Graml, Tobias

Tobias Graml is a PhD candidate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich), Switzerland and works as a Senior Researcher at the Bits to Energy Lab. Before he worked as an IT Specialist at the IBM Pacific Development Center in Vancouver, Canada. Tobias obtained a M.Sc. (Diplom-Informatiker Univ.) in computer science and business studies from Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany in 2006. His diploma thesis focused on business process modelling patterns that utilize business rules to enable dynamic Business Processes. He won the ‘Best Student Paper Award’ with a paper about agile Business Process at the EDOC 2007.

During his studies he received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service, studied at University of Queensland, Australia and worked at BMW and the German Aero Space Center.

Research Interests

• Bits-to-Energy Lab
• Smart IT for a sustainable development
• Visualization of energy consumption
• Smart metering

Supervised Thesis Projects

• Integration von Energieeffizienz-Plattformen in Infrastrukturen von Energieversorgern (Dominik Facher, June 2010)
• Building a Web Based Framework for Eco Projects using XQuery (Tatyana Nikolayeva, November 2009)
• Einfluss des Emissionshandels auf die europäische Automobilindustrie (Pascal Rueegg, May 2008)

Press

• Energiesparen lohnt sich, ETH Life, 10.05.2010
• Belohnung fürs Stromsparen, 20Minuten, 20.5.2010
• Introduction Bits to Energy Lab ETH Zurich, Discover RFID, 28.5.2008

Talks

• „Smart Metering und innovative Energiedienstleistungen“, invited talk at VSE-Symposium 2011, Zürich, Switzerland, May 06th 2011.
• „Enkunden für neue Technologien begeistern“, invited talk at Vereon Innovationsforum EVU 2011, Zürich, Switzerland, April 05th 2011.
• „Kunden verstehen und begeistern mit Smart Metering“, invited talk at Smart Metering Day 2010, Olten, Switzerland, October 27th 2010.
• „Customer Needs and Smart Grids“, invited talk at Smart Grids in the Czech Republic 2010 Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 21st 2010.
• „Online experiments on improving residential energy efficiency“, invited talk IfM Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, August 31st 2010.*

Other involvements

• Internet of Things 2010 Conference, Tokyo, Japan (Reviewer)
• The 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), June 8-10, 2009, Verona, Italy (associate editor)

Publications

• Graml, T., Loock, C., Baersiwyl, M., Staake, T. Improving residential energy consumption at large using persuasive systems. 19th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Helsinki, Finland.
• Loock, C., Graml, T., Baeriswyl., Staake, T. How to motivate energy efficiency online, Proceedings of 20 th International Conference on Management of Technology, Florida, USA, April, 2011.
• Staake, T., Graml, T., Baeriswyl, M., Loock, C., Mit verhaltenswissenschaftlichen Konzepten zum erfolgreichen Kundenportal, Bulletin des Verbands Schweizerischer Elektrizitätsunternehmen (VSE), 2011.
• Staake, T., Graml, T., Baeriswyl, M., Loock, C., Durch Online-Interaktion Kunden für Energiedienstleistungen begeistern, Zeitschrift für Energie, Markt, Wettbewerb, (2)11, 2011.
• Graml, T.; Loock, C.; Staake, T.: “Online Energy Behavior Change Systems: What makes people stick?”, PERSUASIVE 2010 - The Fifth International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Koppenhagen, June 2010
• Graml, T.; Weiß, M.; Staake, T.; Fleisch, E.: “Smart Metering & Energie-Effizienz-Services“, Management Guide für Schweizer Energieversorgungsunternehmen, Hrsg. Friedli, Walti, 2010

Old Publications

• Tobias Graml, Ralf Bracht, Marcus Spies: Patterns of Business Rules to Enable Agile Business Processes. In Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2007), 15-19 October 2007, Annapolis, Maryland, USA. IEEE Computer Society 2007