As a research associate at the Distributed Systems Group I’m employed in the MUSIC project. This is an EC-funded reasearch project comprising 15 partners – both from the industry and academia – from diefferent EU countries. MUSIC will provide a design methodology and distributed system architecture for the design and implementation of self-adapting applications in ubiquitous computing environments. This will be complemented with enhanced modelling languages for the specification of context dependencies and adaptation capabilities, supported by model specification, validation and simulation tools. This platform will be used to develop trial services, based on a set of challenging application scenarios with real market potential, having a central role: as sources of requirements, to assess technical adequacy of the results, and to promote the results.

I’m also involved in the Carpe Noctem RoboCup Team we have started in late 2005. We designed a team of robots that can move, kick, and recognize their environment through an omni-directional camera (the camera is looking upwards onto an axially symmetric mirror; this emulates an ultra-wide angle lens).

As part of both projects I’m pursuing my PhD topic: Information Exchange and Fusion in Heterogeneous Distributed Environments.

Apart from that, I am interested in approaches for supervised and unsupervised machine learning, which was already part of my diploma thesis. In particular with regard to image processing and vision systems, I am trying to build self-organizing systems, which were able to self-adapt to changing lighting conditions and to build up appropriate filters in an unsupervised manner.

Kurt Geihs, Roland Reichle, Michael Wagner, Mohammad Ullah Khan, Service-Oriented Adaptation in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, CSE, vol. 2, pp.458-463, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2009

Hendrik Skubch, Michael Wagner, and Roland Reichle. A language for interactive cooperative agents. Technical report, University of Kassel, 2009.

Mohammad U. Khan, Roland Reichle, Michael Wagner, Kurt Geihs, Ulrich Scholz, Constantinos Kakousis, and George A. Papadopoulos, An adaptation reasoning approach for large scale component-based applications. In Communications of the EASST, volume 19, 2009. Proceedings of the Second International DisCoTec Workshop on Context-Aware Adaptation
Mechanisms for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Services(CAMPUS 2009)

Kurt Geihs, Roland Reichle, Michael Wagner, Mohammad Ullah Khan, Modeling of Context-Aware Self-Adaptive Applications in Ubiquitous and Service-Oriented Environments. To be published in Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems (eds. Betty H.C. Cheng, Rogerio de Lemos, Holger Giese, Paola Inverardi, Jeff Magee) Springer 2009.

Alisa Devlic, Roland Reichle, Michal Wagner, Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, Yves Vanrompay, Yolande Berbers, Massimo Valla, Context inference of users’ social relationships and distributed policy management Accepted to 6th IEEE Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea) at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom’09)

Kurt Geihs, Jens Wollenhaupt, Roland Reichle and Philipp Baer, Ontology-based Automatic Model Transformations, Accepted to 6th IEEE International Conferences on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 08)

Kurt Geihs, Paolo Barone, Frank Eliassen, Jacqueline Floch, Rolf Fricke, Eli Gjørven, S. Hallsteinsen, Geir Horn, Mohammad Ullah Khan, Alessandro Mamelli, George A. Papadopoulos, Nearchos Paspallis, Roland Reichle, and Erlend Stav, A Comprehensive Solution for Application-Level Adaptation Software Practice & Experience – 2008

Philipp A. Baer, Roland Reichle, and Kurt Geihs, The Spica Development Framework — Model-Driven Software Development for Autonomous Mobile Robots , Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, pp 211–220. 2008.

Mohammad Ullah Khan, Roland Reichle, Kurt Geihs, Architectural Constraints in the Model-driven Development of Self-adaptive Component-based Applications for Mobile Devices IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 9, no. 7, 2008, art. no. 0807-o7001.

Thomas Weise, Stefan Niemczyk, Hendrik Skubch, Roland Reichle, Kurt Geihs, A Tunable Model for Multi-Objective, Epistatic, Rugged, and Neutral Fitness Landscapes Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2008, page 795–802 – jul 2008

Roland Reichle, Michael Wagner, Mohammad Ullah Khan, Kurt Geihs, Jorge Lorenzo, Massimo Valla, Cristina Fra, Nearchos Paspallis, George A. Papadopoulos, A Comprehensive Context Modeling Framework for Pervasive Computing Systems 8th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), 4-6 June, 2008, Oslo, Norway, Springer Verlag LNCS 5053, pp. 281-295.

Roland Reichle, Mohammad Ullah Khan, Kurt Geihs, How to Combine Parameter and Compositional Adaptation in the Modeling of Self-Adaptive Applications, PIK Special Issue:Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems, Volume 31 (2008), Number 1, pages 34-38, March 2008

Roland Reichle, Michael Wagner, Mohammad Ullah Khan, Kurt Geihs, Massimo Valla, Cristina Fra, Nearchos Paspallis, George A. Papadopoulos, A Context Query Language for Pervasive Computing Environments, 5th IEEE Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea) in conjunction with the 6th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom), Hong Kong, 17–21 March 2008, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 434-440.

Philipp A. Baer and Roland Reichle: Communication and Collaboration in Heterogeneous Teams of Soccer Robots. In Robotic Soccer, ISBN 978-3-902613-21-9, December 2007.

Mohammad Ullah Khan, Roland Reichle, Kurt Geihs, Applying Architectural Constraints in the Modeling of Self-adaptive Component-based Applications. Workshop on Model Driven Software Adaptation (M-ADAPT’07) within the 21st European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ecoop), July 30 – August 03, 2007, Berlin, Germany

Philipp A. Baer, Roland Reichle, Michael Zapf, Thomas Weise, and Kurt Geihs: A Generative Approach to the Development of Autonomous Robot Software. In Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (EASe 2007), pages 43–52, 2007.

Ulrich Kaufmann, Roland Reichle, Christof Hoppe, and Philipp A. Baer: An Unsupervised Approach for Adaptive Color Segmentation. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Robot Vision in conjunction with VISAPP 2007, Barcelona – Spain, March 2007, Luca Iocchi and Domenico G. Sorrenti (Eds)., INSTICC PRESS, pp 3 – 12, 2007.

Mourad Alia, Geir Horn, Frank Eliassen, Mohammad Ullah Khan, Rolf Fricke and Roland Reichle, “A Component-based Planning Framework for Adaptive Systems”. The 8th International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA), Oct 30 – Nov 1, 2006, Montpellier, France.

Kurt Geihs, Mohammad U. Khan, Roland Reichle, Arnor Solberg, Svein Hallsteinsen, “Modeling of Component-Based Self-Adapting Context-Aware Applications for Mobile Devices”. IFIP Working Conference on Software Engineering Techniques, October 17-20, 2006, Warsaw, Poland.

Kurt Geihs, Roland Reichle, Mohammad U. Khan, Arnor Solberg, Svein Hallsteinsen, “Model-Driven Development of Self-Adaptive Applications for Mobile Devices (Research Summary)”. ICSE 2006 Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), May 21-22, 2006, Shanghai, China.

Kurt Geihs, Mohammad Ullah Khan, Roland Reichle, Arnor Solberg, Svein Hallsteinsen, Simon Merral, “Modeling of Component-based Adaptive Distributed Applications”. Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems (DADS Track) of the 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, April 23 -27, 2006, Bourgogne University, Dijon, France

Philipp A. Baer, Roland Reichle, Kai Baumgart, Thomas Kleppe, Christof Hoppe, Stefan Triller, Daniel Saur,
Jens Wollenhaupt, Till Amma, Michael Blumenstein, Florian Seute, Andreas Witsch, and K. Geihs, Carpe Noctem 2006. In G. Lakemeyer, E. Sklar, D. Sorrenti, T. Takahashi, editors, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, LNCS. Springer, 2006. (CD Supplement)

Roland Reichle, Pierre Bayerl, Heiko Neumann, “A self-organized neural network for pattern recognition” Proc. 5th Workshop Dynamische Perzeption, page 183-188 – 2004

Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, Gerd Mayer, Hans Utz, Philipp Baer, M. Clauss, Ulrich Kaufmann, Markus Lauer, Simon Natterer, Sebastian Przewoznik, Roland Reichle, Christoph Sitter, Florian Sterk, G. Palm: “The Ulm Sparrows 2004 – Team description paper” RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII, Volume 3276 – 2004

Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, Gerd Mayer, Hans Utz, Philipp Baer, M. Clauss, Ulrich Kaufmann, Markus Lauer, Simon Natterer, Sebastian Przewoznik, Roland Reichle, Alexander Reisser, Axel Roth, Miriam Schmidt, Christoph Sitter, Florian Sterk, G. Palm: “The Ulm Sparrows 2003 – Team description paper” RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII, Volume 3020 – 2003

Program Committee Member of Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems, DADS Track of the 22nd Symposium on Applied Computing

Program Committee Member of Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems, DADS Track of the 23nd Symposium on Applied Computing

Program Committee Member of 1st International DisCoTec Workshop on Context-aware Adaptation Mechanisms for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Services – CAMPUS, in conjunction with DisCoTec federated conferences 2008

Head of the Distributed Autonomous Systems Laboratory (together with Dr. Philipp Baer)

The following diploma/bachelor/master theses are or have been (co-)supervised by me

• Jens Wollenhaupt.
  Ontologiegestützte automatische Modell-Transformationen.
  Diploma Thesis, Kassel University, 2008.
• Kai Baumgart.
  Powermanagement in solarbetriebenen autonomen Robotern.
  Diploma Thesis, Kassel University, 2008.

• Marco Schwalm.
  Entwicklung eines Lade- und Monitoringsystems für NiMH-Akkus.
  Diploma Thesis, Kassel University, 2007.
• Daniel Saur.
  Einsatz von Lernverfahren zur Verhaltenssteuerung autonomer mobiler Roboter.
  Diploma Thesis, Kassel University, 2007.
• Christof Hoppe.
  Einsatz von Clusterungsverfahren zur automatischen Adaption der Farbkalibrierung autonomer Roboter.
  Bachelor’s Thesis, Kassel University, 2007.

• Kai Schönewald.
  Simulationsumgebung für autonome mobile Roboter.
  Diploma Thesis, Kassel University, 2006.