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Asst. Prof. Ivana Podnar Žarko

Assistant Professor

University of Zagreb
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
Department of Telecommunications

Office: C07-11

Phone: +385 1 6129 787

Email: E-mail

Address: FER (ZZT), Unska 3, HR-10000 Zagreb, CROATIA

Research Interests

  • large-scale distributed systems (publish/subscribe, P2P networks)
  • real-time data stream processing
  • information retrieval and recommender systems

Projects

  • Continuous processing and filtering of data streams - collaborative project with LSIR, EPFL, funded by the University of Zagreb (January 2012 - December 2012)
  • Presence@FER: An Ecosystem for Rich Presence - internal project (2010-)
  • COST Action IC0906 WiNeMO: Wireless Networking for Moving Objects (2010-)
  • 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)
  • AlvisP2P information retrieval engine - bilateral project with LSIR, EPFL (2006-2008)
  • Alvis: Superpeer Semantic Search Engine - FP6 STREP project  (project coordinator 2005-2006)
  • Bricks: Building Resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services - FP6 IP project (project coordinator 2005-2006)
  • 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.

 


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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. 465-494, 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

  1. Top-k/w publish/subscribe, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) and KTH, Stockholm, September 9, 2011
  2. 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
  3. Supporting Client Mobility in Publish/Subscribe Systems. EPFL, Lausanne, I&C Summer Research Institute, July 16, 2004

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Chairs

  1. Publication chair of the 10th International Conference of Telecommunications (ConTEL 2009)
  2. Workshop chair of the 1st Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR 2007)
  3. Workshop chair of the International Workshop on Information retrieval in Peer-to-peer Networks (P2PIR 2006)
  4. 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

  1. 9th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR 2011), co-located with ACM CIKM 2011, October 28, 2011
  2. 10th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2011), October 18-20, 2011
  3. 2011 Baltic Congress on Future Internet and Communications Program, Riga, Litvia, February 16-18, 2011
  4. 8th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval, co-located with ACM SIGIR. Geneva, Switzerland, July 23, 2010
  5. 7th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval, co-located with ACM SIGIR 2009, Boston, USA, July 23, 2009
  6. Ninth Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, SAINT 2009, Bellevue, Washington, USA, July 20-24, 2009
  7. 2008 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, SAINT 2008, Turku, Finland, 28 July - 1 August 2008
  8. 2008 ACM Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval, LSDS-IR 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 30, 2008
  9. EDBT 2008, 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Nantes, France, March 25-29, 2008
  10. 9th International Conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2008, Turin, Italy, September 3-4, 2008
  11. 8th International Conference E-Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2007, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007
  12. 2007 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet - Workshops (SAINT 2007 Workshops), Hiroshima, Japan, 15-19 January 2007
  13. 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008) track on Engineering Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Ceará, Brazil, 16-20.03.2008.
  14. 4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2008) track on Systems and implementation issues, Harbin, China, 16-18.01.2008
  15. Inaugural International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS), Toronto, Canada, 20-22.06.2007
  16. 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2007), Regensburg, Germany, 3-7.09.2007
  17. 2nd International Workshop on Managing Context Information and Semantics in Mobile Environments (MCISME), Mannheim, Germany, 07.05.2007
  18. 7th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2006), Krakow, Poland, 5-8.09.2006
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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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