Prof. Dr.
Mark Strembeck

Associate Professor
Head of Institute

Tel.: +43-1-31336-4983
Email: mark.strembeck@wu.ac.at

Short Biography:

Mark is the Institute Head of the Institute for Complex Networks. He is the Director of the Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik) branch in WU’s Bachelor’s program, a faculty member of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, and a member of the key researcher team at the Secure Business Austria research and competence center. Mark received two diploma degrees in Business Informatics (Dipl.-Wirt.Inform.) from the University of Essen (Germany), as well as a doctoral degree in Business Informatics (Dr.rer.soc.oec.) and a Habilitation degree (Venia Docendi & Venia Legendi) from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna) (Austria). He participated in national and international research projects and worked as a software developer in several German software companies.

Current Research Interests:

(in no particular order)

• Complex Systems
• Applied Network Science
• Data Science
• Computational Social Science
• Security Analysis, Security Engineering, Security Management

Further (professional) Interests:

• Access Control / Policy Decisions / Policy Enforcement
• Role Engineering / Role Modeling / RBAC Policy Engineering
• Distributed Systems
• Software Engineering (in general)
• Model-driven Software Development
• Domain-specific Languages (DSLs)
• Modeling Dynamic Systems and System Evolution

Teaching:

In English:

• Course: System Development and Operations
• Course: Distributed Systems
• Course: Complex Systems and Networks (Digital Network Analytics - Course I)
• Course: Complex Systems and Networks (Digital Network Analytics - Course II)
• Topics for Bachelor’s theses or Master’s theses: available on request (for an overview of potential topic areas, see the “Research Interests” section above).
• Ph.D. thesis projects: make an appointment

In German:

• Vorlesung: Daten und Netzwerksicherheit
• Vorlesung: Formale Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Vorlesung: Grundlagen und Methoden des Data und Knowledge Engineering
• Vorlesung: Rechnernetzwerke und Datenübermittlung: Grundlagen und Sicherheit
• Seminar: Konversatorium aus Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Seminar: Forschungsmethoden der Wirtschaftsinformatik für Doktoranden
• Seminar: Informationssysteme, Risikobeurteilung und Risikoentscheidungen
• Diplom-, Master- und Bachelor-Arbeiten: Jederzeit Themen auf Anfrage (insb. aus den Bereichen der oben aufgelisteten “Research Interests”.)
• Betreuung von Dissertationen: bitte persönlichen Termin vereinbaren

Recent and Selected Publications:

A more complete list can be found [here]

A number of publications are also listed at [DBLP], [Google Scholar], and [Semantic Scholar]

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Selected Publications:

(author names on publications before June 2004 appear in alphabetical order)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: The Effects of Multiple Exposure to Highly Emotional Social Media Content During the Early Stages of the 2022 War in Ukraine, In: Springer Nature Computer Science, Vol. 4, No. 5, September 2023 (doi)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: Short- and long-term impact of psychological distance on human responses to a terror attack, In: Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM), Vol. 33, January 2023 (doi)

• K. Kueffner, M. Strembeck: Toward a generalized notion of discrete time for modeling temporal networks, In: Network Science, Vol. 9, No. 4, December 2021 (doi)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: Evacuate everyone south of that line: Analyzing structural communication patterns during natural disasters, In: Journal of Computational Social Science (JCSS), Vol. 4, No. 2, November 2021 (doi, pdf)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: Building blocks of communication networks in times of crises: Emotion-exchange motifs, In: Computers in Human Behavior (CHB), Vol. 123, October 2021 (doi)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: Emotional Communication during Crisis Events: Mining Structural OSN Patterns, In: IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 25, No. 2, March/April 2021 (doi)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: You talkin’ to me? Exploring Human/Bot Communication Patterns during Riot Events, In: Information Processing & Management (IPM), Vol. 57, No. 1, January 2020 (doi)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: Something draws near, I can feel it: An Analysis of Human and Bot Emotion-exchange Motifs on Twitter, In: Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM), Vol. 10-11, May 2019 (doi, pdf)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: An Analysis of Emotion-exchange Motifs in Multiplex Networks during Emergency Events, In: Applied Network Science, Vol. 4, March 2019 (doi, pdf)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck, M. Conti: Emotional Valence Shifts and User Behavior on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, In: Influence and Behavior Analysis in Social Networks and Social Media, Lecture Notes in Social Networks (LNSN), Springer, February 2019 (doi, pdf)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: Why so Emotional? An Analysis of Emotional Bot-generated Content on Twitter, In: Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk (COMPLEXIS), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, March 2018 (pdf)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: Politics, Sentiments, and Misinformation: An Analysis of the Twitter Discussion on the 2016 Austrian Presidential Elections, In: Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM), Vol. 5, March 2018 (doi, pdf)

• B. Hoisl, S. Sobernig, M. Strembeck: Reusable and Generic Design Decisions for Developing UML-based Domain-specific Languages, In: Information and Software Technology (IST), Vol. 92, December 2017 (doi, pdf)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck, G. Cascavilla, M. Conti: On the Influence of Emotional Valence Shifts on the Spread of Information in Social Networks, In: Proc. of the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Sydney, Australia, July/August 2017 (pdf)

• E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: A Decade of Security Research in Ubiquitous Computing: Results of a Systematic Literature Review, In: International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (IJPCC), Vol. 12, No. 2, July 2016 (doi, SLR protocol)

• S. Sobernig, B. Hoisl, M. Strembeck: Extracting Reusable Design Decisions for UML-based Domain-specific Languages: A Multi-method Study, In: Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Volume 113, March 2016 (doi, pdf, protocol)

• S. Schefer-Wenzl, M. Strembeck: Model-driven Specification and Enforcement of RBAC Break-Glass Policies for Process-Aware Information Systems, In: Information and Software Technology (IST), Vol. 56, No. 10, October 2014 (doi, pdf)

• S. Schefer-Wenzl, M. Strembeck: Modeling Support for Role-Based Delegation in Process-Aware Information Systems, In: Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE), Vol. 6, No. 4, August 2014 (doi, pdf)

• B. Hoisl, S. Sobernig, M. Strembeck: Modeling and Enforcing Secure Object Flows in Process-driven SOAs: An Integrated Model-driven Approach, In: Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Vol. 13, No. 2, May 2014 (doi, pdf)

• W. Hummer, P. Gaubatz, M. Strembeck, U. Zdun, S. Dustdar: Enforcement of Entailment Constraints in Distributed Service-Based Business Processes, In: Information and Software Technology (IST), Vol. 55, No. 11, November 2013 (doi, pdf)

• S. Schefer-Wenzl, M. Strembeck: Modeling Context-Aware RBAC Models for Mobile Business Processes, In: International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), Vol. 6, No. 5, 2013 (doi, pdf)

• K. Figl, J. Mendling, M. Strembeck: The Influence of Notational Deficiencies on Process Model Comprehension, In: Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Vol. 14, No. 6, June 2013 (pdf, web)

• A. Baumgrass, M. Strembeck: Bridging the Gap between Role Mining and Role Engineering via Migration Guides, In: Information Security Technical Report (ISTR), Vol. 17, No. 4, May 2013 (doi, pdf)

• J. Mendling, M. Strembeck, J. Recker: Factors of Process Model Comprehension - Findings from a Series of Experiments, In: Decision Support Systems (DSS), Vol. 53, No. 1, April 2012 (doi, pdf)

• M. Strembeck, J. Mendling: Modeling Process-related RBAC Models with Extended UML Activity Models, In: Information and Software Technology (IST), Vol. 53, No. 5, May 2011 (doi, pdf)

• M. Strembeck: Scenario-Driven Role Engineering, In: IEEE Security & Privacy, Vol. 8, No. 1, January/February 2010 (doi, pdf)

• M. Strembeck, U. Zdun: An Approach for the Systematic Development of Domain-Specific Languages, In: Software: Practice and Experience (SP&E), Vol. 39, No. 15, October 2009 (doi, pdf)

• U. Zdun, M. Strembeck: Reusable Architectural Decisions for DSL Design: Foundational Decisions in DSL Development, In: Proc. of the 14th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP), Irsee Monastery, Germany, July 2009 (ps, pdf)

• M. Strembeck, U. Zdun: Modeling Interdependent Concern Behavior Using Extended Activity Models, In: Journal of Object Technology (JOT), Vol. 7, No. 6, July-August 2008 (doi, pdf)

• U. Zdun, M. Strembeck, G. Neumann: Object-based and class-based composition of transitive mixins, In: Information and Software Technology (IST), Vol. 49, No. 8, August 2007 (doi, pdf)

• M. Strembeck: A Role Engineering Tool for Role-Based Access Control, In: Proc. of the 3rd Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS), Paris, France, August 2005 (ps, pdf)

• M. Strembeck, G. Neumann: An Integrated Approach to Engineer and Enforce Context Constraints in RBAC Environments, In: ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Vol. 7, No. 3, August 2004 (doi, pdf)

• G. Neumann, M. Strembeck: An Approach to Engineer and Enforce Context Constraints in an RBAC Environment, In: Proc. of 8th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Como, Italy, June 2003 (ps, pdf)

• G. Neumann, M. Strembeck: A Scenario-driven Role Engineering Process for Functional RBAC Roles, In: Proc. of 7th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Monterey, CA, USA, June 2002 (ps, pdf)

• G. Neumann, M. Strembeck: Design and Implementation of a Flexible RBAC-Service in an Object-Oriented Scripting Language, In: Proc. of the 8th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Philadelphia, PA, USA, November 2001 (ps, pdf, presentation)