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Gian Pietro Picco

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Find more info about my research, projects, and software on the web page of our D3S research group:
Dynamic, Decentralized, Distributed Systems

News

• Dec 2011
  Invited speaker at the Future of Middleware (FOME) workshop, co-located with Middleware 2011. See also the invited paper.
• Nov 2011
  Full professor!
• Oct 2011
  Keynote speaker at SENSEAPP 2011.
• Jul 2011
  I was a lecturer at the CONET summer school.
• Jun 2011
  The paper "Efficient Dissemination in Decentra­lized Social Networks" has been accepted at P2P'11
• Apr 2011
  The paper "Is There Light at the Ends of the Tunnel? Wireless Sensor Networks for Adaptive Lighting in Road Tunnels" won the Best Paper Award at IPSN'11 (SPOTS track)!
• Mar 2011
  The paper "Group Monitoring in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for publication and presentation at DCOSS'11
• Nov 2010
  I presented the po­sition paper "Software Engi­neering and Wireless Sensor Networks: Happy Marriage or Consensual Divorce?" at FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Enginee­ring Research (FoSER'10), co-located with FSE-18
• Oct 2010
  The paper "Muster: Adaptive Energy-Aware Multi-Sink Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
• Sep 2010
  The paper "Motes in the Jungle: Lessons Learned from a Short-term WSN Deployment in the Ecuador Cloud Forest" has been accepted for publication and presentation at REALWSN'10
• Aug 2010
  I joined the Editorial Board of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
• Aug 2010
  The paper "Not all Wireless Sensor Networks are Created Equal: A Comparative Study on Tunnels" appeared in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)

Contact Info Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) University of Trento via Sommarive 14, I-38050 Povo (TN), Italy Telephone: +39 0461 28 3953 Fax: +39 0461 28 2093 E-mail: You can also reach me through my secretary Roberta Guidolin

Scientific events I am currently involved in

• 9th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2012), Trento (Italy) February 15-17, 2012. Program co-chair (with W. Heinzelman) and General Chair.

Some of my recent papers (check also the full list)

• Luca Mottola and Gian Pietro Picco. "Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks: An Outlook". To appear in Journal of Internet Services and Application. Invited paper for the Future of Middleware (FOME) workshop at Middleware 2011.
• Giuliano Mega, Alberto Montresor, Gian Pietro Picco. "Efficient Dissemination in Decentralized Social Networks". To appear in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2011), Kyoto (Japan), August 31-September 2, 2011.
• Matteo Ceriotti, Michele Corrà, Leandro D'Orazio, Roberto Doriguzzi, Daniele Facchin, Stefan Guna, Gian Paolo Jesi, Renato Lo Cigno, Luca Mottola, Amy L. Murphy, Massimo Pescalli, Gian Pietro Picco, Denis Pregnolato, Carloalberto Torghele. "Is There Light at the Ends of the Tunnel? Wireless Sensor Networks for Adaptive Lighting in Road Tunnels". To appear in the Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2011, SPOTS track), Chicago (IL, USA), April 12-14, 2011, pp. 187-198. This paper received the Best Paper Award.
• Marco Cattani, Stefan Guna, and Gian Pietro Picco. "Group Monitoring in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks" To appear in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'11), Barcelona (Spain), June 27-29, 2011.
• Luca Mottola and Gian Pietro Picco. "Muster: Adaptive Energy-Aware Multi-Sink Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks". To appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
• Luca Mottola and Gian Pietro Picco. "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: Fundamental Concepts and State-of-the-Art". ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 43, no. 3, April 2011.
• Gian Pietro Picco."Software Engineering and Wireless Sensor Networks: Happy Marriage or Consensual Divorce?". In Proc. of the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research (FoSER'10), co-located with the 18th ACM International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), November 7, Santa Fe (NM, USA).
• Luca Mottola, Gian Pietro Picco, Matteo Ceriotti, Stefan Guna, Amy L. Murphy. "Not all Wireless Sensor Networks are Created Equal: A Comparative Study on Tunnels". ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), vol. 7, no. 2, August 2010. The connectivity traces are also available.
• Matteo Ceriotti, Luca Mottola, Gian Pietro Picco, Amy L. Murphy, Stefan Guna, Michele Corrà, Matteo Pozzi, Daniele Zonta, and Paolo Zanon. "Monitoring Heritage Buildings with Wireless Sensor Networks: The Torre Aquila Deployment". In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2009, SPOTS track), San Francisco (CA, USA), April 13-16, 2009, pp. 277-288. This paper received the Best Paper Award.
• Paolo Costa, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, and Gian Pietro Picco. "Socially-aware Routing for Publish-Subscribe in Delay-tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Networks". IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communication (JSAC), vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 748-760, June 2008.
• Stefano Castelli, Paolo Costa, and Gian Pietro Picco. "Large-Scale Content-Based Routing in a Multidimensional Space". In Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2008), Phoenix (AZ, USA), April 13-18, 2008.
• Paolo Costa, Luca Mottola, Amy L. Murphy, and Gian Pietro Picco. "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks with the TeenyLIME Middleware". In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2007), Newport Beach (CA, USA), November 26-30, 2007.
• Amy L. Murphy, Gian Pietro Picco, and Gruia-Catalin Roman. "Lime: A Coordination Middleware Supporting Mobility of Hosts and Agents" ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 279-328, July 2006.

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