Research

Research Interests

My general research areas are:

• Software Engineering, with specific interests on extra functional properties and adaptation. In practice, I am currently researching into the following topics:
  • Software modeling;
  • Software Performance Analysis;
  • Performance Antipatterns;
  • (Performance) model-based run-time reconfiguration;
  • Non-Functional Analysis of Context-aware systems;
  • Bio-inspired paradigms for self-adaptive systems;
  • Guided generation of Data Science workflow that satisfy Quality requirements (such as debais, fairness and explainability)

• Data Science with specific interest on:
  • Quality in Data Science and Machine Learning pipeline (such as debais, fairness and explainability)
  • Data science applied to reduce risks for citizens due to natural disaster (e.g., evacuation planning and safe place identification), to manage emergency (e.g., citizen evacuation) and post-disaster process (city reconstruction)
  • Bioinformatics: to deep understand biological processes in case of cancer deseases; to identify risky indicators for humans' health: personalized medicine (from diagnosis to treatment.

Research Groups

I am a member of the Software Engineering and Architecture Laboratory at University of L'Aquila and I belong to the following research groups:

• Quality of Service Group;
• Bio-inspired Software Engineering Group;
• Bio-Informatics Group;

I am also a collaborator of the SENSO LAB at the Middlesex University, London, U.K.

I am a member of the following CINI Laboratories and working group:

• INFOLIFE (coordinator of Università dell'Aquila node)
• Smart Cities and Communities
• System and Service Quality Working Group

Research Projects

Ongoing Project:

• Territori Aperti  (I'm involved in the coordination committee)
• SoBigData++ (EU INFRARIA project - I'm the team coordinator of University of L'Aquila)
• EMELIOT  (PRIN project - call 2021)

Past Projects:

• VISION ERC FP7 ideas Project -grant number 240555. (2010-2014)
• CONNECT FET Project (Grant agreement no.: 231167) (2009-2012).
• STEM and PROTEUS Language. Project in collaboration with Franco Raimondi- Middlesex University, London, U.K.
• PANDA-AEMILIA. Internal Project.
• PLASTIC Strep Project - grant number 026955. (2005-2009)
• SIMPLICITY European Project - IST-2004-507558.
• MIUR D-ASAP (2008-2009), PRIN Project
• MIUR PACO PRIN Project (2008-2009)
• MIUR SAHARA 2002-2003, PRIN Project
• MIUR PERFORMANCE - Valutazione delle Prestazioni dei Sistemi Complessi: Tecniche, Metodologie e Strumenti. - FIRB Project

Organization Commitee

• 20th IEEE Int. Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PER-COM 2022) - Workshop Chair
• 19th IEEE Int. Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PER-COM 2021) - PhD Forum Chair
• 18th IEEE Int. Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PER-COM 2020) - Demo Chair
• 10th International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2019) - GeneralChair
• 14th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW2017) - Program Chair
• - 1st CINI InfoLife Laboratory Workshop (INFOLIFE2017) - Program Chair
• 8th International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2017) - LocalChair
• Italian Student Contest on Software Engineering (SCORE-it) at the 37th Interna-tional Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2015) - Co-Chair
• Special session on “the quest for case studies” within the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Engineering Service-Oriented Systems (PESOS 2012)
• The 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2008.
• The 1st International Workshop on Automated engineeRing of Autonomous and run- tiMe evolvIng Systems (ARAMIS 2008).

Program Commitee (main)

• 26th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE)
• 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML2022)
• 44th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022) - Soft-ware Engineering in Practice
• IEEE International Conference on Pervasive computing and communications (Per-Com 2017-2022)
• ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2017,ICPE 2020 and 2022)
• International Workshop on Automated and verifiable Software sYstem DEvelop-ment (ASYDE since 2019)
• International Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for Software Architecture(MDE4SA since 2020)
• Future@STAF 2020 Future of Modeling
• European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2019 - 2020)
• International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018-2019) - Demo andPoster Tracks
• 2nd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA2018)
• womENcourage - ACM-W Europe Celebration of Women in Computing (2016,2018)
• International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (2009-2013);
• European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2012)

Reviewer for the following Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
• IEEE Internet Computing.
• ACM Computer Survey.
• ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive System.
• Springer Journal on Software and Systems Modeling.
• Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software.
• International Journal of Computing and Information Sciences.
• International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making.
• ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R).
• LNCS Proceedings on COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL SYSTEMS.