The 34rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE) was organized in Leuven, Belgium by the KU Leuven and the University of Ghent from June 5-10, 2022.

Franziska Hollauf, BSc. presented the paper Time-Cost Tradeoffs for Composed Services. A video recording of the presentation is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69EEJRtV7Y4&list=PLeTg059kuk7ZNfElGCEHYP3I0ROiFqMdC&index=27

Hollauf, Franziska S., Marco Franceschetti, and Johann Eder. “Time-Cost Tradeoffs for Composed Services.” International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. Springer, Cham, 2022.

Abstract

Time and cost are crucial criteria in Service Level Agreements. Frequently, the time when and how long a service can be provided or used and the cost for utilizing a service are related and hence users are confronted with a trade-off between time and cost. Besides the fundamental direct and indirect proportional relationship between time and cost, composed services might also have more complex non-monotonic relationships. We introduce a novel way of expressing the trade-offs between time and cost in form of TC-Maps as a set of piece-wise linear functions. For calculating the duration, cost and their relation for service compositions, we introduce specific operations used in a bottom-up procedure resulting in an overall TC-Map. The proposed structure allows us to derive the minimum cost of a composed service given a duration limit, or for analyzing possible durations for a provided budget. TC-Maps offer the basis for optimizing the utilization of composed services according to user preferences, resources and objectives.

New Colleague @ ICS

We are very happy to welcome our new colleague Aron Sacherer, BSc in the Department of Informatics Systems. Aron Sacherer started his work in the Information and Communication Systems research group as scientific project staff in the BBMRI.at project in March, 2022.

ICS – publication “Dynamic Controllability of Processes without Surprises”

The research paper “Dynamic Controllability of Processes without Surprises“, written by the ICS group members O.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Johann Eder, Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Marco Franceschetti and Univ.-Ass. Josef Lubas, BSc. MSc., is now available on the following link:

https://doi.org/10.3390/app12031461

The paper “Dynamic Controllability of Processes without Surprises” has been published at 29th of January 2022 in the Journal Applied Sciences and is available as free full-text by using the link above.

ICS – Paper Presentation @ IEEE SCC 2021

From 05.-11. September 2021, the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2021) will take place as a virtual event. Franziska Selina Hollauf, BSc, who is working at the ICS team from O.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Johann Eder, will present the paper “Towards Representing Time-Cost Tradeoffs for Service Compositions”.