Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering is based on an integral approach combining informatics, communications technology and microelectronics. The primary area of research is embedded systems, which are an essential part of many objects in our everyday life.
Contact
- Ulrich Schmid, Coordinator
Research Topics
- Digital Circuits and Hardware Architectures
- Parallel and Distributed, Dependable, Real-time Systems
- Hybrid Systems and Optimal Control
- Quantitative and Runtime Verification
- Computational Modeling and Simulation
- Autonomous Systems, Robotics and Automation Systems Integration
- Cyber-physical Social Systems & Internet of Things
About
Computer Engineering is based on an integral approach combining informatics, communications technology and microelectronics. The primary area of research is embedded systems, which are an essential part of many objects in our everyday life.
The research focus Computer Engineering deals with all aspects of the direct interaction of computer systems and their environment, from the lowest level of circuit and hardware architectures to safety-critical cyber-physical systems like industrial automation and smart grids, healthcare, spacecraft, and automotive.
Designing such systems is challenging, both from a scientific and technological perspective: Many functions are directly implemented in hardware for performance reasons, distributed and parallel processing is omnipresent, digital signal processing is often required, real-time and power/thermal constraints must be met, energy-efficiency is crucial, stopping operation in the case of failures is often not feasible, unique security issues and threats exist, “trial-and-error-style programming” is not an option in many applications, asserting system correctness by means of testing may be insufficient for the required reliability level, emergent behavior originating from autonomous operation must be understood and controlled, integration and complexity issues created by the upcoming Internet of Things must be managed, etc.
Key characteristics of the research focus Computer Engineering are hence (i) an integrative view of a multitude of system aspects, including hardware architectures, continuous/discrete systems, parallelism and communication, dependability, real-time processing, low-power design, energy and resource efficiency, decision and control theory, autonomy, etc., and (ii) interdisciplinarity: Core computer science knowledge and skills like programming, modeling, design and analysis, formal verification and synthesis of both software and hardware are complemented by specific knowledge and skills from other disciplines, in particular, continuous mathematics, system theory and electrical engineering.
Research Units
Four of the faculty’s twenty-two research units are primarily focused on topics related to Computer Engineering. Visit their pages to learn about current projects, publications, courses, and the people involved.
Below is a small selection of recent research activities related to Computer Engineering. To learn more, visit the pages of the research units listed above.
Recent Projects
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Personalised Medicine: Multidisciplinary Research Towards IM
2020 – 2023 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF) -
Automated payment and contract management in construction using blockchain technology and BIM 5D
2019 – 2021 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Automated Device Independent Honeypot Generation of IoT and Industrial IoT Devices
2019 – 2021 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Adaptive Smoothed Production
2017 – 2020 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Coordination of Autonomous Vehicles for Transporting Goods in Environments with Pedestrians
2017 – 2019 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Building Information Modeling for Building Energy Management
Systems
2017 – 2019 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Autonomous Vehicle to Support Active Mobility
2016 – 2019 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Innovationslehrgang zur Gestaltung der Digitalen Transformation in der Produktentwicklung und Produktion
2016 – 2018 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Independent Two Wheel Steering
2016 – 2017 / DS Automotion GmbH -
IEA "Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme",
Annex "Energie-flexible Gebäude"
2015 – 2019 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Advanced Data Analytics for Energy Efficiency
2015 – 2018 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Cognitive Optimization of Control Strategies for Increasing Energy-efficiency in Buildings
2015 – 2018 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Innovative lighting management system
2015 – 2017 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Balanced Manufacturing
2014 – 2017 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Verifying Self-consistent MPI Performance Guidelines
2013 – 2018 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Recent Publications
- Towards Data-Driven Malfunctioning Detection in Public and Industrial Power Grids / D. Fellner, H. Brunner, T. Strasser, W. Kastner / Talk: 2020 25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Wien; 2020-09-08 - 2020-09-11; in: "Proceedings of the 2020 25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)", IEEE, (2020), ISBN: 978-1-7281-8956-7; 4 pages
- A Real-Time Application with Fully Predictable Task Timing / M. Platzer, P. Puschner / Talk: 2020 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC), Nashville, TN, USA; 2020-05-19 - 2020-05-21; in: "2020 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC)", (2020), 43 - 46
- Optimizing Memory Access in TCF Processors with Compute-Update Operations / M. Forsell, J. Roivainen, J. Träff / Talk: 22nd Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM 2020) in conjunction with IPDPS 2020 - Online Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; 2020-05-18 - 2020-05-22; in: "Proceedings of the IEEE 34th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW 2020)", IEEE, (2020), ISBN: 978-1-7281-7457-0; 577 - 586
- Plug-and-play supervisory control using muscle and brain signals for real-time gesture and error detection / J. DelPreto, A. Salazar-Gomez, S. Gil, R. Hasani, F. Guenther, D. Rus / Autonomous Robots, 44 (2020), 1303 - 1322
- An Efficient Multi-Objective Hybrid Simheuristic Approach for Advanced Rolling Horizon Production Planning / F. Kamhuber, T. Sobottka, B. Heinzl, W. Sihn / Talk: Winter Simulation Conference 2019 (WSC2019), Maryland, USA; 2019-12-08 - 2019-12-11; in: "Proceedings of the 2019 Winter Simulation Conference", (2019)
- Query Performance Evaluation of Sensor Data Integration Methods for Knowledge Graphs / G. Steindl, W. Kastner / Talk: 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Knowledge and Control Systems Engineering, Sofia, Bulgarien; 2019-11-21 - 2019-11-22; in: "Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Knowledge and Control Systems Engineering", (2019)
- Sensyml: Simulation Environment for large-scale IoT Applications / H. Isakovic, R. Grosu, B. Wally, T. Rausch, S. Dustdar, G. Kappel, D. Ratasich, V. Bisanovic / Talk: 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2019), Lisbon, Portugal, Portugal; 2019-10-14 - 2019-10-18; in: "IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society", IEEE Xplore, (2019), ISBN: 978-1-7281-4878-6; 3024 - 3030
- Communication interface specification in OPC UA / D. Strutzenberger, T. Frühwirth, T. Trautner, R. Hinterbichler, F. Pauker / Talk: 24th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2019), Zaragoza, Spain; 2019-09-10 - 2019-09-13; in: "Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2019)", IEEE, (2019), ISBN: 978-1-7281-0304-4; 1329 - 1332
- Knowledge-based building management combining human perception and building automation systems / W. Kastner, S. Gaida, H. Tellioglu / Talk: First International Conference on Societal Automation (SA 2019), Krakow, Poland; 2019-09-04 - 2019-09-06; in: "Proceedings of the First International Conference on Societal Automation (SA 2019)", (2019)
- How to Make the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Method Resilient Against Multiple Node Failures / C. Pachajoa, M. Levonyak, W. Gansterer, J. Träff / Talk: 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2019), Kyoto, Japan; 2019-08-05 - 2019-08-08; in: "Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2019)", ACM, (2019), ISBN: 978-1-4503-6295-5; 67:1 - 67:10
- Causality and Epistemic Reasoning in Byzantine Multi-Agent Systems / R. Kuznets, L. Prosperi, U. Schmid, K. Fruzsa / Poster: TARK 2019: Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, Toulouse, France; 2019-07-17 - 2019-07-19; in: "Proceedings Seventeenth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2019)", L. Moss (ed.); Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 297 (2019), ISSN: 2075-2180; 293 - 312
- The Involution Tool for Accurate Digital Timing and Power Analysis / D. Öhlinger, J. Maier, M Függer, U. Schmid / Talk: 2019 IEEE 29th International Symposium on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS 2019), Rhodos; 2019-07-01 - 2019-07-03; in: "2019 IEEE 29th International Symposium on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS 2019)", (2019), ISBN: 978-1-7281-2103-1; 1 - 8
- Interfacing to Time-Triggered Communication Systems / P. Puschner, R. Kirner / Talk: IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC), Valencia, Spain; 2019-05-07 - 2019-05-09; in: "Proceedings IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC)", IEEE, (2019), ISSN: 2375-5261; 8 pages
- A Novel Ontology-Based Smart Service Architecture for Data-Driven Model Development / G. Steindl, B. Heinzl, W. Kastner / Talk: Eleventh International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (eKNOW 2019), Athens, Greece; 2019-02-24 - 2019-02-28; in: "Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (eKNOW 2019)", (2019)
- Echoes of the Past: Recovering Blockchain Metrics from Merged mining / N. Stifter, P. Schindler, A. Judmayer, A. Zamyatin, A. Kern, E. Weippl / Talk: 23rd International Conference, FC 2019, St. Kitts; 2019-02-18 - 2019-02-22; in: "Financial Cryptography and Data Security", Springer, (2019), ISBN: 978-3-030-32101-7
Recent Awards
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Jesper Larsson Träff:
Innovation Radar: Innovation Title: PGAS-based MPI with interoperability; Innovation Category: Exploration; FP 7 project EPiGRAM
2018 / Project -
Sascha Hunold:
Best Paper Award: "Reproducible MPI Micro-Benchmarking Isn't As Easy As You Think", S. Hunold, A. Carpen-Amarie, J. Träff, 21st European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI/ASIA 2014, Kyoto, Japan, September 9-12, 2014
2014 / Program Chairs of EuroMPI/ASIA 2014 / Japan -
Jesper Larsson Träff:
Best Paper Award: "Reproducible MPI Micro-Benchmarking Isn't As Easy As You Think", S. Hunold, A. Carpen-Amarie, J. Träff, 21st European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI/ASIA 2014, Kyoto, Japan, September 9-12, 2014
2014 / Program Chairs of EuroMPI/ASIA 2014 / Japan -
Wilfried Elmenreich:
E-Learning Award 2006/2007 für ausgezeichnete Leistungen in der Lehrentwicklung (Kategorie für Speziallösungen)
2007 / Austria -
Peter Puschner:
Gründungsmitglied der IFIP 10.2 WG on Embedded Systems
2006 / IFIP -
Hermann Kopetz:
Wilhelm Exner Medaillie
2005 / Austria -
Christopher Krügel:
Wirtschaftskammerpreis
2005 / Wirtschaftskammern / Austria -
Hermann Kopetz:
IEEE Technical Achievement Award
2004 -
Josef Widder:
FIT-IT Embedded Systems Dissertationsstipendium "Distributed Computing in the Presence of Bounded Asynchrony"
2004 / Austria -
Hermann Kopetz:
Vorsitzender d. Wiss. Beirat ACR
2004 / Austria -
Raimund Kirner:
Mobilitätsstipendium der Creditanstalt AG
(wird für aussergewöhnliche Dissertationen
an der Technischen Universität Wien verliehen)
2003 / Austria -
Herbert Grünbacher:
Ehrenzeichen der Stadt Villach
2002 / Austria -
Hermann Kopetz:
IGM-Preis
2001 / Austria -
Christopher Krügel:
EIB Scientific Award for Excellent Diploma Thesis
2000 / Germany -
Hermann Kopetz:
Mitglied "Rat for Forschung und Technologieentwicklung"
2000 / Austria