Author Archives: Heiko

Zooming Process Graphics

Looks neat: ABB HawkEye is a research prototype of a new operator interface for process control. HawkEye is developed by ABB Strategic R&D for Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals.

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New paper: An Industrial Case Study of Performance and Cost Design Space Exploration

This paper shows how our software tools Palladio and PerOpteryx were used in capacity planning for a web-based remote diagnostics system at ABB. It will be presented at the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2012) in April in Boston, … Continue reading

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Impact?

I noticed that our 2009 article on the Palladio Component Model is currently the most cited article of the Journal of Systems and Software during the last 5 years (77 citations). My 2010 performance evaluation survey is the most downloaded … Continue reading

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IEEE names ABB technologies among the 11 most important of the decade

Along with smartphones and digital photography, FACTS has been named among the top 11 technologies of the decade by the IEEE. The 11 technologies named in the list include smartphones, social networking, voice over IP, LED lighting, cloud computing, multicore CPUs, … Continue reading

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IEEE TSE paper accepted

A journal paper entitled “Architecture-Based Reliability Prediction with the Palladio Component Model” based on our QoSA 2010 conference paper was accepted in “IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering“. A preprint PDF is available here.

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Kinect controlling ABB robot

Quote: “Today’s machinery is controlled by clunky levers and buttons. Most often, operators are having a hard time syncing their coordination with the machines. But now, as a new era of motion-control arrives, the Kinect can change the way we … Continue reading

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Talks from CompArch 2011

Here are two new talks from CompArch 2011 on sustainability evaluation and multi-tenant software applications:

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ICSE2011 SEIP Talk on Q-ImPrESS

This is my talk at the ICSE 2011 Software Engineering In Practice Track. It’s about a large-scale case study on performance and reliability prediction for service-oriented software systems. Also see the Q-ImPrESS website for more details.

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ABB’s FRIDA Offers Glimpse of Future Factory Robots

“This headless, two-armed robot may be tomorrow’s factory worker. Its name is FRIDA, and it’s a creation of ABB, the Swiss power and automation giant, which introduced it early this month at the Hannover trade show, Europe’s largest industrial fair…” http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/abb-factory-robot-frida

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Automated Transformation of Component-based Software Architecture Models to Queueing Petri Nets

New paper accepted at MASCOTS 2011: “This paper contributes a formal mapping from PCM to QPN models, implemented by means of an automated model-to-model transformation as part of a new PCM solution method based on simulation of QPNs. The limitations … Continue reading

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