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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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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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REST on Routers? Preliminary Lessons for Language Designers, Framework Architects ...

Proc. 6th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (2011)

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

In this position paper, we provide a preliminary assessment of hardware and software solution stack choices available to developers of ...

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RestFS: Resources and Services are Filesystems, Too

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works (2011)

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

We have designed and implemented RestFS, a software frame-work that provides a uniform, configurable connector layerfor mapping remote web-based resources ...

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RestFS: The Filesystem as a Connector Abstraction for Flexible Resource ...

Cloud Computing: Methodology, System, and Applications (2011)

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

The broader context for this chapter comprises business scenarios requiring resource and/or service composition, such as (intra-company) enterprise application integration ...

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Online Layered File System (OLFS): A Layered and Versioned Filesystem ...

Proceedings of Electro/Information Technology (2010)

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

We present a novel form of intra-volume directory layering with hierarchical, inheritance-like namespace unification. While each layer of an OLFS ...

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Combining SOA and BPM Technologies for Cross-System Process Automation

SEKE (2008)

Sebastian Herr, John Shafaee, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal, et al.

This paper summarizes the results of an industry case study that introduced a cross-system business process automation solution based on ...

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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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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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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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On the Interaction of Object-Oriented Design Patterns and Programming Languages

arXiv: Programming Languages (2019)

Gerald Baumgartner, Konstantin Läufer and Vincent F. Russo

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Cultural subcode transformation “elite - masses” in the era of digitization

SHS Web of Conferences (2019)

Konstantin Laufer

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Auto-generated Spies Increase Test Maintainability

ArXiv (2018)

Konstantin Läufer, John O'Sullivan and George K. Thiruvathukal

We have inspected the test code for the scala.collection.Iterator trait for potential systematic maintainability enhancements. Test spies are stub objects ...

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Metrics Dashboard: A Hosted Platform for Software Quality Metrics

ArXiv (2018)

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

There is an emerging consensus in the scientific software community that progress in scientific research is dependent on the "quality ...

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Book

Programming With Structures, Functions, and Objects

(2018)

F. Henglein and K. Laufer

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Article

Managing Concurrency in Mobile User Interfaces with Examples in Android

Topics in Parallel and Distributed Computing (2018)

Konstantin Läufer and George K. Thiruvathukal

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Article

A Framework Architecture for Student Learning in Distributed Embedded Systems

10th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES) (2015)

William L Honig, Konstantin Läufer and George K. Thiruvathukal

Academic courses focused on individual microcomputers or client/server applications are no longer sufficient for students to develop knowledge in embedded ...

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GCASR ‘15: Middleware for Collaborative Distributed/Mobile Applications: XMPP or ...

(2015)

Brian Gathright, Konstantin Läufer, Azizullah Parsa and George K. Thiruvathukal

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Article

Scala for introductory CS and parallelism(abstract only)

Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2014)

Mark C. Lewis, Konstantin Läufer and George K. Thiruvathukal

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Article

A Hike through a Post-EJB J2EE Web Application Architecture, Part ...

Computing in Science and Engineering (2007)

Konstantin Laufer, George K. Thiruvathukal and Benjamin Gonzalez

By incorporating automated component, integration, and acceptance testing into the various tiers of a lightweight lava 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) ...

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On the Interaction of Object-Oriented Design Patterns and Programming Languages

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports (1996)

Gerald Baumgartner, Konstantin Läufer and Vincent F Russo

Design patterns are distilled from many real systems to catalog common programming practice. However, some object-oriented design patterns are distorted ...

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Putting Type Annotations to Work

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages, ser. POPL (1996)

Martin Odersky and Konstantin Laufer

We study an extension of the Hindley/Milner system with explicit type scheme annotations and type declarations. The system can express ...

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Metrics Pipeline (Codename): An Analytics and Visualization Pipeline for Software ...

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Nicholas Synovic, Emmanuel Amobi, Erik Greve, Sophie Von Hatten, et al.

The Metrics Pipeline (Codename) focuses on metrics indicative of team progress and project health instead of privileging individual metrics, e.g. ...

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Toward a containerized pipeline for longitudinal analysis of open-source software ...

Graduate Research Symposium

Allan Miller, George Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Laufer, Emmanuel Amobi, et al.

Trust in open-source software is a cornerstone of scientific progress and a foundation of high-quality public services. Just as standards ...

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RestFS: Resources and Services are Filesystems, Too

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works (2011)

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

We have designed and implemented RestFS, a software frame-work that provides a uniform, configurable connector layerfor mapping remote web-based resources ...

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