Abstract: Modern and future applications increasingly work on distributed and networked architectures, including Clouds and Software-Defined Networks (SDN). They connect a potentially very high number of users who interact with the application and with other users in real time, i.e., a response to a user’s action happens virtually immediately. Popular examples are massively-multiplayer online games, high-performance simulations, and applications for e-learning and -training. They require very high level of user interactivity with hard Quality of Service (QoS) requirements on real-time performance and scalability.
One of the main challenges is the complex and often cumbersome development process of highly parallel, real-time software for such applications. We develop a novel, intelligent interface for developing and running applications: our Real-Time Framework (RTF) greatly simplifies the development of scalable distributed and networked applications. The developer specifies at the high level of abstraction how the application should be distributed and parallelized, and the framework automatically generates low-level code which can be directly executed on the target distributed architecture with high performance.
We finally address the problem of ensuring high QoS of networked applications by automatically translating from application-level metrics of QoS into network-level metrics that can be implemented by the underlying network structure using the advantages of SDN.
Biography: Sergei Gorlatch is Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Muenster (Germany) since 2003. Earlier he was Associate Professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Assistant Professor at the University of Passau, and Humboldt Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich, all in Germany. Prof. Gorlatch has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in renowned international books, journals and conferences. He was principal investigator in several international research and development projects in the field of software for parallel, distributed, Grid and Cloud systems, machine learning, and networking, funded by the European Community and by German national bodies. His papers were recognized as ACM SIGPLAN Research Highlights with a publication in the Communications of the ACM and were prized with Best Paper Awards of top conferences.

Biography: Sergei Gorlatch is Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Muenster (Germany) since 2003. Earlier he was Associate Professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Assistant Professor at the University of Passau, and Humboldt Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich, all in Germany. Prof. Gorlatch has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in renowned international books, journals and conferences. He was principal investigator in several international research and development projects in the field of software for parallel, distributed, Grid and Cloud systems, machine learning, and networking, funded by the European Community and by German national bodies.