Publication list

Recent papers submitted for publication

• "Optimizing Service Selection and Allocation in Situational Computing Applications", with C. Sandionigi, D. Ardagna, and C. Ghezzi. Technical Report, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 2012.
• "High performance content-based matching using off-the-shelf parallel hardware" with A. Margara. Technical Report, submitted to Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
• "Complex Event Processing with T-REX" with A. Margara. Technical Report, submitted to Journal of Systems and Software.
• "Content-Based Routing for Publish-Subscribe on a Dynamic Topology: Concepts, Protocols, and Evaluation", with Davide Frey, Amy L. Murphy, and Gian Pietro Picco.

Papers in international journals

• "DSOL: A Declarative Approach To Self-Adaptive Service Orchestrations", with C. Ghezzi and L. Sales Pinto. Computing, Springer, to appear.
• "Processing Flows of Information: From Data Stream to Complex Event Processing" with A. Margara. ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Press, to appear.
• "Low latency complex event processing on parallel hardware" with A. Margara. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 72, Issue 2, February 2012, Pages 205 218.
• "SLIM: Service Location and Invocation Middleware for Mobile Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks" with A. Margara. In International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE) Special Issue on "Engineering Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing". Vol. 1, Num. 3, pp. 60-74, 2010.
• "A Self Repairing Tree Topology Enabling Content-based Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" with L. Mottola and G.P.Picco. In IEEE Transactions on mobile Computing, Vol. 7, No 8, pp. 946-960, Aug, 2008.
• "On Adopting Content-Based Routing in Service Oriented Architectures" with E. Di Nitto. In Information and Software Technology, Vol. 50, No. 1-2, pp. 22-35, Elsevier, January 2008.
• "Content-Based Routing in Highly Dynamic Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" with R. Baldoni, R. Beraldi, M. Migliavacca, and L. Querzoni. In International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 277-288, December 2005.
• "A Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Mobile Teamwork" with C. Ghezzi and G.P. Picco. In ERCIM News (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics), number 54, July 2003, pp. 19-21.
• "Using publish/subscribe middleware for mobile systems" with H.-A. Jacobsen. In ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, vol. 6 , num. 4, October 2002.
• "The JEDI Event-Based Infrastructure and its Application to the Development of the OPSS WFMS" with E. Di Nitto and A. Fuggetta. In Transaction of Software Engineering (TSE), vol. 27, num. 9, September 2001.
• "Tolerating Deviations in Process Support Systems Via Flexible Enactment of Process Models". In Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), vol. 24, num. 11, November 1998.
• "Software Processes: a Retrospective and a Path to the Future" with C. Ghezzi. In Software Process Improvement and Practice (SPIP), vol. 4, num. 3, September 1998.
• "A Framework for Formalizing Inconsistencies and Deviations in Human-Centered Systems" with E. Di Nitto, A. Fuggetta, and C. Ghezzi. In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), vol. 5, num. 3, July 1996.

Books (edited)

• "Web Engineering and Peer-to-Peer Computing" with Ludmilla Cherkasova, Enrico Gregori, Fabio Panzieri, and Gian Pietro Picco. Proceedings of Networking 2002 Workshops, Pisa (Italy), May 19-24, 2002. Springer, Lecture Notes on Computer Science vol. 2376, ISBN 3-540-44177-8.

Chapters in international books

• "Process Programming in the Service Age: Old Problems and New Challenges" with L. Sales Pinto and C. Ghezzi. In Engineering of Software: The Continuing Contributions of Leon J. Osterweil. Springer, 2011.
• "Content-Based Publish-Subscribe in a Mobile Environment" with A.L. Murphy and G.P. Picco. Invited contribution to the book The Handbook of Mobile Middleware, A. Corradi and P. Bellavista eds., Auerbach Publications, pp. 257-285, 2006.
• "Error Handling in Process Support Systems" with F. Casati. Invited contribution to the book Advances in Exception Handling Techniques. A. Romanovsky, C. Dony, J.L. Knudsen, A. Tripathi (Eds), LNCS Vol. 2022, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
• "Analyzing Mobile Code Languages" with C. Ghezzi, G.P. Picco, and G. Vigna. Invited contribution to the book Mobile Object Systems: Towards the Programmable Internet, LNCS Vol. 1222, Springer-Verlag, April 1997.

Papers in international conferences and workshops

• "Dealing with Changes in Service Orchestrations", with L. Sales Pinto and C. Ghezzi. Proceeding of 27th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2012), SOAP - Service-Oriented Architecture and Programming Track, Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy, pages 1511-1517, March 2012.
• "WSN-Erlang: a Functional, High Level Approach to WSN Development", with A. Sivieri. Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2012), Poster Abstract, February 2012.
• "High performance content-based matching using GPUs" with A. Margara. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference On Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2011). New York, USA. pages 183-194, July 2011.
• "Computational REST Meets Erlang", with A. Sivieri and C. Ghezzi. In Proceedings of the 49th International Conference on Objects, Models, Components and Patterns (TOOLS Europe 2011). Zurich, Switzerland, June 2011.
• "TESLA: a Formally Defined Event Specification Language" with A. Margara. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference On Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2010). Cambridge, United Kingdom. July 12 - 15, 2010.
• "MultiCaR: Remote invocation for large scale, context-aware applications" with M. Migliavacca. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'10) Riccione, Italy, June 22-25, 2010.
• "RACED: an Adaptive Middleware for Complex Event Detection with A.Margara. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM'09) co-located with IFIP/ACM Middleware 2009 Conference, Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA, Dec 2009.
• "Context-Aware Publish-Subscribe: Model, Implementation, and Evaluation with A.Margara and M. Migliavacca. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'09) Sousse, Tunisia, July 5 - 8, 2009.
• "A Context and Content-Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Sensor Networks" with M. Migliavacca. In Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN'09), Cork, Ireland, February 11th-13th, 2009.
• "Adapting Publish-Subscribe Routing to Traffic Demands" with M. Migliavacca. In Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Distributed Event Based Systems (DEBS'07), Toronto, Canada, June 20-22, 2007.
• "On Adding Replies to Publish-Subscribe" with M. Migliavacca and A. Monguzzi. In Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Distributed Event Based Systems (DEBS'07), Toronto, Canada, June 20-22, 2007.
• "REDS: a reconfigurable dispatching system" with G.P. Picco. In Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software engineering and middleware (SEM'06), Portland, Oregon, November 10, 2006.
• "Structure-less Content-Based Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" with R. Baldoni, R. Beraldi, M. Migliavacca, and L. Querzoni. In Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services 2005 (ICPS'05), July 11-14, Santorini, Greece, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005.
• "On Introducing Location Awareness in Publish-Subscribe Middleware" with J.E. Munoz de Cote. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (Fourth International Workshop on Distributed Event-Based Systems), 6-10 June 2005, Columbus, OH, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-7695-2328-5, 2005.
• "Epidemic Algorithms for Reliable Content-Based Publish-Subscribe: An Evaluation" with P. Costa, M. Migliavacca, and G.P. Picco. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS04), March 23-26, Tokyo (Japan), T.H. Lai and K. Okada eds., pp. 552-561, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004.
• "Minimizing the Reconfiguration Overhead in Content-Based Publish-Subscribe" with D. Frey, A.L. Murphy, and G.P. Picco. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC04), March 14-17, Nicosia (Cyprus), A. Omicini et al. eds., pp. 1134-1140, ACM Press, 2004.
• "Introducing Reliability in Content-Based Publish-Subscribe through Epidemic Algorithms" with P. Costa, M. Migliavacca,a dn G.P. Picco. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS'03), San Diego (CA, USA), June 8, 2003.
• "Efficient Content-Based Event Dispatching in Presence of Topological Reconfigurations" with A.L. Murphy and G.P. Picco. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS03), Providence (RI, USA), P. McKinley and S. Shatz eds., pp. 234-243, ACM Press, May 2003.
• "Towards Dynamic Reconfiguration of Distributed Publish-Subscribe Systems" with A.L. Murphy and G.P. Picco. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering and Middleware (SEM02), co-located with the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE02), May 2002, Orlando (FL), USA, A. Coen-Porisini and A. van Der Hoek eds., Lecture Notes on Computer Science vol. 2596, pp. 187-202, 2003.
• "Peer-to-peer for Collaborative Applications" with G.P. Picco. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Mobile Teamwork Support, co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Vienna (Austria), H. Gall and G.P. Picco eds., IEEE press, pp. 359-364, July 2002.
• G. Cugola and E. Di Nitto. "Using a Publish/Subscribe Middleware to Support Mobile Computing". In Proceedings of the Workshop on Middleware for Mobile Computing, in association with IFIP/ACM Middleware 2001 Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, November 2001.
• Gerald Reif, Engin Kirda, Harald Gall, Gian Pietro Picco, Gianpaolo Cugola, and Pascal Fenkam "A Web-based peer-to-peer architecture for collaborative nomadic working". In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Web-based Infrastructures and Coordination Architectures for Collaborative Enterprises, co-located with the 10th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2001). MIT, Cambridge (MA, USA), June 2001.
• G. Cugola, E. Di Nitto, G. P. Pico, "Content-Based Dispatching in a Mobile Environment", in proceeding of WSDAAL 2000, Ischia (Italy), 18-20 September, 2000.
• G. Cugola, C. Ghezzi, and M. Monga, "Malaj: A Proposal to Eliminate Clashes Between Aspect-Oriented and Object-Oriented Programming", in proceeding of 16th IFIP World Computer Congress, International Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (WCC2000), Beijing (China), August 21-25, 2000.
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• G. Cugola, P.Y. Cunin, S. Dami, J. Estublier, A. Fuggetta, F. Pacull, M. Riviere, and H. Verjus, "Customizing the behavior of middleware: the PIE approach" in proceeding of the Workshop on Reflective Middleware (RM2000), New York (USA), April 7-8, 2000.
• G. Cugola, P.Y. Cunin, S. Dami, J. Estublier, A. Fuggetta, F. Pacull, M. Riviere, and H. Verjus, "Support for Software Federations: the PIE Platform". In proceeding of the Seventh European Workshop on Software Process Technology, Kaprun near Salzburg, Austria, February 22-25, 2000.
• G. Cugola, C. Ghezzi, and M. Monga, "Coding Different Design Paradigms for Distributed Applications with Aspect-Oriented Programming". In proceeding of WSDAAL99, L'Aquila (Italy), September 13-15, 1999.
• G. Cugola, C. Ghezzi, and M. Monga, "Language Support for Evolvable Software: An Initial Assessment of Aspect-Oriented Programming". in proceeding of the International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution, Fukuoka (Japan), July 16-17, 1999.
• G. Cugola and C. Ghezzi, "Design and Implementation of PROSYT: a distributed Process Support System". in Proceeding of the Eighth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises, Stanford (CA), June 16-18, 1999.
• G. Cugola, E. Di Nitto, and A. Fuggetta, " Exploiting an event-based infrastructure to develop complex distributed systems" in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference On Software Engineering (ICSE98), Kyoto, Japan, April 1998.
• G. Cugola and C. Ghezzi, "CJava: Introducing Concurrent Objects in Java" in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems (OOIS '97), Brisbane (Australia), 10-12 November 1997.
• G. Cugola, P. Fusaro, A. Fuggetta, L. Lavazza, S. Manca, M. R. Pagone, G. Ruhe, and R. Soro, "A Case Study of Evaluating Configuration Management Practices with Goal-Oriented Measurement" in Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Software Metrics (Metrics '97), Albuquerque, New Mexico (U.S.A.), November 1997.
• G. Cugola, L. Lavazza, V. Nart, S. Manca, and M. R. Pagone, "An Experience in Setting-Up a Configuration Management Environment" in Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP '97), London, July 1997.
• G. Cugola and C. Ghezzi, " Inconsistencies in software development: Towards a reference framework" in Prooceedings of the ICSE'97 WorkShop on "Living with Inconsistencies", Boston, MA, May 1997.
• G. Cugola, C. Ghezzi, G.P. Picco, and G. Vigna, "A Characqterization of Mobility and State Distribution in Mobile Code Languages" in Proceedings of the 2nd ECOOP Workshop on Mobile Objects, 8-9 July 1996, Linz, Austria, dpunkt.verlag.
• G. Cugola, C. Ghezzi, "Program families: some requirements issues for the process languages" in Proceedings of the 10th International Software Process Workshop. France, June 1996.
• G. Cugola, E. Di Nitto, C. Ghezzi, and M. Mantione, "How to deal with deviations during process model enactment" in Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE17), Seattle, Washington USA, April 1995.

Unsubmitted technical reports

• G. Cugola, "CJava: a Proposal to Circumvent the Inheritance Anomaly in True Concurrent Object-Oriented Languages". Technical Report 97.42, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione - Politecnico di Milano, 1997.
• G. Cugola, "A Logical Theory of Static Reasoning for Rational Agents", Technical Report 09-96, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione - Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy, February 1996.

Ph.D. Thesis

• G. Cugola, " Inconsistencies and Deviations in Process Support Systems". Politecnico di Milano, February 1998.