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About me

I am a research assistant and PhD candidate in computer science at the Distributed Systems Group, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology advised by Prof. Schahram Dustdar and Ivona Brandic. I received a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering and a master’s degree in Software Engineering and Information Systems from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. I am currently involved in the Holistic Energy Efficient Approach for the Management of Hybrid Clouds (HALEY) project, which received the Research Award from the Vienna University of Technology. My areas of interest include economics of cloud computing and SLA & QoS management.

The PDF version of my CV is available here (last updated: Feb. 18, 2013).

 

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Research

My PhD research focuses on the economic foundations of computing paradigms such as utility and cloud computing that offer "rented" services (e.g., infrastructure, software, and network as a service) on-demand in a pay-as-you-go manner. Most of my research is related to the issues of market-based service discovery and selection. In particular, I examine how diversity and heterogeneity of services and service providers affect performance of these processes and how they can be improved through standardization of cloud service specifications. I am also interested in methods for assessing performance of electronic markets and application of autonomic computing to make electronic markets self-aware. This work has resulted in a flexible and extendible agent-based cloud market simulator (source code will be available online soon).

Research keywords:

• Computational economics
• Electronic commerce
• Utility and cloud computing
• Multi-agent systems
• Autonomic computing
• Market design

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Current projects

- Holistic Energy Efficient Approach for the Management of Hybrid Clouds (HALEY)
- Foundations of Self-governing ICT Infrastructures (FoSII)

 

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Teaching

I supervise bachelor’s theses, master’s theses, and the following practical courses:

• 184.230 PR Projektpraktikum (6.0 ECTS)
• 184.233 PR Informatikpraktikum 1 (6.0 ECTS)
• 184.232 PR Informatikpraktikum 2 (6.0 ECTS)
• 184.254 PR Praktikum aus Internet Computing (6.0 ECTS)

Recent students:

• Christoph Redl: "Autonomic Management of SLA Mappings in Cloud Markets" (master’s thesis, April 2012)
• Manuel Schalleck: "Cloud Market Simulator" (bachelor’s thesis, ongoing)

Currently open topics:

• Automatic cloud service selection
• Designing mechanisms for self-aware cloud marketplaces

Other topics related to the economics of cloud computing and SLA management are also possible. Everybody who is interested in doing research in one of these directions is welcome to contact me.

 

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Professional activities

RESEARCH VISITS

• Making Self-Aware Electronic Markets a Reality: an Autonomic Methodology, at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe Services Research Institute (KSRI), 2-13 July 2012, in cooperation with Simon Caton
• Achieving Market Liquidity through Autonomic Cloud Market Management, at Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, 16 October - 2 December 2011, in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Jörn Altmann
• Towards Self-Awareness in Cloud Markets, at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe Services Research Institute (KSRI), 30 May - 10 June 2011, in cooperation with Simon Caton and Christian Haas. Supported by the Awareness initiative

SCIENTIFIC TALKS

• "Maximizing Liquidity in Cloud Markets through Standardization of Computational Resources". 7th International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2013), 26 March 2013, San Francisco, California, USA (forthcoming)
• "A Conceptual Framework for Simulating Autonomic Cloud Markets". 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp 2012), 25 September 2012, Vienna, Austria
• "Towards Self-Awareness in Cloud Markets: A Monitoring Methodology". 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2011), 13 December 2011, Sydney, Australia
• "Cost-Efficient Utilization of Public SLA Templates in Autonomic Cloud Markets". 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), 8 December 2011, Melbourne, Australia
• "Towards Autonomic Market Management in Cloud Computing Infrastructures". International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2011), 7 May 2011, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER

• CloudComp 2012 - 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing, September 24–26, 2012, Vienna, Austria

REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS

• ACM Computing Surveys (ACM)
• ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM)
• Automated Software Engineering (Springer)
• Computing in Science and Engineering (IEEE)
• Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley)
• Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE)
• IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (IEEE)
• International Journal of the Physical Sciences (Academic Journals)
• Scientific Programming (IOS Press)

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Publications

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS

• Ivan Breskovic, Jörn Altmann, Ivona Brandic. Creating Standardized Products for Electronic Markets, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 29, Issue 4, June 2013, Pages 1000-1011, ISSN 0167-739X, DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2012.06.007.
• Ivan Breskovic and Ivona Brandic. Increasing the Popularity of Cloud Computing by Improving Its Market Performance. Awareness Magazine: Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (2011). DOI: 10.2417/3201011.003947 (HTML, PDF)

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• Ivan Breskovic, Ivona Brandic, and Jörn Altmann. Maximizing Liquidity in Cloud Markets through Standardization of Computational Resources. 7th International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2013), 25-28 March 2013, San Francisco, USA
• Simon Caton, Ivan Breskovic, and Ivona Brandic. A Conceptual Framework for Simulating Autonomic Cloud Markets. 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp 2012), 24-26 September 2012, Vienna, Austria
• Christoph Redl, Ivan Breskovic, Ivona Brandic, and Schahram Dustdar. Automatic SLA Matching and Provider Selection in Grid and Cloud Computing Markets. The 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2012), 20-23 September 2012, Beijing, China
• Ivan Breskovic, Christian Haas, Simon Caton, and Ivona Brandic. Towards Self-Awareness in Cloud Markets: A Monitoring Methodology. 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2011), 12-14 December 2011, Sydney, Australia (best student paper award)
• Ivan Breskovic, Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, and Schahram Dustdar. Cost-Efficient Utilization of Public SLA Templates in Autonomic Cloud Markets. 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), 5-8 December 2011, Melbourne, Australia
• Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, and 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 (COMPSAC 2011), 18-21 July 2011, Munich, Germany
• Michael Maurer, Ivan Breskovic, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, and 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 - 1 July 2011, Kerkyra (Corfu) Greece
• Ivan Breskovic, Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, and Jörn 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
• Davor Sutić, Ivan Brešković, René Huić, and Ivan Jukić. Automatic Evaluation of Facial Attractiveness. Proceedings of the 33rd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO 2010), 24-30 May 2010, Opatija, Croatia (best student paper award)

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Ivan Breskovic, Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, and Jörn Altmann. Achieving Market Liquidity Through Autonomic Cloud Market Management. In Cloud Computing and Services Science (Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy), pp. 91-110. Editors: Ivan Ivanov, Marten van Sinderen, Boris Shishkov. Springer, 2012
• Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Ivan Breskovic, Ivona Brandic, and Schahram Dustdar. SOA and QoS Management for Cloud Computing. In Cloud computing: methodology, system, and applications, pp. 277-300. Editors: Lizhe Wang, Rajiv Ranjan, Jinjun Chen, Boualem Benatallah. CRC, Taylor & Francis group, 2011

TECHNICAL REPORTS

• Ivan Breskovic. Towards Self-Awareness in Cloud Markets. Aware Project - Self Awareness in Autonomic Systems. August, 2011
• Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Ivan Breskovic, and Ivona Brandic. Time Shared VMs and Monitoring of Time Shared VMs. Proceedings of the COST Action IC0804 on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems, 2nd Year, J. Pierson, H. Hlavacs (Ed.), COST Office, 2011, p. 47-51.
• Ivan Breskovic, Vedrana Jankovic, Zvonimir Pavlinovic, Zeljko Rumenjak. Multicore SIP. Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Zagreb, Croatia, 2009 (best student paper in telecommunications)

THESES

• Master’s thesis: "Extending Geospatial Database Management Systems with Moving Objects Support" (in Croatian). University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, July 2010. Advisor: Prof. dr. sc. Mirta Baranović

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