Short CV

Stefan is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Distributed Systems Group (DSG) at TU Wien, Austria. He received his Dr. Tech. degree (equivalent PhD), from the TU Wien in 2016, with a thesis titled: “Programming, Provisioning and Governing IoT Cloud Systems”. He received his Master's degree in Software Engineering & Internet Computing in 2012 and B.Sc. degree in Software & Information Engineering in 2010, from Vienna University of Technology. His main research interests include: Internet of Things and Edge Computing; Big Data Analytics; Cloud Computing; and Smart Cities.

Stefan is currently involved in ERA-NET SMART-FI EU project, where he is the leader of TUW's effort. Previously, he has been involved in several EU-funded research projects such as U-Test and SM4ALL, as well as, large industrial projects such as the multimillion Pacific Controls Cloud Computing Lab (PC3L).

Main Research Interests

• Developing, provisioning and governing IoT/Edge Cloud systems
  (A poster illustrating our methodology can be found here)
• Internet-of-Things (IoT) / Edge Computing / Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
• Big Data Analytics
• Software-Defined systems
• Cloud Computing

Projects

• SMART-FI
• U-Test
• PC3L(Pacific Controls Cloud Computing Lab)
• SM4ALL

Publications

2016

1. Stefan Nastic, Hong-Linh Truong, and Schahram Dustdar.
   A Middleware Infrastructure for Utility-based Provisioning of IoT Cloud Systems.
   The First IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing, October 27-28, 2016, Washington DC, USA.


2. Stefan Nastic, Hong-Linh Truong, and Schahram Dustdar.
   Data and Control Points: A Programming Model for IoT Cloud Edge Devices.
   IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2016), October 9-12, 2016, Budapest, Hungary.


3. Schahram Dustdar, Stefan Nastic and Ognjen Scekic.
   A novel vision of Cyber-Human Smart City.
   4th IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies (HotWeb 2016). October 24-25, 2016, Washington, D.C., USA (invited paper)


4. Hong-Linh Truong, Georgiana Copil, Schahram Dustdar, Duc-Hung Le, Daniel Moldovan, and Stefan Nastic
   On Engineering Analytics for Elastic IoT Cloud Platforms.
   International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, pp. 267-281. Springer International Publishing, 2016.



2015

5. Stefan Nastic, Hong-Linh Truong, and Schahram Dustdar.
   SDG-Pro: A Programming Framework for Software-Defined IoT Cloud Gateways.
   Springer, Journal of Internet Services and Applications 2015, 6:21.


6. Stefan Nastic, Georgiana Copil, Hong-Linh Truong, and Schahram Dustdar.
   Governing Elastic IoT Cloud Systems under Uncertainty.
   The 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2015), 30 November - 3 December, 2015, Vancouver, Canada. (To appear!)


7. Hong-Linh Truong, Georgiana Copil, Schahram Dustdar, Duc-Hung Le, Daniel Moldovan, and Stefan Nastic.
   iCOMOT - Toolset for Managing IoT Cloud Systems.
   The 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, 15 - 18 June, 2015, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.


8. Stefan Nastic, Michael Vögler, Christian Inzinger, Hong-Linh Truong, and Schahram Dustdar.
   rtGovOps: A Runtime Framework for Governance in Large-scale Software-defined IoT Cloud Systems.
   The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering, Mar 30 – Apr 3, 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA. (Selected among the 3 best papers.)


9. Michael Vögler, Johannes M. Schleicher, Christian Inzinger, Stefan Nastic, Sanjin Sehic, and Schahram Dustdar.
   LEONORE -- Large-Scale Provisioning of Resource-Constrained IoT Deployments.
   The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2015), March 30 - April 3, 2015, San Francisco Bay, USA.



2014

10. Stefan Nastic, Christian Inzinger, Hong-Linh Truong, and Schahram Dustdar.
    GovOps: The Missing Link for Governance in Software-defined IoT Cloud Systems.
    The 10th International Workshop on Engineering Service Oriented Applications (WESOA’14) in conjunction with ICSOC 2014, 3. November 2014, Paris, France.


11. Duc-Hung Le, Hong-Linh Truong, Georgiana Copil, Stefan Nastic and Schahram Dustdar.
    SALSA: a Framework for Dynamic Configuration of Cloud Services.
    The 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2014), 15-18 December 2014, Singapore.


12. Schahram Dustdar,Vögler Michael, Sehic Sanjin, Qanbari Soheil, Stefan Nastic and Hong-Linh Truong .
    The Internet of Things Meets Cloud Computing in Smart Cities. Bridges 2014, Vol. 41, (invited).


13. Michael Vögler, Fei Li, Markus Claeßens, Johannes Schleicher, Stefan Nastic, Sanjin Sehic, and Schahram Dustdar.
    COLT Collaborative Delivery of lightweight IoT Applications.
    International Conference on IoT as a Service (IoTaaS 2014), 27-28 October 2014, Rome, Italy.


14. Stefan Nastic, Sanjin Sehic, Le-Duc Hung, Hong-Linh Truong, and Schahram Dustdar.
    Provisioning Software-defined IoT Cloud Systems.
    The 2nd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud-2014), August 27-29, 2014, Barcelona, Spain.


15. Christian Inzinger, Stefan Nastic, Sanjin Sehic, Michael Vögler, Fei Li, and Schahram Dustdar.
    MADCAT - A Methodology for Architecture and Deployment of Cloud Application Topologies.
    International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering, April 7-11, 2014, Oxford, UK.


16. Sanjin Sehic, Stefan Nastic, Michael Vögler, Fei Li, and Schahram Dustdar.
    Entity-Adaptation: A Programming Model for Development of Context-Aware Applications.
    Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2014), Mobile Computing and Applications (MCA) track, March 24-28, 2014, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea.

2013

17. Stefan Nastic, Sanjin Sehic, Michael Vögler, Hong-Linh Truong, and Schahram Dustdar.
    PatRICIA - a Novel Programming Model for IoT Applications on Cloud Platforms.
    International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2013), December 16-18, 2013, Hawaii, USA.


18. Fei Li, Michael Vögler, Sanjin Sehic, Soheil Qanbari, Stefan Nastic, Hong-Linh Truong, and Schahram Dustdar.
    Web-Scale Service Delivery for Smart Cities.
    Internet Computing, IEEE, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 78–83, 2013


19. Schahram Dustdar, Fei Li, Hong-Linh Truong, Sanjin Sehic, Stefan Nastic, Soheil Qanbari, Michael Voegler, and Markus Claessens.
    Green Software Services: From Requirements to Business Models.
    International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS 2013) in conjunction with ICSE 2013, May 20, 2013, San Francisco, USA.

2012

20. Fei Li, Stefan Nastic, and Schahram Dustdar.
    Data Quality Observation in Pervasive Environments.
    International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2012), December 5-7, 2012, Paphos, Cyprus.


21. Fei Li, Michael Vögler, Sanjin Sehic, Soheil Qanbari, Hong-Linh Truong, Stefan Nastic, Schahram Dustdar.
    IoT PaaS: Intelligente IT-Infrastruktur für Smart Cities.
    Smart city – Wiener Know-How aus Wissenschaft und Forschung, Schmid Verlag, Wien, 2012, ISBN: 978-3-900607-50-0, 191 – 198


22. Sanjin Sehic, Fei Li, Stefan Nastic, and Schahram Dustdar.
    A Programming Model for Context-Aware Applications in Large-Scale Pervasive Systems.
    International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2012), October 8-10, 2012, Barcelona, Spain.

Professional Activities

I am an official reviewer for:

• ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)

I have given the following talks and/or participated in the following events:

• Provisioning Software-defined IoT Cloud Systems. The 8th Advanced Summer School on Service Oriented Computing (SummerSOC’14), 30 June – 5 July, 2014, Hersonissos Crete, Greece.
• Programming Models for IoT cloud. The 7th Summer School on IoT/M2M and Applications of Smart and Connected Devices (senZations'12), 3 September - 7 September, 2012, Drvengrad, Serbia.