Dr. Claus Pahl

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Dr. Claus Pahl is a graduate (1990) from the University of Technology in Braunschweig. He holds a PhD (1996) from the University of Dortmund. He worked as a research assistant from 1991 to 1994 at the University of Essen and from 1994 to 1996 at the University of Dortmund. Claus started lecturing at University College Cork after postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Denmark and Trinity College Dublin in 1996 and 1997. He joined Dublin City University as a lecturer in 1999. He lectures in the areas of software engineering, database and e-commerce. He is currently the chair of the Masters in Computer Applications programme board. Prior to his academic career, he has been working in industry as a software development engineer and as an IT consultant.

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Key Performance Indicators

Output	total number of publications	249
Publications	h-index	27
	journal papers and book chapters (70% as lead author)	40 + 17
	journal special issues and conference proceedings edited	3 + 8
Output	PhD graduated	7
Graduates	MSc by Research graduates	3
External	reviewing for journals	> 30
Activities	member of programme committees	> 120
	PhD/MSc theses examined (IRL, UK, NL)	19
	major conferences chaired	3
	other international events organised and chaired	8
	editorial board memberships (current/past)	4+3
	evaluation panels and proposal evaluator for different countries	9
	project reviewer for FP7 projects	4
	invitations as speaker at conferences, panels, seminars	32
Funding	total amount of funding	€ 4.5m

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Research

Dr. Pahl has been researching in software technology for more than 20 years. Educational technologies are his other key area of expertise. He has published more than 240 papers on a wide range of software engineering, Web and educational technology issues such as software prototyping, module and component languages, foundational aspects of programming and specification languages, implementation of programming languages and environments, and Internet/Web-based applications. He has reviewed papers for more than 120 international journals, conferences, and workshops.

He has been involved in various national and international research projects. As a principal investigator, he has received research grants from various sources.

• He has been involved in the EU-funded DeStijl-project (DEsign and Specification Through Interfacing and Joining Languages) as a researcher. This project – a collaboration of six academic and industrial partners – has focussed on modular, interoperable specification languages.
• He currently pursues research in Web service and component technology within the Dependable Systems research group at the School of Computing at DCU. The investigation of ontology-based semantic Web service technology is a key interest area.
• He has initiated the INVITE project (INfrastructures for VIrtual Teaching and learning Environments), which focuses on software engineering aspects of educational technology, such as architectures and data formats. An educational system – a virtual lecture, tutorial and lab system – developed by him and his students is in use for undergraduate teaching.

Several postgraduate students successfully completed their research under his supervision. His research group currently consists of six full-time postgraduate research students.

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Projects

Total awarded funding: € 4.52 million.

Selected Projects :

• Cloud Architecture - Interoperability and Migration [2012 – 2018]. EI (Enterprise Ireland) – Technology Centres Programme: € 747.000
• Policy Monitoring for Cloud Computing Architectures [2011 – 2012]. SFI (Science Foundation Ireland) – TIDA Programme: € 76.275
• Context-determined Autonomic Service Composition and Architecture [2007 – 2010]. SFI (Science Foundation Ireland) – Research Frontiers Programme: € 184.275
• Model-driven Semantic Service Engineering [2006 – 2009]. Dublin City University, National Governmental Research Scholarship: € 145.100
• Process Alignment and Integration for Service Systems Architectures [2007 – 2011]. SFI (Science Foundation Ireland) – Lero, Software Engineering Research Centert: € 92.137
• Contextual Adaptation in Service Architectures [2008 – 2012]. SFI (Science Foundation Ireland) – LGSSE Graduate School: € 201.070
• Architecture, Composition, Transformation, and Integration for Service-based Software [2003 – 2006]. IRCSET (Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology), Oracle Corp. and Dublin City University: € 165.960
• Digital Content Management – Systems Integration and Content Management for Learning, Localisation and Social Services [2007 – 2012]. SFI (Science Foundation Ireland) – CNGL, Software Localisation: € 288.156
• Management Infrastructure for Knowledge-based, Adaptive E-Learning Content [2005 – 2008]. EI (Enterprise Ireland) – Technology Development Programme: € 319.550
• Ontology-based Generation of Learning Content [2003 – 2005]. Enterprise Ireland – Proof of Concept Programme: € 76.590
• Infrastructures for Virtual Teaching and Learning Environments [2000 – 2004]. Teaching and Learning Fund, Dublin City University: € 106.150

EU Projects:

• TUPULO – Teaching Undergrad Programming Using Learning Objects [2005 – 2007]. Blanchardstown IT (IRL), Tallaght IT (IRL), System Centros de Form. (ESP), Dublin City Univ. (IRL), Soc. Romania pentru Educatie Perm. (ROM). Partner. MINERVA Project.
• PROLEARN – Technology Enhanced Professional Learning [2005 – 2007]. U Hannover (D), DFKI (D), OU (UK), KU Leuven (NL), WU Wien (A), etc. Associate Partner. Network of Excellence.
• DeStijl – Design and Specification through Interfacing and Joining Languages [1995 – 1998]. DTU (DK), TCD (IRL), U Groningen (NL), LMU München (D), Philips (NL). HCM Project.

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Examiner Research Theses (PhD/MSc)

• 13 PhD Theses
• 5 MSc Theses

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Reviewer Funding Applications / Expert Panels

• European Union - FP 7 STREP/IP; H2020 RIA
  • Proposal Evaluation and Panel
  • Project Reviews
• The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NOW The Netherlands
• Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
• Greek General Secretariat for Research \& Technology (GSRT)
• Israel Science Foundation ISF Israel
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NSERC Canada
• Portugese Research Council Portugal
• Estonian Science Foundation ETF Estonia
• Hong Kong Science Committee SC Hong Kong

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Editorial Boards

• International Journal On Advances in Software
• International Journal on E-Learning
• Educational Technology and Society
• International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning

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Journal Reviews

• Communications of the ACM
• Transactions on Software Engineering
• Transactions on Service Computing
• Transactions on Cloud Computing
• Transactions on Auton. Adapt. Systems
• Data and Knowledge Engineering
• Information and Software Technology
• Journal of Systems and Software
• Software and Systems Modelling
• Empirical Software Engineering
• Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
• IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
• Formal Aspects of Computing
• Theoretical Computer Science
• Science of Computer Programming
• Distributed Systems Online
• Information Science
• Intl. Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
• World-Wide Web Journal
• Soft Computing and Automation Journal
• Intl. Journal on the Semantic Web and Information Systems
• Journal of Network and Systems Management
• Software Quality Journal
• Information Systems
• Journal of Universal Computer Science
• Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology
• Journal of Zhejiang University Science
• International Journal on Digital Libraries
• Government Information Quartlery
• International Journal on E-Learning
• Educational Technology and Society
• Education and Information Technologies
• International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
• Computers and Education

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Editor Special Issues/Sections

• Computer Science - Research and Development. Springer. 2012
  • Editors: M. Boškovic, D. Cancila, C. Pahl and B. Schätz
  • Theme: Non-Functional System Properties in Domain Specific Modeling Languages.
• Journal of Software and Systems Modelling. 2009.
  • Editors: M. Boškovic, D. Gaševic, C. Pahl and B. Schätz
  • Theme: Non-Functional System Properties in Domain Specific Modeling Languages
• Computer Science - Research and Development. Springer. 2009
  • Editors: B. König-Ries and C. Pahl
  • Theme: Special Issue on Web Service Platform and Technologies.

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Conference/Workshop Chair

• NFPinDSML (2010) - Workshop on Non-Functional System Properties in Domain Specific Modeling Languages - Programme Co-Chair
• NFPinDSML (2009) - Workshop on Non-Functional System Properties in Domain Specific Modeling Languages - Programme Co-Chair
• NFPinDSML (2008) - Workshop on Non-Functional System Properties in Domain Specific Modeling Languages - Programme Co-Chair
• ECOWS (2008) - European Conference on Web Services - General Chair
• SE (2008) - Software Engineering Conference - General Chair
• ECOWS (2007) - European Conference on Web Services - Programme Co-Chair
• IWFM (2001) - Irish Workshop on Formal Methods - Programme Co-Chair

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Steering Committee

• ECOWS (2008-11) - European Conference on Web Services - Steering Committee Member
• NFPinDSML - Workshop on Non-Functional System Properties in Domain Specific Modeling Languages

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Programme Committee Member

2014:

• European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC'14)
• 8th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2014)
• International ACM Sigsoft Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA 2014)
• 9th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA) 2014
• EnCASE'2014 First International Workshop on Engineering Cloud Applications & Services
• First Intelligent Service Clouds Workshop ISC'2014
• 21th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2014)
• 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Services for the Future Internet (WAS4FI 2014)
• The 6th International Conference on Advanced Service Computing. SERVICE COMPUTATION 2014
• International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2014
• International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2014)
• Joint 11th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture 2014
• International Conference on Intelligent Cloud Computing ICC'2014

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2013:

• ECSA (2013) - Europ. Conference on Software Architecture
• ECMFA (2013) - European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
• ICSW (2013) - IEEE Intl Conference on Web Services
• ICSEA (2013) - International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
• ESOCC (2013) - Europ Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
• QoSA (2013) - Intl ACM Sigsoft Conf on the Quality of Software Architectures
• ServiceComputation (2013) - Fifth Intl Conferences on Advanced Service Computing
• MODELSWARD (2013) - Intl Conf on Model-Driven Eng and Software Development

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2012:

• WICSA/ECSA (2012) - Joint Working Conference on Software Architecture & Europ. Conference on Software Architecture
• ESOCC (2012) - Europ Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
• SC (2012) - Intl Conference on Software Composition
• QoSA 2012 - Intl ACM Sigsoft Conf on the Quality of Software Architectures
• ICWS (2012) - IEEE Intl Conference on Web Services
• WISE (2012) - 13th Web Information System Engineering Conference
• ICSEA (2012) - International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
• ICEIS (2012) - International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
• LISS 2012 - Intl Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Services Sciences
• SAWOSA (2012) - South African Workshop on Software Architecture
• NFPinDSML 2012 - Intl. Workshop on Non-Functional System Properties in Domain Specific Modeling Languages
• MDA&MDSD'2012 - Model-Driven Architecture and Model-Driven Software Devel.
• WAS4FI 2012 - 2nd International Workshop on Adaptive Services for the Future Internet
• VARSA'12 - International Workshop on Variability in Software Architecture
• ONTOSE'12 - Intl Workshop on Ontology, Models, Conceptualization and Epistemology in Social, Artificial and Natural Systems
• ZOCO'2012 - Workshop on Multi-agent systems for Enterprise Integration

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2011:

• WISE (2011) 12th Web Information System Engineering Conference
• ECSA'2011 - 5th Europ. Conference on Software Architecture
• ICSEA'2011 - International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
• AINA'2011 - IEEE Intl Conf on Advanced Information and Networking
• ICEIS'2011 - International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
• ECOWS (2011) - European Conference on Web Services
• WEWST (2011) - Workshop on Emerging Web Service Technologies
• ISSE 2011 - Intl Symp on Information System and Software Engineering
• LISS 2011 - Intl Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Services Sciences
• MDA&MDSD'2011 - Model-Driven Architecture and Model-Driven Software Devel.

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2010:

• ICEIS'2010 - International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
• ECSA'2010 - 4th Europ. Conference on Software Architecture
• ECOWS'2010 - European Conference on Web Services
• ICSEA'2010 - International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
• ICSOFT'2010 - Intl. Conf. on Software and Data Technologies - Doct. Consort.
• WEWST'2010 - Workshop on Emerging Web Service Technologies
• MDA4ServiceCloud'2010 - Workshop on MDA for the Service Cloud
• MDA'2010 - Workshop on Model Driven Architecture: Foundations, Practices, and Implications
• INSITE'2010 - Informing Science & Information Technology Education

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2009:

• ECOWS'09 - European Conference on Web Services - 9-11 November 2009, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• NFPinDSML 2009 - Intl. Workshop on Non-Functional System Properties in Domain Specific Modeling Languages
• WICSA/ECSA'2009 - Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture 2009 & European Conference on Software Architecture 2009
• ICSEA'2009 - International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
• ICSOFT 2009 - International Conference on Software and Data Technologies
• ICEIS 2009 - International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
• WEWST-2009 - 4th Workshop on Emerging Web Service Technologies
• MSI'2009 - Workshop on MDD, SOA und IT-Management
• E-LEARN 2008 - Intl. Conference on E-Learning in Business, Government and Higher Education
• ADVCOMP'2008 - International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences
• DEXA'2009 - 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
• MDA'2009 - Workshop on Model–Driven Architecture: Foundations, Practices and Implications

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2008:

• SC (2008) - Symposium on Software Composition
• ECSA (2008) - European Conference on Software Architecture
• ECOWS (2008) - European Conference on Web Services
• ICSEA (2008) - International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
• ICSOFT (2008) - Intl. Conference on Software and Data Technologies
• MSI (2008) - Workshop MDD, SOA und IT-Management
• mda4soa (2008) - Intl. Workshop on Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures
• ICEIS (2008) - International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
• E-LEARN (2008) - Intl. Conference on E-Learning in Business, Government and Higher Education
• KS (2008) - Knowledge Society Summit
• WEWST (2008) - Workshop on Emerging Web Service Technologies
• Lero (2008) - Lero Software Engineering Research Workshop

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2007:

• SC (2007) - Symposium on Software Composition
• ECOWS (2007) - European Conference on Web Services
• ICSOFT (2007) - Intl. Conference on Software and Data Technologies
• EC-TEL (2007) - European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning Technical Programme and Doctoral Symposium
• mda4soa (2007) - Intl. Workshop on Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures
• SE (2007) - IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering
• ICSEA (2007) - International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
• E-LEARN (2007) - Intl. Conference on E-Learning in Business, Government and Higher Education
• ADVCOMP (2007) - International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences
• ADML (2007) - Intl Workshop on Applying Data Mining in e-Learning
• MoSAMinA (2007) - Workshop on Modelling Software Architectures of Middleware-intensive Applications
• WSEST (2007) - Workshop on Emerging Web Service Technologies

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2006:

• SC (2006) - Symposium on Software Composition
• WTAS (2006) - Web Technologies, Applications, and Services
• ECOWS (2006) - European Conference on Web Services
• E-LEARN (2006) - Intl. Conference on E-Learning in Business, Government and Higher Education
• ICSOFT (2006) - Intl. Conference on Software and Data Technologies
• ICSEA (2006) - International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
• ICT-CL (2006) - Intl. Workshop on Innovative Information and Communication Technologies and Tools at the Service of Collab. Learning
• mda4soa (2006) - Intl. Workshop on Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures

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2005:

• SC (2005) - Symposium on Software Composition
• EdTech (2005) - Irish Educational Technology User’s Conference
• WTAS (2005) - Web Technologies, Applications, and Services
• ECOWS (2005) - European Conference on Web Services
• E-LEARN (2005) - Intl. Conference on E-Learning in Business, Government and Higher Education

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2004:

• SC (2004) - Workshop on Software Composition
• IWFM (2004) - International Workshop on Formal Methods
• NCWS (2004) - Nordic Conference on Web Services

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2003:

• IWFM (2003) - International Workshop on Formal Methods
• SC (2003) - Workshop on Software Composition
• NCWS (2003) - Nordic Conference on Web Services

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2002:

• IWFM (2002) - Irish Workshop on Formal Methods
• SC (2002) - Workshop on Software Composition

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2001:

• IWFM (2001) - Irish Workshop on Formal Methods
• ECOOSE (2001) - Engineering Complex Object-Oriented Systems for E-Commerce

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2000:

• IWFM (2000) - Irish Workshop on Formal Methods

Memberships

Dr. Pahl is the member of the IEEE, the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems EAPLS, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science EATCS, the European Association for Software and Systems Technologies EASST, the Irish Formal Methods Special Interest Group IFMSIG, and the Irish Learning Technology Association ILTA.

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