The main issues of my research at the department were
I was a member of the AspectIX group. AspectIX is a distributed object middleware which allows developers to program adaptable distributed applications. My publications and technical reports also focus on this project.
I am also dealing with things like Java, CORBA, XML, and IPv6 (NO, I don't want to win a buzzword-bingo contest with that :-).
Being the security guy at our site, I have written a german technical report about a computer security model in an open (i.e., not firewalled) system environment: "Kontrollierte Unsicherheit zur Absicherung lokaler Netzwerke" (document, compressed PostScript, ~33kB, german).
Together with a few collegues, I have written an information system called
. Talk slides are available. We have deployed this system at a number of universities.
I have done some research on virtual shared memory systems on the MEMSY architecture. This work was a spin-off from my Diplomarbeit (diploma thesis) named "Verteilter gemeinsamer Speicher -- Evaluierung von Konzepten am Beispiel des MEMSY-Multiprozessorsystems" (document, PostScript, ~2MB, german), (slides, PostScript, ~100KB, german).
In April '94 I finished a thesis (Studienarbeit) about porting the Mach 3.0 microkernel onto Motorola MVME188 hardware (document, PostScript, ~200KB, german), (slides, PostScript, ~140KB, english) (a 4 CPU configuration). The main development goal of our group was establishing a Mach system with a BSD-Unix server running on top of it. This Unix server boots up properly to (almost) multiuser mode. Mach servers also work.