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Univ. Prof. Dr. Ivona Brandić Head of the Research Group on High Performance Computing Systems Institute of Information Systems Engineering TU Wien address: Favoritenstr. 9-11 2nd floor Room Nr. HE0224 1040 Vienna Austria email: ivona[at]ec.tuwien.ac.at phone: +43 (1) 58801 188761 department secretary: +43 (1) 58801 18808 fax: +43 (1) 58801 18899 consultation hour: e-mail appointment

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Research Activities

• Trustworthy and sustainable Edge/Cloud systems
• Near real time data analytics
• Virtualized HPC systems
• Massive-scale data analytics
• Energy efficient ultrascale distributed systems
• Hybrid Systems (Classic/Quantum)
• Cloud, Web and workflow Quality of Service (QoS)

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Recent publications

• Meerzhan Kanatbekova, Shashikant Ilager, Ivona Brandic. ABBA-VSM: Time Series Classification using Symbolic Representation on the Edge. ICSOC 2024: International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing Tunis, Tunisia, December 3-6, 2024.
• Xiaoyu Chu, Daniel Hofstatter, Shashikant Ilager, Sacheendra Talluri, Duncan Kampert, Damian Podareanu, Dmitry Duplyakin, Ivona Brandic, Alexandru Iosup. Generic and ML Workloads in an HPC Datacenter: Node Energy, Job Failures, and Node-Job Analysis. The 30th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2024), held October 10 - 14th, in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Sabrina Herbst, Vincenzo de Maio, Ivona Brandic. On Optimizing Hyperparameters for Quantum Neural Networks. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE24), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 15-20, 2024. (to appear)
• Vincenzo De Maio, Dominik Bork and Ivona Brandic. RIGOLETTO: A Workflow Definition Language for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Scientific Applications. 26th IEEE Int'l Conference on Business Informatics (CBI) 2024. (to appear)
• Auday Al-Dulaimy, Matthijs Jansen, Bjarne Johansson, Animesh Trivedi, Alexandru Iosup, Mohammad Ashjaei, Antonino Galletta, Dragi Kimovski, Radu Prodan, Konstantinos Tserpes, George Kousiouris, Chris Giannakos, Ivona Brandic, Nawfal Ali, Andre B. Bondi, Alessandro V. Papadopoulos. The Computing Continuum: From IoT to the Cloud. Internet of Things, Springer. (to appear)
• Shashikant Ilager, Daniel Balouek, Sidi Mohammed Kaddour, Ivona Brandic. Proteus: Towards Intent-driven Automated Resource Management Framework for Edge Sensor Nodes. 14th Workshop on AI and Scientific Computing at Scale using Flexible Computing Infrastructures (FlexScience 2024), in conjunction with HPDC 2024, Pisa, Italy, June 3-4, 2024.
• Sandeep Suresh Cranganore, Vincenzo De Maio, Ivona Brandic, Ewa Deelman. Paving the Way to Hybrid Quantum-Classical Scientific Workflows. Future Generation Computer Systems (to appear).
• Alessio Catalfamo, Atakan Aral, Ivona Brandic, Ewa Deelman, and Massimo Villari. Machine Learning Workflows in the Computing Continuum for Environmental Monitoring. 24th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), 2-4 July 2024, Malaga, Spain.
• Paul Joe Maliakel, Shashikant Ilager, Ivona Brandic. FLIGAN: Enhancing Federated Learning with Incomplete Data Using GAN. 7th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys 2024), in conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2024, Athens, Greece, 22nd April 2024.
• Vincenzo De Maio, Meerzhan Kanatbekova, Felix Zilk, Nicolai Friis, Tobias Guggemos, and Ivona Brandic. Training Computer Scientists for the Challenges of Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing. The 24th IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing. Philadelphia, May 6-9, 2024. (to appear).
• Shashikant Ilager, Adel N. Toosi, Mayank Raj Jha, Ivona Brandic, Rajkumar Buyya. A Data-driven Analysis of a Cloud Data Center: Statistical Characterization of Workload, Energy and Temperature. The 16th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2023). Taormina (Messina), Italy, 4-7 December 2023 (to appear). best paper award
• Sabtain Ahmad, Halit Uyanık, Tolga Ovatman, Mehmet Tahir Sandıkkaya, Vincenzo De Maio, Ivona Brandic, Atakan Aral. Sustainable Environmental Monitoring via Energy and Information Efficient Multi-Node Placement. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (accepted, to appear).
• Alessandro Tundo, Marco Mobilio, Shashikant Ilager, Ivona Brandic, Ezio Bartocci, Leonardo Mariani. An Energy-Aware Approach to Design Self-Adaptive AI-based Applications on the Edge. 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE2023), Sep 11, 2023 - Sep 15, 2023, Luxembourg.
• Sabrina Herbst, Vincenzo de Maio, Ivona Brandic. Streaming IoT Data and the Quantum Edge: A Classic/Quantum Machine Learning Use Case. International Workshop on Urgent Analytics for Distributed Computing, August 28/29 2023, Limassol, Cyprus (collocated with Euro-Par 2023).
• Shashikant Ilager, Vincenzo De Maio, Ivan Lujic, Ivona Brandic. Data-centric Edge-AI: A Symbolic Representation Use Case. IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Edge Computing and Communications (iEDGE), July 6-7, 2023, Chicago, USA.
• Daniel Hofstätter, Shashikant Ilager, Ivan Lujic, Ivona Brandic. SymED: Adaptive and Online Symbolic Representation of Data on the Edge. 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, 28 August - 1 September 2023 Limassol, Cyprus. Chair's appreciation award for junior researcher
• Vincenzo De Maio, Ivona Brandic. Accelerating Scientific Applications with the Quantum Edge: a Drug Design Use Case. Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC), held in conjunction with ISC-High Performance, May 21-25, 2023, Hamburg, Germany
• Daniel Luger, Atakan Aral, Ivona Brandic. Cost-Aware Neural Network Splitting and Dynamic Rescheduling for Edge Intelligence. EdgeSys 2023, in conjunction with EuroSys 2023 Rome, Italy, May 8th-12th 2023.
• Vincenzo De Maio, David Bermbach and Ivona Brandic. TAROT: Spatio-Temporal Function Placement for Serverless Smart City Applications. 15th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC2022) December 6-9, 2022 - Portland, Oregon, USA, (accepted)
• Shashikant Ilager, Jakob Fahringer, Samuel Carlos de Lima Dias and Ivona Brandic. DEMon: Decentralized Monitoring for Highly Volatile Edge Environments. 15th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC2022) December 6-9, 2022 - Portland, Oregon, USA, (accepted).
• Sandeep Suresh Cranganore, Vincenzo De Maio, Ivona Brandic, Tu Mai Anh Do, Ewa Deelman. Molecular Dynamics Workflow Decomposition for Hybrid Classic/Quantum Systems. IEEE eScience 2022, October 11-14, 2022 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. (to appear). preprint
• Vincenzo de Maio, Atakan Aral, and Ivona Brandić. A Roadmap To Post-Moore Era for Distributed Systems. ApPLIED Workshop Advanced tools, programming languages, and PLatforms for Implementing and Evaluating algorithms for Distributed systems, Held in conjunction with PODC-2022, Salerno, Italy, on July 25, 2022, to appear. preprint
• Ivona Brandic. Data Science Driven Methods for Sustainable and Failure Tolerant Edge Systems, In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE '22), 1, 2022. doi
• Josip Žilić, Vincenzo de Maio, Atakan Aral, and Ivona Brandić. Edge Offloading for Microservice Architectures. EdgeSys 2022, to appear. preprint
• Sukhpal Singh Gill, Minxian Xu, Carlo Ottaviani, Panos Patros, Rami Bahsoon, Arash Shaghaghi, Muhammed Golec, Vlado Stankovski, Huaming Wu, Ajith Abraham, Manmeet Singh, Harshit Mehta, Soumya K. Ghosh, Thar Baker, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Hanan Lutfiyya, Salil S. Kanhere, Rizos Sakellariou, Schahram Dustdar, Omer Rana, Ivona Brandic, Steve Uhlig. AI for next generation computing: Emerging trends and future directions, Internet of Things, March 2022, doi
• Klervie Toczé, Norbert Schmitt, Ulf Kargén, Atakan Aral and Ivona Brandić. Edge Workload Trace Gathering and Analysis for Benchmarking. 6th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2022), preprint.
• Hao Zhou, Atakan Aral, Ivona Brandic, Melike Erol-Kantarci. Multi-agent Bayesian Deep Reinforcement Learning for Microgrid Energy Management under Communication Failures, IEEE Internet of Things Journal. to appear. preprint
• David Bermbach, Abhishek Chandra, Chandra Krintz, Aniruddha Gokhale, Aleksander Slominski, Lauritz Thamsen, Everton Cavalcante, Tian Guo, Ivona Brandic, Rich Wolski. On the Future of Cloud Engineering. In: Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2021). IEEE 2021. Bib. PDF. (invited paper)
• Ivona Brandic. Sustainable and Trustworthy Edge Machine Learning. IEEE Internet Comput. 25(5): 5-9 (2021)
• Ivan Lujic, Vincenzo De Maio, Srikumar Venugopal and Ivona Brandic. SEA-LEAP: Self-adaptive and Locality-aware Edge Analytics Placement, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (to appear). preprint
• Ivan Lujic,Vincenzo de Maio,Klaus Pollhammer,Ivan Bodrozic,Josip Lasic, and Ivona Brandic. Increasing traffic safety with real-time edge analytics and 5G. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking, 2021. preprint
• Vincenzo de Maio, Atakan Aral, Ivona Brandic. ARES: Reliable and Sustainable Edge Provisioning for Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, to appear, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2021.3049850
• Atakan Aral and Ivona Brandic. Learning Spatiotemporal Failure Dependencies for Resilient Edge Computing Services. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems preprint, (to appear) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2020.3046188
• Drazen Lucanin, Ilia Pietri, Simon Holmbacka, Ivona Brandic, Johan Lilius and Rizos Sakellariou. Performance-Based Pricing in Multi-Core Geo-Distributed Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (Volume: 8, Issue: 4, Oct.-Dec. 1 2020) DOI.
• Atakan Aral, Melike Erol-Kantarci and Ivona Brandic, Staleness Control for Edge Data Analytics, (1) ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; (2) Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, vol. 4, no. 2, article 38, June 2020.
• Atakan Aral, Melike Erol-Kantarci, Ivona Brandic: Staleness Control for Edge Data Analytics. SIGMETRICS (Abstracts) 2020: 19-20