Information Systems Engineering

Information Systems Engineering provides foundational and advanced techniques, algorithms, design and engineering approaches to model complete lifecycles of data-intensive and distributed information systems.

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Schahram Dustdar, Coordinator

Research Topics

Compilers, Languages, and Middleware Engineering
Programming Systems and Tools
Distributed Systems
High Performance Computing
Data Analytics and Machine Learning
Business Informatics
E-commerce
Informatics Didactics

About

Information systems play a crucial role in many forms of organizations, and act as a facilitator and enabler for the digitalization of personal and social spaces. As such, information systems became the underlying “operating system” of our society.

Typical activities in the lifecycle of information systems are fundamental requirements elicitation as well as analysis and design of systems, their implementation, as well as subsequent execution and maintenance activities. Importantly, information systems engineering is not limited to technologies and methodological approaches, but comprises technical solutions as well as social and business-related implications of information systems. Therefore, information systems engineering can also act as an interface between computer science and other research disciplines (technical and non-technical) as well as business related activities.

Research Units

Six of the faculty’s twenty-four research units are primarily focused on topics related to Information Systems 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 Information Systems Engineering. To learn more, visit the pages of the research units listed above.

Recent Projects

Intent-based data operation in the computing continuum
2024 – 2026 / European Commission
Cloud Open Source Research Mobility Network
2023 – 2026 / European Commission
Trustworthy, Energy-Aware federated DAta Lakes along the Computing Continuum
2022 – 2025 / European Commission
Publications: 177474 / 189351 / 189044 / 189016 / 189544 / 190613 / 194409 / 195539 / 195922 / 195912 / 195917 / 195920 / 195914 / 195925 / 195916 / 196065 / 196508 / 198064 / 200891 / 199515
OPC UA Rule Editor 2.0
2022 / Siemens AG
OPC UA Rule Editor
2021 / Siemens AG
Publication: 190612
fAIr by design – solutions for discrimination reduction in AI de-velopment
2021 – 2024 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
EGI Advanced Computing for EOSC
2021 – 2023 / European Commission
Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things
2020 – 2022 / Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (bm:wfw)
Publications: 137780 / 137781 / 176500 / 58438 / 58439 / 58542 / 58788
What Can You Trust in the Large and Noisy Web?
2020 – 2022 / No funding agency
Protecting Sensitive Data in the Computing Continuum
2020 – 2022 / European Commission
Publications: 136154 / 136519 / 137920 / 58446 / 58486 / 58540 / 58547 / 58572 / 58800 / 80255 / 101798
An open, trusted fog computing platform facilitating the deployment, orchestration and management of scalable, heterogeneous and secure IOT services and cross-cloud apps
2020 – 2022 / European Commission
Publications: 177093 / 177092 / 190652 / 58534 / 87224
STARCloud
2019 – 2021 / European Commission
WellFort
2019 – 2022 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age
2019 – 2023 / European Commission
Publications: 150286 / 150288 / 150284 / 153859 / 192539
Vienna Informatics Living Lab
2018 – 2019 / Vienna Business Agency (WAW)
Semantic Processing of Security Event Streams
2018 – 2021 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Fog Computing for Robotics and Industrial Automation
2017 – 2021 / European Commission
Publications: 136158 / 139840 / 137443 / 137466 / 137780 / 137941 / 143170 / 171624 / 191627 / 176484 / 191190 / 191629 / 20570 / 30294 / 55618 / 57788 / 57790 / 57792 / 57797 / 57800 / 57807 / 57808 / 57809 / 57834 / 57945 / 58189 / 58190 / 58197 / 58200 / 58220 / 58248 / 58344 / 58447 / 58500 / 58501 / 58503 / 58504 / 58505 / 58647 / 78072 / 80362
openEO - a common, open source interface between Earth Observation data infrastructures and front-end applications
2017 – 2020 / European Commission
ICT for Decision Making in Farming
2017 – 2021 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Publication: 199164
Interoperability of Heterogeneous IoT Platforms - INTER-IoT
2017 – 2018 / European Commission
Publications: 57460 / 57462 / 57780 / 57783

Recent Publications

A Metric for Assessing, Comparing, and Predicting the Performance of Autonomous RFID-Based Inventory Robots for Retail / Gaston, B., Casamayor Pujol, V., Lopez-Soriano, S., & Pous, R. (2022). A Metric for Assessing, Comparing, and Predicting the Performance of Autonomous RFID-Based Inventory Robots for Retail. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 69(10), 10354–10362. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2021.3128917
AI for next generation computing: Emerging trends and future directions / Gill, S. S., Xu, M., Ottaviani, C., Patros, P., Bahsoon, R., Shaghaghi, A., Golec, M., Stankovski, V., Wu, H., Abraham, A., Singh, M., Mehta, H., Ghosh, S. K., Baker, T., Parlikad, A. K., Lutfiyya, H., Kanhere, S. S., Sakellariou, R., Dustdar, S., … Uhlig, S. (2022). AI for next generation computing: Emerging trends and future directions. Internet of Things, 19, 100514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2022.100514
Towards Interoperable Metamodeling Platforms: The Case of Bridging ADOxx and EMF / Bork, D., Anagnostou, K., & Wimmer, M. (2022). Towards Interoperable Metamodeling Platforms: The Case of Bridging ADOxx and EMF. In X. Franch, G. Poels, F. Gailly, & M. Snoeck (Eds.), Advanced Information Systems Engineering. 34th International Conference, CAiSE 2022, Leuven, Belgium, June 6–10, 2022, Proceedings (pp. 479–497). Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07472-1_28
An Empirical Investigation of Command-Line Customization / Schröder, M., & Cito, J. (2022). An Empirical Investigation of Command-Line Customization. Empirical Software Engineering, 27(2), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-021-10036-y
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Secured Wireless Energy Transfer for the Internet of Everything in Ambient Intelligent Environments / Sah, D. K., Poongodi, M., Donta, P. K., Hamdi, M., Cengiz, K., Kamruzzaman, M. M., & Rauf, H. T. (2022). Secured Wireless Energy Transfer for the Internet of Everything in Ambient Intelligent Environments (Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 62–66). https://doi.org/10.1109/iotm.001.2100116
A Simple Solution to Locate Groups of Items in Large Retail Stores Using an RFID Robot / Casamayor Pujol, V., Gaston, B., Lopez-Soriano, S., Alajami, A. A., & Pous, R. (2022). A Simple Solution to Locate Groups of Items in Large Retail Stores Using an RFID Robot. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 18(2), 767–775. https://doi.org/10.1109/tii.2021.3080670
Quantum Enabled Continuum Enterprise Computing / Dustdar, S. (2022). Quantum Enabled Continuum Enterprise Computing. 2nd SCORE Workshop: Quantum Computing, Sevilla, Spain. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/87322
High-Level Metrics for Service Level Objective-aware Autoscaling in Polaris: a Performance Evaluation / Bartelucci, N., Bellavista, P., Pusztai, T., Morichetta, A., & Dustdar, S. (2022). High-Level Metrics for Service Level Objective-aware Autoscaling in Polaris: a Performance Evaluation. In L. Mashayekhy, S. Schulte, V. Cardellini, B. Kantarci, Y. Simmhan, & B. Varghese (Eds.), 2022 IEEE 6th International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/icfec54809.2022.00017
Specification and Operation of Privacy Models for Data Streams on the Edge / Sedlak, B., Murturi, I., & Dustdar, S. (2022). Specification and Operation of Privacy Models for Data Streams on the Edge. In L. Mashayekhy, S. Schulte, V. Cardellini, B. Kantarci, Y. Simmhan, & B. Varghese (Eds.), 2022 IEEE 6th International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/icfec54809.2022.00018
Project: FogProtect (2020–2022)
DT4GITM - A Vision for a Framework for Digital Twin enabled IT Governance / Poels, G., Proper, H. A., & Bork, D. (2022). DT4GITM - A Vision for a Framework for Digital Twin enabled IT Governance. In 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS´22) (pp. 6626–6635). AIS. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/58520
A Framework for Automatic Labeling of Log Datasets from Model-driven Testbeds for HIDS Evaluation / Landauer, M., Frank, M., Skopik, F., Wurzenberger, M., & Rauber, A. (2022). A Framework for Automatic Labeling of Log Datasets from Model-driven Testbeds for HIDS Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems. ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States of America (the). https://doi.org/10.1145/3510547.3517924
Dealing with Security Alert Flooding: Using Machine Learning for Domain-independent Alert Aggregation / Landauer, M., Skopik, F., Wurzenberger, M., & Rauber, A. (2022). Dealing with Security Alert Flooding: Using Machine Learning for Domain-independent Alert Aggregation. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 25(3), 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1145/3510581
Semantic-enabled Architecture for Auditable Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis / Ekaputra, F. J., Ekelhart, A., Mayer, R., Miksa, T., Šarčević, T., Tsepelakis, S., & Waltersdorfer, L. (2022). Semantic-enabled Architecture for Auditable Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis. Semantic Web: Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.3233/sw-212883
Understanding the Convergence of Edge, Fog and Cloud / Dustdar, S. (2022). Understanding the Convergence of Edge, Fog and Cloud. ACM Distinguished Talk organized by IEEE Kochi Subsection and ACM Student Chapter SSET - Online Event, Cochin, Kerala, India, India. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/87320
Scientific Paper-Writing / Dustdar, S. (2022). Scientific Paper-Writing. ACM Distinguished Talk at GCU-ACM Student Chapter - Online Event, Lahore, Pakistan, Pakistan. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/87319
Keynote: Engineering the New Fabric of the Distributed Compute Continuum / Dustdar, S. (2022). Keynote: Engineering the New Fabric of the Distributed Compute Continuum. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom). IEEE 20th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2022) - Online Conference, Pisa, Italy, Italy. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/percom53586.2022.9762406
It Is Simple, It Is Complicated. Perspectives on Digital Humanism. / Neidhardt, J., Werthner, H., & Woltran, S. (2022). It Is Simple, It Is Complicated. Perspectives on Digital Humanism. In H. Werthner, E. Prem, E. A. Lee, & C. Ghezzi (Eds.), Perspectives on Digital Humanism (pp. 335–342). Springer. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/30705
Geopolitics, Digital Sovereignty…What’s in a Word? / Werthner, H. (2022). Geopolitics, Digital Sovereignty…What’s in a Word? In Perspectives on Digital Humanism (pp. 241–248). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86144-5_32
Scaling Up Broken Systems? Considerations from the Area of Music Streaming / Knees, P. (2022). Scaling Up Broken Systems? Considerations from the Area of Music Streaming. In H. Werthner, E. Prem, E. A. Lee, & C. Ghezzi (Eds.), Perspectives on Digital Humanism (pp. 165–171). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86144-5_23
Edge-Based Autonomous Management of Vertical Farms / Jandl, A., Frangoudis, P. A., & Dustdar, S. (2022). Edge-Based Autonomous Management of Vertical Farms. IEEE Internet Computing, 26(1), 68–75. https://doi.org/10.1109/mic.2021.3129271

Recent Theses

Increasing the Machine-actionability of Structured Research Data via Semi-automatic Ontology Mapping of Data Attributes / Altug, B. (2024). Increasing the Machine-actionability of Structured Research Data via Semi-automatic Ontology Mapping of Data Attributes [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.120526
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Internet of things testbed - A modular framework to find vulnerabilities / Gufler, K. (2024). Internet of things testbed - A modular framework to find vulnerabilities [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.105441
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Automated Quality Indicators for Machine-actionable Data Management Plans / Arnhold, L. (2024). Automated Quality Indicators for Machine-actionable Data Management Plans [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.117145
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A benchmark suite for AI workloads in serverless edge computing / Prüller, P. (2024). A benchmark suite for AI workloads in serverless edge computing [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.104123
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Modular energy management system : design of a theoretical model and verification using a proof of concept / Sutrich, M. (2024). Modular energy management system : design of a theoretical model and verification using a proof of concept [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.118708
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From infrastructure to code : generating dockerfiles from server snapshots / Ilg, M. (2024). From infrastructure to code : generating dockerfiles from server snapshots [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.100463
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Evaluating LIME-based explanations of relation extraction models / Beham, T. (2024). Evaluating LIME-based explanations of relation extraction models [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.112944
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Data-driven methods for climate change modelling in hydrology : use case for deep learning in rainfall-runoff simulation / Eder, M. (2024). Data-driven methods for climate change modelling in hydrology : use case for deep learning in rainfall-runoff simulation [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.113024
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Recommendation for orchestration architectures in serverless edge computing / Pouresmaeil, K. (2024). Recommendation for orchestration architectures in serverless edge computing [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.113411
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Lung and lung cancer segmentation using deep learning / Milicevic, V. (2024). Lung and lung cancer segmentation using deep learning [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.112776
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Harmonization system for data analytics using microservices / Milasus, E. (2024). Harmonization system for data analytics using microservices [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.121561
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Political opinion analysis and figure of speech detection : Topic and opinion type classification in the political context; alliteration and hyperbole detedction / Deringer, C. (2024). Political opinion analysis and figure of speech detection : Topic and opinion type classification in the political context; alliteration and hyperbole detedction [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.102700
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How do we read scatterplots? / Salazar, J. P. (2024). How do we read scatterplots? [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.86822
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Exact methods for covering array generation / Hiess, I. (2024). Exact methods for covering array generation [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.119362
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Multi-domain change impact analysis for agile cyber-physical production systems engineering / Vysoka, D. (2024). Multi-domain change impact analysis for agile cyber-physical production systems engineering [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.113284
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Benchmarking of quantum edge on the computational continuum / Jandl, D. (2024). Benchmarking of quantum edge on the computational continuum [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.113764
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Automated Eligibility Screening and its Evaluation in the Medical Domain / Kusa, W. (2024). Automated Eligibility Screening and its Evaluation in the Medical Domain [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.124620
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Label generation for time series data / Windischbauer, J. (2024). Label generation for time series data [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.119801
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Analysis, design and prototypical implementation of an in-app parameter extraction process to personalise a smart wake up light system / Schwabenbauer, A. (2024). Analysis, design and prototypical implementation of an in-app parameter extraction process to personalise a smart wake up light system [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.120523
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Automating build, deployment, and monitoring of model-based digital twins / Markusfeld, D. (2024). Automating build, deployment, and monitoring of model-based digital twins [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.92044
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Recent Awards

Ivona Brandic: Best Paper Award at the premier annual conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, 16th IEEE/ACM UCC
2023 / UCC 2023 / USA
Dominik Bork: Eclipse Cloud DevTools Contributor Award
2023 / Eclipse Foundation / USA
Dominik Bork: Best Student Paper Award at EDOC 2023
2023 / 27th International EDOC Conference / Netherlands
Schahram Dustdar: Honorary Professor
2023 / Nanjing University of Science and Technology / China
Dominik Bork: Best Reviewer Award for the SoSyM Journal 2022
2023 / Software and Systems Modelign Journal / USA
Dominik Bork: Best Reviewer Award at the Modellierung 2022
2022 / Modellierung 2022 Conference Committee / Germany
Dominik Bork: Best Reviewer Award for the SoSyM Journal 2021
2022 / Software and Systems Modelign Journal / USA
Schahram Dustdar: EAI Fellow
2021 / EAI / Belgium / Website
Schahram Dustdar: IEEE TCI 2021 Distinguished Service Award
2021 / IEEE Technical Committee on the Internet / USA / Website
Schahram Dustdar: I2CICC Fellow for Contributions to Cognitive Informatics, Cognitive Computing, and General AI
2021 / I2CICC, University of Calgary, Canada / Canada / Website
Schahram Dustdar: Francqui Chair Professor at University of Namur
2021 / Belgium / Website
Schahram Dustdar: Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) President (2021-2023)
2021 / China
Schahram Dustdar: Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Fellow
2021 / China / Website
Schahram Dustdar: Research Excellence Award for delivering a keynote at the 21st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing, CCGrid 2021
2021 / CCGrid 2021 General Chair Prof. Rajkumar Buyya / Australia
Schahram Dustdar: Best Paper Award: Aslanpour M. S., Toosi A. N., Cicconetti C., Javadi B., Sbarski P., Taibi D., Assuncao M., Gill S. S., Gaire R., Dustdar S. (2021). Serverless Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges. 19th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2021), February 1-5, 2021, (Dunedin, New Zealand) online because of COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
2021 / Australia
Schahram Dustdar: ACM Distinguished Speaker
2020 / USA / Website
Schahram Dustdar: PeerJ Computer Science - Top 5 most viewed Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems article, as of October 8, 2020: Schleicher J. M., Vögler M., Inzinger C., Dustdar S. (2016). Smart Brix - a continuous evolution framework for container application deployments
2020 / USA
Gerald Futschek: Fachdidaktik Informatik
2020 / Ehrenmedaille des ABZ der ETH Zürich für Verdienste um den Informatikunterricht / Switzerland
Schahram Dustdar: IEEE TCSC Award 2019 for Excellence in Scalable Computing
2019 / USA
Gerti Kappel: Sonderpreis "Digital Woman Leader"
2019 / Austria / Website

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