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
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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
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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 ...
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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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Arce, Adriana Arteaga; Filinis, Nikos; Fu, Lei; Habib, Carol; Militano, Leonardo; Spatharakis, Dimitris; Zafeiropoulos, Anastasios; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Mitton, Nathalie; Papavassiliou, Symeon,
2024.
Virtual objects for robots and sensor nodes in distributed applications over the cloud continuum [paper].
In:
29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) - 4th International Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems (DistInSys), Paris, France, 26 June 2024.
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30918
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Gkikopoulos, Panagiotis; Kropf, Peter; Schiavoni, Valerio; Spillner, Josef,
2024.
Reliable IoT analytics at scale.
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
187(104840).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2024.104840
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Cvetkovski, Oliver; Field, Carlo; Trinchi, Davide; Marti, Christof; Spillner, Josef,
2023.
ZVAX : a microservice reference architecture for nation-scale pandemic management [paper].
In:
Dorai, Gokila; Gabbrielli, Maurizio; Manzonetto, Giulio; Osmani, Aomar; Prandini, Marco; Zavattaro, Gianluigi; Zimmermann, Olaf, eds.,
Joint Post-proceedings of the Third and Fourth International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2020/2022).
International Conference on Microservices (Microservices), Paris, France,10-12 May 2022.
Wadern:
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics.
Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.Microservices.2020-2022.4
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2023.
Operating systems and infrastructure in data science.
1. Auflage.
Zürich:
vdf Hochschulverlag.
ISBN 978-3-7281-4168-2.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.3218/4168-2
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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