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Computer Science
Netherlands
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
52
Citations
9170
World Ranking
5150
National Ranking
76

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Fabio Massacci is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, focusing their research primarily in computer science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including information systems, computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, software, and signal processing.

Massacci's research addresses a range of topics, notably information and cyber security, software engineering research, advanced malware detection techniques, software reliability and analysis, network security and intrusion detection, security and verification in computing, and blockchain technology applications and security.

Their recent publications illustrate this broad focus on cybersecurity and software engineering domains. Among these are:

  • "Perspectives on the SolarWinds Incident" (2021) published in IEEE Security & Privacy
  • "Vuln4Real: A Methodology for Counting Actually Vulnerable Dependencies" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • "Measuring the accuracy of software vulnerability assessments: experiments with students and professionals" (2020) published in Empirical Software Engineering
  • "Understanding the Security Implications of Kubernetes Networking" (2021) published in IEEE Security & Privacy
  • "TaintBench: Automatic real-world malware benchmarking of Android taint analyses" (2021) published in Empirical Software Engineering

Fabio Massacci frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including Ranindya Paramitha with 22 joint works, Ivan Pashchenko with 16, Giorgio Di Tizio with 13, Katja Tuma with 11, and Carlos E. Budde also with 11 co-authored publications.

Their research has been published consistently in several venues. Notably, Massacci has contributed 27 publications to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 23 to IEEE Security & Privacy, 13 to arXiv (Cornell University), 8 to Empirical Software Engineering, and 4 to Computers & Security.

Best Publications

  • A survey of autonomic communications

    Simon Dobson;Spyros Denazis;Antonio Fernández;Dominique Gaïti

  • Modeling security requirements through ownership, permission and delegation

    P. Giorgini;F. Massacci;J. Mylopoulos;N. Zannone

  • Logical Cryptanalysis as a SAT Problem

    Fabio Massacci;Laura Marraro

  • Comparing Vulnerability Severity and Exploits Using Case-Control Studies

    Luca Allodi;Fabio Massacci

  • EXP TIME tableaux for ALC

    Francesco M. Donini;Fabio Massacci

  • Formal verification of Cardholder registration in SET

    Giampaolo Bella;Fabio Massacci;Lawrence C. Paulson;Piero Tramontano

  • Requirements Engineering Meets Trust Management

    Paolo Giorgini;Fabio Massacci;John Mylopoulos;John Mylopoulos;Nicola Zannone

  • Strongly Analytic Tableaux for Normal Modal Logics

    Fabio Massacci

  • An access control framework for business processes for web services

    Hristo Koshutanski;Fabio Massacci

  • Using a security requirements engineering methodology in practice: The compliance with the Italian data protection legislation

    Fabio Massacci;Marco Prest;Nicola Zannone

  • StaDynA: Addressing the Problem of Dynamic Code Updates in the Security Analysis of Android Applications

    Yury Zhauniarovich;Maqsood Ahmad;Olga Gadyatskaya;Bruno Crispo

  • Combining deduction and model checking into Tableaux and algorithms for converse-PDL

    Giuseppe de Giacomo;Fabio Massacci

  • Requirements engineering for trust management: model, methodology, and reasoning

    Paolo Giorgini;Fabio Massacci;John Mylopoulos;Nicola Zannone

  • Single Step Tableaux for Modal Logics

    Fabio Massacci

  • Requirements Engineering meets trust management: Model, methodology, and reasoning

    Paolo Giorgini;Fabio Massacci;John Mylopoulos;Nicola Zannone

  • Security Events and Vulnerability Data for Cybersecurity Risk Estimation.

    Luca Allodi;Fabio Massacci

  • Security and trust requirements engineering

    Paolo Giorgini;Fabio Massacci;Nicola Zannone

  • Generalized XML security views

    Gabriel Kuper;Fabio Massacci;Nataliya Rassadko

  • Vulnerable open source dependencies: counting those that matter

    Ivan Pashchenko;Henrik Plate;Serena Elisa Ponta;Antonino Sabetta

  • Verifying security protocols as planning in logic programming

    Luigia Carlucci Aiello;Fabio Massacci

  • Verifying the SET registration protocols

    G. Bella;F. Massacci;L.C. Paulson

  • Exptime Tableaux for ALC.

    Giuseppe De Giacomo;Francesco M. Donini;Fabio Massacci

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicola Zannone
Nicola Zannone Eindhoven University of Technology
John Mylopoulos
John Mylopoulos University of Ottawa
Paolo Giorgini
Paolo Giorgini University of Trento
Lawrence C. Paulson
Lawrence C. Paulson University of Cambridge
Fabio Martinelli
Fabio Martinelli National Research Council (CNR)
Wouter Joosen
Wouter Joosen KU Leuven
Francesco M. Donini
Francesco M. Donini Tuscia University
Bruno Crispo
Bruno Crispo University of Trento
Alexander Pretschner
Alexander Pretschner Technical University of Munich

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