2026 Gianfranco Ciardo: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	49	5873	5706	2661	2567	176	9915

Gianfranco Ciardo 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 Gianfranco Ciardo sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 176 publications — 37th percentile

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

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

Gianfranco Ciardo 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 Gianfranco Ciardo sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gianfranco Ciardo is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the broader field of Computer Science, with additional work in Business, Management and Accounting.

Their main areas of study include:

Computational Theory and Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
Software
Management of Technology and Innovation
Management Science and Operations Research

Regarding research topics, Gianfranco Ciardo has contributed to several key areas including:

Formal Methods in Verification
Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Petri Nets in System Modeling
Software Reliability and Analysis Research
Product Development and Customization
Multi-Criteria Decision Making

The scientist's recent publications encompass works that address both theoretical foundations and practical applications. Among these are:

"CESRBDDs: binary decision diagrams with complemented edges and edge-specified reductions" (2022) published in the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
"The footprint form of a matrix: Definition, properties, and an application" (2022) published in Linear Algebra and its Applications

The venues in which their research has been published reflect a focus on software tools and mathematical applications. These venues include:

International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
Linear Algebra and its Applications

Collaborations form an important part of their scholarly work. Frequent co-authors include:

Andrew S. Miner
Junaid Babar
Elvio Gilberto Amparore
Eshita Zaman
Erika Ábrahám

In addition to articles, Gianfranco Ciardo has contributed to book publications. One documented example is a contribution to a volume published by Springer Science+Business Media titled "Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XVII" (2023).

Best Publications

A physical, genetic and functional sequence assembly of the barley genome

Klaus F.X. Mayer;Robbie Waugh;Peter Langridge;Timothy J. Close

1514
Citations
SPNP: stochastic Petri net package

G. Ciardo;J. Muppala;K. Trivedi

887
Citations
Automated Generation and Analysis of Markov Reward Models using Stochastic Reward Nets

G. Ciardo;A. Blakemore;P.F. Chimento;J.K. Muppala

405
Citations
A decomposition approach for stochastic reward net models

Gianfranco Ciardo;Kishor S. Trivedi

389
Citations
A characterization of the stochastic process underlying a stochastic Petri net

G. Ciardo;R. German;C. Lindemann

368
Citations
Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2005

Gianfranco Ciardo;Philippe Darondeau

272
Citations
Automated Generation and Analysis of Markov Reward Models Using Stochastic Reward Nets

Gianfranco Ciardo;Alex Blakemore;Philip F. ChimentoJr.;Jogesh K. Muppala

250
Citations
Efficient Reachability Set Generation and Storage Using Decision Diagrams

Andrew S. Miner;Gianfranco Ciardo

238
Citations
Saturation: An efficient iteration strategy for symbolic state-space generation

Gianfranco Ciardo;Gerald Lüttgen;Radu Siminiceanu

221
Citations
Complexity of Memory-Efficient Kronecker Operations with Applications to the Solution of Markov Models

Peter Buchholz;Gianfranco Ciardo;Susanna Donatelli;Peter Kemper

202
Citations
Performability analysis using semi-Markov reward processes

G. Ciardo;R.A. Marie;B. Sericola;K.S. Trivedi

195
Citations
A data structure for the efficient Kronecker solution of GSPNs

G. Ciardo;A.S. Miner

190
Citations
Stochastic Reward Nets for Reliability Prediction

J.K. Muppala;G. Ciardo;K.S. Trivedi

189
Citations
Workload-aware load balancing for clustered Web servers

Qi Zhang;A. Riska;W. Sun;E. Smirni

184
Citations
Discrete-event simulation of fluid stochastic Petri nets

G. Ciardo;D.M. Nicol;K.S. Trivedi

177
Citations
Distributed State Space Generation of Discrete-State Stochastic Models

Gianfranco Ciardo;Joshua Gluckman;David Nicol

148
Citations
On the solution of GSPN reward models

Gianfranco Ciardo;Jogesh Muppala;Kishor S. Trivedi

144
Citations
EQUILOAD: a load balancing policy for clustered web servers

Gianfranco Ciardo;Alma Riska;Evgenia Smirni

140
Citations
Logic and stochastic modeling with SMART

G. Ciardo;R. L. Jones;A. S. Miner;R. I. Siminiceanu

136
Citations
ADAPTLOAD: effective balancing in clustered web servers under transient load conditions

A. Riska;Wei Sun;E. Smirni;G. Ciardo

71
Citations
SPNP: The Stochastic Petri Net Package

Gianfranco Ciardo;Jogesh Muppala;Kishor S. Trivedi

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kishor S. Trivedi Duke University

Evgenia Smirni William & Mary

Timothy J. Close University of California, Riverside

Stefano Lonardi University of California, Riverside

Jogesh K. Muppala Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

David M. Nicol University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ludmila Cherkasova Arm Ltd.

Reinhard German University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Yonghui Wu Google (United States)

Andrea Bobbio University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro

External Links

Personal website of Gianfranco Ciardo Google Scholar page

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