Mag. Dr. Georg Simhandl
1090 Wien
Courses
Summer term 2026
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052500 VU Distributed Systems Engineering
Winter term 2025
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052500 VU Distributed Systems Engineering
Summer term 2025
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052500 VU Distributed Systems Engineering
Publications
Understanding security tactics in microservice APIs using annotated software architecture decomposition models - A controlled experiment. / Genfer, Patric; Serbout, Souhaila; Simhandl, Georg et al.
In: Empirical Software Engineering: an international journal, Vol. 30, No. 3, 66, 06.2025.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
On the Understandability of Design-Level Security Practices in Infrastructure-as-Code Scripts and Deployment Architectures. / Ntentos, Evangelos; Hörner, Nicole Elisabeth; Simhandl, Georg et al.
In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 34, No. 1, 6, 21.01.2025, p. 1-37.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Cloud Programming Languages and Infrastructure From Code: An Empirical Study. / Simhandl, Georg; Zdun, Uwe.
SLE '24: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering: SPLASH 2024. ed. / Ralf Laemmel; Juliana Alves Pereira; Peter D. Mosses; Peter D. Mosses. ACM, 2024. p. 143-156.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Detection Strategies for Microservice Security Tactics. / Zdun, Uwe; Quéval, Pierre-Jean; Simhandl, Georg et al.
In: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 21, No. 3, 01.05.2024, p. 1257-1273.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
How Dataflow Diagrams Impact Software Security Analysis: an Empirical Experiment. / Schneider, Simon; Ferreyra, Nicolas E. Diaz; Quéval, Pierre-Jean et al.
IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) : Proceedings. IEEE, 2024. p. 952-963.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Microservice Security Metrics for Secure Communication, Identity Management, and Observability. / Zdun, Uwe; Quèval, Pierre-Jean; Simhandl, Georg et al.
In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 32, No. 1, 16, 13.02.2023, p. 1-34.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Developer's Cognitive Effort Maintaining Monoliths vs. Microservices - An Eye-Tracking Study. / Simhandl, Georg; Paulweber, Philipp; Zdun, Uwe.
2023 30th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC). IEEE, 2023.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
SoK: Security of Microservice Applications: A Practitioners? Perspective on Challenges and Best Practices. / Billawa, Priyanka; Tukaram, Anusha Bambhore; Ferreyra, Nicolas E. Diaz et al.
ARES '22: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022. p. 1-10 9.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Towards a Security Benchmark for the Architectural Design of Microservice Applications. / Tukaram, Anusha Bambhore; Schneider, Simon; Ferreyra, Nicolas E. Diaz et al.
ARES '22: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022. p. 1-7 116.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Specifying with Interface and Trait Abstractions in Abstract State Machines: A Controlled Experiment. / Paulweber, Philipp; Simhandl, Georg; Zdun, Uwe.
In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 30, No. 4, 47, 10.2021, p. 1-29.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
On the Understandability of Language Constructs to Structure the State and Behavior in Abstract State Machine Specifications: A Controlled Experiment. / Paulweber, Philipp; Simhandl, Georg; Zdun, Uwe.
In: Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 178, 110987, 08.2021.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
On the Practitioners' Understanding of Coupling Smells - A Grey Literature Based Grounded-Theory Study. / Singjai, Apitchaka; Simhandl, Georg; Zdun, Uwe.
In: Information and Software Technology, Vol. 134, 106539, 06.2021.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Impact of Service- and Cloud-Based Dynamic Routing Architectures on System Reliability. / Amiri, Amirali; Zdun, Uwe; Simhandl, Georg et al.
Service-Oriented Computing - 18th International Conference, ICSOC 2020, Proceedings: 18th International Conference, ICSOC 2020, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 14–17, 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Eleanna Kafeza; Boualem Benatallah; Fabio Martinelli; Hakim Hacid; Athman Bouguettaya; Hamid Motahari. Springer, 2020. p. 165-174 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 12571).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Design of an Executable Specification Language Using Eye Tracking. / Simhandl, Georg; Paulweber, Philipp; Zdun, Uwe.
Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM 6th International Workshop on Eye Movements in Programming, EMIP 2019. IEEE, 2019. p. 37-40.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Past and future of software architectures for context-aware systems: A systematic mapping study. / Roda, Christina; Navarro, Elena; Zdun, Uwe et al.
In: Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 146, 12.2018, p. 310-355.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Projects
IAC2: Infrastructure-as-code Architecture Decision Compliance
Zdun, U. (Project Lead), Ntentos, E. (Scientific Project Staff), Simhandl, G. (Scientific Project Staff), Quéval, P.-J. (Scientific Project Staff) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/12/20 → 30/11/23
Project: Research funding
AssureMOSS: Assurance and certification in secure Multi-party Open Software and Services
Zdun, U. (Project Lead), Simhandl, G. (Scientific Project Staff), Quéval, P.-J. (Scientific Project Staff) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/10/20 → 30/09/23
Project: Research funding
API-ACE: Analytics-centric Continuous Design of Microservice APIs
Zdun, U. (Project Lead), Genfer, P. (Scientific Project Staff), Hörner, N. E. (Scientific Project Staff), El Malki, A. (Scientific Project Staff), Simhandl, G. (Scientific Project Staff) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/01/20 → 31/12/23
Project: Research funding
ADDCompliance: Ensuring Compliance of Architectural Design Decisions and Implementations
Zdun, U. (Project Lead), Ntentos, E. (Scientific Project Staff), Amiri, A. (Scientific Project Staff), Simhandl, G. (Scientific Project Staff) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/04/17 → 31/10/20
Project: Research funding
Talks
Cloud Programming Languages and Infrastructure From Code: An Empirical Study
Simhandl, G. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Developer's Cognitive Effort Maintaining Monoliths vs. Microservices - An Eye-Tracking Study
Simhandl, G. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Design of an Executable Specification Language Using Eye Tracking
Simhandl, G. (Speaker), Paulweber, P. (Speaker) & Zdun, U. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science