Ivona Brandic | Vienna University of Technology

Univ.-Assistant Mag. Dr.

Ivona Brandić

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

Upcoming keynote on Utilization of SLAs for self-manageable and energy efficient high-performance clouds, The HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2012, Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 13-15, 2012.
Upcoming invited talk on self-adaptable, energy efficient Clouds @ Symposium Cloud Computing in Life Sciences, Monday, Nov 21, 10.15-16.00, Faculty of Life Sciences, Vienna University, Seminar room 2D404, UZA2, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Vienna.
LVA 184.163 Service Level Agreements, LU 2h 2011W, LVA Website, is offered instead of LVA 184.163 Network Services (same content, new LVA name)
Upcoming invited talk @ ISC Cloud 2011, Establishing and Managing Open Cloud Markets, Mannheim, Germany, 26. Sep. 2011.
Upcoming invited talk @ Minisymposium Women in Simulation Technology and Science: Simulation Techniques for Knowledge Management in Clouds & Programs for Advancement of Women at TU Vienna, Stuttgart, Germany,15. June 2011.
Call for Chapters: Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice, An IGI Global Book edited by, I. Brandic, Massimo Villari, Francesco Tusa.

@ work ...

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recently in media

Erfolg mit grüner IT, Welt und Stadt, Nr. 4 Dez. 2011.
Intelligente Rechnersysteme sparen Strom, Forschen und Entdecken, Daily and Life
Grünes Licht für grüne IT, Forschen und Entdecken, Nr. 4 Dez. 2011 (page 12).
Marktreife Forschung, Ideen 2012, Kurier 24. Nov. 2011.
Kopf im Bild: Macht Computer Umweltfreundlicher, Falter Heureka, Nr 5, 2011.
KONstruktiv im Porträt, KONstruktiv 283, Oktober 2011.
TU Wien vergab Wissenschaftspreis für grünes Hochleistungsrechnen, Der Standard, Web > Innovationen, 27. 09. 2011.
Grüne Hochleistungsrechner: Wissenschaftspreis der TU Wien geht an Ivona Brandic, TU news
Praktische Ersparnis, Rubrik Forschergeist, Salzburger Nachrichten, 28.09.2011.
33 Frauen für Österreich, Das biber, 07/08 2011.
Wie aus einem Flüchtling in Österreich Informatikerin wurde, Der Falter, 15. April 2011.
Austrijsko priznanje strankinjama, Uspješne bosanke u Beču: sretne i spretne", Slobodna Bosna, 17. March 2011.
Nicht geduldet, sondern erwünscht, Heute, Mo. 21.06. 2010 Nr. 1449 and Profil.
Architektin autonomer Systeme, Der Standard, Forschungsbeilage, Printausgabe 11.03.2009.

teaching

Winter Term

184.163 ~~Network Services~~ New LVA title: Service Level Agreements LU 2h 2009W LVA Website

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 fuer DiplomandInnen SE 2h 2009W

184.230 Projektpraktikum PR 4h 2009W

Summer Term

184.271 Large-scale Distributed Computing VL 4h 2010S 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

I supervise master theses & labs in the following areas:

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

Current Topics:

Characterization of Cloud Computing markets (for more information contact me, status: open)
Engineering mechanisms for Cloud Computing markets (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)
SLAs for Clouds (for more information contact me, status: open)

If you are interested in one or more of these topics, please feel free to have a look at my papers or just drop me a mail. If you have your own ideas related to my research areas, do not hesitate to contact me.

PhD students

recent Master students:

current:

Vincent C. Emeakaroha, TU Vienna (co-advisor)
Michael Maurer, TU Vienna (co-advisor)
Ivan Brešković, TU Vienna (co-advisor)
Dražen Lučanin, TU Vienna (co-advisor)
Toni Mastelić, TU Vienna (co-advisor)

past:

Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Automated Emulation of Distributed Systems through System Management and Virtualization. Pontifcia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil; now at University of Melbourne (examiner)

Toni Mastelić. Service Provisioning Management via Application Monitoring in Cloud Environment. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Croatia. (co-advisor)
Mario Volf. Upravljanje znanjem u samoprilagodljivim cloud sustavima. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Croatia, finished Oct. 2010. (co-advisor)
Alexander Albl, Ein schlankes Workflow-Tool fuer Bioinformatik, TU Vienna, in collaboration with BOKU Wien, Sep. 2010.
Dejan Mušić, VieSLAF: Increasing the Versatility of Grid QoS by applying SLA-Mapping Techniques, TU Vienna, 2009.

research

the list of my publications as tracked by

recent publications*

Toni Mastelic, Vincent Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic. M4Cloud - Generic Application Level Monitoring for Resource-Shared Cloud Environments. CLOSER 2012, 2st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, April 18-21, 2012, in Porto, Portugal. (accepted).

Massimo Villari, Ivona Brandic, and Francesco Tusa. Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice Release Date: May, 2012. IGI Global, 2012, 374 pages. (to appear)

Ivan Breskovic and Ivona Brandic. Increasing the Popularity of Cloud Computing by Improving Its Market Performance. Awareness Magazine: Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems, 2011

Gabor Kecskemeti, Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, Attila Kertesz, Zsolt Nemeth and Schahram Dustdar. Facilitating self-adaptable Inter-Cloud management. 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing PDP 2012. Munich, Germany, 15-17 February, 2012.

Vincent Chimaobi Emeakaroha, Pawel Labaj, Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic and David P. Kreil. Optimizing Bioinformatics Workflows for Data Analysis Using Cloud Management Techniques. The 6th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS11), in conjunction with Supercomputing 2011, Seattle, November 12-18, 2011.

Ivan Breskovic, Christian Haas, Simon Caton, Ivona Brandic. Towards Self-Awareness in Cloud Markets: A Monitoring Methodology. 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC2011) to be held in Sydney, Australia Dec. 12-14, 2011.

Vincent C. Emeakaroha Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, Schahram Dustdar. Cloud Resource Provisioning and SLA Enforcement Via LoM2HiS Framework, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2011.

Ivan Breskovic, Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Schahram Dustdar. Cost-Efficient Utilization of Public SLA Templates in Autonomic Cloud Markets. 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), December 5-8, 2011, Melbourne, Australia.

Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Marco A. S. Netto, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Ivona Brandic, Rajkumar Buyya, Cesar A. F. De Rose. Towards Autonomic Detection of SLA Violations in Cloud Infrastructures, Future Generation Computer Systems, 2011.

Ioan Raicu, Ivona Brandic. Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue on Science-driven Cloud Computing. Scientific Programming 19 (2011) 71-73, IOS Press, The Netherlands.

Ivona Brandic, Rajkumar Buyya: Special section: Recent advances in utility and cloud computing. Future Generation Comp. Syst. 28(1): 36-38, 2012.

Christoph Stoegerer, Ivona Brandic, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Wolfgang Kastner, and Thomas Novak. Applying availability SLAs to Traffic Management Systems. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2011) Washington DC, USA - October 5-7, 2011.

Ivona Brandic, Schahram Dustdar. Grid vs. Cloud - A Technology Comparison. it - Information Technology Issue 4 / 2011 by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH.

Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Jorn Altmann: Cost-benefit analysis of an SLA mapping approach for defining standardized Cloud computing goods. Future Generation Comp. Syst. 28(1): 39-47, 2012.

Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, Ivan Breskovic. SLA-Aware Application Deployment and Resource Allocation in Clouds. The Second IEEE International Workshop on Emerging Applications for Cloud Computing (CloudApp 2011), In conjunction with the 35th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference Munich, Germany, July 18-21 2010.

Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, and Rizos Sakellariou. Enacting SLAs in Clouds Using Rules, Euro-Par 2011, Bordeaux August 29th - September 2nd 2011, France.

Michael Maurer, Ivan Breskovic, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic. Revealing the MAPE Loop for the Autonomic Management of Cloud Infrastructures. Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2011), in association with the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2011), 28 June 2011, Kerkyra (Corfu) Greece.

I. Brandic, Mapping the SLA Landscape for High Performance Clouds. HPC in the Cloud, 7.Feb. 2011.

Ivan Breskovic, Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Joern Altmann. Towards Autonomic Market Management in Cloud Computing Infrastructures, International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2011, 7-9 May, 2011 Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.

Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, Schahram Dustdar. SOA and QoS Management for Cloud Computing In: Cloud computing: methodology, system, and applications. Editors: Lizhe Wang, Rajiv Ranjan, Jinjun Chen, Boualem Benatallah, CRC, Taylor & Francis group, 2011 (to appear).

current R&D projects

HALEY	- Holistic Energy Efficient Approach for the Management of Hybrid Clouds, Forschungspreis der TU Wien, 2011
	- 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

short CV

Dr. Ivona Brandic is Assistant Professor at the Distributed Systems Group, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). Prior to that, she was Assistant Professor at the Department of Scientific Computing, Vienna University. She received her PhD degree from Vienna University of Technology in 2007. From 2003 to 2007 she participated in the special research project AURORA (Advanced Models, Applications and Software Systems for High Performance Computing) and the European Union's GEMSS (Grid-Enabled Medical Simulation Services) project. She is involved in the European Union's SCube project and she is leading the Austrian national FoSII (Foundations of Self-governing ICT Infrastructures) project funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF). She is management committee member of the European Commission's COST Action on Energy Efficient Large Scale Distributed Systems. From June-August 2008 she was visiting researcher at the University of Melbourne, Australia. For her exceptional scientific achievements in 2011 she received the Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the Vienna University of Technology. Her interests comprise Service Level Agreement and Quality of Service management in large scale distributed systems, autonomic computing, workflow management for scientific applications, and energy efficient large scale distributed systems (Cloud, Grid, Cluster, etc.).

Last changed: 14.10.2011

184.163	~~Network Services~~ New LVA title: Service Level Agreements	LU 2h 2009W	LVA Website
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 fuer DiplomandInnen	SE 2h 2009W
184.230	Projektpraktikum	PR 4h 2009W

184.271	Large-scale Distributed Computing	VL 4h 2010S	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