Distributed Systems
We Make Services Valuable
The Distributed Systems (DSY) research group of the InIT focuses on scalable and reliable implementation of sophisticated IT-based services. We address questions such as:
- What architecture best suits your specific cloud application?
- Which service model (IaaS, CaaS, PaaS, FaaS, ...) ensures optimal implementation of an application?
- Which tools are needed for development, operation and monitoring of the services?
- How to offer applications "as a service" (SaaS)?
- How to monetize modern IT services?
- How to integrate the "physical world" into complex IT services?
The research group is engaged in international projects within the EU research framework and works closely with partners from the private sector on innovative products within Innosuisse funded or directly financed projects.
The knowledge gained from applied research and development is transferred to students of computer science courses in the following modules:
Cloud Computing
The Init Cloud Computing Lab (ICCLAB) is dedicated to the automated deployment, operation and usage of configurable, highly scalable and resilient IT resources on a pay-per-use basis. In addition to infrastructure virtualization, this includes platform services for automated application delivery, scalable back-end, and monitoring of services and applications.
Service Prototyping
The Service Prototyping Lab (SPLAB) addresses the implementation and validation of complex services in cloud or post-cloud environments. In addition to the migration of existing services to the cloud, the main focus is on modern application architectures (Cloud Native Applications, Microservices, Serverless), the provisioning of tools for optimal implementation, the experimental validation of concepts and their monetization (Cloud Accounting and Billing).
Cloud Robotics
The Init Cloud Comupting Lab (ICCLAB) also addresses the integration of robotic applications into complex networked services. The usage of elastic cloud services allows to extend the capabilities of robots (computing power, context information, artificial intelligence, ...) as well as to manage and coordinate them. Programming frameworks and automation services enable developers to integrate robots into services without having in-depth knowledge at device level.
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Second-Generation Alptrackers with Hub-and-Spoke Signalling and Herd Awareness
Alptracker is the de-facto standard for tracking sheep and cow herds in the Swiss alps. This project advances communication and software support for wide-area herding. It contributes novel hub-spoke animal tracking, capturing movement and behaviour, deriving holistic herd models, and predicting predators and other ...
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ThingsAtScale – Audit Logging, Robustness and Resilience in Large-Scale Cloud-Based IoT Event Processing
The objectives of the ThingsAtScale project encompass various advances beyond the state of technology in software stacks for IoT/LoRaWAN, in particular the The Things Stack (TTS) Cloud. It is comprised of research and development tasks around TTS, in particular related to the two main topics audit logging and ...
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Revolutionizing Skill Development: How AI Can Enhance Training for Decent Work and Climate Resilience
Climate change is affecting most of the world population faster than the population can adopt. This issue is present in daily lives, agriculture, urban planning and distribution of goods and utilities. Decisions need to be taken in real time, supported by knowledge captured in various data representations. The ...
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Zhou, Yu; Su, Yanqi; Chen, Taolue; Huang, Zhiqiu; Gall, Harald C.; Panichella, Sebastiano,
2020.
User review-based change file localization for mobile applications.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
47(12), pp. 2755-2770.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2020.2967383
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Spillner, Josef,
2019.
Serverless computing and cloud function-based applications [paper].
In:
UCC '19 Companion.
12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Auckland, New Zealand, 2-5 December 2019.
Association for Computing Machinery.
pp. 177-178.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3368235.3370269
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Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,
2019.
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In:
Koubaa, Anis, ed.,
Robot operating system (ROS).
Cham:
Springer.
pp. 119-146.
Studies in Computational Intelligence ; 831.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20190-6_5
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Gkikopoulos, Panagiotis,
2019.
Data distribution and exploitation in a global microservice artefact observatory [paper].
In:
15th IEEE World Congress on Services.
15th IEEE World Congress on Services, Milan, Italy, 8-13 July 2019.
IEEE.
pp. 319-322.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SERVICES.2019.00089
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Leitner, Philipp; Wittern, Erik; Spillner, Josef; Hummer, Waldemar,
2019.
A mixed-method empirical study of Function-as-a-Service software development in industrial practice.
Journal of Systems and Software.
149, pp. 340-359.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2018.12.013