection system with (i)Â additional algorithms for fall detection, (ii)Â an approach for cross-positional sensor fusion, (iii)Â a fall detection approach that relies on outlier detection, and (iv)Â a smart fall alert. Additionally, we present implementation and evaluation of these extensions.

@article{KRUPITZER2019101026, abstract = {Ambient Assisted Living using mobile device sensors is an active area of research in pervasive computing. Multiple approaches have shown that wearable sensors perform very well and distinguish falls reliably from Activities of Daily Living. However, these systems are tested in a controlled environment and are optimized for a given set of sensor types, sensor positions, and subjects. We propose a self-adaptive pervasive fall detection approach that is robust to the heterogeneity of real life situations. Using the data of four publicly available datasets, we show that our system is not only robust regarding the different dimensions of heterogeneity, but also adapts autonomously to spontaneous changes in the sensorâ€™s position at runtime. In this paper, we extend our self-adaptive fall detection system with (i)Â additional algorithms for fall detection, (ii)Â an approach for cross-positional sensor fusion, (iii)Â a fall detection approach that relies on outlier detection, and (iv)Â a smart fall alert. Additionally, we present implementation and evaluation of these extensions.}, author = {Krupitzer, Christian and Sztyler, Timo and Edinger, Janick and Breitbach, Martin and Stuckenschmidt, Heiner and Becker, Christian}, journal = {Pervasive and Mobile Computing}, keywords = {Self-adaptive-systems}, title = {Beyond position-awareness – Extending a self-adaptive fall detection system}, volume = 58, year = 2019 }

%0 Journal Article %1 KRUPITZER2019101026 %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Sztyler, Timo %A Edinger, Janick %A Breitbach, Martin %A Stuckenschmidt, Heiner %A Becker, Christian %D 2019 %J Pervasive and Mobile Computing %T Beyond position-awareness -- Extending a self-adaptive fall detection system %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574119218303493 %V 58 %X Ambient Assisted Living using mobile device sensors is an active area of research in pervasive computing. Multiple approaches have shown that wearable sensors perform very well and distinguish falls reliably from Activities of Daily Living. However, these systems are tested in a controlled environment and are optimized for a given set of sensor types, sensor positions, and subjects. We propose a self-adaptive pervasive fall detection approach that is robust to the heterogeneity of real life situations. Using the data of four publicly available datasets, we show that our system is not only robust regarding the different dimensions of heterogeneity, but also adapts autonomously to spontaneous changes in the sensorâ€™s position at runtime. In this paper, we extend our self-adaptive fall detection system with (i)Â additional algorithms for fall detection, (ii)Â an approach for cross-positional sensor fusion, (iii)Â a fall detection approach that relies on outlier detection, and (iv)Â a smart fall alert. Additionally, we present implementation and evaluation of these extensions.
The Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium: Status and Overview in 2019 C. Krupitzer; S. Tomforde; in Proceedings of the INFORMATIK 2019 (Workshop-Beiträge) (2019).
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@inproceedings{KrTo2019_Informatik_OC-DDC, author = {Krupitzer, Christian and Tomforde, Sven}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the INFORMATIK 2019 (Workshop-Beitr{\"a}ge)}, keywords = {Self-adaptive-systems}, organization = {Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Informatik eV}, title = {The Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium: Status and Overview in 2019}, year = 2019 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 KrTo2019_Informatik_OC-DDC %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Tomforde, Sven %B Proceedings of the INFORMATIK 2019 (Workshop-Beiträge) %D 2019 %T The Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium: Status and Overview in 2019
Discrete-Time Analysis of the Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology S. Geissler; T. Prantl; S. Lange; F. Wamser; T. Hossfeld; in Proceedings of the 31st International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) (2019).
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@inproceedings{GePrLaWaHo2019-ITC-Blockchain, author = {Geissler, Stefan and Prantl, Thomas and Lange, Stanislav and Wamser, Florian and Hossfeld, Tobias}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st International Teletraffic Congress (ITC)}, keywords = {descartes}, month = {August}, title = {Discrete-Time Analysis of the Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology}, year = 2019 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 GePrLaWaHo2019-ITC-Blockchain %A Geissler, Stefan %A Prantl, Thomas %A Lange, Stanislav %A Wamser, Florian %A Hossfeld, Tobias %B Proceedings of the 31st International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) %D 2019 %T Discrete-Time Analysis of the Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology
Der Weg vom Internet-der-Dinge zum Internet-der-denkenden-Dinge S. Kounev; (2019, Juni).
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@misc{Talk-Ko2019-RotaryClub-SeAC, address = {W{\"u}rzburz, Germany}, author = {Kounev, Samuel}, howpublished = {Rotary Club W{\"u}rzburg, 11.06.2019}, keywords = {descartes}, month = {June}, title = {{Der Weg vom Internet-der-Dinge zum Internet-der-denkenden-Dinge}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Generic %1 Talk-Ko2019-RotaryClub-SeAC %A Kounev, Samuel %C Würzburz, Germany %D 2019 %T Der Weg vom Internet-der-Dinge zum Internet-der-denkenden-Dinge
Hands Off my Database: Ransomware Detection in Databases through Dynamic Analysis of Query Sequences L. Iffländer; A. Dmitrienko; C. Hagen; M. Jobst; S. Kounev; (2019).
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@techreport{Ifflander_Hands_Off_my_Database, author = {Iffländer, Lukas and Dmitrienko, Alexandra and Hagen, Christoph and Jobst, Michael and Kounev, Samuel}, institution = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, journal = {arXiv}, keywords = {t_techreport}, month = {jul}, title = {Hands Off my Database: Ransomware Detection in Databases through Dynamic Analysis of Query Sequences}, year = 2019 }

%0 Report %1 Ifflander_Hands_Off_my_Database %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Dmitrienko, Alexandra %A Hagen, Christoph %A Jobst, Michael %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2019 %J arXiv %T Hands Off my Database: Ransomware Detection in Databases through Dynamic Analysis of Query Sequences %U https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06775
Utilizing Clustering to Optimize Resource Demand Estimation Approaches J. Grohmann; S. Eismann; A. Bauer; M. Zuefle; N. Herbst; S. Kounev; in 2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W) (2019). 134–139.
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Resource demands are crucial parameters for modeling and predicting the performance of software systems. Direct measurement of these resource demands is usually infeasible due to instrumentation overheads causing measurement interferences and perturbation in production environments. Thus, a number of statistical estimation approaches (e.g., based on optimization, regression or Kalman filters) have been proposed in the literature. Most of these approaches are parameterized. These parameters influence the estimation quality and the required computation time. Existing work uses historical data as training sets to optimize those parameters and to minimize the estimation error of those approaches. However, if the data traces are fundamentally different, the optimal parameter settings are different as well. In this paper, we propose to use automated clustering in order to group training sets into groups of similar optimization behavior. This way, optimization can be specifically tailored to certain groups of traces in a self-aware manner. During run-time, every trace is first sorted into a cluster, where the respective cluster-wide parameter optimum can be applied. A preliminary case study shows that clustering can provide promising improvements.

@inproceedings{GrEiBaZuHeKo2019-ICAC-RDEClustering, abstract = {Resource demands are crucial parameters for modeling and predicting the performance of software systems. Direct measurement of these resource demands is usually infeasible due to instrumentation overheads causing measurement interferences and perturbation in production environments. Thus, a number of statistical estimation approaches (e.g., based on optimization, regression or Kalman filters) have been proposed in the literature. Most of these approaches are parameterized. These parameters influence the estimation quality and the required computation time. Existing work uses historical data as training sets to optimize those parameters and to minimize the estimation error of those approaches. However, if the data traces are fundamentally different, the optimal parameter settings are different as well. In this paper, we propose to use automated clustering in order to group training sets into groups of similar optimization behavior. This way, optimization can be specifically tailored to certain groups of traces in a self-aware manner. During run-time, every trace is first sorted into a cluster, where the respective cluster-wide parameter optimum can be applied. A preliminary case study shows that clustering can provide promising improvements.}, author = {Grohmann, Johannes and Eismann, Simon and Bauer, Andre and Zuefle, Marwin and Herbst, Nikolas and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W)}, keywords = {Optimization}, month = {June}, pages = {134–139}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {{Utilizing Clustering to Optimize Resource Demand Estimation Approaches}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 GrEiBaZuHeKo2019-ICAC-RDEClustering %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Eismann, Simon %A Bauer, Andre %A Zuefle, Marwin %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Kounev, Samuel %B 2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W) %D 2019 %I IEEE %P 134--139 %R 10.1109/FAS-W.2019.00043 %T Utilizing Clustering to Optimize Resource Demand Estimation Approaches %U https://doi.org/10.1109/FAS-W.2019.00043 %X Resource demands are crucial parameters for modeling and predicting the performance of software systems. Direct measurement of these resource demands is usually infeasible due to instrumentation overheads causing measurement interferences and perturbation in production environments. Thus, a number of statistical estimation approaches (e.g., based on optimization, regression or Kalman filters) have been proposed in the literature. Most of these approaches are parameterized. These parameters influence the estimation quality and the required computation time. Existing work uses historical data as training sets to optimize those parameters and to minimize the estimation error of those approaches. However, if the data traces are fundamentally different, the optimal parameter settings are different as well. In this paper, we propose to use automated clustering in order to group training sets into groups of similar optimization behavior. This way, optimization can be specifically tailored to certain groups of traces in a self-aware manner. During run-time, every trace is first sorted into a cluster, where the respective cluster-wide parameter optimum can be applied. A preliminary case study shows that clustering can provide promising improvements.
Designing a Generic Workflow for Frequency-based Feature Engineering of Sports Data Using Symbolic Fourier Approximation F. Erhard; Thesis; University of Würzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany. (2019, September).
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@mastersthesis{Erhard2019, address = {Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{\"a}ude, 97074 W{\"u}rzburg, Germany}, author = {Erhard, Florian}, keywords = {prediction}, month = {September}, school = {University of W{\"u}rzburg}, title = {{Designing a Generic Workflow for Frequency-based Feature Engineering of Sports Data Using Symbolic Fourier Approximation}}, type = {{Bachelor Thesis}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Thesis %1 Erhard2019 %A Erhard, Florian %C Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany %D 2019 %T Designing a Generic Workflow for Frequency-based Feature Engineering of Sports Data Using Symbolic Fourier Approximation
An Approach for Domain-specific Data Extraction and Feature Engineering for Sports Data Analytics T. Dreher; Thesis; University of Würzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany. (2019, Oktober).
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@mastersthesis{Dreher2019, address = {Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{\"a}ude, 97074 W{\"u}rzburg, Germany}, author = {Dreher, Tim}, keywords = {prediction}, month = {October}, school = {University of W{\"u}rzburg}, title = {{An Approach for Domain-specific Data Extraction and Feature Engineering for Sports Data Analytics}}, type = {{Bachelor Thesis}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Thesis %1 Dreher2019 %A Dreher, Tim %C Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany %D 2019 %T An Approach for Domain-specific Data Extraction and Feature Engineering for Sports Data Analytics
Exploring the Limitations of Statistical Response Time Models in Architectural Performance Models S. Trapp; Thesis; University of Würzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany. (2019, Dezember).
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@mastersthesis{Trapp2019, address = {Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{\"a}ude, 97074 W{\"u}rzburg, Germany}, author = {Trapp, Simon}, keywords = {descartes}, month = {December}, school = {University of W{\"u}rzburg}, title = {Exploring the {L}imitations of {S}tatistical {R}esponse {T}ime {M}odels in {A}rchitectural {P}erformance {M}odels}, type = {{Bachelor Thesis}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Thesis %1 Trapp2019 %A Trapp, Simon %C Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany %D 2019 %T Exploring the Limitations of Statistical Response Time Models in Architectural Performance Models
Erweiterung von Komponenten-basierten Performance Modellen für Micro-service Architekturen L. Hick; Thesis; University of Würzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany. (2019, Februar).
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@mastersthesis{Hick2019, address = {Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{\"a}ude, 97074 W{\"u}rzburg, Germany}, author = {Hick, Lars}, keywords = {descartes}, month = {February}, school = {University of W{\"u}rzburg}, title = {{Erweiterung von Komponenten-basierten Performance Modellen f{\"u}r Micro-service Architekturen}}, type = {{Bachelor Thesis}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Thesis %1 Hick2019 %A Hick, Lars %C Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany %D 2019 %T Erweiterung von Komponenten-basierten Performance Modellen für Micro-service Architekturen
Predicting Server Power Consumption from Standard Rating Results J. von Kistowski; J. Grohmann; N. Schmitt; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 19th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2019). 301–312.

Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 18.6% (13/70)
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Data center providers and server operators try to reduce the power consumption of their servers. Finding an energy efficient server for a specific target application is a first step in this regard. Estimating the power consumption of an application on an unavailable server is difficult, as nameplate power values are generally overestimations. Offline power models are able to predict the consumption accurately, but are usually intended for system design, requiring very specific and detailed knowledge about the system under consideration. In this paper, we introduce an offline power prediction method that uses the results of standard power rating tools. The method predicts the power consumption of a specific application for multiple load levels on a target server that is otherwise unavailable for testing. We evaluate our approach by predicting the power consumption of three applications on different physical servers. Our method is able to achieve an average prediction error of 9.49% for three workloads running on real-world, physical servers.

@inproceedings{KiGrScKo2019-ICPE-PowerPrediction, abstract = {Data center providers and server operators try to reduce the power consumption of their servers. Finding an energy efficient server for a specific target application is a first step in this regard. Estimating the power consumption of an application on an unavailable server is difficult, as nameplate power values are generally overestimations. Offline power models are able to predict the consumption accurately, but are usually intended for system design, requiring very specific and detailed knowledge about the system under consideration. In this paper, we introduce an offline power prediction method that uses the results of standard power rating tools. The method predicts the power consumption of a specific application for multiple load levels on a target server that is otherwise unavailable for testing. We evaluate our approach by predicting the power consumption of three applications on different physical servers. Our method is able to achieve an average prediction error of 9.49% for three workloads running on real-world, physical servers.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {von Kistowski, J{\'o}akim and Grohmann, Johannes and Schmitt, Norbert and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {Power}, note = {{Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 18.6\% (13/70)}}, pages = {301–312}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}, series = {ICPE '19}, title = {{Predicting Server Power Consumption from Standard Rating Results}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 KiGrScKo2019-ICPE-PowerPrediction %A von Kistowski, Jóakim %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Schmitt, Norbert %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 19th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering %C New York, NY, USA %D 2019 %I Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) %P 301--312 %R 10.1145/3297663.3310298 %T Predicting Server Power Consumption from Standard Rating Results %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3297663.3310298 %X Data center providers and server operators try to reduce the power consumption of their servers. Finding an energy efficient server for a specific target application is a first step in this regard. Estimating the power consumption of an application on an unavailable server is difficult, as nameplate power values are generally overestimations. Offline power models are able to predict the consumption accurately, but are usually intended for system design, requiring very specific and detailed knowledge about the system under consideration. In this paper, we introduce an offline power prediction method that uses the results of standard power rating tools. The method predicts the power consumption of a specific application for multiple load levels on a target server that is otherwise unavailable for testing. We evaluate our approach by predicting the power consumption of three applications on different physical servers. Our method is able to achieve an average prediction error of 9.49% for three workloads running on real-world, physical servers. %@ 9781450362399
How is Performance Addressed in DevOps? C.-P. Bezemer; S. Eismann; V. Ferme; J. Grohmann; R. Heinrich; P. Jamshidi; W. Shang; A. van Hoorn; M. Villavicencio; J. Walter; F. Willnecker; in Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2019). 45–50.
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DevOps is a modern software engineering paradigm that is gaining widespread adoption in industry. The goal of DevOps is to bring software changes into production with a high frequency and fast feedback cycles. This conflicts with software quality assurance activities, particularly with respect to performance. For instance, performance evaluation activities --- such as load testing --- require a considerable amount of time to get statistically significant results. We conducted an industrial survey to get insights into how performance is addressed in industrial DevOps settings. In particular, we were interested in the frequency of executing performance evaluations, the tools being used, the granularity of the obtained performance data, and the use of model-based techniques. The survey responses, which come from a wide variety of participants from different industry sectors, indicate that the complexity of performance engineering approaches and tools is a barrier for wide-spread adoption of performance analysis in DevOps. The implication of our results is that performance analysis tools need to have a short learning curve, and should be easy to integrate into the DevOps pipeline in order to be adopted by practitioners.

@inproceedings{BeEiFeGrRhJaShHoViWaWi2019-ICPE-DevOpsSurvey, abstract = {DevOps is a modern software engineering paradigm that is gaining widespread adoption in industry. The goal of DevOps is to bring software changes into production with a high frequency and fast feedback cycles. This conflicts with software quality assurance activities, particularly with respect to performance. For instance, performance evaluation activities — such as load testing — require a considerable amount of time to get statistically significant results. We conducted an industrial survey to get insights into how performance is addressed in industrial DevOps settings. In particular, we were interested in the frequency of executing performance evaluations, the tools being used, the granularity of the obtained performance data, and the use of model-based techniques. The survey responses, which come from a wide variety of participants from different industry sectors, indicate that the complexity of performance engineering approaches and tools is a barrier for wide-spread adoption of performance analysis in DevOps. The implication of our results is that performance analysis tools need to have a short learning curve, and should be easy to integrate into the DevOps pipeline in order to be adopted by practitioners.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Bezemer, Cor{-}Paul and Eismann, Simon and Ferme, Vincenzo and Grohmann, Johannes and Heinrich, Robert and Jamshidi, Pooyan and Shang, Weiyi and van Hoorn, Andr{{\'e}} and Villavicencio, M{{\'o}}nica and Walter, J{{\"u}}rgen and Willnecker, Felix}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {SPEC}, pages = {45–50}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}, series = {ICPE '19}, title = {{How is Performance Addressed in DevOps?}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 BeEiFeGrRhJaShHoViWaWi2019-ICPE-DevOpsSurvey %A Bezemer, Cor-Paul %A Eismann, Simon %A Ferme, Vincenzo %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Heinrich, Robert %A Jamshidi, Pooyan %A Shang, Weiyi %A van Hoorn, André %A Villavicencio, Mónica %A Walter, Jürgen %A Willnecker, Felix %B Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering %C New York, NY, USA %D 2019 %I Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) %P 45--50 %R 10.1145/3297663.3309672 %T How is Performance Addressed in DevOps? %U https://doi.org/10.1145/3297663.3309672 %X DevOps is a modern software engineering paradigm that is gaining widespread adoption in industry. The goal of DevOps is to bring software changes into production with a high frequency and fast feedback cycles. This conflicts with software quality assurance activities, particularly with respect to performance. For instance, performance evaluation activities --- such as load testing --- require a considerable amount of time to get statistically significant results. We conducted an industrial survey to get insights into how performance is addressed in industrial DevOps settings. In particular, we were interested in the frequency of executing performance evaluations, the tools being used, the granularity of the obtained performance data, and the use of model-based techniques. The survey responses, which come from a wide variety of participants from different industry sectors, indicate that the complexity of performance engineering approaches and tools is a barrier for wide-spread adoption of performance analysis in DevOps. The implication of our results is that performance analysis tools need to have a short learning curve, and should be easy to integrate into the DevOps pipeline in order to be adopted by practitioners. %@ 9781450362399
From the Internet-of-Things to the Internet-of-Thinking-Things S. Kounev; (2019, Juli).
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@misc{talk-Kounev-InvTUM19, author = {Kounev, Samuel}, howpublished = {Informatik-Sonderkolloquium "Engineering Software for Decentralized Systems", Fakult{\"a}t f{\"u}r Informatik, Technische Universit{\"a}t M{\"u}nchen, Munich, Germany}, keywords = {descartes}, month = {Jul}, title = {{From the Internet-of-Things to the Internet-of-Thinking-Things}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Generic %1 talk-Kounev-InvTUM19 %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2019 %T From the Internet-of-Things to the Internet-of-Thinking-Things
Automation in Software Performance Engineering Based on a Declarative Specification of Concerns J. C. Walter; Thesis; Universität Würzburg. (2019).
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@phdthesis{Walter2018-phd, author = {Walter, J{\"u}rgen Christian}, keywords = {PMX}, school = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, title = {Automation in Software Performance Engineering Based on a Declarative Specification of Concerns}, type = {doctoralthesis}, year = 2019 }

%0 Thesis %1 Walter2018-phd %A Walter, Jürgen Christian %D 2019 %T Automation in Software Performance Engineering Based on a Declarative Specification of Concerns %U https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/18090
Online model learning for self-aware computing infrastructures S. Spinner; J. Grohmann; S. Eismann; S. Kounev; in Journal of Systems and Software (2019). 147 1–16.
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Performance models are valuable and powerful tools for performance prediction. However, the creation of performance models usually requires significant manual effort. Furthermore, as the modeled structures are subject to frequent change in modern infrastructures, such performance models need to be adapted as well. We therefore propose a reference architecture for online model learning in virtualized environments, which enables the automatic extraction of the aforementioned performance models. We follow an agent-based approach, which enables us to incorporate the extraction of information about the application structure as well as the virtualization structures present in modern computing centers. Our evaluation shows that our collaborating agents are able to reduce the manual effort of performance model extraction by 85.4%. The resulting performance model is able to predict the system utilization with an absolute error of less than 4% and the end-to-end response time with a relative error of less than 21%.

@article{SpGrEiKo2019-JSS-ModelLearning, abstract = {Performance models are valuable and powerful tools for performance prediction. However, the creation of performance models usually requires significant manual effort. Furthermore, as the modeled structures are subject to frequent change in modern infrastructures, such performance models need to be adapted as well. We therefore propose a reference architecture for online model learning in virtualized environments, which enables the automatic extraction of the aforementioned performance models. We follow an agent-based approach, which enables us to incorporate the extraction of information about the application structure as well as the virtualization structures present in modern computing centers. Our evaluation shows that our collaborating agents are able to reduce the manual effort of performance model extraction by 85.4%. The resulting performance model is able to predict the system utilization with an absolute error of less than 4% and the end-to-end response time with a relative error of less than 21%.}, author = {Spinner, Simon and Grohmann, Johannes and Eismann, Simon and Kounev, Samuel}, journal = {Journal of Systems and Software}, keywords = {Virtualization}, pages = {1–16}, title = {Online model learning for self-aware computing infrastructures}, volume = 147, year = 2019 }

%0 Journal Article %1 SpGrEiKo2019-JSS-ModelLearning %A Spinner, Simon %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Eismann, Simon %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2019 %J Journal of Systems and Software %P 1--16 %R 10.1016/j.jss.2018.09.089 %T Online model learning for self-aware computing infrastructures %U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2018.09.089 %V 147 %X Performance models are valuable and powerful tools for performance prediction. However, the creation of performance models usually requires significant manual effort. Furthermore, as the modeled structures are subject to frequent change in modern infrastructures, such performance models need to be adapted as well. We therefore propose a reference architecture for online model learning in virtualized environments, which enables the automatic extraction of the aforementioned performance models. We follow an agent-based approach, which enables us to incorporate the extraction of information about the application structure as well as the virtualization structures present in modern computing centers. Our evaluation shows that our collaborating agents are able to reduce the manual effort of performance model extraction by 85.4%. The resulting performance model is able to predict the system utilization with an absolute error of less than 4% and the end-to-end response time with a relative error of less than 21%.
TeaStore - A Micro-Service Application for Benchmarking, Modeling and Resource Management Research S. Eismann; (2019, Februar).
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Researchers propose and employ various methods to analyze, model, optimize and manage modern distributed micro-service applications. In order to demonstrate and evaluate these methods in realistic scenarios, researchers rely on reference applications. These applications should offer a range of different behaviors, degrees of freedom allowing for customization and should use a modern and representative technology stack. Unfortunately, existing testing and benchmarking applications are either outdated, designed for specific testing scenarios, or do not offer the necessary degrees of freedom. In this talk, we introduce the TeaStore, a state-of-the-art test and reference application with a micro-service architecture. TeaStore offers services with different performance characteristics and many degrees of freedom regarding deployment and configuration to be used as a benchmarking framework for researchers. Based on three experiments, we demonstrate TeaStore's use in three different research contexts: performance modeling, cloud resource management, and energy efficiency analysis.

@misc{talk-Eismann-SE2019, abstract = {Researchers propose and employ various methods to analyze, model, optimize and manage modern distributed micro-service applications. In order to demonstrate and evaluate these methods in realistic scenarios, researchers rely on reference applications. These applications should offer a range of different behaviors, degrees of freedom allowing for customization and should use a modern and representative technology stack. Unfortunately, existing testing and benchmarking applications are either outdated, designed for specific testing scenarios, or do not offer the necessary degrees of freedom. In this talk, we introduce the TeaStore, a state-of-the-art test and reference application with a micro-service architecture. TeaStore offers services with different performance characteristics and many degrees of freedom regarding deployment and configuration to be used as a benchmarking framework for researchers. Based on three experiments, we demonstrate TeaStore's use in three different research contexts: performance modeling, cloud resource management, and energy efficiency analysis.}, author = {Eismann, Simon}, howpublished = {Multikonferenz Software Engineering & Management 2019}, keywords = {Cloud}, month = {February}, title = {{TeaStore - A Micro-Service Application for Benchmarking, Modeling and Resource Management Research}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Generic %1 talk-Eismann-SE2019 %A Eismann, Simon %D 2019 %T TeaStore - A Micro-Service Application for Benchmarking, Modeling and Resource Management Research %X Researchers propose and employ various methods to analyze, model, optimize and manage modern distributed micro-service applications. In order to demonstrate and evaluate these methods in realistic scenarios, researchers rely on reference applications. These applications should offer a range of different behaviors, degrees of freedom allowing for customization and should use a modern and representative technology stack. Unfortunately, existing testing and benchmarking applications are either outdated, designed for specific testing scenarios, or do not offer the necessary degrees of freedom. In this talk, we introduce the TeaStore, a state-of-the-art test and reference application with a micro-service architecture. TeaStore offers services with different performance characteristics and many degrees of freedom regarding deployment and configuration to be used as a benchmarking framework for researchers. Based on three experiments, we demonstrate TeaStore's use in three different research contexts: performance modeling, cloud resource management, and energy efficiency analysis.
Towards Adaptive Car-to-Cloud Communication S. Herrnleben; M. Pfannemüller; C. Krupitzer; S. Kounev; M. Segata; F. Fastnacht; M. Nigmann; in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops) (2019).
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Recent developments in communication technology have led to cloud resources becoming ubiquitous. These resources enable many new applications by offering computational power for remote embedded devices. In combination with advances in the area of smart driving, this seems to be especially beneficial for applications such as remote maintenance of vehicles or integration with smart city services. As autonomous driving continues to gain traction, Car-to-Cloud communication can support transferring collected data to the cloud, e.g., for dynamic learning of new map information. Additionally, passengers can benefit from novel entertainment services. All these developments require a stable connection between a mobile vehicle and the cloud resources. In this vision paper, we survey Car-to-Cloud communication applications. Based on the analysis of the varying requirements for these applications, we formulate research questions and challenges. Further, we discuss how these challenges can be addressed by means of an adaptive Car-to-Cloud communication middleware. We conclude with an overview on our activities in this area and an outlook on our planned future work on adaptive communication.

@inproceedings{HePfKrKoSeFaNi2019-PerAwareCity-carToCloudCommunication, abstract = {Recent developments in communication technology have led to cloud resources becoming ubiquitous. These resources enable many new applications by offering computational power for remote embedded devices. In combination with advances in the area of smart driving, this seems to be especially beneficial for applications such as remote maintenance of vehicles or integration with smart city services. As autonomous driving continues to gain traction, Car-to-Cloud communication can support transferring collected data to the cloud, e.g., for dynamic learning of new map information. Additionally, passengers can benefit from novel entertainment services. All these developments require a stable connection between a mobile vehicle and the cloud resources. In this vision paper, we survey Car-to-Cloud communication applications. Based on the analysis of the varying requirements for these applications, we formulate research questions and challenges. Further, we discuss how these challenges can be addressed by means of an adaptive Car-to-Cloud communication middleware. We conclude with an overview on our activities in this area and an outlook on our planned future work on adaptive communication.}, address = {Kyoto, Japan}, author = {Herrnleben, Stefan and Pfannem{\"u}ller, Martin and Krupitzer, Christian and Kounev, Samuel and Segata, Michele and Fastnacht, Felix and Nigmann, Magnus}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)}, keywords = {Intelligent_Transportation_Systems}, title = {Towards Adaptive {Car-to-Cloud} Communication}, year = 2019 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 HePfKrKoSeFaNi2019-PerAwareCity-carToCloudCommunication %A Herrnleben, Stefan %A Pfannemüller, Martin %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %A Segata, Michele %A Fastnacht, Felix %A Nigmann, Magnus %B Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops) %C Kyoto, Japan %D 2019 %T Towards Adaptive Car-to-Cloud Communication %X Recent developments in communication technology have led to cloud resources becoming ubiquitous. These resources enable many new applications by offering computational power for remote embedded devices. In combination with advances in the area of smart driving, this seems to be especially beneficial for applications such as remote maintenance of vehicles or integration with smart city services. As autonomous driving continues to gain traction, Car-to-Cloud communication can support transferring collected data to the cloud, e.g., for dynamic learning of new map information. Additionally, passengers can benefit from novel entertainment services. All these developments require a stable connection between a mobile vehicle and the cloud resources. In this vision paper, we survey Car-to-Cloud communication applications. Based on the analysis of the varying requirements for these applications, we formulate research questions and challenges. Further, we discuss how these challenges can be addressed by means of an adaptive Car-to-Cloud communication middleware. We conclude with an overview on our activities in this area and an outlook on our planned future work on adaptive communication.
Performance Oriented Dynamic Bypassing for Intrusion Detection Systems L. Iffländer; J. Stoll; N. Rawtani; V. Lesch; K.-D. Lange; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (2019). 159–166.
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Attacks on software systems are becoming more and more frequent, aggressive and sophisticated. With the changing threat landscape, in 2018, organizations are looking at when they will be attacked, not if. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) can help in defending against these attacks. The systems that host IDSs require extensive computing resources as IDSs tend to detect attacks under overloaded conditions wrongfully. With the end of Moore's law and the growing adoption of Internet of Things, designers of security systems can no longer expect processing power to keep up the pace with them. This limitation requires ways to increase the performance of these systems without adding additional compute power. In this work, we present two dynamic and a static approach to bypass IDS for traffic deemed benign. We provide its prototype implementation and evaluate our solution. Our evaluation shows promising results. Performance is increased up to the level of a system without an IDS. Attack detection is within the margin of error from the 100% rate. However, our findings show that dynamic approaches perform best when using software switches. The use of a hardware switch reduces the detection rate and performance significantly.

@inproceedings{Ifflaender2019_PerformanceOrientedDynamicBypassingforIntrusionDetectionSystems, abstract = {Attacks on software systems are becoming more and more frequent, aggressive and sophisticated. With the changing threat landscape, in 2018, organizations are looking at when they will be attacked, not if. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) can help in defending against these attacks. The systems that host IDSs require extensive computing resources as IDSs tend to detect attacks under overloaded conditions wrongfully. With the end of Moore's law and the growing adoption of Internet of Things, designers of security systems can no longer expect processing power to keep up the pace with them. This limitation requires ways to increase the performance of these systems without adding additional compute power. In this work, we present two dynamic and a static approach to bypass IDS for traffic deemed benign. We provide its prototype implementation and evaluate our solution. Our evaluation shows promising results. Performance is increased up to the level of a system without an IDS. Attack detection is within the margin of error from the 100% rate. However, our findings show that dynamic approaches perform best when using software switches. The use of a hardware switch reduces the detection rate and performance significantly.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Iffländer, Lukas and Stoll, Jonathan and Rawtani, Nishant and Lesch, Veronika and Lange, Klaus-Dieter and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering}, keywords = {Optimization}, pages = {159–166}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {ICPE '19}, title = {Performance Oriented Dynamic Bypassing for Intrusion Detection Systems}, year = 2019 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 Ifflaender2019_PerformanceOrientedDynamicBypassingforIntrusionDetectionSystems %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Stoll, Jonathan %A Rawtani, Nishant %A Lesch, Veronika %A Lange, Klaus-Dieter %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering %C New York, NY, USA %D 2019 %I ACM %P 159--166 %T Performance Oriented Dynamic Bypassing for Intrusion Detection Systems %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3297663.3310313 %X Attacks on software systems are becoming more and more frequent, aggressive and sophisticated. With the changing threat landscape, in 2018, organizations are looking at when they will be attacked, not if. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) can help in defending against these attacks. The systems that host IDSs require extensive computing resources as IDSs tend to detect attacks under overloaded conditions wrongfully. With the end of Moore's law and the growing adoption of Internet of Things, designers of security systems can no longer expect processing power to keep up the pace with them. This limitation requires ways to increase the performance of these systems without adding additional compute power. In this work, we present two dynamic and a static approach to bypass IDS for traffic deemed benign. We provide its prototype implementation and evaluate our solution. Our evaluation shows promising results. Performance is increased up to the level of a system without an IDS. Attack detection is within the margin of error from the 100% rate. However, our findings show that dynamic approaches perform best when using software switches. The use of a hardware switch reduces the detection rate and performance significantly.
Online Power Consumption Estimation for Functions in Cloud Applications N. Schmitt; L. Iffländer; A. Bauer; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) (2019).
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@inproceedings{ScIfBaKo2019-ICAC-OnlinePowerEstimation, author = {Schmitt, Norbert and Iffländer, Lukas and Bauer, André and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC)}, keywords = {Power}, month = {June}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {Online Power Consumption Estimation for Functions in Cloud Applications}, year = 2019 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 ScIfBaKo2019-ICAC-OnlinePowerEstimation %A Schmitt, Norbert %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Bauer, André %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) %D 2019 %I IEEE %T Online Power Consumption Estimation for Functions in Cloud Applications
Autonomic Forecasting Method Selection: Examination and Ways Ahead M. Züfle; A. Bauer; V. Lesch; C. Krupitzer; N. Herbst; S. Kounev; V. Curtef; in Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) (2019).
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@inproceedings{ZuBaLeKrHeKoCu2019-ICAC-Autonomic, author = {Z{\"u}fle, Marwin and Bauer, Andr{\'e} and Lesch, Veronika and Krupitzer, Christian and Herbst, Nikolas and Kounev, Samuel and Curtef, Valentin}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th {IEEE} International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC)}, keywords = {PRISMA}, month = {June}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {{Autonomic Forecasting Method Selection: Examination and Ways Ahead}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 ZuBaLeKrHeKoCu2019-ICAC-Autonomic %A Züfle, Marwin %A Bauer, André %A Lesch, Veronika %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Kounev, Samuel %A Curtef, Valentin %B Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) %D 2019 %I IEEE %T Autonomic Forecasting Method Selection: Examination and Ways Ahead
Systematic Search for Optimal Resource Configurations of Distributed Applications A. Bauer; S. Eismann; J. Grohmann; N. Herbst; S. Kounev; in 2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W) (2019). 120–125.
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With the advent of the micro-service paradigm, applications are divided into small, distributed parts. Knowledge of optimal resource configurations of such applications is required both for autonomic resource management as well as its assessment. Due to the high-dimensional search space of all possible configurations, the systematic measuring of the optimal configurations is challenging. To this end, we introduce a search algorithm based on hill-climbing for finding all optimal configurations in a feasible time and integrate it in an existing measuring framework. This approach enables the assessment, comparison and optimization of autonomic resource management approaches for micro-service applications. The evaluation shows that our approach is able to find all optimal configurations in the considered scenarios, while state-of-the-art multi-objective search algorithms do not.

@inproceedings{BaEiGrHeKo-ICAC-BUNGEE, abstract = {With the advent of the micro-service paradigm, applications are divided into small, distributed parts. Knowledge of optimal resource configurations of such applications is required both for autonomic resource management as well as its assessment. Due to the high-dimensional search space of all possible configurations, the systematic measuring of the optimal configurations is challenging. To this end, we introduce a search algorithm based on hill-climbing for finding all optimal configurations in a feasible time and integrate it in an existing measuring framework. This approach enables the assessment, comparison and optimization of autonomic resource management approaches for micro-service applications. The evaluation shows that our approach is able to find all optimal configurations in the considered scenarios, while state-of-the-art multi-objective search algorithms do not.}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Bauer, Andr{\'e} and Eismann, Simon and Grohmann, Johannes and Herbst, Nikolas and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W)}, keywords = {Optimization}, month = {jun}, pages = {120–125}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {{Systematic Search for Optimal Resource Configurations of Distributed Applications}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 BaEiGrHeKo-ICAC-BUNGEE %A Bauer, André %A Eismann, Simon %A Grohmann, Johannes %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Kounev, Samuel %B 2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W) %C Los Alamitos, CA, USA %D 2019 %I IEEE Computer Society %P 120--125 %R 10.1109/FAS-W.2019.00040 %T Systematic Search for Optimal Resource Configurations of Distributed Applications %U https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/FAS-W.2019.00040 %X With the advent of the micro-service paradigm, applications are divided into small, distributed parts. Knowledge of optimal resource configurations of such applications is required both for autonomic resource management as well as its assessment. Due to the high-dimensional search space of all possible configurations, the systematic measuring of the optimal configurations is challenging. To this end, we introduce a search algorithm based on hill-climbing for finding all optimal configurations in a feasible time and integrate it in an existing measuring framework. This approach enables the assessment, comparison and optimization of autonomic resource management approaches for micro-service applications. The evaluation shows that our approach is able to find all optimal configurations in the considered scenarios, while state-of-the-art multi-objective search algorithms do not.
Chamulteon: Coordinated Auto-Scaling of Micro-Services A. Bauer; V. Lesch; L. Versluis; A. Ilyushkin; N. Herbst; S. Kounev; in Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) (2019).
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@inproceedings{BaLeVeIlHeKo2019-ICDCS-Chamulteon, author = {Bauer, Andr{\'e} and Lesch, Veronika and Versluis, Laurens and Ilyushkin, Alexey and Herbst, Nikolas and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)}, keywords = {SPEC}, month = {July}, title = {Chamulteon: Coordinated Auto-Scaling of Micro-Services}, year = 2019 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 BaLeVeIlHeKo2019-ICDCS-Chamulteon %A Bauer, André %A Lesch, Veronika %A Versluis, Laurens %A Ilyushkin, Alexey %A Herbst, Nikolas %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) %D 2019 %T Chamulteon: Coordinated Auto-Scaling of Micro-Services
SPEC Research Group Newsletter, vol. 2 no. 4 S. Kounev; A. van Hoorn; A. Bauer; N. Herbst; (2019, April).

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@misc{SPEC-RG-NEWSLETTER-8, author = {Kounev, Samuel and van Hoorn, Andre and Bauer, Andr{\'e} and Herbst, Nikolas}, keywords = {se2}, month = {April}, note = {Published by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)}, title = {{SPEC Research Group Newsletter, vol. 2 no. 4}}, year = 2019 }

%0 Generic %1 SPEC-RG-NEWSLETTER-8 %A Kounev, Samuel %A van Hoorn, Andre %A Bauer, André %A Herbst, Nikolas %D 2019 %T SPEC Research Group Newsletter, vol. 2 no. 4 %U http://research.spec.org/en/newsletter.html
Best Practices for Time Series Forecasting A. Bauer; M. Züfle; N. Herbst; S. Kounev; in 2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W) (2019).