Research Activities
Research Interests:
Blockchain Technology
Blockchain Online Social Media
NFTs and Metaverse
Decentralized online social networks
Decentralized Storage
Social network analysis
Awards:
Best Paper Award: HyVVE: A Voronoi Based Hybrid Architecture for Massively Multiplayer On-Line Games, with L.Genovali, B.Guidi, DCNET 2013, 4-th International Conference on Data Communication Networking, Reykjavik, Island, July 29-31th 2013.
Best Paper Award: Guidi, Barbara; Michienzi, Andrea; Rossetti, Giulio. “Dynamic Community Analysis in Decentralized Online Social Networks”. International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, LSDVE Workshop, 28 August 2017 (pp. 517-528). Springer, Cham.
Best Paper Award: De Salve, Andrea; Guidi, Barbara; Michienzi, Andrea. “Exploiting community detection to recommend privacy policies in Decentralized Online Social Networks”. International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, LSDVE Workshop, 27 August 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Best Paper Award: Decentralized Cloud Scheduling via SmartContracts. Operational constraints and costs Adrian Spataru, Laura Ricci, Dana Petcu, Barbara Guidi, 6th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2019), Granda, Spain, October 22-25, 2019, https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2019/index.php
Current Projects
PRA-2020. Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo "Servizi pubblici e piattaforme digitali. Categorie giuridiche, processi, garanzie"
HELIOS - H2020 Project. (https://helios-h2020.eu/)
Past Projects
PRA-2016. Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo "Big Data, Social Mining and Risk Management."
Other:
PhD. Students
Andrea Michienzi (2017 -2020)
Editorship
Academic Editor "Plos One"
Associate Editor "IET Networks"
Academic Editor "Communications" - SciencePG
Guest Editor Special Issue "Large Scale Cooperative Virtual Environments", Wiley, Concurrency, Practice and Experience, 2017.
Guest Editor Special issue in Mobile Networking and Applications (Elsevier). "Editorial: Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good (GOODTECHS 2017)" (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11036-018-1116-x).
Guest Editor of the Special Issue in Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer). "Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good".
Guest Editor of the Special Issue in Social Media + Society. "Re-Imaging a more trustworthy Social Media Future"(https://www.adaptcentre.ie/call-for-papers-special-issue-of-social-media-and-society).
Guest Editor of the Special Issue in Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer). "Information Technology for Social Good". Submission Deadline: 15 dicembre 2021.
Conference/Workshops Chairmanship and Track Organizations
Co-Chair GOODTECHS 2017, 3rd EAI Int. Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Goods, November 29-30, 2017, Pisa, Italy,
SoNeC 2020: 1st IEEE Inter. Workshop on Social Network Computing & Big Data, in conjunction with COMPSAC 2020
Track Session Chairs: Open Challanges in Online Social Networks, 2nd EAI Int. Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social goods, Venice, Italy, 30 November - 1 December 2016