Dr. André Ludwig

Shortbio:

Dr. André Ludwig is a senior research fellow at the Information Systems Institute of the University of Leipzig, Germany. He has studied at the University of Leipzig, NTNU Trondheim, Curtin University Perth, and Swinburne University Melbourne and received a Doctorate and a Diploma degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Leipzig in 2008 and 2004, respectively.
Since 2004, André worked in several research projects such as Adaptive Services Grid (funded by the European Commission), Logistics Service Bus, InterLogGrid, and PESOA (all funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research). He developed an approach for management of Service Level Agreements in Composite Services (COSMA) which was published at major international conferences, i.e. ICSOC, BIS, WI. As a research visitor, André also worked with SAP Research Australia and Swinburne University, Melbourne during this time. Currently André leads the “Logistics Services Engineering and Management” research group at the University of Leipzig.

Research Projects:

• Logistik Service Bus (LSB)
• InterLogGrid
• Adaptive Services Grid (ASG)
• Process Family Engineering in Service-Oriented Applications (PESOA)

Research Interests:

• Service engineering and management
• Service-oriented computing and systems
• Service level agreements and their lifecycle management,
• Service composition/composite services and delivery
• Inter-organizational business processes
• Logistics IT-systems, SCM, supply networks

Publications:

Monographs/Books:

• Ludwig, A.: COSMA – Management of Service Level Agreements in Composite Services, Logos Verlag, Berlin 2009
• Ludwig, A.: COSMA – Management of Service Level Agreements in Composite Services, Dissertation, University of Leipzig, Leipzig 2008
• Ludwig, A.: Automated Negotiation of Service Level Agreements in Service Grids, Diploma Thesis, University of Leipzig, Leipzig 2004

Journal papers:

• M. Momotko, M. Gajewski, A. Ludwig, R. Kowalczyk, M. Kowalkiewicz, J.Y. Zhang Towards adaptive management of QoSaware service compositions. In: Multiagent and Grid Systems, 3 (2007) 3, pp. 299 - 312

Book chapters:

• A. Ludwig, M. Kowalkiewicz Service Binding. In: D. Kuropka, P. Tröger, S. Staab, M. Weske (Ed.) Semantic Service Provisioning. Springer, Berlin 2008, pp. 117-130

Conference proceedings:

• C. Klinkmüller, A. Ludwig, B. Franczyk: Visualising Business Capabilities in the Context of Business Analysis. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2010), Berlin, 03.-05.05.2010
• R. Belter, A. Ludwig: An Information Model for Managing Service Lifecycle Resources. In: Services Computing, IEEE International Conference on, pp. 502-504, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (2009)
• R. Belter, A. Ludwig:  An information model for service lifecycle management, International Conference on Management Technology and Applications (ICMTA 2009), Beijing, 08.-11.08.2009
• A. Ludwig: COSMA – Ein integrierter Ansatz für das Management von Service Level Agreements bei Composite Services, 9. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2009), Wien, 25-27.02.2009
• T. Hering, A. Ludwig, B. Franczyk: Die Entwicklung einer gemeinsamen IT-Plattform im Bereich Logistik, Software Engineering 2009, Kaiserslautern, 02.-06.03.2009
• T. Hering, A. Ludwig, B. Franczyk: Proliferation in Service Types: Towards a Unifying Taxonomy of Service Types, International Symposium on Services Science 2009, Leipzig, 23.-25.03.2009
• A. Ludwig, B. Franczyk: COSMA - An Approach for Managing SLAs in Composite Services. In: Bouguettaya, A., Krueger, I., Margaria, T. (eds.) 6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2008). LNCS, vol. 5364, pp. 626–632. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)
• A. Ludwig, B. Franczyk Managing Dynamics of Composite Service Level Agreements with COSMA. Accepted for publication at the 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2008), Jinan, China, 18.-20.10.2008
• M. Momotko, M. Gajewski, A. Ludwig, R. Kowalczyk, M. Kowalkiewicz, J.Y. Zhang Towards Adaptive Management of QoS-aware Service Compositions - Execution Strategies. In: R. Kowalczyk (Ed.) Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Grid Service Engineering and Management (GSEM 2007). Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn 2007, pp. 110-122.
• E. Pulvermueller, A. Ludwig, R. Belter, D. Zyskowski, U. Heindl, X.T. Nguyen A Capability Oriented Management Approach for Business Integration. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Process and Services Computing (BPSC'07), Leipzig 2007, pp. 115-127.
• M. Momotko, M. Gajewski, A. Ludwig, R. Kowalczyk, M. Kowalkiewicz, J.Y. Zhang Towards Adaptive Management of QoS-Aware Service Compositions – Functional Architecture. In: Proceedings of the Service-Oriented Computing Conference (ICSOC 2006), Chicago 2006, pp. 637-649.
• A. Ludwig, B. Franczyk SLA Lifecycle Management in Services Grid - Requirements and Current Efforts Analysis. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Grid Services Engineering and Management (GSEM2006), Erfurt 2006, pp. 219-246.

Workshop papers: 

• A. Ludwig, M. Kowalkiewicz: Supporting Service Level Agreement Creation with Past Service Behavior Data, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Service Discovery and Selection in SOA Ecosystems (SDS-SOA 2009), Poznan, 29.04.2009 (nominated for BIS2009 best paper award)
• A. Ludwig, T. Hering, R. Kluge, B. Franczyk: A Case Study on Managing SLAs in Composite Services with COSMA, In: W. Abramowicz, L. Maciaszek, R. Kowalczyk, A. Speck (eds): Business Process, Services Computing and Intelligent Service Management, Lecture Notes in Informatics, Bonn 2009, pp. 192-206.
• A. Ludwig, B. Franczyk Automated Creation of Precise, Composition-specific SLA Documents in Service-oriented Environments. In: Proceedings of the 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference, Semantic Discovery Workshop 2006 (SDISCO), Beijing 2006, pp. 337-344.
• A. Ludwig, P. Braun, R. Kowalczyk, B. Franczyk A Framework for Automated Negotiation of Service Level Agreements in Service Grids. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2005), Nancy 2005, pp. 89-101.
• A. Ludwig Challenging Automated Creation of Precise, Resource-specific, Composite SLA Documents in Service Grid Environments. In: Proceedings of the Net.ObjectDays 2005, Erfurt 2005, pp. 73-78.

Technical reports: 

• A. Ludwig, M. Kaczmarek, M. Kowalkiewicz, W. Rutkowski, K. Wieloch, D. Zyskowski Integrated demonstrator for Dynamic Service Profiling and Agreement Life-cycle Management. ASG Deliverable D4.II-4, University of Leipzig, Leipzig 2006.
• M. Kowalkiewicz, M. Kaczmarek, A. Ludwig, D. Zyskowski Documented mechanisms for Dynamic Service Profiling and Agreement Life-cycle Management. ASG Deliverable D4.II-3, Poznan University of Economics, Poznan 2006.
• A. Ludwig, M. Kaczmarek, M. Kowalkiewicz, D. Zyskowski Initial design of mechanisms for dynamic service profiling and agreement life-cycle management. ASG Deliverable D4.II-2, University of Leipzig, Leipzig 2005.
• M. Kowalkiewicz, A. Ludwig Report on the requirement analysis and evaluation of dynamic service profiling and agreement life-cycle management. ASG Deliverable D4.II-1, Poznan University of Economics, Poznan 2005.

Chairing and Organization:

• Co-chair of “Service Level Management Workshop” as part of  Informatik 2010, 40. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik
• Co-chair of International Workshop on Intelligent Service Management (ISM 2010)
• Organizing committee of Informatik 2010, 40. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik
• Co-chair of the International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing in Logistics (SOC-LOG'09)
• Co-chair of the International Workshop on Intelligent Service Management (ISM'09)
• Co-chair of International Conference on Innovative Logistics IT Systems and Technologies (innoLogIST2009)
• Co-chair of International Conference on Innovative Logistics IT Systems and Technologies (innoLogIST2007)
• Organizing committee of 4th International Conference on Grid Service Engineering and Management (GSEM 2007)

Program Committee Member and Reviewer:

• Program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2010)
• Program committee of the 3rd International Conference on Business Process and Services Computing (BPSC 2010)
• Program committee of the 5th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2010)
• Program committee of the 2010 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2010)
• Program committee of the International Workshop on Agent Technology for Service-Oriented Computing (IWATSOC 2009)International Workshop on Agent Technology for Service-Oriented Computing (IWATSOC 2009)
• Program committee of the IEEE International Conference of Service-oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA'09)
• Program committee of the 3rd International Workshop on E-Marketplace Integration & Interoperability (EM2I'09)
• Program committee of the 2009 High Performance Computing & Simulation
  (HPCS'09) Conference
• Program committee of the 4th International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services (DEECS 2009)
• Program committee of the 1st Workshop on Service Discovery and Selection in SOA Ecosystems (SDS-SOA 2009)
• Program committee of the International Workshop on Intelligent Service and Process Management (ISPM 2009)
• Program committee of the Workshop on Web services interactions, quality and SLAs (WS-IQS 2007)

Education:

• 10/1998 – 08/2004: Information Systems, University of Leipzig
• 07/2001 – 12/2001: Information Systems, NTNU Trondheim, Norway
• 02/2002 – 06/2002: Information Systems, Curtin University of Technology Perth, Australia
• 10/2003 – 05/2004: Diploma thesis, Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia

Professional Experience:

• Since 09/2004: Senior research fellow, Information Systems Institute, University of Leipzig
• 05/2009 - 07/2009: Senior researcher (external), SAP Research, Sydney, Australia
• 10/2005 – 12/2005: Research visitor, Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia
• 08/2002 – 04/2003:  Software engineer, XAVO AG, Bayreuth
• 10/1999 – 09/2003: IT administrator, Computing Centre, University of Leipzig

Lectures:

• Integration Engineering III - Service Level Management (WS 07/08)
• Integration Engineering III - Service Level Management (WS 08/09)