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Stefan Sobernig

Dr.
Stefan Sobernig

stefan.sobernig atwu.ac.at
+43-1-31336-4878

Assistant Professor
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna)

I am postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Systems and New Media. I took up a position as research assistant and doctoral researcher in 2004, after having graduated with a Magister degree in International Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics. During my Magister studies, I was affiliated with various software developing companies, including Unisys Austria in the role of a senior developer. My doctoral thesis was completed successfully in February 2009:

Sobernig, Exploring Feature Variability in Object Remoting Middleware, Doctoral Thesis, Institute for Information Systems and New Media, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Vienna, Austria, 2009).

My early research activities focused on information system interoperability in the applied field of Technology Enhanced Learning. They were centered around EU-funded research projects, in particular iCamp. Increasingly fascinated by communication middleware itself, from 2006 I turned to middleware engineering and middleware framework design for distributed object systems. The F/LOSS toolkit xorb for object remoting emerged out of my doctorate research. In my current research, I look at feature-oriented software development, software patterns, and the model-driven development of domain-specific languages. Being interested in programming language engineering, I actively contribute to XOTcl and to the Next Scripting Framework.

My academic CV


My publications

  • Gustaf Neumann, Stefan Sobernig: An Overview of the Next Scripting Toolkit, in: Proceedings of the the 18th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference, Manassas, Virginia, USA, November, 2011 . [BibTex, pdf]
  • Gustaf Neumann, Stefan Sobernig: An Overview of the Next Scripting Toolkit, presented at: Presented at the 18th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference, Manassas, Virginia, October, 2011 . [BibTex, pdf]
  • S. Sobernig, P. Gaubatz, M. Strembeck, U. Zdun: Comparing Complexity of API Designs: An Exploratory Experiment on DSL-based Framework Integration, in: Proc. of the 10th ACM International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE), Portland, Oregon, USA, October, 2011 . [BibTex, postscript, pdf]
  • Stefan Sobernig and Uwe Zdun: Evaluating Java Runtime Reflection for Implementing Cross-Language Method Invocations, in: Andreas Krall and Hanspeter Mössenböck (ed) , Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ 2010), 139--147, Vienna, Austria, September, 2010 . [BibTex, postscript, pdf]
  • Stefan Sobernig and Uwe Zdun: Inversion-of-Control Layer, in: Michael Weiss and Paris Avgeriou (ed) , Proceedings of 15th Annual European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (EuroPLoP 2010), Irsee, Germany, July 7-11, 2010, July, 2010 . [BibTex, postscript, pdf]
  • Stefan Sobernig: Feature Interaction Networks, in: Proceedings of the 25th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2010), Software Engineering Track, 2360--2364, Sion, Switzerland, March 22-26, 2010, March, 2010 . [BibTex, postscript, pdf]
  • Gustaf Neumann, Stefan Sobernig: XOTcl 2.0 - A Ten-Year Retrospective and Outlook, in: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference, Portland, Oregon, October, 2009 . [BibTex, postscript, pdf]
  • Gustaf Neumann, Stefan Sobernig: XOTcl 2.0 - A Ten-Year Retrospective and Outlook, presented at: Sixteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference, Portland, Oregon, October, 2009 . [BibTex, postscript, pdf]
  • Stefan Sobernig, Uwe Zdun: Invocation Assembly Lines: Patterns of Invocation and Message Processing in Object Remoting Middleware, in: Allan Kelly, Michael Weiss (ed) , Proceedings of 14th Annual European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (EuroPLoP 2009), Irsee, Germany, July 8-12, 2009, March, 2009 . [BibTex, pdf]
  • Stefan Sobernig: A Gentle Introduction to XOTcl SOAP, Tutorial at the 6th International OpenACS and DotLRN Conference: International Conference and Workshops on Community Based Environments, Antigua, Guatemala, 2008 . [BibTex, postscript, pdf, recording]
  • Stefan Sobernig: Supporting Brokerage in Web Application Frameworks, Talk at the 6th International OpenACS and DotLRN Conference: International Conference and Workshops on Community Based Environments, Antigua, Guatemala, 2008 . [BibTex, postscript, pdf, recording]
  • Gustaf Neumann, Stefan Sobernig: XOTcl for OpenACS: An Introduction to XOTcl and the basic infrastructure of xotcl-core, Tutorial at the International OpenACS and DotLRN Conference: International Conference and Workshops on Community Based Environments, Antigua, Guatemala, 2008 . [BibTex, postscript, pdf]
  • Gustaf Neumann, Stefan Sobernig: Learning XoWiki: A Tutorial to the XoWiki Toolkit, Tutorial at the International OpenACS and DotLRN Conference: International Conference and Workshops on Community Based Environments, Antigua, Guatemala, 2008 . [BibTex, postscript, pdf]
  • Fridolin Wild, Steinn E. Sigurðarson, Stefan Sobernig, Christina Stahl, Ahmet Soylu, Vahur Rebas, Dariusz Górka, Anna Danielewska-Tu?ecka, Antonio Tapiador: An Interoperability Infrastructure for Distributed Feed Networks, in: Stefano Ceri, Wolfgang Nejdl, Jan van Bruggen, Frans Van Assche (ed) , Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Collaborative Open Environments for Project-Centered Learning, Crete, Greece, September, 2007 . [BibTex]
  • Fridolin Wild, Stefan Sobernig: Learning Tools in Higher Education: Products, Characteristics, Procurement, in: Martin Wolpers and Ralf Klamma and Erik Duval (ed) , 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, CEUR-WS Proceedings, Vol. 280, Crete, Greece, September, 2007 . [BibTex, pdf]
  • Stefan Sobernig, Fridolin Wild, Bernd Simon, Barbara Kieslinger: Adoption of Tools for Technology-Enhanced Learning in Austrian Higher Education, in: Tagungsband der 13. fnm-austria Tagung, January, 2007 . [BibTex]
  • Stefan Sobernig: xorb / xosoap - Remoting for OACS / .LRN, presented at: .LRN Fall Conference 2006, Boston, November, 2006 . [BibTex, postscript, pdf]
  • Fridolin Wild, Stefan Sobernig, Bernd Simon, Barbara Kieslinger: Learning Tools in Austrian Higher Education, presented at: 13. fnm Austria Tagung, November, 2006 . [BibTex, pdf]
  • B. Simon, S. Sobernig, F. Wild, S. Aguirre, S. Brantner, P. Dolog, G. Neumann, G. Huber, T. Klobucar, S. Markus, Z. Miklós, W. Nejdl, D. Olmedilla, J. Salvachua, M. Sintek, T. Zillinger: Building Blocks for a Smart Space for LearningTM, in: R. Koper, Kinshuk (ed) , Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, July, 2006 . [BibTex, pdf]
  • F. van Assche, E. Duval, D. Massart, D. Olmedilla, B. Simon, S. Sobernig, S. Ternier, F. Wild: Spinning Interoperable Applications for Teaching & Learning using the Simple Query Interface, Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 9(2) 2006 . [BibTex, pdf]
  • Stefan Sobernig, Fridolin Wild, Sandra Aguirre, Toma? Klobu?ar, Neophytos Demitriou, Toma? Dulik, Joaquin Salvachua, Antonio Tapiador, Anna Danielewska-Tu?ecka: Interoperability Framework Draft for the Distributed Open Virtual Learning Environment, Deliverable D3.1, iCamp Project, 2006 . [BibTex, pdf]
  • Kieslinger, Barbara; Fiedler, Sebastian; Wild, Fridolin; Sobernig, Stefan: iCamp: The Educational Web for Higher Education in an Enlarged Europe, in: Cunningham, Paul; Cunningham, Miriam (ed) , Exploiting the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies, 1440-1444, Amsterdam, January, 2006 . [BibTex]
  • Stefan Sobernig, Fridolin Wild: Tutorial on Interoperability in Technology Enhanced Learning, presented at: online at www.educanext.org, ProLearn Summer School 2005 in Istanbul, September, 2005 . [BibTex, ppt]
  • Z. Miklós, S. Sobernig: Query Translation between RDF and XML - A Case Study in the Educational Domain, in: D. Olmedilla, N. Saito, B. Simon (ed) , WWW Workshop on Interoperability of Web-Based Educational - CEUR-WS 143, 27-35, Chiba, Japan, May, 2005 . [BibTex, postscript, pdf]
  • S. Aguirre, S. Brantner, G. Huber, S. Markus, Z. Miklos, A. Mozo, D. Olmedilla, J. Salvachua, B. Simon, S. Sobernig, T. Zillinger: Corner Stones of Semantic Interoperability Demonstrated in a Smart Space for Learning, in: Stefan Decker, Heiner Stuckenschmidt (ed) , Proceedings of the 2nd European Semantic Web Conference - Poster and Software Demos, Heraklion, Greece, May, 2005 . [BibTex, pdf]