Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Ingo Scholtes - Chair of Systems Design ...

Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Ingo Scholtes
Contact
Information
Research
Interests
Chair of Systems Design
Department of Management, Technology
and Economics Office: +41 44 632 84 78
ETH Zürich Mobile: +41 786 747 555
CH-8032 Zürich E-mail: ischoltes@ethz.ch
Switzerland WWW: http://www.sg.ethz.ch/people/ingosc
◦ Design of self-organizing and self-adaptive distributed systems
◦ Engineering applications of complex networks and non-linear dynamics
◦ Collective behavior in technical, biological and social systems
◦ Spreading and synchronization phenomena in networks
◦ Self-organization and stochastic optimization of network structures
◦ Stochastic management and analysis of networks
Education University of Trier, Germany
Research Assistant and Doctorate Studies January 2006 - June 2011
◦ Dissertation: Harnessing Complex Structures and Collective Behavior in Large
Networked Computing Systems
◦ Doctorate Degree (Dr. rer. nat.) (May 27th 2011)
◦ Grade: Summa cum laude
◦ Reviewers: Prof. Dr. Peter Sturm
(Dept. of Computer Science, University of Trier)
Prof. Dr. Tamás Vicsek
(Dept. of Biological Physics, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)
Studies in Computer Science and Mathematics June 2000 - November 2005
◦ Diploma in Computer Science with Minor in Mathematics (November 2005)
◦ Grade: With Distinction
◦ Diploma Thesis: A reimplementation of the CORBA-based Event Monitoring
Service for the ATLAS LHC Experiment at CERN
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland June - September 2004
Summer Student in ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition Group
Scholarships German National Academic Foundation 2003 - 2005
(Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
Language
Skills
Personal
Interests
◦ English (Fluent)
◦ French (Basic)
◦ German (Native)
◦ Photography
◦ Astronomy and Astrophotography
◦ Cycling

Project
Experience
Teaching
Experience
DATEV TrendScout Project 2007 - current
◦ Industrial cooperation with DATEV eG, Nürnberg, Germany
◦ Biannual talks on emerging trends in information technology, topics addressed so
far include: Trends in virtualization technology (2007), ManyCore architectures
(2008), technologies for Rich Internet Applications (2008), emerging trends in
Microsoft .NET (2009), parallel programming support (2009), self-organization
in networked systems (2010), social web technologies (2010)
◦ Project leader of feasibility study on virtualization of application components
(2007)
CodeVenture Project 2003 - current
◦ Development of the .NET-based educational programming environment CrePes
for children at the age 8-12
◦ Project leader of two sub-projects funded by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry
of Education, Science, Youth and Culture (2007-2008) and the Nikolaus Koch
Foundation (2009-current)
HyperVerse Project 2007 - 2009
◦ Research of Peer-to-Peer technologies for the scalable provision of distributed,
virtual 3D environments
◦ Development of a Peer-to-Peer-based software architecture for virtual environments
◦ Implementation of BitTorrent-like Peer-to-Peer content distribution schemes for
virtual environments
◦ Design and implementation of the network simulation and analysis software Top-
Gen
ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition Project, CERN 2004 - 2009
◦ External software developer with regular visits at CERN
◦ Design, implementation and maintenance of a CORBA-based Peer-to-Peer data
distribution framework for the ATLAS detector at CERN’s LHC accelerator machine
University of Trier, Germany 2003 - current
◦ Regular tutorials and labs on combinatorial and sequential circuits, computer
architecture, operating systems, computer networks, distributed systems, ubiquitous
computing, software component technologies and 3D graphics programming
◦ Computer Networks, undergraduate lecture series, summer term 2011
◦ CodeVenture Courses, biweekly programming courses for children, 2003 - current
◦ Astronomy, lecture for the University’s children lecture series, summer terms
2008, 2009 and 2010
◦ 3D Game Programming, lecture series for MINT Camp, summer terms 2009,
2010 and 2011
◦ Computer Architecture, undergraduate lecture series, summer term 2007 and
winter term 2007/2008

Academic
Service
University of Applied Sciences Trier, Germany 2007 - 2009
◦ Computer Architecture and Assembler Programming, Teaching position, lecture
and tutorial series, winter terms 2007/2008 and 2008/2009
◦ Combinatorial and Sequential Circuits, Teaching position, lecture and tutorial
series, summer term 2008
Administration and Business Academy (VWA) Trier, Germany 2005 - current
◦ Database Programming, Teaching position, lecture and tutorial series, winter
term 2005/2006
◦ Web Programming, Teaching position, lecture and tutorial series, winter term
2006/2007
◦ Introduction to Computer Science, Teaching position, lecture and tutorial series,
summer term 2011
Chairing Activities
◦ Program Committee Co-Chair of 6th IEEE International Conference on Self-
Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2012), Lyon, France, September
2012
◦ Co-Chair of 1st International Workshop on Complex Sciences in the Engineering
of Computer Systems (CSECS’12), Munich, Germany, February 2012
◦ Co-Chair of 1st International Workshop on SocioAware Networked Computing
Systems (SocioAware 2011), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, September 2011
Technical Program Committee Member
◦ 5th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
(SASO’11)
Ann Arbor, MI, USA, October 2011
◦ 4th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE’11)
Held at IEEE International Symposium on Audio-Visual Environments and Games,
Nanchang, China, October 2011
◦ 3rd International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE’10)
Held at ACM International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment
Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2010
◦ 2nd International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE’09)
Held at IEEE Virtual Reality, Lafayette, LA, USA, March 2009
◦ 1st International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications
(COMPLEX’09)
Held in Shanghai, China, February 2009
Co-Organizer
◦ 1st International Workshop on Socio-Aware Networked Computing Systems (ScoioAware’11)
Held at 5th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing
Systems (SASO’11), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, October 3rd 2011

Invited
Talks
Published
Work
University of Würzburg, Germany
Title: Complex Social Networks in the Future Internet
11th Würzburg Workshop on IP (EuroView 2011), August 1st 2011
University of Würzburg, Germany
Title: The Statistical Physics of Collective Behavior in the Social Web
Colloquium of the Institute of Computer Science, Group of Prof. Dr. Phuoc Tran-Gia,
Würzburg, Germany, February 22nd 2011
University of Darmstadt, Germany
Title: The Statistical Physics of Networked Computing Systems
Colloquium of the Multimedia Communications Lab, Group of Prof. Dr. Ralf Steinmetz,
Darmstadt, Germany, February 9th 2011
Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Title: Harnessing Complexity in Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Colloquium of the Department of Biological Physics, Group of Prof. Dr. Tamás Vicsek,
Budapest, Hungary, April 16th 2009
University of Paderborn, Germany
Title: Harnessing Complexity in Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Colloquium of the Computer Networks Group of Prof. Dr. Holger Karl, Paderborn,
Germany, April 8th 2009
University of Central Florida, USA
Title: Self-Organization Aspects in the HyperVerse Project
EECS Seminar Series, Group of Prof. Dr. Dan Marinescu, Orlando, FL, USA, November
17th 2008
Theses
Ingo Scholtes. Harnessing Complex Structures and Collective Dynamics in
Large Networked Computing Systems. Dissertation, University of Trier, May
2011.
Ingo Scholtes. A Reimplementation Of The CORBA-based Event Monitoring
System For The ATLAS LHC Experiment At CERN. Diploma Thesis, University
of Trier, November 2005.
Journal Articles
Ingo Scholtes and Claudio Juan Tessone. Organic Design of Massively Distributed
Systems: A Complex Networks Perspective. In Informatik Spektrum, Springer,
To appear in 2012

Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, and Peter Sturm. Epidemic Self-Synchronization
in Complex Networks of Kuramoto Oscillators. In Advances in Complex
Systems, Volume 13, Number 1, pp. 33-58, World Scientific Publishing, June 2010
Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes, and Peter Sturm. Hyper-
Verse: Simulation and Testbed Reconciled. In International Journal of Advanced
Multimedia and Communications, Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 167-181, Inderscience Publishers,
June 2010
Jean Botev, Alexander Höhfeld, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes, Peter Sturm, and
Markus Esch. The HyperVerse - Concepts for a Federated and Torrent Based
3D Web. In International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, Volume 2,
Number 4, pp. 331-350, December 2008
Ingo Scholtes, Serguei Kolos, and Pasquale Federico Zema. The ATLAS Event Monitoring
Service - Peer-to-Peer Data Distribution in High-Energy Physics. In
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Volume 55, Number 3, pp. 1610-1620, IEEE
Society, June 2008
W. Vandelli et al. Strategies and Tools for ATLAS Online Monitoring. In IEEE
Transactions on Nuclear Science, Volume 54, Number 3, pp. 609-615, IEEE Society,
June 2007
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Ingo Scholtes. Distributed Creation and Adaptation of Random Scale-Free
Overlay Topologies. In Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Conference on Self-Organizing
and Self-Adaptive Systems (SASO), Budapest, Hungary, IEEE Society, October 2010
Markus Esch and Ingo Scholtes. A Scale-free And Self-organized P2P Overlay
for Massive Multiuser Virtual Environments In Proceedings of the 5th International
Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing
(CollaborateCom’09), IEEE Society, November 2009
Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes, and Peter Sturm. HyperVerse:
Simulation and Testbed Reconciled. In Proceedings of the Second
International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE2009) at
IEEE Virtual Reality 2009, LaFayette, Louisiana, USA, IEEE Society, March 2009
Markus Esch, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, and Ingo Scholtes Performance Evaluation
of GP3 - A Grid-based Spatial Index Infrastructure. In Proceedings of the
6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG’09),
Las Vegas, NV, USA, IEEE Society, April 2009
Alexander Höhfeld, Patrick Gratz, Angelo Beck, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, and Ingo
Scholtes. Self-organizing collaborative filtering in global-scale massive multiuser
virtual environments. In Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied
Computing (SAC’09), Honolulu, HI, USA, ACM, March 2009

Markus Esch, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, and Ingo Scholtes. P2P-Based Avatar
Interaction in Massive Multiuser Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the
1st International Workshop on Virtual Environment and Network-Oriented Applications
(VENOA’09), Fukuoka, Japan, IEEE Society, March 2009
Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, and Peter Sturm. Epidemic Self-Synchronization
in Complex Networks. In Proceedings of the First International Conference,
Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009, Revised Papers, Volume 5, pp.
1794-1809. Springer, February 2009
Markus Esch, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, and Ingo Scholtes. GP3 - A Distributed
Grid-based Spatial Index Infrastructure for Massive Multiuser Virtual Environments.
In In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel
and Distributed Systems (ICPADS’08), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, IEEE Society,
December 2008
Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Alexander Höhfeld, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes, and Peter
Sturm. HyperVerse - Towards a Self-Organizing and Sustainable Global-Scale
Virtual Environment. In In Proceedings of the Fourth Microsoft Academic Days,
Berlin, Germany. Microsoft Press, November 2008
Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Hermann Schloss, and Peter Sturm. Minimizing
Load Delays in Distributed Virtual Environments Using Epidemic
Hoarding. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing:
Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom’08), Orlando, FL,
USA, Springer, November 2008
Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Alexander Höhfeld, and Hermann Schloss.
Awareness-Driven Phase Transitions in Very Large Scale Distributed Systems.
In Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conferences on Self-Adaptive
and Self-Organizing Systems (SaSo), Venice, Italy. IEEE Society, October 2008
Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Alexander Höhfeld, Hermann Schloss, and Ingo Scholtes.
The HyperVerse - Concepts for a Federated and Torrent Based 3D Web.
In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments
(MMVE 2008) at IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, Reno, Nevada, USA. IEEE,
March 2008
Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Alexander Höhfeld, Hermann Schloss, and
Benjamin Zech. TopGen - Internet Router-Level Topology Generation Based
on Technology Constraints. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on
Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems (Simu-
Tools’08), Marseille, France. ACM, March 2008
Markus Esch, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, Alexander Höhfeld, Ingo Scholtes, and Benjamin
Zech. SimCon - A Simulation and Visualization Environment for Overlay
Networks and Large-Scale Applications. In Proceedings of the First International
Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Sys-

tems (SimuTools’08), Marseille, France, ACM, March 2008
Ingo Scholtes and Peter Sturm. Web Federates - Towards A Middleware for
Highly Scalable Peer-To-Peer Services. In Web Information Systems and Technologies:
International Conferences WEBIST 2005 and WEBIST 2006, Revised Selected
Papers, pp. 138 ff., Springer, 1st edition, 2007, ISBN 3540740627
Markus Esch, Hermann Schloss and Ingo Scholtes. The SEMPA Prototype - Using
XAML and Web Services for Rich Interactive Peer-to-Peer Applications. In
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing Networking,
Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom’07), New York, USA, IEEE Society,
November 2007
Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes and Peter Sturm. SISC: providing efficient XMLbased
service-orientation for core OS functionality. In Proceedings of the 2007
Workshop on Service-oriented computing performance: aspects, issues, and approaches
(SOCP’07), Monterey, California, USA, IEEE Society, June 2007
Ingo Scholtes, Daniel Görgen and Patrick Gratz. Interface-based Web Service Syndication
and its Application to a Collaborative Weblog Search Service. In
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom’06),
Atlanta, Georgia, USA, IEEE Society, November 2006
Ingo Scholtes, Serguei Kolos, and Pasquale Federico Zema. The ATLAS Event Monitoring
Service - Peer-to-Peer Data Distribution in High Energy Physics. In
In Proceedings of the 2006 Nuclear Science Symposium, San Diego, California, USA.
IEEE Society, November 2006
Ingo Scholtes and Peter Sturm. Web Federates - Towards A Middleare for Highly
Scalable Peer-To-Peer Services. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference
on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Setúbal, Portugal.
INSTICC Press, April 2006
Technical Reports
The community of testers and developers in ATLAS DAQ/HLT. ATLAS DAQ/HLT
Software Large Scale Functionality and Performance Tests July 2005. Technical
Report ATL-D-TR-0003 v.1, CERN, https://edms.cern.ch/document/685256/1,
November 2005.
Serguei Kolos and Ingo Scholtes. Event monitoring design. Technical Report ATL-
DQ-EN-0023 v.2, CERN, https://edms.cern.ch/document/639958/2, September 2005.
Last change: January 2012