I am now with SAP.
Table of Contents
- Professional Functions & Memberships
- Awards and Recognitions
- Professional Activities
- Projects
- Publications, Selected Presentations, and Reports
- Supervised Theses
- Teaching
Publications, Selected Presentations and Reports
Publications are listed on a separate page.
Professional Functions & Memberships
SPEC - "Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation"
Representative of SAP to SPEC Research Group
Vice-Chair of SPEC Research Group
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member Event Processing Technical Society
Member Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Member
Steering Committee of ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)
Member
Awards / Recognitions
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SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2011
Awarded on April 24, 2012 at ICPE 2012 in Boston.
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SPECtacular Award 2009
Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays on January 30, 2010 at SPEC's Annual Meeting in San Jose, CA.
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SPECtacular Performance Award 2007
Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays (Sun Microsystems) on January 27, 2008 at SPEC's Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
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SPECtacular Award 2006
for service as Lead Developer of the SPECjms2007 Benchmark developed by SPEC's Open Systems Group (OSG). Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays (Sun Microsystems) on January 24, 2007 at SPEC's Annual Meeting in Austin, TX.
Patents
Systems and methods for processing auto-id data
C. Bornhoevd, M. Cilia, P. Guerrero, K. Sachs, and A. Buchmann
Assignee: SAP AG, Application number: 11/429,151 Publication number: US 2007/0260470 A1.
@proceedings{sipew-2008, editor = {Samuel Kounev and Ian Gorton and Kai Sachs}, title = {Performance Evaluation: Metrics, Models and Benchmarks, SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop, SIPEW 2008, Darmstadt, Germany, June 27-28, 2008. Proceedings}, booktitle = {SIPEW}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {5119}, year = {2008}, isbn = {978-3-540-69813-5}, }
Talks
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SPECjms2007 - An Overview
SAP, Walldorf, Germany, 17.04.2007 -
Benchmarking and Modelling of Message-Oriented Middleware
FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany, 24.06.2009 -
Benchmark Engineering: Current Trends and New Challenges in Benchmarking
TCS Symposium - Architecture and Design of High Performance Systems, Mumbai, India, 8.1.2013 -
Current trends and new challenges in Benchmark Research
AMPLab, UC Berkeley, US, 19.03.2013 -
Current trends and challenges in Big Data Benchmarking
CUSO Workshop on Big Data 2014
Professional Activities
Conference Organisation
Program Committees
I was / I am serving as PC Member of the
- International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) 2013 2014
- 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) 2014
- 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2014
- 4th Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking (WBDB) 2013
- ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) 2012 2013
- 42nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 2013
- TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPC TC) 2010 2011
- Workshop on Data Streams and Event Processing (DSEP) 2011 2013
- ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS) 2010 (Poster PC member), 2012 (Demo PC member), 2013 (Posters & Demos PC member),
- SPEC Benchmark Workshop 2009
- SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop (SIPEW) 2008
Selected Reviewer/Referee Activities
- Member of Editorial Board CSI Transactions on ICT
- Conferences: ACM SIGMOD 2005/06, EDBT 2008, VLDB 2006, RDDS 2006, ICDE 2007, ICDCS 2006/08/09, ACM/SPEC ICPE 2010/11
- Journals: Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, Datenbanken Spektrum, Springer Computing, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing
Projects
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A Benchmark for Message-Oriented Middleware SPECjms2007
Project at SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Role: Development Lead -
Performance and Scalability Analysis of SAP's JMS Implementation
Project with SAP AG -
Benchmarking of HornetQ 2.0.0.GA
Project with JBoss HornetQ -
Benchmarking of Apache ActiveMQ 5.3
Project with Apache Active MQ -
Performance Modelling of Event-Based Realtime Systems
Project with Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore / India, April 2006 - June 2006. -
Enhance the performance of the AutoID Infrastructure
Project with SAP Labs Palo Alto, July 2005 - March 2006. -
Performance Evaluation of SAP's AutoID Infrastructure
Project with SAP Labs Palo Alto, October 2004 - May 2005.
Supervised Theses
Past
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"Performance Analysis of Java in the Context of Virtualiztion" , Stefan Appel, 2008.
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"Marktgetriebenen Kapazitäts- und Performance- Planung am Beispiel einer Telekom-Systemkette" , Yves Njipwo Nguenda, 2008.
In cooperation with T-Com -
"Modeling and Performance Evaluation of an RFID Scenario Applying EPCglobalís EPCIS Architecture", Eva Twellmeyer, 2008.
In cooperation with SAP Research Dresden - "JMS-Server Benchmark mit SPECjms2007", Michael Schneider, 2008.
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"Performance Modeling of Java EE Applications using LQNs and QPNs, Frank Heimburger, 2007.
In cooperation with Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore / India -
"Service-Oriented Enterprise Integration Method", Liisel Murre, 2007.
In cooperation with Deutsche Amphibolin-Werke (DAW) - "Performance Evaluation of an ECA Rule Engine on Small Devices", Stephan Butterweck, 2007.
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"Semantic Extensions of Business Process Modeling Tools", Florian Dörr, 2007.
In cooperation with SAP Research Karlsruhe -
"Der Einsatz von RFID-Technik am Flughafen", Manuella Müller, 2006.
In cooperation with Fraunhofer-Institut für Materialfluss und Logistik
Teaching
Winter 09-10 | Database Systems II |
Summer 2009 | Seminar: Performance Engineering in Practice: Benchmarks and Related Concepts |
Winter 08-09 | Database Systems II |
Winter 07-08 | Database Systems II |
Winter 06-07 | Database Systems II |
Winter 05-06 | Database Systems II |
Winter 2005/06 | Seminar: RFID Technologies |