In contributed to a number of EU-funded research projects in different roles.
Research areas were Cloud Storage, Software Product Lines and (Semantic) Web Services
2010-2013 VISION Cloud (IP)
Virtualized Storage Services Foundation for the Future Internet
Cloud technology will also change the landscape of traditional storage solutions: For future object and file storage systems, the goal is to leverage cloud computing technology for delivering higher quality and more capable products for on-premise or public cloud storage services. Together with IBM Research Labs in Haifa, Israel, 14 partners across Europe develop cloud storage technology and application for the healthcare, media, telecommunications and enterprise IT domain.
Technologies: Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Object/BLOB Storage, REST/Javax-RS, Open Source based Development of Cloud Applications.
2009-2011 CESAR (Artemis-funded Project)
Cost-Efficient methods and processes for SAfety Relevant embedded systems
The engineering of safety relevant software is a cost and time-intensive task. For many examples, test and certification consumes a large share of total efforts. The goal of CESAR is a tool chain platform for the management of software development assets: specifications, code, simulation models for example. Based on this platform, tools can interoperate more efficiently commonly sharing assets.
Technologies: ModelBUS, Eclipse, DOORS, PLUM, Pure Variance, and Microsoft Office.
2007-2008 AMPLE (STREP)
Aspect-Oriented, Model-Driven Product Line Engineering.
In the software industry, there are many examples for the efficiency of defining a line of products with planned commonalities rather than engineering a set of individual and independent products. Product line engineering envisages the reuse of software assets in different products. It also involves the management of the variability of products, supporting a more efficient engineering of product variants. In this project several technologies and approaches from the field of model-driven architecture (MDA) and aspect orientation were applied to create tools for product line engineering.
Technologies: Eclipse, Open Architecture Ware, Pure Variance, and Microsoft Office.
2005 INTEROP (NoE)
This Network of Excellence has brought together researchers in Europe from the area of distributed systems and interoperability. Goals of this EU-funded effort was the assessment of the European research state-of-the-art, the coordination of a research agenda and the forming of coordination efforts.
Technologies: Distributed Systems, Web Services, CORBA, SOA
2004-2005 EpiSEM Action EA (STREP)
The follow up project to EpiSEM ACTION has improved the metadata server according to further software development projects at the leading partner, the Institute Français du Pétrole (IFP) in Paris.
Technologies: KAON Ontology Server, JBoss AS, MySQL, Apache Axis.
2002-2004 EpiSEM Action (STREP)
EPIcentre Shared Earth Model Activity Collaboration through meta data Interoperability Over the Net
The production of hydrocarbons is a complex and expensive business. Geological modeling is in important step for the appropriate planning of expensive drilling efforts. Since a production site is exploited for several decades, the knowledge about geological models could get lost, because persons involved decades ago are not available today.
As a consequence, metadata about the geo models and their management is inevitable for preserving the important knowledge about the drilling location - otherwise, in the worst case: a probe drilling effort must be performed. The project as developed a JEE based metadata server for capturing such knowledge using RDF ontologies. The server provided SOAP interfaces for accessing this metadata for specific applications of the hydrocarbon production domain.
Technologies: JBoss AS, MySQL, KAON Ontology Server, Apache Axis.
