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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Contact
- 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 Engineering provides foundational and advanced techniques, algorithms, design and engineering approaches to model complete lifecycles of data-intensive and distributed information systems.
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-three 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.
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Software Engineering
E194-01 / Head: Maria Christakis -
Distributed Systems
E194-02 / Head: Schahram Dustdar -
Business Informatics
E194-03 / Head: Henderik Proper -
Data Science
E194-04 / Head: Allan Hanbury -
Compilers and Languages
E194-05 / Head: Jens Knoop -
Machine Learning
E194-06 / Head: Thomas Gärtner
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
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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 -
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) -
Interoperability of Heterogeneous IoT Platforms - INTER-IoT
2017 – 2018 / European Commission
Publications: 57460 / 57462 / 57780 / 57783 -
Automatic recommendation of music tracks and musicians for collaboration in an online jam community
2017 – 2019 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Publications: 142406 / 56721 / 57031 / 57033 / 57035 / 57038 / 57042 / 57190 / 57191 / 57451 / 57452 / 57453 / 57618 / 57622 / 57649 / 86636 / 86810
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
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An Empirical Investigation of Command-Line Customization
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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
Download: PDF (1.85 MB) - 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
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Specification and Operation of Privacy Models for Data Streams on the Edge
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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
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Addressing Data Availability and Document-to-Document Retrieval for Domain-specific Neural Rankers
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Althammer, S. (2024). Addressing Data Availability and Document-to-Document Retrieval for Domain-specific Neural Rankers [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.123265
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Pay To Win: Algorithmic Incentive Manipulation Attacks on Permissionless Cryptocurrencies
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Judmayer, A. (2024). Pay To Win: Algorithmic Incentive Manipulation Attacks on Permissionless Cryptocurrencies [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.123266
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CRDT-based Serverless Middleware for Stateful Objects in the Edge-Cloud Continuum
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Goronjic, V. (2024). CRDT-based Serverless Middleware for Stateful Objects in the Edge-Cloud Continuum [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.112715
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Aggregation & Analysis of IPv6 Prefixes at Internet-Scale
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Nowak, P. (2024). Aggregation & Analysis of IPv6 Prefixes at Internet-Scale [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.118701
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Enabling Program Analysis Through Provenance-Preserving Translation into A-Normal Form
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Goritschnig, M. (2024). Enabling Program Analysis Through Provenance-Preserving Translation into A-Normal Form [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.106972
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Internet of Things Testbed
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Gufler, K. (2024). Internet of Things Testbed [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.105441
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Aligning sentences to their formal meaning representation in the context of Discourse Representation Structure Parsing
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Obereder, C. (2024). Aligning sentences to their formal meaning representation in the context of Discourse Representation Structure Parsing [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.120192
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Transforming Business Process Models into System Dynamics Models -- Developing a Transformation Tool
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Ruci, E. (2024). Transforming Business Process Models into System Dynamics Models -- Developing a Transformation Tool [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.112680
Download: PDF (2.11 MB) - A transformational tool to guide the transition towards an entrepreneurial university / Negoescu, A. (2024). A transformational tool to guide the transition towards an entrepreneurial university [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.38112
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Analysis, Design and Implementation of Serious Game for Upper Limb and Cognitive Training Using Leap Motion for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
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Kecman, B. (2024). Analysis, Design and Implementation of Serious Game for Upper Limb and Cognitive Training Using Leap Motion for Multiple Sclerosis Patients [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.121389
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Manual Analysis and Early Identification of At-Risk Students in Programming Courses
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Dragojlovic, J. (2024). Manual Analysis and Early Identification of At-Risk Students in Programming Courses [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.121441
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Frontend-only browser-based modeling tools
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Jäger, D. (2024). Frontend-only browser-based modeling tools [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.118520
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Generating Multi-lingual, Semantically Equivalent Fuzzer Benchmarks from Mazes
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Chadt, J. (2024). Generating Multi-lingual, Semantically Equivalent Fuzzer Benchmarks from Mazes [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.115005
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LLM Calibration: A Dual Approach of Post-Processing and Pre-Processing Calibration Techniques in Large Language Models for Medical Question Answering
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Vogl, B. (2024). LLM Calibration: A Dual Approach of Post-Processing and Pre-Processing Calibration Techniques in Large Language Models for Medical Question Answering [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.118886
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Automatic music mood tagging: EMMA dataset
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Kinoshita, Y. (2024). Automatic music mood tagging: EMMA dataset [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.115181
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Blockchain Interoperability: A Cross-Chain Token Transfer Protocol
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Tosic, D. (2024). Blockchain Interoperability: A Cross-Chain Token Transfer Protocol [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.65762
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Design and Implementation of Distributed System Application for Gathering, Harmonizing and Distributing Data Acquired from Different Data Sources
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Milasus, E. (2024). Design and Implementation of Distributed System Application for Gathering, Harmonizing and Distributing Data Acquired from Different Data Sources [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.121561
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Efficent processing of IoT data streams
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Oellerer, A. (2024). Efficent processing of IoT data streams [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.100526
Download: PDF (6.86 MB) - Fuzzing embedded protocols / Szewieczek, M. (2024). Fuzzing embedded protocols [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.113741
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Automating build, deployment, and monitoring of model-based digital twins
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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
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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