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- Lesch, V., Breitbach, M., Segata, M., Becker, C., Kounev, S., & Krupitzer, C. (2022). An Overview on Approaches for Coordination of Platoons. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(8), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.1109/tits.2021.3115908
- Pfannemüller, M., Breitbach, M., Weckesser, M., Becker, C., Schmerl, B., Schürr, A., & Krupitzer, C. (2020). REACT-ION: A Model-based Runtime Environment for Situation-aware Adaptations. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3487919
- Becker, C., Julien, C., Lalanda, P., & Zambonelli, F. (2019). Pervasive computing middleware: current trends and emerging challenges. CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction, 1(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42486-019-00005-2
- Weckesser, M., Kluge, R., Pfannemüller, M., Matthé, M., Schürr, A., & Becker, C. (2018). Optimal reconfiguration of dynamic software product lines based on performance-influence models. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 1, 98–109.
- Becker, C., & Renz, M. (2018). Message from the MDM 2018 advanced seminars co-chairs. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, 2018-June, xiv.
- Roth, F. M., Pfannemueller, M., Becker, C., & Lalanda, P. (2018). An Interoperable Notification Service for Pervasive Computing. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2018, 842–847.
- Krupitzer, C., Drechsel, G., Mateja, D., Pollkläsener, A., Schrage, F., Sturm, T., Tomasovic, A., & Becker, C. (2018). Using Spreadsheet-defined Rules for Reasoning in Self-Adaptive Systems. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2018, 289–294.
- Schäfer, D., Edinger, J., Eckrich, J., Breitbach, M., & Becker, C. (2018). Hybrid Task Scheduling for Mobile Devices in Edge and Cloud Environments. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2018, 669–674.
- Yasumoto, K., Yamaguchi, H., & Becker, C. (2018). PerCom Workshops 2018 Committees. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2018.
- Liu, R., Liang, J., Cao, J., Zhu, W., Vansyckel, S., & Becker, C. (2018). UIO-based Testbed Augmentation for Simulating Cyber-Physical Systems. IEEE Intelligent Systems.
- Wachner, A., Edinger, J., & Becker, C. (2018). Towards Gaze-Based Mobile Device Interaction for the Disabled. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2018, 397–402.
- Kuhlmann, M., Roth, F. M., Becker, C., & Theissen, E. (2018). FinCare - A digital spending conscience or “do you really need a flamethrower?” Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018.
- Choochotkaew, S., Yamaguchi, H., Higashino, T., Schäfer, D., Edinger, J., & Becker, C. (2018). Self-adaptive Resource Allocation for Continuous Task Offloading in Pervasive Computing. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2018, 663–668.
- Kirpes, B., & Becker, C. (2018). Processing electric vehicle charging transactions in a blockchain-based information system. Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018.
- Krupitzer, C., Sztyler, T., Edinger, J., Breitbach, M., Stuckenschmidt, H., & Becker, C. (2018). Hips Do Lie! A Position-Aware Mobile Fall Detection System. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2018.
- Klingert, S., & Becker, C. (2018). Poster abstract: economics-inspired modeling of data centre power flexibility. Computer Science - Research and Development, 33(1–2), Article 1–2.
- Naber, J., Schäfer, D., & Becker, C. (2018). Billing Models for Public Displays in Smart Cities. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2018, 633–638.
- Roth, F. M., Becker, C., Vega, G., & Lalanda, P. (2018). XWARE?A customizable interoperability framework for pervasive computing systems. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 47, 13–30.
- Edinger, J., Schäfer, D., Breitbach, M., & Becker, C. (2017). Developing distributed computing applications with Tasklets. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2017, 94–96.
- Saxena, D., Raychoudhury, V., & Becker, C. (2017). An NDNoT based efficient object searching scheme for smart home using RFIDs. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series.
- Pfannemueller, M., Krupitzer, C., Weckesser, M., & Becker, C. (2017). A Dynamic Software Product Line Approach for Adaptation Planning in Autonomic Computing Systems. Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2017, 247–254.
- Krupitzer, C., Breitbach, M., Saal, J., Becker, C., Segata, M., & Lo Cigno, R. (2017). RoCoSys: A framework for coordination of mobile IoT devices. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2017, 485–490.
- Becker, C., Hu, P., & Wieland, M. (2017). Welcome message from the CoMoRea’17 co-chairs. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2017.
- Saxena, D., Raychoudhury, V., & Becker, C. (2017). Implementation and performance evaluation of namebased forwarding schemes in V-NDN. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series.
- Edinger, J., Schafer, D., Krupitzer, C., Raychoudhury, V., & Becker, C. (2017). Fault-avoidance strategies for context-aware schedulers in pervasive computing systems. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2017, 79–88.
- Naber, J., Krupitzer, C., & Becker, C. (2017). Transferring an Interactive Display Service to the Virtual Reality. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2017.
- Becker, C., Dürr, F., Payton, J., & Riboni, D. (2017). Special Issue IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) 2016. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 38, 279–280.
- Schafer, D., Edinger, J., Borlinghaus, T., Paluska, J. M., & Becker, C. (2017). Using quality of computation to enhance quality of service in mobile computing systems. 2017 IEEE/ACM 25th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2017.
- Saxena, D., Raychoudhury, V., Becker, C., & Suri, N. (2017). Reliable Memory Efficient Name Forwarding in Named Data Networking. Proceedings - 19th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing and 15th International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering and Science, CSE-EUC-DCABES 2016, 48–55.
- Krupitzer, C., Otto, J., Roth, F. M., Frommgen, A., & Becker, C. (2017). Adding Self-Improvement to an Autonomic Traffic Management System. Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2017, 209–214.
- Krupitzer, C., Roth, F. M., Pfannemuller, M., & Becker, C. (2016). Comparison of approaches for self-improvement in self-adaptive systems. Proceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2016, 308–314.
- Schäfer, D., Edinger, J., Paluska, J. M., Vansyckel, S., & Becker, C. (2016). Tasklets: “better than Best-Effort” computing. 2016 25th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2016.
- Edinger, J., Schäfer, D., & Becker, C. (2016). Decentralized scheduling for Tasklets. Proceedings of the Posters and Demos Session of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2016 Conference, Middleware Posters and Demos 2016, 7–8.
- Aberer, K., & Becker, C. (2016). Message from the MDM 2016 keynote co-chairs. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, 2016-July, xiv.
- Schäfer, D., Edinger, J., Becker, C., & Breitbach, M. (2016). Writing a distributed computing application in 7 minutes with Tasklets. Proceedings of the Posters and Demos Session of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2016 Conference, Middleware Posters and Demos 2016, 25–26.
- Schafer, D., Edinger, J., Vansyckel, S., Paluska, J. M., & Becker, C. (2016). Tasklets: Overcoming Heterogeneity in Distributed Computing Systems. Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 36th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, ICDCSW 2016, 156–161.
- Cao, J., Wang, J.-F., Becker, C., Kuan, T.-W., Wang, J.-C., & Xie, L. (2016). Message from general and program co-chairs. Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Orange Technologies, ICOT 2015, vii–viii.
- Becker, C., Düff, F., Payton, J., & Riboni, D. (2016). Welcome Message from the Technical Program Chairs. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2016.
- Cook, D. J., Becker, C., Bulling, A., & Yu, Z. (2016). Special issue introduction. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 26, 1–2.
- Krupitzer, C., Roth, F. M., Becker, C., Weckesser, M., Lochau, M., & Schurr, A. (2016). FESAS IDE: An integrated development environment for autonomic computing. Proceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2016, 15–24.
- Saxena, D., Raychoudhury, V., Suri, N., Becker, C., & Cao, J. (2016). Named Data Networking: A survey. Computer Science Review, 19, 15–55.
- Krupitzer, C., Roth, F. M., Vansyckel, S., & Becker, C. (2015). Towards reusability in autonomic computing. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2015, 115–120.
- Roth, F. M., Krupitzer, C., & Becker, C. (2015). Runtime evolution of the adaptation logic in self-adaptive systems. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2015, 141–142.
- Cook, D., Becker, C., Yu, Z., & Bulling, A. (2015). TPC welcome: Message from the technical program chairs. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2015.
- Krupitzer, C., Roth, F. M., Vansyckel, S., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2015). A survey on engineering approaches for self-adaptive systems. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 17(PB), Article PB.
- Kumar, M., & Becker, C. (2015). 10 years of Pervasive Computing A special issue of PMC in memory of Chatschik Bisdikian. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 17(PB), Article PB.
- Roth, F. M., Krupitzer, C., Vansyckel, S., & Becker, C. (2014). Nature-inspired interference management in smart peer groups. Proceedings - 2014 International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2014, 132–139.
- Vansyckel, S., Schäfer, D., Majuntke, V., Krupitzer, C., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2014). COMITY: A framework for adaptation coordination in multi-platform pervasive systems. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 10(PART A), Article PART A.
- Yu, Z., Becker, C., & Mase, K. (2014). Message from the UIC 2014 General Chairs. Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications and Associated Symposia/Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom 2014, xvii.
- VanSyckel, S., & Becker, C. (2014). A survey of proactive pervasive computing. UbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, 421–430.
- Edinger, J., Vansyckel, S., Krupitzer, C., Paluska, J. M., & Becker, C. (2014). Developing a QoS-based Tasklet trading system. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PERCOM WORKSHOPS 2014, 413–418.
- Zaslavsky, A., Chrysanthis, P. K., & Becker, C. (2014). Message from general co-chairs. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, 1, xi–xii.
- Becker, C., & Paluska, J. M. (2013). PerHot 2013: The 2nd international IEEE workshop on hot topics in pervasive computing 2013-Committees and welcome. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2013.
- Vansyckel, S., Schafer, D., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2013). Configuration management for proactive adaptation in pervasive environments. International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO, 131–140.
- Krupitzer, C., Vansyckel, S., & Becker, C. (2013). FESAS: Towards a framework for engineering self-Adaptive systems. International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO, 263–264.
- Yu, Z., Zhou, X., Zhang, D., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2013). Understanding social relationship evolution by using real-world sensing data. World Wide Web, 16(5–6), Article 5–6.
- Paulussen, T. O., Heinzl, A., & Becker, C. (2013). Multi-agent based information systems for patient coordination in hospitals. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013): Reshaping Society Through Information Systems Design, 3, 2635–2647.
- Majuntke, V., VanSyckel, S., Schäfer, D., Krupitzer, C., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2013). COMITY: Coordinated application adaptation in multi-platform pervasive systems. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2013, 11–19.
- VanSyckel, S., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2013). Extending context management for proactive adaptation in pervasive environments. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 214 LNEE, 823–831.
- Handte, M., Schiele, G., Matjuntke, V., Becker, C., & Marrón, P. J. (2012). 3PC: System support for adaptive peer-to-peer pervasive computing. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 7(1), Article 1.
- Tang, L., Zhou, X., Becker, C., Yu, Z., & Schiele, G. (2012). Situation-based design: A rapid approach for pervasive application development. Proceedings - IEEE 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing and IEEE 9th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, UIC-ATC 2012, 128–135.
- Krammer, L., Schiele, G., Koch, D., & Becker, C. (2012). Quality of experience-aware event synchronization for distributed virtual worlds. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS, 604–611.
- Mazzola Paluska, J., Pham, H., Schiele, G., Becker, C., & Ward, S. (2012). Vision: A lightweight computing model for fine-grained cloud computing. MCS’12 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services, 3–7.
- Yu, Z., Yu, Z., Zhou, X., Becker, C., & Nakamura, Y. (2012). Tree-based mining for discovering patterns of human interaction in meetings. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 24(4), Article 4.
- Heger, F., Schiele, G., Süselbeck, R., Itzel, L., & Becker, C. (2012). Scalability in peer-to-peer-based MMVEs: The continuous events approach. 2012 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC’2012, 629–633.
- Vansyckel, S., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2012). POSTER: Towards proactive adaptation in pervasive environments. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 104 LNICST, 214–218.
- Itzel, L., Heger, F., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2011). The quest for meaningful mobility in massively multi-user virtual environments. Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games.
- Süselbeck, R., Schiele, G., Komarnicki, P., & Becker, C. (2011). Efficient bandwidth estimation for peer-to-peer systems. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, P2P 2011 - Proceedings, 10–19.
- Süselbeck, R., Heger, F., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2011). Challenges for selecting optimal coordinators in peer-to-peer-based massively multi-user virtual environments. Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN.
- Yu, Z., Zhang, D., Indulska, J., & Becker, C. (2011). Theme issue on context-aware middleware and applications. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 15(3), Article 3.
- Yu, Z., Zhou, X., Yu, Z., Becker, C., & Nakamura, Y. (2011). Social interaction mining in small group discussion using a smart meeting system. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6905 LNCS, 40–51.
- Tang, L., Yu, Z., Zhou, X., Wang, H., & Becker, C. (2011). Supporting rapid design and evaluation of pervasive applications: Challenges and solutions. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 15(3), Article 3.
- Becker, C. (2010). The operating system for the computer of the 21st century. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6406 LNCS, 3.
- Majuntke, V., Schiele, G., Spohrer, K., Handte, M., & Becker, C. (2010). A coordination framework for pervasive applications in multi-user environments. Proceedings - 2010 6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2010, 178–184.
- Becker, C., & Conti, M. (2010). 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2010: Message from the General Chairs. 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2010.
- Becker, C., & Conti, M. (2010). Message from the general chairs. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2010.
- Tuttlies, V., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2009). End-user configuration for pervasive computing environments. Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, CISIS 2009, 487–493.
- Heger, F., Schiele, G., Süselbeck, R., & Becker, C. (2009). Towards an Interest Management scheme for peer-based Virtual Environments. Electronic Communications of the EASST, 17.
- Sueselbeck, R., Schiele, G., Seitz, S., & Becker, C. (2009). Adaptive update propagation for low-latency massively multi-user virtual environments. Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN.
- Apduhan, B. O., Yeo, S.-S., & Becker, C. (2009). Welcome message from the program chairs. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications, ICUT 2009.
- Süselbeck, R., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2009). Peer-to-peer support for low-latency massively multiplayer online games in the cloud. 2009 8th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games, NetGames 2009.
- Schiele, G., Handte, M., & Becker, C. (2008). Experiences in designing an energy-aware middleware for pervasive computing. 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2008, 504–508.
- Becker, C., & Zámba, G. V. (2008). IEEE PerCom 2008 work-in-progress session: Message from the technical program vice-chairs. 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2008.
- Mutka, M., Becker, C., Dey, A. K., Lau, F., & Záruba, G. (2008). PerCom 2008 special issue. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 4(6), Article 6.
- Mutka, M., Becker, C., Dey, A., Lau, F., & Záruba, G. (2008). Message from the program chair and vice chairs. 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2008.
- Handte, M., Herrmann, K., Schiele, G., Becker, C., & Rothermel, K. (2007). Automatic reactive adaptation of pervasive applications. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services, ICPS, 214–222.
- Schiele, G., Süselbeck, R., Wacker, A., Hähner, J., Becker, C., & Weis, T. (2007). Requirements of peer-to-peer-based massively multiplayer online gaming. Proceedings - Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2007, 773–778.
- Handte, M., Herrmann, K., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2007). Supporting pluggable configuration algorithms in PCOM. Proceedings - Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2007, 472–476.
- Schiele, G., Handte, M., & Becker, C. (2007). Good manners for Pervasive Computing - An approach based on the ambient calculus. Proceedings - Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2007, 585–588.
- Tuttlies, V., Schiele, G., & Becker, C. (2007). COMITY - Conflict avoidance in pervasive computing environments. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 4806 LNCS(PART 2), Article PART 2.
- Becker, C., Jensen, C. S., & Su, J. (2007). Message from the program chairs. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management.
- Khelil, A., Marrón, P. J., Becker, C., & Rothermel, K. (2007). Hypergossiping: A generalized broadcast strategy for mobile ad hoc networks. Ad Hoc Networks, 5(5), Article 5.
- Becker, C., & Záruba, G. (2007). Message from the workshops chairs. Proceedings - Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2007.
- Al-Muhtadi, J., & Becker, C. (2006). Message from the workshop chairs. Proceedings - Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2006, 2006.
- Becker, C., & Záruba, G. (2006). Message from the work-in-progress session chairs. Proceedings - Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2006, 2006.
- Friday, A., Roman, M., Becker, C., & Al-Muhtadi, J. (2006). Guidelines and open issues in systems support for Ubicomp: Reflections on UbiSys 2003 and 2004. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 10(1), Article 1.
- Urbanski, S., Becker, C., & Rothermel, K. (2006). Sentient processes - Process-based applications in pervasive computing. Proceedings - Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2006, 2006, 608–611.
- Weis, T., Handte, M., Knoll, M., & Becker, C. (2006). Customizable pervasive applications. Proceedings - Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2006, 2006, 239–244.
- Hähner, J., Becker, C., Marrón, P. J., & Rothermel, K. (2006). Maintaining update-linearizability for replicated information in MANETs. First International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware, Comsware 2006, 2006.
- Al-Muhtadi, J., Roman, M., Becker, C., & Campbell, R. (2005). Workshop on middleware support for pervasive computing (PerWare ’05): Message from the workshop Co-Chairs. Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom 2005 Workshops, 2005.
Christian Becker is a full professor for Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart since April 2022. Prior to that he was a full professor for Information Systems at the University of Mannheim from 2006 till 2022. Christian was Dean and Vice of the Business School at the University of Mannheim from 2018 till 2021. Christian studied Computer Science at the Universities of Karlsruhe and Kaiserslautern where he graduated in 1996. He received his PhD from the University of Frankfurt in 2001. In 2001 he joined the distributed systems group at the University of Stuttgart as Post Doc. In 2004 he received the venia legendi (Habilitation) for Computer Science (Informatik). Christian’s research interests are Distributed Systems and Context-Aware Computing. He is specifically interested in architectures for adaptive systems and their application to distributed systems. Christian has published more than 180 technical papers. He is a member of the IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communication Conference (PerCom) steering committee. Christian is active in the community, e.g., he was general chair of IEEE PerCom in 2010, TPC chair in 2016. He was/is general chair of IEEE Mobile Data Management in 2007 and 2023 and contributed to many other scientific venues.