About me

I worked as a research assistant (2011-2015) and have completed a PhD in computer science in 2016 at the Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology, focusing on energy efficiency of geographically-distributed data centers. In the winter of 2014 I was a visiting researcher at the University of Manchester. Previously, I worked for one year (2011/2012) as an external associate at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, researching machine learning methods for forecasting financial crises. I completed my bachelor's (2006-2009) and master's degree (2009-2011) in computer science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. During my graduate studies I participated in the Erasmus exchange program two times at the University of Vienna (in 2009 and 2011).

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Research

Research interests

• Large-scale distributed computing (parallel, cloud and P2P computing)
• Artificial intelligence (pattern recognition, machine learning)
• Modern GUIs (visual programming, advanced human-computer interaction)
• Open source (the “bazaar” development process, Ubuntu GNU/Linux)

Research projects

• HALEY – Holistic Energy Efficient Approach for the Management of Hybrid Clouds, Vienna University of Technology research award, 2011–2015
• FOC-II – Forecasting Financial Crises, FP7, 2011–2012
• AMASL – Ambient Assisted Shared Living, University of Vienna, 2009–2010

Publications

Refereed publications in journals

• Dražen Lučanin*, Ilia Pietri*, Simon Holmbacka*, Ivona Brandić, Johan Lilius, Rizos Sakellariou. Performance-Based Pricing in Multi-Core Geo-Distributed Cloud Computing. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.  (arXiv, IEEE Xplore, doi:10.1109/TCC.2016.2628368, *equal contribution)
• Dražen Lučanin, Ivona Brandić. Pervasive Cloud Controller for Geotemporal Inputs. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 180–195, April–June 2016.  (arXiv, IEEE Xplore, doi: 10.1109/TCC.2015.2464794)

Refereed publications in conference proceedings

• Soodeh Farokhi, Pooyan Jamshidi, Dražen Lučanin, Ivona Brandić. Performance-based Vertical Memory Elasticity. 12^th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2015), 7–10 July, 2015, Gronoble, France.  (preprint, IEEE Xplore, doi:10.1109/ICAC.2015.51)
• Dražen Lučanin, Ilia Pietri, Ivona Brandić, Rizos Sakellariou. A Cloud Controller for Performance-Based Pricing. 8^th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2015), 27 June – 2 July, 2015, New York, USA.  (arXiv, IEEE Xplore, doi:10.1109/CLOUD.2015.30)
• Dražen Lučanin, Foued Jrad, Ivona Brandić, and Achim Streit. Energy-Aware Cloud Management through Progressive SLA Specification. 11^th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems,  and Services (GECON 2014). 16–18 September, 2014, Cardiff, UK.  (arXiv, SpringerLink, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14609-6_6)
• Dražen Lučanin, Ivona Brandić. Take a break: cloud scheduling optimized for real-time electricity pricing. Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), 30 September – 2 October, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany.  (arXiv, IEEE Xplore, doi:10.1109/CGC.2013.25)
• Dragan Gamberer, Dražen Lučanin, Tomislav Šmuc. Analysis of World Bank Indicators for Countries with Banking Crises by Subgroup Discovery Induction. Proceedings of the 36^th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO). 20–24 May, 2013, Opatija, Croatia.  (IEEE Xplore, CROSBI)
• Toni Mastelić, Dražen Lučanin, Andreas Ipp, Ivona Brandić. Methodology for trade-off analysis when moving scientific applications to the Cloud. CloudCom 2012, 4^th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science. 3–6 December, 2012, Tapei, Taiwan.  (preprint, IEEE Xplore, doi:10.1109/CloudCom.2012.6427575)
• Dragan Gamberer, Dražen Lučanin, Tomislav Šmuc. Descriptive modeling of systemic banking crises. The 15^th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2012), 29–31 October, 2012, Lyon, France.  (preprint, SpringerLink, CROSBI, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33492-4_8)
• Matija Gulić, Dražen Lučanin, Nina Skorin-Kapov. A Two-Phase Vehicle based Decomposition Algorithm  for Large-Scale Capacitated Vehicle Routing with Time Windows. Proceedings of the 35^th International Convention on Information  and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), 21–25 May, 2012, Opatija, Croatia.  (preprint, IEEE Xplore)
• Dražen Lučanin, Ivan Fabek, Domagoj Jakobović. A visual programming language for drawing and executing flowcharts. Proceedings of the 34^th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO). 23–27 May, 2011, Opatija, Croatia. Best student paper award. (arXiv, IEEE Xplore)
• Matija Gulić, Dražen Lučanin, Ante Šimić, Šandor Dembitz. A digit and spelling speech recognition system for the Croatian language. Proceedings of the 34^th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO). 23–27 May, 2011, Opatija, Croatia. (IEEE Xplore)

Refereed publications in workshop proceedings

• Dražen Lučanin, Michael Maurer, Toni Mastelić, Ivona Brandić. Energy Efficient Service Delivery in Clouds in Compliance  with the Kyoto Protocol. 1^st International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centers, 8^th May, 2012, Madrid, Spain.  (arXiv, SpringerLink, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33645-4_9)

Theses

• Dražen Lučanin. Energy Efficient Cloud Control and Pricing in Geographically Distributed Data Centers. PhD thesis, Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology, June, 2016. (arXiv)
• Dražen Lučanin. Visual definition of procedures for automatic virtual scene generation. Master’s thesis, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, June, 2011. (arXiv)
• Dražen Lučanin. Graphical user interface for a video-conferencing application accessible to the elderly. Bachelor’s thesis, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, June, 2009.

Activities

Research visits

• Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM), Cloud Control for Performance-Based Pricing. COST Action IC1305 Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing (NESUS), carried out at the University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; 5–20 December, 2014.
• 2^nd COST IC804 Training School on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems, University of Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain; 24–27 April, 2012.

Scientific talks

• Energy-Aware Cloud Management through Progressive SLA Specification.  COST IC1305 NESUS Meeting, Paris, France; 1–2 December, 2014.
• Energy-aware Cloud Management through Progressive SLA Specification. 5^th Cloud Control Workshop, Moelle, Sweden; 20–22 August, 2014.
• Collaborations with Univ. Toulouse. Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems conference, Vienna, Austria; 22–24 April 2013.
• Kyoto Protocol Compliant Management of Data Centers. COST 804 focus group “Energy and QoS-aware Workload Manangent in Clouds” meeting, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique, France; 27^th March, 2012.

In addition, personally presented all the conference and workshop publications with first authorship.

Other activities

• Track chair for GECON 2015, 12^th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services.
• Program comitee member for CloudComp 2012, 3^rd International Conference on Cloud Computing, Vienna, Austria; 24–26 September, 2012.
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, SuperComputing, CCGrid, (EC)2, Euro-Par, PDP, International Conference on Runtime Verification, WETICE, WORKS, BISE / WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK.
• Member, IEEE, 2012–2015.