ALCHEMIST is a visionary collective of tech entrepreneurs, creating innovative and fully integrated software solutions. Their extensive academic backgrounds and diverse industry experience built up a comprehensive understanding and cross-sector skillset with a particular focus on Web3, Blockchain Ecosystem, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cloud Engineering.
Many team members are or have been working at the university as Bachelor/Master/PhD student or research assistants. Various theses were written and theoretical results from research projects tested in real-world scenarios.
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Selected Research Publications
Towards Assessing the Real-World Impact of Defects in Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts
Smart Money Wasting: Analyzing Gas Cost Drivers of Ethereum Smart Contracts
B. Severin, M. Hesenius, F. Blum, M. Hettmer, und V. Gruhn
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2022
Automated Payment and Contract Management in the Construction Industry by Integrating Building Information Modeling and Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts
K. Sigalov, X. Ye, M. König, P. Hagedorn, F. Blum, B. Severin, M. Hettmer, P. Hückinghaus, J. Wölkerling, D. Groß
Journal of Applied Sciences, Special Issue “New Trends in Blockchain Technology”, Open-Access, 2021
Building Hybrid DApps using Blockchain Tactics – The Meta-Transaction Example
F. Blum, B. Severin, M. Hettmer, P. Hückinghaus, und V. Gruhn
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2020
Engineering Software Architectures of Blockchain-Oriented Applications
F. Wessling und V. Gruhn
IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), Seattle, WA, USA, 2018
How Much Blockchain Do You Need? Towards a Concept for Building Hybrid DApp Architectures
F. Wessling, C. Ehmke, M. Hesenius, und V. Gruhn
IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain, ICSE, Sweden, 2018
Codeless Engineering of Service Mashups – An Experience Report
T. Brückmann, V. Gruhn, W. Koop, J. Ollesch, L. Pradel, F. Wessling, M. Benner
IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, Hawaii, USA, 2017
Coordinated run-time adaptation of variability-intensive systems: an application in cloud computing
A. Metzger, A. Bayer, D. Doyle, A. M. Sharifloo, K. Pohl, und F. Wessling
International Workshop on Variability and Complexity in Software Design, Austin, Texas, 2016
Towards exploiting the full adaptation potential of cloud applications
C. C. Marquezan, F. Wessling, A. Metzger, K. Pohl, C. Woods, und K. Wallbom
International Workshop on Principles of Engineering Service-Oriented and Cloud Systems, Hyderabad, India, 2014
3-D cloud monitoring: Enabling effective cloud infrastructure and application management
C. C. Marquezan, D. Bruneo, F. Longo, F. Wessling, A. Metzger, und A. Puliafito
International Conference on Network and Service Management, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2014