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Asst. Prof. Ivana Podnar Žarko
Assistant Professor
Office: C07-11
Phone: +385 1 6129 787
Email: E-mail
Address: FER (ZZT), Unska 3, HR-10000 Zagreb, CROATIA
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Research Interests
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large-scale distributed systems (publish/subscribe, P2P networks)
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real-time data stream processing
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information retrieval and recommender systems
Projects
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Continuous processing and filtering of data streams - collaborative project with LSIR, EPFL, funded by the University of Zagreb (January 2012 - December 2012)
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Presence@FER: An Ecosystem for Rich Presence - internal project (2010-)
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COST Action IC0906 WiNeMO: Wireless Networking for Moving Objects (2010-)
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Content Delivery and Mobility of Users and Services in New Generation Networks - scientific project founded by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports (2007-2011)
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AlvisP2P information retrieval engine - bilateral project with LSIR, EPFL (2006-2008)
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Alvis: Superpeer Semantic Search Engine - FP6 STREP project (project coordinator 2005-2006)
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Bricks: Building Resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services - FP6 IP project (project coordinator 2005-2006)
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OPELIX: An open personalized electronic information commerce platform - FP5 project (researcher 2000-2001)
Short Biography
Dr. Ivana Podnar Zarko is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia (UNIZG-FER) since 2008. She has been affiliated with the Department of Telecommunications at UNIZG-FER since 1997. She was a guest researcher (2000) and research associate (2001) at the Distributed Systems Group, Technical University of Vienna, and a postdoctoral researcher (2005-2006) at the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). She has co-authored over 30 scientific journal and conference papers, and has served as a program committee member for a number of international conferences and workshops. She has experience of participating in projects founded by the EU Framework Programme, and currently participates in COST Action IC0906 WiNeMO - Wireless Networking for Moving Objects. She is a member of IEEE and the Chapter Chair of IEEE Communications Society – Croatia Chapter.
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Pripužić, Krešimir; Podnar Žarko, Ivana; Aberer, Karl. Top-k/w publish/subscribe: A publish/subscribe model for continuous top-k processing over data streams, Information Systems (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2012.03.003.
Podnar Žarko, Ivana; Kušek, Mario; Pripužić, Krešimir; Antonić, Aleksandar. Presence@FER: An Ecosystem for Rich Presence, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Telecommunications, pp. 133-140, 2011. 
Pripužić, Krešimir; Podnar Žarko, Ivana; Aberer, Karl. Distributed Processing of Continuous Sliding- Window k-NN Queries for Data Stream Filtering. World wide web-internet and web information systems 14 (5-6); pp. 2011, (Special Issue on Querying the Data Web) [full text]
Skobeltsyn, Gleb; Luu, Toan; Podnar Žarko, Ivana; Rajman, Martin; Aberer, Karl. Query-Driven Indexing for Scalable Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval. Future Generation Computer Systems 25 (1); pp. 89-99, 2009 [full text]
Pripužić, Krešimir; Podnar Žarko, Ivana; Aberer, Karl. Top-k/w Publish/Subscribe: Finding k Most Relevant Publications in Sliding Time Window w. Proceedings of the second international conference on Distributed event-based systems (DEBS2008), ACM Press, pp. 127-138, 2008.
Luu, Toan; Skobeltsyn, Gleb; Klemm, Fabius; Puh, Maroje; Podnar Žarko, Ivana; Rajman, Martin; Aberer, Karl. AlvisP2P: scalable peer-to-peer text retrieval in a structured P2P network (demo). Proc. VLDB2008, pp. 1424-1427, 2008. [full text]
Podnar, Ivana; Rajman, Martin; Luu, Toan; Klemm, Fabius; Aberer, Karl. Scalable Peer-to-Peer Web Retrieval with Highly Discriminative Keys. Proc. IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 1096-1105, 2007 
Skobeltsyn, Gleb; Luu, Toan; Podnar Žarko, Ivana; Rajman, Martin; Aberer, Karl. Web Text Retrieval with a P2P Query-Driven Index. Proc. of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR2007), ACM Press, pp. 679 - 686, 2007. [full text]
Complete list available at: bib.irb.hr or DBLP
Invited Talks
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Top-k/w publish/subscribe, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) and KTH, Stockholm, September 9, 2011

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Top-k/w publish/subscribe: A publish/subscribe model for continuous top-k processing over distributed data streams, Digital Enterprise Research Institute – DERI, Galway, January 19, 2011
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Supporting Client Mobility in Publish/Subscribe Systems. EPFL, Lausanne, I&C Summer Research Institute, July 16, 2004
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Chairs
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Publication chair of the 10th International Conference of Telecommunications (ConTEL 2009)
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Workshop chair of the 1st Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR 2007)
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Workshop chair of the International Workshop on Information retrieval in Peer-to-peer Networks (P2PIR 2006)
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Local organization chair of the 6th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2007)
Editorial Boards
Informatica: An International Journal of Computing and Informatics (ISSN: 0350-5596)
Program Committees
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9th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR 2011), co-located with ACM CIKM 2011, October 28, 2011
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10th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2011), October 18-20, 2011
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2011 Baltic Congress on Future Internet and Communications Program, Riga, Litvia, February 16-18, 2011
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8th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval, co-located with ACM SIGIR. Geneva, Switzerland, July 23, 2010
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7th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval, co-located with ACM SIGIR 2009, Boston, USA, July 23, 2009
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Ninth Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, SAINT 2009, Bellevue, Washington, USA, July 20-24, 2009
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2008 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, SAINT 2008, Turku, Finland, 28 July - 1 August 2008
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2008 ACM Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval, LSDS-IR 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 30, 2008
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EDBT 2008, 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Nantes, France, March 25-29, 2008
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9th International Conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2008, Turin, Italy, September 3-4, 2008
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8th International Conference E-Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2007, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007
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2007 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet - Workshops (SAINT 2007 Workshops), Hiroshima, Japan, 15-19 January 2007
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23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008) track on Engineering Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Ceará, Brazil, 16-20.03.2008.
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4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2008) track on Systems and implementation issues, Harbin, China, 16-18.01.2008
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Inaugural International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS), Toronto, Canada, 20-22.06.2007
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8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2007), Regensburg, Germany, 3-7.09.2007
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2nd International Workshop on Managing Context Information and Semantics in Mobile Environments (MCISME), Mannheim, Germany, 07.05.2007
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7th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2006), Krakow, Poland, 5-8.09.2006
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4th International Workshop on Distributed and Mobile Collaboration (DMC 2006), University of Manchester, UK, at the 15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2006), 26-28.06.2006
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The 2nd International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services (DEECS2006), San Francisco, California, in conjunction with IEEE CEC'06 and EEE'06, 26.06.2006
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International Workshop on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS'04), Edinburgh, UK, in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2004), 24-25.05.2004
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New collaborative project with LSIR (EPFL) on Continuous processing and filtering of data streams.
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Ivana Podnar Žarko
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