Karl M. Göschka

Biography

Karl Michael Göschka holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree (compareable to M.Sc.) in electrical and control engineering, a Dipl.-Ing. (compareable to M.Sc.) degree in computer science; a Mag.rer.soc.oec (compareable to M.Soc.Ec.Sc.) degree in computer science management, and a doctoral degree in information systems (1999, "Architectures of Web Applications") from the Vienna University of Technology, all with greatest honors. 07/1994 - 09/2000 he was with the Institute of Computer Technology at the Vienna University of Technology as a research and teaching assistant. During this period he also served as a consultant and headed research co-operations with Ericsson, Siemens, the Austrian Federal Railways, and Frequentis. 1996 - 2003 he assisted Prof. Eier with the supervision of ten Ph.D. students. Awards: 3rd prize at the International Mathematical Olympiade 1985; "GIT promotion award" of the ÖVE 1994 and 1999; "appreciation award" of the Ministry of Research and Transport 1998, dissertation award by the Austrian president 1999. 10/2000 - 11/2003 he was Chief Scientist and Director of Corporate Research at Frequentis Austria, responsible for the organization of the new department. The tasks comprised internal consulting in the area of distributed software in highly available systems including voice/data systems. He was also the responsible manager for the international development of the distributed, dependable management-system for Frequentis' voice communication products. In the meantime these efforts resulted in a productline which could improve the co-development of management software end embedded voice system significantly by introducing an innovative modelling approach. 12/2003 - 09/2004 he was a freelance consultant for R&D management and coaching with focus on dependability, distributed systems, component systems, and databases. In 10/2004 he joined the Institute of Information Systems, first as project leader (co-ordinator) and scientific&technology manager of DeDiSys (Dependable Distributed Systems, 10/2004-11/2007), a specific targeted research project (STREP) funded by the European Commission under the FP6. 09/2005-12/2007 he was also in charge of the participation of the Institute of Information Systems in the project COMPASS (Component based Automotive System Software), a research project funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation, and Technology. 12/2007-08/2013 Assistant Professor, 02/2008-04/2011 project leader and scientific&technology manager of TRADE (Trustworthy adaptive quality balancing through temporal decoupling). 12/2012 he has been awarded "venia docendi" for his habilitation thesis "Adaptive Dependability in Distributed Systems" and since 09/2013 he serves as Associate Professor[1] at the Vienna University of Technology. His research focus is on adaptive dependable and secure distributed systems with particular regard on property balancing with explicit, variable coupling. His research interests further include software architecture, software development processes (with focus on the migration of design artifacts into systems' run-time and the required tool support), as well as Web and Internet technologies including service-oriented computing (SOC). He authored or co-authored some 115 scientific publications as journal-, book- and conference contributions and co-authored the professional book "Electronic Commerce" (2nd edition, 2003). He chaired or co-chaired several scientific conferences, workshops, panels, and tutorials (more recently at DAIS 2012, ACM SAC 2006-2013, ACM Middleware 2006-2012, IEEE CEC 2011, IEEE EDCC 2010, Safecomp 2007, IEEE ICSOC 2007, EDOC 2007-2009, InterDB-VLDB 2007, IEEE ARES 2006, IEEE HICSS 2005) and has been serving on international programme committees since 1999. He is member of IEEE, ACM, the Austrian Electrotechnical Association (ÖVE), and the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). Since 1996 he is continously lecturing at the Vienna University of Technology and at several Universities of Applied Sciences about databases, Web engineering, distributed systems, and dependability. In his spare time he enjoys hiking and skiing.

Research Interest

My general interests consequently involve software architectures, software development processes (including project management), as well as Web and Internet technologies including service-oriented computing (SOC) and pervasive computing. More generally, I am also interested in databases, distributed systems, and in technical applications, e.g., voice-data convergence, automotive, control-engineering.