The Dept. of Computer Science 4 (Distributed Systems and Operating Systems) does research on the design of operating and distributed systems. The main focus is on object-oriented systems, multiprocessors, and distributed systems. Additionally, analytical models for multiprocessor and multicomputer systems are developed.

There are several groups. Each group runs a number of projects. Some of them may be listed in the following project list, others may only appear on the group's Web pages.

Groups

• ergoo - Erlangen Research Group on Distributed Objects and Operating Systems
• RDSP - Research Group - Resource constrained Distributed Stream Processing

Projects

• iRTSS: invasive Runtime Support System (SFB/TRR 89 Invasive Computing, Project C1)
• AORTA: Aspect-Oriented Real-Time Architecture
• DanceOS: Depandability Aspects in configurable embedded Operating Systems (SPP 1500 Dependable Embedded Systems)
• VAMOS: Variability Management in Operating Systems
• CiAO: An Aspect-Oriented Operating-System Family
• KESO: An application-tailored JVM for statically-configured embedded systems
• REFIT: Resource-Efficient Fault and Intrusion Tolerance
• TCLOUDS: Trustworthy Clouds - Privacy and Resilience for Internet-scale Critical Infrastructure
• pCtrl: Design Patterns for Parallelize Control Systems
• CoSa: Component architecture for Safety-critical embedded systems
• I4Copter: Platform for evaluation and education of embedded and safety-critical system software
• VM-FIT: Virtual Machine-based Fault and Intrusion Tolerance
• AOCI: An Aspect Oriented Component Infrastructure
• PLiC: Decomposition and Composition of Software Product Lines
• AutoMC: Automotive Multicore
• Sloth: A Minimal-Effort Kernel for Embedded Systems
• dragon: Improving distributed, reliable and anonymous storage systems for anonymity networks
• bst-kconfig: Standalone Version of the Linux KConfig Tool

Former Projects

• ABBs: Atomic Basic Blocks
• AspectC++: An Aspect-oriented Extension to the C++ Programming Language
• SAMProc: Middleware for Self-adaptive Mobile Processes
• FOREVER: Fault/intrusiOn REmoVal through Evolution & Recovery
• FAME-DBMS: A Family of Embedded Database Management Systems
• AspectIX: A Middleware for Aspect-Oriented Programming
• JX: A Flexible Operating System Architecture
• MOSEL: Modeling Specification and Evaluation Language
• PURE: Portable Universal Runtime Executive - operating system family
• PUMA for C++: A Parser and Manipulator for C++ Source Code
• OS-Directed Power Management
• Parallel SW Update in Automotive Networks

Publications and Reports