1 of 3 Date: 12.03.2011 Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering Department of Computer and Information Science Member of Scientific Staff: Research group: [...] Adjunct Associate Professor Gunnar Brataas
I. A brief CV and list of publications for Adjunct Associate Professor Gunnar Brataas
Name: Gunnar Brataas Nationality: Norwegian Born: Kongsberg, Norway, 25th March 1964 Present position: Research Scientist, SINTEF ICT, Adjunct Associate Professor, NTNU
Academic degrees: Master in Computer Science, NTH, Norway, Division of Computer Science and Telematics, January 1990, thesis: Speech Acts and Modal Logic PhD in Information Systems, NTNU, Norway, Division of Computer Science and Telematics, July 1996, thesis: Performance Engineering Method for Workflow Systems: An Integrated View of Human and Computerised Work Processes
Work experience: (from February 1990 to June 1994) Research Assistant NTNU (from January 1996 to July 1996) Deputy Associate Professor at NTNU (from August 1996 to October 1997) Researcher at Telenor R&D, Trondheim, Norway (from November 1997 to November 2001) Senior Engineer, Clustra, Trondheim, Norway (from November 2001 to June 2002) ) University Lecturer, NTNU (from July 2002 to June 2004) Post Doctor, NTNU (from July 2004 to July 2005) University Lecturer, NTNU (from August 2005 to February 2006) Independent Consultant, GRUB (from March 2006) Research Scientist, SINTEF ICT, Trondheim Norway (from August 2009) Adjunct Associate Professor at NTNU
Fields of interest and present research activities
Fields: Scalability Engineering (ScalE), Energy Efficiency (EE), Performance Engineering (PE) Research activities: Site manager in MUSIC www.ist-music.eu from January 2008 until June 2010. Participant from October 2006 until December 2007. o Scientific theme: Performance property prediction in mobile adaptive systems. Cooperates with Telenor ASA July 2010 onwards. o Scientific theme: Energy efficiency in data centres and scalability of smart grids. Work in the internal SINTEF project ProSUS from June 2009 onwards.
Evaluation of Norwegian Research in ICT 2011 2 of 3 Date: 12.03.2011 Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering Department of Computer and Information Science Member of Scientific Staff: Research group: [...] Adjunct Associate Professor Gunnar Brataas
o Scientific theme: Scalability in underwater sensor networks
Field of Interest Paper Project ScalE ScalE-OP1 EU projects: MADAM, SHIELDS and MUSIC, Cooperation with Telenor, ProSUS internal SINTEF project EE Cooperation with Telenor PE PE-1 EU project MUSIC
Indicate portion of time dedicated to research: 40%
Membership in academic and professional committees, scientific review work including peer- review, outreach activities, and other professional merits:
Selected academic and professional publications 2006-2010: Peer-reviewed journal papers Other papers (including scientific reports) ScalE-OP1 Gunnar Brataas, Svein Hallsteinsen, Romain Rouvoy, Frank Eliassen, “Scalability of Decision Models for Dynamic Product Lines”, 10 pages, DSPL’07, Kyoto, October 2007. International conference proceedings PE-C1 Gunnar Brataas, Jacqueline Floch, Romain Rouvoy, Pyrros Bratskas, George A. Papadopoulos, “A Basis for Performance Property Prediction of Ubiquitous Self-Adapting Systems”, 5 pages, ESSPE ’07, ACM Press. September 2007.
Evaluation of Norwegian Research in ICT 2011 3 of 3 Date: 12.03.2011 Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering Department of Computer and Information Science Member of Scientific Staff: Research group: [...] Adjunct Associate Professor Gunnar Brataas
II. Self-evaluation of the thematic content, scientific significance of the issues at hand and of the results Field of Interest Main Contribution / Significance ScalE How to build scalable system? How to test scalability of systems using analytical modeling? EE How to build system which is energy efficient? PE Performance property prediction of adaptive mobile systems
My research is now focused on scalability engineering: how to design systems with acceptable scalability. I am attacking this from several angles: Smart grids, where I as a coordinator plan to submit an EU proposal under objective 6.1 for Call 8 with deadline January 2012: o Our focus is to make a scalability engineering approach for smart grid. o Partners: SINTEF ICT (coordinator) University of Paderborn, Politecnico di Milano, Powel AS, Landis+Gyr, Gorenje and SINTEF Energy Research. o We submitted this proposal for objective 6.2 (ICT systems for energy efficiency), where we requested a funding of 3.9 Million Euros, but got the feedback that it was out of scope. I was the coordinator of this proposal. As a smart grid proposal it will have better chances in the smart grid objective 6.1. Underwater acoustic communication in the internal ProSUS project Energy efficiency in Telenor ASA where I also use my scalability competence. My scalability work builds on the article: Gunnar Brataas, Peter H. Hughes, J.M. Fagerli, O.C. Landmark, “Exploring Architectural Scalability”, Workshop on Software Performance (WOSP), 5 pages, ACM Press, San Francisco, USA, January 2004. I have participated in two journal articles on lessons learnt during designing a middleware for mobile systems, but these two articles are not yet accepted. Moreover, I also have an article on performance property prediction for mobile adaptive systems which requires only minor revision before conference submission. I am also working on an article on how to assess scalability for a web based system which use experience from the SHIELDS EU project.
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