@booklet {638, title = {Arancino.cc(TM): an open hardware platform for urban regeneration}, year = {In Press}, keywords = {Internet of Things, scientific data management, smartcity, smartme.io, Sustainability, urban metabolism}, url = {https://lnkd.in/dxKRrum}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Francesco Alessi and Angelo Zaia and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {550, title = {Building a Digital Business Technology Platform in the Industry 4.0 Era}, journal = {Accepted for the 1st International Conference on Smart Innovation, Ergonomics and Applied Human Factors (SEAHF)}, year = {2019}, address = {Madrid, Spain}, keywords = {Big Data, data analytics, Digital Business, IoT, linked data knowledge, smart manufacturing}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Maria Gabriella Xibilia and Antonio Puliafito} } @article {549, title = {An IoT service ecosystem for Smart Cities: The $\#$SmartME project}, journal = {Internet of Things - Elsevier}, volume = {5}, year = {2019}, pages = {12-33}, abstract = {

$\#$SmartME has been one of the first initiatives in Italy to realize a Smart City through the use of open technologies. Thanks to the use of low cost sensor-powered devices scattered over the city area, different {\textquotedblleft}smart{\textquotedblright} services have been deployed having the Stack4Things framework as the common underlying middleware.\ In this paper, we present the results obtained after 2 years of project highlighting the vertical solutions that have been proposed in different areas ranging from environmental monitoring to parking management.

}, keywords = {Arduino, Blockchain, cloud computing, IoT, OpenStack, Smart city}, issn = {2542-6605}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2018.11.004}, author = {Dario Bruneo and Salvatore Distefano and Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonino Longo Minnolo and Francesco Longo and Giovanni Merlino and Davide Mulfari and Alfonso Panarello and Giuseppe Patan{\`e} and Antonio Puliafito and Carlo Puliafito and Nachiket Tapas} } @proceedings {538, title = {An Approach to Enhancing Confidentiality and Integrity on Mobile Multi-Cloud Systems: The {\textquotedblleft}ARIANNA{\textquotedblright} Experience}, journal = {The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {10/2018}, address = {Valencia, Spain}, abstract = {

Technology evolution is addressing the industry to face some formidable challenges, such as ensuring the security of mobile devices.

By the union between Cloud technologies and mobile devices, the new concept of {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Mobile Cloud Computing\ (MCC)"\ has emerged.

MCC technologies enable users to quickly collect and integrate data from heterogeneous sources, regardless of where they reside.

However, although they are constantly evolving and spreading, these technologies still maintain security and privacy issues that have not found definitely answers.

In this paper we propose a mobile secure storage approach which is primarily oriented to guarantee confidentiality\ and integrity\ issues concerning data stored on mobile smart devices that are part of a multi-Cloud environment.\newline

To this end, we introduce and discuss the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}ARIANNA"\ app.

ARIANNA consists of an Android app that represents the software enabler\ which allows us to extend our sperimental multi-Cloud system towards the mobile world.

Moreover, in order to evaluate our proposal, we conducted several experiments taking into consideration the mobile application in real and dynamic multi-Cloud environment scenarios.

}, keywords = {AES-256, Android, Cloud storage, Confidentiality, Data Privacy, Data Security, Integrity, mobile Cloud storage, mobile device, mobile multi-Cloud, multi-Cloud, OpenStack., RSA}, author = {Riccardo Di Pietro and Marco Scarpa and Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Puliafito} } @article {533, title = {An approach to implement the {\textquotedblleft}Smart Office{\textquotedblright} idea: the $\#$SmartMe Energy system}, journal = { Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing}, year = {2018}, month = {05/2018}, pages = {1-19}, abstract = {

Getting cities and communities smarter means to use\ Information and Communication Technology (ICT)\ to transform their {\textquotedblleft}metabolism{\textquotedblright} in order to offer sustainable services for people. This mission is a strategic but also very complex process that involves worldwide stakeholders (i.e., governments, entities, businesses and citizens), areas and infrastructures (e.g., buildings, homes, offices, urban parks, industrial plants). As part of this process, balancing sustainability and comfort objectives with energy efficiency and cost-saving requirements is a challenge. The\ Internet of Things (IoT)\ paradigm can help this process from the collection to the management of large amount of data. Generally, the conventional notion of sustainability is related to three main aspects, i.e., environmental, economic and social. If protection and resource conservation are typically environmental objectives, at the same time prosperity and continuity in urban contexts are two economical goals. Social well-being and equity complete the characterization of sustainability. Following this approach, in this paper we present and discuss the\ $\#$SmartMe Energy\ system, implemented at the\ University of Messinaas part of the $\#$SmartMe crowdfunding project. It allows employees to optimize the use of all the electrical equipments. The result is the reduction of energy consumptions and costs also improving sustainability and comfort inside offices, thus becoming {\textquotedblleft}smart offices{\textquotedblright}.

}, keywords = {Energy-aware systems, Internet of Things, smart buildings, Smart offices, SmartME, Sustainability}, issn = {1868-5145}, doi = {10.1007/s12652-018-0809-0}, url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007\%2Fs12652-018-0809-0}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Giuseppe Pellegrino and Marco Scarpa and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {532, title = {ARIANNA: A Mobile Secure Storage Approach in Multi-Cloud Environment}, journal = {WiP Session - 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2018) }, year = {2018}, publisher = {IEEE - IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Taormina, Sicily, Italy}, abstract = {

Technology is profoundly changing the way we live. If on one hand Cloud computing has transformed today{\textquoteright}s com- puting landscape, on the other hand the spread of mobile devices is changing our everyday life. Because the Cloud infrastructures perform intensive computing tasks and offers unlimited data storage, people and companies started benefit from engaging mobile apps that would not otherwise be possible. For these reasons, in order to maintain the competitive advantage, compa- nies are now deciding to adopt mobile multi-Cloud strategies for their products and services. In this work we propose a mobile secure storage approach primarily oriented to guarantee confidentiality and integrity issues concerning data stored on smart devices which are part of a multi-Cloud environment. In this paper we presented and discussed our Android app, we called {\textquotedblleft}ARIANNA{\textquotedblright}. It enables and integrates our experimental multi-Cloud framework, which description is present in literature. Moreover, in order to evaluate our proposal, we conducted several experiments by considering the mobile application in a real multi-Cloud environment scenario.

}, keywords = {AES-256, Android, Cloud storage, Confidentiality, Data Privacy, Data Security, Integrity, mobile Cloud storage, mobile device, mobile multi-Cloud, multi-Cloud, OpenStack, RSA}, author = {Riccardo Di Pietro and Marco Scarpa and Maurizio Giacobbe and Flavia Oriti} } @proceedings {535, title = {Building a Smart City Service Platform in Messina with the $\#$SmartME Project}, journal = {The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (IEEE AINA-2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {05/2018}, address = {Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland}, abstract = {

Some words mark an era, and "Smart City" is definitely one of these. A Smart City is an urban area where the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are employed to improve citizens{\textquoteright} Quality of Life (QoL) in areas such as: mobility, urban surveillance, and energy management. Throughout this paper, we present the $\#$SmartME project, which aims to create an infrastructure and an ecosystem of "smart" services by exploiting existing devices, sensors, and actuators distributed in the city of Messina. We also present the Stack4Things framework, which is the management core of the $\#$SmartME project.

}, keywords = {$\#$SmartME, Arduino, Blockchain, cloud computing, IoT, OpenData, OpenStack, Smart city, Stack4Things}, author = {Dario Bruneo and Sebastiano Chillari and Salvatore Distefano and Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonino Longo Minnolo and Francesco Longo and Giovanni Merlino and Davide Mulfari and Alfonso Panarello and Giuseppe Patan{\`e} and Antonio Puliafito and Carlo Puliafito and Marco Scarpa and Nachiket Tapas and Giancarlo Visalli} } @proceedings {547, title = {Enabling Sustainable Smart Environments Using Fog Computing}, journal = {The 1st International Conference on Electronics, Control, Optimization and Computer Science (ICECOCS{\textquoteright}18)}, year = {2018}, month = {12/2018}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Kenitra - Morocco}, abstract = {

The upward trend in using both Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way of conceiving information and communication systems. We can talk about IoT Cloud\ to indicate a distributed complex system which is able to provide IoT-as-a-Service (IoTaaS). At the edge of the system, multisensors electronic devices make smart\ the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}things{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} they control also enabling the interconnection with a remote Cloud infrastructure, platform, or software through the Internet.

In such scenario, achieving energy-aware IoTaaS is a challenge which needs appropriate choices in all the environmental, economic and ethical aspects of sustainability. The use of Fog computing\ can help to discover new business opportunities taking into account the above {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}green{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} goal.

In this paper, we discuss the advantages from using Fog computing to offer energy-aware IoTaaS in sustainable smart environments.

Moreover, we present an experimental use case proving the feasibility of our proposal.

}, keywords = {Energy-aware, Fog computing, IoT, IoTaaS, smart buildings, Smart Environment, sustainability.}, author = {Sarah Zanafi and Maurizio Giacobbe and Marco Scarpa and Antonio Puliafito and Noura Aknin} } @proceedings {536, title = {Evaluating Information Quality In Delivering IoT-as-a-Service}, journal = {4th IEEE International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities, in conjunction with the 4th IEEE Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp)}, year = {2018}, month = {06/2018}, address = {Taormina, Sicily, Italy}, abstract = {

Combining the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud computing is pursuing new levels of efficiency in delivering IoT-as-a-Service (IoTaaS). In such scenario, Public Administrations (PAs) benefit from digitalization process improving development of innovation and administrative transparency. In this paper we propose a strategy to evaluate the quality of information in order to deliver IoTaaS in Smart City context. The goal of the work is to provide an advanced method to support PAs in the process of enhancing public information assets. The proposed strategy extends traditional approaches by using Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) models for the numerical and qualitative evaluation of public data and related metadata. Furthermore, it provides guidelines to implement the models starting from the data path.

}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Riccardo Di Pietro and Antonino Longo Minnolo and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {548, title = {An Implementation Of InfluxDB For Monitoring And Analytics In Distributed IoT Environments}, journal = {Science of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunication Conference (SETIT 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {12/2018}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Hammamet, Tunisia}, keywords = {cloud computing, InfluxDB, Internet of Things, smart environments, time series database}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Chakib Chaouch and Marco Scarpa and Antonio Puliafito} } @inbook {539, title = {J2CBROKER as a Service: A Service Broker Simulation Tool Integrated in OpenStack Environment}, booktitle = {Systems Modeling: Methodologies and Tools}, volume = {VII}, number = {EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing}, year = {2018}, pages = {269-285}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019}, organization = {Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019}, edition = {1}, chapter = {17}, abstract = {

Some of the recently defined or emerging Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) promise to dramatically improve people{\textquoteright}s lives and greatly benefit enterprises productivity. Among them, Cloud computing\ proves to be so disruptive to provide anyone with on demand remote access to a large pool of third-party computing resources and services. Nonetheless, before the actual development of Cloud services, there is the need for timely, repeatable, and controllable methodologies that evaluate the conceived algorithms and policies. Simulation-based environments play a fundamental role in this direction as they considerably reduce the risk of economic losses, scarce Quality of Service\ and Quality of Experience. In a previous work, we presented J2CBROKER, a tool that simulates a Cloud Brokerage ecosystem, i.e., an environment where a software broker acts as an intermediary between service customers and providers in order to allow the formers to discover and select the services that best suit their needs. Herein, we discuss the evolution of such a tool that consists in its integration in the OpenStack environment in order to provide it according to the Cloud Software as a Service\ (SaaS) model. To this purpose, we detail the new J2CBROKER architecture. Moreover, in order to evaluate our proposal, we present a case study\ in which J2CBROKER is implemented as a Service in a real scenario.

}, issn = {978-3-319-92378-9}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-92378-9}, author = {Riccardo Di Pietro and Maurizio Giacobbe and Carlo Puliafito and Marco Scarpa} } @article {531, title = {A NOVEL IOT-AS-A-SERVICE STRATEGY TO ACHIEVE ENERGY AND COST SAVING IN MICROGRIDS}, journal = {International Journal of Engineering and Technology(UAE)}, volume = {7}, year = {2018}, month = {10/2018}, address = {Madrid, Spain}, abstract = {

Smart Grids play a crucial role for always more efficient, flexible and reliable integration of technologies in the electricity marketplace. At the {\textquotedblleft}edge{\textquotedblright} of Smart Grids, appliances and consumer devices consume electricity by Microgrids. End-users need easily and dynamically accessible electricity marketplace and heterogeneous renewable energy sources (e.g., solar, wind, etc.), in order to satisfy energy needs. This implies two main challenges: 1) managing the variable availability of renewables, mainly due both to variable electricity marketplace conditions and to a not-continuous energy sourcing; 2) managing the energy supply/demand ratio especially in presence of scarcity or surplus conditions in the electrical energy providing service. In this paper we propose a novel two-levels Internet of Things-as-a-Service (IoTaaS) strategy to {\textquotedblleft}win{\textquotedblright} the above-mentioned challenges.

}, keywords = {cloud computing; energy management; internet of things; iotaas; smart grids}, issn = {2227-524X}, url = {https://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/ijet/article/view/21767}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Puliafito and Marco Scarpa and Maria Gabriella Xibilia} } @proceedings {537, title = {Using InfluxDB Time Series Database To Manage Smart Environments}, journal = {4th Italian Conference on ICT for Smart Cities And Communities (iCities 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {09/2018}, address = {L{\textquoteright}Aquila, Italy}, abstract = {

The data of the Public Administrations (PAs), together with technologies and platforms developed to provide services to citizens, are the basis of the PA digital heritage.

Referring to the Italian context, the Three-Year Plan for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the PA addresses the optimization of both the front-end and the back-end management in order to enable a new paradigm that (i) goes beyond the old {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}silos logic{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} and (ii) puts software components in common among the PAs.

In this work we present our vision and the related strategy, based on continuous queries and retention policies, resulting from the $\#$SmartME project experience.

Specifically, we present a case study related to the use of the InfluxDB\ time series database at the back-end side.

The goal is to enable new opportunities for heterogeneous stakeholders (i.e., people, PA, academia, industries) to meet and define new synergies in Smart Environments.

}, keywords = {Continuous Queries, E-government, InfluxDB, Retention Policies, smart cities, smart environments, SmartME}, url = {http://icities2018.disim.univaq.it/program.html$\#$abstracts}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Riccardo Di Pietro and Antonino Longo Minnolo and Marco Todaro and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {505, title = {A Context-aware Strategy To Properly Use IoT-Cloud Services}, journal = {2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP)}, year = {2017}, month = {05/2017}, pages = {1-6}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Hong Kong - China}, abstract = {

Nowadays, we can talk about the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud computing union to indicate a new generation of distributed system.

An IoT-Cloud system mainly consists of a set of smart objects which are interconnected through the Internet with a remote Cloud infrastructure, platform, or software.

It allows to achieve new benefits in several contexts, such as smart cities and industrial businesses.

In this paper we propose a context-aware strategy focused on the correct use of the IoT-Cloud services. In particular, a use case driven scenario and a three-step algorithm to define the strategy are presented and discussed.

}, keywords = {Big Data, cloud computing, context-aware systems, Internet of Things, multi criteria decision making, smart cities, smart environments, smart factories}, doi = {10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2017.7946976}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Puliafito and Riccardo Di Pietro and Marco Scarpa} } @proceedings {486, title = {An Energy-Aware Brokering Algorithm To Improve Sustainability In Community Cloud}, journal = {Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS 2017)}, volume = {1}, year = {2017}, month = {04/2017}, pages = {166-173}, publisher = {Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC)}, address = {Porto, Portugal}, abstract = {

Cloud computing is a paradigm for large scale distributed infrastructures, platforms or software services which represents a hot topic in Information Technology (IT) recently in both industrial and academic areas. Its use is motivated by the possibility to promote a new economy of scale in different contexts. Along with the well-known public, private and hybrid Cloud models, the Community Cloud is an emerging concept based on a deployment model in which a Cloud infrastructure allows a specific community of consumers to share interests, goals and responsibilities. It can be owned and managed by the community, by a third party, or a combination of them. In such scenario, new low-carbon strategies at Cloud sites are necessary to allow those latter to reduce the consumption in presence of a massive exploitation of IT services. Therefore, balancing performances with both sustainability and cost saving concepts is a challenge. In this paper, we present a low carbon strategy designed to make the best choice in resources allocation, based on sustainability, availability and costs. The proposed energy-aware Brokering Algorithm (eBA) allows to push down carbon dioxide emissions through the Community Cloud ecosystem, by running instances at the most convenient sites.

}, keywords = {cloud computing, Community Cloud, Energy-aware Brokering, Green Cloud, Low Carbon, Resource allocation, Sustainability, Virtualization}, issn = {978-989-758-241-7}, doi = {10.5220/0006300201660173}, url = {http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=8XfUdAkq8Pk=\&t=1}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Marco Scarpa and Riccardo Di Pietro and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {485, title = {The ESSB System: A Novel Solution To Improve Comfort And Sustainability In Smart Office Environments}, journal = {The14th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2017)}, year = {2017}, month = {05/2017}, pages = {311-316}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Calabria, Italy}, abstract = {

Getting cities and communities smarter is a strategic but also very complex process that involves several actors (e.g., governments, industries, scientific researchers) and addresses many challenges. Among these, energy efficiency and cost-saving are indispensable. Following this line, in this paper we propose a novel energy-aware management system, we name Energy Saving Smart Building (ESSB), for smart environments. More specifically, we present its experimental use at University of Messina\ in order to optimize the use of all the electrical equipments. The results are the reduction of energy consumptions and costs improving comfort and sustainability in smart office environments.\ 

}, keywords = {energy cost-saving, Energy Efficiency, Energy-aware systems, Internet of Things, smart buildings, smart cities, smart office, sustainability.}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Giuseppe Pellegrino and Marco Scarpa and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {487, title = {The Internet Of Things In Oil And Gas Industry: A Multi Criteria Decision Making Brokerage Strategy}, journal = {4th International Conference on Automation, Control Engineering and Computer Science (ACECS-2017)}, volume = {21}, year = {2017}, month = {03/2017}, pages = {47-52}, publisher = {IPCO}, edition = {Proceedings of Engineering and Technology - PET, Special Issue}, address = {Tangier, Morocco}, abstract = {

The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way to conceive distributed systems. Nowadays, we can talk about IoT and Cloud computing to indicate a new type of distributed system consisting of a set of smart objects which are interconnected through the Internet with a remote Cloud infrastructure, platform, or software.
IoT promises to achieve new benefits in several industrial businesses. Among these, the Oil and Gas (O\&G) industries can achieve the greatest benefit by using the IoT as enabler of new sources of information.
In this paper, a simulation-based Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) brokerage strategy is presented. The goal is to allow cooperative small-medium size IoT Cloud providers to satisfy the request for IoT-Cloud services, with a good compromise between service level and business for the O\&G industries.

}, url = {http://ipco-co.com/PET_Journal/vol21-ACECS/10.pdf}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Riccardo Di Pietro and Angelo Zaia and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {524, title = {Secure Storage as a Service in Multi-Cloud Environment}, journal = {16th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless, ADHOC-NOW 2017}, volume = {Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks: Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless}, year = {2017}, month = {09/2017}, pages = {328-341}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, edition = {I}, address = {Messina}, issn = {978-3-319-67910-5}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-67910-5}, author = {Riccardo Di Pietro and Marco Scarpa and Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {480, title = {The Big Bucket: An IoT Cloud Solution For Smart Waste Management in Smart Cities}, journal = {The 4th International Workshop on CLoud for IoT (CLIoT 2016)}, volume = {Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing}, year = {2016}, month = {01/2018}, pages = {43-58}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, address = {Vienna, Austria}, abstract = {

Research and industries are devoting a great effort in getting cities and communities smarter, thus to improve citizens{\textquoteright} Quality of Life (QoL) and paying serious attention to e-government and e-inclusion processes.\ 
This is a strategic but also very complex objective that involves both governance and citizens to address many challenges.\ 
Following this line, this paper discusses the necessity for new smart waste management systems and presents a comprehensive state of the art on the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) for smart waste recycling.\ 
In particular, we present and argue the Big Bucket IoT Cloud environment, where smart dumpsters are equipped with low-cost sensors and open source easy-to-use hardware and software. Its architectural model is discussed and compared with other existing solutions in the future perspective.

}, keywords = {cloud computing, E-government, E-inclusion, IoT, Quality of Life, Recycling Systems, smart cities, Smart Communities, Smart Waste Management}, issn = {978-3-319-72125-5}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-72125-5_4}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Carlo Puliafito and Marco Scarpa} } @proceedings {423, title = {Characterizing IoT Cloud Federation}, journal = {2016 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA) - Workshop on Cloud Computing Project and Initiatives - CCPI{\textquoteright}16}, year = {2016}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Le R{\'e}gent Congress Centre, Crans-Montana, Switzerland}, abstract = {

The advent of both Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way of conceiving information and communication systems. Generally, we talk about IoT Cloud to indicate a new type of distributed system consisting of a set of smart devices interconnected with a remote Cloud infrastructure, platform, or software through the Internet and able to provide IoT as a Service (IoTaaS).\ In this paper, we discuss the near future evolution of IoT Clouds towards federated ecosystems, where IoT providers cooperate to offer more flexible services.\ Moreover, we present a general three-layer IoT Cloud Federation architecture, highlighting new business opportunities and challenges.\ 

}, keywords = {cloud computing, containers, federation, IoT, virtualisation}, issn = {978-1-5090-2461-2/16}, doi = {10.1109/WAINA.2016.152}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7471179}, author = {Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio and Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Puliafito and Massimo Villari} } @proceedings {483, title = {J2CBROKER: A Service Broker Simulation Tool For Cooperative Clouds}, journal = {10th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (Valuetools 2016)}, volume = {VALUETOOLS{\textquoteright}16 proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools on 10th EAI}, year = {2016}, month = {05/2017}, pages = {68-73}, publisher = {ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering)}, address = {Taormina, Italy}, abstract = {

The Internet and digital technologies are transforming our world, but existing barriers, mainly due to obsolete Information Technologies (IT), lead citizens to miss out on goods and services, enterprises and start-ups to limit their horizons, and businesses and governments to cannot fully benefit from digital tools.\ Recently, Cloud computing\ emerged as hot topic in IT, both in industrial and academic area, in order to overcame the above barriers.\ Its use in large scale distributed infrastructure, platform or software services is motivated by the possibility to promote a new economy of scale in different contexts.\ Such scenario demands timely, repeatable, and controllable methodologies for evaluation of algorithms, applications and policies before the development of Cloud services or products, especially to achieve a good compromise between several performance indicators.\ To this end, simulations-based environments\ allow to evaluate the hypothesis prior to the software development, thus reducing the risk of economic losses, scarce Quality of Service\ or Quality of Experience.\ In this paper we present and discuss a simulation-based approach for Cloud Brokerage ecosystems. More specifically, we propose the J2CBROKER\ Simulation Tool, mainly based on Java\ and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)\ technologies.\ Its architecture, functionalities and technological choices are discussed and motivated. Moreover, we present a case of study\ to evaluate the goodness of the proposed approach.

}, keywords = {broker, cloud brokerage, cloud computing, cooperative clouds, digital single market, java, javascript object notation, json, key performance indicator, simulation tool}, issn = {978-1-63190-141-6}, doi = {10.4108/eai.25-10-2016.2266614}, url = {https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.25-10-2016.2266614}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Riccardo Di Pietro and Carlo Puliafito and Marco Scarpa} } @proceedings {479, title = {Re-Powering Service Provisioning Through Virtual Machine Migration in Federated Cloud Environments: An Algorithm Combining Energy Sustainability and Cost-Saving Strategies}, journal = {The 4th International Workshop on CLoud for IoT (CLIoT 2016)}, volume = {Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing}, year = {2016}, month = {01/2018}, pages = {19-33}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, address = {Vienna, Austria}, abstract = {

Cloud federation offers new business models to enforce more flexible energy management strategies. Typically, an independent Cloud provider is exclusively bounded to the specific energy supplier powering its data center. The situation radically change if we consider a federation of cooperating Cloud providers. In such a context a proper migration of virtual machines among providers can lead to global energy sustainability and cost-saving strategies.\ 
In this paper, we discuss a decision algorithm, for Cloud federation brokerage, able to combine these two strategies. More specifically, we present a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) algorithm able to discover the most convenient Cloud provider candidates to join a particular energy-aware federation. In the end, by modelling different possible real Cloud providers, we demonstrate how the algorithm can accommodate different Cloud federation scenarios characterized by particular energy-aware parameters.

}, keywords = {cloud brokerage, cloud computing, cloud federation, energy cost-saving, Energy Efficiency, energy management, Energy Sustainability}, issn = {978-3-319-72125-5}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-72125-5_2}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio and Massimo Villari and Antonio Puliafito} } @booklet {474, title = {Smart Waste and Recycling Systems: The Big Bucket Solution}, journal = {CINI Annual Workshop on ICT for Smart Cities \& Communities (i-CiTies 2016). September 29-30. Benevento, Italy.}, year = {2016}, abstract = {

Research and industries are devoting a great effort in getting cities and communities smarter. This is a strategic but also very complex process that involves several actors to address many challenges. Following this line, in this paper, we propose a new recycling system based on smart wastes. To this end, we present the Big Bucket IoT Cloud environment where smart dumpsters are equipped with low-cost sensors and open source easy-to-use hardware and software.

}, keywords = {cloud computing, E-government, E-inclusion, IoT, smart cities, Smart Communities, Smart Waste Recycling Systems}, url = {http://www.unisannio.it/I-CiTies2016/}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Carlo Puliafito and Marco Scarpa} } @proceedings {153, title = {An Approach to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions Through Virtual Machine Migrations in a Sustainable Cloud Federation}, journal = {SustainIT 2015 The Fourth IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability}, year = {2015}, month = {04/2015}, edition = {IEEE Computer Society }, address = {Madrid, Spain}, abstract = {

Nowadays, Cloud federation is paving the way toward new business scenarios in which it is possible to enforce more flexible energy management strategies. Considering independent Cloud providers, each one is exclusively bound to the specific energy supplier powering its datacenter. The situation radically changes if we consider a federation of cooperating Cloud providers. In such a context, a proper migration of virtual machines among providers can lead to a global energy sustainability strategy. In this paper, we present a new strategy to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions in federated Cloud ecosystems. More specifically, we propose a solution that allows providers to determine the best green destination where virtual machines should be migrated in order to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of the whole federated environment.

}, isbn = {978-3-9018-8270-8}, doi = {10.1109/SustainIT.2015.7101383}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio and Massimo Villari and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {154, title = {An Approach to Reduce Energy Costs Through Virtual Machine Migrations in Cloud Federation}, journal = {Published on 20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC15)}, year = {2015}, month = {07/2015}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Larnaca, Cyprus}, abstract = {

Cloud federation offers new business models to enforce more flexible energy management strategies. Independent Cloud providers are exclusively bounded to the specific energy supplier powering its Data Centers. The situation radically change if we consider a federation of cooperating Cloud providers. In such a context a proper migration of virtual machines among providers can lead to a global energy cost-saving strategy. In this paper, we present an approach to reduce energy cost in a federated Cloud ecosystem. More specifically, we propose an algorithm that allows providers to determine a map of possible destinations for cost-evaluation. Furthermore, we introduce an additional algorithm to determine the optimum energy cost migration path, and, consequently, the best Cloud Data Center where virtual machines should be migrated in order to push down energy costs.

}, doi = {10.1109/ISCC.2015.7405609}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio and Massimo Villari and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {158, title = {Evaluating a Cloud Federation Ecosystem to Reduce Carbon Footprint by Moving Computational Resources}, journal = {20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2015) - IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Mobile Systems \& Services (DMSS 2015)}, year = {2015}, month = {July}, pages = {99 - 104}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Larnaca, Cyprus}, abstract = {Cloud federation is an emerging topic towards new dynamic scenarios in smart ecosystems, where new more flexible energy management strategies are needed than the traditional, in order to optimize mobility and energy efficiency. In this paper we focus both on cloud federation and energy efficiency to enforce a dynamic energy management strategy for the whole ecosystem, in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. More specifically, starting from our two-step approach, we evaluate a cloud federation ecosystem by moving computational resources among federated cloud DCs in order to maintain, for a forecast period, the related workload at the best Green Destination (GD) powered by renewable energy sources. To this end we present and discuss two simulated scenarios, and their experimental results, thus to proving the goodness of our approach. Moreover, an energy comparison between the transfer and the maintenance phases for the computational workload is made. }, issn = {978-1-4673-7194-0}, doi = {10.1109/ISCC.2015.7405500}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7405500}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio and Massimo Villari and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {347, title = {A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing and QoE Literature to Design a Cloud Platform of Experience for Digital Business}, journal = {1st International Workshop on Digital Enterprise Architecture and Engineering (IDEA)}, volume = {Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing}, year = {2015}, month = {04/2016}, pages = {276-288}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, address = {Taormina (Messina), Italy}, abstract = {

Cloud computing is rapidly evolving due to social and cultural influences that are changing the necessary Cloud services. Indeed, an increasing number of application and service providers use Cloud computing to adapt their products to customer needs, by addressing the requirements arisen by the customer Quality of Experience (QoE, QoX or simply QX) evaluation. QoE is a fast emerging multidisciplinary field based on social psychology, cognitive science, management, and engineering science, focused on understanding overall human quality requirements. In order to help Digital Business architects to understand how Cloud computing can help them to increase their business, we present a scientometric analysis of Cloud computing and QoE. Analyzing the current state of the art, we provide some guidelines to Digital Business companies for addressing the issues related to QoE that have to be taken into account in order to maximize their business.

}, keywords = {cloud computing, Digital Business, Platform of Experience, QoE, QoX, Quality of Experience, QX}, issn = {978-3-319-33313-7}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-33313-7_21}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Maria Fazio and Antonio Celesti and Tindara Abbate and Massimo Villari} } @proceedings {348, title = {A Sustainable Energy-Aware Resource Management Strategy for IoT Cloud Federation}, journal = {The first IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE)}, volume = {IEEE First International Symposium on Systems Engineering 2015 Proceedings}, year = {2015}, month = {09/2015}, pages = {170-175}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Roma, Italy}, abstract = {

The advent of both Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way to conceive distributed systems. Nowadays, we can talk about IoT Cloud to indicate a new type of distributed system consisting of a set of smart IoT devices or sensors interconnected with a remote Cloud infrastructure, platform, or software. Energy sustainability in IoT Cloud providers offers new tempting business opportunities for organizations, but at the same time it raises new challenges. In this paper, a flexible IoT Cloud federation energy management strategy is presented for optimizing the allocation of geographically localized smart sensors. We define the concept of IoT Cloud Federation as a mesh of IoT Cloud providers that are interconnected to provide a universal decentralized sensing and actuating environment where everything is driven by constraints and agreements in a ubiquitous infrastructure.\ In particular, a dynamic algorithm able to improve energy sustainability in a federated IoT Cloud ecosystem is discussed. In addition, we analyze a use-case driven strategy that allows both IoT Cloud providers and brokers to determine the paths to reach possible destination IoT devices in which computational resources should be dynamically migrated in order to push down the energy consumption due to IoT distributed applications.

}, keywords = {cloud computing, Energy Efficiency, Energy Sustainability, federation, Green Computing, Internet of Things, Virtual Sensors}, issn = {978-1-4799-1919-2}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio and Massimo Villari and Antonio Puliafito} } @article {Giacobbe2015, title = {Towards Energy Management in Cloud Federation: A Survey in the Perspective of Future Sustainable and Cost-Saving Strategies}, journal = {Computer Networks}, year = {2015}, pages = {438-452}, abstract = {

Nowadays, the increasing interest in Cloud computing is motivated by the possibility to promote a new economy of scale in different contexts. In addition, the emerging concept of Cloud federation allows providers to optimize the utilization of their resources establishing business partnerships. In this scenario, the massive exploitation of {\.I}CT\ solutions is increasing the energy consumption of providers, thus many researchers are currently investigating new energy management strategies. Nevertheless, balancing Quality of Service (QoS) with both energy sustainability and cost saving concepts is not trivial at all. The growing interest in this area has been highlighted by the increasing number of contributions that are appearing in literature. Currently, most of energy management strategies are specifically focused on independent Cloud providers, others are beginning to look at Cloud federation. In this paper, we present a survey that helps researchers to identify the future trends of energy management in Cloud federation. In particular, we select the major contributions dealing with energy sustainability and cost-saving strategies aimed at Cloud computing and federation and we present a taxonomy useful to analyse the current state-of-the-art. In the end, we highlight possible directions for future research efforts.

}, keywords = {Energy Sustainability}, issn = {1389-1286}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2015.08.031}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389128615002911}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio and Massimo Villari and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {143, title = {A Cloud-based Access Control Solution for Advanced Multi-purpose Management in Smart City Scenario}, journal = {Proceedings of 2014 International Conference on Smart Computing Workshops}, volume = {-}, year = {2014}, month = {05/11/2014}, pages = {35{\textendash}40}, publisher = {Antonio Puliafito}, address = {Hong Kong}, abstract = {

A new smart revolution has already begun, toward a future characterized by Internet of Everything, where non-invasive wireless smart sensors allow to dynamically share information (e.g., alert signals, or big data in Cloud of Things scenario) providing new secure and user-friendly services for a harmonious interaction between man and the environment. The management of complex scenarios, characterized by high mobility and dynamic heterogeneous data access, requires different access levels, both local and remote. At the same time, it would require the ability to gather data from several typology of events, both functional and structural (e.g., regarding mobility, transportation, energy consumption), and to correlate data caused by natural or industrial phenomena (e.g., air pollution) to guarantee safety in our cities. We propose an advanced solution to meet the above challenges, then to achieve an advanced multi-purpose management. It is based on CLoud-Enabled Virtual EnviRonment (CLEVER), projected and realized from University of Messina to work easily in a Federated Cloud context, and on Sensor Web Enablement standard specifications. We show a case study to regulate users access to certain areas or specific rooms, and to provide useful data for business intelligence oriented to multi-purpose management. In particular, our solution aims to gather data regarding people access and electricity consumptions to provide web information and services for public, private or governance use.

}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Marcello Coco and Antonio Puliafito and Marco Scarpa}, editor = {-} } @proceedings {144, title = {Tecniche avanzate di data management per la diagnostica avanzata in campo navale}, journal = {ATTI DEL CONVEGNO SEA-MED 2014 Structural Engineering Analysis - Marine Evolution Design Atti del VI Convegno SEA-MED}, year = {2014}, pages = {234{\textendash}248}, publisher = {DIECII}, address = {Messina}, abstract = {

La quantit{\`a} e l{\textquoteright}eterogeneit{\`a} dei dati acquisiti ed investigati in campo navalerichiedono tecniche sempre pi{\`u} avanzate e ottimizzate per la gestione, e quindi per la raccolta, l{\textquoteright}analisi, la condivisione e la presentazione delle informazioni. In questo documento presentiamo una strategia orientata a sviluppare un catalogo intelligente, utilizzando principi di gestione della conoscenza come Case Based Reasoning (CBR) e Big Data Management (BDM). Questa strategia {\`e} basata su un paradigma dei sistemi distribuiti su larga scala: il Cloud Computing. Dopo aver introdotto una panoramica sui comuni sistemi di acquisizione e sul processo CBR, spieghiamo la nostra strategia sull{\textquoteright}adozione di un catalogo intelligente per la gestione avanzata dei dati per la diagnostica avanzata in campo navale. Inoltre, introduciamo un primo caso di studio con dati acquisiti da sensori da esperimenti di laboratorio, concludendo con possibili direzioni e scenari futuri.

}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Massimo Villari} } @proceedings {145, title = {A service oriented system for fleet management and traffic monitoring}, journal = {Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2010 IEEE Symposium on}, year = {2010}, pages = {1{\textendash}3}, publisher = {IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated:445 Hoes Lane:Piscataway, NJ 08854:(800)701-4333, (732)981-0060, EMAIL: subscription-service@ieee.org, INTERNET: http://www.ieee.org, Fax: (732)981-9667}, address = {Piscataway, NJ}, abstract = {

Nowadays, new and sophisticated technologies are quickly developing, taking advantage of the growing necessity of the companies to reduce operating costs, administrative time and to improve their productivity. Automatic Vehicle Monitoring (AVM)\ systems\ are one of the promising application fields where mobile technologies can be successfully adopted with specific care toward the definition of new\ services\ in the PTS (Public Transport\ Service) area.. The ability of an AVM\ system\ to control the street traffic represents a very important value for an advanced\ fleet\ management\ system. This paper proposes an AVM software platform, which is characterized by some innovative features able to manage multiple heterogeneous devices for\ fleet\ management\ and to monitor the street traffic. The architectural choices the\ system\ is based on are discussed and motivated. Specifically, this paper presents a case study of the implementation of the proposed\ system\ in the public transportation\ system\ of the city of Messina.

}, doi = {10.1109/ISCC.2010.5546553}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Puliafito and Massimo Villari} } @proceedings {147, title = {A Platform for Integrated Data Processing from Heterogeneous Devices in Naval Field}, journal = {ISCC: 2009 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS, VOLS 1 AND 2}, volume = {Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC{\textquoteright}09)}, year = {2009}, month = {8, 2009}, pages = {520{\textendash}525}, publisher = {IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA}, address = {NEW YORK}, abstract = {

A wide variety of new sensing technologies exist nowadays which allow remote monitoring and\ dataacquisition also in quasi real-time conditions. Navigation{\textquoteright}s on-board monitoring systems are one of the promising application\ fields, which are quickly developing new and sophisticated applications, taking advantage from the decreasing cost of sensor devices. The development of technologies with increasing performances and able to communicate, at the same time, also in critical conditions with a different type of sensors is therefore necessary. This paper proposes a software\ platform\ to manage sensor devices which provides an\ integrated\ data\ processing\ of\ data\ detected from multiple heterogeneous devices. The middleware the\ platform\ is based on is presented and the architectural choices are discussed and motivated. Specifically, this paper presents a case study where the discussed software solutions are applied to parameters monitoring in\ naval\ field.

}, doi = {10.1109/ISCC.2009.5202255}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Eugenio Guglielmino and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {146, title = {Analisi del comportamento ad impatto di materiali compositi utilizzati nella nautica da diporto}, year = {2008}, pages = {207{\textendash}216}, author = {Vincenzo Crupi and Vincenzo Filardi and Maurizio Giacobbe and A Dell{\textquoteright}Anno} }