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Francesco Longo

Francesco Longo

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
40
Citations
7257
World Ranking
9262
National Ranking
262

Francesco Longo publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesco Longo sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 273 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Francesco Longo D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesco Longo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Francesco Longo is affiliated with the University of Messina in Italy. Their research focuses primarily on computer science and engineering disciplines, with significant contributions in subfields such as computer networks and communications, information systems, and artificial intelligence. Additional areas of expertise include electrical and electronic engineering and ecology.

Their scholarly work covers a wide range of topics including IoT and edge/fog computing, cloud computing and resource management, IoT networks and protocols, smart grid security and resilience, blockchain technology applications and security, caching and content delivery, and digital transformation in industry.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Francesco Longo include Giovanni Merlino, Antonio Puliafito, Luca D'Agati, Zakaria Benomar, and Vittorio Solina. These partnerships have resulted in numerous joint publications.

Among publication venues, Francesco Longo has contributed multiple papers to sensors journals and Future Generation Computer Systems. Other common venues include ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and the Journal of Information Security and Applications.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Francesco Longo are:

  • "How 5G-based industrial IoT is transforming human-centered smart factories: a Quality of Experience model for Operator 4.0 applications" (2021), published in IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • "Experimenting with smart contracts for access control and delegation in IoT" (2020), published in Future Generation Computer Systems
  • "A Deep Learning-Driven Self-Conscious Distributed Cyber-Physical System for Renewable Energy Communities" (2023), published in Sensors
  • "Cloud-based Enabling Mechanisms for Container Deployment and Migration at the Network Edge" (2020), published in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
  • "FaaS for IoT: Evolving Serverless towards Deviceless in I/Oclouds" (2024), published in Future Generation Computer Systems

Best Publications

  • Blockchain and IoT Integration: A Systematic Survey.

    Alfonso Panarello;Nachiket Tapas;Giovanni Merlino;Francesco Longo

  • Smart operators in industry 4.0: A human-centered approach to enhance operators’ capabilities and competencies within the new smart factory context

    Francesco Longo;Letizia Nicoletti;Antonio Padovano

  • Value-Oriented and Ethical Technology Engineering in Industry 5.0: A Human-Centric Perspective for the Design of the Factory of the Future

    Francesco Longo;Antonio Padovano;Steven Umbrello

  • Blockchain-enabled supply chain: An experimental study

    Francesco Longo;Letizia Nicoletti;Antonio Padovano;Gianfranco d'Atri

  • Fog Computing for the Internet of Things: A Survey

    Carlo Puliafito;Enzo Mingozzi;Francesco Longo;Antonio Puliafito

  • An advanced supply chain management tool based on modeling and simulation

    Francesco Longo;Giovanni Mirabelli

  • Modeling and performance analysis of large scale IaaS Clouds

    Rahul Ghosh;Francesco Longo;Vijay K. Naik;Kishor S. Trivedi

  • Scalable Analytics for IaaS Cloud Availability

    Rahul Ghosh;Francesco Longo;Flavio Frattini;Stefano Russo

  • Ubiquitous knowledge empowers the Smart Factory: The impacts of a Service-oriented Digital Twin on enterprises' performance

    Francesco Longo;Letizia Nicoletti;Antonio Padovano

  • A scalable availability model for Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud

    Francesco Longo;Rahul Ghosh;Vijay K. Naik;Kishor S. Trivedi

  • Workload-Based Software Rejuvenation in Cloud Systems

    Dario Bruneo;Salvatore Distefano;Francesco Longo;Antonio Puliafito

  • Container Migration in the Fog: A Performance Evaluation.

    Carlo Puliafito;Carlo Vallati;Enzo Mingozzi;Giovanni Merlino

  • Design and integration of the containers inspection activities in the container terminal operations

    Francesco Longo

  • An IoT service ecosystem for Smart Cities: The #SmartME project

    Dario Bruneo;Salvatore Distefano;Salvatore Distefano;Maurizio Giacobbe;Antonino Longo Minnolo

  • Stack4Things: a sensing-and-actuation-as-a-service framework for IoT and cloud integration

    Francesco Longo;Dario Bruneo;Salvatore Distefano;Salvatore Distefano;Giovanni Merlino

  • Quantifying Resiliency of IaaS Cloud

    Rahul Ghosh;Francesco Longo;Vijay K. Naik;Kishor S. Trivedi

  • An Advanced System for Supporting the Decision Process within Large-scale Retail Stores

    Agostino G. Bruzzone;Francesco Longo

  • Stochastic Model Driven Capacity Planning for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud

    Rahul Ghosh;Francesco Longo;Ruofan Xia;Vijay K. Naik

  • Inventory policies analysis under demand patterns and lead times constraints in a real supply chain

    G. De Sensi;F. Longo;G. Mirabelli

  • Estimating the Impact of Blockchain Adoption in the Food Processing Industry and Supply Chain

    Francesco Longo;Letizia Nicoletti;Antonio Padovano

  • Effective design of an assembly line using modelling and simulation

    Francesco Longo;Giovanni Mirabelli

  • A Digital Twin based Service Oriented Application for a 4.0 Knowledge Navigation in the Smart Factory

    Antonio Padovano;Francesco Longo;Letizia Nicoletti;Giovanni Mirabelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Puliafito
Antonio Puliafito University of Messina
Salvatore Distefano
Salvatore Distefano University of Messina
Kishor S. Trivedi
Kishor S. Trivedi Duke University
Eleonora Bottani
Eleonora Bottani University of Parma
Vijay K. Naik
Vijay K. Naik IBM (United States)
Enzo Mingozzi
Enzo Mingozzi University of Pisa
Massimo Villari
Massimo Villari University of Messina
Omer F. Rana
Omer F. Rana Cardiff University
Asaf Shabtai
Asaf Shabtai Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Michele Colajanni
Michele Colajanni University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

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