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Konstantin Läufer

Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago

Konstantin Läufer is a Professor of Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago.

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About Konstantin Läufer

Konstantin Läufer is a Professor of Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago.

2005 - Present	Professor, Loyola University Chicago ‐ Department of Computer Science
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OS and Networks, Programming Languages and Compilers, Software Engineering, and Systems Architecture

Konstantin's current research focuses on functional and reactive languages and patterns, mobile/pervasive computing including the Internet of Things (IoT), software testing, structural and in-process software quality metrics, and digital music.

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Scientific Programming: The Promises of Typed, Pure, and Lazy Functional ...

Computing in Science & Engineering (2009)

Konstantin Läufer and George K. Thiruvathukal

This second installment picks up where Konrad Hinsen's article "The Promises of Functional Programming" from the July/August 2009 issue left ...

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Taming XML: Objects first, then markup

IEEE Electro/Information Technology (2008)

Matt Bone, Peter Nabicht, Konstantin Läufer and George K. Thiruvathukal

Processing markup in object-oriented languages often requires the programmer to focus on the objects generating the markup rather than the ...

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A Model-Driven Approach to Job/Task Composition in Cluster Computing

IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (2007)

Yogesh Kanitkar, Konstantin Läufer, Neeraj Mehta and George K. Thiruvathukal

In the general area of high-performance computing, object-oriented methods have gone largely unnoticed. In contrast, the Computational Neighborhood (CN), a ...

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Natural XML for Data Binding, Processing, and Persistence

Computing in Science & Engineering (2004)

George K. Thiruvathukal and Konstantin Läufer

The article explains what you need to do to incorporate XML directly into your computational science application. The exploration involves ...

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Teaching Concurrent Software Design: A Case Study Using Android

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works (2017)

Konstantin Läufer and George K. Thiruvathukal

In this article, we explore various parallel and distributed computing topics from a user-centric software engineering perspective. Specifically, in the ...

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Experiences with Scala Across the College-Level Curriculum

Emerging Technologies Laboratory Publications (2017)

Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal and Mark C Lewis

Various hybrid-functional languages, designed to balance compile-time error detection, conciseness, and performance, have emerged. Scala, e.g., is interoperable with Java ...

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Metrics Dashboard Services: A Framework for Analyzing Free/Open Source ...

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works (2016)

Shilpika Shilpika, George K. Thiruvathukal, Nicholas Hayward and Konstantin Läufer

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A Polyglot Approach to Bioinformatics Data Integration: A Phylogenetic Analysis ...

Evolutionary Bioinformatics (2016)

Steven Reisman, Thomas Hatzopoulous, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal, et al.

As sequencing technologies continue to drop in price and increase in throughput, new challenges emerge for the management and accessibility ...

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Towards Sustainable Digital Humanities Software

Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2015 (2015)

George K. Thiruvathukal, Shilpika Shilpika, Nicholas J Hayward, Saulo Aguiar, et al.

Our work in software quality for digital humanities was borne of an effort to address sustainable practices in scientific software ...

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A Polyglot Approach to Bioinformatics Data Integration: a Phylogenetic Analysis ...

Evolutionary Bioinformatics (2015)

Steven Reisman, Thomas Hatzopoulos, Konstantin Laufer, George K. Thiruvathukal, et al.

As sequencing technologies continue to drop in price and increase in throughput, new challenges emerge for the management and accessibility ...

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Software Metrics and Dashboard

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works (2015)

Shilpika Shilpika, George K. Thiruvathukal, Saulo Aguiar, Konstantin Läufer, et al.

Software metrics are a critical tool which provide continuous insight to products and processes and help build reliable software in ...

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Spring11: PDC in CS1/2 and a mobile/cloud ...

Proc. 3rd NSF/IEEE-CS TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education (2013)

Joseph P. Kaylor, Konstantin Läufer, Chandra N Sekharan and George K. Thiruvathukal

Recent changes in the environment of Loyola University Chicago’s Department of Computer Science include a better differentiation of our four ...

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Building Capable, Energy-Efficient, Flexible Visualization and Sensing Clusters from Commodity ...

2nd Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop (2013)

Thomas Delgado Dias, Xian Yan, Konstantin Läufer and George K. Thiruvathukal

We explore the application of clusters of commodity tablet devices to problems spanning a “trilogy” of concerns: visualization, sensing, and ...

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Network Technologies Used to Aggregate Environmental Data

2nd Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop (2013)

Paul Stasiuk, Konstantin Läufer and George K. Thiruvathukal

The goal of the Loyola Weather Service (lws) project is to design and build a system of functioning environmental monitoring ...

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A Polyglot Approach to Bioinformatics Data Integration: Phylogenetic Analysis of ...

2nd Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop (2013)

Steven Reisman, Catherine Putonti, George K. Thiruvathukal and Konstantin Läufer

RNA-interference has potential therapeutic use against HIV-1 by targeting highly-functional mRNA sequences that contribute to the virulence of the virus. ...

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Using Scala Strategically Across the Undergraduate Curriculum

Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2013)

Mark Lewis, Konstantin Läufer and George K. Thiruvathukal

Various hybrid-paradigm languages, designed to balance compile-time error detection, conciseness, and performance, have emerged. Scala, e.g., is interoperable with Java ...

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Filesystems: Addressing the Last-mile “problem” in Services-Oriented/Cloud Computing

Scientific Software Days (2012)

George K. Thiruvathukal, Joseph P. Kaylor and Konstantin Läufer

We have designed and implemented RestFS, a software framework that provides a uniform, configurable connector layer for mapping remote web-based ...

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Simplifying Domain Modeling and Memory Management in User-Mode Filesystems with ...

Proc. 2010 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Electro/Information Technology (2012)

Joseph P. Kaylor, Konstantin Läufer and George K. Thiruvathukal

Transparent access to remote data sets and data arising from web services is a non-trivial challenge to application developers. This ...

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An Object-Oriented Framework for Userland Filesystem Development

NOFS (2012)

George K. Thiruvathukal, Joseph P. Kaylor and Konstantin Läufer

Userland filesystems (also known as virtual/installable filesystems) represent a promising direction for interfacing the traditional filesystem concept to specific domain ...

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Moving Academic Department Functions to Social Networks and Clouds: Initial ...

Computing in Science & Engineering (2011)

George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Läufer and David Dennis

The ability to move locally hosted services to cloud-based technologies is a key element in the scientific programming toolbox.

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Automated Systematic Testing for Constraint-Based Interactive Services

Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering: twenty-first century applications (2000)

Patrice Godefroid, Lalita Jategaonkar Jagadeesan, Radha Jagadeesan and Konstantin Laufer

Constraint-based languages can express in a concise way the complex logic of a new generation of interactive services for applications ...

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Sisl: Several Interfaces, Single Logic

International Journal of Speech Technology (2000)

Thomas Ball, Christopher P Colby, Peter Danielsen, Lalita Jategaonkar Jagadeesan, et al.

Modern interactive services such as information and e-commerce services are becoming increasingly more flexible in the types of user interfaces ...

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Design and Implementation of Triveni: a Process-Algebraic API for Threads ...

Proc. Intl. Conf. on Computer Languages (1998)

Christopher P Colby, Lalita Jategaonkar Jagaeesan, Radhakrishnan Jagadeesan, Konstantin Laufer, et al.

We describe Triveni, a framework and API for integrating threads and events. The design of Triveni is based on an ...

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