SFB 901:  On-The-Fly (OTF) Computing - Individualised IT-Services in Dynamic Markets

• Subject Area: Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering ; Humanities ; Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Term: from 2011 to 2023
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• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 160364472

In the initial proposal for our CRC in 2011, we formulated a vision of markets for IT services that describes an approach to the provision of such services that was new at that time and, to a large extent, is new still today:"Our vision of On-The-Fly Computing is to provide IT services that are individually and automatically configured out of basic services, which are traded on markets and can be flexibly combined. At the same time, we aim to organize markets whose participants maintain a vibrant market for services through appropriate entrepreneurial action."In the third funding period, we will expand our work in directions that contribute to the acceptance of on-the-fly computing and thus sustainably establish our methods and techniques in science and industry. These directions include, for example, convenient usability with high solution quality, resource-efficient execution, reliability through secure transactions, quality guarantees and user feedback, as well as assurance of a functioning, possibly appropriately regulated market. In the CRC, computer scientists and economists work together with research foci such as computer networks and distributed algorithms, security and cryptography, software engineering and verification, configuration and machine learning, computer engineering and HPC, microeconomics and game theory, business informatics and management.In order to demonstrate the feasibility and consistency of the OTF Computing approach, we implement a proof-of-concept for OTF Computing that can play through typical scenarios of an OTF market. We will illustrate our work using two application scenarios - automated machine learning (AutoML) and automated creation of Question Answering Services (AutoQA). Finally, we will advance our work for the consolidation of On-The-Fly Computing beyond the CRC and pass on the expertise gained in the CRC within the framework of events with industry partners and transfer projects.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Current projects

• T05 - Reliable and automated code-based analysis of Open-Source Dependencies (Reaktor) (Project Head Bodden, Eric )

Completed projects

• A01 - Possibilities and Limits of Local Strategies in Dynamic Networks (Project Heads Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm ;  Scheideler, Christian )
• A02 - Realizing and Optimizing Overlays over physical networks (Project Heads Frey, Hannes ;  Karl, Holger )
• A03 - The market for services: Incentives, algorithms, implementation (Project Heads Briest, Patrick ;  Frick, Bernd ;  Haake, Claus-Jochen ;  Hehenkamp, Burkhard ;  Skopalik, Alexander )
• A04 - Empirical Analysis in Markets for OTF Services (Project Heads Fahr, René ;  Frick, Bernd ;  Kundisch, Dennis )
• B01 - Parameterized Service Specifications (Project Heads Engels, Gregor ;  Geierhos, Michaela ;  Hamann, Heiko ;  Schäfer, Wilhelm ;  Wachsmuth, Henning )
• B02 - Configuration and Evaluation (Project Heads Hüllermeier, Eyke ;  Kleine Büning, Hans ;  Kleinjohann, Bernhard ;  Ngonga Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille )
• B03 - Composition analysis in uncertain contexts (Project Heads Becker, Steffen ;  Hüllermeier, Eyke ;  Wehrheim, Heike )
• B04 - Proof-Carrying Services (Project Heads Bodden, Eric ;  Platzner, Marco ;  Wehrheim, Heike )
• C01 - Robustness and Security (Project Heads Blömer, Johannes ;  Jager, Tibor ;  Scheideler, Christian ;  Sorge, Christoph )
• C02 - On-The-Fly Compute Centers I: Heterogeneous Execution Environments (Project Heads Brinkmann, André ;  Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm ;  Platzner, Marco ;  Plessl, Christian )
• C03 - Modeling of optimization problems (Project Heads Koberstein, Achim ;  Suhl, Leena )
• C04 - Subproject C4: On-The-Fly Compute Center II: Execution of Composed Services in Configurable Compute Centers (Project Heads Karl, Holger ;  Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm )
• C05 - Architecture Management of OTF Computing Markets (Project Heads Engels, Gregor ;  Kundisch, Dennis ;  Wünderlich, Nancy Viola )
• T01 - Flexible Umsetzung von Industrial Analytics Funktionen auf rekonfigurierbaren Systems-on-Chip (rSoC) (Project Head Platzner, Marco )
• T02 - Practicable Cryptographic Techniques for Secure and Data-efficient Customer Loyalty Systems (Project Heads Blömer, Johannes ;  Jager, Tibor )
• T03 - Automated risk analysis with respect to open-source dependencies (Hektor) (Project Head Bodden, Eric )
• T04 - Online Reviews on B2B Platforms for Software Products (Project Head Kundisch, Dennis )
• Z - Central Organization (Project Head Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm )

• Applicant Institution: Universität Paderborn
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide