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Andreas Ziegler,
M.Sc.

Member of the research staff at the
Department of Computer Science 4 (Distributed Systems and Operating Systems) at
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Research and Academic Activities

CADOS (at SRA, Uni Hannover)
Configurability Aware Development of Operating Systems
VAMOS (precursor of CADOS)
Variability Management in Operating Systems

Publications

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Ziegler, Andreas ; Geus, Julian ; Heinloth, Bernhard ; Hönig, Timo ; Lohmann, Daniel:
Honey, I Shrunk the ELFs: Lightweight Binary Tailoring of Shared Libraries.
In: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems 18 (2019), No. 5s, pp 102:1-102:23
Keywords: InvasIC; CADOS; Shared Libraries; Binary Tailoring; Linux
[doi>10.1145/3358222] (BibTeX)

Dietrich, Christian ; Rothberg, Valentin ; Füracker, Ludwig ; Ziegler, Andreas ; Lohmann, Daniel:
cHash: Detection of Redundant Compilations via AST Hashing.
In: USENIX Association (Ed.) : Proceedings of the 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC '17)
(2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC '17), Santa Clara, CA, 12.-14.7.2017).
2017, pp 527-538. - ISBN 978-1-931971-38-6
Keywords: Compiler, Optimization, CADOS (BibTeX)

Ziegler, Andreas ; Rothberg, Valentin ; Lohmann, Daniel:
Analyzing the Impact of Feature Changes in Linux.
In: Schaefer, Ina ; Alves, Vander ; Santana de Almeida, Eduardo (Ed.) : Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems
(10th International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS '16), Salvador, Brazil, 27.-29.01.2016).
New York, NY, USA : ACM Press, 2016, pp 25-32. - ISBN 978-1-4503-4019-9
Keywords: CADOS, Linux
[doi>10.1145/2866614.2866618] (BibTeX)

Rothberg, Valentin ; Dintzner, Nicolas ; Ziegler, Andreas ; Lohmann, Daniel:
Feature Models in Linux - From Symbols to Semantic.
In: Schaefer, Ina ; Alves, Vander ; Santana de Almeida, Eduardo (Ed.) : Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems
(10th International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS '16), Salvador, Brazil, 27.-29.01.2016).
New York, NY, USA : ACM Press, 2016, pp 65-72. - ISBN 978-1-4503-4019-9
Keywords: CADOS, Linux
[doi>10.1145/2866614.2866624] (BibTeX)

Rothberg, Valentin ; Dietrich, Christian ; Ziegler, Andreas ; Lohmann, Daniel:
Towards Scalable Configuration Testing in Variable Software.
In: Fischer, Bernd ; Schaefer, Ina (Ed.) : Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences
(15th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience, Amsterdam, October 31-November 01, 2016).
2016. - ISBN 978-1-4503-4446-3
[doi>10.1145/2993236.2993252] (BibTeX)

Ziegler, Andreas ; Heinloth, Bernhard ; Lohmann, Daniel:
Automatic Feature Selection in Large-Scale System-Software Product Lines.
In: Flatt, Matthew (Ed.) : Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences
(13th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE '14), Västerås, Sweden, Sep. 2014).
New York, NY, USA : ACM Press, 2014, pp 39-48. - ISBN 978-1-4503-3161-6
Keywords: CADOS,VAMOS, Linux, Tailoring, optimiziaton, experimentation
[doi>10.1145/2658761.2658767] (BibTeX)

Kurmus, Anil ; Tartler, Reinhard ; Dorneanu, Daniela ; Heinloth, Bernhard ; Rothberg, Valentin ; Ziegler, Andreas ; Schröder-Preikschat, Wolfgang ; Lohmann, Daniel ; Kapitza, Rüdiger:
Attack Surface Metrics and Automated Compile-Time OS Kernel Tailoring.
In: The Internet Society (Ed.) : Proceedings of the 20th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '13)
(Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, CA United States, 24-27.2.2013).
2013, pp 1-18.
Keywords: VAMOS,Configurability, System Software, Software Engineering, Maintenance, Security, (BibTeX)

Tartler, Reinhard ; Kurmus, Anil ; Ziegler, Andreas ; Heinloth, Bernhard ; Rothberg, Valentin ; Dorneanu, Daniela ; Kapitza, Rüdiger ; Schröder-Preikschat, Wolfgang ; Lohmann, Daniel:
Automatic OS Kernel TCB Reduction by Leveraging Compile-Time Configurability.
In: USENIX (Ed.) : Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '12)
(Eigth Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability, Hollywood, CA, USA, 7.10.2012).
2012.
Keywords: VAMOS, TCLOUDS, Configurability, System Software, Software Engineering, Maintenance, Security, (BibTeX)

Teaching

Summer Term 2017 to Winter Term 2019/20

Summer Term 2015 to Winter Term 2016/2017

Theses

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Open Topics

Ongoing Theses

Finished Theses

Analyse der kombinierten Maßschneiderung von Betriebssystem und Anwendungsumgebung (CADOS_COMBINED)
Student: Stefan Eschenbacher (handed in on 01.02.2022 )
Supervisors: Prof. i. R. Dr.-Ing. habil. Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Dr.-Ing. Andreas Ziegler


Configurability-Aware Header Analysis in Linux / How to Detect Dead #ifdefs in Header Files
Student: Jonas Rabenstein (handed in on 09.04.2016 )
Supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Daniel Lohmann, Valentin Rothberg, M. Sc., Dr.-Ing. Andreas Ziegler


Der Einfluss von Maßschneiderung auf die Wartbarkeit von Systemsoftware (CADOS_TAILORPATCH)
Supervisors: Dr.-Ing. Andreas Ziegler, Lohmann, Daniel


Efficient One-Shot Function Tracing in the Linux Kernel
Student: Thomas Preisner (handed in on 02.04.2019 )
Supervisors: Prof. i. R. Dr.-Ing. habil. Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Dr.-Ing. Andreas Ziegler, Bernhard Heinloth, M. Sc.


Effiziente globale Änderungsanalysen in großen C-Projekten durch Syntaxbaum-Hashing im Clang Compiler
Student: Ludwig Füracker (handed in on 02.10.2017 )
Supervisors: Prof. i. R. Dr.-Ing. habil. Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Daniel Lohmann, Dr.-Ing. Andreas Ziegler, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Dietrich


Entwicklung eines Frameworks zur statischen Maßschneiderung von Binärdateien unter Linux (CADOS_ELFREMOVE)
Student: Julian Geus (handed in on 07.06.2019 )
Supervisors: Prof. i. R. Dr.-Ing. habil. Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Dr.-Ing. Andreas Ziegler


Multiverse: Compiler-Assisted Dynamic Variability Management in the Linux Kernel
Student: Florian Rommel (handed in on 02.11.2017 )
Supervisors: Prof. i. R. Dr.-Ing. habil. Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Daniel Lohmann, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Dietrich, Dr.-Ing. Andreas Ziegler


Sandkasten: a seccomp-based user sandbox to restrict file and process access (sandkasten)
Student: Simon Ruderich (handed in on 16.07.2018, Thesis file...)
Supervisors: Bernhard Heinloth, M. Sc., Dr.-Ing. Andreas Ziegler


Webbasierte Visualisierung von Konfigurierbarkeitsdefekten im Linux-Quellcode (CADOS_WEBGIT)
Student: Patrick Plagwitz (handed in on 21.12.2015, Thesis file...)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Daniel Lohmann, Dr.-Ing. Andreas Ziegler, Valentin Rothberg, M. Sc.

Own Master's Thesis and Bachelor's Thesis

Lightweight Extraction of Variability Information from Linux Makefiles (CADOS_MINIGOLEM)
Student: Ruprecht Andreas (handed in on 27.04.2015, Thesis file...)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Daniel Lohmann