The main objective of the seminar is to provide the students with opportunities to study in depth the relation between business processes and event processing using examples and data stemming from real-world use cases. The students will be offered to choose from a predefined set of scenarios inspired by the EU project on Green European Transportation (GET) our group is working in (http://getservice-project.eu/). The students will work in teams, two persons each, and will be asked to implemen ...

The free lunch is over! Computer systems up until the turn of the century became constantly faster without any particular effort simply because the hardware they were running on increased its clock speed with every new release. This trend has changed and today's CPUs stall at around 3 GHz. The size of modern computer systems in terms of contained transistors (cores in CPUs/GPUs, CPUs/GPUs in compute nodes, compute nodes in clusters), however, still increases constantly. This caused a paradig ...