Research Interests

• Cloud Computing
  • Migration to IaaS- and PaaS-based cloud environments
  • Resource efficiency from a cloud user perspective
  • Simulation of cloud-based software systems
• Software Modernization
  • Software reverse engineering using static analysis
  • Restructuring software systems
  • Software migration processes
• Machine Learning
  • Evolutionary computation
  • Support vector machines
  • Bayesian networks
• Software Architectures
  • Software architecture metrics
  • Software architecture assessment
  • Description languages

Research Tools

• CloudMIG Xpress (http://www.cloudmig.org)
  A tool for supporting the migration of enterprise software to cloud-based architectures
• MAMBA (http://mamba-framework.sf.net)
  A Measurement Architecture for Model-Based Analysis based on the OMG’S SMM meta-model

Teaching

Seminars

• Software Performance Engineering, co-organizer/supervisor
  ['12/'13 (fall) | '11/'12 (fall) | '10/'11 (fall) | '10 (summer)]

Tutorials

• Software Engineering, co-organizer/supervisor
  ['12/'13 (fall) | '11/'12 (fall) | '10/'11 (fall) | '09/'10 (fall) | '08/'09 (fall)]
• Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems, co-organizer/supervisor
  ['13 (summer) | '12 (summer) | '11 (summer) | '09 (summer)]
• Software Architecture, co-organizer/supervisor
  ['11/'12 (fall) | '10/'11 (fall)]

Laboratories

• Project Module – Software Engineering, co-organizer/supervisor
  ['12/'13 (fall) | '12 (summer) | '11/'12 (fall) | '11 (summer) | '10 (summer)]
• Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems, co-organizer/supervisor
  ['12 (summer) | '11 (summer) | '10 (summer) | '09 (summer)]

Events

• Girls’ Day, supervisor
  ['12 (summer) | '10 (summer) | '09 (summer)]

Open Theses

• A list of open theses can be found here.
• Don’t hesitate to contact me if you are interested in a Master/Diploma/Bachelor Thesis related to my research interests. I also welcome your own ideas for related thesis topics.

Supervised Theses

• Benjamin Kiel. Investigating the Use of Graph Databases for Large Model Repositories, Jun. 2013. Master’s Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring, André van Hoorn, Reiner Jung; in collaboration with b+m Informatik AG, Melsdorf)
• Simon Kund. Design and Implementation of an Eclipse P2-based Online Repository for Exchanging Cloud Profiles, Mar. 2013. Bachelor’s Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring)
• Alexander Clausen. Transforming Python into KDM to Support Cloud Conformance Checking, Sep. 2012. Bachelor’s Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring)
• Kim Yannik Lübbe. Improving a Transformation of Java Models to KDM, Sep. 2012. Bachelor’s Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring)
• Oliver Prinz. Transformation of Java Bytecode to KDM Models as a Foundation for Dependency Analysis, July 2012. Diploma Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring)
• Christian Wulf. Automatic Conformance Checking of C#-based Software Systems for Cloud Migration, Mar. 2012. Master’s Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring)
• Florian Fittkau. Simulating Cloud Deployment Options for Software Migration Support, Mar. 2012. Master’s Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring)
• Sören Fenner. Migration of Software Systems to Platform as a Service based Cloud
  Environments, Oct. 2011. Diploma Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring)
• Pascal Löffler. Migration von Softwaresystemen auf IaaS-basierte Cloud Umgebungen, Mar. 2011. Bachelor’s Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring)
• Björn-Peter Tietjens. Modellbasierte Architektur-Rekonstruktion mit Hilfe von KDM und EMF, Nov. 2010. Diploma Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring and Jan Waller)
• Benjamin Schnoor. Modeling Usage and Architecture Metrics for Software Systems Applying OMG’s KDM and SMM, Sep. 2010. Bachelor’s Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring)
• Daniel Zimmermann. Eigenschaften, Entwurf und Evaluation ressourceneffizienter Softwarearchitekturen, Sep. 2010. Bachelor’s Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring)
• Florian Fittkau. Reconstructing Software Architectures using the Code- and Structure Package of the Knowledge Discovery Meta-Model, Feb. 2010. Bachelor’s Thesis, Kiel University. (co-supervised with Wilhelm Hasselbring)

Reviewer for Journals and Magazines

• IEEE Internet Computing
• International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems (Editorial Board)

Program Committees

• The Fifth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (CLOUD COMPUTING 2014), May 25-29, 2014 – Venice, Italy
• The Sixth International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing (SERVICE COMPUTATION 2014), May 25-29, 2014 – Venice, Italy
• The Fourth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (CLOUD COMPUTING 2013), May 27 – June 1, 2013 – Valencia, Spain
• The 2nd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2012), November 01-03, 2012 – Xiangtan, China
• The Third International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (CLOUD COMPUTING 2012), July 22-27, 2012 – Nice, France
• International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2011), December 12-14, 2011 – Sydney, Australia
• 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (CLOUD COMPUTING 2011), September 25-30, 2011 – Rome, Italy

Memberships

• IEEE Computer Society
• ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
• GI – Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (German Informatics Society)