PUBLICATIONS

This page provides preprints and pointers of the journal and conference papers published by members of the Performance Evaluation Group. Publications are listed by year, with most recent appearing first.

  • L. Zanussi, D. Tessera, L. Massari, L., M. Calzarossa. Workflow Scheduling in the Cloud-Edge Continuum. In L. Barolli, editor. Advanced Information Networking and Applications - AINA 2024. volume 203 of Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, pages 182-190, Springer, 2024.
  • I. Mongiardo, L. Massari, M. Calzarossa, B. Bermejo, D. Tessera. Performance Evaluation of Placement Policies for Cloud-Edge Applications. In L. Barolli, editor. Advanced Information Networking and Applications - AINA 2024. volume 203 of Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, pages 287-296, Springer, 2024.
  • M. Calzarossa, P. Giudici and R. Zieni. Explainable Machine Learning for Bag of Words-Based Phishing Detection. In: Longo, L. (ed) Explainable Artificial Intelligence. xAI 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1901. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44064-9_28.
  • M. Calzarossa, P. Giudici and R. Zieni. Explainable machine learning for phishing feature detection Quality Reliability Engineering International. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3411a. [Open access]
  • R. Zieni, L. Massari and M. Calzarossa. Phishing or Not Phishing? A Survey on the Detection of Phishing Websites. IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 18499-18519, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3247135. [Open access]
  • G. Nebbione and M. Calzarossa. A Methodological Framework for AI-Assisted Security Assessments of Active Directory Environments. IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 15119-15130, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3244490. [Open access]
  • M. Calzarossa, M. Della Vedova, L. Massari, G. Nebbione and D. Tessera. Multi-objective optimization of deadline and budget-aware workflow scheduling in uncertain clouds. IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 89891-89905, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3091310. [Open access]
  • M. Calzarossa, L. Massari, D. Tessera. Performance Monitoring Guidelines. Proc. of the Companion of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, pages 109-114, 2021
    
  • G. Nebbione.AI-aware Network Security Assessment: A Graph based Approach. PhD Thesis, University of Pavia, 2021.
  • G. Nebbione, M. Calzarossa. Security of IoT Application Layer Protocols: Challenges and Findings. Future Internet, 12, 55, 2020. [preprint]
  • M. Calzarossa, L. Massari, D. Tessera. Evaluation of cloud autoscaling strategies under different incoming workload patterns. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2020;32:e5667. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.5667 [preprint]
  • D. Doran, L. Massari, M. Calzarossa, Y. Li, D. Tessera, J. Zhang. User interactions and behaviors in a large-scale online emotional support service. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 9:36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-019-0581-y, 2019. [preprint]
  • M. Calzarossa, M. Della Vedova, L. Massari, G. Nebbione and D. Tessera. Modeling and Predicting Dynamics of Heterogeneous Workloads for Cloud Environments, In Proc. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC), 2019. [preprint]
  • M. Calzarossa, M. Della Vedova and D. Tessera. A methodological framework for cloud resource provisioning and scheduling of data parallel applications under uncertainty. Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 93, pp. 212-223, 2019. [preprint]
  • M. Calzarossa, M. Della Vedova, L. Massari, G. Nebbione and D. Tessera. Tuning Genetic Algorithms for resource provisioning and scheduling in uncertain cloud environments: Challenges and findings, In Proc. 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing - PDP, pages 174-180, 2019. [preprint]
  • M. Calzarossa, M. Della Vedova, L. Massari, G. Nebbione and D. Tessera. A methodological approach for time series analysis and forecasting of web dynamics, In N. Nguyen, R. Kowalczyk, F. Xhafa (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXXIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11610, pages. 128--143, Springer, 2019. [preprint]
  • G. Nebbione, D. Doran, S. Nadella and B. Minnery. Deep Neural Ranking for Crowdsourced Geopolitical Event Forecasting. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Machine Learning for Networking (MLN'18), 2018.
  • M. Calzarossa, and D. Tessera. Analysis and Forecasting of Web Content Dynamics. In Proc. 14th International Symposium on Frontiers of Information Systems and Network Applications (WAINA-2018), 2018. [preprint]
  • M. Calzarossa, L. Massari, M.I.M. Tabash and D. Tessera. Cloud autoscaling for HTTP/2 workloads. In Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications (CloudTech'17), pages 166-171, 2017. [preprint]
  • M.L. Della Vedova, D. Tessera, M.C. Calzarossa, and J. Weinman. The Economics of Cloud Parallelism under Uncertainty. IEEE Cloud Computing, 3(6):16–22, 2016. [bib]
  • M. Della Vedova, D. Tessera, and M.C. Calzarossa. Probabilistic Provisioning and Scheduling in Uncertain Cloud Environments. In Proc. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC), pages 797-803, 2016. [bib] [preprint]
  • M.C. Calzarossa, L. Massari, D. Doran, S. Yelne, N. Trivedi, and G. Moriarty. Measuring the Users and Conversations of a Vibrant Online Emotional Support System. In Proc. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC), pages 1193-1199, 2016. [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa, M.L. Della Vedova, L. Massari, D. Petcu, M.I.M. Tabash and D. Tessera. Workloads in the Clouds. In L. Fiondella and A. Puliafito, editors, Principles of Performance and Reliability Modeling and Evaluation, Springer Series in Reliability Engineering, pages 525-550, Springer, 2016. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa, L. Massari and D. Tessera. Workload characterization: A survey revisited. ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 48, article 48, pages 48-1-48-43, 2016.
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  • U. Villano, S. Cagnoni, M. Calzarossa, A. Di Stefano, B. Di Martino. Cloudifier: An Ecosystem for the Migration of Distributed Applications to the Cloud. In Proc. 30th Int. Conf. on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, AINA 2016 Workshops, pages 159-164, 2016. [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa and D. Tessera. Modeling and Predicting Temporal Patterns of Web Content Changes. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, vol. 56, pages 115-123, 2015. Open access at Elsevier [bib]
  • D. Doran, S. Yelne, L. Massari, M. Calzarossa, L. Jackson, G. Moriarty, Stay Awhile and Listen: User Interactions in a Crowdsourced Platform Offering Emotional Support In Proc. of the IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining - ASONAM'15, pp. 667-674, Paris, 2015. [Best paper award] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa and D. Tessera Multivariate analysis of Web content changes. In Proc. of the 11th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA' 2014), IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 699-706, 2014. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa and L. Massari. Analysis of header usage patterns of HTTP request messages. In Proc. 16th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications - HPCC 2014, pages 847-853, IEEE, 2014. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa, L. Massari and D. Tessera. An extensive study of Web robots traffic In Proc. Int. Conf. on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services - IIWAS2013, pages 410-417, ACM, 2013. [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa and D. Tessera. Time series analysis of the dynamics of news websites. In Proc. PDCAT 2012, IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 529-533, 2012. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa and L. Massari. Temporal analysis of crawling activities of commercial Web robots. In E. Gelenbe, and R. Lent editors, Computer and Information Sciences III, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, pages 429-436, Springer, 2012. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa and L. Massari. Analysis of Web logs: Challenges and Findings. In K.A. Hummel et al., editors, Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems: Milestones and Future Challenges - PERFORM 2010, volume 6821 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 227--239, Springer, 2011. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa, P. Ciancarini, L. Mich and N. Scarabottolo. Informatics Education in Italian High Schools. In Kalas, I. and Mittermeir, R.T., editors, Informatics in Schools, volume 7013 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 31-42, Springer, 2011. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa and D. Tessera. An Exploratory Analysis of the Novelty of a News Web Site. In Proc. SPECTS 2010 Conference, pp. 399-404, SCS Press, 2010. [preprint] [bib]
  • L. Massari. What's Inside MySpace Comments?. In Proc. of the Int. Symp. on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'10) , pp. 310-316, 2010. [preprint] [bib]
  • L. Massari. Analysis of MySpace User Profiles. Information Systems Frontiers, vol. 12, n. 4, pp. 361-367, Springer, 2010. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa and D. Tessera. Characterization of the Evolution of a News Web Site. Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 81, n. 12, pp. 2336-2344, Elsevier, 2008. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa, P. Ciancarini, P. Maresca, L. Mich and N. Scarabottolo. The ECDL Programme in Italian Universities. Computers & Education, vol. 49, n. 2, pp. 514-529, Elsevier, 2007. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa and D. Tessera. A Study of the Dynamic Behavior of a Web Site. In J.A. Barria, Editor, Communication Networks and Computer Systems. Chapter 15, Imperial College Press, 2006. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa, P. Ciancarini, P. Maresca, L. Mich and N. Scarabottolo. The ECDL Certification of ICT Usage Skills in the Italian Universities. In Proc. of the Twelfth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2006), pp. 238-243, 2006. [preprint]
  • K. Ferschweiler, S. Harrah, D. Keon, M. Calzarossa, D. Tessera and C. Pancake. The Tracefile Testbed: A Community Repository for Identifying and Retrieving HPC Performance Data. Int. Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, vol. 3 (2/3), pages 95-102, 2005. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa and D. Tessera. Models of Dynamic Web Content. In Proc. Workshop on Methodologies, Techniques and Tools for Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems (FIRB-Perf 2005), pages 26-33, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005. [preprint] [bib]
  • A. Barili, M. Calzarossa and D. Tessera. Modeling Dynamic Web Content. In Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004, volume 3280 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 648-656, Springer, 2004. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa and E. Gelenbe, editors. Performance Tools and Applications to Networked Systems. Volume 2965 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2004. (TOCS)
  • M. Calzarossa, L. Massari and D. Tessera. A Methodology Towards Automatic Performance Analysis of Parallel Applications. Parallel Computing, vol. 30, n. 2, pp. 213-225, 2004. [preprint] [bib]
  • M. Calzarossa. Performance Evaluation of Mail Systems. In Performance Tools and Applications to Networked Systems, volume 2965 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 51-67, Springer, 2004. [preprint] [bib]

Past publications