Ernst Oberortner PhD Email: Phone: +1-617-358-6338 Fax: Address: CIDAR Lab Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Boston University 8 Saint Mary's Street Boston, MA  02215 United States of America Last updated: Apr 16th, 2013

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In 2000, Ernst graduated at the Higher Institute of Technical Education for Software Engineering in Villach, Austria. Then, he started his Computer Science studies at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, and received his Master of Science (MSc) degree in June 2007. Besides his studies, Ernst was working as a part-time software engineer and system administrator.

After completing his civilian service in March 2008, which is mandatory in Austria, he started to work as a project assistant and PhD candidate at the Distributed Systems Group (DSG) at the Vienna University of Technology. He has been supervised by Prof. Dr. Schahram Dustdar and Prof. Dr. Uwe Zdun. Ernst has received his PhD degree in March 2011. During his PhD studies, Ernst was doing research on Design Patterns, Software Architectures, Domain-specific Languages (DSL), Model-driven Development (MDD), Service-oriented Architectures (SOA), Quality-of-Service (QoS), and Service Level Agreements (SLA).

In January 2012, Ernst started as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cross-disciplinary Integration of Design Automation Research (CIDAR) lab at Boston University, lead by Prof. Dr. Douglas Densmore. He is researching on domain-specific languages, software applications and frameworks, and data exchange standards tackling the bio-design automation challenges of the synthetic biology field.

CIDAR Lab (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University)

• Clotho
• Eugene
• Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL)

Distributed Systems Group (Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology)

• COMPAS

Journals

• H. Tran, U. Zdun, T. Holmes, E. Oberortner, E. Mulo, S. Dustdar:
  Compliance in Service-oriented Architectures: A Model-driven and View-based Approach, Information & Software Technology, 2012

Conference/Workshop Proceedings

• E. Oberortner, D. Densmore, J.C. Anderson:
  An Interactive Pattern Story on Designing the Architecture of Clotho. PLoP'12 
• H. Huang, E. Oberortner, D. Densmore, A. Kuchinsky:
  Eugene's Enriched Set of Features to Design Synthetic Biological Devices. IWBDA'12 
• E. Oberortner, I. Kwan, D. Damian:
  Towards Patterns to Enhance the Communication in Distributed Software Development Environments. PLoP'11 
• E. Oberortner, S. Sobernig, U. Zdun, S. Dustdar:
  Monitoring of Performance-related QoS Properties in Service-oriented Systems: A Pattern-based Architectural Decision Model, EuroPLoP'11 
• H. Tran, T. Holmes, E. Oberortner, E. Mulo, A.B. Cavalcante, J. Serafinski, M. Tluczek, A. Birukou, P. Silveira, U. Zdun, and S. Dustdar:
  An End-to-End Framework for Business Compliance in Process-Driven SOAs, SYNASC'10 
• E. Oberortner, U. Zdun, S. Dustdar, A. Betkowska Cavalcante, M. Tluczek:
  Supporting the Evolution of Model-driven Service-Oriented Systems: A Case Study on QoS-aware Process-driven SOAs, SOCA'10 

• E. Oberortner, U. Zdun and S. Dustdar:
  Patterns for Measuring Performance-Related QoS Properties in Distributed Systems, PLoP'10 

• M. Vasko, E. Oberortner and S. Dustdar:
  Collaborative Modeling of Web Applications for Various Stakeholders, MDWE'09   

• E. Oberortner, U. Zdun and S. Dustdar:
  Tailoring a Model-Driven Quality-of-Service DSL for Various Stakeholders, MiSE'09 

• E. Oberortner, U. Zdun and S. Dustdar:
  Domain-specific Languages for Service-oriented Architectures: An Explorative Study, ServiceWave'08   

• E. Oberortner, M. Vasko and S. Dustdar:
  Towards Modeling Role-Based Pageflow Definitions within Web Applications, MDWE'08   

Posters

• E. Oberortner, H. Huang, S. Bhatia, D. Densmore
  Eugene 2.0: A Domain-specific Language to Specify Constraint Synthetic Biological Devices, SynBERC.

Demos

• Aliaksandr Birukou, Agnieszka Betkowska Cavalcante, Fabio Casati, Soudip Roy Chowdhury, Vincenzo D'Andrea, Frank Leymann, Ernst Oberortner, Jacek Serafinski, Patricia Silveira, Steve Strauch and Marek Tluczek.
  An integrated solution for runtime compliance governance in SOA, ICSOC'10.

PhD Thesis

• Monitoring Quality of Service in Service-oriented Systems: Architectural Design and Stakeholder Support  
  Institute for Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology, February 2011.

Master Thesis

• Generating Web Applications with Abstract Pageflow Models 
  Institute for Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology, June 2007.

Program Committee Member

• Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP), 2013

Reviewer of Journals

• IEEE Software
• Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier)

Reviewer of Conferences

• IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM), 2010
• IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), 2010

If you are interested in doing a Praktika, Bachelor Thesis, or Master Thesis on my research interests, then just contact me

In Progress:

• Erik Lindgren:  EugeneLab

Recently Finished:

• Matthias Irlacher (with Philipp Leitner):
  Event-based Monitoring and Prediction of QoS compliance concerns in Service-oriented Environments

• Manuel Blauensteiner:
  A Model-Driven Approach for Generating Web Applications with User Input Validations

• Hermann Czedik-Eysenberg:
  Generating Performance-Related Quality of Service Tests for Web Services using a Domain-Specific Language

• Markus Huber:
  A Model for Originator based internal Cost Allocations of IT Services in Small and Medium Sized Businesses

• Wilfried Weisl:
  Concepts for Documenting Compliance Using Model-driven Development and Service-Oriented Architectures

• Martin Kirchner & Stefan Vallaster:
  Modelling and measurement of Quality of Service attributes for Web Services