Laura Ricci --- Research

Blockchain Technology
Layer-2 Solutions for Blockchain
Cryptographic techniques for blockchains
Self-sovereign identity frameworks
Blockchain Transaction analysis
Social network analysis

Associate editor of the ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, ACM DLT, the new ACM journal on Distributed Ledger Technology. Submissions are accepted starting from October 2021.
Section Editor, SN Nature Computer Science, Section V, Innovation in Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers
Blockchain: Research and Applications, Elsevier
International Journal of Network Security and its Applications (IJNSA)

International Journal of Computer and Software Engineering, Open Access.

Guest editor Special Issue "Large Scale Cooperative Virtual Environments", Wiley, Concurrency, Practice and Experience, 2017

Guest editor Special issue of Springer Journal of Grid Computing on Large Scale Cooperative Virtual Environments,
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, 2019
Guest editor of the Special Issue on "Blockchain: protocols, Applications and Transaction Analysis", BCRA, Blockchain and Application journal, December 2020.
Guest editor of the ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, Special issue on Blockchain-based Pervasive Systems: theory, applications, and challanges,

Supporting privacy with Zero Knowledge in SSI and Blockchain based Access Control", 2nd edition TUM Blockchain Salon, Munich, Germany 16-5-2024
"Blockchain: Analisi per il tracciamento e la deanonimizzazione di pagamenti in criptovalute", CyberCrime Conference, 17-18 April 2024, Auditorium della Tecnica, Roma.
"Three Killer Blockcahin applications: NFT; supply chain and digital identities", AIBC 2023, 5-th Int. Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Conference (AIBC 29023), October 2023
"NFT: evoluzione storica e ambiti di applicazione!" invited talk, giornata su "Il futuro della proprietaà digitale, NFT, Gaming e Metaverso", POMA Institute, online, 11 Marzo 2023.
"cryptoscettici vs. cryptosostenitori, Communityverse " invited talk (Metaverse, Blockchain, NFT, web3,...)@ Lucca Comics and Games, 29 October 2022, Lucca
"Self Sovereign Identity", invited talk , 3rd Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology School, 27 June-1 July 2022, Pula, Cagliari, Itay
"Blockchain: an introduction", invited talk, Department of Computer Scince, University of Venice, 29 April 2022.
"Blockchain: an introduction", invited talk, DISIA, University of Florence, 6 April 2022.
"Blockchains for dummies" Winter School on EU law on Digital Agricolture, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, 15-19 November 2021.
"Blockchain and DLT", lectures for "Cryphograpy Introduction", Thales Alenia Space Italia, May 2021, November 2021.
Blockchain Day, How is blockchain industry consolidation a Proof-of- Market, ESGI, Ecole Superieure de genie informatique, June 8th, 2021
Behind the Curtain: Blockchain Technologies Between Myth and Rea lity, Panel @ the 2020 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation, March 2021
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.
"Blockchain technology": Autority per la Privacy, June 2019, Rome
"Blockchain technology": Servizi informatici, Camera Deputati, July 2019, Rome
"The National Strategy on blockchain and DLT", 4-th Distributed Ledger Technoloy Workshop (DLT 2020), Italian DLT Working Group, 25 September 2020, online.

3rd Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology School, 27 June- 1 July 2022, Pula, Italy
Basic Principles of Security and Blockchain - PhD Program in Computer Science, February -March 2021
Opening talk "Blockchains Beyond Cryptocurrencies", 9-th Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems (DoCEIS' 2018). 2-4 May 2018, Caparica, Lisbona.
Course International Summer School on "Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (BCS)", Padova, June 24-28th, 2019
Course Cloud and P2P Computing, Department of COmputer Science, University of Pisa, 2012.

Steering Commettee Member of DAIS Conference Series
Co-Chair of DAIS 2019 - 19th IFIP Int. Conf. on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, part of D ISCOTEC 2019, Lingby, June 2019.
Co-Chair GOODTECHS 2017, 3rd EAI Int. Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Goods, November 29-30, 2017, Pisa, Italy,
TPC co-chair IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, 1-3 May 2023. Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
TPC co-chair IEEE 7th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain , 19-22 August 2024, Copenaghen , Denmark
Track Co-chair Cloud Services and Applications, 11-th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019), Sydney, Australia, December 2019.
Track Co-chair: Cloud Services and Applications, 10-th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018), Cyprus, Nicosia, December 2018.
Track Co-chair: Cloud Services and Applications, 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2017), Hong Kong, December 2017.

6th Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs, BRAIN 2025, Washington, USA, March 11-15 2025, in conjunction with IEEE Pervasive Computing, PERCOM 2025,
Special track on Blockchain and Decentralized Technology for Social Good, BANDIT, in conjunction with ACM Int. Conf. on Information Technology for Social Good, GOODIT 2024, 4-6 September 2024, Bremen, Germany
5th Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs, BRAIN 2024, March 2024, Biarritz, France, in conjunction with IEEE PERCOM 2024, March 11-15 2024
4th Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs, (BRAIN 2023), in conjunction with IEEE PERCOM 2023, 13 March 2023.
Special Track on Blockchain Decentralized Technologies for Social Good (BANDIT), 7-9 September 2022, Limassol, Cyprus
2nd Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Networks (OASIS), 28 June 2022, held in conjunction with 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT22)
SOCI 2022, Security in Open Cloud Infrastrucutes, in conjunction with European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 15-16 June, 2022.
3rd Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs, (BRAIN 2022), 25 March 2022, held online in conjunction with IEEE international Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom.
2nd Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs, (BRAIN 2021), 5 of September 2021, online, held in conjunction with ISCC 2021.
8th Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, (LSDVE 20 21), 31th of August 2021, online, in conjunction with EURO-PAR 2021.
1st Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Socila Networks (OASIS), 30th of August 2021, online, in conjunction with 32th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, ACM Hypertext
1st International Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIons, (BRAIN 2020), 7 July 2020, online, in conjunction with ISCC 2020
SoNeC 2020: 1st IEEE Inter. Workshop on Social Network Computing & Big Data, in conjunction with COMPSAC 2020
DAIS 2019 - 19th IFIP Int. Conf. on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, part of D ISCOTEC 2019, Lingby, June 2019.
7-th Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, LSDVE 2019, in conjunction with Euro-Par 2019, Gottingen, Germany, August 2019
6-th Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Environments, LSDVE 2018, held in conjunction with EUROPAR 2018,

5-th Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, LSDVE 2017, held in conjunction with EUROPAR 2017, Santiago de Compostela, 28 August 2017.

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

Fourth Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments Workshop, LSDVE 2016, held in conjunction with EUROPAR 2016, Grenoble, August 2016, workshop co-chair

Third Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on Cloud and P2P, LSDVE 2015, held in conjunction with Europar 2015, Wien, August 2015.

Second Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on Cloud and P2P, LSDVE 2014, held in conjunction with Europar 2014, Porto, Portugal, August 2014.

Special Session on P2P and Cloud Collaborative Systems and Virtual Worlds (P2PCS 2014), in conjunction with International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2014.

First Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on Clouds and P2P, LSDVE 2013, held in conjunction with Europar 2013

International Workshop on Resource Discovery Mechanisms for P2P Systems, colocated with CIT 2011, 31th August, September 2nd 2011, Papos, Cyprus.

P2P DVE 2010, Second International Workshop on P2P Distributed Virtual Environments, October 18-th 2010, Moscow, Russia, in conjunction with IEEE ICUMT 10, Second International Conference on Ultra Modern Communications.

P2P CDVE 2010, International Workshop on P2P Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments, October 26-th 2010, Crete, Greece, in conjunction with On The Move, Federeted Conferences and Workshops.

P2P DVE 2009, First International Workshop on P2P Distributed Virtual Environments, October 13-th 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia, in conjunction with IEEE ICUMT 09, first International Conference on Ultra Modern Communications.

IEEE COINS 24 , IEEE Int. Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems, London, 21-31 July 20-24, 2024
BRAINS 24, 6th Int. Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, 8-11 October, 2024, Berlin, Germany
IEEE GBC 24 Global Blockchain Conference ShangHAi, October-November 2024
CM BlockSys 2023, 5th ACM INt. Work. on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems, Istanbul, 6th November 2023.
10th IEE/ACM Int. Conference on Big Data Computingm Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2023), Taormina, 4-7 December 2023.
12th Int. Conf, on Complex Networks and their Applications, Complex Networks 2023, Menton Riviera, France, 28-30 November, 2023
14th IEEE Int. Conf. on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Napoli. 4-6 December 2023.
6th IEEE Int. Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2023), Ocean Flower Island, Hainan, China, December 17-21, 2023
4th Int. Artificial Intelligence and BLockchain Conference (AIBC 2023), University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, October 27-29, 2023.
15th Int. Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Sytems, ICUMT 2023, Ghent, Belgium, October 2023
5th Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop (DLT 2023), Bologna, Italy, 25-26 May, 2023
IEEE Int. Conf. on omni-layer intelligent Systems, COINS 2023, Berlin, 13-15th of July, 2023
ESORICS 2023, The Augue, The Netherlands, September 25-29, 2023
ITASEC 2023, Italian Conf. on Ccybersecurity, May2th-5th, 2023, Bari
French Regional Conference on Complex Systems, FRCCS 2023, Le Havre, France, May 31-June 02, 2023.
6th Int. Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering, IWBOSE 2023, Macao, China, March 21th-24th, 2023
IEEE Metacom, First Int. Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications , MetaCom 2023, June 26-28, 2023, Kyoto, Japan
Complex Networks 2022, 11th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Palermo, Italy, 8-10 November, 2022, Program Commette member and Poster chai r.
ICBTA 2022, 5th Int. Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, 16-18 December 2022 Xi'an, China
IEEE Int. Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems, (IEEE COINS 2022), Barcelona, Spain, Track: Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchain, August 1-3 2022, Barcelona, Spain
14th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, ICUMT 2022, Valencia, Spain, 11-13 October 2022
27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-30 September 2022
5th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (IEEE Blockchain 2022), Espoo, Finland, August 22-25, 2022.
3rd Int. Conference on Networks, Blockchain and Internet of Things (NBIoT 2022), Sidney, Australia, 18-19 June 2022.
22th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (ACM/IEE CCGrid 2022), Track 8: Scientific and Industrial Applications, Taormina 16-19 May 2022.
5th IEEE Conf. on Dependable and Secure Computing , (IEEE DSC 2022), Main Track: Computer Systems, Networks, and Software/Hardware, Edinburgh, UK, 22-24 June 2022.
5th International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain (FAB 2022), University of California, Berkeley, June 3rd, 2022
5th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain, IWBOSE 2022, in conjunction with SANER 2022, 18 March 2022
IEEE International Confrence on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, (IEEE ICBC 2022), Shangai 2-5 May 2022
12th International Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (HiBB), in conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2021, online, 9-12 December 2021
Complex Networks 2021, November 30 - December 2, 2021, Madrid, Spain,
ICBTA 2021, 4t-th Int. Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, Xi'an, China, 17-19 December 2021
IEEE Blockchain-2021, 4-th International Conference on Blockchain, Melbourne, Australia 6-8 December 2021
ICUMT 2021 13-th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, online, 25-27 October, 2021
IEEE COINS 2021, International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, August 23 - August 25 2021
ACM Int. Conference on Information Technology for Social Goods (GoodIT 2021), 9-11 September 2021, Rome , Italy
IWBOSE 2021, 4th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Enginnering for Blockchain, Virtual Conference, in conjunction with SANER 2021
IEEE Int. Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, 3-6 May 2021, Sidney, Australia
Trends in Distributed Ledger Technology (Trends in DLT), Virtual Conference, April 7th, 2021
11th Int. Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (HiBB), held in conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2021
3rd IEEE Int. Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020), online, held virtually, 02-06 November 2020
Complex Network 2020, 9th Int. Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Madrid, Spain, December 2020
ICUMT 2020, 12th Int. Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, 5-7 october 2020, online
CloudCom 2020, 12-th IEEE International Conference, December 2020 , Bangkok, Thailand,
CryBlock 2020 3rd Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems, London, TPC, September 2020C
COINS 2020, IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems, Track: Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), July 2020, Barcelona, Spain.
3rd Int. Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain, IWBOSE 2020, London, Canada, February 2020
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 3-6 May 2020, Toronto, Canada.
3rd Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop, colocated with Itasec 2020, Ancona, 4 Febbraio 2020.
2nd Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems (BlockSys 2019), 10 November 2019, Columbia University, New York, in conjunction with ACM Sensys 2019.
11th Int. Congress on Ultramodern Telecommunications and Control Systems, ICUMT 2019, Dublin, October 2019.
Award Commette Member for Minerva Informatics Equality Award, for encouraging and supporting the careers of women in Informatics reserach and education.
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.
10th Int. Congress on Ultramodern Telecommunications and Control Systems, ICUMT 2018., Moscow, November 2018.

IEEE Int. Conference on Blockchains, (Blockchains 2018), Halifax, Canada, August 2018.

Publicity co-chair SASO 2018, 12th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems - Trento, 3-7 September 2018, Italy.

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.

Int. Conference on Complex Networks 2018, Cambridge, December 2018.

DAIS, International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. Madrid, 18-20 June 2018,

CryBlock 2018, 1st Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems (co-located with MobiSys 2018), June 2018, Munich, Germany.

IWBOSE 2018, 1st Int. Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering, Campobasso, 20-23 March 2018

32nd IEEE Parallel and Distributed Computing Symposium, May 21-25 2018, Vancuver, Canada,

Complex Networks 2017, 6th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, 29 November - 1 December 2017, Lyon, France

9-th Int. Conferrence on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CLoudCom 2017), Hong Kong, Track 2 Chair: Cloud Services and Applications, 11-14 December 2017.

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

ICUMT 2017, 9-th IEEE International Congress on Ultra Modern Communications and Control Systems, Munich, November 6-8 2017.

Topic 06, Cluster and Cloud Computing, of EUROPAR 2017. , Santiago de Compostela, August 2017

MMVE 2017, 9th Int. Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 20-23 June 2017.

13-th Advanced Int. Conference on Telecommunications, AICT 2017, June 25-29, 2017, Venice, Italy

ACM Multimedia Conference (MMSys 2017), Taipei, Taiwan, June 20-23, 2017

Second Int. Conference on Advances in Computations, Communications and Services, ACCSE 2017, June 25 -29, Venice, Italy.

GPC 2017, 12-th International Conference on Green Pervasive and Cloud Computing, Cetara, Amalfi, May 2017.

W-PSDS 2016, Workshop on Planetary-Scale Distributed Systems, 26 September 2016, Budapest, program commettee member

ICUMT 2016, 8-th International Conference on Ultra Modern Communication and Control Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2016.

Cloudcom 2016, 8-th IEEE Int. Conference on CLoud Computing Technology and Science, Luxenbourg, 2-15 December 2016

8th IEEE ICUMT, International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, ICUMT 2016 , Lisbon, Portugal, October 2016.

9th EAI Int. Conference on Mobilre Multimedia Communications, June 18-20, 2016, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, Special Track 2: Data Mining and Social Multimedia.

MMVE 2016, 8th Int. Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, Klagenfurt, May 2016.

Workshop on Planetary-Scale Distributed Systems, September 2015, Montreal, Canada.

7th IEEE ICUMT, International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, ICUMT 2015 , Brno, Russia, October 2015.

MMVE 2015, 7th Int. Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, ACM Multimedia Systems Conference , March 20, 2015, Portland, Oregon.

6th ICUMT, International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, ICUMT 2014 , Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 2014.

Workshop on Planetary-Scale Distributed Systems, October 6th 2014, Nara, Japan.

MMVE 2014, 6th Int. Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSYS 2014), March 19-21, 2014, Singapore

5th ICUMT, International Conference on Ultra Modern telecommunications and Control Systems, ICUMT 2013, Alamty, Kazaktstan, September 2013.

15th Int. Symposium on Stabilization, Safety and Security in Distributed Systems, SSS '13, Osaka, Japan, November 13-16th, 2013

Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium Co-chair, the 2013 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation, HPCS 2013, July 2013, Helsinkii, Finland.

International Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Resources Management in Clouds,ORMACLOUD colocated with 22th ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, June 17-th, 2013.

CSEDU 2012, 4rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education,Porto, Portugal, 16-18 April 2012.

MMVE 2012, 5th Int. Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, October 08-09, 2012, Munich, Germany

Publicity Co-chair of MMVE 2011,the 4th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments at the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games (HAVE 2011), Oct. 14-17, 2011 Nanchang, JiangXi Province, China,

15th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, IMSA 2011, Washington, May 16-18, 2011

10th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Networks, PDCN 2011, Innsbruck, February 2011

DISIO 2011 Second DIstributed SImulation& Online Gaming (DISIO), Barcelona, Spain, March 21 th 2011

MMVE 2010, The 3nd International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual environments at ACM International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, 17-19 November 2010, Taipei, Taiwan

DISIO 2010, First DIstributed SImulation & Online Gaming (DISIO), Torremolinos, Spain, March 15 th, 2010, at the 3rd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, AfricaIMSA 2010, March 15-17, 2010, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

8th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, PDCN 2009, Innsbruck, Austria, February 17-18 2009

MMVE 2009, The 2nd International Conference on Massively Multiuser Virtual environments at IEEE Virtual Reality 2009, MArch 15th, 2009, Lafayette, Lousiana, USA

13th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, IMSA 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 17-19, 2009

12th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, IMSA 2008, Kailua-Kona. Hawaii, USa, August 18-20, 2008

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
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: JADE:a JXTA Support for Distributed Virtual Environments, with L.Genovali, IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC, Marrakesh, July 2008
The post "Blockchain and the governance of pandemics" A. Favenza, E. Ferro, Overtheblock Innovation Observatory, and L. Ricci, is available on Medium.

Luca Genovali - "A Voronoi Based Framework for the Definition of P2P Distributed Virtual Environments", IMT, Lucca, July 2009.
Emanuele Carlini "Combining Peer-to-Peer and Cloud Computing for Large Scale On-line Games", IMT, Lucca, December 2012.
Barbara Guidi "P2P architectures for Distributed Online Social Networks", Dipartimento di Informativca, Università degli Studi di Pisa, December 2015.
Alessandro Lulli, "Distributed Graph Processing: Algorithms And Applications", Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Pisa, 2017
Andrea De Salve "Preserving privacy of contents in Decentralized Online Social Networks" Dipartimento di Informatica, 2017. La tesi si è classificata al secondo posto per il Premio Tesi "Innovare la sicurezza delle Informazioni" indetto da Clusit.
Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, "Blockchain Applications: Bitcoin and Beyond", Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Pisa, 2018.
Adrian Spataru, "Decentralized Cloud Computing", co-tutela Facultatea de Matematica si Informatica, Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara and Dipartimento di Infomatica, Università degli Studi di Pisa, 2021
Andrea Michienzi , "Towards the next generation social network", Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Pisa 2021.
Moshin Ur Rahman, "Blockchain-based approaches for access control systems", Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Pisa, 2021
Andrea Lisi, "Designing Layer-2 blockchain applications: methodolgies and solutions", 2Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Pisa, 2022
Matteo Loporchio, "Query Authentication protocols and Data Analysis on Blockchain Systems" Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Pisa, 2023
Domenico Tortola "Layer 2 Solutions for Blockchain: Analysis and Applications across Different Use Cases" Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Pisa, 2024

Ricardo Lopes Almeida -2022-2025
Andrea Pelosi - 2022-2025
Francesco Donini - 2022-2025
Giuseppe Galano - 2023-2026
Yitbarek Yimame -2023-2026
Calogero Turco - 2024-2027

IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking

IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Future Generation Computing Systems

Peer to Peer Networking and Applications

Grant from the Ethereum Foundation on "Cross Chain authenticated queries"
H2020, Local Coordinator of the H2020 European Project "HELIOS: A Context-aware Distributed Social Networking Framework", 2019-2021
PRA 2018, Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo.
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.
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