Faculty of Computer Science

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Uwe Zdun

Computer Science Directorate of Doctoral Studies

Vice-Director of Studies

Währinger Straße 29
1090 Wien

uwe.zdun(at)univie.ac.at

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Courses

Publications

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

doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2025.112760

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

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

doi.org/10.1145/3771275

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).

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

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

doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04403-7

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

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