Dr. Imre Kocsis

Publications

Imre Kocsis, Attila Klenik, András Pataricza, Miklós Telek, Flórián Deé, Dávid Cseh, "Systematic performance evaluation using component-in-the-loop approach," in International Journal of Cloud Computing, vol. 7, pp. 336-357, 2018, doi: 10.1504/IJCC.2018.095401
https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJCC.2018.095401

P. Garamvölgyi, I. Kocsis, B. Gehl and A. Klenik, "Towards Model-Driven Engineering of Smart Contracts for Cyber-Physical Systems," 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), 2018, pp. 134-139, doi: 10.1109/DSN-W.2018.00052
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8416237/

Ákos Hajdu, Nagmeh Ivaki, Imre Kocsis, Attila Klenik, László Gönczy, Nuno Laranjeiro, Henrique Madeira, András Pataricza, "Using Fault Injection to Assess Blockchain Systems in Presence of Faulty Smart Contracts," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 190760-190783, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3032239
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9229414

F. Cerveira, I. Kocsis, R. Barbosa, H. Madeira and A. Pataricza, "Exploratory Data Analysis of Fault Injection Campaigns," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS), 2018, pp. 191-202, doi: 10.1109/QRS.2018.00033
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8424971

Imre Kocsis, András Pataricza, Zoltán Micskei, András Kövi, Zsolt Kocsis, "Analytics of resource transients in cloud-based applications," in International Journal of Cloud Computing, vol. 2, No.2/3. pp. 191-212, 2013, doi: 10.1504/IJCC.2013.055267
https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJCC.2013.055267

Awards

2022 "Silver badge" from the Scientific Association for Infocommunications (HTE)
2014 STEM education innovation price from the TEMPUS public foundation

Projects

2020 Project leader and main contributor of the EIT Digital (an arm of the European Institute of Technology) funded Professional School course development project “Blockchain for digital manufacturing and modern logistics”.

2020- Principal investigator of the activities of the department in the ongoing research cooperation of BME and the National Bank of Hungary (MNB). Topic: design, implementation, smart contract programming and robustness of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) systems.

2019 As the main contributor, co-created and conducted the “Blockchain for the decision maker” blended (MOOC + f2f) course for the Professional School program of EIT Digital. Also co-created a Blockchain course offering at the Budapest Institute of Banking.

2016-2017 Technical leader of Hyperledger Fabric v0.6 performance benchmarking and modelling (funded by a 2016 IBM Faculty Award, awarded to Prof. András Pataricza).

2014 Seconded researcher to ResilTech SRL in the CECRIS EU FP7 IAPP project, working on Error Propagation Analysis of early stage behavioral specifications of critical systems.

2013-2014 Project leader for the Apache Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) pilot at FTSRG.

2006-2009 DEpendability and SEcurity through enhanced REConfigurability (DESEREC) FP6 EU project. Error propagation analysis contributions, ‘metrics’ workgroup: operative leader.

2006-2010 Short-term involvements in the EU FP6/7 projects DECOS, RESIST, AMBER and MOGENTES.

Conferences

14th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems (SERENE 2022), Zaragoza, Spain, September 12, 2022, co-organizer
Tutorial on Model-based Cloudification of Critical Applications at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2016), Augsburg, Germany, September 12, 2016, speaker
3rd International IBM Cloud Academy Conference (ICACON 2015), Budapest, Hungary, May 21-22, organizing chair

Other activities

Main contact person of the university to the Hyperledger project (Linux Foundation).
2019- regular program committee member of the “DAPP” track of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
2018- National delegate to ISO/TC 307 - Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (appointed through the Hungarian Standards Institution membership of the university).
2018, 2020 Program committee member of the 37th and 39th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)
2016, 2017, 2018 Steering committee member of the 4th, 5th and 6th International IBM Cloud Academy
Conferences (ICACON 2016, 2017 and 2018)
2014 October Invited participant of the NII Shonan Meeting “Science and Practice of Engineering Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems” (TCPS)
2012 Member of the team winning an honorable mention prize in the ‘Applications of R in Business’ competition of Revolution Analytics.