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Alfredo De Santis

Alfredo De Santis

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Computer Science
Italy
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
61
Citations
17046
World Ranking
3033
National Ranking
52

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Alfredo De Santis is affiliated with the University of Salerno in Italy and has contributed to research primarily within the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The scientist's work encompasses several key research topics, including:

  • Cryptography and Data Security
  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Advanced Authentication Protocols Security
  • Digital Media Forensic Detection
  • Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
  • Mobile Agent-Based Network Management

De Santis has published papers in various reputable venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • International Journal of Embedded Systems
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Recent publications by the scientist include:

  • Generalized Defensive Modeling of Fake News Propagation in Social Networks Using Fractional Differential Equations, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • Improved Protocols for Distributed Secret Sharing, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • Secret sharing schemes for infinite sets of participants: A new design technique, 2021, Theoretical Computer Science
  • Bounds and Protocols for Graph-Based Distributed Secret Sharing, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

De Santis has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, most notably:

  • Roberto De Prisco
  • Francesco Palmieri
  • Barbara Masucci
  • Paolo D'Arco
  • Anna Lisa Ferrara

The breadth of De Santis's work reflects an engagement with complex algorithmic challenges, data security frameworks, and emerging areas of study such as fake news propagation modeling and privacy preservation technologies. The research contributions integrate theoretical advances along with applied methodologies for authentication and security in networked systems.

Best Publications

  • Perfectly-Secure Key Distribution for Dynamic Conferences

    Carlo Blundo;Alfredo De Santis;Amir Herzberg;Shay Kutten

  • Visual Cryptography for General Access Structures

    Giuseppe Ateniese;Carlo Blundo;Alfredo De Santis;Douglas R. Stinson

  • Blockchain: A Panacea for Healthcare Cloud-Based Data Security and Privacy?

    Christian Esposito;Alfredo De Santis;Genny Tortora;Henry Chang

  • Extended capabilities for visual cryptography

    Giuseppe Ateniese;Carlo Blundo;Alfredo De Santis;Douglas R. Stinson

  • Using generative adversarial networks for improving classification effectiveness in credit card fraud detection

    Ugo Fiore;Alfredo De Santis;Francesca Perla;Paolo Zanetti

  • Noninteractive zero-knowledge

    Manuel Blum;Alfredo De Santis;Silvio Micali;Giuseppe Persiano

  • On the size of shares for secret sharing schemes

    R. M. Capocelli;A. Santis;L. Gargano;U. Vaccaro

  • Network anomaly detection with the restricted Boltzmann machine

    Ugo Fiore;Francesco Palmieri;Aniello Castiglione;Alfredo De Santis

  • How to share a function securely

    Alfredo De Santis;Yvo Desmedt;Yair Frankel;Moti Yung

  • Robust Non-interactive Zero Knowledge

    Alfredo De Santis;Giovanni Di Crescenzo;Rafail Ostrovsky;Giuseppe Persiano

  • On the Contrast in Visual Cryptography Schemes

    Carlo Blundo;Alfredo De Santis;Douglas R. Stinson

  • Perfectly secure key distribution for dynamic conferences

    Carlo Blundo;Alfredo De Santis;Ugo Vaccaro;Amir Herzberg

  • Visual cryptography for grey level images

    Carlo Blundo;Alfredo De Santis;Moni Naor

  • Graph decompositions and secret sharing schemes

    C. Blundo;A. Santis;D. R. Stinson;U. Vaccaro

  • Contrast Optimal Threshold Visual Cryptography Schemes

    C. Blundo;P. D'Arco;A. De Santis;D. R. Stinson

  • Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge

    Manuel Blum;Alfredo De Santis;Silvio Micali;Giuseppe Persiano

  • Improved Schemes for Visual Cryptography

    Carlo Blundo;Annalisa De Bonis;Alfredo De Santis

  • Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems

    Alfredo De Santis;Silvio Micali;Giuseppe Persiano

  • Constructions and Bounds for Visual Cryptography

    Giuseppe Ateniese;Carlo Blundo;Alfredo De Santis;Douglas R. Stinson

  • On monotone formula closure of SZK

    A. De Santis;G. Di Crescenzo;G. Persiano;M. Yung

  • Security of public key cryptosystems based on Chebyshev Polynomials

    Pina Bergamo;Paolo D'Arco;Alfredo De Santis;Ljupco Kocarev

  • Randomness in Distributed Protocols

    Carlo Blundo;Alfredo De Santis;Ugo Vaccaro

Frequent Co-Authors

Aniello Castiglione
Aniello Castiglione University of Salerno
Francesco Palmieri
Francesco Palmieri University of Salerno
Carlo Blundo
Carlo Blundo University of Salerno
Ugo Vaccaro
Ugo Vaccaro University of Salerno
Douglas R. Stinson
Douglas R. Stinson University of Waterloo
Moti Yung
Moti Yung Columbia University
Giuseppe Ateniese
Giuseppe Ateniese George Mason University
Oded Goldreich
Oded Goldreich Weizmann Institute of Science
Stefano Paraboschi
Stefano Paraboschi University of Bergamo

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