Univ.-Prof. Dr. Uwe Zdun
1090 Wien
Room : 5.29
Courses
Winter term 2026
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051050 VU Software Engineering 2
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053020 VU Advanced Software Engineering
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053021 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 1
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053031 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 2
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053049 SE Master Seminar
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500502 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Models and Systems
Summer term 2026
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053020 VU Advanced Software Engineering
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053021 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 1
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053031 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 2
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053049 SE Master Seminar
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500502 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Models and Systems
Winter term 2025
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051050 VU Software Engineering 2
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053020 VU Advanced Software Engineering
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053021 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 1
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053031 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 2
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053049 SE Master Seminar
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500502 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Models and Systems
Publications
Analytical Modeling and Empirical Validation of Performability of Service- and Cloud-Based Dynamic Routing Architecture Patterns. / Amiri, Amirali; Zdun, Uwe; Hoorn, André van.
2023 30th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC). IEEE, 2023.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Architectural Design Decisions for Data Communication of Cyber-Physical Systems. / Amiri, Amirali; Ntentos, Evangelos; Zdun, Uwe.
2023 30th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC). IEEE, 2023.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Compliance Management of IaC-Based Cloud Deployments During Runtime. / Falazi, Ghareeb; Harzenetter, Lukas; Képes, Kálmán et al.
2023 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC). 2023.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › 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
Stateful Depletion and Scheduling of Containers on Cloud Nodes for Efficient Resource Usage. / Amiri, Amirali; Zdun, Uwe; Plakidas, Konstantinos.
IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS). 2022.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Modeling and Empirical Validation of Reliability and Performance Trade-Offs of Dynamic Routing in Service- and Cloud-Based Architectures. / Amiri, Amirali; Zdun, Uwe; Hoorn, André van.
In: IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Vol. 15, No. 6, 01.11.2022, p. 3372-3386.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models. / Singjai, Apitchaka; Zdun, Uwe.
In: Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 193, 111433, 11.2022.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Assessing Architecture Conformance to Coupling-Related Infrastructure-as-Code Best Practices: Metrics and Case Studies. / Ntentos, Evangelos; Zdun, Uwe; Soldani, Jacopo et al.
16th European Conference, ECSA 2022, Prague, Czech Republic, September 19–23, 2022, Proceedings. Springer, 2022. p. 101-116.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Avoiding Excessive Data Exposure Through Microservice APIs. / Genfer, Patric; Zdun, Uwe.
16th European Conference, ECSA 2022, Prague, Czech Republic, September 19–23, 2022, Proceedings. Cham: Springer, 2022. p. 3-18 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 13444).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Cost-Aware Multidimensional Auto-Scaling of Service- and Cloud-Based Dynamic Routing to Prevent System Overload. / Amiri, Amirali; Zdun, Uwe; Hoorn, André van et al.
Proceedings 2022 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2022). ed. / Claudio Agostino Ardagna; Nimanthi Atukorala; Boualem Benatallah; Athman Bouguettaya; Fabio Casati; Carl K. Chang; Rong N. Chang; Ernesto Damiani; Chirine Ghedira Guegan; Robert Ward; Fatos Xhafa; Xiaofei Xu; Jia Zhang. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2022. p. 379-384.
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
Assessing Architecture Conformance to Security-Related Practices in Infrastructure as Code Based Deployments. / Ntentos, Evangelos; Zdun, Uwe; Falazi, Ghareeb et al.
Proceedings 2022 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2022). ed. / Claudio Agostino Ardagna; Hongyi Bian; Carl K. Chang; Rong N. Chang; Ernesto Damiani; Schahram Dustdar; Jordi Marco; Munindar Singh; Ernest Teniente; Robert Ward; Zhongjie Wang; Fatos Xhafa; Jia Zhang. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2022. p. 123-133 (Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Services Computing).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Architectural Design Decisions for the Machine Learning Workflow. / Warnett, Stephen J.; Zdun, Uwe.
In: Computer, Vol. 55, No. 3, 01.03.2022, p. 40-51.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Conformance Assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on the Mapping of Domain Model Elements to APIs and API Endpoints. / Singjai, Apitchaka; Zdun, Uwe.
2022 IEEE 19th International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), Honolulu, HI, USA. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2022. p. 76-83.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
On Unifying the Compliance Management of Applications Based on IaC Automation. / Falazi, Ghareeb; Breitenbücher, Uwe; Leymann, Frank et al.
2022 IEEE 19th International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), Honolulu, HI, USA. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2022. p. 226-229.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
API Description-Based Conformance Assessment of Architectural Design Decision. / Singjai, Apitchaka; Zdun, Uwe.
Proceedings 16th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE2022). IEEE, 2022. p. 59-68.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Architectural Design Decisions for Machine Learning Deployment. / Warnett, Stephen J.; Zdun, Uwe.
2022 IEEE 19th International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), Honolulu, HI, USA. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2022. p. 90-100.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
How Composable is the Web? An Empirical Study on OpenAPI Data model Compatibility. / Serbout, Souhaila; Pautasso, Cesare; Zdun, Uwe.
2022 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Barcelona, Spain. ed. / Claudio Agostino Ardagna; Nimanthi Atukorala; Boualem Benatallah; Athman Bouguettaya; Fabio Casati; Carl K. Chang; Rong N. Chang; Ernesto Damiani; Chirine Ghedira Guegan; Robert Ward; Fatos Xhafa; Xiaofei Xu; Jia Zhang. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2022. p. 415-424.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Impact of API Rate Limit on Reliability of Microservices-Based Architectures. / El Malki, Amine; Zdun, Uwe; Pautasso, Cesare.
Proceedings 16th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE2022). IEEE, 2022. p. 19-28.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Patterns for API Design - Simplifying Integration with Loosely Coupled Message Exchanges. / Zimmermann, Olaf; Stocker, Mirko; Lübke, Daniel et al.
Boston: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2022.
Publications: Book
Projects
DeVulnIX: Design-Level Vulnerabilities Identification and Fixing
Zdun, U. (Project Lead) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/09/26 → 31/08/29
Project: Research funding
BEAM: Bridging SW Engineering, MLOps, and Operational Agents: Foundations for Agentic AI in Cyber-Physical Systems
Zdun, U. (Project Lead), Warnett, S. J. (Scientific Project Staff) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/04/26 → 31/03/29
Project: Research cooperation
CQ4CD: Continuous Quality Control for Continuous Delivery
Zdun, U. (Co-Lead), Hoorn, A. V. (Co-Lead), Urdih, F. (Scientific Project Staff), Theodoropoulos, T. (Scientific Project Staff) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/10/24 → 30/09/27
Project: Research funding
MODIS: MLOps for Distributed Intelligent Cyber-physical Systems
Zdun, U. (Project Lead), Ntentos, E. (Scientific Project Staff), Warnett, S. J. (Scientific Project Staff), Fang, Z. (Scientific Project Staff), Chowdhary, D. (Scientific Project Staff), Urdih, F. (Scientific Project Staff), Amiri, A. (Scientific Project Staff) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/01/23 → 31/12/25
Project: Research cooperation
AG4CPS: Architecture Guidance System for CPS
Zdun, U. (Project Lead), Amiri, A. (Scientific Project Staff), Ntentos, E. (Scientific Project Staff) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/02/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Contract research
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
AMMONIS: Adaptive Multi-Modale Netzwerkerkennung zur Informationssichtung
Zdun, U. (Project Lead), Warnett, S. J. (Scientific Project Staff), Wöhrer, A. M. (Scientific Project Staff) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/11/20 → 31/10/22
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
DECO: Foundations of DevOps and Continuous Delivery for Software Ecosystems
Zdun, U. (Project Lead), Ntentos, E. (Scientific Project Staff), Plakidas, K. (Scientific Project Staff) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/04/18 → 31/03/21
Project: Research cooperation
AD4SE IV: Definition der systematischen Methodologie für Architektur- und Designentscheidungen bei der Entwicklung von Software Ökosystemen IV
Zdun, U. (Project Lead) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/08/17 → 31/07/18
Project: Contract research
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
Field Force 3
Zdun, U. (Project Lead) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
25/07/16 → 31/10/16
Project: Contract research
AD4SE III: Definition der systematischen Methodologie für Architektur- und Designentscheidungen bei der Entwicklung von Software Ökosystemen III
Zdun, U. (Project Lead) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/07/16 → 30/06/17
Project: Contract research
AD4SE II: Definition der systematischen Methodologie für Architektur- und Designentscheidungen bei der Entwicklung von Software Ökosystemen II
Zdun, U. (Project Lead) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
15/04/15 → 30/06/16
Project: Contract research
Field Force 2
Zdun, U. (Project Lead) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
15/12/14 → 24/07/16
Project: Contract research
AD4SE: Definition der systematischen Methodologie für Architektur- und Designentscheidungen bei der Entwicklung von Software Ökosystemen
Zdun, U. (Project Lead) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/05/14 → 28/02/15
Project: Contract research
CACAO: Consistency Checking, Recommendations, And Visual Modeling For Ad Hoc Changes By Knowledge Workers In Adaptive Case Management
Zdun, U. (Project Lead) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/03/14 → 31/05/17
Project: Research funding
Field Force
Zdun, U. (Project Lead) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
8/11/13 → 31/12/14
Project: Contract research
CONTAINER: Supporting Containment Checking for UML Behaviour Diagrams
Zdun, U. (Project Lead) & Ennsberger, S. (Admin)
1/01/13 → 31/01/17
Project: Research funding
Talks
Conformance Assessment and Detection Strategies in Continuously Delivered Microservice Architectures
Zdun, U. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
API Rate Limit Adoption – A pattern collection
Zdun, U. (Speaker) & Serbout, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Guiding Architectural Decision Making on Service Mesh Based Microservice Architectures
El Malki, A. (Speaker) & Zdun, U. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Supporting Architectural Decision Making on Data Management in Microservice Architectures
Ntentos, E. (Speaker), Zdun, U. (Contributor), Plakidas, K. (Contributor), Schall, D. (Contributor), Li, F. (Contributor) & Meixner, S. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Dynamic Data Routing Decisions for Compliant Data Handling in Service- and Cloud-Based Architectures: A Performance Analysis
Amiri, A. (Speaker), Krieger, C. (Contributor), Zdun, U. (Contributor) & Leymann, F. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
On the Design and Architecture of Deployment Pipelines in Cloud and Service Based Computing - A Model-Based Qualitative Study
Plakidas, K. (Speaker), Zdun, U. (Contributor), Ntentos, E. (Contributor), El Malki, A. (Contributor), Schall, D. (Contributor) & Li, F. (Contributor)
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
Architecting for Frequent Release
Zdun, U. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Interface Evolution Patterns — Balancing Compatibility and Flexibility across Microservices Lifecycles
Lübke, D. (Contributor), Zimmermann, O. (Contributor), Pautasso, C. (Contributor), Zdun, U. (Speaker) & Stocker, M. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Model-Based Support for Decision-Making in Architecture Evolution of Complex Software Systems
Plakidas, K. (Speaker), Zdun, U. (Contributor) & Schall, D. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Software Migration and Architecture Evolution with Industrial Platforms: A Multi-Case Study
Zdun, U. (Speaker), Plakidas, K. (Contributor) & Schall, D. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Design Patterns for Smart Contracts in the Ethereum Ecosystem
Wöhrer, A. M. (Speaker) & Zdun, U. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
A Pattern Language for Manual Analysis of Runtime Events Using Design Models
Zdun, U. (Speaker) & Szvetits, M. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Interface Quality Patterns — Communicating and Improving the Quality of Microservices APIs
Zdun, U. (Speaker), Stocker, M. (Contributor), Zimmermann, O. (Contributor), Lübke, D. (Contributor) & Pautasso, C. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The Changing Role of Software Architecting in the Digital Age
Zdun, U. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
CASM-IR: Uniform ASM-Based Intermediate Representation for Model Specification, Execution, and Transformation
Paulweber, P. (Speaker), Zdun, U. (Contributor) & Pescosta, E. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Smart Contracts: Security Patterns in the Ethereum Ecosystem and Solidity
Wöhrer, A. M. (Speaker) & Zdun, U. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Software Architectures and Techniques for Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement.
Zdun, U. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Model-Driven Support for Semi-automated Architectural Abstraction
Zdun, U. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
On resuable architectural knowledge
Zdun, U. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Architecting with Architectural Design Decisions
Zdun, U. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Architectural Decisions for Verifiably Secure Process-Aware Information Systems
Zdun, U. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Service-based Platform Integration and Customization
Zdun, U. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Model-driven Compliance in Service-oriented Architectures
Zdun, U. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other