Sascha Alda

 

Diplom Informatiker (M.Sc.)

 

 

 

Personal Details

Full Name

Date of birth

Place of Birth

Nationality

Status

Address

Phone

Email

Parents

 

Siblings

Sascha Josef Alda

July, 20th 1974

Königswinter (Germany)

German

Single

Estermannstraße 122, 53117 Bonn, Germany

++49 179 539 27 27

alda@cs.uni-bonn.de

Helmut Alda (* October, 10th 1934), wholesaler

Anette Alda (* August, 3rd 1938 – November, 29th 2002)

Ingo Alda (* August, 8th 1960), public servant in a city council

Helmut (* June, 23rd 1963), Solicitor

 

Employment

06/2001 to date

 

 

Research Assistant at the Department for Applied Computer Science, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. (Chair for Software Engineering, Prof. Dr. Armin B. Cremers)

Fields of Responsibility:

-           Project leader of the project CoBE (Component-based Architecture for Planning Processes in Civil and Building Engineering). Project funded by the German Research Foundation in a priority program.

-           Preparation of a PH.D thesis

-           Author of numerous external and internal scientific publications

-           Scientific presentations at external and internal conferences and workshops

-           Contributor of numerous research proposals

-          Guidance of Diploma thesis and seminars

 

 

 

 

Current Research Interests:

-           Software Architectures (Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Peer-to-Peer Architectures (P2P), Distributed Architectures in general, self-adaptive Architectures)

-           Component Technology

-           Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Awareness Modells, Groupware Development, Human Computer Interaction)

-           Formalization of Software (in particular with pi-calculus)

-           Agent Technology

-           Evaluation of Software

-           Information Retrieval (Document Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Architectures)

 

01/2004 to date

 

 

 

 

IT-Consultant at the MB Data Research GmbH, Bonn, Germany

Fields of Responsibility:

-          Support of software projects during requirements analysis

-          Implementation of prototypical software products

-           Training courses for enhanced software engineers in the field of J2EE, EJB, and client-server technologies.

 

10/2000 to 6/2001

Software Engineer at IBM Research and Development Lab, Böblingen, Germany.

Fields of Responsibility:

-          Participation to software projects within the Websphere development group, in particular to the Websphere Portal project.

 

 

Education

10/1994 to 9/2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

Studies of Computer Science with main focus on Economics (in German: “Wirtschaftsinformatik”) at the University of Koblenz, Germany

Graduation as Diplom Informatiker (M.Sc.)

Master Thesis: “Conceptualisation und Implementation of a prototype for generic data visualization in the field of software monitoring                     (Grade: very good)

Project Thesis: “Evolutionary Change within SOCCA: A simulation approach” (Grade: very good)

Overall grade of exams: good

Key subjects of study: Software Engineering, process modelling, communication systems, E-Commerce

4/1998 to 9/1998

Studies of Computer Science at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (Netherlands), as a scholarship holder of the Erasmus Program (scholarship program of the European Union (EU))

 

 

 

 

 

10/1997

Intermediate Diploma (Vordiplom)

9/1991 to 6/1994

Gymnasium am Oelberg. Graduation: general qualification for university entrance (Abitur)

9/1985 to 6/1991

Realschule Oberpleis. Graduation: secondary school level I certificate (Mittlere Reife)

8/1981 to 6/1985

Katholische Grundschule Eudenbach

Military Service

Exemption from military service in 1994 (German “Third Son” rule)

 

Additional Work Experience

8/1996 – 3/1998

 

Student Assistant at the Otto Beisheim Graduate School of

Management (WHU) in Koblenz. Chair for Marketing (Univ.-Prof. Dr. habil. Christian Homburg)

 

1/1997 – 3/1998

Student Assistant at the Institut for Marketing and Management (IMM) GmbH, Koblenz (now: Prof. Homburg & Partner GmbH, Mannheim)

 

9/1998 to 8/2000

Student Assistant at the Institut for Software Technologie (IST), Universität Koblenz, Univ.-Prof. Dr. habil. Jürgen Ebert. Participation to projects in the field of software engineering, development of CASE tools

 

3/2000

Training courses for the programming language C, arranged by Piwinger und Lau GmbH Koblenz

until 9/2000

Cooperation in my father’s company (controlling, management, sales and distribution)

 

Languages

German

English

French

Spanish

Dutch

Native Speaker

Fluent (written and spoken)

Advanced knowledge (written and spoken)

Basic knowledge (written and spoken)

Basic knowledge (written and spoken)

 

Leisure Activities

 

Sports (Badminton, table tennis, swimming), travelling, modern music, concerts

9/1994 to 6/1997: Leader and coach of a table tennis youth team (played up to the 2nd highest league in Germany)

Additional Interests

 

Political history of Germany and Europe, political literature, biographies, languages

 

 

Key Skills

Programming Languages and Markup languages

Excellent knowledge in Java (J2SE 1.4) and C++.                                               Advanced knowledge in C, Pascal, Oberon

Advanced knowledge in XML, HTML, WML

Advanced Programming Concepts and technologies

Excellent knowledge in J2EE 1.4 (including Servlets, JSPs, JDBC)

Excellent knowledge in EJB 2.1

Excellent knowledge in Middleware technologies: CORBA, RMI. Advanced knowledge in Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI)

Excellent knowledge in JXTA (Peer-to-Peer development framework)

Excellent knowledge in GUI programming with Java’s Swing and AWT

Databases

Advanced knowledge in DB2, Oracle, MySQL

IDE

Advanced knowledge in Eclipse, NetBeans, JDeveloper

Modelling

Advanced knowledge in UML

Operation Systems

Advanced knowledge in Windows 2000/XP, Linux

Office Tools

MS Word, Powerpoint, Excel. Latex.

 

Publications

 

Gnasa, M.; Alda, S.; Guel, N.; Grigull, J.; Cremers, A.B.: "Cooperative Pull-Push-Cycle for searching a hybrid P2P network", in: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P2004). ETH Zuerich, Switzerland, August 2004.

Alda, S. Cremers, A.B., Bilek, J., and Hartmann, D.: "Support of Collaborative Structural Design Processes through the Integration of Peer-to-Peer and Multiagent Architectures", in: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE-X). Weimar, Germany. Juni 2004.

Alda, S.: "Component-based Self-Adaptability in Peer-to-Peer Architectures", in: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2004). Contribution for the Doctoral Symposium. Edinburgh, Scotland. May, 2004.

Alda, S. and Cremers, A.B.: "Strategies for a Component-based Self-Adaptability Model in Peer-to-Peer Architectures", in: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE7). LNCS. Edinburgh, Scotland. May, 2004.

Alda, S. and Cremers, A.B.: "Towards Composition Management for Peer-to-Peer Architectures", in: Proceedings of the Workshop Software Composition (SC 2004), affiliated to the 7th European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2004). Barcelona, Spain. April 2004

Gnasa, M., Alda, S., Grilgull, J., Cremers, A.B.: "Towards Virtual Knowledge Communities in Peer-to-Peer Networks", in: Proceeding of the SIGIR Workshop on Distributed Information Retrieval. Workshop at the 26th International ACM SIGIR Conference. LNCS 2974, Springer. Toronto, Canada. August 2003

Alda, S., Cremers, A.B.: "Collaborative Support for Planning Processes through Component-Based Peer Services", accepted for: 10th International Conference for Concurrent Engineering (CE 2003). Madeira, Portugal. July 2003.

Alda, S., Cremers, A.B., Meißner, U.F., Rüppel, U., Theiß, M., "Wahrnehmung und Verarbeitung von Ereignissen bei der verteilten Planung im baulichen Brandschutz", in: Proceeding des 16. Internationalen Kolloquiums über Anwendungen der Informatik und Mathematik in Architektur und Bauwesen. IKM 2003. Weimar, Germany, Juni 2003.

Alda, S., Won, M., Cremers, A.B., "Managing Dependencies in Component-Based Distributed Applications", in: Proceedings of International Workshop on Scientific Engineering of Distributed Java Applications (FIDJI'2002). LNCS 2604, Springer. Luxembourg-City, Luxembourg, November 2002.

Alda, S., "Adaptability in Component-Based Peer-to-Peer Applications", in: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P2002). Linköpings, Schweden, September 2002.

Alda, S., "Agentenbasiertes Modell zur Geschehens- und Zustandswahrnehmung im Bauwesen", in: Ergebnisband zum 14. Forum Bauinformatik der Universität Bochum. Bochum, Germany, September 2002.

Radetzki, U., Alda, S., Bode, T. and Cremers, A.B., "First Steps in the Development of a Web Service Framework for Heterogeneous Environmental Information Systems", in: Environmental Communication in the Information Society, 16th International Symposium Environmental Informatics (EnviroInfo). Vienna, Austria, September 2002.

Alda, S., Radetzki, U., Won, M., Cremers, A.B., "Eine anpassbare, komponentbasierte Plattform für vernetzte Kooperationen im Bauwesen". Ergebnisband zur Tagung Bauen mit Computern der VDI. Bonn, Germany, April 2002.

Alda, S., Radetzki, U., Bergmann, A., Cremers, A.B., "A Component-Based and Adaptable Platform for Networked Cooperations in Civil and Builidng Engineering", in: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE-IX). Taipei, Taiwan, April 2002.