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Member of the group of experts of the Italian Ministry of the Economic Development (MISE) for the definition of the national strategy for distributed ledgers and blockchains

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Responsible for  the University of Pisa unit for the H2020 European Project "HELIOS: A Context-aware Distributed Social Networking Framework"

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Award Commette Member for Minerva Informatics Equality Award, for encouraging and supporting the careers of women in Informatics reserach and education.

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Ministero per i Beni e le attività culturali: la Tecnologia Blockchain ed il Diritto di autore: miraggio o realtà? MIBAC, 19 Giugno, 2019. Convegno ALAI.

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Conferences and Special Issues

• Invited speaker at the 2019 International Summer School on "Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Security (BCS)", Padua, June 24 - June 28th, 2019
• Workshop co-chair of the Seventh Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, LSDVE 2019, in conjunction with Euro-Par 2019, Gottingen, Germany, August 2019

• Guest editor of the Special Issue on Distributed Large Scale Applications and Environments of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, submission deadline 30 April 2019.

• Guest editor of the Special Issue on Blockchain Technology and Applications, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, submission deadline 6 December 2018.

• Co-chair of DAIS 2019 - 19th IFIP Int. Conf. on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, part of DISCOTEC 2019, Lingby, June 2019.

• Program Commettee member of 

• 2nd Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems (BlockSys 2019), 10 November 2019, Columbia University, New York, in conjunction with ACM Sensys 2019
• Cryblock 2019, 2nd Int. Work. on  Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems, held in conjunction with INFOCOM,  April 2019, Paris, France.
• IWBOSE 2019, 2nd Int. Work. on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering, Hangzhou, Cina, 24 February 2019.
• 2nd Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop (DLT 2019), co-located with Third Italian Conference on Cybersecurity (ITA-SEC 2019), Pisa February 12th, 2019.
• Blockchain 2019, IEEE Int. Conference on Blockchain, July 2019, Atlanta, USA.
• IEEE Int. Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 15-17 May 2019, Seoul, South Korea.
• MMVE 2019, 11 th Int. Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment System, ACM Multimedia Systems Conference,  Amherst, Massachussets, 18-21 June 2019.
• track Networking Solutions for Games, Social Goods, and P2P applications of IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, CCNC 2019, January 2019, Las Vegas, USA.

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Recently Accepted papers

• Decentralized Cloud Scheduling via Smart Contracts. Operational Constraints and costs, Barbara Guidi, Dana Petcu, Laura Ricci, Adrian Spataru, IEEE BCCA, International  Symposium on Blockchain Computing and Applications, October 2019, Granada.
• Protecting Personal Data using Smart Contracts, Fabrizio Baiardi, Barbara Guidi, Laura Ricci, Mohsin Ur Rahman, IDCS 2019, 12th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Systems,  October 2019,  Naples.
• Exploiting Blockchain Technology for Attribute Management in Access Control Systems, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Alessio Lunardelli, Paolo Mori, GECON 2019,  16th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services,  Leeds, September 2019
• A smart contract based recommender system,  Paolo Mori, Andrea Lisis, Andrea De Salve, Laura Ricci,  GECON 2019,  16th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services,  Leeds, September 2019

• The Bow Tie Structure of the Bitcoin Users Graph, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, A. Marino, L. Ricci, Applied Network Science, accepted for pubblication.
• A blockchain based approach for the definition of auditable access control systems, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, accepted for pubblication,  Computers and Security, Elsevier
• Peer-to-Peer gaming, E.Carlini, L. Ricci, entry in Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games, Springer, 2019.
  
• VoteChain: Community based and Scalable Internet Voting Framework, Ricardo Almeida, Lusi M. Camarinha-Matos, Laura Ricci, 10-th Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, Caparica, Portugal, May 2019.
• The Graph Structure of Bitcoin,  Damiano Di Francesco Maesa,  Andrea Marino, Laura Ricci, Complex Networks 2018, 7th Int. Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, 11-13 Decembre 2018, Cambridge, UK.
•  Managing Social Contents in Decentralized Online Social Networks: a survey, B. Guidi, M. Conti, A. Passarella, L. Ricci, accepted for pubblication, Online Social Networks and Media, Elsevier.

• Blockchain Based Access Control Services, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, IEEE Symposium on Recent Advances on Blockchain and its Applications, Halifax, Canada, August 2018
• Service Provisioning in Mobile Environments through Opportunistic Computing, M. Conti, D. Mascitti, A. Passarella, L. Ricci,  IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, accepted for pubblication
•  A survey on privacy in decentralized online social networks, A. De Salve, P. Mori, L. Ricci,  Computer Science Review, 27, Elsevier.

• A Logical Key Hierarchy based approach to preserve content privacy in Decentralized Online Social Networks , A. De Salve, R. Di Pietro, P. Mori, L, Ricci accepted for pubblication in  IEEE Transaction on Dependable and Secure Computing,

• NG-Dbscan: Scalable Density-Based Clustering for Arbitrary Data, with M.Dell'Amico, A.Lulli, P.Michiardi,  VLDB 2017,  PVLDB, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume  10, Munich, August 2017.
• Connected Components in Large Graphs by Vertex Pruning with Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi, Alessandro Lulli, Claudio Lucchese, Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Rating ANVUR A)