Paper# : 1570631616
Authors
Filippo Bosi
Antonio Corradi
Antonio Corradi received the degree from the University of Bologna, Italy, and the degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, USA. He has been a Full Professor of computer engineering in the area of computer networks and middleware for distributed systems with the University of Bologna since 2000. He has served in many roles in editing activities and research ones. In the last decade, he also acted in technology transfer. He is the Head of the CLUSTER “Innovation in Services” for Regione Emilia Romagna, and also devoted to enhance internationalization strategies for the University of Bologna. His research interests include distributed systems, middleware for pervasive and heterogeneous computing, infrastructure for services, cloud solutions and federation standards, mobile systems and social applications for smart cities, industry 4.0 support and protocol, and smart city monitoring and crowdsourcing.
Giuseppe Di Modica
Giuseppe Di Modica is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Bologna (Italy). In 2005 he received the Ph.D. in Computer Science and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Catania (Italy). Since then, he has been engaged in research activities focused on Mobile Agents, Ad-hoc Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobile Computing, Service Oriented Architectures and Grids. His current research interests include Cloud Computing, IoT, Edge/Fog Computing and Big Data.
Luca Foschini
Luca Foschini received the Ph.D.degree in computer engineering from the University of Bologna in 2007. He is currently an Assistant Professor of computer engineering with the University of Bologna. His research interests include distributed systems and solutions for system and service management, management of cloud computing, context data distribution platforms for smart city scenarios,context-aware session control, mobile edge computing, and mobile crowdsensing and crowdsourcing. He is also a member of ACM. Among others, he serves on the Editorial Board of the IGI IJHCR and Hindawi IJDSN and WCMC. He has served as a guest editor for various journal special issues in his topics of interest.
Rebecca Montanari
Rebecca Montanari received the Ph.D.degree in computer science engineering from theUniversity of Bologna, in 2001. She is currently an Associate Professor of computer engineering with the University of Bologna. Her research primarily focuses on semantic-based middleware supports for service provisioning, context-aware services, security solutions for pervasive environments, policy-based service management, and adaptive and scalable middleware solutions for systems and service management
Lorenzo Patera
Lorenzo Patera received the M.Sc. degree in computer science engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy. He is currently a Ph.D. student in computer science and engineering with the University of Bologna. His research interests include Cloud and Fog computing, middleware for Industry 4.0 applications, Internet of Things
Michele Solimando
Michele Solimando received the master’s degree in computer science engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2016, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree. His research activity focuses on Industry 4.0, cloud and fog computing scenarios, multi-access edge computing, IoT, crowd-sensing, and big data.
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