Introduction

The “Distributed and Parallel Systems” research area led by Prof. Radu Prodan focuses on research and development of software tools to support the development and execution cycle of scientific and industrial applications on current parallel and distributed computing infrastructures.

Research Topics

  • parallel and distributed systems
  • Cloud computing and simulation
  • high-performance computing
  • performance analysis and prediction
  • resource management and scheduling
  • multi-objective optimization
  • programming and runtime environments
  • compiler technology
  • energy efficiency

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Authors: Reza Farahani, Frank Loh, Dumitru Roman, and Radu Prodan Venue: The 2nd Workshop on Serverless, Extreme-Scale, and Sustainable Graph Processing Systems Co-located with ICPE 2024 Abstract: The growing desire among application providers…
Title: Cloud Storage Tier Optimization through Storage Object Classification Authors: Akif Quddus Khan, Mihhail Matskin, Radu Prodan, Christoph Bussler, Dumitru Roman, Ahmet Soylu Abstract: Cloud storage adoption has increased over the…
Radu Prodan has been invited and will participate as a general chair at the ICONIC 2024, April 26-27, 2024, at Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. The Conference will provide a platform for scientists, researchers, academicians,…
Cluster Computing DFARM: A deadline-aware fault-tolerant scheduler for cloud computing Authors: Ahmad Awan, Muhammad Aleem, Altaf Hussain, Radu Prodan Abstract: Cloud computing has become popular for small businesses due to its cost-effectiveness…
Journal of Grid Computing Authors: Zeinab Bakhshi, Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, Hans Hansson, Radu Prodan Abstract: This paper analyzes a persistent storage method's timing performance for distributed container-based architectures in…
On February 1st, 2024, Sahar Nasirihaghighi presented our work on 'Event Recognition in Laparoscopic Gynecology Videos with Hybrid Transformers' at this year's International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2024) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Authors:…
An EU funding programme enabling researchers to set up their own interdisciplinary research networks in Europe and beyond. #COSTactions Representing Ireland with Prof. Horacio González-Vélez of National College of Ireland at the partner meeting…
In a noteworthy presence at the 16th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2023), Dragi Kimovski and Narges Mehran presented three workshop papers: Marcus Reitzl and Dragi Kimovski, "Multi-Objective Optimisation…
Radu Prodan/ITEC will organise the CERCIRAS Training School (on behalf of COST Action CA19135) from August 26 - 30, 2024 at the University of Klagenfurt. Details and programs will be available soon.
Radu Prodan participated on November 1, 2023, as an external opponent at the PhD defense of Ruyue Xin ((Title of the dissertation: Towards Effective Performance Diagnosis for Distributed Applications), supervised by Dr. Zhiming Zhao, Dr. Paola…
The Graph Massivizer Project is part of the European Big Data Value Forum! The team participates in a session exploring the latest in #KnowledgeGraph technology with real-world use cases in agrifood, industry 4.0 and healthcare. As part of…
The @DataCloud2020 dissemination Workshop, oriented by project partners @SINTEF, took place on the 26th of October as part of the @icpm_conf 2023, hosted by @SapienzaRoma. Narges Mehran participated for UNI-KLU. @DataCloud2020…
The Symposium "The Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) carnival" took place on the 19th of October 2023 at the Wageningen University & Research Campus and was organized in collaboration with the Wageningen Data Competence Center…
Delighted to host last #PlenaryMeeting of #Datacloud 2020 project. Final adjustments for tool integration and business cases deployments ahead.
Authors: Gregor Molan, Gregor Dolinar, Jovan Bojkovski, Radu Prodan, Andrea Borghesi, Martin Molan Journal: IEEE Access Purpose: The gap between software development requirements and the available resources of software developers continues…
The GraphMassivizer plenary meeting is underway in #Walldorf, hosted by our valued partner metaphacts GmbH We’re thrilled to gather for three days of collaboration, sharing project results, and planning upcoming activities. Radu…
Title: Designing A Sustainable Serverless Graph Processing Tool on the Computing Continuum Abstract: Graph processing has become increasingly popular and essential for solving complex problems in various domains, like social networks. However,…
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On 22.08.2023, Reza Farahani successfully defended his doctoral studies with the thesis on the title: "Network-Assisted Delivery of Adaptive Video Streaming Services through CDN, SDN, and MEC" under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Hermann…
An der Universität Klagenfurt wird aktuell daran geforscht, wie große Datenmengen energieeffizienter verarbeitet werden können. Die digitale Übertragung von Informationen verbrauche Energie. Wissenschafter aus zwölf Institutionen forschen…
Title: Towards Cloud Storage Tier Optimization with Rule-based Classification Authors: Akif Quddus Khan, Nikolay Nikolov, Mihhail Matskin, Radu Prodan, Christoph Bussler, Dumitru Roman and Ahmet Soylu Link: ESOCC…
Title: ARTICONF Decentralized Social Media Platform for Democratic Crowd Journalism Authors: Ines Rito Lima, Vasco Filipe, Claudia Marinho, Alexandre Ulisses, Antorweep Chakravorty, Atanas Hristov, Nishant Saurabh, Zhiming Zhao, Ruyue Xin,…
Title: Beyond von Neumann in the Computing Continuum: Architectures, Applications, and Future Directions Authors: Kimovski, Dragi; Saurabh, Nishant; Jansen, Matthijs; Aral, Atakan; Al-Dulaimy, Auday; Bondi, Andre; Galletta, Antonino; Papadopoulos,…
Speakers: Dan Nicolae (University of Chicago, USA), Razvan Bunescu (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Anna Fensel Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands), Radu Prodan (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Ioan Toma…
On 14.07.2023, Zahra Najafabadi Samani successfully defended her doctoral studies with the thesis on the title: "Resource-Aware Time-Critical Application Placement in the Computing Continuum" under the supervision of Prof. Radu Prodan and Assoc.-Prof.…
Authors: Juanjuan Li, Rui Qin, Cristina Olaverri-Monreal, Radu Prodan, Fei-Yue Wang Journal: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles Abstract: As part of TIV's DHW on Vehicle 5.0, this letter introduces a novel concept, Logistics 5.0,…
Title: A distributed and energy-efficient KNN for EEG classification with dynamic money-saving policy in heterogeneous clusters Authors: Juan José Escobar, Francisco Rodríguez, Beatriz Prieto, Dragi Kimovski, Andrés Ortiz, and Miguel…
SWForum.eu: The Way Forward: Workshop on Future Challenges in Software Engineering https://www.flickr.com/photos/198632876@N07/sets/72177720309399251/  
During the session, experts delved into the challenges of processing massive amounts of data and explored cutting-edge technologies that can handle such extreme data requirements. From graph-based solutions to distributed computing frameworks,…
Our Graph-Massivizer Project is thrilled to be part of the #DataWeek2023 event! Join us for a thought-provoking session on "Are current infrastructures suitable for extreme data processing? Technologies for data management." Don't miss…
Container-based Data Pipelines on the Computing Continuum for Remote Patient Monitoring Authors: Nikolay Nikolov, Arnor Solberg, Radu Prodan, Ahmet Soylu, Mihhail Matskin, Dumitru Roman Computer Jounal, Special Issue on Computing in Telemedicine Abstract:…
Radu Prodan presented the paper “Proactive SLA-aware Application Placement in the Computing Continuum” at the 37th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2023) <https://www.ipdps.org/> in St. Petersburg,…
Title: Serverless ECG Stream Processing in Federated Clouds with Lambda Architecture Authors: Sashko Ristov, Marjan Gusev, Armin Hohenegger, Radu Prodan, Dimitar Mileski, Pano Gushev, Goran Temelkov Computer Jounal, Special Issue on Computing…
Authors: Martin Molan, Junaid Ahmed Khan, Andrea Bartolini, Roberta Turra, Giorgio Pedrazzi, Michael Cochez, Alexandru Iosup, Dumitru Roman, Jože Rožanec, Ana Lucia Vărbănescu, Radu Prodan COMPSAC 2023: 1st IEEE International Workshop…
Authors: Akif Quddus Khan, Nikolay Nikolov, Mihhail Matskin‡, Radu Prodan, Christoph Bussler, Dumitru Roman, Ahmet Soylu COMPSAC 2023: 8th IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Big Data Management Abstract: Cloud computing has become…
Dragi Kimovski  participated in the EU Concentration and Consultation event on the computing continuum, held in Brussels on May 10-11, 2023. During the event, he delivered a presentation on the groundbreaking DataCloud H2020 Project and actively…
Titel: A distributed geofence-based discovery scheme for the computing Continuum Euro-Par 2023, https://2023.euro-par.org/ Authors: Kurt Horvath1, Dragi Kimovski1, Christoph Uran1,2, Helmut Wöllik2, and Radu Prodan1 1 Institute of…
Authors: Clemens SAUERWEIN1 (Innsbruck), Ruth BREU (Innsbruck), Stefan OPPL (Krems), Iris GROHER (Linz), Tobias ANTENSTEINER (Innsbruck), Stefan PODLIPNIG (Wien) & Radu PRODAN (Klagenfurt) Abstact: High-quality programming education at…
As part of our collaboration with the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology at the University of Granada, Spain two research papers were accepted for publishing at the 17th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. Paper…
Zahra Najafabadi Samani, has been awarded travel grant to attend IPDPS 2023 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. Congratulations!
Radu Prodan participated in the panel: "Computing in the Cloud Continuum: Technological challenges, killer applications and future trends" jointly organized by the Fast Continuum and HotCloudPerf workshops at the 2023 ACM/SPEC International…
6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf 2023) Radu Prodan:  Four Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance in Klagenfurt  Description: The presentation discusses four hot Cloud computing topics researched…
On Saturday, during the #ICPE2023, the Graph-Massivizer Project organized the #GraphSys first #workshop on #Serverless, #ExtremeScale, and #Sustainable #GraphProcessing #Systems It was great to see so many passionate #attendees eager to share…
Title: Performance Improvement Strategies of Edge-Enabled Social Impact Applications Authors: Shajulin Benedict, S. Vivek Reddy, Bhagyalakshmi M., Jiby Mariya Jose, Radu Prodan International Conference on Inventive Computation…
Authors: Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski, Shajulin Benedikt, Nishant Saurabh, Radu Prodan IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Abstract: Fog computing platforms became essential for deploying low-latency…
On 03.02.2023 , Dragi Kimovski defended his habilitation thesis “The Computing Continuum in the Internet-of-Things Era: Beyond the Cloud Data Centers”. In the meantime, the procedure has been completed and we were happy to hand out the…
Presentation of Radu Prodan on "Massive Graphs on the Computing Continuum" in the seminar on "AI meets complex knowledge structures: Neuro-Symbolic AI and Graph Technologies" at the Oslo Metropolitan University.
The seminar talks every two weeks are co-organized together with the research group of Networks and Distributed Computing at the University of Liverpool, as part of the Durham-Liverpool synergy. The contact person of this synergy in Liverpool…
Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz, Intelligent Transport Systems- Sustainable Transport Logistics 4.0 Logoplan - Logistik,…
Title: Boosting the Impact of Extreme and Sustainable Graph Processing for Urgent Societal Challenges in Europe The First Workshop on Serverless, Extreme-Scale, and Sustainable Graph Processing Systems (GraphSys), Co-located with ICPE 2023,…
Radu Prodan presented the Graph-Massivizer project at the "Get-to-know" introductory and welcome day, part of Data Spaces Support Centre activities on 23 February. HE Data-DSSC-23022023-Agenda
Radu Prodan presented the Graph-Massivizer project at the CERCIRAS COST action on 7th February in Gdansk, Poland
37th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) May 15-19, 2023, Florida USA Authors: Zahra Najafabadi Samani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Narges Mehran (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt,…
HiPEAC 2023 in Toulouse, France
HiPEAC magazine https://www.hipeac.net/news/#/magazine/ HiPEACINFO 68, pages 27-28. Autohrs: Dragi Kimovski (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Narges Mehran (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Radu Prodan (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
Journal: Sensors Authors: Akif Quddus Khan, Nikolay Nikolov, Mihhail Matskin,Radu Prodan, Dumitru Roman, Bekir Sahin, Christoph Bussler, Ahmet Soylu Abstract: Big data pipelines are developed to process data characterized by one or more…
Radu Prodan participated in the panel on "Fueling Industrial AI with Data Pipelines" at presented the Graph-Massivizer project at the European Big Data Value Forum on November 22 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Athors: Alexander Lercher, Nishant Saurabh, Radu Prodan The 15th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2022/socialcom/ Abstract: Community evolution prediction enables business-driven…
2022 IEEE/ACM 2nd Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning for the Intelligent Computing Continuum (DML-ICC) In conjuction with IEEE/ACM UCC 2022 December 6-9, 2022 | Vancouver, Washington, USA Authors: Narges Mehran (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
OTEC: An Optimized Transcoding Task Scheduler for Cloud and Fog Environments ACM CoNEXT 2022 - ViSNext Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hamid Hadian (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
As a Hipeac member, we are hosting Zeinab Bakhshi, a Ph.D. student from Mälardalens University in Sweden. Zeinab achieved a Hipeac collaboration grant and is now hosted by Profesor Radu Prodan to expand her research on container-based fog architectures.…
DataCloud will research and develop novel methods to support the complete lifecycle of #BigData pipelines processing.Follow us to know more about #datacloud2020 Datacloud plenary website
Title: MOGPlay: A Decentralized Crowd Journalism Application for Democratic News Production Authors: Ines Rito Lima, Claudia Marinho,Vasco Filipe, Alexandre Ulisses, Nishant Saurabh, Antorweep Chakravorty, Zhiming Zhao, Atanas Hristov, Radu…
Titel: CardioHPC: Serverless Approaches for Real-Time Heart Monitoring of Thousands of Patients Authors: Marjan Gusev, Sashko Ristov, Andrei Amza, Armin Hohenegger, Radu Prodan, Dimitar Mileski, Pano Gushev, Goran Temelkov 17th Workshop…
Titel: SimLess: Simulate Serverless Workflows and Their Twins and Siblings in Federated FaaS Authors: Sashko Ristov, Mika Hautz, Christian Hollaus, Radu Prodan 2022 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing Abstract: Many researchers migrate…
Student travel award at IEEE Cluster 2022 Narges Mehran got the student award for presenting the paper titled "Matching-based Scheduling of Asynchronous Data Processing Workflows on the Computing Continuum" at IEEE Cluster 2022. The…
IEEE Cloud Summit 2022, https://www.ieeecloudsummit.org/ Authors: Radu Prodan, Dragi Kimovski, Andrea Bartolini, Michael Cochez, Alexandru Iosup, Evgeny Kharlamov, Joze Rozanec, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Ana Lucia Varbanescu Abstract: The Graph-Massivizer…
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From August 16.-19.2022, a CardioHPC project meeting took place in Skopje, Macedonia. Radu Prodan, Andrei Amza and Sahsko Ristvo participated for AAU.
During the period Aug 1st –26th, 2022, Hamza Baniata, a PhD Candidate at the Department of Computer Science, University of Szeged, Hungary, has visited the institute of Information Technology of the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Under…
Project lead/coordination: Radu Prodan Project partners: IDC Italia, Peracton Limited, Institut Jozef Stefan, Sintef, Universiteit Twente, metaphacts GmbH, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Cineca, Event Registry, Università di Bologna, Robert…
Kevin Theuermann (TU Graz) defended his theses on July 12, 2022. Title: Trustworthy Service Composition Systems for E-Government Prof. Radu Prodan was integrated as an external expert to survey the thesis and discuss it with the candidate…
Title: MCred: Multi-Modal Message Credibility for Fake News Detection using BERT and CNN Journal: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing Authors: Pawan Kumar Verma, Prateek Agrawal, Vishu Madaan, Radu Prodan Abstract: Online…
Title: Matching-based Scheduling of Asynchronous Data Processing Workflows on the Computing Continuum Heidelberg, Germany | September 6-9, 2022 https://clustercomp.org/2022/ Authors: Narges Mehran, Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Dragi Kimovski,…
Title: An Elastic and Traffic-Aware Scheduler for Distributed Data Stream Processing in Heterogeneous Clusters Authors: Hamid Hadian, Mohammadreza Farrokh, Mohsen Sharifi, and Ali Jafari Abstract: Existing Data Stream Processing (DSP)…
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Results of collaborative work in the ADAPT between Austira (FFG) and China (CAS) accteped at flagship conference of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Title: Hybrid On/Off Blockchain Approach for Vehicle Data Management, Processing…
Short description: The Intel4EC workshop aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry to present their experiences, results and research progress covering architectural designs, methods and…
An EU funding programme enabling researchers to set up their own interdisciplinary research networks in Europe and beyond. #COSTactions  
From 16 to 19 May 2022, general Co-Chair, Radu Prodan, successfully presented the relevance of Cloud-Edge-IoT at CCGrid2022 conference in Taormina, Italy. Find out more here.
This years´s "Lange Nacht der Forschung" took place on May 20, 2022. The LNDF is Austria´s most significant national research event to present the accomplishments to the broad public. ITEC was represented by three stations and involved in…
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Radu Prodan talks about "Democratic Trustworthy News in the Social Continuum: the ARTICONF Appeoach" Live streaming at the Digital Day in Messina.
The kick-off meeting of the "5G-KärntnerFog" Project took place on April, 21st, 2022 at Klagenfurt University. The purpose of this first meeting was primarily the definition of work structures, work packages, and getting to know each partner…
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Title: FaaScinating Resilience for Serverless Function Choreographies in Federated Clouds Authors: Sasko Ristov, Dragi Kimovski, Thomas Fahringer Abstract: Cloud applications often benefit from deployment on serverless technology Function-as-a-Service…
Electronic health records, like ELGA in Austria, provide an overview of laboratory results, diagnostics and therapies. Much could be learned from the personal and private data of individuals – with the help of machine learning – for use…
Title: Big data analytics in Industry 4.0 ecosystems Authors: Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Radu Prodan, Danda B. Rawat Journal: "Software: Practice and Experience" Full editorial/article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.3…
Second online meeting between Austria and China took place on 21.02.2022. Consortium discussed aspects of sustainable transportation networks, #blockchain and new development strategies in line with #UnitedNations #IYBSSD #SDGs
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Title: Big Data Pipelines on the Computing Continuum: Tapping the Dark Data   Authors: Dumitru Roman, Radu Prodan, Nikolay Nikolov, Ahmet Soylu, Mihhail Matskin, Andrea Marrella, Dragi Kimovski, Brian Elvesæter, Anthony Simonet-Boulogne,…
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In Carinthia, researchers find an open test laboratory in the 5G Playground Carinthia, where the possibilities of the new mobile phone technology can be explored. The problem is: 5G enables the fast transmission of large amounts of data, but…
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Title: Decentralized Machine Learning for Intelligent Health Care Systems on the Computing Continuum Authors: Dragi Kimovski, Sasko Ristov, Radu Prodan Abstract: The introduction of electronic personal health records (EHR) enables nationwide…
Alexander Lercher's Master Thesis titled 'Context-aware Community Evolution Prediction in Distributed Social Networks' under the supervision of Prof. Radu Prodan at ITEC has been awarded outstanding academic thesis and a grant of 600 Euros in…
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DataCloud project partners met at KTH Kista (Stockholm) to discuss the domain-specific language and the architecture for specifying and running Big Data pipelines. https://twitter.com/RaduProdanAAU/status/1461352859920785418/photo/1
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Title: Autotuning of exascale applications with anomalies detection Authors: Dragi Kimovski, Roland Mathá, Gabriel Iuhasz, Fabrizio Marozzo, Dana Petcu, Radu Prodan Abstract: The execution of complex distributed applications in exascale…
Congratulations to Negin Ghamsarian et al., who got their paper "ReCal-Net: Joint Region-Channel-Wise Calibrated Network for Semantic Segmentation in Cataract Surgery Videos" accepted at the International Conference on Neural Information Processing…
On 10 September 2021, ADAPT project was represented at the GOODIT´21 conference in Rome, Italy by Vladislav Kashanskii. Here you find his presentation about "The ADAPT Project: Adaptive and Autonomous Data Performance Connectivity and Decentralized…
The project "Kärntner Fog" has been accepted in the BRIDGE funding call of FFG. Abstract: Kärntner Fog aims to contribute with advanced technologies for the distributed optimized provisioning and operation of 5G applications in Austria.…
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The manuscript “Mobility-Aware IoT Application Placement in the Cloud — Edge Continuum” has been accepted for publication in the A* (IF: 5.823) Journal – IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC). Autors: Dragi Kimovski, Narges…
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  Authors: Shajulin Benedict, Prateek Agrawal, Radu Prodan Link: Advanced Informatics for Computing Research, CCIS-Springer, 4th ICAICR 2020, Vol. 1393 Abstract: The push for agile pandemic analytic solutions has attained development-stage…
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Authors: Nikita Karandikar, Rockey Abhishek, Nishant Saurabh, Zhiming Zhao, Alexander Lercher, Ninoslav Marina, Radu Prodan, Chunming Rong, Antorweep Chakravorty DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcra.2021.100016 Abstract: Peak mitigation…
Conference: https://escience2021.org/ Title: Where to Encode: A Performance Analysis of x86 and Arm-based Amazon EC2 Instances Authors: Roland Mathá, Dragi Kimovski, Anatoliy Zabrovskiy, Christian Timmerer and Radu Prodan Abstract:…
Title: Handover Authentication Latency Reduction using Mobile Edge Computing and Mobility Patterns Authors: Fatima Abdullah, Dragi Kimovski, Radu Prodan, and Kashif Munir Abstract: With the advancement in technology and the exponential…
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Authors:Yasir Noman Khalid, Muhammad Aleem, Usman Ahmed, Radu Prodan, Muhammad Arshad Islam & Muhammad Azhar Iqbal Abstract: Employing general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU) with the help of OpenCL has resulted in greatly reducing…
Title: "A Two-Sided Matching Model for Data Stream Processing in the Cloud-Fog Continuum" by: Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski and Radu Prodan, was virtually presented in the CCgrid2021 conference. We at @alpenadriauni are proud of Narges…
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Title: The ARTICONF Approach to Decentralised  Car-sharing  Authors: Nishant Saurabh (UNI-KLU), Carlos Rubia (Agilia), Anandakumar Palanisamy (BY), Spiros Koulouzis (UvA), Mirsat Sefidanoski (UIST), Antorweep Chakravorty (UiS), Zhiming…
The presentation has been accepted to the main-track of the Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting (ASHPC'21). Meeting will be organized in a hybrid format on 31 May – 2 June, 2021 at the Institute of Information Science in Maribor, Slovenia. Title:…
ADAPT started with the online Kickoff meeting, coordinated by Prof. Radu Prodan.
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Prof. Radu Prodan has been nominated as Management Committee (MC) Member CA19135 at COST (European Cooperation in Science & Technologie).
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Conference: 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science Title : DataCloud: Enabling the Big Data Pipelines on the Computing Continuum Authors: Dumitru Roman, Nikolay Nikolov, Brian Elvesæter, Ahmet Soylu,…
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Prof. Radu Prodan is a keynote speaker at Memphis DATA 2021, 25th-26th March 2021. Talk Abstract: We live in a digital world estimated to host around 4 billion Internet users and 10 billion of mobile connections generating 2.5 billion billion…
Title: WELFake: Word Embedding over Linguistic Features for Fake News Detection Authors: Pawan Kumar Verma (Lovely Professional University, India | GLA University, India), Prateek Agrawal (University of Klagenfurt, Austria | Lovely Professional…
The full paper has been accepted to the main-track of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'21). Conference will be organized in a virtual format on 16-18 June, 2021. Title: Monte-Carlo Approach to the Computational…
The paper “Multilayer Resource-aware Partitioning for Fog Application Placement” has been accepted for publication at the 5th IEEE international conference on Fog and Edge computing 2021 (ICFEC 2021) , with an acceptance rate of 17% for…
The paper “A Two-Sided Matching Model for Data Stream Processing in the Cloud–Fog Continuum” has been accepted for publication at the 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021). Authors: Narges…
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The project "Kärntner Fog: A 5G-Enabled Fog Infrastructure for Automated Operation of Carinthia’s 5G Playground Application Use Cases" proposes a new infrastructure automation use case in the 5G Playground Carinthia (5GPG). Kärntner Fog…
The manuscript “Cloud, Fog or Edge: Where to Compute?” has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of IEEE Internet Computing. Authors: Dragi Kimovski, Roland Mathá, Josef Hammer, Narges Mehran, Hermann Hellwagner and Radu…
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IEEE/ACM 13th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) accepted the paper "Dynamic Multi-objective Scheduling of Microservices in the Cloud". Authors: Hamid Mohammadi Fard, Radu Prodan, Felix Wolf Abstract: For many…
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Prof. Radu Prodan is a keynote speaker at the 13th International Conference On The Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE), 13th-17th December 2020.
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Prof. Radu Prodan ist guest of honor at the 9th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications (SOFA), 27-29 Nov 2020, Arad, Romania. The title of his talk is "Distribute one Billion".
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The newspaper "Kronen Zeitung" published the article "IM KAMPF GEGEN CORONA: Universität Klagenfurt forscht mit den Chinesen" with Prof. Radu Prodan.
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The newspaper "Kleine Zeitung" published the article "Medizinische Schutzausrüstung: Neue IT-Lösung soll Menschenleben retten" with Prof. Radu Prodan.  
Authors: Dragi Kimovski, Dijana C. Bogatinoska, Narges Mehran, Aleksandar Karadimce, Natasha Paunkoska, Radu Prodan, Ninoslav Marina Abstract: The proliferation of smart sensing and computing devices, capable of collecting a vast amount of…
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This project started during the most critical phase of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe where the demand for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) from each country’s health care system has surpassed national stock amounts by far. Therefore,…
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The manuscript "Inter-host Orchestration Platform Architecture for Ultra-scale Cloud Applications" has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of IEEE Internet Computing. Authors: Sasko Ristov, Thomas Fahringer, Radu Prodan, Magdalena…
DataCloud provides a novel paradigm covering the complete lifecycle of managing Big Data pipelines through discovery, design, simulation, provisioning, deployment, and adaptation across the Computing Continuum. Big Data pipelines in DataCloud…
Authors: Prateek Agrawal (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Deepak Chaudhary (Lovely Professional University, India), Vishu Madaan (Lovely professional University, India), Anatoliy Zabrovskiy (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Radu Prodan…
The FOG just moved from the Lake Wörthersee to ITEC ;)! Lead researchers Dragi Kimovski, and Narges Mehran from Radu Prodan's Lab and Josef Hammer from Hermann Hellwagner's Lab setup UNI-KLU's first FOG infrastructure with 40 computing nodes…
Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Klagenfurt nominated Alexander Lercher from ITEC (Radu Prodan's group) for Best Performer Award owing to his outstanding performance in studies.  He will be conferred with this honor at a public…
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Elsevier's Journal of Information and Software Technology (INSOF) accepted the manuscript ''A Dynamic Evolutionary Multi-Objective Virtual Machine Placement Heuristic for Cloud Infrastructures''. Authors: Ennio Torre, Juan J. Durillo (Leibniz…
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The manuscript ''Expelliarmus: Semantic-Centric Virtual Machine Image Management in IaaS Clouds'' is accepted for publication at the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-computing). Authors:…
Authors: Anandhakumar Palanisamy, Mirsat Sefidanoski, Spiros Koulouzis, Carlos Rubia, Nishant Saurabh and Radu Prodan Abstract: Social media applications are essential for next generation connectivity. Today, social media are centralized…
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The IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) paper "Simplified Workflow Simulation on Clouds based on Computation and Communication Noisiness", published by Roland Mathá and Prof. Radu Prodan et al. got awarded the Code…
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The manuscript “The Workflow Trace Archive: Open-Access Data from Public and Private Computing Infrastructures” has been accepted for publication in the A* ranked IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) journal. Authors:…
The first review of the ASPIDE project took place on 25.02.2020 in the premises of the European Commission in Luxemburg. During the project review, a live demo of the platform for supporting extreme scale applications was presented and future…
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The ITEC team participated in the HiPeac 2020 International Workshop on Exascale programing models for extreme data with a presentation with title “Monitoring data collection and mining for Exascale systems”. The ITEC team also attended…
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Title of the talk: Mobility-Aware Scheduling of Extreme Data Workflows across the Computing Continuum Abstract: The appearance of the Fog/Edge computing paradigm, as an emanation of the computing continuum closer to the edge of the network,…
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The manuscript “Simplified Workflow Simulation on Clouds based on Computation and Communication Noisiness” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems journal (TPDS) with an impact factor…
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The manuscript “Multi-objective scheduling of extreme data scientific workflows in Fog” has been accepted for publication in the “Future Generation Computer Systems” journal published by Elsevier. The journal is ranked in the Q1 (SJR)…
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Narges Mehran presented the paper  “MAPO: A Multi-Objective Model for IoT Application Placement in a Fog Environment” at the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things, IoT 2019 in Bilbao, Spain (October 22-25, 2019). Authors: Narges…
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Prof. Radu Prodan participated at the PhD examination of Dr. Yang Hu and Dr. Huan Zhou at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. With: Prof. Peter van Emde Boas, Prof. Cees de Laat, Prof. Henri E. Bal, Dr. Paola Grosso, Dr. Zhiming Zhao,…
Read more about the High level Symposium. https://twitter.com/RaduProdanAAU/status/1181861996012158976
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The Klagenfurt University hosted the first ASPIDE technical meeting (30th September - 2nd October), which aims on designing scalable software solutions for exascale computing.
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Trust, privacy, control and what else ! Lets hear to ARTICONF consortium as what transpires them to build Next Generation Social Media Ecosystem with novel set of trustworthy, resilient, globally sustainable and decentralized data-driven se…
The papers titled, ‘ARTICONF: Towards a Smart Social Media Ecosystem in a Blockchain Federated Environment’ , and ‘A Semantic Model with Self-Adaptive and Autonomous Relevant Technology for Social Media Applications’ presented at…
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Radu Prodan is program chair at the seventeenth international workshop on algorithms, models and tools for parallel computing on Heterogeneous Platforms (HeteroPar'2019), collocated at Euro-Par 2019, August 27, 2019.
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The paper “A Container-driven Approach for Resource Provisioning in Edge-Fog Cloud” has been accepted for publication at the 5th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2019 to be held at Munich, Germany…
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The paper “Dynamic Multi-Objective Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers” has been accepted for publication at the Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2019 to be held at Chalkidiki, Greece…
The paper “MAPO: A Multi-Objective Model for IoT Application Placement in a Fog Environment” has been accepted for publication at the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things, IoT 2019 to be held at Bilbao, Spain (October 22-25,…
Prof. Radu Prodan and Dr. Dragi Kimovski participated in the ASPIDE meeting.
The papers titled, 'ARTICONF: Towards a Smart Social Media Ecosystem in a Blockchain Federated Environment' , and 'A Semantic Model with Self-Adaptive and Autonomous Relevant Technology for Social Media Applications' are accepted at Seventh…
Prof. Radu Prodan coordinated EU H2020 Project ARTICONF team met at Stavanger and held technical cum plenary discussions between June 4th to June 7th 2019 with a goal to present some exciting development towards next generation social media…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan is the Program Chair for ISPDC 2019, the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, to be held at Amsterdam (Netherlands).
The prestigious 33rd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2019 held at Rio de Janerio, Brazil (May 20-24 2019) found representation from ITEC department at UNI-KLU in a number of activities including paper…
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Link to the Journal of Grid Computing special issue.
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Pictures from the Rigorosum with Prof. Thomas Fahringer and Prof. Justus Piater.
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Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Radu Prodan has been invited to be a part of panel discussion on emerging Blockchain and Edge computing technology and paradigms at PAISE (Parallel AI and Systems for the Edge), collocated workshop at the prestigious 33rd…
Nishant Saurabh
The paper “Semantics-aware Virtual Machine Image Management in IaaS Clouds” has been accepted for publication at 33rd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium , IPDPS 2019 to be held at Rio de Janerio, Brazil (May…
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The poster “Towards a semantic-centric VMI repository management” has been accepted for presentation at PhD forum event of 33rd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2019 to be held at Rio de Janerio,…
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Prof. Radu Prodan visited the Indian Institute of Technology Kottayam.
Prof. Radu Prodan coordinated EU H2020 Horizon project - ARTICONF (smART socIal media eCOsystem in a blockchaiN Federated environment) held its first kick-off meeting at Klagenfurt from January 8th - 10th 2019. The ARTICONF team comprising…
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From October 13-22, 2018 Prof. Radu Prodan visited Chandigarh University and Lovely Professional University in India for interaction with research scholars and discussions about the common research projects.  
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Prof. Radu Prodan and Dr. Dragi Kimovski participate at "The 1st ACM SIGOPS Summer School on Advanced Topics in Systems" where with many proeminent speakers in the area of distributed systenms. They will also present a poster on their work on…
The H2020 FET-HPC project ASPIDE started with the Kickoff meeting at the University Carlos III in Madrid. Follow our progress on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Dr. Muhammad Aleem  from the Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, visits ITEC@AAU for a period of two months, invited by Prof. Radu Prodan. They will jointly investigate novel programming paradigms, APIs, runtime…
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Prof. Radu Prodan together with Prof. Dr. Eng. Florin Pop and Dr. Gabriel Antoniu published an editorial on “RM-BDP: Resource management for Big Data platforms” in Future Generation Computer Systems (Volume 86, September 2018, Pages 961-963). Abstract: Nowadays,…
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Nishant Saurabh, as a representative of Prof. Radu Prodan from ITEC@AAU visited Thapar University, Patiala, Punjub, India for ongoing and prospective  future  research collaborations with Prof. Neeraj Kumar and his team. Prof. Neeraj Kumar…
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Prof. Radu Prodan gives an invited presentation on "Multi-Objective Workflow Scheduling on Clouds" at the Workshop on Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems organised at the ISC High-Performance 2018 Conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
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ITEC is delighted to announce the next speaker in our guest lecture series - it will be Prof. Jorge Barbosa from Universidade do Porto, Portugal. The course will take place from November 8-10 and November 22-24, 2018. The objective of this…
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Radu Prodan participates in the Inauguration Seminar Talks and presents "Massively Multiplayer Online Games on Large-scale Systems".
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Prof. Radu Prodan together with Prof. Vlado Stankovski from the University of Ljubljana published a special issue on "Storage for the Big Data Era" in the Journal of Grid Computing.
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Radu Prodan's paper in Journal of Supercomputing ("E-OSched: a load balancing scheduler for heterogeneous multicores") is online now and can be accessed from the following URLs: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11227-018-2435-1
Prof. Kashif Munir from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan, visits ITEC@AAU for a period of two months, invited by Prof. Radu Prodan. They will jointly investigate novel architectures and networking…
Dr. Dragi Kimovski presented his work on "Adaptive Nature-inspired Fog Architecture" at the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2018).
Prof. Jorge Barbosa from the University of Porto visited ITEC@AAU for a period of 10 days to conduct joint research in the area of virtualisation technologies and scheduling in Cloud computing.
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Prof. Radu Prodan participated at the program committee meeting of "The 27th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing" (an A*-class conference) organised at Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory in Berkley,…
Prof. Neeraj Kumar and three other researchers from the Thapar University, Patiala, Punjub, India, visited ITEC@AAU for a period of 10 days. They research together with Prof. Radu Prodan a "QoS-aware Energy Management Scheme for Self-Sustainable…
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Prof. Radu Prodan participated at the final meeting of the "Network for Ultra-scale Computing (NESUS)" COST action, where he was co-leader of the "State of the art and continuous learning in Ultra Scale Computing Systems" working group. He participated…
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Prof. Radu Prodan and Dr. Dragi Kimovski participated at the final review of the H2020 project "ENTICE: Decentralised Repositories for Transparent and Efficient Virtual Machine Operations", coordinated by their previous affiation, the University…
Narges Mehran officially joined Radu Prodan's team at ITEC@AAU
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Prof. Radu Prodan together with Prof. Vlado Stankovski from the University of Ljubljana edited a special issue on the modern topic of "Storage for the Big Data Era" in the Journal of Grid Computing.
Prof. Radu Prodan and his group of three researchers from the University of Innsbruck (Dr. Dragi Kimovski, Roland Mathá and Nishant Saubrauh) officially joined ITEC@AAU.
Prof. Radu Prodan acquired a new H2020 FET-HPC project called ASPIDE: exAScale ProgramIng models for extreme Data procEssing. The ASPIDE project will contribute with the definition of a new programming paradigms, APIs, runtime tools and methodologies…
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Prof. Radu Prodan together with the help of Prof. Hermann Hellwagner obtained aproval for transfering the FFG Bridge-1 project Tiroler Cloud "A federated energy‐aware Cloud for industrial, business, and scientific applications" from the University…
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Expelliarmus is a novel semantic-centric approach to VMI management system in IaaS Clouds that helps to
minimize storage, publish and retrieval overheads. It incorporates three complementary features:

  1. VMIs are modelled as semantic graphs to expedite the similarity computation between multiple VMIs.
  2. Semantic-aware VMI decomposition and base image selection to extract and store non-redundant base image and software packages.
  3. Assemble VMIs based on the required software packages upon user request.
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The research activity is focused on the optimized monitoring and measurement techniques purposely tuned for data-intensive
applications able to offer fine-granular performance statistics collection with controlled overhead at the exascale.
The underlying challenge consists in providing techniques for monitoring resource utilisation and instrumenting of the scalabale applications without causing large overheads in the instrumented system.

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The research activity is focused on the auto-tunable system design (mathematical models, algorithms), which effciently performs orchestration of the massive data-intensive processes of the exascale systems while keeping in consideration the set of constraints. The underlying challenge consists in selection of tunable parameters space, optimization objectives and strategies for optimized (static, dynamic) control.
The optimization space created by these tunable parameters will be used as the core for the online scheduler operation that possibly considers multiple conflicting goals such as execution time, energy
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Askalon is an Execution Engine, which supports workflow executions in:

  1. different Clouds (Amazon EC2, OpenStack, etc.)
  2. Cloud simulations (Groudsim), and
  3. Fog

As part of Askalon, a performance monitoring tool stores workflow execution traces in a PostgresSQL database.

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ARTICONF researches and develops a novel set of trustworthy, resilient, and globally sustainable decentralised
social media services. ARTICONF addresses issues of trust, time-criticality and democratisation for a new
generation of federated infrastructure, to fulfil the privacy, robustness, and autonomy related promises that
proprietary social media platforms have failed to deliver so far.

  • Prof. Radu Prodan

    Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Radu Prodan

    Full Professor & Deputy head of the department

  • Priv.-Doz. Dr. Dragi Kimovski, MSc

    Priv.-Dozent

  • Dr. Seyedehhaleh Seyeddizaji

    Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Dr. Samira Afzal

    Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Horvath

    University Assistant

  • Dipl.-Ing. Christian Bauer

    Project Assistant

  • Mario Taschwer

    Mag. Dr. Mario Taschwer

    System Administrator

  • Rudolf Messner

    System Administrator

  • Martina Steinbacher

    Martina Steinbacher

    Secretary

  • Margit Letter

    Margit Letter, BA

    Secretary

  • Anna Gliesche

    Secretary

  • Zoha Azimi Ourimi, MSc

    University and Project Assistant

  • Sebastian Uitz, MSc

    Project Assistant

  • Dr. Juan José Escobar Pérez

    Guest researcher

Prof. Radu Prodan

Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Radu Prodan

Full Professor & Deputy head of the department

Room: S.2.62

Projects: ARTICONF, ASPIDE, APOLLO, CodeAbility Austria, ASKALON

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Dragi Kimovski, MSc

Priv.-Dozent

Room: S.2.51

Projects: ASPIDE, DATACLOUD, 5G Kärntner Fog

Dr. Seyedehhaleh Seyeddizaji

Postdoctoral Researcher

Project: Graph-Massivizer

Room: S.2.55

Dr. Samira Afzal

Postdoctoral Researcher

Room: B12b.1.1.

Project: ATHENA, APOLLO2

Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Horvath

University Assistant

Project: Kärntner Fog

Room: S.2.51

Dipl.-Ing. Christian Bauer

Project Assistant

Room: B12b.1.1.

Projects: DataCloud, GAIA

Mario Taschwer

Mag. Dr. Mario Taschwer

System Administrator

Room: S.2.52

Projects: OVID

Rudolf Messner

System Administrator

Room: 2.41a

Martina Steinbacher

Martina Steinbacher

Secretary

Room: S.2.61

Projects: ARTICONF

Margit Letter

Margit Letter, BA

Secretary

Room: S.2.61

Anna Gliesche

Secretary

Room: S.2.52

Zoha Azimi Ourimi, MSc

University and Project Assistant

Room: S.2.55

Projects: GAIA, Graph-Massivizer

Sebastian Uitz, MSc

Project Assistant

Project: A Webbing Journey, Kärntner Fog, Virtual Reality for Healthy Youth

Room: S.2.48a

Dr. Juan José Escobar Pérez

Guest researcher

Room S.2.50

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Ongoing Projects

We actively participate in numerous international and national research projects, ranging from basic research to application-oriented projects and direct cooperation with industry, such as:

  • BABEG Kärntner Fog: A 5G-Enabled Fog Infrastructure for Automated Operation of Carinthia’s 5G Playground Application Use Cases (2021-2024)
  • ADAPT: ADaptive and Autonomous data Performance connectivity and decentralized Transport decision-making Network, FFG and CAS, 2021-2023
  • DataCloud: Enabling the Big Data Pipeline Lifecycle on the Computing Continuum, H2020, 2021-2023
  • ARTICONF: smART SocIal media eCOsytstems in a blockchaiN Federated environment, H2020-ICT-2018-2, 2019-2022.
  • ASPIDE: exAScale ProgramIng models for extreme Data processing, European Commission, H2020-FETHPC-2017, 2018 – 2020
  • APOLLO: Intelligent Video Platform “APOLLO”, FFG, 10/2019-09/2021
  • Code Ability: Digital unterstützte Programmierausbildung an österreichischen Universitäten, Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung (BMBWF), 01/2020 – 12/2024

Completed Projects

We gained our expertise due to actively participation in numerous international and national research projects, ranging from basic research to application-oriented projects and direct cooperation with industry, such as:

  • ENTICE: dEcentralized repositories for traNsparent and efficienT vIrtual maChine opErations, H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2015 – 2018
  • eRamp: Excellence in Speed and Reliability for More than Moore Technologies, ENIAC Joint Undertaking, 2014 – 2016
  • Tiroler Cloud: A federated Cloud for energy-aware resource provisioning for industrial and scientific applications, Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), 2015 – 2018.

Teaching

We teach basic lectures on distributed systems and compiler technology in bachelor and advanced Cloud, peer-to-peer, and parallel systems in the master program.

Carinthian Computing Continuum

The Carinthian Computing Continuum (C3) is a research laboratory and infrastructure provider in the field of Cloud, Fog and Edge computing. Our main research activities are focused towards exploring novel approaches for resources provisioning, infrastructure deployment and application scheduling across the Computing Continuum.