Mauro Tortonesi (orcid.org/0000-0002-7417-4455)

Summary

1. Biography
2. Research topics
3. Organization and review activity
4. Teaching
5. List of publications

Biography

Mauro Tortonesi received his Laurea degree in Electronics Engineering from  the University of Ferrara on October 25th, 2002. He achieved a score of 110/110, graduated with honors, and received a commendation letter from the evaluating Commissione di Laurea.

On January 1st, 2003 he started the Ph.D. programme in Computer Science Engineering at the Engineering Department of the University of Ferrara,joining the Distributed System Research Group led by Prof. Cesare Stefanelli.

From September 2004 to August 2005 he joined the NOMADS research group at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (FIHMC) in Pensacola, FL (USA), for a research exchange programme under the supervision of Dr. Niranjan Suri.

From January 1st, 2006 to August 31st, 2010 he worked as a research associate at the Engineering Department of the University of Ferrara.

He successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Multimedia Service Provisioning on Wireless Networks” (supervisor Prof. Cesare Stefanelli) on March 23rd, 2006.

From September 1st, 2010 he holds an Assistant Professor position (RTD) at the Engineering Department of the University of Ferrara.

On January 2015, Mauro Tortonesi received the “Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale - II fascia”, the Italian scientific qualification required to hold an Associate Professor position, in Computer Science Engineering (9/H1).

Research Interests

Mauro Tortonesi’s scientific work could be broadly classified along the following 4 main research activities.

A first activity involves the study of solutions for the modeling and optimization of support organizations for the resolution of incidents in the IT industry, and the construction of models and software tools to support business-driven strategic decision making relating to the incident management process in the IT industry. This is an extremely difficult task, which requires to consider a large set of possible operations on IT support organizations (support group re-staffing, merging, splitting, etc.), and the implementation of different policies for the allocation and prioritization of incidents, and suggests the adoption of what-if scenario analysis techniques and tools, which enable the behavioral analysis of highly complex real-world systems in alternative working conditions. This activity, carried out in collaboration with the HP Labs research laboratories in Palo Alto, CA (USA), the research division of Hewlett Packard, resulted in numerous scientific publications and in the realization of the state-of-the-art SYMIAN decision support tool, which was thoroughly validated through comparisons with the data from real-life enterprise class IT support organizations, and was recently released as Open Source.

A second research activity concerns Internet-of-Things (IoT) management in industrial environments. More specifically, Dr. Tortonesi’s work focused on the study and implementation of Web-based and highly scalable e-Maintenance solutions for the remote monitoring, diagnostics, configuration, reporting, and updating of automated machines, and on the study and implementation of innovative control platforms for automated machines based on single board computer with ARM processors and component-off- the-shelf Open Source software, such as the Linux operating system, the Qt embedded GUI libraries, and the Ruby on Rails framework for Web 2.0 applications. This activity is carried out in collaboration with the R&D divisions of many world leading (mechanical) industries, such as Carpigiani Group of Anzola dell’Emilia (BO), IMA SpA of Ozzano Emilia (BO), VM Motori (FIAT-Chrysler Group) of Cento (FE), Elenos of Poggio Renatico (FE), SACMI of Imola (BO). Within this research activity, Dr. Tortonesi contributed to design and realize several prototypes of software solutions for the remote monitoring and control of machines through Web-based technologies, for the the local (HMI) control of machines through an embedded Qt interface, and for the remote control of automated machines via iPad devices. All the prototypes are currently going through the commercialization phase, and provided or are expected to provide very significant economic benefits for the companies. The activity also led to several scientific publications and to the filing of two patent applications.

Another research activity concerns the study of business-driven methodologies for the placement optimization of software components of complex IT services in federated Cloud environments. This activity aims at developing a general model to represent the behaviour of complex IT services with multiple workflows, a simulation based tool to reenact the behavior of complex IT services in federated Cloud environments, and optimization solutions leveraging computational intelligence methods such as genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization. This activity is carried out in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science - Science and Engineering (DISI) of the University of Bologna, St. John's University in New York, NY, (USA), and the IBM TJ Watson research institute, New York, NY, (USA). The activity, started only very recently, resulted in several publications and in the realization of the SISFC simulator to reenact the behavior of IT service components in federated Cloud environments and of the ruby-mhl library of metaheuristics, which were released as Open Source.

A fourth research activity involves the study and development of methodologies and tools to support communications in extremely dynamic wireless environments such as mobile ad-hoc, delay-tolerant, opportunistic, and tactical edge networks. The main objective of this activity is the implementation of a comprehensive middleware solution enabling application-level service discovery, network condition monitoring, service session mobility, QoS management, opportunistic resource exploitation, adaptation of component-off-the-shelf applications, and finally smart and adaptive information dissemination. This activity is carried out in collaboration with the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition in Pensacola, FL (USA), with the United States Army Research Lab (ARL), with the United States Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), with the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and the United States Office of Naval Research (ONR), and led to interesting results published in many international scientific journals and conferences.

Finally, other minor activities concern the realization of a platform for the QoS-enabled provisioning of multimedia services over Bluetooth, the development of mechanisms to prevent the tracking of users and mobile devices with Wireless Internet, and the study of the problem of porting applications and services legacy IPv4-only to IPv6.

Organization and Review Activities

Mauro Tortonesi is serving / has served as Technical Program Committee Co-chair for the following international conferences and workshops:

• The 11th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2015);
• The 10th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2015);
• The 14th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2015) - Experience Session;
• The 14th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2014) - Special track on the Management of the Internet of Things;

• The 9th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2014);
• The 8th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2013);
• The 7th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2012).

He is serving / has served as Technical Program Committee member for the following international conferences and workshops:

• The 11th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2015);
• The 3rd Workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (CCSNA 2015);
• The 17th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2015);
• 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Cognitive Network and Service Management (CogMan 2015);
• 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Management of Fog Computing (ManFog 2015);
• The 17th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2015);
• The 8th Latin-American Network Operations and Management Symposium (LANOMS 2015);
• The 9th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2015);
• The 14th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2015);
• Wireless Days 2014 (WD 2014);
• 2014 IEEE 80th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2014-Fall) - Track 9: Transportation, Vehicular Networks, and Telematics;
• The 3rd International Conference on Theory and Practice in Modern Computing (TPMC 2014);
• The 16th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2014);
• Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile 2014 (ApWiMob 2014);
• 8th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2014);
• The 14th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2014) - Dissertation Session;
• The 14th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2014);
• Wireless Days 2013 (WD 2013);
• The 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice in Modern Computing (TPMC 2013);
• The 15th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2013);
• The 8th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2013);
• The 9th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2013);
• The 13th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2013);
• Wireless Days 2012 (WD 2012);
• The 1st International Conference on Theory and Practice in Modern Computing (TPMC 2012);
• The 8th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2012);
• The 7th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2012);
• The 13th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2012);
• The 7th IEEE/IFIP Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium (LANOMS 2011);
• IADIS Telecommunications, Networks and Systems Conference 2011 (TNS 2011);
• The 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011) - Special Track on Management of Service Oriented Architectures (ManSOA);
• The 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011);
• The 6th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2010);
• The 2010 International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IMCSIT 2010);
• The 5th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2010);
• IADIS Telecommunications, Networks and Systems Conference 2010 (TNS 2010);
• IADIS Telecommunications, Networks and Systems Conference 2009 (TNS 2009);
• The 6th IEEE/IFIP Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium (LANOMS 2009);
• The 20th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2009).

He is serving / has served as reviewer for the following international journals and magazines:

• Communications Magazine (IEEE);
• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE);
• International Journal of Network Management (Wiley);
• Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier);
• Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier);
• Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (Elsevier);
• IBM Journal of Research and Development (IBM);
• Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier).
  
  

Finally, he is serving / has served as reviewer for the following international conferences and workshops:

• The 2010 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010);
• The 12th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2007);
• The 11th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2007).

Teaching

Dr. Tortonesi teaches the Computer Networks course at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Ferrara. His teaching activity also includes many lessons and seminars for the Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, and Concurrent Programming courses.

List of Publications

Here is the list of Dr. Tortonesi's publications, updated at February 7th 2018:

International Journals

[J.1] P. Bellavista, C. Stefanelli, M. Tortonesi, "QoS Management Middleware Solutions for Bluetooth Audio Distribution", Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, ISSN 1574-1192, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 117-138, February 2008.

[J.2] N. Suri, E. Benvegnù, M. Tortonesi, C.Stefanelli, J. Kovach, J. Hanna, "Communications Middleware for Tactical Environments: Observations, Experiences, and Lessons Learned", IEEE Communications Magazine, ISSN 0163-6804, Vol. 47, No. 10 (Special Issue on Military Communications), pp. 56-63, October 2009.

[J.3] C. Bartolini, C.Stefanelli, M. Tortonesi, "SYMIAN: Analysis and Performance Improvement of the IT Incident Management Process", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, ISSN 1932-4537, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 132-144, September 2010.

[J.4] N. Suri, G. Benincasa, M. Tortonesi, C.Stefanelli, J. Kovach, R. Winkler, R. Kohler, J. Hanna, L. Pochet, S. Watson, "Peer-to-Peer Communications for Tactical Environments: Observations, Requirements, and Experiences", IEEE Communications Magazine, ISSN 0163-6804, Vol. 48, No. 10 (Special Issue on Military Communications), pp. 60-69, October 2010.

[J.5] M. Tortonesi, C. Stefanelli, E. Benvegnù, K. Ford, N. Suri, M. Linderman, "Multiple-UAV Coordination and Communications in Tactical Edge Networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, ISSN 0163-6804, Vol. 50, No. 10 (Special Issue on Military Communications), pp. 48-55, October 2012.

[J.6] M. Brenner, T. Schaaf, M. Tortonesi, "Business-Driven IT Management Coming of Age - A Report on the 7th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-Driven IT Management (BDIM 2012)", Journal of Network and Systems Management, Springer, ISSN 1064-7570, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 326-333, June 2013.

[J.7] R. Lazzarini, C. Stefanelli, M. Tortonesi, G. Virgilli, "E-Maintenance for Household and Similar Appliances", International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, Inderscience, ISSN 1746-6474, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 141-160, 2013.

[J.8] M. Tortonesi, A. Morelli, C. Stefanelli, R. Kohler, N. Suri, S. Watson, "Enabling the Deployment of COTS Applications in Tactical Edge Networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, ISSN 0163-6804, Vol. 51, No. 10 (Special Issue on Military Communications), pp. 66-73, October 2013.

[J.9] G. Benincasa, A. Morelli, C. Stefanelli, N. Suri, M. Tortonesi, "Agile Communication Middleware for Next-generation Mobile Heterogeneous Networks", IEEE Software, ISSN 0740-7459, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Special Issue on Next Generation Mobile Computing), pp. 54-61, March-April 2014.

[J.10] N. Suri, G. Benincasa, R. Lenzi, M. Tortonesi, C. Stefanelli, L. Sadler, “Exploring Value of Information-based Approaches to Support Effective Communications in Tactical Networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 10 (Special Feature on Military Communications), pp. 39-45, October 2015.

[J.11] M. Tortonesi, L. Foschini, “Business-driven Service Placement for Highly Dynamic and Distributed Cloud Systems”, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2016.

[J.12] A. Morelli, M. Tortonesi, C. Stefanelli, N. Suri, "Information-Centric Networking in Next-generation Communications Scenarios", Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), 16 December 2016, ISSN 1084-8045, DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2016.12.026

[J.13] M. Govoni, J. Michaelis, A. Morelli, N. Suri, M. Tortonesi, "An Information-Centric Platform for Social- and Location-Aware IoT Applications in Smart Cities", EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things, Vol. 3, No. 9,

[J.14] P. Bellavista, C. Giannelli, S. Lanzone, G. Riberto, C. Stefanelli, M. Tortonesi, "A middleware solution for wireless iot applications in sparse smart cities", Sensors (Basel), Vol. 17, No. 11, pp. 2525-2542, November 2017, DOI: 10.3390/s17112525

[J.15] W. Cerroni, L. Foschini, G. Grabarnik, L. Shwartz, M. Tortonesi, "Estimating Delay Times between Cloud Datacenters: A Pragmatic Modelling Approach", accepted for publication in IEEE Communication Letters.