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.
Unfortunately, no list of projects can be displayed here at the moment. Until the list is available again, the project search on the ZHAW homepage can be used.
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Sakman, Mehmet Cihan; Gkikopoulos, Panagiotis; Martella, Francesco; Villari, Massimo; Spillner, Josef,
2023.
Indoor navigation for personalised shopping : a real-tech feasibility study [paper].
In:
Hammoudi, Slimane; Wijnhoven, Fons; van Sinderen, Marten, eds.,
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Smart Business Technologies.
20th International Conference on Smart Business Technologies (ICSBT), Rome, Italy, 11-13 July 2023.
Setúbal:
SciTePress.
pp. 43-53.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.5220/0012085100003552
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2023.
Demo: SLASH: Serverless Apache Spark Hub [paper].
In:
DEBS '23: Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems.
17th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems (DEBS), Neuchatel, Switzerland, 27 - 30 June 2023.
Association for Computing Machinery.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3583678.3603277
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Birchler, Christian; Khatiri, Sajad; Bosshard, Bill; Gambi, Alessio; Panichella, Sebastiano,
2023.
Machine learning-based test selection for simulation-based testing of self-driving cars software.
Empirical Software Engineering.
28(71).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10286-y
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Cvetkovski, Oliver; Gkikopoulos, Panagiotis; Spillner, Josef,
2023.
Digitalisation in shopping : an IoT and smart applications perspective
.
In:
Klymash, Mikhailo; Luntovskyy, Andriy; Beshley, Mykola; Melnyk, Igor; Schill, Alexander, eds.,
Emerging Networking in the Digital Transformation Age.
Cham:
Springer.
pp. 197-213.
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ; 965.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24963-1_11
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Militano, Leonardo; Arteaga, Adriana; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Mitton, Nathalie,
2023.
The cloud-to-edge-to-IoT continuum as an enabler for search and rescue operations.
Future Internet.
15(2), pp. 55.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15020055