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Best Paper Awards

  • 2014 Andrew P. Sage IEEE SMC Transactions Best Paper Award: Fortino, G.; Giannantonio, R.; Gravina, R.; Kuryloski, P.; Jafari, R., “Enabling Effective Programming and Flexible Management of Efficient Body Sensor Network Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, vol. 43, no.1, pp.115-133, Jan. 2013. doi: 10.1109/TSMCC.2012.2215852.
  • Best Paper Award of EAI/ACM Bodynets 2015, Sydney, 2015: Giancarlo Fortino, Raffaele Gravina, Wenfeng Li, Congcong Ma: Using Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks to Track People Physical Activity in Mobility.
  • Best Paper at “2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR INDUSTRY 4.0 – STI 2020”, A Real-time e-Health Data Collection System from On-board Vehicle Drivers in Smart City, IEEE Computer Society, 2020.

IEEE SMC Society Awards

  • Outstanding Chapter Award as Chair of the Italy SMC Chapter

Invited Talks, Keynotes, Tutorials, and Panels

  1. Keynote “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Human-centric, Cognitive and Interoperable Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects”, 5th conference on Big Data and Internet of Things. Rabat, Morocco on March 17-18 2021.
  2. Keynote “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Human-centric, Cognitive and Interoperable Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects”, ISM 2020 – International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing, Virtual Online Conference, 23-25 November 2020
  3. Keynote “Towards Opportunistic IoT Services: A Novel Paradigm for Engineering the Next-generation IoT Systems”, Virtual International Conference on Futuristic Communication and Network Technologies (ICFCNT 2020). On-line conference. Nov. 6, 2020.
  4. Keynote “Wearable Computing Systems based on Body Sensor Networks: State-of-the-art and Future Research Challenges” at 4th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA), 5-6 November, 2020, Budapest, Hungary.
  5. Invited Talk “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Human-centric, Cognitive and Interoperable Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects”, in THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL ONLINE LECTURE SERIES OF SCHOOL OF SOFTWARE, NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Oct. 12-14, 2020 Xian, China
  6. Invited Talk “Collaborative Body Sensor Networks as Enabling Technology for Implementing Social Distancing and Humans’ Tracking”, Shenzen Institute for Advanced Technologies (Shenzen, China), on-line seminar. 31 August 2020.
  7. Invited Talk “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Cognitive and Interoperable Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects”, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) – International Webinar Series, Aug. 3 2020.
  8. Invited Talk “Collaborative Body Sensor Networks as Enabling Technology for Implementing Social Distancing and Humans’ Tracking”, Distinguished speaker of an online lecture series organized by IEEE Computer Society Chapter of Green Univ of Bangladesh. Day-1: Smart Sensing and Remote Access to Address COVID-19 Challenges. Sunday 28 June 2020.
  9. Keynote “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Cognitive and Interoperable Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects”, ICDAM Conference, India, 18 June 2020.
  10. Invited Talk “Wearable Computing Systems based on Body Sensor Networks: State-of-the-Art and Future Research Challenges” at IEEE Standards Association Webinars WAMIII Virtual Series, 2020. https://standards.ieee.org/events/wamiii/virtual-talk-series-2020.html
  11. Keynote “From Modeling to Implementation of Cognitive and Wearable Computing Systems based on Body Sensor Networks: the SPINE project”, at 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, 23-25 Oct 2019, Naples, Italy.
  12. Invited Talk “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Cognitive and Interoperable Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects”, at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Hosted by Prof. Zhao, Sep. 20 2019.
  13. Invited Talk “From Modeling to Implementation of Cognitive and Wearable Computing Systems based on Body Sensor Networks: the SPINE project”, at Wuhan University of Science and Technology (China), Hosted by Prof. S. Wu, Sep. 20 2019.
  14. Invited Talk “Towards Opportunistic IoT Services: A Novel Paradigm for Engineering the Next-generation IoT Systems”, at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China), Hosted by Prof. M. Chen, Sep. 19 2019.
  15. Invited Talk “Towards Opportunistic IoT Services: A Novel Paradigm for Engineering the Next-generation IoT Systems”, at ZUEL University, China. Hosted by Prof. Y. Zhang, Sep. 19 2019.
  16. Lecture “A Reputation Capital and Blockchain-based Model to Support Group Formation Processes in the Internet of Things” at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, Sep. 18 2018, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  17. Invited Talk “Towards Opportunistic IoT Services: A Novel Paradigm for Engineering the Next-generation IoT Systems”, at Huazhong Agriculture University (China), Hosted by Dr. L. Yang, Sep. 17 2019.
  18. Invited Talk “Towards Opportunistic IoT Services: A Novel Paradigm for Engineering the Next-generation IoT Systems”, at Northeastern University, Boston (USA), Aug 2019.
  19. Keynote “Towards Opportunistic IoT Services: A Novel Paradigm for Engineering the Next-generation IoT Systems”, at IEEE ICSNC 2019, Banff (Canada), May 2019.
  20. Invited Talk “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Cognitive and Interoperable Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects”, InsightCenter for Data Analytics, NUI Galway (Ireland), hosted by Dr. A. Intizar, Feb, 4 2019.
  21. Invited Talk “IoT Platforms Interoperability: A Methodological Approach”, National University of Singapore (NUS), hosted by Dr. H. Ren, Jan 2019.
  22. Invited Talk “IoT Platforms Interoperability: A Methodological Approach” Nanyang Technical University (NTU), Singapore, hosted by Prof. L. Xie, Jan 2019.
  23. Keynote on “The Role of Trust in Internet of Things Ecosystems”, at IEEE WF-IoT 2019, Limerick (Ireland), Apr. 2019.
  24. Talk on “Towards Multi-Layer Interoperability of IoT Platforms: the INTER-IoT approach” at WGF 2019 (What GRIDs for Future, What Future for GRIDs), Rende (CS), Italy, Dec 7 2018, sponsored by Italian Chapter of IEEE SMCS.
  25. Coordinator of Panel on “Next-generation Internet-based Systems”, at IDCS Conference 2018, Tokyo (Japan), Oct 2018.
  26. Keynote on “IoT Opportunistic Services: A Programming Paradigm for Next-generation IoT Systems” at IDCS Conference 2018, Tokyo (Japan), Oct 2018.
  27. Keynote on “IoT Platforms Interoperability: A Methodological Approach” at IEEE PICOM 2018, Athens (Greece), Aug 2018.
  28. Invited Talk “Towards Opportunistic IoT Services: A Novel Paradigm for Engineering the Next-generation IoT Systems”, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xian, China, Jun 19 2018, hosted by Dr. Jianchao Luo.
  29. Invited Talk “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Cognitive and Interoperable Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects”, at School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, China. Hosted by Prof. W. Rao, Jul 2, 2018.
  30. Lecture “Towards IoT Opportunistic Services: Models, Middleware and Use Cases” at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, Jun 26 2018, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  31. Lecture “INTER-Meth: A Methodology for Heterogeneous IoT Platforms Integration” at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, July 4 2018, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  32. Invited Talk “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Cognitive and Interoperable Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects”, at C2SMART Distinguished Speaker Series. ZUEL University, China. Hosted by Prof. Y. Zhang, 28 Jun 2018.
  33. Invited Talk “Research Directions in IEEE SMC TC on Interactive and Wearable Computing and Devices” at IEEE BoG Meeting and Workshop, Politecnico di Bari (Italy). Hosted by Prof. M.P. Fanti, 10 Jun 2018.
  34. “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Cognitive and Interoperable Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects”, at C2SMART Distinguished Speaker Series. New York University. Hosted by Prof. M Ghandehari, 13 Apr 2018.
  35. “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Cognitive and Interoperable Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects”, at University of Oulu, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, hosted by Prof. J. Riekki (Faculty Dean), 22 Mar 2018.
  36. “Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks: Towards Community Wearable Computing”, at National University of Singapore, Singapore, hosted by Dr. H. Ren, Feb 6 2018.
  37. Invited Seminar on ” Agents meet the IoT: Towards Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects” at University of Cagliari (Italy), 23 Jan. 2018, hosted by Prof. F. Roli.
  38. Lecture on “Towards Multi-Layer Interoperability of IoT Platforms: the INTER-IoT approach” at Univ. of Bologna (Cesena campus), Nov. 2017, host: Prof. M. Viroli.
  39. “Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks: Towards Community Wearable Computing”, at South Eastern University (Nanjing), China, hosted by Prof. Xiaoping Li, Jul 14 2017.
  40. “Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks: Towards Community Wearable Computing”, at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, hosted by Prof. Ye Li, June 28 2017.
  41. “Towards Interoperable, Cognitive and Autonomic IoT Ecosystems: an Agent-based Approach”, at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, July 2016, hosted by Prof. M. Chen
  42. “Modeling Opportunistic IoT Services in Open IoT Ecosystems”, at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, July 2016, hosted by Prof. M. Chen
  43. “Towards Multi-Layer Interoperability of IoT Platforms: the INTER-IoT approach” at Maritime University of Shanghai (China), hosted by Dr. Xiuwen Fu, July 7 2017.
  44. “Towards Interoperable, Cognitive and Autonomic IoT Ecosystems: an Agent-based Approach”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, July 4 2017, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  45. “Modeling Opportunistic IoT Services in Open IoT Ecosystems”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, July 11, 2017, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  46. “IoT platforms interoperability for Active and Assisted Living Healthcare services support”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, July 18, 2017, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  47. Invited Talk on “Towards Interoperable, Cognitive and Autonomic IoT Ecosystems: an Agent-based Approach” at Data Science Center (DSC/e) (Eindhoven University of Technology), hosted by Prof. W. van der Aalst and Prof. Antonio Liotta, IoT Seminar Series.
  48. Tutorial on “SPINE: Signal In-Node Processing”, at Int’l Body Sensor Networks Conference (IEEE), Eindhoven (NL), May 9-12, 2017. Co-speaker: Raffaele Gravina.
  49. Keynote at TRIDENTCOM 2017, 12th EAI International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities December 7–8, 2017 | WUHAN, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: http://tridentcom.org/2017/show/keynotes
  50. Invited Seminar on “Towards Multi-Layer Interoperability of IoT Platforms: the INTER-IoT approach” at New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA), 12 Jan. 2017, hosted by Prof. M. Zhou.
  51. Invited Seminar on ” Agents meet the IoT: Towards Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects” at New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA), 12 Jan. 2017, hosted by Prof. M. Zhou.
  52. Panelist on “IoT Interoperability: Standards vs Voluntary Approaches” at IEEE CNCC 2017, 8 Jan. 2017, Las Vegas, USA.
  53. Keynote on “Towards Multi-Layer Interoperability of IoT Platforms: the INTER-IoT approach” at Bodynets 2016, 15 Dec. 2016, Turin, Italy.
  54. Keynote on “Towards Multi-Layer Interoperability of IoT Platforms: the INTER-IoT approach” at OMT 2016, 27 Oct. 2016, Rhodes, Greece.
  55. Keynote on “Towards Multi-Layer Interoperability of IoT Platforms: the INTER-IoT approach” at IDCS 2016, 28 Sept. 2016, Wuhan, China.
  56. Invited Talk on “Towards Multi-Layer Interoperability of IoT Platforms: the INTER-IoT approach” at University of Reggio Calabria (Italy), 24 Nov. 2016, hosted by Dr. G.M. Sarnè.
  57. Invited Talk on “Cloud-based Activity-aaService Cyberphysical Framework for Human Activity Monitoring in Mobility “, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 26 Sept. 2016, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  58. Invited Talk on “Towards Interoperability of Heterogeneous IoT Platforms:the INTER-IoT approach”, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China, 23 Sept. 2016, hosted by Prof. Y. Zhang.
  59. Invited Talk on “Agent-oriented Modeling and Simulation of IoT Networks “, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 15 July 2016, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  60. Tutorial on “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects (AgIoT)”, 18th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS-2016) to be held at the University of Catania, Catania, Italy, 28 July 2016.
  61. Invited Talk on “Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks: Towards Community Wearable Computing”, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 15 July 2016, hosted by Prof. M. Chen.
  62. Invited Talk on “Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks: Towards Community Wearable Computing”, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 8 July 2016, hosted by Prof. D. Chen.
  63. Invited Talk on “Enabling IoT Interoperability through Opportunistic Mobile Multi-Technology Gateways”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 6 July 2016, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  64. Invited Talk on “Agents meet the IoT: Towards Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 5 July 2016, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  65. Invited Talk on “A Mission-Oriented Coordination Framework for Teams of Mobile Aerial and Terrestrial Smart Objects”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 4 July 2016, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  66. Invited Talk on “INTER-IoT: Toward Global Interoperability of Internet of Things Ecosystems”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 14 Oct. 2015, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  67. Invited Talk on “Towards a Development Methodology for Smart Object-Oriented IoT Systems: a Metamodel Approach”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 8 Oct. 2015, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  68. Invited Talk on “Autonomic and Cognitive Architectures for the Internet of Things”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 8 Oct. 2015, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  69. Invited Talk on “Middleware for Smart Objects in the Internet of Things”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 29 May. 2015, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  70. Invited Talk on “Empowering Smart Large-Environments through interoperable Sensor Network and IoT Enablers”, Workshop on Smart Ports, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 27 May. 2015, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  71. Invited Talk on “Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks: The BodyCloud Project”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 23 May. 2015, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  72. Invited Talk on “From Embedded Computing Frameworks for Body Sensor Networks to Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks”, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, 24 May. 2015, hosted by Prof. Z. Wang.
  73. Invited Talk on “From Embedded Computing Frameworks for Body Sensor Networks to Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks”, Washington State University, Pulmann, WA, USA, 2014, hosted by Dr. H. Gasemzadeh.
  74. Keynote on “From Embedded Computing Frameworks for Body Sensor Networks to Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks “, EAI/ACM Int’l Conference Bodynets 2014, London, 1 Oct. 2014.
  75. Invited Talk on “Autonomic Computing-based Wireless Sensor Networks”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 13 May. 2014, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  76. Invited Talk on “From Embedded Computing Frameworks for Body Sensor Networks to Cloud-assisted Body Sensor Networks “, Univ. of Massachusetts (Boston), 27 Sept. 2013, Prof. J. Suzuki.
  77. Invited Talk on “From Embedded Computing Frameworks for Body Sensor Networks to Cloud-assisted Body Sensor Networks “, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 25 Oct. 2013, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  78. Invited Talk on “The SPINE framework: efficient programming of body sensor networks” at Univ. of Chile (Santiago), 2013, hosted by Prof. S. Ochoa.
  79. Invited Talk on “Agents and Sensor Networks”, University of GDansk, Jun. 2012, hosted by Dr. M. Ganzha.
  80. Invited Talk on “Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks: issues and solutions”, National Higher School of IT (ENSIAS), Rabat, Morocco, May 2012, hosted by Prof. M. Essaaidi.
  81. Invited Seminar on “Agent-oriented Wireless Sensor Networks: State-of-the-art and Research Challenges”, Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e), Eindhoven, Netherlands, Apr. 2012, hosted by Prof. A. Liotta.
  82. Invited Talk on “Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks: issues and solutions”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 24 May 2012, hosted by Prof. W. Li.
  83. Talk on “C-SPINE: Collaborative Architecture for BSNs”, WP4 Meeting of FP CONET Project, Rome (Italy), 2 May 2011.
  84. Panel session on “Agents and Industry after 15 years from the birth of FIPA”, speakers G. Fortino, F. Bergenti, D. Gotta, S. Venticinque, Workshop on Objects and Agents, Rende (CS), Italy, 6 Jul. 2011.
  85. Invited Seminar on “Agent-based Frameworks for Distributed Computing: State-of-the-art and Research Challenges”, University of Reading, UK, Sept. 2010, hosted by Dr. G. Di Fatta.
  86. Talk on “SPINE2: task-oriented programming of wireless body area networks”, 2nd Year General Meeting of FP CONET Project, Duisburg (Germany), 15 Nov 2010.
  87. Invited Talk on “Agents and Sensor Networks”, NATO Programme Security Through Science, Advanced Study Institute, “Software Agents, Agent Systems and their Applications”, Tangiers, Morocco, Sept. 13-23, 2010.
  88. Invited Talk on “An agent-based approach for the development of Wireless Body Sensor Network applications”, University of Turin, Computer Science Dept., Turin (Italy), 29 Jun. 2010, Dr. M. Baldoni.
  89. Panel session on “Next Generation Content Networks: trends and challenges”, speakers G. Fortino, C. Mastroianni, M. Pathan, A. Vakali, 4th Int’l Workshop UPGRADE-CN’09, Munich, Germany, 9 Jun. 2009.
  90. Panel session on “Computational Intelligence and Mobile Agents”, organizer: Hani Hagras, IEEE Symp. on Intelligent Agents 2009 @ IEEE SSCI 2009, Nashville, TN, USA, 30 March 2009.
  91. Invited Talk on “A CASE tool-driven methodology for the simulation-based prototyping of distributed agent systems”, Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Science and Information Technology, Brisbane (Australia), 28 Sept. 2009, hosted by Prof. M. La Rosa.
  92. Invited Talk on “Developing Next-Generation Content Distribution Networks and CDN-based Applications: experiences using emerging computing paradigms”, University of Melbourne, Computer Science and Software Engineering Dept., Melbourne (Australia), 1 Sept. 2009, hosted by Prof. R. Buyya.
  93. Invited Talk on “Mobile Agents in Telecommunications”, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Dept. of Telecommunications, Valencia (Spain), 30 Apr. 2009, hosted by Prof. C. Palau.
  94. Talk on “Simulation-driven Development of Multi-Agent Systems”, 4th Meeting of AOSE TFG, 13 Dec. 2006.
  95. Invited Talk on “Statecharts-based Agents”, Doctoral School, 5th Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA’06), Catania (Italy), Sept. 25, 2006.
  96. Talk on “An Agent-based Approach for the management of distributed workflows”, 3rd Meeting of the AgentLink III European project, AOSE TFG, Budapest, 16 Sept. 2005.
  97. Talk on “The COMODIN Project: obtained results and future work”, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), 27 Jul. 2004, hosted by Prof. C. Palau.
  98. Talk on “Provision of Cooperative Playbacks using a Content Distribution Network”, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), 13 Sept. 2003, hosted by Prof. C. Palau.
  99. Talk on “Cooperative Playback Systems: models, architectures and systems”, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), 10 Jun. 2002, hosted by Prof. C. Palau.
  100. Talk on “Completing Lossy Multicast Sessions using Auto Mobile Code”, ICSI Workshop 1997 on Auto Mobile Code, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley (CA), USA, 23 Set. 1997.