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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
71
Citations
19125
World Ranking
1784
National Ranking
25

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
  • 2014 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to software engineering for self-adaptive and self-organizing systems
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2012 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Franco Zambonelli is affiliated with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. Their research spans computer science and engineering, with particular focus on various subfields such as artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, computer vision and pattern recognition, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and mechanical engineering.

Their main research topics include context-aware activity recognition systems, modular robots and swarm intelligence, IoT and edge/fog computing, digital transformation in industry, transportation and mobility innovations, traffic control and management, and anomaly detection techniques and applications.

Franco Zambonelli has published extensively, and some of their recent papers are:

  • Continual learning in sensor-based human activity recognition: An empirical benchmark analysis, 2021, Information Sciences
  • A Flexible and Modular Architecture for Edge Digital Twin: Implementation and Evaluation, 2022, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things
  • WLDT: A general purpose library to build IoT digital twins, 2021, SoftwareX
  • Comparing Deep Learning and Statistical Methods in Forecasting Crowd Distribution from Aggregated Mobile Phone Data, 2020, Applied Sciences
  • ContrasGAN: Unsupervised domain adaptation in Human Activity Recognition via adversarial and contrastive learning, 2021, Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Frequent co-authors in their work include Stefano Mariani, Marco Lippi, Marco Mamei, Roberto Casadei, and Juan Ye.

Their publications often appear in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, Applied Sciences, IEEE Access, and the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer.

Franco Zambonelli has received multiple recognitions over their career including being named IEEE Fellow in 2014 for contributions to software engineering for self-adaptive and self-organizing systems, member of Academia Europaea since 2012, ACM Distinguished Member since 2012, and ACM Senior Member since 2009.

Best Publications

  • Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology

    Franco Zambonelli;Nicholas R. Jennings;Michael Wooldridge

  • A survey of autonomic communications

    Simon Dobson;Spyros Denazis;Antonio Fernández;Dominique Gaïti

  • ORGANISATIONAL RULES AS AN ABSTRACTION FOR THE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

    Franco Zambonelli;Nicholas R. Jennings;Michael J. Wooldridge

  • Coordination for Internet Application Development

    Andrea Omicini;Franco Zambonelli

  • Organisational Abstractions for the Analysis and Design of Multi-agent Systems

    Franco Zambonelli;Nicholas R. Jennings;Michael Wooldridge

  • Challenges and Research Directions in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

    Franco Zambonelli;Andrea Omicini

  • MARS: a programmable coordination architecture for mobile agents

    G. Cabri;L. Leonardi;F. Zambonelli

  • Fast track article: Looking ahead in pervasive computing: Challenges and opportunities in the era of cyber-physical convergence

    Marco Conti;Sajal K. Das;Chatschik Bisdikian;Mohan Kumar

  • Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems: the Agent-oriented Software Engineering Handbook

    Federico Bergenti;Marie-Pierre Gleizes;Franco Zambonelli

  • Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems

    Federico Bergenti;Marie-Pierre Gleizes;Franco Zambonelli

  • Mobile-agent coordination models for Internet applications

    G. Cabri;L. Leonardi;F. Zambonelli

  • Programming pervasive and mobile computing applications: The TOTA approach

    Marco Mamei;Franco Zambonelli

  • Case studies for self-organization in computer science

    Marco Mamei;Ronaldo Menezes;Robert Tolksdorf;Franco Zambonelli

  • Agent-Oriented Software Engineering for Internet Applications

    Franco Zambonelli;Nicholas R. Jennings;Andrea Omicini;Michael J. Wooldridge

  • Programming pervasive and mobile computing applications with the TOTA middleware

    M. Mamei;F. Zambonelli

  • Extracting urban patterns from location-based social networks

    Laura Ferrari;Alberto Rosi;Marco Mamei;Franco Zambonelli

  • Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies, and Applications

    Andrea Omicini;Franco Zambonelli;Matthias Klusch

  • Diffusive load-balancing policies for dynamic applications

    A. Corradi;L. Leonardi;F. Zambonelli

  • Engineering Self-Organising Systems

    Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo;Anthony Karageorgos;Omer F. Rana;Franco Zambonelli

  • Knowledge networks

    Maurice Mulvenna;Franco Zambonelli;Kevin Curran;Chris Nugent

  • Engineering Societies in the Agents World V, 5th InternationalWorkshop, ESAW 2004, Toulouse, France, October 20-22, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

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Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Mamei
Marco Mamei University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Andrea Omicini
Andrea Omicini University of Bologna
Mirko Viroli
Mirko Viroli University of Bologna
Antonio Corradi
Antonio Corradi University of Bologna
Simon Dobson
Simon Dobson University of St Andrews
Matthias Klusch
Matthias Klusch German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Maurice Mulvenna
Maurice Mulvenna University of Ulster
Alois Ferscha
Alois Ferscha Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Paolo Ciancarini
Paolo Ciancarini University of Bologna
Luciano Baresi
Luciano Baresi Polytechnic University of Milan

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