Thomas Heinis

Information and Communication Systems Group
Institute for Pervasive Computing
Department of Computer Science
ETH Zürich
 Postal address:
Thomas Heinis
Inst. for Pervasive Computing
IFW B48.2
Haldeneggsteig 4
CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
 Telephone: +41-44-632-4693
Fax : +41-44-632-1425
E-mail: heinist{insert-at-here}inf.ethz.ch
Office: IFW B48.2, Haldeneggsteig 4
Dipl. Ing. ETH, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (2002)
PhD student and research assistant of Prof. Gustavo Alonso, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (since 2004)
Research Interest: My research interests span multiple areas, including Scientific Data Management and Data Lineage in the context of biology applications but also Grid computing and Autonomic computing.

Publications

  • Automatic Configuration for an Autonomic Controller - an Experimental Study (pdf), Thomas Heinis and Cesare Pautasso in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'08), Chicago, USA, June 2008
  • Efficient Lineage Tracking for Scientific Workflows (pdf), Thomas Heinis and Gustavo Alonso in Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'08), Vancouver, Canada, June 2008
  • A Self-Configuring Service Composition Engine, Thomas Heinis, Cesare Pautasso, and Gustavo Alonso, Book chapter in: Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications, Eds. S. Hariri and M. Parashar, CRC Press, December 2006
  • Autonomic Resource Provisioning for Software Business Processes, Cesare Pautasso, Thomas Heinis, Gustavo Alonso in: Information and Software Technology, 49(1): 65-80, January 2007
  • JOpera: Autonomic Service Orchestration, Cesare Pautasso, Thomas Heinis, Gustavo Alonso in: IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin (Special Issue on Self-Managing Database Systems), A. Ailamaki (Ed.), Vol. 29, No. 3, September 2006
  • Developing Scientific Workflows from Heterogeneous Services, Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, George Athanasopoulos, Michael Pantazoglou, Cesare Pautasso, Thomas Heinis, Roy Grønmo, Hjørdis Hoff, Arne-Jørgen Berre, Magne Glittum, and Simela Topouzidou in SIGMOD Record, vol. 35, no. 2, June 2006
  • Mirroring Resources or Mapping Requests: implementing WS-RF for Grid workflows (pdf, slides) Thomas Heinis, Cesare Pautasso, Gustavo Alonso in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2006), Singapore, May 2006.
  • Publishing Persistent Grid Computations as WS Resources (pdf, slides), Thomas Heinis, Cesare Pautasso, Oliver Deak and Gustavo Alonso in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Technologies (e-Science 2005), Melbourne, Australia, December 2005.
  • Autonomic Execution of Service Compositions (pdf, slides)) Cesare Pautasso, Thomas Heinis, Gustavo Alonso in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'05), Orlando, USA, July 2005.
  • Design and Evaluation of an Autonomic Workflow Engine (pdf, slides) , Thomas Heinis, Cesare Pautasso, Gustavo Alonso in Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'05), Seattle, USA, June 2005.

Master Theses/Semester Theses

    Check out this description of exciting and interesting master/semester theses and lab projects around the topics of data organization (data lineage), visualization of biological data! This project is part of the SystemsX.ch initiative, trying to bridge the gap between Computer Science and Biology. For a brief introduction to this initiative please watch this video from the SF1 Tagesschau (5/12/07).

Teaching Assistance

  • Winter 2004/2005: Rechnerarchitektur (Computer Architecture, 252-0051-00), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI, 251-0307-00)
  • Winter 2005/2006: Enterprise Application Integration (EAI, 251-0307-00), Distributed Process Support Systems Research Seminar (251-0311-00)
  • Summer 2006: Data Provenance and Lineage Tracking Research Seminar (251-0310-00)
  • Winter 2006/2007: Enterprise Application Integration (Middleware) (251-0307-00), Distributed Systems (251-0303-00/251-0319-00)
  • Summer 2007: Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures (251-0316-00)
  • Fall 2007: Enterprise Application Integration (Middleware) (251-0307-00)
  • Spring 2008: Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures (251-0316-00)

Honors & Activities

  • Fulbright Scholar 2003/2004 (Purdue)
  • PC Member Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (eScience 2006)
  • PC Member Sixth International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2007, 2008, 2009)

Miscellaneous

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