Monterey Bay Aquarium

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Heiko

Currently in California for ISSRE’10, I visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium today. Amazing.

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Holidays in Andalusia

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Heiko

Added some photos from our trip to Andalusia in July…

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Website update

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Heiko

I have created a new research page with several subpages about specific topics. Additionally, I have upated my publication list.

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QUASOSS 2010 workshop held at MoDELS 2010

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Heiko


Last Monday, Paul, Steffen, and me chaired the 2nd Int. Workshop on the Quality of Service-oriented Software Systems (QUASOSS’10) at this years MoDELS 2010 conference in Oslo. About 20 participants listened to the invited talk by Prof. Dorina Petriu and 6 paper presentations. The papers and presentations will soon be hosted at the QUASOSS website.

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A Large-Scale Industrial Case Study on Architecture-based Reliability Prediction

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Heiko

Here’s a wordle from a new paper accepted at ISSRE’10:
Wordle ISSRE Paper

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Two journal papers online

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Heiko

Two journal papers with my co-authorship have gone online:
- Springer Journal on Empirical Software Engineering:
From monolithic to component-based performance evaluation of software architectures: A series of experiments analysing accuracy and effort [Preprint-PDF]
- Elsevier Journal on Performance Evaluation:
Performance evaluation of component-based software systems: A survey [Preprint-PDF]

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Prezi presentation application

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Heiko

A possible replacement for PowerPoint? Prezi is a web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides. Looks quite funny. Also see Wikipedia: Prezi.

Why should you move beyond slides? on Prezi

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New publications

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Heiko

I have added some new entries to the publication page.

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Multi-tenancy Style

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Heiko

Multi-tenant software applications serve different organizations from a single instance and help to save development, maintenance, and administration costs. Yesterday, I gave a talk on SE2010 in Paderborn proposing a new architectural style for multi-tenant systems:

The corresponding paper will be available here soon.

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PerOpteryx

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Heiko

Last week we visited WOSP/SIPEW 2010 in San Jose, US and presented the PerOpteryx approach. The approach is Anne’s PhD topic, which targets to automatically improve software architecture models for performance, reliability and costs using evolutionary algorithms:

More infos and tools can be found on the PerOperyx website.

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