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Helmut Wolfram Neukirchen - Professor
–
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Helmut Wolfram Neukirchen
He/Him
Íslenska
Professor
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Phone
6152554
Email
helmut [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science
Website
https://uni.hi.is/helmut/
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8595-3748
Research portal – Helmut Wolfram Neukirchen
Courses 2024 - 2025
HBV205M - Software Testing
HBV004G - Internship
HBV202G - Software Design and Construction
HBV101G - Introduction to Software Engineering
Education
2004
,
Ph.D.
,
Georg August Universität Göttingen
,
Computer Science (Dr. rer. nat.)
1999
,
M.Sc.
,
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
,
Computer Science (Dipl.-Inform.)
Professional Experience
2014 -
,
Full professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
University of Iceland
2008 -
2014,
Associate professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
University of Iceland
2008 -
2008,
Assistant professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
University of Iceland
2004 -
2008,
Post-doc researcher,
University of Göttingen, Germany
2003 -
2004,
Research assistant,
University of Göttingen, Germany
2000 -
2003,
Research assistant,
University of Lübeck, Germany
Published works
2019
Scientific workflows applied to the coupling of a continuum (Elmer v8.3) and a discrete element (HiDEM v1.0) ice dynamic model
Geoscientific Model Development
2018
Elephant Against Goliath: Performance of Big Data Versus High-Performance Computing DBSCAN Clustering Implementations
ScientificWorkflows Applied to the Coupling of a Continuum (Elmer v8.3) and a Discrete Element (HiDEM v1.0) Ice Dynamic Model
Scaling Support Vector Machines Towards Exascale Computing for Classification of Large-Scale High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images
IGARSS 2018-2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Scaling DBSCAN towards exascale computing for clustering of big data sets
EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts
Automated Analysis of Remotely Sensed Images Using the UNICORE Workflow Management System
IGARSS 2018-2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Modular supercomputing design supporting machine learning applications
2018 41st International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO)
2017
Implementing an authorisation architecture in the EUDAT services federation
Application, Information and Network Security (AINS), 2017 IEEE Conference on
Facilitating collaboration in high-performance computing projects with an interaction room
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Software Engineering for Parallel Systems
Geo-based content sharing for disaster relief applications
International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing
Elephant Against Goliath: Performance of Big Data Versus High-Performance Computing DBSCAN Clustering Implementations
Simulation Science
2016
Survey and Performance Evaluation of DBSCAN Spatial Clustering Implementations for Big Data and High-Performance Computing Paradigms
Enabling Scalable Data Processing and Management through Standards-based Job Execution and the Global Federated File System
Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
2013
Using MapReduce for High Energy Physics Data Analysis
2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure
Distributed testing of cloud computing applications using the TTCN-3-based Jata test framework
Proceedings of the Second Nordic Symposium on Cloud Computing & Internet Technologies
2012
An approach and tool for synchronous refactoring of UML diagrams and models using model-to-model transformations
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Refactoring Tools
2011
Practical cloud evaluation from a nordic escience user perspective
Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Virtualization technologies in distributed computing
An empirical study of software architectures' effect on product quality
Journal of Systems and Software
2010
RAVEN--Boosting Data Analysis for the LHC Experiments
International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing
Testing Distributed and Parallel Systems with TTCN-3 (Extended Abstract)
10th International Conference, PARA 2010, Reykjav́ık, Iceland, June 6-9, 2010
RAVEN-a Random Access, Visualization and Exploration Network for the Analysis of Petabyte Sized Data Sets
The 4th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Grid-technologies in Science and Education
Retrospective Analysis of Software Projects using k-Means Clustering
Softwaretechnik-Trends
2009
An empirical study of open source software architectures’ effect on product quality (Technical Report)
Does Software Architecture Matter?
The Second Workshop on Empirical Assessment in Software Architecture (EASA’09), in Cambridge, UK, 14 September 2009, Collocated with Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture & European Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA/ECSA09)
2008
An approach to quality engineering of TTCN-3 test specifications
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
Quality assurance for TTCN-3 test specifications
Software Testing, Verification and Reliability
Testing Grid application workflows using TTCN-3
2008 International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation
2007
Applying the iso 9126 quality model to test specifications
Software Engineering
TTCN-3 quality engineering: using learning techniques to evaluate metric sets
International SDL Forum
Utilising code smells to detect quality problems in TTCN-3 test suites
Testing of Software and Communicating Systems
2006
TRex--An Open-Source Tool for Quality Assurance of TTCN-3 Test Suites
Proceedings of CONQUEST
TRex-the refactoring and metrics tool for TTCN-3 test specifications
Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference-Practice And Research Techniques, 2006. TAIC PART 2006. Proceedings
Refactoring and metrics for TTCN-3 test suites
International Workshop on System Analysis and Modeling
2004
From Design to Test with UML
Testing of Communicating Systems
Communication Patterns for Expressing Real-Time Requirements Using MSC and their Application to Testing
IFIP International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems
Self-adaptive Functional Testing of Services Working in Continuously Changing Contexts
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on System Testing and Validation (SV04), Fraunhofer Book Series
2003
TimedTTCN-3 based graphical real-time test specification
IFIP International Conference on Testing of Software and Communicating Systems
UML-based modeling of roaming with bluetooth devices
First Hangzhou-Lübeck Conference on Software Engineering (HL-SE’03)
Communication Patterns for Expressing Real-Time Requirements Using MSC and their Application to Testing (Technical Report )
2002
TimedTTCN-3—a real-time extension for TTCN-3
Testing of Communicating Systems XIV: Applications to Internet Technologies and Services
2001
TimedTTCN-3 -- A Real-time extension for TTCN-3 (Technical Report)
Real-time test specification with TTCN-3
Proceedings of the Eleventh GI/ITG Technical Meeting on Formal Description Techniques for Distributed Systems. Bruchsal, Germany, 21.-22. June 2001.
Some implications of MSC, SDL and TTCN time extensions for computer-aided test generation
International SDL Forum
2000
Integrating trading and load balancing for efficient management of services in distributed systems
Trends in Distributed Systems: Towards a Universal Service Market
Validation and testing
TELEKTRONIKK
Managing services in distributed systems by integrating trading and load balancing
Computers and Communications, 2000. Proceedings. ISCC 2000. Fifth IEEE Symposium on
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