Alberto Montresor's Home Page

Alberto Montresor

Associate Professor

Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione
University of Trento, Italy

Research

Publications
Software:
- Peersim
- Jgroup
Projects:
- Bison
- Anthill
- ADAPT
- PeerSpaces

Teaching

Recent highligths

My paper "Cloudy Weather for P2P, with a Chance of Gossip" won the best paper award at P2P'11!
My first book is out! More details below
Editor, Special Issue on "Extreme Distributed Systems: From Large Scale to Complexity", Springer Computing. Have a look here.
2011-2014: Associate Editor of Springer Computing Journal
2010-2013: Steering committee chair: Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference
2010-2012: Coordinator of the Autonomic Security project, financed by the Italian PRIN Programme
2010-2012: Member of the Nucleo di Valutazione (Evaluation Committee) of the University of Trento
2007-2009: Steering committee member, DAIS Conference
2007-2012: Coordinator of the ATLAS project, financed by the EU-US ATLANTIS Programme
2006-2009: Coordinator of the Computer Science Degrees, Faculty of Science, University of Trento

Research

My research interests include distributed computing, object-oriented distributed programming, fault-tolerance, peer-to-peer and gossip protocols. My main goal is to develop protocols and systems that survive: to failures, to dynamism, to adversarial environments. During my Ph.D. years, and slightly after, my interest was on reliable group communication systems; in these days, I'm exploring the potentiality of gossip protocols in large-scale, dynamic distributed systems.

Ph.D. Students

Current:
- Alessio Guerrieri
- Vimalkumar Kumaresan (Vimal)
- Hanna Kavalionak
- Giuliano Mega (co-supervised with Gian Pietro Picco)
Past:
- Marco Biazzini, now post-doc for the P2PWeb project at the University of Nantes

Software - Peersim

Peersim has been downloaded more than 18.000 times!
Version 1.0.5 has been released on September 29th, 2009.
More than 160 papers have been written using Peersim

Algorithms and Data Structures book

In Summer 2009, I've been asked to cooperate in a new edition of the Alan Bertossi's book "Algoritmi e Strutture di Dati" (in italian). On May 2010, the book is out, edited by Tecniche Nuove - De Agostini Scuola. If you are interested, there is a web site where you can find slides, additional exercises and educational software related to the book.

Running - biking - hiking

I'm an amateur runner (best marathon time: 4h 12', best half-marathon time: 1h 48') and I like to ride my mountain bike; unfortunately I don't hike/climb as much I would like. In this page I share some of my experiences, mapped through my faithful Garmin 305.

How to find me

Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione - University of Trento
Via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Povo (TN) - Italy

(+39) 0461 28.3972

(+39) 0461 28.2093