Research Interests

• Dynamic Software Updates
• Data Analysis Systems

Projects

• 2015 – today
• SDI-X: Smart Data Innovation–Prozesse, Werkzeuge und Betriebskonzepte

• 2014 – today
• SDIL: Smart Data Innovation Lab
• SDSC: Smart Data Solution Center

• 2013 – 2014
• SoftwareCampus: Hot Updates in Distributed Systems

• 2011 – 2014
• TIMBUS: Timeless Business

Teaching

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany)

• Since winter term 2013/14
• Mobile Computing seminar (wt 2013/14, st 2014, wt 2014/15, st 2015, wt 2015/16, st 2016, wt 2016/17)

• Summer term 2013
• Introduction to computer networks exercises

• Winter term 2012/13
• Operating systems and system architecture exercises

• Since winter term 2012/13
• Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing seminar (wt 2012/13, st 2013, wt 2013/14, st 2014, wt 2014/15, st 2015, wt 2015/16, st 2016, wt 2016/17)

• Winter term 2011/12
• Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing laboratory (wt 2011/12, st 2014, st 2015)

• Since winter term 2011/12
• Software development projects (wt 2011/12, wt 2012/13, st 2014)

Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (Stuttgart, Germany)

• Since summer term 2012
• Compiler construction projects (st 2012, st 2013, st 2014, st 2015, st 2016)

Short Curriculum Vitae

• Since 2012
• Lecturer at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (Stuttgart, Germany)

• Since 2011
• Research and teaching assistant at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany)

• 2010 – 2011
• Student at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (Rüschlikon, Switzerland)

• 2010 – 2011
• Student research assistant at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany)

• 2008 – 2010
• Student research assistant at University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology (Braunschweig, Germany)

• 2008 – 2011
• Master of Science at University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology (Braunschweig, Germany)

• 2005 – 2008
• Bachelor of Science at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperate State University (Stuttgart, Germany)
• Cooperate student at Hewlett-Packard (Ratingen, Germany; Sofia, Bulgaria; Houston, USA; Bristol, UK)

• 2002 – 2003
• Call Center Agent (CCA) for IT support at theBEEcompany (Peine, Germany)

Awards and Prizes

• January 2014
• Martin Alexander Neumann, Yong Ding and Georg Hackenberg
• Bet and Energy – Gamified Betting on Energy Use for Load Shifting and Energy Conservation
• A winner of SAP’s Utility of Tomorrow Innovation Contest

Activities

2017

• International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)
• Technical Program Committee

• International Workshop on Smart Sensing Systems (IWSSS)
• Technical Program Committee

2016

• International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)
• Technical Program Committee

• International Workshop on Smart Sensing Systems (IWSSS)
• Technical Program Committee

2015

• International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)
• Technical Program Committee

• International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Smart Sensing (IWWISS)
• Technical Program Committee

2014

• International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Smart Sensing (IWWISS)
• Publication Chair

Publications

2017

• July 2017 (full conference paper)
• Julio Borges, Martin Alexander Neumann, Christian Bauer, Yong Ding, Till Riedel, Michael Beigl
• Predicting Target Events In Industrial Domains, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition
• 13th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM)

• March 2017 (full conference paper)
• Martin Alexander Neumann, Christoph Tobias Bach, Yong Ding, Till Riedel and Michael Beigl
• Seamless and Timely Dynamic Software Updating of Smart Grid Components
• 2nd International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies (SmartGIFT), EAI

2016

• November 2016 (workshop paper)
• Martin Alexander Neumann, Christoph Tobias Bach, Andrei Miclaus, Till Riedel and Michael Beigl
• Always-On Web of Things Infrastructure using Dynamic Software Updating
• 7th International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT), ACM

• November 2016 (workshop paper)
• Andrei Miclaus, Wolfgang Clauss, Eugen Schwert, Martin Alexander Neumann, Ferdinand Mütsch, Till Riedel, Fabian Schmidt and Michael Beigl
• Towards the Shop Floor App Ecosystem: Using the Semantic Web for Gluing Together Apps into Mashups
• 7th International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT), ACM

• November 2016 (short conference paper and poster)
• Martin Alexander Neumann
• Towards Practical Release-Level Dynamic Software Updating on Stock Java — Evaluating an Efficient and Safely Programmable Java Dynamic Updating System
• Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH), ACM SIGPLAN

• November 2016 (conference poster paper)
• Martin Alexander Neumann, Christoph Tobias Bach and Stefan Kratochwil
• libDSU: Towards Hot-Swapping Dynamically Linked Libraries on Stock Linux
• Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH), ACM SIGPLAN

• October 2016 (conference publication)
• Martin Alexander Neumann and Markus Scholz
• Best Practices for Data Analysis Projects
• 1st Smart Data Innovation Conference (SDIC2016)

• September 2016 (workshop presentation)
• Martin Alexander Neumann and Christoph Tobias Bach
• Lusagent: Dynamic Software Updating on Java
• 3rd Virtual Machine Meetup (VMM2016)

2015

• October 2015 (conference paper)
• Yong Ding, Julio Borges, Martin Alexander Neumann and Michael Beigl
• Sequential Pattern Mining – A Study to Understand Daily Activity Patterns for Load Forecasting Enhancement
• 1st International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), IEEE

• October 2015 (conference paper)
• Yong Ding, Sozo Inoue, Martin Alexander Neumann, Erwin Stamm, Xincheng Pan and Michael Beigl
• A Personalized Load Forecasting Enhanced by Activity Information
• 1st International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), IEEE

2014

• October 2014 (workshop paper)
• Yong Ding, Martin Alexander Neumann, Ömer Kehri, Geoff Ryder, Till Riedel and Michael Beigl
• From Load Forecasting to Demand Response – A Web of Things Use Case
• 5th International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT), ACM

2013

• October 2013 (long conference paper)
• Yong Ding, Per Goncalves Da Silva, Martin Alexander Neumann, Lin Zhang, Michael Beigl
• A Control Loop Approach for Integrating The Future Decentralized Power Markets and Grids
• 4th International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, IEEE

• September 2013 (short conference paper)
• Anja Bachmann, Martin Alexander Neumann, Hossein Miri, Jose Barateiro, Goncalo Antunes and Artur Caetano
• Preservation and Redeployment of Sensor Acquisition Processes from a Dam Safety Information System
• 5th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, SciTePress

• September 2013 (workshop paper)
• Martin Alexander Neumann, Daniel Hassler, Yong Ding, Till Riedel and Michael Beigl
• Temporally-Relaxed Conditions for Activation of Services in the Web of Things
• 4th International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT), ACM

• August 2013 (workshop paper)
• Yong Ding, Martin Alexander Neumann, Per Goncalves Da Silva, Michael Beigl
• A Framework of Short-Term Activity-Aware Load Forecasting
• 2nd International Workshop on AI Problems and Approaches for Intelligent Environments (AI4IE), ACM

2012

• October 2012 (long conference paper)
• Martin Alexander Neumann, Hossein Miri, John Thomson, Goncalo Antunes, Rudolf Mayer, Michael Beigl
• Towards a Decision Support Architecture for Digital Preservation of Business Processes
• 9th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES), iPRES

• October 2012 (long conference paper)
• Mykola Galushka, Philip Taylor, Wasif Gilani, John Thomson, Stephan Strodl, Martin Alexander Neumann
• Digital Preservation of Business Processes using the TIMBUS Architecture
• 9th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES), iPRES

• September 2012 (long conference paper)
• Rudolf Mayer, Andreas Rauber, Martin Alexander Neumann, John Thomson, Goncalo Antunes
• Preserving Scientific Processes from Design to Publications
• 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), LNCS

• June 2012 (long conference paper and conference demo)
• Yong Ding, Martin Alexander Neumann, Dawud Gordon, Till Riedel, Takashi Miyaki, Michael Beigl, Wenzhu Zhang, Lin Zhang
• A Platform-as-a-Service for in-situ Development of Wireless Sensor Network Applications
• 9th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), IEEE

• March 2012 (short conference paper)
• Jose Barateiro, Daniel Draws, Martin Alexander Neumann, Stephan Strodl
• Digital Preservation Challenges on Software Life Cycle
• 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), IEEE

2011

• December 2011 (long conference paper)
• Stephan Sigg, Predrag Jakimovski, Florian Becker, Hedda Schmidtke, Martin Alexander Neumann, Yusheng Ji, Michael Beigl
• Neuron-Inspired Collaborative Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks
• 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MobiQuitous), LNICST

• September 2011 (short conference paper)
• Martin Alexander Neumann, Till Riedel, Philip Taylor, Hedda Schmidtke, Michael Beigl
• Monitoring for Digital Preservation of Processes
• 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT), LNAI

• June 2011 (conference demo)
• Dawud Gordon, Martin Alexander Neumann, Michael Beigl
• Program Your Reality with dinam-mite
• 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive), LNCS

2010

• June 2010 (short conference paper)
• Dawud Gordon, Michael Beigl, Martin Alexander Neumann
• dinam: A Wireless Sensor Network Concept and Platform for Rapid Development
• 7th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), IEEE

2009

• February 2009 (corporate journal paper)
• Serdar Cabuk, Chris I. Dalton, Aled Edwards, Anna Fischer, Martin Alexander Neumann
• Secure Network Virtualization for a Service Utility Platform
• HP Labs TechReports

Students

Theses

• Winter term 2015/16
• Christoph Bach (master project), Comparing Resulting State of Dynamic and Conventional Updates to Support Development of State Transformers in Dynamic Software Updating
• Stefan Kratochwil (master thesis), Unrestricted Dynamic Updating of binary-compatible dynamically-linked Libraries in Generic Linux Programs by Scanning and Patching of Direct Pointers

• Summer term 2015
• Julio Borges (master thesis), An Efficient and Robust Approach for Sequence Mining in Eventlogs of Industrial Production Processes
• Giullian Franke (master project), Programming Efforts of Developing State Transformers for Dynamic Software Updates in Java

• Winter term 2014/15
• Marcel Kost (bachelor thesis), Zero-Overhead Dynamic Hot Fixing of Shared Libraries under Linux
• Jannik Quehl (master thesis), Low-Disruptive Updates in Distributed Streaming Systems on the Basis of Dynamic Software Updating

• Summer term 2014
• Philipp Adolf (bachelor thesis), Dynamic Updates for Java Programs That Leave No Evidence
• Christoph Bach (bachelor thesis), Integrating the Java Tool Interface into Dynamic Updates for Java Programs
• Michael Jacoby (master thesis), Enabling Domain-Specific Rule-Based Automation With Semantic Stream Technology
• Alina Saalfeld (bachelor thesis), Identification of TCP Proxies and Load Balancers using Patterns in TCP Connection Handling

• Winter term 2013/14
• Sebastian Höninger (master thesis), Towards Adaptive Prediction of Safe States for Software Updates under Unknown Workloads
• Pierre Barbera (master project), Estimating Execution Time of Local Dynamic Software Updates based on Static and Dynamic Program Analysis

• Summer term 2013
• Daniel Hassler (bachelor thesis), Development and Deployment of Contextualized Apps in Smart Environments

Seminars

• Summer term 2015
• Lukas Hofmann (bachelor), Efficient Dynamic Software Updates in Java

• Winter term 2014/15
• Thomas Kadow (bachelor), Lazy Dynamic Software Updates in Java

• Summer term 2014
• Kenan Ibrahimov (bachelor), Process Mining — Determining Structure of Distributed Behaviour
• Marcel Kost (bachelor), An Overview of Dynamic Software Updates
• Tobias Schwarz (bachelor), An Overview of Dynamic Software Updates

• Winter term 2013/14
• Alina Saalfeld (bachelor), Service Dependency Discovery in the Web

• Summer term 2013
• Yan Bi (master), Modeling Dynamics of Cyber-Physical Systems
• Jannik Quehl (master), Development of Context-Aware Applications
• Michael Jacoby (master), Middleware for Context-Aware Applications

• Winter term 2012/13
• Sebastian Höninger (master), Software Update Mechanisms for Cyber-Physical Systems

Student assistants

• Since summer term 2016
• Andreas Pusch

• Since winter term 2014/15
• Christoph Bach

• Since summer term 2011
• Florian Schandinat

• Past
• Alex Abraham, Philipp Adolf, Pierre Barbera, Alisa Jung, Nikolai Hartmann, Daniel Hassler, Christoph Klebsattel, Marvin Marx, Patrick Merz, Alina Saalfeld, Simon Röhrl, Michael Schöffler