Michael Vatareck

Research

Optimization of cost, performance and resource utilization in cloud computing; cloud manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Industrial IoT; prediction-based proactive systems; machine learning; blockchain technologies.

• CORUS-XUAM: CORUS - Extension for Urban Air Mobility (EU H2020/SESAR JU)
• RESPONDRONE: Novel Integrated Solution of Operating a Fleet of Drones with Multiple Synchronized Missions for Disaster Responses (EU H2020 RIA)
• City-ATM: Demonstration of Traffic Management in Urban Airspace (Institutional funding)
• 5G-Reallabor in der Mobilitätsregion Braunschweig-Wolfsburg (Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Germany)
• LABYRINTH: Unmanned Traffic Management 4D Path Planning Technologies for Drone Swarm to Enhance Safety and Security in Transport (EU H2020 RIA)
• TAST: Token Atomic Swap Technology (Bitpanda GmbH/Pantos GmbH)
• CREMA: Cloud-based Rapid Elastic Manufacturing (EU H2020 RIA)
• SIMPLI-CITY: The Road User Information System of the Future (EU FP7)

M. Sigwart, M. Borkowski, M. Peise, S. Schulte, S. Tai. A Secure and Extensible Blockchain-based Data Provenance Framework for the Internet of Things. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer, 2020.

M. Borkowski, M. Sigwart, P. Frauenthaler, T. Hukkinen, S. Schulte. DeXTT: Deterministic Cross-Blockchain Token Transfers. IEEE Access 7:111030-111042, IEEE, 2019.

M. Borkowski, C. Hochreiner, S. Schulte. Minimizing Cost by Reducing Scaling Operations in Distributed Stream Processing. PVLDB 12(7):724-737, VLDB Endowment, 2019.

M. Borkowski, W. Fdhila, M. Nardelli, S. Rinderle-Ma, S. Schulte. Event-based Failure Prediction in Distributed Business Processes. Information Systems, 81:220-235, Elsevier, 2019.

O. Skarlat, M. Nardelli, S. Schulte, M. Borkowski, P. Leitner. Optimized IoT Service Placement in the Fog. Service Oriented Computing and Applications, 11(4):427-443, Springer, 2017.

T. Brandstätter, S. Schulte, J. Cito, M. Borkowski. Characterizing Efficiency Optimizations in Solidity Smart Contracts. 3rd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2020), Rhodes Island, Greece, 2020, pp. 281-290. Best Paper Award.

P. Frauenthaler, M. Borkowski, S. Schulte. A Framework for Assessing and Selecting Blockchains at Runtime (short paper). IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPS 2020), Oxford, United Kingdom, 2020, pp. 106-113.

M. Sigwart, M. Borkowski, M. Peise, S. Schulte, S. Tai. Blockchain-based Data Provenance for the Internet of Things. 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2019), Bilbao, Spain, 2019, pp. 1-8.

V. Karagiannis, A. Venito, R. Coelho, M. Borkowski, G. Fohler. Edge Computing with Peer to Peer Interactions: Use Cases and Impact. Workshop on Fog Computing and the Internet of Things (Fog-IoT 2019), Montreal, Canada, 2019, pp. 1-5.

S. Weninger, M. Borkowski. Data Prefetching in Smart Systems (demo paper). 22nd IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018, pp. 204-207.

C. Schubert, M. Borkowski, S. Schulte. Trustworthy Detection and Arbitration of SLA Violations in the Cloud. 7th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2018), Como, Italy, 2018, 90-104. LNCS volume 11116.

P. Waibel, S. Videnov, M. Borkowski, C. Hochreiner, S. Schulte, J. Mendling. Process Simulation for Machine Reservation in Cloud Manufacturing. 16th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2018), Porto, Portugal, 2018, pp. 270-277.

M. Borkowski, C. Hochreiner, S. Schulte. Moderated Resource Elasticity for Stream Processing Applications. Euro-Par 2017: Parallel Processing Workshops, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2017, pp. 5-16. LNCS volume 10659.

M. Borkowski, S. Schulte, C. Hochreiner. Predicting Cloud Resource Utilization. 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016), Shanghai, China, 2016, pp. 37-42.

O. Skarlat, S. Schulte, M. Borkowski, P. Leitner. Resource Provisioning for IoT Services in the Fog. 9th IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2016), Macau, China, 2016, pp. 32-39.

M. Borkowski, O. Skarlat, S. Schulte, S. Dustdar. Prediction-Based Prefetch Scheduling in Mobile Service Applications. 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services (MS 2016), San Francisco, CA, 2016, pp. 41-48.

C. Hochreiner, P. Waibel, M. Borkowski. Bridging Gaps in Cloud Manufacturing with 3D Printing. Proceedings of Informatik 2016, volume 259 of Lecture Notes in Informatics, pp. 1623-1626.

O. Skarlat, M. Borkowski, S. Schulte. Towards a Methodology and Instrumentation Toolset for Cloud Manufacturing. CPPS Workshop (CPS Week 2016), Vienna, Austria, 2016, pp. 1-4.

S. Schulte, M. Borkowski, C. Hochreiner, M. Klusch, A. Murguzur, O. Skarlat, P. Waibel. Bringing Cloud-based Rapid Elastic Manufacturing to Reality with CREMA. Workshop on Intelligent Systems Configuration Services for Flexible Dynamic Global Production Networks (FLEXINET) at the 8th International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications (I-ESA 2016), pp. 407-413.

M. Nissl, E. Sallinger, S. Schulte, M. Borkowski. Towards Cross-Blockchain Smart Contracts. arXiv, Article 2010.07352, 2020.

S. Schulte, M. Sigwart, P. Frauenthaler, M. Borkowski. Towards Blockchain Interoperability. BPM Blockchain and Central and Eastern Europe Forum (Vol. 361), Vienna, Austria, 2019, pp. 1-8.

M. Borkowski, M. Sigwart, P. Frauenthaler, S. Schulte. DeXTT: Deterministic Cross-Blockchain Token Transfers. arXiv, Article 1905.06204, 2019.

M. Borkowski, P. Frauenthaler, M. Sigwart, T. Hukkinen, O. Hladky, S. Schulte. Cross-Blockchain Technologies: Review, State of the Art, and Outlook. White Paper, Technische Universität Wien, 2019.

M. Borkowski, C. Ritzer, S. Schulte. Deterministic Witnesses for Claim-First Transactions. White Paper, Technische Universität Wien, 2018.

M. Sigwart, C. Hochreiner, M. Borkowski, S. Schulte. FakeLoad: An Open-Source Load Generator. Technical Report TUV-1942-2018-01, Distributed Systems Group, Technische Universität Wien, 2018.

M. Borkowski, C. Ritzer, D. McDonald, S. Schulte. Caught in Chains: Claim-First Transactions for Cross-Blockchain Asset Transfers. White Paper, Technische Universität Wien, 2018.

M. Borkowski, D. McDonald, C. Ritzer, S. Schulte. Towards Atomic Cross-Chain Token Transfers: State of the Art and Open Questions within TAST. White Paper, Technische Universität Wien, 2018.

M. Borkowski, W. Fdhila, M. Nardelli, S. Rinderle-Ma, S. Schulte. Event-based Failure Prediction in Distributed Business Processes. arXiv, Article 1712.08342, 2018.

M. Borkowski. Predictive Approaches for Resource Provisioning in Distributed Systems. Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien. March 2020. Nominated for the IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award 2020.

M. Borkowski. Smart Prefetching for Mobile Users under Volatile Network Conditions. Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien. August 2015.

M. Borkowski. ACTA in a Nutshell: Das Handelsabkommen ACTA in seinen wichtigsten Zügen. Bachelor's Thesis, Technische Universität Wien. July 2012.

• Chiara Teresa Gruß: Flugverhalten von PX4-basierten Quadrocoptern im Offboard-Modus in Abhängigkeit von Windgeschwindigkeiten und Winkelflügen, Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen, December 2020.
• Dragan Tosic: Blockchain Interoperability: A Cross-Chain Token Transfer Protocol, Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien, ongoing.
• Tamara Brandstätter: Optimization of Solidity Smart Contracts, Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien, February 2020.
• Sabine Weninger: Data Prefetching in Smart Systems, Bachelor's Thesis, Technische Universität Wien, April 2018.
• Christian Schubert: Trustworthy Measurement and Arbitration of Service Level Agreements in the Cloud, Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien, January 2018.

• 12th Central European Workshop on Services and their Composition (ZEUS 2020): Program Committee Member
• 11th Central European Workshop on Services and their Composition (ZEUS 2019): Program Committee Member
• Elsevier Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM): Reviewer
• ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB): Reviewer
• IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC): Reviewer
• IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC): Reviewer
• IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST): Reviewer
• Wiley Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CPE): Reviewer

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