@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 {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 {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} } @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 {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 {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} }