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| About Me |
I was born and raised in Nigeria. I did my bachelor studies in Computer Engineering (Technische Informatik) from 2002 till 2006 and received double Masters with distinction in Software Engineering & Internet Computing in 2008, and in Informatics Management in 2009. In 2012, I received my PhD in Computer Science with distinction. All from the Vienna University of Technology. I worked as a research assistent at the Distributed Systems Group, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology and currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University College Cork Ireland.
| Research Areas |
My research interest include the following:I was formerly involved with internet traffic engineering and traffic control in broadband internet communication.
- Cloud computing
- Resource management in large-scale distributed systems
- Quality of Service (QoS) / Service Level Agreement (SLA) management in Clouds
- Cloud service provisioning management
- Machine learning techniques and their applications
- Energy efficiency in Clouds
- Autonomic computing
| Research Projects |
| Teaching |
I supervise bachelor thesis, master thesis and project practical. If you are interested just drop me a mail.Possible topics are related to Cloud computing, energy efficiency in Cloud resource managment, Autonomic computing, and Service Level Agreement. Check out my list of publications.
Student Projects:
Name Title Type Status Toni Mastelic Service Provisioning Management via Application Monitoring in Cloud Environment. Master's Thesis Finished Patrick Stern Benchmarking Bioinformatic Workflow Applications (working title) Praktikum Finished
| Professional Activities |
Research Visits
Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM), Autonomic Service Deployment Considering Energy Efficiency in Cloud Environments, supported by COST Action IC0804 on Energy Efficient Large Scale Distributed Systems, at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Computer Architecture Department, Barcelona, Spain, from 3rd till 22nd October 2010, in cooperation with Prof. Jordi Torres.
Scientific Talks
Topic: SLA Enforcement and Service Management in Clouds Based on Monitoring Techniques given at Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria) Klosterneuburg Austria. Oct. 9, 2012 (invited)
Topic: CASViD: Application Level Monitoring for SLA Violation Detection in Clouds given at the 36th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2012) Izmir, Turkey, July 16 - 20, 2012.
Topic: Managing Cloud Service Provisioning and SLA Enforcement via Holistic Monitoring Techniques PhD defense talk given at the Faculty of Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, May 10, 2012.
Topic: Optimizing Bioinformatics Workflows for Data Analysis Using Cloud Management Techniques given at the 6th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS11) in conjunction with the 2011 Supercomputing International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC 2011) Seattle Washington, USA, November 12-18 2011.
Topic: SLA-Aware Application Deployment and Resource Allocation in Clouds given at the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Applied Cloud Computing (CloudApp 2011) in conjunction with the 35th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2011) Munich, Germany, July 18-21 2011.
Topic: DeSVi: An Architecture for Detecting SLA Violations in Cloud Computing Infrastructures given at the 2nd International ICST Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp 2010) Barcelona, Spain October 25 - 28, 2010.
Topic: Low Level Metrics to High Level SLAs - LoM2HiS framework: Bridging the gap between monitored metrics and SLA parameters in Cloud environments given at 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.
Attended Conferences and Workshops
36th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference. COMPSAC 2012 , Izmir, Turkey, July 16 - 20, 2012.
6th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science. WORKS11 in conjunction with the 2011 Supercomputing International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC 2011), November 12-18 2011, Seattle Washington, USA.
2nd IEEE International Workshop on Applied Cloud Computing. CloudApp 2011 in conjunction with the 35th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2011), July 18- 21, 2011, Munich, Germany.
International ICST Conference on Cloud Computing. CloudComp 2010, October 25- 28, 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
2010 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulations. HPCS 2010, June 28- July 2, 2010, Caen, France.
Reviewer for Journals
Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier)
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley)
Computer Journal (Oxford)
Wireless Communications and Networking (EURASIP)
Zhejiang University SCIENCE C: Computers and Electronics (Springer)
Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC)
Reviewer for International Conferences and Workshops
ICWS 2012 - The 19th IEEE International Conference on Web Services.
COMPSAC 2012 - The 36th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference.
Euro-Par 2012 - International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing.
SEAMS 2012 - The 7th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems.
AINA 2012 - The 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications.
WORKS 2011 - The 6th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science.
IEEE CloudCom 2011 - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science.
WOSS 2011 - 2nd Workshop on Software Services: Cloud Computing and Applications based on Software Services.
GreenCom 2011 - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications.
HPCC 2011 - The 13th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications.
ICSE 2011 - Software Engineering For Cloud Computing International Workshop.
HPCS 2010 - High Performance Computing and Simulation Conference 2010.
GreenCom 2010 - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications.
PDGC 2010 - The First International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing.
SEFM 2010 - The eighth IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods.
IC3 2010 - The 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Computing.
ICWI 2009 - IADIS International Conference WWW/INTERNET 2009.
NFPSLAM-SOC 2009 - The 3rd Workshop on Non-Functional Properties and SLA Management in Service-Oriented Computing.
WORKS 2009 - The 4th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science In conjunction with SC 2009.
SOCA 2009 - IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Application
Technical Programm Committe Member
PDGC 2012 - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Grid Computing
PECON 2012 - IEEE International Power and Energy Conference
ICEED 2012 - 4th International Congress on Engineering Education
| Publications |
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Journal Articles
Conference and Workshop Proceedings
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).
Vincent C. Emeakaroha Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, Schahram Dustdar. Cloud Resource Provisioning and SLA Enforcement Via LoM2HiS Framework, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2012. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.2944
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, Vol. 28, Issue 7, July 2012, pages 1017 - 1029.
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, Vol. 28, Issue 1, January 2012, pages 39 - 47.
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).
Book Chapters
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. In 36th Annual IEEE Computer and Application International Conference (COMPSAC 2012). Izmir, Turkey, July 16 - 20, 2012.
Toni Mastelic, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic. M4Cloud - Generic Application Level Monitoring for Resource-Shared Cloud Environments. CLOSER 2012, 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, April 18-21, 2012, in Porto, Portugal.
Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Pawel Labaj, Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, 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, pages 37 - 46, Seattle, USA, 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), pages 229 - 236, 2011, Melbourne, Australia.
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, pages 1501 - 1506, 2011.
Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, Ivan Breskovic. SLA-Aware Application Deployment and Resource Allocation in Clouds. The Second IEEE International Workshop on Applied Cloud Computing (CloudApp 2011), in conjunction with the 35th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2011) Munich, Germany, pages 298 - 303, 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), Kerkyra (Corfu) Greece, pages 147 - 152, 2011.
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, Netherlands.
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.
Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Marco A. S. Netto, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Ivona Brandic, and César A. F. De Rose. DeSVi: An Architecture for Detecting SLA Violations in Cloud Computing Infrastructures . 2nd International ICST Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp 2010) Barcelona, Spain October 25 - 28, 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.
Ivona Brandic, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Sandor Acs, Attila Kertész, Gábor Kecskeméti, Schahram Dustdar (2010). 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.
Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, Schahram Dustdar (2010). 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), Caen, France, pages 48 - 54, 2010. (Nominated for best paper award)
Vincent C. Emeakaroha, B. Statovci-Halimi (2009). Framework for Multi-class and Dynamic Flow-aware Admission Control. 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2009), Zürich, Switzerland; 20 - 23 October 2009.
Vincent C. Emeakaroha, B. Statovci-Halimi (2008). Enabling Class-based QoS Commitments through Flow-Aware Admission Control. International Workshop on Traffic Management and Traffic Engineering for the Future Internet (FITraMEn08), Porto, Portugal; 11-12 December 2008.
Other Publications
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, Marco A. S. Netto, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Cesar A. F. De Rose. Achieving Flexible SLA and Resource Management in Clouds. In Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice. Editors: Massimo Villari, Ivona Brandic, and Francesco Tusa. Release Date: May, 2012. IGI Global, 2012, pages 266 - 287.
Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic. Economic Analysis of the SLA Mapping Approach for Cloud Computing Goods. In Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice. Editors: Massimo Villari, Ivona Brandic, and Francesco Tusa. Release Date: May, 2012. IGI Global, 2012, pages 308 - 327.
Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Ivan Breskovic, Ivona Brandic, 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.
PhD Thesis
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.
Vincent C. Emeakaroha. Autonomic Service Deployment Considering Energy Efficiency in Cloud Environments. In: COST Action 804 Newsletter , Vol. 3, June 2011.
I. Brandic, V. C. 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.
Vincent C. Emeakaroha (2012), Managing Cloud Service Provisioning and SLA Enforcement via Holistic Monitoring Techniques ; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Schahram Dustdar, Dr. Ivona Brandic - Distributed Systems Group, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology; Examiner: Prof. Dr. César De Rose - High Performance Computing Lab, Pontifical Catholic University, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Master Thesis
Vincent C. Emeakaroha (2008), Quality of Service IP Networking with Multiservice Admission Control; Supervisor: H.R. van As, B. Statovci-Halimi; Institute for Broadband Communication, E388, Vienna University of Technology.
| Short CV |
Vincent C. Emeakaroha is currently a postdoctoral reasearcher at the University College Cork Ireland. Previously, he was a research assistant at the Distributed Systems Group, Information Systems Institute, Vienna Unniversity of Technology (TU Wien). He received his bachelor degree in Computer Engineering in 2006 and gained double masters in Software Engineering & Internet Computing in 2008, and in Informatics Management in 2009 all from Vienna University of Technology. In 2012, he received his PhD in Computer Science with excellence. He has worked in different research projects over the years including the Foundations of Self-governing ICT Infrastructures (FoSII) project funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) and Holistic Energy Efficient Approach for the Management of Hybrid Clouds (HALEY) funded by the Vienna University of Technology Science Award. He participated in the European Commission's COST Action on Energy Efficient Large Scale Distributed System. In October 2010, he was a visiting researcher at the Technical University of Catalunya Barcelona Spain. His research areas of interest include resource management in large-scale distributed systems, service provisioning management, storage usage optimization, autonomic computing, energy efficiency in Clouds, SLA and QoS management.