Publications

Conference and Journal Publications

Roland Schwarzkopf, Matthias Schmidt, Christian Strack, Simon Martin, Bernd Freisleben
Increasing Virtual Machine Security in Cloud Environments
In: Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, Springer, 2012

Pablo Graubner, Matthias Schmidt, Bernd Freisleben
Energy-efficient Virtual Machine Consolidation for Cloud Computing
In: IT Professional, 2012

Roland Schwarzkopf, Matthias Schmidt, Mathias Ruediger, Bernd Freisleben
Efficient Storage of Virtual Machine Images
In: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing co-located with the ACM Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2012

Lars Baumgaertner, Pablo Graubner, Matthias Leinweber, Roland Schwarzkopf, Matthias Schmidt, Bernhard Seeger, Bernd Freisleben
Mastering Security Anomalies in Virtualized Computing Environments via Complex Event Processing
In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management, 2012

Roland Schwarzkopf, Matthias Schmidt, Christian Strack, Bernd Freisleben
Checking Running and Dormant Virtual Machines for the Necessity of Security Updates in Cloud Environments
In: Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2011), 2011

Matthias Schmidt
Infrastructural Security for Virtualized Grid Computing
In: Dissertation (ISBN 978-3-8381-3025-5), Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften, 2011

Pablo Graubner, Matthias Schmidt, Bernd Freisleben
Energy-efficient Management of Virtual Machines in Eucalyptus
In: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD), 2011

Matthias Schmidt, Lars Baumgaertner, Pablo Graubner, David Boeck, Bernd Freisleben
Malware Detection and Kernel Rootkit Prevention in Cloud Computing Environments
In: Proceedings of the 19th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP), IEEE Press, 2011

Katharina Haselhorst, Matthias Schmidt, Roland Schwarzkopf, Niels Fallenbeck, Bernd Freisleben
Efficient Storage Synchronization for Live Migration in Cloud Infrastructures
In: Proceedings of the 19th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP), IEEE Press, 2011

Matthias Schmidt, Sascha Fahl, Roland Schwarzkopf, Bernd Freisleben
TrustBox: A Security Architecture for Preventing Data Breaches
In: Proceedings of the 19th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP), IEEE Press, 2011

Eugen Volk, Jochen Buchholz, Stefan Wesner, Daniela Koudela, Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallenbeck, Roland Schwarzkopf, Bernd Freisleben, Goetz Isenmann, Juergen Schwitalla, Marc Lohrer, Erich Focht, Andreas Jeutter
Towards Intelligent Management of Very Large Computing Systems
In: Proceedings of Competence in High Performance Computing CiHPC, Springer, 2010

Niels Fallenbeck, Matthias Schmidt, Roland Schwarzkopf, Bernd Freisleben
Inter-Site Virtual Machine Image Transfer in Grids and Clouds
In: Proceedings of the 2nd International ICST Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp 2010), Springer LNICST, 2010

Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallenbeck, Matthew Smith, Bernd Freisleben
Efficient Distribution of Virtual Machines for Cloud Computing
In: Proceedings of the 18th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2010), IEEE Press, 2010

Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallenbeck, Roland Schwarzkopf, Bernd Freisleben
Virtualized Cluster Computing
In: Research Report High-Performance Computing in Hessen, 2010

Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallenbeck, Kay Doernemann, Roland Schwarzkopf, Tobias Pontz, Manfred Grauer, Bernd Freisleben
Aufbau einer virtualisierten Cluster-Umgebung
In: Grid Computing in der Finanzindustrie, Books on Demand, 2009

Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallenbeck, Matthew Smith, Bernd Freisleben
Secure Service-Oriented Grid Computing with Public Virtual Worker Nodes
In: Proceedings of 35th Euromicro Conference on Internet Technologies, Quality of Service and Applications (ITQSA), IEEE Press, 2009

Roland Schwarzkopf, Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallenbeck, Bernd Freisleben
Multi-Layered Virtual Machines for Security Updates in Grid Environments
In: Proceedings of 35th Euromicro Conference on Internet Technologies, Quality of Service and Applications (ITQSA), IEEE Press, 2009

Matthew Smith, Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallenbeck, Tim Doernemann, Christian Schridde, Bernd Freisleben
Security for On-Demand Grid Computing
In: Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 2008.

Matthew Smith, Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallenbeck, Christian Schridde, Bernd Freisleben
Optimising Security Configurations with Service Level Agreements
In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA7), 2007

Matthias Schmidt, Matthew Smith, Niels Fallenbeck, Hans Picht, Bernd Freisleben
Building a Demilitarized Zone with Data Encryption for Grid Environments
In: Proceedings of First International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications, ACM Press, 2007.

Talks and Presentations

2012

  • ACCEPT Kick-Off (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

2011

  • Infrastructural Security for Virtualized Grid Computing (PhD defense, Germany)
  • Infrastructural Security for Virtualized Grid Computing (3rd Workshop on Service-Oriented Distributed Software Architectures, Tunisia)
  • Cloud Monitoring (Booth staff at Software AG's ProcessWorld Berlin, Germany)
  • Malware Detection and Kernel Rootkit Prevention in Cloud Computing Environments (Euromicro PDP, Cyprus)
  • Efficient Storage Synchronization for Live Migration in Cloud Infrastructures (Euromicro PDP, Cyprus)
  • TrustBox: A Security Architecture for Preventing Data Breaches (Euromicro PDP, Cyprus)

2010

  • Efficient Distribution of Virtual Machines for Cloud Computing (Euromicro PDP, Italy)
  • Grid Computing in Cloudy World (Booth staff at CeBIT fare)
  • Cloud Computing (CTDS Workshop, Morocow)

2009

  • Multi-Layered Virtual Machines for Security Updates in Grid Environments (Euromicro ITQSA, Greece)
  • Secure Service-Oriented Grid Computing with Public Virtual Worker Nodes (Euromicro ITQSA, Greece)
  • Grid and Virtualization (PT-Grid Kickoff, Germany)
  • Design of a policy engine for the Timacs project (Workshop lead, Timacs Project, Germany)
  • Virtualization in the D-Grid and in Marburg (PT-Grid Infrastructure Workshop, Germany)

2008

  • Security, Virtualization and the Grid (D-Grid Security Workshop, Germany)
  • Virtualized Grid Computing (Initial PT-Grid workshop, Germany)

2007

  • Building a Demilitarized Zone with Data Encryption for Grid Environments (Gridnets, France)
  • A Peer-to-Peer Meta-Scheduler for Service-Oriented Grid Environments (Gridnets, France)
  • Grid Computing and TPM (Workshop lead, ETISS, Germany)
  • Security through Virtualization (D-Grid Security Workshop, Germany)

Reviewing Activities

I serve(d) as reviewer for the following conferences:

  • Euromicro PDP 2012, Cloud Computing for Compute and Data Intensive Applications (reviewer)
  • Euromicro PDP 2012, Energy-aware Systems (session chair)
  • Euromicro PDP 2013, Energy-aware Systems (reviewer)