I am now a member of SAP's Virtualization and Cloud Management group.

Table of Contents

1. Professional Functions & Memberships
2. Awards and Recognitions
3. Publications, Selected Presentations, and Reports
4. Professional Activities
5. Projects
6. Supervised Theses
7. Teaching
8. Affiliations

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

Awards / Recognitions

• SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2011
  Awarded on April 24, 2012 at ICPE 2012 in Boston.

• SPECtacular Award 2009
  Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays on January 30, 2010 at SPEC's Annual Meeting in San Jose, CA.

• 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.

• 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.

Publications, Selected Presentations and Reports

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.

Books, Proceedings & Chapters

• Performance Modeling and Benchmarking of Event-Based Systems
  PhD Thesis, 2010.
  SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2011
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
  
  @phdthesis{ KaiSachs-Thesis-2010, title = {Performance Modeling and Benchmarking of Event-Based Systems}, author = {Kai Sachs}, isbn = {978-3868443530}, publisher = {Sierke Verlag}, year = {2011}, pdf = {\url{http://www.dvs.tu-darmstadt.de/staff/ksachs/PerMod_Benchmarking_EBS.pdf}}, school = {TU Darmstadt} }
• Proceeding of the second joint WOSP/SIPEW international conference on Performance engineering - ACM / SPEC ICPE'11
  Samuel Kounev, Vittorio Cortellessa, Raffaela Mirandola, David J. Lilja, Kai Sachs (Eds.)
  ACM, 2011.
  [BibTeX]
  @proceedings{icpe:2011, title = {ICPE '11: Proceeding of the second joint WOSP/SIPEW international conference on Performance engineering}, year = {2011}, isbn = {978-1-4503-0519-8}, location = {Karlsruhe, Germany}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, }
• From Active Data Management to Event-Based Systems and More
  Kai Sachs, Ilia Petrov, Pablo Guerrero (Eds.)
  Springer LNCS 6462, Papers in Honor of Alejandro Buchmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, 2010.
  [BibTeX]
  @proceedings{ SaPeGue10, title = {From Active Data Management to Event-Based Systems and More - Papers in Honor of Alejandro Buchmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday}, editor = {Kai Sachs and Ilia Petrov and Pablo Guerrero}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {6462}, month = {nov}, year = {2010}, publisher = {Springer}, isbn = {978-3-642-17225-0}, doi = {DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17226-7}, language = {English}, website = {http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/book/978-3-642-17225-0?changeHeader=true} }
• Computer Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
  David Kaeli and Kai Sachs (Eds.)
  Springer LNCS 5419, Proceedings of the SPEC Benchmark Workshop 2009
  [BibTeX]
  @proceedings{SPEC-2009, editor = {David R. Kaeli and Kai Sachs}, title = {Computer Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, SPEC Benchmark Workshop 2009, Austin, TX, USA, January 25, 2009. Proceedings}, booktitle = {SPEC Benchmark Workshop}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {5419}, year = {2009}, isbn = {978-3-540-93798-2}, ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93799-9}, bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }
• Performance Evaluation: Metrics, Models and Benchmarks
  Samuel Kounev, Ian Gorton and Kai Sachs (Eds.)
  Springer LNCS 5119, Proceedings of the 2008 SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop (SIPEW 2008), 2008.
  [BibTeX]
  @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

• 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

Professional Activities

Conference Organisation

Program Committees

I was / I am serving as PC Member of the

• ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) 2012 2013
• 10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) 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

• 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

• "Performance Analysis of Java in the Context of Virtualiztion" , Stefan Appel, 2008.
  
• "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.
• "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.
• "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

Affiliations

TU Darmstadt
Databases and Distributed Systems (DVS) - Former Research Member Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Descartes Research Group - Associated Research Member

Teaching

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