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Laura Ricci
Associate Professor

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, 15.00-18.00 PM

Highlights

Conferences and Special Issues:

Program Commette Member of Complex Networks 2018, Cambridge, December 2018
Program Commettee Member of IEEE Int. Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 15-17 May 2019, Seoul, South Korea.
Program Commette Member track Networking Solutions for Games, Social Goods, and P2P applications of IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, CCNC 2019, January 2019, Las Vegas, USA.
Track 2 Chair: Cloud Services and Applications, 10-th Int. Conferrence on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018), Nicosia, Cipro, 10-13 December 2018.

Recently Accepted papers

ComeHere: exploiting Ethereum for secure sharing of health-care data, M. Franceschi, D. Morelli, D.Plans, A. Brown, J. Collomosse, L. Coutts, L. Ricci, LSDVE 2018, 6th Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environment workshop, Torino, August 2018
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
BITKER: a P2P kernel client for Bitcoin, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Matteo Franceschi, Barbara Guidi and Laura Ricci, 7th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Architectures, Networks and Systems (PANS 2018), in conjunction with HPCS 2018, July 16 - July 20, 2018, Orleans, France
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,
Area of Interest Management in Massively Multiplayer Online Games, E. Carlini, L. Ricci, Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games, Springer
Aggregation Techniques for the Internet of things: a Survey B. Guidi, L. Ricci, book “Internet of Things for Smart Urban Ecosystems”
Detecting Artificial Behaviours in the Bitcoin Users Graph, D. Di Francesco Maesa, A. Marino, L. Ricci, accepted for pubblication in Online Social Networks and Media, Elsevier, October 2017
Data driven analysis of Bitcoin properties: exploiting the users graph, D. Di Francesco Maesa, A. Marino, L. Ricci, accepted for pubblication in International Journal of Data Science and Analytics.

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)
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.
Evaluation of structural and temporal properties of ego networks for data availability in DOSNs, A.De Salve, B. Guidi, L. Ricci, Mobile Social Networks and Applications, 2017

Teaching

2018-19-Reti di Elaboratori 6 CFU Primo semestre, Laurea Triennale in Informatica
2018-19-Laboratorio di Programmazione di Reti - A 6 CFU Primo semestre, Laurea Triennale in Informatica

2018-19 Peer to Peer Systems and Blockchain 6 CFU Second Semester, Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science and Networking

The course introduces blockchain technology which 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. .

PhD Students

Current Students

Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Phd Student at Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa, 2014-2017.
Andrea Michienzi, Phd Student at Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa, 2017-2020.
Mohsin Ur Rahman, Phd Student at Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa, 2017-2020.

Former Students

Emanuele Carlini - researcher, tenure track, HPC-Lab, ISTI, CNR, Pisa.
Andrea De Salve, post doc at IIT, CNR, Pisa
Luca Genovali - enterprise manager
Barbara Guidi - post doc at the Department of Computer Science, Pisa,
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 2018-20, Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo, Emerging Trends in Data Science, starting date July 2018.
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.