Seminars

Our seminars cover the broad area of computer systems research, meaning the development, design, architecture, deployment, and operation of software and hardware systems. More specifically, the topics will revolve around operating systems, distributed systems, file and storage systems, networked systems, runtime systems, virtualization, parallelism and multi-core systems, systems for emerging hardware or real-time embedded systems. The topics covered are the ones available in conference such as SOSP, OSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, ASPLOS.


Current Topics in Systems

In this seminar, you will do a literature survey on a specific topic in the systems areas listed above. You are expected to produce a paper and a presentation. The presentation should be a concise summary of your research while the paper should give a deeper understanding of the topic.

We will follow a conference-style submission process:

  1. You will submit your paper to a conference submission system.
  2. You will then act as reviewers for each other – as a reviewer, you are expected to give constructive criticism to help authors improve their submission.
  3. You will use the feedback from the reviews to prepare an improved final version of your paper.
  4. You will prepare your 20-minute talk and present it in front of the other students of the seminar – as an audience member, you are also expected to ask questions and start discussions with the presenters.

Language: English

Study programs: Bachelor Informatik, Master Informatik, Master Software Systems Engineering

Offered in: Winter semester


System Evaluation and Reproducibility

In this seminar, you will choose one paper with an available artifact and try to reproduce the published results. You are expected to produce a paper and a presentation. Your paper should concisely summarise the research paper you chose, as well as detail your methodology and results when reproducing the results independently. The presentation should be a concise summary of your paper.

We will follow a conference-style submission process:

  1. You will submit your paper to a conference submission system.
  2. You will then act as reviewers for each other – as a reviewer, you are expected to give constructive criticism to help authors improve their submission and artifact evaluation.
  3. You will use the feedback from the reviews to prepare an improved final version of your paper.
  4. You will prepare your 20-minute talk and present it in front of the other students of the seminar – as an audience member, you are also expected to ask questions and start discussions with the presenters.

Language: English

Study programs: Bachelor Informatik, Master Informatik, Master Software Systems Engineering

Offered in: Summer semester