Team Member: Dr. Ralf König

Research Interests

• Automation of IT Management
• Systems with Self-Management Capabilities
• Systems Design Patterns
• Systems Analysis
• Systems Engineering - Requirements and Processes

Memberships

• Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V. (VDE)
• Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V. (DANTE)

Certifications

• Foundation Certificate according to ISO/IEC 20000
• ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

Teaching

• Praktikum Rechnernetze (Lab Course Computer Networks) (SS07, SS06, SS05)
• Übung Rechnernetze (WS07/08, WS06/07, WS05/06)
• Hauptseminar (SS08, SS07, SS06)

Projects

• EMANICS - European Network of Excellence of the Management of Internet Technologies and Complex Services (EMANICS) (Jan 2006 - April 2010)
• "Life-cycle management for a virtual control center appliance"; with Fujitsu-Siemens Computers (2008-2009)
• Management of virtual infrastructures, trends and risks; with Siemens Corporate Technology (2007-2008)
• PUSH - Policy-based Update Management for Smart Home Environments; Adaptive Configuration and automated Error Recovery (Sep 2005 - Oct 2006), with Siemens Corporate Technology

Supervised work of students at Chemnitz University of Technology

• Gemeinhardt, N., Dynamische Visualisierung der Netz-Infrastruktur der TU Chemnitz mit GraphViz, Projekt des URZ, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Juni, 2005
• Wolf, L., Management von Video-Projektoren, Studienarbeit, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Juni, 2005.
• Vodel, M., NAS-Lösungen im SoHo-Bereich, Studienarbeit, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Juni, 2005.
• Barthel, A., Analysis, Implementation and Enhancement of Vendor dependent and independent Layer-2 Network Topology Discovery, Diplomarbeit, Technische Universität Chemnitz, April, 2005.
• Lohr, F., Roeder, D., Evaluierung ns/nam network simulator and animator, Studienarbeit, Technische Universität Chemnitz, April, 2005.

Student Work

Publications

• Hommel, W., Liu, F., Metzker, M., Schiffers, M., König, R., Yampolskiy, M., Link repair in managed multi-domain connections with end-to-end quality guarantees, International Journal of Network Management, 2012 (Volume 22, Issue 5), John Wiley & Sons, September, 2012.
• König, R., Engineering of IT Management Automation along Task Analysis, Loops, Function Allocation, Machine Capabilities, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Dissertation, April, 2010.
• Brenner, M., Dreo Rodosek, G., Hanemann, A., Hegering, H.-G., König, R., Handbook of Network and System Administration, Service Provisioning: Challenges, Process Alignment and Tool Support, 855-904, Elsevier, November, 2007.
• König, R., Hegering, H.-G., Towards a Toolkit for the Analysis and Design of Systems with Self-Management Capabilities, In Proceedings of First International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, AIMS 2007, 168-171, LNCS 4543, Springer, Oslo, Norway, Juni, 2007.
• König, R., Managing self-managing systems - Criteria to classify systems with self-management capabilities, In Selbstorganisierende, Adaptive, Kontextsensitive verteilte Systeme (SAKS) Workshop, Kassel, Germany, Juni, 2006.
• Graupner, S., König, R., Machiraju, V., Pruyne, J., Sahai, A., van Moorsel, A., Impact of Virtualization on Management Systems, HP OpenView University Association, HPOVUA 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, Juli, 2003.