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Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Networks, middleware, distributed and mobile systems

DISI carries out several research activities, both theoretical and applied, in the macro-area of distributed systems, cloud computing and middleware supporting highly efficient and scalable distributed services. The activities range from the sub-fields of
efficient management of distributed resources, to the development of context-aware distributed services, from middleware support for quality of service and location/context-awareness, to parallel and distributed simulation, from adaptive distributed multimedia systems
to content delivery networks. Regarding the activities on cloud computing, DISI is engaged in addressing many related technological challenges that are still unresolved in the literature and/or far from consolidated industrial-grade solutions, such as

  1. design of middleware architectures for dynamic configuration, management and optimization of resources and services on cloud;
  2. Algorithms and mechanisms for reducing energy consumption and optimizing resource utilization on datacenters;
  3. Optimized plans for dynamic allocation and migration of virtual machines, including heterogeneous ones;
  4. Dynamic federation of heterogeneous cloud systems;
  5. online stream processing with high scalability and quality-aware based on Map&Reduce-like techniques.

People

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Lorenzo Bacchiani

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: Microservices, Distributed Systems, Dynamic Adaptability, Programming Languages
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Paolo Bellavista

Full Professor

keywords: Edge Cloud Computing, Mobile Middleware, Industrial IoT, Digital Twins, Cloud Continuum Orchestration, Ultra Low
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Luciano Bononi

Full Professor

keywords: Network Communication Protocols and architectures, Wireless networks and systems, Sustainable electric vehicular
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Roberto Casadei

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: software engineering, programming paradigms, multi-agent systems, distributed systems, distributed artificial
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Anna Ciampolini

Full Professor

keywords: artificial intelligence, cloud computing, intelligent agents, high performance computing, virtualization
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Paolo Ciancarini

Full Professor

keywords: Software engineering, Distributed systems, Software architecture, Multi-agent systems and coordination, Artificial
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Giovanni Ciatto

Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

keywords: artificial intelligence, ingegneria del software, multi-agent systems, explainable artificial intelligence, logic
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Angela Cortecchia

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

keywords: Aggregate Computing, Pervasive Computing, Swarm Robotics, Intelligent Software Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems,
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Gabriele D'Angelo

Assistant professor

keywords: Simulation, Cybersecurity, Distributed systems, Parallel and distributed simulation, Performance evaluation,
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Stefano Ferretti

Full Professor

keywords: complex networks, distributed systems, machine learning, trustworthy AI, federated learning, blockchain, information
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Luca Foschini

Full Professor

keywords: Context Data Distribution, Context-Aware Systems, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Mobile Multimedia, Session
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Enrico Gallinucci

Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

keywords: Big Data, NoSQL Databases, Data Platform, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Knowledge Graphs, Social Data Analysis,
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Vittorio Ghini

Associate Professor

keywords: Terminal mobility architectures, Multi-layer simulation for IoT systems, Network load balancing, Energy consumption
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Saverio Giallorenzo

Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

keywords: Programming Languages, Process Algebras, Session Types, Choreographic Programming, Microservices, Dynamic Adaptability,
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Roberto Girau

Associate Professor

keywords: internet of things, cloud computing, smart city
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Matteo Golfarelli

Full Professor

keywords: Big Data, Data warehouse, Design process, Data Mining, Analytics, Social business intelligence, Opinion mining,
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Idio Guarino

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Network Traffic Analysis, Network Traffic Prediction, Network Traffic Classification, Network Traffic Modeling, Network
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Feng He

PhD Student

keywords: Edge computing, metaverse
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Abdelsalam Ali Helal

Full Professor

keywords: Architectural and programmability aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT), Service-oriented IoT architectures, IoT edge
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Daniela Loreti

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Sustainable HPC algorithms, Evaluation and containment of the energy consumption of AI algorithms., Parallel
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Moreno Marzolla

Associate Professor

keywords: High Performance Computing, Complex Systems, Distributed Systems, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Modeling and
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Andrea Melis

Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

keywords: Security, Cybersecurity, Privacy
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Rebecca Montanari

Full Professor

keywords: Policy-based management systems, Access-control models, Adaptive service provisioning in mobile systems, Semantic-based
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Sofia Montebugnoli

PhD Student

Titolare di incarico di ricerca

Teaching tutor

keywords: Radio Access Network, 5G, Cloud Computing, Cloud Continuum, Next Generation Networks, IoT
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Federico Montori

Associate Professor

keywords: Internet of Things, Digital Twins, Mobile Crowdsensing, Decentralized Architectures
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Gianluca Moro

Associate Professor

keywords: Text mining, Data mining, Deep learning, Cross-modal text and images retrieval, Transfer learning, Ad hoc data centric
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Mirco Musolesi

Full Professor

keywords: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Foundational models, Large language models, Generative Artificial
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Andrea Omicini

Full Professor

keywords: simulation, intelligent agents, multiparadigm languages, self-organising systems, pervasive computing, multiagent
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Danilo Pianini

Associate Professor

keywords: simulation, aggregate programming, Internet of Things, self-organization, collective adaptive systems, software
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Marco Prandini

Associate Professor

keywords: Software defined networking, Cybersecurity, Intrusion detection, Penetration testing, Cloud security, IoT security,
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Davide Rossi

Associate Professor

keywords: software engineering, web technologies, business process management, knwoledge graphs, coordination, process modeling,
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Domenico Scotece

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Fog Computing, Cloud Computing, IoT, Mobile Edge Computing, Mobile Cloud Computing, Wireless Network, Software Defined
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Davide Tazzioli

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

keywords: Platform Engineering, Cloud Continuum, IoT, Network, Cybersecurity, Kubernetes
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Angelo Trotta

Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

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Giorgio Tsiotas

PhD Student

keywords: Computer Vision, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing
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Mirko Viroli

Full Professor

keywords: Programming and specification languages, Multiagent systems, Simulation and verification, Coordination, Software