Luka Pavlič

Main research areas

• IT architectures
• effective IS/IT solutions and services development
• software engineering, DevOps
• development methods, methots for agile development, agile at scale/li>
• software quality assurance, technical debt

...and also

• native and hybrid mobile and web solutions
• mobile solutions and mobile software product lines
• nosql databases
• object orientation, Java platform
• (micro)service oriented architecture
• object design and analysis with UML
• reuse and design patterns
• XML-based technologies, such as XSD, XSLT, XPath, XQuery
• semantic web
• IS/IT solutions for large enterprises
• Java/Jakarta EE/Eclipse Microprofile/Spring

Education

• 2009 – PHD in Computer Science, University of Maribor, FERI.
• 2004 – BSC in Computer Science, University of Maribor, FERI.
• 2000 – computer technician, Velenje School Centre, PTERŠ.

Professional Certificates

• Sun Java Certified Programmer 6.0
• Certified SCRUM Master

Employment

• 2023 - : Researcher, associate professor, University of Maribor, FERI.
• 2017 - : Researcher, assistant professor, University of Maribor, FERI.
• 2010 - : Researcher, teaching assistant, University of Maribor, FERI.
• 2012 - : Lecturer, Management Center Innsbruck
• 2012 - 2014: Software Architect, RC-IKTS.
• 2004 - 2009: Researcher, University of Maribor, FERI.
• 2004 - 2005: Demonstrator, University of Maribor, FERI.
• 2002 - 2005: Software Architect, Developer, Information Technology Center.
• 2003: Teacher, SERŠ Maribor.
• 2002: Teacher, Velenje School Centre, PTERŠ.
• 2000 - 2003: Demonstrator, Velenje School Centre, PTERŠ.

Teaching @ UM, FERI

• Software Quality Assurance, 2017 - , ITK UN
• IT Architectures, 2021 - , ITK MAG
• Information Systems Development, 2017 - , ITK UN
• Praktikum II, 2010 - , ITK UN
• Praktikum - Web technologies and content, 2019 - , ITK/MK UN
• Software architectures and design patterns, 2010 - , ITK UN
• Strategic Planning, 2017 - , ITK MAG
• Service oriented architectures, 2012 - 2017, ITK MAG
• Praktikum I, 2010 - 2017, ITK UN
• Web technologies, 2013 - 2017, ITK UN
• Information system platforms, 2012, ITK UN
• Component development and use, 2007 - 2010, ITK UN
• Programming 2, 2004 - 2007, RI UN
• Information system development, 2005 - 2007, RI UN

Demonstrations, consultant and summer/winter schools

• Platforms Java, Jakarta EE in Spring
• Microservice architecture, deployment using containers (Docker / K8S)
• Best practices to develop and deploy AI solutions in cloud
• Android, Kotlin
• Angular 2, Node.JS, Express, Mongo DB - winter school
• Several topics on agile and iterative development processes
• Web and mobile application monetization techniques
• Scrum
• Android development - winter school
• Several topics on NoSql databases
• Several topics on Java EE, JBoss, Primefaces, EJB, JSF, JMS
• Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 7 Programmer - training
• Python basics
• Several topics on Java: basics, distributed development, multithreading, collections, XML-related libraries etc.
• Semantic web
• C++ language and libraries
• Object orientation, design patterns
• Portal servers
• XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 for developers
• Oracle XML document storage for developers

Visits on partner institutions

• Management Center Innsbruck, Austria
  Teaching: Software Engineering, eCommunication, Current and Applied Technologies, Master IT foundation course.
• European Institute od Innovation & Technology (EIT), Budapest, Hungary
  EIT ICT Labs joint member
• University of Jilin, China
  Project-based cooperation
• University St. Kliment Ohridski - Bitola, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Republic of North Macedonia
  Teaching (Software Engineering: Traditional development meets agile approaches)
• Paissi Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgaria
  Teaching (Semantic Web Technologies: Fundamentals, Tools, Cases and Best Practices)
• Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
  Research visit, teaching (Semantic Web Technologies: Fundamentals, Tools, Cases and Best Practices; Software Architectures with Java EE)
• János Selye University, Department of informatics, Pedagogical Faculty, Slovakia
  Teaching (Introduction to OO-programming with Java)
• Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of informatics, Budapest, Hungary
  Long-term research visit, teaching (OO concepts in UML, Java and C#)
• Tampere University of Technology, Finland
  Erasmus exchange.
• University College Cork, Ireland
  Invited lecturer.

Professional and scientific conferences membership

• KMO - International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations - program board member (2012 - 2023)
• OTS - Sodobne informacijske rešitve in storitve - program board lead (2023)
• OTS - Sodobne informacijske rešitve in storitve - program board member (2011 - 2022)
• OTS - Sodobne informacijske rešitve in storitve - organization boardmember (2005 - 2023)
• SQAMIA - Software Quality Analysis, Monitoring, Improvement, and Applications - program board member (2022, 2023)
• NWISEd - Workshop on Co-Creating New Ways of Information Systems Education - workshop lead, program board member (2023)

Some publications

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• Luka Pavlič; Tilen Hliš; Marjan Heričko; Tina Beranič. The Gap between the Admitted and the Measured Technical Debt: An Empirical Study. Applied Sciences 2022, 12, 7482. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12157482
• Marjan Heričko; Tina Beranič; Luka Pavlič. The Assessment Pattern Catalog for a Distant Education: The Study of the Classroom Applicability. 2022, 30 -41. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08890-2_3
• PAVLIČ, Luka, BERANIČ, Tina, BREZOČNIK, Lucija, HERIČKO, Marjan. Towards a novel catalog of assessment patterns for distant education in the information technology domain. Computers & Education : an international journal. [Print ed.]. Available online 15 February 2022, str. 1-25, ilustr. ISSN 0360-1315. DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2022.104470.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, BERANIČ, Tina, HERIČKO, Marjan. A product quality impacts of a mobile software product line : an empirical study. PeerJ computer science. 27 April 2021, str. 1-26. ISSN 2376-5992. https://peerj.com/articles/cs-434/, DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.434.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan, BERANIČ, Tina. An expert judgment in source code quality research domain - a comparative study between professionals and students. Applied sciences. 2020, vol. 10, iss. 20, str. 1-13, ilustr. ISSN 2076-3417. DOI: 10.3390/app10207088.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan, PODGORELEC, Vili, REPOLUSK, Polona. An entropy-based algorithm for proposing a suitable design pattern. Informatica, ISSN 0868-4952, 2016, vol. 27, no. 4, str. 843-862, doi: 10.15388/Informatica.2016.114.
• SCHWEIGHOFER, Tina, KLINE, Andrej, PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan. How is effort estimated in agile software development projects?. V: BUDIMAC, Zoran (ur.), HORVÁTH, Zoltán (ur.), KOZSIK, Tamás (ur.). SQAMIA 2016 : proceedings, (CEUR workshop proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol. 1677). Novi Sad: Department of mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, cop. 2016, str. 73-80. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1677/paper09.pdf.
• BREZOČNIK, Lucija, MAJER, Črtomir, PAVLIČ, Luka. Scrum, Kanban in Scrumban - kdaj, zakaj, kako?. V: HERIČKO, Marjan (ur.), KOUS, Katja (ur.). Sodobne tehnologije in storitve : OTS 2016 : zbornik enaindvajsete konference, Maribor, 14. in 15. junij 2016, Enaindvajseta konferenca OTS 2016, Maribor, 14. in 15. junij 2016. Maribor: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko, Inštitut za informatiko, 2016, str. 37-48.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan, KEŽMAH, Boštjan. NoSql data storage impact - an assesment via a case study. V: WELZER-DRUŽOVEC, Tatjana (ur.), et al. Information modelling and knowledge bases XXVII, (Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications, ISSN 0922-6389, vol. 280). Amsterdam; Berlin; Washington (DC): IOS Press, cop. 2016, str. 340-347.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, RIZVIĆ, Selma, MONGUS, Domen. Digital production pipeline for virtual cultural heritage applications using interactive storytelling. V: LUGMAYR, Artur (ur.), et al. Information systems and management in media and entertainment industries, (International series on computer entertainment and media technology (Online), ISSN 2364-9488). Cham: Springer, cop. 2016, str. 223-244, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-49407-4_11.
• KARAKATIČ, Sašo, PAVLIČ, Luka, ARUMUGAM, Gurusamy, THANGARAJ, Muthuraman, HERIČKO, Marjan. Survey on software testing for big data applications. V: HERIČKO, Marjan (ur.). Sodelovanje, programska oprema in storitve v informacijski družbi : zbornik 18. mednarodne multikonference Informacijska družba - IS 2015, 12. oktober 2015, [Ljubljana, Slovenia] : zvezek D = Collaboration, software and services in information society : proceedings of the 18th International Multiconference Information Society - IS 2015, October 12th, 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia : volume D. Ljubljana: Institut Jožef Stefan, 2015, str. 21-24. http://library.ijs.si/Stacks/Proceedings/InformationSociety/2015/IS2015_Volume_D%20-%20Sodelovanje.pdf.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, VAUPOTIČ, Marko, HERIČKO, Marjan. An evaluation model for web-service-based information system integration. V: Data analysis method for software systems. Vilnius: Vilnius University, 2015, str. 41.
• BREZOČNIK, Lucija, PODBOJEC, Damir, REDNJAK, Zlatko, SAGADIN, Klemen, SOKLEVSKI, Blagoj, TEPEŠ, Nejc, HERIČKO, Marjan, PAVLIČ, Luka, VLAOVIČ, Boštjan. Celovito testiranje lokacijsko odvisnih storitev = Holistic location-based services testing. V: ZAJC, Baldomir (ur.), TROST, Andrej (ur.). Zbornik štiriindvajsete mednarodne Elektrotehniške in računalniške konference ERK 2015, 21. - 23. september 2015, Portorož, Slovenija, (Zbornik ... Elektrotehniške in računalniške konference ERK ..., ISSN 1581-4572, 24). Ljubljana: IEEE Region 8, Slovenska sekcija IEEE, 2015, zv. B, str. 182, ilustr.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan, KEŽMAH, Boštjan. NoSql data storage impact - assessment through a case study : lecture presented at EJC 2015, 25th international conference on information modelling and knowledge bases, 12 June, Maribor, Slovenija.
• PAVLIČ, Luka. Hramba in obdelava velikih količin podatkov s pomočjo produktov "NoSql" : prispevek na seminarski delavnici na OTS 2014, 19. konferenci Sodobne tehnologije in storitve, 17. in 18. junij 2014, Maribor. 2014.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, PODGORELEC, Vili, HERIČKO, Marjan. A question-based design pattern advisement approach. Computer science and information systems, ISSN 1820-0214. [Print ed.], 2014, vol. 11, no. 2, str. 645-664, doi: 10.2298/CSIS130824025P.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan. Pomen pristopa programskih produktnih linij pri razvoju programske opreme naslednje generacije. V: SIMIČ, Nikolaj (ur.). Omrežja prihodnosti : zbornik referatov, Trideseta delavnica o telekomunikacijah, 12. in 13. maj 2014, Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenija, (VITEL, ISSN 1581-6737). Ljubljana: Elektrotehniška zveza Slovenije, 2014, f. 73-76, ilustr.
• PLAVČAK, Gregor, ARZENŠEK, Boštjan, PAVLIČ, Luka. Zagotavljanje prihodkov od mobilnih aplikacij - tehnični vidik. V: HERIČKO, Marjan (ur.), KOUS, Katja (ur.). Sodobne tehnologije in storitve : OTS 2014 : zbornik devetnajste konference, Maribor, 17. in 18. junij 2014. Maribor: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko, Inštitut za informatiko, 2014, str. 40-52.
• PAVLIČ, Luka. The mobile product line. V: BUDIMAC, Zoran (ur.). SQAMIA 2013 : proceedings. Novi Sad: Department of mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, cop. 2013, str. 64-69.
• PAVLIČ, Luka. Primefaces in razvoj bogatih uporabniških vmesnikov : prispevek na seminarski delavnici na OTS 2013, 18. konferenci Sodobne tehnologije in storitve, 18. in 19. junij 2013, Maribor. 2013.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, PODGORELEC, Vili, HERIČKO, Marjan. Semantic web technologies : opportunities for accelerating the e-services market : lecture, presented on the KMO 2013, Eight International Knowledge management in Organizations Conference Social and Big Data Computing for Knowledge Management, 9th - 13th September, 2013. 2013.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan, PUŠNIK, Maja. Semantic-based e-services platform : lecture, presented on The Eighth International conference on Networking and Services, ICBS 2012, March 25-30, 2012, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. 2012.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan, PODGORELEC, Vili. Entropy- and ontology-based e-services proposing approach. V: UDEN, Lorna (ur.). 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations : Service and Cloud Computing : [11th-13th July, 2012, Salamanca, Spain], (Advances in intelligent systems and computing, ISSN 2194-5357, 172). Springer-Verlag, cop. 2012; New York; Dordrecht; London, str. 409-420.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan, PUŠNIK, Maja. Improving e-services adoption with semantic e-services platform and question-based approach. V: HUNJAK, Tihomir (ur.), LOVRENČIĆ, Sandra (ur.), TOMIČIĆ, Igor (ur.). Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems CECIIS, 23rd international conference 2012, September 19th-21nd 2012, Varaždin, Croatia, 23rd Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems, September 19th-21st, 2012, Varaždin, Croatia, (CECIIS, ISSN 1847-2001). Varaždin: Faculty of Organization and Informatics, 2012, str. 363-369, ilustr.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan. Semantic web as an enabling technology for better e-services addoption. V: World academy of science, engineering and technology. Part 15, WASET 2011, November, 28-30, 2011, Venice, Italy, (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, ISSN 2010-376X, issue 59, Nov. 2011). [S. l.]: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2011, iss. 61, str. 295-298. http://www.waset.org/journals/ijshs/v6/v6-5.pdf.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, FLISAR, Jernej, HERIČKO, Marjan. OSSP - odprta semantičma storitvena platforma. V: HERIČKO, Marjan (ur.), ŽIVKOVIČ, Aleš (ur.), KOUS, Katja (ur.). Sodobne tehnologije in storitve : OTS 2010 : zbornik petnajste konference, Maribor, 15. in 16. junij 2010. Maribor: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko, Inštitut za informatiko, 2010, str. 183-190.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan, PODGORELEC, Vili, ROZMAN, Ivan. Improving design pattern adoption with an ontology-based repository. Informatica, ISSN 0350-5596, 2009, vol. 33, no. 2, str. 189-197.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan. Semantic web as an enabling technology for better design pattern adoption. V: AURER, Boris (ur.), BAČA, Miroslav (ur.), RABUZIN, Kornelije (ur.). Conference proceedings, 19th Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems, September 24-26, 2008, Varaždin, Croatia. Varaždin: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organisation and Informatics, 2008, str. 649-653.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan, JUSTINEK, Marko, HRIBAR, Uroš, LENART, Gregor. Razvoj platforme za podporo učenju na daljavo z mobilnimi igrami = Mobile game-based learning platform development. V: Interoperabilnost kot izziv informatiki, Zbornik prispevkov, Dnevi slovenske informatike 2008 - DSI, Portorož, Slovenija, 09.-11. april. Ljubljana: Slovensko društvo Informatika, 2008, str. 1-10.
• PAVLIČ, Luka. Kam gre java?. V: HERIČKO, Marjan (ur.), ŽIVKOVIČ, Aleš (ur.). Sodobne tehnologije in storitve : OTS'2008, zbornik trinajste konference, Maribor, 11. in 12. junij 2008, Trinajsta konferenca OTS'2008, Maribor, 11. in 12. junij 2008. Maribor: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko, Inštitut za informatiko: Center odličnosti za sodobne informacijske tehnologije in storitve, 2008, str. 1-10.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, PODGORELEC, Vili, ROZMAN, Ivan. Formalizing design patterns with ontologies. V: BOHANEC, Marko (ur.), et al. Zbornik 11. mednarodne multikonference Informacijska družba - IS 2008, 13.-17. oktober 2008 : zvezek A = Proceedings of the 11th International Multiconference Information Society - IS 2008, October 13th-17th, 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia : volume A, (Informacijska družba, ISSN 1581-9973). Ljubljana: Institut "Jožef Stefan", 2008, str. 258-261.
• PODGORELEC, Vili, PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan. Semantic web based integration of knowledge resources for supporting collaboration = Semantična integracija virov znanja v podporo sodelovanja. Informatica, ISSN 0350-5596, mar. 2007, let. 31, št. 1, str. 85-91.
• PAVLIČ, Luka. Poenostavitve v Java EE. V: HERIČKO, Marjan (ur.), ŽIVKOVIČ, Aleš (ur.). Sodobne tehnologije in storitve : OTS'2007 : zbornik dvanajste konference, Maribor, 13. in 14. junij 2007. Maribor: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko, Inštitut za informatiko, 2007, str. 55-65.
• UDEN, Lorna, SALMENJOKI, Kimmo, HERIČKO, Marjan, PAVLIČ, Luka. Metadata for research and development collaboration between universities. International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies, ISSN 1744-2621, 2006, vol. 1, no. 4, str. 295-305. http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=record&rec_id=12953&prevQuery=&ps=10&m=or.
• PAVLIČ, Luka. Grafični prikaz prevoženih poti v sistemu e-cestninjenja. V: HERIČKO, Marjan (ur.), ŽIVKOVIČ, Aleš (ur.). Sodobne tehnologije in storitve : OTS'2006, zbornik enajste konference, Maribor, 13. in 14. junij 2006. Maribor: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko, Inštitut za informatiko: Center odličnosti za sodobne informacijske tehnologije in storitve, 2006, str. 103-110.
• PODGORELEC, Vili, PAVLIČ, Luka, HERIČKO, Marjan. Nepostopkovno sklepanje v aplikaciji semantičnega spleta. V: ZAJC, Baldomir (ur.), TROST, Andrej (ur.). Zbornik petnajste mednarodne Elektrotehniške in računalniške konference ERK 2006, 25. - 27. september 2006, Portorož, Slovenija, (Zbornik ... Elektrotehniške in računalniške konference ERK ..., ISSN 1581-4572). Ljubljana: IEEE Region 8, Slovenska sekcija IEEE, 2006, zv. B, str. 55-58.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, PODGORELEC, Vili, HERIČKO, Marjan. Prototipna informacijska rešitev na osnovi semantičnega spleta. V: ZAJC, Baldomir (ur.), TROST, Andrej (ur.). Zbornik petnajste mednarodne Elektrotehniške in računalniške konference ERK 2006, 25. - 27. september 2006, Portorož, Slovenija, (Zbornik ... Elektrotehniške in računalniške konference ERK ..., ISSN 1581-4572). Ljubljana: IEEE Region 8, Slovenska sekcija IEEE, 2006, zv. B, str. 59-62.
• PAVLIČ, Luka, PODGORELEC, Vili. Podpora tehnologijam semantičnega spleta v podatkovni bazi Oracle 10g. V: 11. strokovno srečanje SIOUG 2006, Portorož, 08.-11. oktober 2006. [Ljubljana: SIOUG, 2006], str. 20.
• PAVLIČ, Luka. Projektno vodenje v virtualnih skupinah. V: NOVAKOVIĆ, Aleksander (ur.), et al. Informatika kot temelj povezovanja : zbornik posvetovanja, DSI - Dnevi slovenske informatike 2005, Portorož, Slovenija, 13.-15. april. Ljubljana: Slovensko društvo Informatika, 2005, str. 778-784.
• ŠUMAK, Boštjan, PUŠNIK, Maja, PAVLIČ, Luka. Podpora tehnologijam XML v podatkovni bazi Oracle : predavanje na 10. strokovnem srečanju uporabnikov programske opreme Oracle SIOUG 2005 in Oracle konferenci za razvijalce, Portorož, 18. - 21. september 2005. Portorož, 2005.

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