Hermann Hellwagner

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Contact Information

Universitätsstrasse 65-67
A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria

Office: E.2.60
Tel.: +43-463-2700-3612 (secr. 3602)
Fax: +43-463-2700-3699
E-Mail: hermann.hellwagner (at) uni-klu.ac.at
WWW: http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/~hellwagn

Office hour: Mo, 15.00-16.00, E.2.60

News 

• Special courses in "Computer and Network Architectures" (2009/10)

Teaching

Current Courses (WS 2009/10)

VO Rechnerorganisation (Computer Organization)

KV Current Topics in Computer and Network Architecture: Multimedia Communication and Internet QoS

PR Projektübergreifende Aufarbeitung

PV Privatissimum für Diplomand/inn/en und Dissertant/inn/en

PR Anwendungspraktikum (Praxissemester) & Wahlfachprojekt (universitäres Projektpraktikum)

Special Courses in "Computer and Network Architectures" (2009/10)

Topics for Master Theses

• Topics for Master Theses will be issued on demand in the areas of our research projects; see below.

Previous Courses (- SS 2009)

Research

Research Interest

• Multimedia communication
• Multimedia content adaptation
• Distributed multimedia systems
• Internet quality of service (QoS)
• Parallel and distributed processing, cluster and grid computing
• Performance analysis of computer and communication systems

Active Projects

• P2P-Next (Next Generation Peer-to-Peer Content Delivery Platform), funded by the EC in FP7 as an Integrated Project
• INTERMEDIA (Interactive Media with Personal Networked Devices), funded by the EC in FP6 as a Network of Excellence
• ASSSV (Adaptive Streaming of Wavelet-based Secure Scalable Video), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• SCALNET (Scalable Video Coding Impact on Networks), granted by CELTIC / SCALIPTV (Scalable Video-based Provisioning of TV and VoD Services over the Internet), funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) as a BRIDGE project

Completed Projects

ENTHRONE II (End-to-End QoS through Integrated Management of Content, Networks and Terminals), funded by the EC in FP6 as an Integrated Project

DANAE (Dynamic and distributed Adaptation of scalable multimedia coNtent in a context-Aware Environment), funded by the EC in FP6 as a STREP

ADMITS (Adaptation in Distributed Multimedia IT Systems), specifically:

• Quality Adaptive Video Caching and Transport in Heterogeneous Networks, funded by FWF and KWF
• Open-source multimedia software ViTooKi (The Video Toolkit)

MiNEMA (Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications), funded by ESF

Contributions to MPEG standardization: MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation (Pt. 7) and Binary Format (Pt. 16)

Recent Publications

Professional Services

Standardization

• Austrian expert and Head of Delegation (2000-2007; Deputy since 2007) to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG11 (MPEG)

Journals

• Member of the Editorial Board: Advances in Multimedia, International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services
• Referee for: ACM Multimedia Systems Journal; ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications; ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems; IEEE Transactions on Multimedia; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology; IEEE Multimedia Magazine; IEEE Signal Processing Magazine; IEE Proceedings on Vision, Signal and Image Processing; IEE Proceedings on Communications; SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging; EURASIP Image Communication Journal; Journal of Systems Architecture; Parallel Processing Letters; Concurrency--Practice and Experience; Software--Practice and Experience; Software--Concepts and Tools; The Computer Journal; Computer Science and Information Systems; Informatica.
• Subject Area Editor for Computer Architecture (1999-2002) of the Journal of Systems Architecture

Conferences

• Conference organization, program committee member, and editor of proceedings:
  • Program Committee Chair of WIAMIS 2008 (9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services), May 2008, Klagenfurt, Austria
  • Organizer of the COST 292 Special Session at SMAP 2007 (2nd International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization), December 2007, London, UK
  • Host of 77th MPEG Meeting, July 2006, Klagenfurt University
  • Co-Chair of Euro-Par 2003, August 26-29, 2003, Klagenfurt University
  • Organization Chair of JMLC 2003, August 24-27, 2003, Klagenfurt University
  • Host to 61st MPEG Meeting, July 20-26, 2002, Klagenfurt University
• SCI Europe '98, a conference stream of "European Multimedia, Microprocessor Systems and Electronic Commerce Conference and Exposition (EMMSEC'98)". Proceedings published as: Hermann Hellwagner and Alexander Reinefeld, Scalable Coherent Interface: Technology and Applications, Cheshire Henbury 1998. Papers and talks are also available on the Web on the SCI Europe '98 homepage.
• HIPS'96, HIPS'97, HIPS'98, a series of workshops entitled "High-level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS)", held in conjunction with "Int'l. Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS)". Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Member of program committee or steering committee, most recently:
  • MoMM'2009 (Seventh International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia), CloudComp'2009 (First International Conference on Cloud Computing), EUMOB'09 (Third European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery, in conjunction with MobiMedia'09), WIAMIS'09 (Tenth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services), PCS'09 (Picture Coding Symposium; Reviewing Committee), NCA'09 (Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications), ICNS'09 (Fifth International Conference on Networking and Services), MMEDIA'09 (First International Conference on Advances in Multimedia), ISMW'09 (International Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless), EuroIMSA'09 (IASTED Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications), AIEMPro'09 (Second Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production, in conjunction with WIAMIS'09)
  • NCA'08, MoMM'2008, ICNS'2008, AIEMPro'08, EuroIMSA'2008
  • ACM Multimedia 2007 (Short Paper Tracks on 'Multimedia Systems' and 'Multimedia Applications'), PCS 2007, HPCC'07 (High Performance Computation Conference), NCA'07, ICNS'2007, SMAP 2007 (International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization), EuroIMSA'2007, D-A-CH Security 2007
  • MMC-WS'2006 (5th Multimedia Metadata Community Workshop at I-KNOW'2006), HPCC'06, ICNS'2006, NCA'06, PDCS'2006 (IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems), EuroIMSA'2006, AC'2006 (IADIS Applied Computing), D-A-CH Mobility 2006
  • Cluster 2005 (IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing), NCA'05, ICNS'2005, EuroIMSA'2005, AC'2005
  • FTPDS'2004 (Annual IEEE Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems), AC'2004, EGP'2004 (Elektronische Geschäftsprozesse)
  • Euro-Par'2003 - Topic 14 (Routing and Communication in Interconnection Networks), FTPDS'2003
  • CCGrid'2002 (2nd IEEE/ACM Int'l. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid), NCA'02, FTPDS'2002, EBP'2002 (E-Business Processes)
  • CCGrid'2001, Cluster'2001, NCA'01, FTPDS'2001, EBP'2001, HIPS'2001, SCI-Europe'2001
    
• Referee for many conferences and workshops

Project Steering and Reviewing

• Member of the Scientific Board of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• Member of Steering Committee (2002-2005) of the Europen Science Foundation (ESF) programme MiNEMA (Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications)
• Reviewer of project proposals for: Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT), Flanders, Belgium; Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF); French National Research Agency (ANR); Research Council of Norway; Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders FWO (Belgium); Bayerische Forschungsstiftung; Sächsiches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst; Kärntner Wirtschaftsförderungsfonds.

Brief C.V.