Univ.-Assistant Mag. Dr. Ivona Brandic Distributed Systems Group Information Systems Institute Vienna University of Technology address: Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1 5th Floor Room Nr. 0503 1040 Vienna Austria email: ivona[at]infosys.tuwien.ac.at phone: + 43 1 58801 58417 fax: + 43 1 58801 18491 consultation hour: e-mail appointment

News: Starting with the summer term 2010 I am offering a new course on Large-scale Distributed Computing (4h Vorlesung mit Laborübung). Content: Overview of High Performance Computing (HPC), Grid computing, global distributed computing, and voluntary computing Grid: Grid architectures, Grid resource management, Web and Grid services (OGSA, WSRF), resource provisioning in Grid, Grid workflows Cloud Computing: delivery models, deployment types, etc. Cloud technologies (e.g., virtualization, SLAs), Cloud business models, security, privacy and trust issues in Cloud computing, compliance-based Cloud middleware Green IT: energy efficient large-scale distributed systems For more information check TUWIS or contact me. Starting with the winter term 2010/2011 I am offering a new course on Network Services 2VL.

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teaching

current teaching @ Vienna University of Technology

Winter Term

184.XXX	Network Services	LU 2h 2009W	Content (tentative)
184.167	Verteilte Systeme (Distributed Systems Lab)	LU 2h 2009W	LVA Homepage
184.201	Seminar (mit Bachelorarbeit)	SE 4h 2009W
184.211	Praktikum aus Internet Computing	PR 4h 2009W
184.233	Informatikpraktikum 1	PR 4h 2009W
184.232	Informatikpraktikum 2	PR 4h 2009W	LVA Homepage
184.202	Seminar für DiplomandInnen	SE 2h 2009W
184.230	Projektpraktikum	PR 4h 2009W

Summer Term

184.XXX	Large-scale Distributed Computing	VL 4h 2010S	More information comming soon.
184.265	Grid Computing	VU 2h 2008S	LVA Homepage
184.121	Grundlagen methodischen Arbeitens	SE 2h 2008S	LVA Homepage
184.194	Seminar aus Verteilte Systeme	SE 2h 2008S	LVA Homepage
184.201	Seminar (mit Bachelorarbeit)	SE 4h 2008S
184.211	Praktikum aus Internet Computing	PR 4h 2008S
184.233	Informatikpraktikum 1	PR 4h 2008S
184.232	Informatikpraktikum 2	PR 4h 2008S

Diplomarbeiten & Praktika

• Cloud & Grid Computing
• Workflow Technologies
• Grid, Web & Workflow Quality of Service (QoS)
• Negotiation Protocols and Standards
• Service-oriented Distributed Systems

• Characterization of the autonomic reactions for energy efficient large scale distributed systems (for more information contact me, status: open)
• Adaptive data access management for large scale bioinformatics workflows (for more information contact me, status: open)
• Framework for market liquidity simulations based on SLA mappings and resource classes (for more information contact me, status: open)
• SLA-coupled service provisioning framework with focus on automatic service deployment, brokering and meta-negotiation (for more information contact me, status: open)
• Prototype of an autonomic SLA manager ( status: assigned)
• A Light-weight Grid Workflow Managment Tool (status: assigned)
• Meta-negotiations for the Brain Imaging Workflows (status: open)
• Grid meets Autonomic Computing (status: assigned)

the list of my publications as tracked by

• Google Scholar
• DBLP

recent publications

• Marcel Risch, Ivona Brandic, Jörn Altmann. Using SLA Mapping to Increase Market Liquidity. Workshop on Non Functional Properties and Service Level Agreements Management in Service Oriented Computing Workshop (NFPSLAM-SOC'09).The 7th International Joint Conference on Service Oriented Computing, November 23-27 2009, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Ivona Brandic, Dejan Music, Philipp Leitner, Schahram Dustdar. VieSLAF Framework: Enabling Adaptive and Versatile SLA-Management. The 6th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models 2009 (Gecon09). In conjunction with Euro-Par 2009, 25- 28 August 2009, Delft, The Netherlands.
• B. Wetzstein, P. Leitner, F. Rosenberg, I. Brandic, F. Leymann, S. Dustdar. Monitoring and Analyzing Influential Factors of Business Process Performance. Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'09), 31. August - 4. September 2009, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Ivona Brandic. Towards Self-manageable Cloud Services. The Second IEEE International Workshop on Real-Time Service-Oriented Architecture and Applications (RTSOAA 2009). In conjunction with the 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference. July 20 - 24, 2009, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• Ivona Brandic, Dejan Music, Schahram Dustdar. Service Mediation and Negotiation Bootstrapping as First Achievements Towards Self-adaptable Grid and Cloud Services. Grids meet Autonomic Computing Workshop 2009 - GMAC09. In conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009. (DOI)
• Attila Kertész, Gábor Kecskeméti, Ivona Brandic. An SLA-based Resource Virtualization Approach for On-demand Service Provision. VTDC 2009 - The 3rd International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing. In conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009. (DOI)
• Suraj Pandey, Christian Vecchiola, Rajkumar Buyya, Ivona Brandic, James Dobson, Michael Kearney. Gridbus Workflow Management System for Processing Scientific Application Workflows. The Second IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2009) at 9th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2009), Shanghai, China, 18-21 Mai 2009.
• Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, James Broberg, and Ivona Brandic. Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms: Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering Computing as the 5th Utility, Future Generation Computer Systems, 25(6):599-616, June 2009. DOI.
• Ivona Brandic, Srikumar Venugopal, Michael Mattess, and Rajkumar Buyya, Towards a Meta-Negotiation Architecture for SLA-Aware Grid Services, Workshop on Service-Oriented Engineering and Optimizations 2008. In conjunction with International Conference on High Performance Computing 2008 (HiPC 2008), Bangalore, India, December 17 - 20, 2008.
• Ivona Brandic, Dejan Music, Schahram Dustdar, Srikumar Venugopal, and Rajkumar Buyya. Advanced QoS Methods for Grid Workflows Based on Meta-Negotiations and SLA-Mappings. The 3rd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science. Page(s):1 - 10, In conjunction with Supercomputing 2008, Austin, TX, USA, November 17, 2008, (DOI).
• I. Brandic, S. Pllana, S. Benkner. Specification, Planning, and Execution of QoS-aware Grid Workflows within the Amadeus System. Market Oriented Grid and Utility Computing. Editors: R. Buyya, K. Bubendorfer. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey, USA, 2008 (to appear).

• full publication list
• scientific talks
• professional activities
• awards & grants

	- Foundations of Self-governing ICT Infrastructures - funded by Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), ICT call 2008
	- European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action: IC0804 on Energy Efficient Large Scale Distributed Systems
	- Amadeus - A Holistic Service-oriented Environment for Grid Workflows

past R&D projects

	- Admina.at
	- Advanced Models, Applications and Software Systems for High Performance Computing - A Special Research Program funded by the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
	- Grid-Enabled Medical Simulation Services, funded by the European Commission, Framework V Project No. IST-2001-37153
	- S-CUBE - Software Services & Systems Network - Network of Excellence (NoE)
	- A prototype framework for Grid-enabling native HPC applications.
	- Enhanced Medical Image Reconstruction in a Grid Environment