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Laura Ricci
Assistant Professor

Associate Professor Habilitation in Computer Science,
ASN 2016-2018.
Member of the:
-Research Evaluation Commettee, Area 01, University of Pisa
-Steering Commette of the Department of Computer Science

Department of Computer Science
University of Pisa
Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3, I-56127, Pisa, Italy
email: ricci(AT)di.unipi.it
skype: lauraemiliaricci
phone: +39 050 22127.68,
fax: +39 050 22127.26
question time:
thursday 15.00 PM -18.00 PM

Highlights

Conferences and Special Issues:

General cochair of GOODTECHS 2017, 3rd EAI Int. Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Goods, November 29-30, 2017, Pisa, Italy, submission deadline 30 August 2017.

Special issue of Springer Journal of Grid Computing on Large Scale Cooperative Virtual Environments, deadline 30 November 2017, downlaod the CFP here

Program Commettee member : 32nd IEEE Parallel and Distributed Computing Symposium, May 21-25 2018, Vancuver, Canada, deadline October 17, 2017

Program Commettee member: Complex Networks 2016, 6th International Conference on Comlex Networks and their Applications, 29 November - 1 December 2017, Lyon, France

Recently Accepted papers

Data driven analysis of Boitcoin properties: exploiting the urers graph, D. Di Francesco Maesa, A. Marino, L. Ricci, accepted for pubblication in International Journal of Data Science and Analytics.
A Logical Key Hierarchy based approach to preserve content privacy in Decentralized Online Socil Networks , A. De Salve, R. Di Pietro, P. Mori, L, Ricci accepted for pubblication in IEEE Transaction on Dependable and Secure Computing. 2017
"Scalable and flexible clustering solutions for mobile phone based population indicators", A. Lulli, L. Gabrielli, M. Dell'Amico, P. Dazzi, P. Michiardi, M. Nanni, L. Ricci, accepted for pubblication in International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 2017

NG-Dbscan: Scalable Density-Based Clustering for Arbitrary Data, with M.Dell'Amico, A.Lulli, P.Michiardi, accepted for pubblication in VLDB 2017, PVLDB, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 10, Munich, August 2017.

Our paper Fast Connected Components in Large Graphs by Vertex Pruning with Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi, Alessandro Lulli, Claudio Lucchese, has been accepted for pubblication in Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Rating ANVUR A)
Model driven generation of mobility traces for Distributed Virtual Environments with TRACE, E.Carlini, A. Lulli, L.Ricci, accepted for pubblication in Concurrency and Computations: Practice and Experience.

A data aggregation strategy for the Internet of Things, A. De Salve, B. Guidi, SYNASC 2017, 19-th Int. Symposium on Symbolic and Numerical Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, September 2017

Evaluating the impact of friend in predicting user's availability in Online Social Networks, A. De Salve, P. Mori, L. Ricci, First International Workshop on Personal Analytics and Privacy, PAP 2017, in conjunction with ECML PKDD 2017

Teaching

2017-18-Laboratorio di Programmazione di Reti - A 6 CFU Primo semestre, Laurea Triennale in Informatica

2016-17: Peer to Peer Systems [6 CFU, second semester], Master Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science and Networking, Business Informatics, University of Pisa.

This year, the course Peer to Peer System and Blockchains introduces bockchain technology whic has been ranked as one of the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2016, see the Report of the World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies. For more information about the new course, look here. Our research group is also investigating this new challenging research topic.

PhD Students

Current Students

Andrea De Salve, Phd Student at Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa, 2013-2016
Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Phd Student at Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa, 2014-2017.

Former Students

Barbara Guidi - post doc at the Department of Computer Science, Pisa,
Emanuele Carlini - researcher, tenure track, HPC-Lab, ISTI, CNR, Pisa.
Luca Genovali - enterprise manager
Alessandro Lulli - post doc at SmartLab, DIBRIS Department, University of Genova
Davide Mascitti - Biobeats, start-up University of Pisa.

Available Thesis

Some proposals for Master/Bachelor Thesis:

Blockchain technology: Bitcoin transactions analysis, application of blockchain in non conventional areas
Social Networks: privacy and availability in Distributed Online Social Networks, Social Data Analysis
Big Data Analysis: Distributed Algorithms for Big Data on Apache SPARK

For further information, send an e-mail to a ricci(AT)di.unipi.it, or contact me during question time (on thursday 15.00-18.00 PM).

Projects

PRA 2016, Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo, Big Data, Social Mining and Risk Management
PRIN Security Horizons [2/2013 - 1/2016]
[2010-2013] Contrail, Open Computing Infrastructure for Elastic Services, Integrated Project by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) sponsorship program.
Ricerca Spontanea a Tema Libero, Resource Discovery on Large Collaborative Networks, 2008-2010.
[2006-2010] XtreemOS, Enabling LINUX for the Grid, Integrated Project by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) sponsorship program.
[2004-2008] CoreGrid, Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies, Network of Excellence by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) sponsorship program.