Alexander Willner, M.Sc.

Research Assistant

Contact (vCard Download) Phone: +49 228 73-54199 Fax: +49 228 73-4571 Email: willner@REMOVETHISPART.cs.uni-bonn.de Public key: 0x50FE9D32 (OpenPGP) Public key: 0xE151C8C (X.509)     Address   Institute of Computer Science 4 Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144 53113 Bonn Germany Room: II.03

Research / Projects

• My research area: Dynamic End-to-End Network Services.
• My research projects: BMBF Viola, IST Phosphorus, BMBF SLA4D-Grid.
• My other projects: Jobspooling/Cluster management, Web/IT services administration, IEEE Student Branch formation.
• My mailing lists: OGF (NML-WG | NSI-WG | NMC-WG | OCCI-WG | GHPN-RG | ISOD-RG), GLIF (GNI-API | PV), BoD announcements.
• Related research groups: ITU-T NGN, TMF (SDF | SLAM | SID), IETF VNRG, SNIA CDMI, OGF (NSI | NML | OCCI | ISOD).
• Related reviews: Books: "SLAs for Cloud Computing", to be published at Springer 2011.; Conferences: IEEE Globecom 2008, IEEE ICC 2009, IFIP Networking 2009, IEEE LCN 2011.
• Related projects:
  • FP5: EuQoS.
  • FP6: OneLab, EC-GIN.
  • FP7: 4WARD, FEDERICA, FIRE, GEYSERS, GÉANT3, EURO-NF, BONFIRE, OneLab2, MANTYCHORE, NOVI, PanLab, NetQos, OPENNET, BONE, OFELIA, IRMOS.
  • Others: MANTICORE, G-lambda, Internet2, Enlightened Computing, PlanetLab, VINI, GENI, OpenPhere, Dynamic GOLE.

Funding

• Starting Points
  • Overviews: kowi | kisswin | nks-ikt (German)
  • German DFG: gepris (German)
  • EU: cordis | forschungsrahmenprogramm (German)
  • Networking: researchgate | mendeley
• Programs / Calls / Announcements
  • EU: FP7: Cooperation: ICT (Information and Communication Technologies)
  • EU: FP7: Cooperation: ICT : Find open calls
  • EU: FP7: Ideas: ERC (European Research Council Grants)
  • Germany: DFG: Individual Grants Programme
  • Germany: DFG: Initiation and Intensification of Bilateral Cooperation
  • Germany: BMBF: Research: New Technologies: Information Society: ICT (Information and communication technologies) > Announcements (German)
  • Germany: BMWI (Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology) > Abo Service (German)

Tips for Students

• Tips for better presentations
  • The Back of the Napkin
  • Presentation Zen
  • Presentation Zen Design
  • Made to Stick
  • Slide:ology
  • Design und Typografie
  • 10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don’t Suck
  • Don McMillan: Life After Death by PowerPoint
• Tips for a more efficient workflow
  • Zen to Done (also available in German)
  • Getting Things Done
  • Pomodoro Technique
  • Pareto Principle
  • The Power of Less
  • Brain Rules
  • Tools in case you're using OS X
    • Included: Spotlight (do not worry about folder/mail structure), Dictionary (do not worry about translations), Keychain (do not worry about passwords), Time Machine (do not worry about backups), iCal (do not worry about your appointments), Automator (do not worry about how to automate repeating tasks), shortcuts (do not worry about your mouse)
    • Free: QuickSilver (a must), BetterSnapTool (window management), Wunderlist (todos), ClipMenu (multi cut'n'paste, templates, ...), Pomodoro (time management), Dropbox (sync your computer)
    • Commercial: Things (todos), TypeIt4Me (text expander), Minco (time tracker)
• Tips for working in the scientific field
  • Writing Technical Articles
  • Duden. Die schriftliche Arbeit - kurz gefasst
  • Studien-Arbeiten
  • Die Gestaltung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten
  • How to Write a Thesis
  • How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors
  • How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab
  • Computing as a Discipline
  • Discussion on Ph.D. theses proposals in computing science
  • Der Weg zur Diplomarbeit
  • Leitfaden für Bachelor-, Master-, Diplomarbeiten, Seminar- und Praktikumsausarbeitungen
  • Tipps zum Schreiben von Konferenzpapieren
  • Gut schreiben, aber wie?
  • Reading papers: SQ3R
• Downloads
  • The First Aid Kit for seminar papers
  • Sophisticated LaTeX thesis template (feel free to contribute)

Teaching

• Summer Term 2011
  • Exercises to Systemnahe Informatik (by Prof. Dr. Martini)
• Summer Term 2010
  • Excercises to Systemnahe Informatik (by Prof. Dr. Martini)
• Summer Term 2009
  • Excercises to Systemnahe Informatik (by Prof. Dr. Martini)
  • Diploma Thesis: "Bewertung von Ausfallmechanismen für Advance Reservations in leitungsvermittelten Netzen mit Switching-Restriktionen."
• Winter Term 2008
  • Seminar "Rechnernetze": "Erweiterung des NEON-Simulators für malleable reservations in Multidomänen Umgebungen."
• Winter Term 2007
  • Seminar "SHK": "Das Grid und Web services. Eine Kombination von Technologien."
  • Seminar "SHK": "Grid Benchmarking. Herausforderungen und Verfahren."
  • Seminar "Rechnernetze": "Das Grid: Eine Einführung."
  • Seminar "Rechnernetze": "The Whys and Hows of Network Topology Description in Grid Environments."
  • Lab "Rechnernetze": "Transitive Authentifizierung durch die Network Service Plane."
• Summer Term 2007
  • Excercises to Informatik II (by Prof. Dr. Martini and Dr. Frank)

Publications

Book Chapters

Conference Proceedings

Reports

Poster and Workshops

Theses

Random PhD comic (best of)