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:

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keynote & invited talks

upcoming

Invited talk at The Austrian Computer Science Day 2013, at IST Austria, on Reducing Energy Consumption and Improving Bioinformatics with Clouds (?), May 3rd, 2013, at IST Austria.
Keynote talk on Reducing Energy Consumption by using Clouds , joint keynote at the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2013) and 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS), 8-10 May 2013, Aachen, Germany.

Keynote talk at the First International Workshop on Testing the Cloud co-located with ISSTA 2013, Lugano, Switzerland, July 15th 2013.

Invited talk at 15th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing - SYNASC, September 23-26, 2013, Timisoara, Romania.

past

Keynote talk on SLA Management in Clouds at la Conférence d'informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Systéme (ComPAS 2013), 15-18 January 2013, Grenoble, France.
Invited talk on Cloud Computing and Bioinformatics at Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic, Vienna, Austria, Friday, 30th Nov. 2012.
Keynote talk on Challenges in Establishing International Research in Vienna. Reception for International Scientists in Vienna organized by Alexander van der Bellen (Commissioner for Research) and M. Häupl (Major of Vienna). 13. Nov. 2012. Vienna, Austria.
Keynote talk on Cloud Computing: Reducing Energy Consumption while Improving Bioinformatics? - CRG Core Facilities Technology Symposium: "Cloud computing: democratization of high-throughput data analysis", Centre de Regulacio Genomica (CRG) 10th November 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
Invited talk at BIO-IT World Conference and Expo, on Optimizing Bioinformatics Workflows for Data Analysis Using Cloud Management Techniques, Vienna 9-11 Oct. 2012.
Invited talk: Let's Audit - Cloud Computing - Selbstbedienung nach Bedarf? Ernst & Young, Vienna Austria, 28. June, 2012.
Invited talk Managing Energy Efficient Hybrid Clouds, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Split (FESB) 24th April 2012, University of Split, Croatia.
Keynote talk on Knowledge Management in Energy Efficient Clouds, at CAGing - Collaborative and Autonomic Green computing 2012, held in conjunction with WETICE 2012 -21st IEEE International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures, 25-27 June, 2012, Toulouse, France
Keynote talk on Challenges in Establishment of Open Cloud Markets, The HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2012, Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, March 13-15, 2012.

recently in media

Newton, Migranten in der Forschung und Migrationsforschung, ORF 1, 16. 03. 2013.
VdB Report 2012, Der zweite Bericht des Beauftragten der Stadt Wien für Universitäten und Forschung (page 19).
Spitzenforschung kennt keine Grenzen, VdB.
Grüne Elektronik, ORF heute konkret, 03. 12. 2012.
Daten schreddern mit Facebook, ORF.at, 26. 03. 2012.
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.

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 was involved in the European Union's SCube project and she led 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 to August 2008 she was visiting researcher at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Brandic is on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and the Springer Journal on Scalable Computing.

In 2011 she received the Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the Vienna University of Technology for her HALEY project on Holistic Energy Efficient Hybrid Clouds. 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.). She published more than 50 scientific journal, magazine and conference publications and she co-authored a text book on federated and self-manageable Cloud infrastructures. I. Brandic co-authored European Union's Cloud Computing report paving future research directions of the EU. In 2010 she chaired the International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing held in Chennai, India. She has been serving more than 50 program committees (among others EuroPar, COMPSAC, CloudCom) and was invited reviewer of more than 10 international journals. In 2011 she edited two special issues for Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) and Scientific Programming Journal (IOS Press). I. Brandic has been invited expert evaluator of the European Commission, French National Research Organization (ANR), National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada (NSERC) and Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

teaching

Winter Term

188.482 Propädeutikum für Informatik VU 4h 2012W

184.163 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:

Big Data & Cloud Computing
Energy Efficient Large Scale Distributed Systems
Workflow Technologies
Cloud, 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:

Ivan Brešković, TU Vienna (co-advisor)
Dražen Lučanin, TU Vienna (co-advisor)
Toni Mastelić, TU Vienna (co-advisor)
Soodeh Farokhi, TU Vienna (co-advisor)
Enda Barrett, NUI, Galway, Ireland (examiner)

visiting Phd students:

Andres Garcia Garcia, (Universitat Politècnica de València)

past:

Vincent C. Emeakaroha, TU Vienna (co-advisor)
Michael Maurer, TU Vienna (co-advisor)
Miao Wang, University College Dublin (examiner)
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)

Martin Soelkner. Energy Efficient Elasticity Manager (ongoing)
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

15 major (most important) publications¹

* $ Toni Mastelic, Drazen Lucanin, Andreas Ipp, Ivona Brandic. Methodology for trade-off analysis when moving scientific applications to Cloud. CloudCom, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec 3-6 2012. (to appear). acceptance rate 20%

* $ Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Patrick Stern, Pawel Labaj, Ivona Brandic, David P. Kreil. Managing and Optimizing Bioinformatics Workflows for Data Analysis in Clouds. Journal of Grid Computing, Springer. Special Issue edited by J. Montagnat, I. Taylor. (accepted). Impact Factor 1,310.

K. Kritikos, B. Pernici, P. Plebani, C. Cappiello, M. Comuzzi, S. Benbernou, I. Brandic, A. Kertesz, M. Parkin, M. Caro. A Survey on Service Quality Description. ACM Computing Surveys.(accepted). Impact Factor 4,529.

* Damien Borgetto, Michael Maurer, Georges Da Costa, Jean-Marc Pierson, I. Brandic. Energy-efficient and SLA-Aware Management of IaaS Clouds. e-Energy 2012 -Third International Conference on Future Energy Systems, May 9-11 2012, Madrid, Spain.

* Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, and Rizos Sakellariou. Adaptive resource configuration for Cloud infrastructure management. Future Generation Comp. Systems, (accepted) DOI. Impact Factor: 1,978

* Ivan Breskovic, Ivona Brandic, Jorn Altmann. Creating Standardized Products for Electronic Markets, Future Generation Comp. Special Issue Editors: Pallickara/Fox (accepted), 2012. DOI. Impact Factor: 1,978.

* Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Tiago C. Ferreto, Marco A. S. Netto, Ivona Brandic, Cesar A. F. De Rose. CASViD: Application Level Monitoring for SLA Violation Detection in Clouds. IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2012), July 16th-20th, 2012 in Izmir, Turkey. acceptance rate 18%
* 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. Best Paper Award. acceptance rate 19%

A. Kertesz, G. Kecskemeti, I. Brandic. An Interoperable and Self-adaptive Approach for SLA-based Service Virtualization in Heterogeneous Cloud Environments, Special Issue on Management of Cloud Systems, Elsevier Future Generation Computing Systems, Editors. O. Rana, A. Corradi. 2012. DOI, Impact Factor: 1,978

* Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Jörn Altmann. Cost-benefit analysis of an SLA mapping approach for defining standardized Cloud computing goods. Future Generation Comp. Syst. 28(1): 39-47, 2012. DOI. Impact Factor: 1,978

* Ivan Breskovic, Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, 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. acceptance rate 11%

* IIvan 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. Best Student Paper Award.

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, Impact Factor: 1,978

I. Brandic, S. Pllana, S. Benkner. An Approach for the High-level Specification of QoS-aware Grid Workflows Considering Location Affinity. Scientific Programming Journal, 14(3-4):231 - 250 IOS Press, The Netherlands, December 2006. (© IOS Press, Abstract), Impact factor: 1,557

I. Brandic, S. Pllana, S. Benkner. Specification, Planning, and Execution of QoS-aware Grid Workflows within the Amadeus Environment. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 20(4):331-345, March 2008. (© John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008, DOI), Impact Factor: 0,636

*... Papers with PhD students under my daily supervision
$ ... Interdisciplinary papers

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

Last changed: 27.11.2012

188.482	Propädeutikum für Informatik	VU 4h 2012W
184.163	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