Selected publications

Find a full list of publications at the bottom of the page.

Academic activities

Conference committees

Reviewer

I have been an official reviewer for

I have also served as subreviewer for

  • IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
  • International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
  • International World Wide Web Conference (TheWebConf)
  • IEEE Software
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)
  • USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge)
  • IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E)
  • IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE)
  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data Service and Applications (BigDataService)
  • IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom)
  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
  • IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC)

Co-Supervised Theses

I have assited with the supervision of several Master and Bachelor theses.

  • Improving Serverless Edge Computing for Network Bound Workload
    Jacob Palecek, Diploma Thesis, in progress.
    🏅 Winner of a 2020 Netidee grant
  • Container Scheduling on Heterogeneous Clusters using Machine Learning-based Workload Characterization
    Philipp Raith, Diploma Thesis, in progress.
    🏅 Winner of a 2020 Netidee grant
  • Locality-Aware Data Management for Serverless Edge Computing
    Cynthia Marcelino, Diploma Thesis, in progress
  • Self-adaptive Distributed MQTT Middleware for Edge Computing Application
    Andreas Bruckner, Diploma Thesis, in progress
  • Proactive Autoscaling for a Coding Assignment Submission System
    Dominik Schubert, Bachelor Thesis, in progress
  • Energy-Efficient Load-Balancing in Portable Edge Cluster
    Silvio Vasiljevic, Bachelor Thesis, TU Wien, 2020.
  • Optimized Container Scheduling for Serverless Edge Computing [📄 pdf]
    Alexander Rashed, Diploma Thesis, TU Wien, 2020.
  • Hangar: Decentralized Storage and Provisioning of System Environments
    Valentin Bauer, Bachelor Thesis, TU Wien, 2019.
  • Using In-Memory Key-Value Stores as a Transport Mechanism for RPC
    Ammar Voloder, Bachelor Thesis, TU Wien, 2019.
  • Predictive Analytics for Smart Homes using Serverless Edge Computing [📄 pdf]
    David Schneiderbauer, Diploma Thesis, TU Wien, 2019.
  • A Monitoring Infrastructure for Energy-Aware Cluster-Based Mobile Cloudlet
    Jacob Palecek, Bachelor Thesis, TU Wien, 2019.
  • Enabling Mobility and Message Delivery Guarantees in Distributed MQTT Networks [📄 pdf]
    Manuel Geier, Diploma Thesis, TU Wien, 2019.
  • Performance Evaluation of Java IO Model
    Philipp Raith, Bachelor Thesis, TU Wien, 2018.

Awards and Honors

Publications

Journal articles

  1. Rausch, T., Rashed, A., & Dustdar, S. (2021). Optimized container scheduling for data-intensive serverless edge computing. Future Generation Computer Systems, 114, 259–271. [Paper] [Preprint]
  2. Gusev, M., Koteska, B., Kostoska, M., Jakimovski, B., Dustdar, S., Rausch, T., Scekic, O., Nastic, S., Ristov, S., & Fahringer, T. (2019). A Deviceless Edge Computing Approach for Streaming IoT Applications. IEEE Internet Computing, 23(1), 37–45. [Paper]
  3. Rausch, T., Dustdar, S., & Ranjan, R. (2018). Osmotic Message-Oriented Middleware for the Internet of Things. IEEE Cloud Computing, 5(2), 17–25. [Paper]
  4. Nastic, S., Rausch, T., Scekic, O., Dustdar, S., Gusev, M., Koteska, B., Kostoska, M., Jakimovski, B., Ristov, S., & Prodan, R. (2017). A Serverless Real-Time Data Analytics Platform for Edge Computing. IEEE Internet Computing, 21(4), 64–71. [Paper]

Conference proceedings

  1. Rausch, T., Hummer, W., Stippel, C., Vasiljevic, S., Elvezio, C., Dustdar, S., & Krösl, K. (2021). Towards a Platform for Smart City-Scale Cognitive Assistance Applications. IEEE VR Workshop on Distributed Interactive Systems for Collaboration Experiences (DISCE).
  2. Rausch, T., Lachner, C., Frangoudis, P. A., Raith, P., & Dustdar, S. (2020). Synthesizing Plausible Infrastructure Configurations for Evaluating Edge Computing Systems. 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge 20). [Preprint]
  3. Rausch, T., Hummer, W., & Muthusmay, V. (2020). An Experimentation and Analytics Framework for Large-Scale AI Operations Platforms. 2020 USENIX Conference on Operational Machine Learning (OpML ’20). [Preprint]
  4. Rausch, T., Raith, P., Pillai, P., & Dustdar, S. (2019). Demo: A System for Operating Energy-Aware Cloudlets. 2019 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC ’19). 🏅 Best Demo [Preprint] [Poster]
  5. Haris, I., Bisanovic, V., Wally, B., Rausch, T., Ratasich, D., Dustdar, S., Kappel, G., & Grosu, R. (2019). Sensyml: Simulation Environment for large-scale IoT Applications. 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON ’19), 1, 3024–3030. [Paper]
  6. Lachner, C., Rausch, T., & Dustdar, S. (2019). ORIOT: A Source Location Privacy System for Resource Constrained IoT Devices. 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). [Preprint]
  7. Rausch, T., Hummer, W., Muthusamy, V., Rashed, A., & Dustdar, S. (2019). Towards a Serverless Platform for Edge AI. 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge 19). [Preprint] [Presentation]
  8. Lachner, C., Rausch, T., & Dustdar, S. (2019). Context-Aware Enforcement of Privacy Policies in Edge Computing. 2019 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress). [Preprint]
  9. Rausch, T., & Dustdar, S. (2019). Edge Intelligence: The Convergence of Humans, Things, and AI. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E). [Preprint]
  10. Hummer, W., Muthusamy, V., Rausch, T., Dube, P., & El Maghraoui, K. (2019). ModelOps: Cloud-based Lifecycle Management for Reliable and Trusted AI. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E). [Preprint]
  11. Skarlat, O., Karagiannis, V., Rausch, T., Bachmann, K., & Schulte, S. (2018, December). A Framework for Optimization, Service Placement, and Runtime Operation in the Fog. 2018 IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC’18). [Preprint]
  12. Rausch, T., Avasalcai, C., & Dustdar, S. (2018, October). Portable Energy-Aware Cluster-Based Edge Computers. 2018 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC’18). [Preprint] [Presentation]
  13. Rausch, T., Nastic, S., & Dustdar, S. (2018, April). EMMA: Distributed QoS-Aware MQTT Middleware for Edge Computing Applications. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E). [Preprint] [Presentation]
  14. Isakovic, H., Ratasich, D., Hirsch, C., Platzer, M., Wally, B., Rausch, T., Nickovic, D., Krenn, W., Kappel, G., Dustdar, S., & others. (2018). CPS/IoT Ecosystem: A platform for research and education. Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Education (WESE 2018). [Preprint]
  15. Rausch, T. (2017). Message-oriented Middleware for Edge Computing Applications. Proceedings of the 18th Doctoral Symposium of the 18th International Middleware Conference, 3–4. [Preprint] [Presentation]
  16. Rausch, T., Hummer, W., Leitner, P., & Schulte, S. (2017). An Empirical Analysis of Build Failures in the Continuous Integration Workflows of Java-based Open-source Software. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories. [Preprint] [Presentation]

Tech reports

  1. Rausch, T., Hummer, W., & Muthusamy, V. (2020). PipeSim: Trace-driven Simulation of Large-Scale AI Operations Platforms. In arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.12587. [Paper]