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Interests

• Dependability Analysis
• Fault Injection
• Resilient Operating-System Design
• Software-implemented Hardware Fault Tolerance (SIHFT)
• Efficient Tailor-Made Operating Systems
• (Deeply) Embedded Systems
• Software Product Lines
• Aspect-Oriented Programming

Ongoing Projects

• Collaborative Research Center SFB 876 – Providing Information by Resource-Constrained Data Analysis: Project A1 – Data Mining for Ubiquitous System Software
• AspectC++: An aspect-oriented extension to the C++ programming language

Finished Projects

• DanceOS: Dependability Aspects in Configurable Embedded Operating Systems
• LavA: An application-specific runtime platform for embedded multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoCs)
• FAME-DBMS: A Family of Embedded Database Management Systems

Organized Workshops

• Diskussionskreis Fehlertoleranz (DKFT 2019)
  (Dortmund, 2019)
• SPP-1500 Mini-Workshop on Dependability Analysis and Evaluation Techniques
  (Dortmund, 2012)

Membership in Program Committees

• DAC — Design Automation Conference
  (at DAC 2020, DAC 2021)
• ARCS — International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems
  (at ARCS 2012 (sub-reviewer), ARCS 2015 (sub-reviewer), ARCS 2016 (sub-reviewer), ARCS 2017 (sub-reviewer), ARCS 2018 (sub-reviewer))
• ASPLOS — ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
  (at ASPLOS 2018 (external review))
• DSN — IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
  (at DSN 2018 (sub-reviewer), DSN 2019 (sub-reviewer))
• EDCC — European Dependable Computing Conference
  (at EDCC 2012 (sub-reviewer), EDCC 2018 (sub-reviewer))
• PLOS — Programming Languages and Operating Systems
  (at PLOS 2011 (sub-reviewer))
• IEEE TC — Transactions on Computers
• IEEE TR — Transactions on Reliability
• IEEE TCAS2 — Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
• The Computer Journal (Oxford University Press)
• Inderscience IJCCBS — International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems
• Formerly: Elsevier JSA — Journal of Systems Architecture

Awards

• Distinguished Paper Award at EDCC 2019: H. Schirmeier and M. Breddemann. Quantitative cross-layer evaluation of transient-fault injection techniques for algorithm comparison.
• Best Poster Award at EuroSys 2019 for the poster accompanying our paper: A. Lochmann, H. Schirmeier, H. Borghorst, and O. Spinczyk. LockDoc: Trace-based analysis of locking in the Linux kernel.
• Best Poster Award at HiPEAC 2013 for the poster accompanying our paper: B. Döbel, H. Schirmeier, and M. Engel. Investigating the limitations of PVF for realistic program vulnerability assessment.
• Best Poster Award at the Doktorandenkolleg der Informatik Ruhr 2010 for the poster by Horst Schirmeier and Olaf Neugebauer Ein automatisierter Plattform-Konformitätstest für Android-Applikationen

My Tutorials

• Hands-on-Lab session Fault-Injection based Assessment of Software-Implemented Hardware Fault Tolerance
  (at the Winter School on Operating Systems (WSOS 2016))
• Tutorial Fault Injection with FAIL*
  (at the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2018))

Activities in Professional Societies

• ACM member
• GI member, special-interest groups Operating Systems (SYS/FG-BS) and Fault-Tolerant Computing (SICHERHEIT/FERS)
• Member of the steering committee: GI special-interest group Fault-Tolerant Computing (SICHERHEIT/FERS)