Bio

I am a PhD candidate at Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain working under the supervision of my advisors, Dr. Felix Freitag and Dr. Leandro Navarro. I received a Double Diploma at the University of Mannheim and the Nice Sophia Antipolis University in 2006. I made my Master's Thesis in cooperation with the Institut Eurécom. Until now, I am part of the Distributed Systems Group which is a part of the Computer Architecture Department. The goal of my research is to develop practical techniques for large-scale distributed systems applied to finance and economic.

Research Interest:

  • Distributed Systems
  • Grid Computing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Computational Finance

Publications:

  • René Brunner, Felix Freitag and Leandro Navarro Uncertainty Management for the Retrieval of Economic Information from Distributed Markets. (To appear in:) Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management ,, Napoli, Italy, 2008

  • René Brunner, Felix Freitag and Leandro Navarro. Towards the Development of a Decentralized Market Information System: Requirements and Architecture Parallel and Distributed Computing in Finance (PDCoF'08).In Proceedings of the 22nd IPDPS, Miami, FL, USA, 2008

  • Xavier Leon, Xavier Vilajosana, René Brunner, Ruby Krishnaswamy, Leandro Navarro Felix Freitag and J. M. Marques. Information and regulation in decentralized marketplaces for P2P-Grids. (To appear in::) COPS in proccedings of WETICE, 2008.

  • Pablo Chacin, Xavier Leon, René Brunner, Felix Freitag and Leandro Navarro. Core Services for Grid Markets. (To appear in::) CGSYMP in proceedings of Europar, 2008.

  • Ruby Krishnaswamy, Leandro Navarro, René Brunner, Xavier Leon and Xavier Vilajosana. Core Services for Grid Markets. (To appear in:) 5th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Model (GECON'08), 2008.

  • René Brunner. Towards the Development of a Decentralized Market Information System. (Poster) TCPP PhD Forum at IPDPS, 2008

  • Isaac Chao, René Brunner, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Pablo Chacin, Oscar Ardaiz, Liviu Joita, Omer F. Rana. Decentralized grid Market Infrastructure for Service Oriented grids, accepted in the Special Issue (01/2008) on Service-Oriented Architectures and Web Services, in Journal WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK (Business Informatics), Germany, 2008.

  • René Brunner, Isaac Chao, Pablo Chacin, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Oscar Ardaiz, Liviu Joita, Omer F. Rana. Assessing a Distributed Market Infrastructure for Economics-Based Service Selection. International Conference on Grid computing, High-Performance and Distributed Applications (GADA'07). OTM Conferences (2) 1403-1416. 2007.

  • René Brunner, Felix Freitag. Elaborating a Decentralized Market Information System, 4th OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium (DC'07), OTM Workshops (1) 245-254, 2007.

  • Fernando Rodríguez-Haro, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, René Brunner. Exploring the Behaviour of Fine-Grain Management for Virtual Resource Provisioning. International Conference on Parallel Processing and Mathematics (PPAM 2007). 2007

  • Felix Freitag, Pablo Chacin, Isac Chao, René Brunner, Leandro Navarro, Oscar Ardaiz. Performance Measuring Framework for Grid Market Middleware. 4th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2007), p. 141-153. 2007

Projects:

  • Grid4All: Grid4All aims at enabling domestic users, non-profit organisations such as schools, and small enterprises, to share their resources and to access massive Grid resources when needed, envisioning a future in which access to resources is democratised, readily available, cooperative, and inexpensive.

  • SORMA: Development of methods and tools for an efficient market-based allocation of resources, through a self-organizing resource management system, using market-driven models supported by extensions for Grid infrastructures. IST European Project (2006-2009).

  • Catnets: Evaluation of the Catallaxy paradigm for decentralized operation of dynamic application networks. FET IST European Project (2004-2007).

Education:

  • University of Mannheim (2000-2006), Germany
    Degree: Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker (equivalent to a Masters Degree in Information Systems)
    Majors: Information Systems, Computer Science, Logistics

  • Nice Sophia Antipolis University (2003-2005), France
    Degree: Maîtrise MIAGE

  • A-Levels (Abitur), Max-Weber-Schule, Sinsheim (1999), Germany
    Majors: Economics, Mathematics

Professional Experience:

  • Institut Eurécom: Avril 06 - Oct. 06: Master's Thesis at Institut Eurécom (France): Generating my master thesis at a communication research center. The subject is the analysis of the new P2P Kademlia protocol.This contained the creation of a SQL integrated C++ application on a Unix platform.

  • Robert BOSCH GmbH: Oct. 05 - Feb. 06: Internship at Robert BOSCH GmbH (Germany): Developing of an entire Database including a C# application to manage and visualize engineering data

  • IBM CER: Feb. - Aug. 2005: Internship at IBM La Gaude CER (France): Developing (Web, J2EE, Portal and Eclipse Plugins) on the Environment 'Wireless Device Management' with IBM Rational Application Developer.

  • SAP Labs France: Semester 04/05: Integrated internship at SAP Labs France (France): Migration of a portal application to a Web Dynpro Application with SAP Netweaver

Contact Information:

Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Computer Architecture Department
Despatx C6-E104 Campus Nord
C. Jordi Girona 1-3
08034 Barcelona (Spain)