Publications
Overview of our Journal and Conference Papers:
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2026
MLOps pipeline generation for reinforcement learning: A low-code approach using large language models. / Warnett, Stephen John; Ntentos, Evangelos; Zdun, Uwe.
In: Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 235, 112760, 05.2026.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Using Guided Community Detection to Improve Existing Microservice Designs. / Genfer, Patric (Corresponding author); Zdun, Uwe.
Service-Oriented Computing - 23rd International Conference, ICSOC 2025, Proceedings: 23rd International Conference, ICSOC 2025, Shenzhen, China, December 1–4, 2025, Proceedings, Part I. ed. / Marco Aiello; Ilche Georgievski; Shuiguang Deng; Juan-Manuel Murillo; Boualem Benatallah; Zhongjie Wang. Springer Singapore, 2026. p. 205-220 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 16320).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Architectural Design Decisions and Best Practices for Fast and Efficient CI/CD Pipelines. / Urdih, Francesco (Corresponding author); Theodoropoulos, Theodoros; Zdun, Uwe.
Software Architecture: 19th European Conference, ECSA 2025, Limassol, Cyprus, September 15–19, 2025, Proceedings. ed. / Vasilios Andrikopoulos; Cesare Pautasso; Nour Ali; Jacopo Soldani; Xiwei Xu. Springer Nature, 2026. p. 297-305 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 15929).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Strategies for Mining Processes in Manufacturing Execution Systems Data. / Kovacic, Daniel; Böhmer, Kristof; Hilbrand, Samuel et al.
Workshops@Modellierung 2026. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2026. p. 66-80.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings
2025
Automatic Rule Checking for Microservices: Supporting Security Analysis with Explainability. / Schneider, Simon; Quéval, Pierre-Jean; Milánkovich, Ákos et al.
In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 09.10.2025.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
EDSVM: A Novel Approach for Environment Drift Detection in Reinforcement Learning Using Synthetic Drifted Examples. / Fang, Zhizhou; Zdun, Uwe.
ECAI 2025: 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 25-30 October 2025, Bologna, Italy – Including 14th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2025), Proceedings. ed. / Ines Lynce; Nello Murano; Mauro Vallati; Serena Villata; Federico Chesani; Michela Milano; Andrea Omicini; Mehdi Dastani. IOS Press, 2025. p. 2410-2417 (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 413).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Design Decisions for Architecting Digital Twins of Microservices-based Systems. / Macías, Aurora; Ntentos, Evangelos; Zdun, Uwe et al.
Software Engineering and Advanced Applications - 51st Euromicro Conference, SEAA 2025, Proceedings: 51st Euromicro Conference, SEAA 2025, Salerno, Italy, September 10–12, 2025, Proceedings, Part III. ed. / Davide Taibi; Darja Smite. Springer Nature, 2025. p. 428-446 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 16083).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
AI-Powered Architecting for Industry 4.0 Cyber-Physical Production Systems: A Novel Approach, Research Problems and Challenges. / Warnett, Stephen J. (Corresponding author); Zdun, Uwe.
Software Architecture. ECSA 2025 Tracks and Workshops: Limassol, Cyprus, September 15–19, 2025, Proceedings. ed. / Domenico Bianculli; Hassan Sartaj; Vasilios Andrikopoulos; Cesare Pautasso; Tommi Mikkonen; Jennifer Perez; Tomáš Bureš; Martina De Sanctis; Henry Muccini; Elena Navarro; Mohamed Soliman; Uwe Zdun. Springer Nature, 2025. p. 155-168 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 15982).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
ML Pipeline Insights Service for Rule-Based Assessment of Training Practices in Reinforcement Learning. / Ntentos, Evangelos; Urdih, Francesco; Zdun, Uwe.
Software Engineering and Advanced Applications: 51st Euromicro Conference, SEAA 2025, Salerno, Italy, September 10–12, 2025, Proceedings, Part I. Springer Nature, 2025. p. 148-163 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 16081).
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Software Architecture. ECSA 2025 Tracks and Workshops: Limassol, Cyprus, September 15-19, 2025, Proceedings. / Bianculli, Domenico (Editor); Sartaj, Hassan (Editor); Andrikopoulos, Vasilios (Editor) et al.
Springer Nature, 2025. 390 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 15982).
Publications: Book › Proceedings › Peer Reviewed
On the understandability of coupling-related practices in infrastructure-as-code based deployments. / Quéval, Pierre-Jean; Hörner, Nicole Elisabeth; Ntentos, Evangelos et al.
In: Information and Software Technology, Vol. 185, 107761, 09.2025.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
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
WEST GCN-LSTM: Weighted stacked spatio-temporal graph neural networks for regional traffic forecasting. / Theodoropoulos, Theodoros; Maroudis, Angelos-Christos; Zdun, Uwe et al.
In: International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, Vol. 5, No. 1, 100338, 06.2025.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
GraphOpticon: A Global proactive horizontal autoscaler for improved service performance resource consumption. / Theodoropoulos, Theodoros; Patel, Yashwant Singh; Zdun, Uwe et al.
In: Future Generation Computer Systems: the international journal of grid computing, Vol. 174, 107926, 31.05.2025.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
On the understandability of machine learning practices in deep learning and reinforcement learning based systems. / Ntentos, Evangelos; Warnett, Stephen J.; Zdun, Uwe.
In: Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 222, 112343, 04.2025.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Rule-Based Assessment of Reinforcement Learning Practices Using Large Language Models. / Ntentos, Evangelos; Warnett, Stephen J.; Zdun, Uwe.
2025 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on AI Engineering - Software Engineering for AI (CAIN): Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 27–28 April 2025, Proceedings. IEEE, 2025. p. 1-11.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming V. / Wallingford, Eugene (Editor); Zdun, Uwe (Editor); Kohls, Christian (Editor).
Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Nature, 2025. 299 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 14630).
Publications: Book › Collection
A model-driven, metrics-based approach to assessing support for quality aspects in MLOps system architectures. / Warnett, Stephen John; Ntentos, Evangelos; Zdun, Uwe.
In: Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 220, 112257, 02.2025.
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
Bridging the Gap Between MLOps and RLOps: An Industry 4.0 Case Study on Architectural Design Decisions in Practice. / Warnett, Stephen J.; Zdun, Uwe.
2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2025): March 31 2025 to April 4 2025, Odense, Denmark, Proceedings. IEEE, 2025. p. 232-242.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
KPI-driven Visualizations for Root Cause Analysis in Manufacturing Processes. / Mucha, Kacper; Leitner, Maria; Böhmer, Kristof.
2025. Paper presented at 29th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing (Tools and Demonstrations), Lisbon, Portugal.
Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed
Performance Patterns for CI/CD Pipelines. / Urdih, Francesco; Theodoropoulos, Theodoros; Zdun, Uwe.
Pattern Languages of Programs, People and Practices: 30th European Conference, EuroPLoP 2025, Irsee, Germany, July 2–6, 2025, Revised Selected Papers, Part. Springer Nature, 2025. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Requirements Engineering for Digital Twins: a Cross-Domain Systematic Literature Review. / Macías, Aurora; Navarro, Elena; Cuesta, Carlos E. et al.
Quality of Information and Communications Technology: 18th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, September 3-5, 2025, Proceedings. Springer Nature, 2025.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
2024
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
Exploring Architectural Evolution in Microservice Systems using Repository Mining Techniques and Static Code Analysis. / Genfer, Patric; Zdun, Uwe.
Software Architecture: 18th European Conference, ECSA 2024, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, September 3–6, 2024, Proceedings. Springer Nature, 2024. p. 157.
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
On the Understandability of MLOps System Architectures. / Warnett, Stephen John; Zdun, Uwe.
In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 50, No. 5, 05.2024, p. 1015-1039.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
AIS - a Metric for assessing the Impact of an Influencer's Twitter Activity on the Price of a Cryptocurrency. / Miller, Kevin; Böhmer, Kristof.
Cooperative Information Systems: 29th International Conference, CoopIS 2023, Groningen, The Netherlands, October 30–November 3, 2023, Proceedings. ed. / Mohamed Sellami; Walid Gaaloul; Maria-Esther Vidal; Boudewijn van Dongen; Hervé Panetto. Cham: Springer, 2024. p. 41-58.
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BAnDIT: Business Process Anomaly Detection in Transactions. / Rudolf, Nico; Böhmer, Kristof; Leitner, Maria.
Cooperative Information Systems - 29th International Conference, CoopIS 2023, Proceedings. ed. / Mohamed Sellami; Walid Gaaloul; Maria-Esther Vidal; Boudewijn van Dongen; Hervé Panetto. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024. p. 405-415 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 14353 LNCS).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Detecting Environment Drift in Reinforcement Learning Using a Gaussian Process. / Fang, Zhizhou; Zdun, Uwe.
2024 IEEE 36th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2024). Herndon: IEEE, 2024. p. 992-999.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › 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.
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Supporting Architectural Decision Making on Training Strategies in Reinforcement Learning Architectures. / Ntentos, Evangelos; Warnett, Stephen John; Zdun, Uwe.
Proceedings - IEEE 21st International Conference on Software Architecture: 4 - 8 June 2024, Hyderabad, India. Piscataway: IEEE, 2024. p. 90-100 (Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture ).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
2023
Decision-Making Support for Data Integration in Cyber-Physical-System Architectures. / Ntentos, Evangelos; Amiri, Amirali; Warnett, Stephen J. et al.
Service-Oriented Computing: 21st International Conference, ICSOC 2023, Rome, Italy, November 28 – December 1, 2023, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, 2023. p. 137-152 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
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Detecting and Resolving Coupling-Related Infrastructure as Code Based Architecture Smells in Microservice Deployments. / Ntentos, Evangelos; Zdun, Uwe; Ghareeb, Falazi et al.
2023 IEEE 16th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD): Proceedings. ed. / Claudio Ardagna; Nimanthi Atukorala; Pete Beckman; Carl K. Chang; Rong N. Chang; Constantinos Evangelinos; Jing Fan; Geoffrey C. Fox; Judy Fox; Christoph Hagleitner; Zhi Jin; Tevfik Kosar; Manish Parashar. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2023. p. 201-211.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Combining API Patterns in Microservice Architectures: Performance and Reliability Analysis. / Malki, Amine El; Zdun, Uwe.
2023 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS): Proceedings. ed. / Claudio Ardagna; Boualem Benatallah; Hongyi Bian; Carl K. Chang; Rong N. Chang; Jing Fan; Geoffrey C. Fox; Zhi Jin; Xuanzhe Liu; Heiko Ludwig; Michael Sheng; Jian Yang. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2023. p. 246-257.
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Extracting the Architecture of Microservices: An Approach for Explainability and Traceability. / Quéval, Pierre-Jean; Zdun, Uwe.
Software Architecture: 17th European Conference, ECSA 2023, Istanbul, Turkey, September 18–22, 2023, Proceedings. ed. / Bedir Tekinerdogan; Catia Trubiani; Chouki Tibermacine; Patrizia Scandurra; Carlos E. Cuesta. Cham: Springer, 2023. p. 346-353 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 14212).
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Automated Pattern-Based Recommendation for Improving API Operation Performance and Reliability in Cloud-Based Architectures. / Malki, Amine El; Zdun, Uwe.
2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Services Engineering (SSE): Proceedings. ed. / Claudio Ardagna; Nimanthi Atukorala; Carl K. Chang; Rong N. Chang; Jing Fan; Geoffrey Fox; Sumi Helal; Zhi Jin; Qinghua Lu; Tiberiu Seceleanu; Stephen S. Yau. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2023. p. 80-88.
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Tool Support for the Adaptation of Quality of Service Trade-Offs in Service- and Cloud-Based Dynamic Routing Architectures. / Amiri, Amirali; Zdun, Uwe.
Software Architecture: 17th European Conference, ECSA 2023, Istanbul, Turkey, September 18–22, 2023, Proceedings. Springer, 2023. p. 20-36 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
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API Rate Limit Adoption - A pattern collection. / Serbout, Souhaila; Malki, Amine El; Pautasso, Cesare et al.
Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, EuroPLoP 2023. ACM, 2023. 3628039.
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Tool Support for Learning Architectural Guidance Models from Architectural Design Decision Models. / Amiri, Amirali; Ntentos, Evangelos; Zdun, Uwe et al.
EuroPLoP '23: Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs. ACM, 2023. 3628037.
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Cost-Aware Multifaceted Reconfiguration of Service- and Cloud-Based Dynamic Routing Applications. / Amiri, Amirali; Zdun, Uwe.
2023 IEEE 16th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD): Proceedings. ed. / Claudio Ardagna; Nimanthi Atukorala; Pete Beckman; Carl K. Chang; Rong N. Chang; Constantinos Evangelinos; Jing Fan; Geoffrey C. Fox; Judy Fox; Christoph Hagleitner; Zhi Jin; Tevfik Kosar; Manish Parashar. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2023. p. 428-438.
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Smart and Adaptive Routing Architecture: An Internet-of-Things Traffic Manager Based on Artificial Neural Networks. / Amiri, Amirali; Zdun, Uwe.
Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Services Engineering, SSE 2023: Proceedings. ed. / Claudio Ardagna; Nimanthi Atukorala; Carl K. Chang; Rong N. Chang; Jing Fan; Geoffrey Fox; Sumi Helal; Zhi Jin; Qinghua Lu; Tiberiu Seceleanu; Stephen S. Yau. Piscataway: IEEE, 2023. p. 180-190.
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SeedTree: A Dynamically Optimal and Local Self-Adjusting Tree. / Pourdamghani, Arash; Avin, Chen; Sama, Robert et al.
INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. 2023.
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Architecting Digital Twins Using a Domain-Driven Design-Based Approach. / Macías, Aurora; Navarro, Elena; Cuesta, Carlos E. et al.
2023 IEEE 20th International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA): Proceedings. IEEE, 2023. p. 153-163.
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2022
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.
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