I am currently working as a project assistent at the University of Technology Vienna. I studied
the diploma program Applied Mathematics with a focus on Computer science (first Dipl.-Ing.) and the master's program Computational Intelligence (second Dipl.-Ing.),
which I finished both with distinction in November 2007 and April 2009, respectively. For my second degree I studied at the Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia in the summer term 2008,
where I also had the opportunity to gain an advanced level of Slovak language skills. Furthermore, I studied at the City College of New York in New York, USA during the winter term 2008.
During 2007/08 I had the honor to participate in TUtheTOP - the high potential program of the TU Vienna.
During 2002/03 I did my civil service (called Gedenkdienst) at the Auschwitz Foundation
in Brussels, Belgium.
You can also find a full CV.
I'm currently working in the fields of
- Cloud Computing
- Autonomic Computing
- Service Level Agreements
- Knowledge bases
My special interests during my studies were
- Game theory
- Databases
- Algorithms
- Complexity theory
Projects
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FoSII - Foundations of Self-governing ICT Infrastructures funded by Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), ICT call 2008 |
Research visits
- Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM), Increasing Energy Efficiency by Incorporating VM Resource Allocation and VM Placement on Clouds, COST Action IC0804 on Energy Efficient Large Scale Distributed Systems, carried out at the Insitut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, from 14-March-2011 to 01-April-2011, in cooperation with Damien Borgetto, Georges Da Costa and Jean-Marc Pierson.
- Cost Action Meeting (IC0804 on Energy Efficient Large Scale Distributed Systems, Focus Group Green wired networks), June 10-11 2010, University of Lyon, France.
- Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM), A step towards the incorporation of energy efficiency in autonomic SLA management, COST Action IC0804 on Energy Efficient Large Scale Distributed Systems, carried out at the University of Manchester, School of Computer Science, UK, from 08-March-2010 to 26-March-2010, in cooperation with Rizos Sakellariou.
Scientific talks
- "Achieving SLA-aware and energy-efficient management of IaaS Cloud Computing infrastructures". Cost Action Meeting (IC0804 on Energy Efficient Large Scale Distributed Systems), November 7-8 2011, International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece (invited).
- "Enacting SLAs in Clouds Using Rules". Euro-Par 2011, Bordeaux, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011.
- "Energy Efficient Autonomic Management of Clouds". Research visit at the Insitut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, March 18, 2011 (invited).
- "Simulating Autonomic SLA Enactment in Clouds using Case Based Reasoning". ServiceWave 2010, Ghent, Belgium, December 13-15, 2010.
- "Towards Knowledge Management in Self-adaptable Clouds". IEEE 2010 Fourth International Workshop of Software Engineering for Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems (SEASS '10), in conjunction with ICWS 2010 and SCC 2010, Miami, Florida, USA, July 5-10, 2010.
- "Towards Knowledge Management in Clouds - Prevention of SLA Violations vs. Minimization of Energy Consumption". Cost Action Meeting (IC0804 on Energy Efficient Large Scale Distributed Systems, Focus Group Green wired networks), June 10-11 2010, University of Lyon, Lyon, France.
I supervise the following practical courses for Bachelor and Master students both in winter and summer term. If you are interested in one of my research topics, and want do a 'Praktikum', Bachelor's or Master's thesis with me, drop me a mail.
Refereed publications in conference proceedings
- 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. (accepted).
- 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 (accepted)
- 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. (* contributed equally)
- Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, Rizos Sakellariou. Enacting SLAs in Clouds Using Rules. Euro-Par 2011, Bordeaux, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Joern Altmann. Cost and Benefit of the SLA Mapping Approach for Defining Standardized Goods in Cloud Computing Markets. International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2010) in conjunction with the International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC 2010), December 14-16, 2010, Chennai, India.
- Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic and Rizos Sakellariou. Simulating Autonomic SLA Enactment in Clouds using Case Based Reasoning. ServiceWave 2010, Ghent, Belgium, December 13-15 2010.
- V. Emeakaroha, M. Maurer, I. Brandic, S. Dustdar: FoSII - Foundations of Self-Governing ICT Infrastructures.
ERCIM NEWS, Number 83 (2010), October 2010, p. 40 - 41.
- Ivona Brandic, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Sandor Acs, Attila Kertész, Gábor Kecskeméti, Schahram Dustdar. LAYSI: A Layered Approach for SLA-Violation Propagation in Self-manageable Cloud Infrastructures. The First IEEE International Workshop on Emerging Applications for Cloud Computing (CloudApp 2010), In conjunction with the 34th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference Seoul, Korea, July 19-23 2010.
- Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Schahram Dustdar. Towards Knowledge Management in Self-adaptable Clouds. IEEE 2010 Fourth International Workshop of Software Engineering for Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems (SEASS '10), in conjunction with ICWS 2010 and SCC 2010, Miami, Florida, USA, July 5-10, 2010.
- Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, Schahram Dustdar. Low Level Metrics to High Level SLAs - LoM2HiS framework: Bridging the gap between monitored metrics and SLA parameters in Cloud environments. The 2010 High Performance Computing and Simulation Conference (HPCS 2010), in conjunction with The 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2010), June 28 - July 2, 2010, Caen, France.
- I. Brandic, V. Emeakaroha, M. Maurer, S. Dustdar. Including Energy Efficiency into Self-adaptable Cloud Services. Proceedings of the COST Action IC0804 on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems 1st Year, J. Pierson, H. Hlavacs (Ed.), COST Office, 2010, (invited), ISBN: 978-2-917490-10-5, p. 84 - 87.
Refereed publications in journals
- Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Joern Altmann. Cost-Benefit Analysis of an SLA Mapping Approach for Defining Standardized Cloud Computing Goods. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2011, doi:10.1016/j.future.2011.05.023.
- 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.
- Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, Schahram Dustdar. FoSII - Foundations of Self-Governing ICT Infrastructures. Special Theme: "Cloud Computing Platforms, Software, and Applications". ERCIM News No. 83 (October 2010).
COST Action proceedings
- I. Brandic, V. Emeakaroha, M. Maurer, S. Dustdar. Including Energy Efficiency into Self-adaptable Cloud Services. Proceedings of the COST Action IC0804 on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems 1st Year, J. Pierson, H. Hlavacs (Ed.), COST Office, 2010, (invited), ISBN: 978-2-917490-10-5, p. 84 - 87.
- Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, Rizos Sakellariou. Simulating Autonomic SLA Enactment in Clouds
using Case Based Reasoning, Proceedings of the COST Action IC0804 - 2nd Year, 2011, p. 36 - 40.
- Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Ivan Breskovic, 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.
- Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, Rizos Sakellariou. Enacting SLAs in Clouds Using Rules, 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. 132-136.
Other publications
- Michael Maurer.Increasing Energy Efficiency by Incorporating VM Resource Allocation. In: COST Action 804 Newsletter, Vol. 3, June 2011.
- Michael Maurer. A step towards the incorporation of energy efficiency in autonomic SLA management. In: COST Action 804 Newsletter, Vol. 2, October 2010.
Books
- Michael Maurer, Approval Voting - A characterization and compilation of advantages and drawbacks in respect of other voting procedures, VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller, Saarbrücken, 2008.
Master's thesis
My master's thesis was published at VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller. You can also find it at the TU Vienna library.
During my spare time, I like to travel a lot, work with kids as a Scout leader at my Scouting group in Bruck/Leitha, as well as geocache. I am currently organizing a youth event called RoveR KnocK in Bruck/Leitha.
I also like to play the piano and I am interesting in learning new languages. Besides my German mother tongue, I speak English, French and Slovak fluently.
