Thomas Heinis
EPFL IC IINFCOM DIAS
BC 243 (Bâtiment BC)
Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne
Biography
Dipl. Inf. Ing. ETH, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (2002)
Dr. sc. ETH, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (2009)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My current research focuses on the areas of Scientific Data Management and Data Lineage and data privacy. I am currently involved in the ScientificDB project in the DIAS group.
Previous work covered the areas of Grid computing, Autonomic computing and workflow management.
DISSERTATION
My dissertation, titled "Workflow-based Services: Infrastructure for Scientific Applications", can be downloaded here. If you prefer to get it in book form, you can order a copy here.
MEDIA
TV (Schweizer Fernsehen):
2011/4/29 Kassensturz
2011/3/3 Kassensturz
2011/3/3 Kassensturz
2008/11/11 Kassensturz
Newspapers:
2011/8/23 EPFL Flash
2011/6/3 20 Minuten
2011/5/3 Der Sonntag
2008/11/24 ETH Life
Publications
Journal Articles
2015
H. Markram; E. Muller; S. Ramaswamy; M. W. Reimann; M. Abdellah et al. : Reconstruction and Simulation of Neocortical Microcircuitry; Cell. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.029.
2013
T. Heinis; F. Tauheed; M. Pavlovic; A. Ailamaki : Enabling Scientific Discovery Via Innovative Spatial Data Management; Data Engineering Bulletin. 2013.
2011
T. Heinis; M. Branco; I. Alagiannis; R. Borovica; F. Tauheed et al. : Challenges and Opportunities in Self-Managing Scientific Databases; Data Engineering Bulletin. 2011.
2007
C. Pautasso; T. Heinis; G. Alonso : Autonomic Resource Provisioning for Software Business Processes; Information and Software Technology. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.infsof.2006.08.010.
2006
A. Tsalgatidou; G. Athanasopoulos; M. Pantazoglou; C. Pautasso; T. Heinis et al. : Developing Scientific Workflows from Heterogeneous Services; SIGMOD Record. 2006. DOI : 10.1145/1147376.1147380.
C. Pautasso; T. Heinis; G. Alonso : JOpera: Autonomic Service Orchestration; IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. 2006.
Conference Papers
2018
M. Pavlovic; D. Sidlauskas; T. Heinis; A. Ailamaki : QUASII: QUery-Aware Spatial Incremental Index. 2018. 21st International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Vienna, Austria, March 26-29, 2018.
2017
M. Olma; F. Tauheed; T. Heinis; A. Ailamaki : BLOCK: Efficient Execution of Spatial Range Queries in Main-Memory. 2017-06-27. 29th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 27-29, 2017. p. 1-12. DOI : 10.1145/3085504.3085519.
2016
M. Pavlovic; E. Tzirita Zacharatou; D. Sidlauskas; T. Heinis; A. Ailamaki : Space Odyssey - Efficient Exploration of Scientific Data. 2016. 3rd International Workshop on Exploratory Search in Databases and the Web, San Francisco, California, USA, June 26 - July 1, 2016. p. 12-18. DOI : 10.1145/2948674.2948677.
M. Pavlovic; T. Heinis; F. Tauheed; P. Karras; A. Ailamaki : TRANSFORMERS: Robust Spatial Joins on Non-Uniform Data Distributions. 2016. IEEE 32nd International Conference on Data Engineering, Helsinki, Finland. p. 673-684.
2015
T. Venetis; A. Ailamaki; T. Heinis; M. Karpathiotakis; F. Kherif et al. : Towards the Identification of Disease Signatures. 2015. Brain Informatics and Health - 8th International Conference, BIH 2015, London, UK, August 30 - September 2, 2015. p. 145-155. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-23344-4_15.
F. Tauheed; T. Heinis; A. Ailamaki : Configuring Spatial Grids for Efficient Main Memory Joins. 2015. British International Conference on Databases (BICOD ’15). DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-20424-6_19.
T. Heinis; A. Ailamaki : Reconsolidating Data Structures. 2015. International Conference on Extending Database Technology 2015 (EDBT 2015).
F. Tauheed; T. Heinis; A. Ailamaki : THERMAL-JOIN: A Scalable Spatial Join for Dynamic Workloads. 2015. International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '15).
E. Tzirita Zacharatou; T. Heinis; F. Tauheed; A. Ailamaki : RUBIK: Efficient Threshold Queries on Massive Time Series. 2015. 27th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, San Diego, California, USA, June 29 - July 1, 2015. DOI : 10.1145/2791347.2791372.
M. Karpathiotakis; I. Alagiannis; T. Heinis; M. Branco; A. Ailamaki : Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa. 2015. 7th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Asilomar, California, USA, January 4-7, 2015.
2014
F. Tauheed; T. Heinis; F. Schürmann; H. Markram; A. Ailamaki : OCTOPUS: Efficient Query Execution on Dynamic Mesh Datasets. 2014. 30st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '14), Chicago, USA, April, 2014.
T. Heinis; F. Tauheed; A. Ailamaki : Spatial Data Management Challenges in the Simulation Sciences. 2014. International Conference on Extending Database technology (EDBT '14), Athens, Greece, March, 2014.
2013
F. Tauheed; L. Biveinis; S. Nobari; T. Heinis; A. Ailamaki : Computational Neuroscience Breakthroughs Through Innovative Data Management. 2013. East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, Genoa, Italy, September, 2013.
M. Pavlovic; F. Tauheed; T. Heinis; A. Ailamaki : GIPSY: Joining Spatial Datasets with Contrasting Density. 2013. International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, July, 2013.
A. Stougiannis; F. Tauheed; M. Pavlovic; T. Heinis; A. Ailamaki : Data-driven Neuroscience: Enabling Breakthroughs Via Innovative Data Management. 2013. International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '13), New York, New York, USA, June 2013.
A. Stougiannis; F. Tauheed; T. Heinis; A. Ailamaki : Accelerating Spatial Range Queries. 2013. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2013), Genoa, Italy, March, 2013.
S. Nobari; F. Tauheed; T. Heinis; P. Karras; S. Bressan et al. : TOUCH: In-Memory Spatial Join by Hierarchical Data-Oriented Partitioning. 2013. International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '13), New York, New York, USA, June 2013.
2012
F. Tauheed; T. Heinis; F. Schürmann; H. Markram; A. Ailamaki : SCOUT: Prefetching for Latent Structure Following Queries. 2012. 38th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '12), Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2012.
F. Tauheed; L. Biveinis; T. Heinis; F. Schürmann; H. Markram et al. : Accelerating Range Queries For Brain Simulations. 2012. 28th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '12), Washington DC, USA, March, 2012. DOI : 10.1109/Icde.2012.56.
2010
C. Maier; D. Dash; I. Alagiannis; A. Ailamaki; T. Heinis : PARINDA: An Interactive Physical Designer for PostgreSQL. 2010. EDBT 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 22-26, 2010.
2008
T. Heinis; C. Pautasso : Automatic Configuration of an Autonomic Controller: An Experimental Study with Zero-Configuration Policies. 2008. ICAC '08, Chicago, USA. p. 67-76. DOI : 10.1109/ICAC.2008.29.
2006
T. Heinis; C. Pautasso; G. Alonso : Mirroring Resources or Mapping Requests: Implementing WS-RF for Grid Workflows. 2006. p. 497-504. DOI : 10.1109/CCGRID.2006.69.
2005
C. Pautasso; T. Heinis; G. Alonso : Autonomic Execution of Web Service Compositions. 2005. ICWS '05, Orlando, USA. p. 435-442. DOI : 10.1109/ICWS.2005.28.
T. Heinis; C. Pautasso; G. Alonso : Design and Evaluation of an Autonomic Workflow Engine. 2005. ICAC '05, Seattle, USA. p. 27-38. DOI : 10.1109/ICAC.2005.21.
T. Heinis; C. Pautasso; O. Deak; G. Alonso : Publishing Persistent Grid Computations as WS Resources. 2005. E-SCIENCE '05, Melbourne, Australia. p. 328-335. DOI : 10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2005.67.
Book Chapters
2006
T. Heinis; C. Pautasso; G. Alonso : A Self-Configuring Service Composition Engine; Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications; CRC Press, 2006.
Reports
2017
M. A. Olma; F. Tauheed; T. Heinis; A. Ailamaki : BLOCK: Efficient Execution of Spatial Range Queries in Main-Memory. 2017.
Enseignement & Phd
Enseignement
- Computer Science,