2026 Philipp Leitner: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	43	8075	7848	57	56	158	6540

Overview

Philipp Leitner is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a primary focus on software engineering and system performance.

The scientist's research covers multiple subfields including:

Information Systems
Computer Networks and Communications
Software
Artificial Intelligence
Hardware and Architecture

The main topics addressed in their work encompass:

Software System Performance and Reliability
Software Engineering Research
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Cloud Computing and Resource Management
Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Software Reliability and Analysis Research

Notable recent publications include:

Function-as-a-Service performance evaluation: A multivocal literature review, 2020, Journal of Systems and Software
Beyond Code Generation: An Observational Study of ChatGPT Usage in Software Engineering Practice, 2024, Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering
A systematic mapping study of source code representation for deep learning in software engineering, 2022, IET Software
Applying test case prioritization to software microbenchmarks, 2021, Empirical Software Engineering
An empirical study of the systemic and technical migration towards microservices, 2023, Empirical Software Engineering

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, among them:

Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto
Peter Samoaa
Joel Scheuner
Hamdy Michael Ayas
Mazen Mohamad

Philipp Leitner's work has been published across several venues, with multiple contributions to:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Systems and Software
Empirical Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

These publications and the range of topics covered illustrate a broad engagement with software-related performance, testing, and engineering research, as well as advancements in cloud computing and resource management.

Best Publications

Optimized IoT service placement in the fog

Olena Skarlat;Matteo Nardelli;Stefan Schulte;Michael Borkowski

402
Citations
Extraction of Microservices from Monolithic Software Architectures

Genc Mazlami;Jurgen Cito;Philipp Leitner

268
Citations
Patterns in the Chaos—A Study of Performance Variation and Predictability in Public IaaS Clouds

Philipp Leitner;Jürgen Cito

241
Citations
Resource Provisioning for IoT Services in the Fog

Olena Skarlat;Stefan Schulte;Michael Borkowski;Philipp Leitner

223
Citations
Monitoring, Prediction and Prevention of SLA Violations in Composite Services

Philipp Leitner;Anton Michlmayr;Florian Rosenberg;Schahram Dustdar

210
Citations
Monitoring and Analyzing Influential Factors of Business Process Performance

Branimir Wetzstein;Philipp Leitner;Florian Rosenberg;Ivona Brandic

178
Citations
Comparing and Combining Predictive Business Process Monitoring Techniques

Andreas Metzger;Philipp Leitner;Dragan Ivanovic;Eric Schmieders

167
Citations
Comprehensive QoS monitoring of Web services and event-based SLA violation detection

Anton Michlmayr;Florian Rosenberg;Philipp Leitner;Schahram Dustdar

165
Citations
Cost-Based Optimization of Service Compositions

P. Leitner;W. Hummer;S. Dustdar

159
Citations
Runtime prediction of service level agreement violations for composite services

Philipp Leitner;Branimir Wetzstein;Florian Rosenberg;Anton Michlmayr

157
Citations
A mixed-method empirical study of Function-as-a-Service software development in industrial practice

Philipp Leitner;J. Erik Wittern;Josef Spillner;Waldemar Hummer

151
Citations
An empirical analysis of the docker container ecosystem on GitHub

Jurgen Cito;Gerald Schermann;John Erik Wittern;Philipp Leitner

144
Citations
End-to-End Support for QoS-Aware Service Selection, Binding, and Mediation in VRESCo

A Michlmayr;F Rosenberg;P Leitner;S Dustdar

141
Citations
An End-to-End Approach for QoS-Aware Service Composition

Florian Rosenberg;Predrag Celikovic;Anton Michlmayr;Philipp Leitner

126
Citations
An empirical analysis of build failures in the continuous integration workflows of Java-based open-source software

Thomas Rausch;Waldemar Hummer;Philipp Leitner;Stefan Schulte

126
Citations
Winds of Change: From Vendor Lock-In to the Meta Cloud

B. Satzger;W. Hummer;C. Inzinger;P. Leitner

125
Citations
The making of cloud applications: an empirical study on software development for the cloud

Jürgen Cito;Philipp Leitner;Thomas Fritz;Harald C. Gall

113
Citations
An empirical study of bots in software development: characteristics and challenges from a practitioner’s perspective

Linda Erlenhov;Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto;Philipp Leitner

102
Citations
Esc: Towards an Elastic Stream Computing Platform for the Cloud

Benjamin Satzger;Waldemar Hummer;Philipp Leitner;Schahram Dustdar

101
Citations
Daios: Efficient Dynamic Web Service Invocation

P. Leitner;F. Rosenberg;S. Dustdar

99
Citations
End-to-End Versioning Support for Web Services

P. Leitner;A. Michlmayr;F. Rosenberg;S. Dustdar

95
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Schahram Dustdar TU Wien

Harald C. Gall University of Zurich

Florian Rosenberg IBM (United States)

Uwe Zdun University of Vienna

Frank Leymann University of Stuttgart

Klaus Pohl University of Duisburg-Essen

Rajiv Ranjan Newcastle University

Sebastiano Panichella University of Zurich

Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne

Onn Shehory Bar-Ilan University

External Links

Personal website of Philipp Leitner Google Scholar page

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