Publications by Jan S. Rellermeyer

@phdthesis{abc,
	abstract = {Computing systems are increasingly becoming dynamic. One example is cloud computing
and its property of elasticity. On cloud platforms, resources in the form of additional
nodes can be added and removed at any time. Software systems expected to run in such
environments, on the other hand, are not nearly as elastic and flexible. Another example
is the clearly visible trend towards incorporating an increasing number of processor
cores into modern computer systems. In the future, it is likely that not all of these cores
will have a uniform instruction set anymore but specialized units are used to accelerate
certain tasks. At the same time, however, the power envelope of computer systems is
increasingly becoming an issue so that probably not all cores can run at the same time
anymore. Software written for such systems is thereby required to adapt to a changing
pool of resources, a situation that today\&$\#$146;s software is hardly prepared for.
This thesis contributes towards understanding how to build software systems that are
able to reflect such a degree of flexibility. The fundamental observation underlying this
work is that in order to respond to the emerging dynamism in the platforms, software
has to become equally flexible in its design. This requires a segregation of the software
into smaller units. In the early days of computer science similar challenges in the development
process of complex software have catalyzed the concept of software modularity.
The premise of this thesis is that the same kind of modularization\&$\#$151;when not only applied
on a logical level to the source code but also in a physical form and preserved until
runtime\&$\#$151; results in the required degrees of freedom in the design of software systems.
In combination with a smart runtime system, this approach turns software into flexible,
fluid entities able to adapt to a dynamic environment.
Three systems are presented in this thesis which are based upon the OSGi standard
for dynamic modules in the Java language. They enhance the standard with different
degrees of flexibility. The Juggle system co-manages software modules and the binaries
for reprogramming an FPGA device so that applications can be selectively accelerated
on demand and without interrupting running operations. The CPU/FPGA board serves
as an example of a computer system that is already dynamic and reprogrammable today.},
	author = {Jan S. Rellermeyer},
	school = {19610},
	title = {Modularity as a Systems Design Principle},
	year = {2011}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Michael Duller and Jan S. Rellermeyer and Gustavo Alonso and Nesime Tatbul},
	booktitle = {Middleware 2011 - ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference, Lisbon, Portugal},
	title = {Virtualizing Stream Processing},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25821-3_14},
	year = {2011}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Jan S. Rellermeyer and Michael Duller and Gustavo Alonso},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges in Cloud Computing (ICSE-Cloud-in Conjuction with ICSE 2009)},
	title = {Engineering the Cloud Software from Software Modules},
	year = {2009}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Jan S. Rellermeyer and Michael Duller and Gustavo Alonso},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades, HotSWUp 2008, Nashville, TN, USA},
	title = {Consistently Applying Updates to Compositions of Distributed OSGi Modules.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1490283.1490295},
	year = {2008}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Jan S. Rellermeyer and Oriana Riva and Gustavo Alonso},
	booktitle = {Middleware 2008, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference, Leuven, Belgium},
	title = {AlfredO: An Architecture for Flexible Interaction with Electronic Devices.},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89856-6_2},
	year = {2008}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Jan S. Rellermeyer and Michael Duller and Ken Gilmer and Damianos Maragkos and Dimitrios Papageorgiou and Gustavo Alonso},
	booktitle = {The Internet of Things, First International Conference, IOT 2008, Zurich, Switzerland},
	title = {The Software Fabric for the Internet of Things.},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78731-0_6},
	year = {2008}
}

@misc{abc,
	author = {Jan S. Rellermeyer and Gustavo Alonso and Timothy Roscoe},
	title = {Ready for distribution?: turning modular into distributed applications with the R-OSGi deployment tool.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1297846.1297928},
	venue = {Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, OOPSLA  2007, October 21-25, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2007},
	year = {2007}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Ren{\'e} M{\"u}ller and Jan S. Rellermeyer and Michael Duller and Gustavo Alonso and Donald Kossmann},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Beijing, China},
	title = {A dynamic and flexible sensor network platform.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1247480.1247615},
	year = {2007}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Jan S. Rellermeyer and Gustavo Alonso},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2007 EuroSys Conference, Lisbon, Portugal},
	title = {Concierge: a service platform for resource-constrained devices.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1272996.1273022},
	year = {2007}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Jan S. Rellermeyer and Gustavo Alonso and Timothy Roscoe},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2007 OOPSLA workshop on Eclipse Technology eXchange, ETX 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada},
	title = {Building, deploying, and monitoring distributed applications with Eclipse and R-OSGI.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1328279.1328290},
	venue = {Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, OOPSLA  2007, October 21-25, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2007},
	year = {2007}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Ren{\'e} M{\"u}ller and Jan S. Rellermeyer and Michael Duller and Gustavo Alonso},
	booktitle = {Demo at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (Mass 07), Pisa, Italy},
	title = {A Generic Platform for Sensor Network Applications},
	venue = {. (Best Demo Award)},
	year = {2007}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Jan S. Rellermeyer and Gustavo Alonso},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the EclipseCon 2007, Santa Clara, CA, USA},
	title = {Services everywhere: OSGi in distributed environments},
	year = {2007}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Jan S. Rellermeyer and Gustavo Alonso and Timothy Roscoe},
	booktitle = {Middleware 2007, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference, Newport Beach, CA, USA},
	title = {R-OSGi: Distributed Applications Through Software Modularization.},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76778-7_1},
	venue = {Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2007), Newport Beach, CA, November 2007.},
	year = {2007}
}