2026 Massimo Villari: 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	42	8372	8136	230	228	327	7571

Overview

Massimo Villari is a researcher affiliated with the University of Messina in Italy. Their work spans primarily the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a focus on areas such as Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics addressed in Villari's research include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, Cloud Computing and Resource Management, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Voice and Speech Disorders, IoT Networks and Protocols, as well as Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques.

Villari has produced several recent papers, including:

"Blockchain-Based Healthcare Workflow for Tele-Medical Laboratory in Federated Hospital IoT Clouds" (2020, Sensors)
"IoTSim-Osmosis: A framework for modeling and simulating IoT applications over an edge-cloud continuum" (2020, Journal of Systems Architecture)
"Edge-Oriented Computing: A Survey on Research and Use Cases" (2022, Energies)
"A multi-agent autonomous intersection management (MA-AIM) system for smart cities leveraging edge-of-things and Blockchain" (2020, Information Sciences)
"Deep learning applications in telerehabilitation speech therapy scenarios" (2022, Computers in Biology and Medicine)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Villari include Antonio Celesti, Maria Fazio, Antonino Galletta, Francesco Martella, and Valeria Lukaj.

Villari's research output is also recognized in various scientific venues, with multiple publications in:

2021 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)
2022 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)
2022 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Sensors

Massimo Villari has contributed to book publications with Springer Science+Business Media, including "Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing" (2022) and "Security Issues in Fog Computing from 5G to 6G" (2022). Additionally, they authored a book published by the Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering titled "Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services" (2023).

Best Publications

How to Enhance Cloud Architectures to Enable Cross-Federation

Antonio Celesti;Francesco Tusa;Massimo Villari;Antonio Puliafito

459
Citations
Osmotic Computing: A New Paradigm for Edge/Cloud Integration

Massimo Villari;Maria Fazio;Schahram Dustdar;Omer Rana

376
Citations
Reservoir - When One Cloud Is Not Enough

B Rochwerger;D Breitgand;A Epstein;D Hadas

367
Citations
Internet of Things and Edge Cloud Computing Roadmap for Manufacturing

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos;Prem Prakash Jayaraman;Maria Fazia;Massimo Villari

300
Citations
Open Issues in Scheduling Microservices in the Cloud

Maria Fazio;Antonio Celesti;Rajiv Ranjan;Chang Liu

197
Citations
An IoT Cloud System for Traffic Monitoring and Vehicular Accidents Prevention Based on Mobile Sensor Data Processing

Antonio Celesti;Antonino Galletta;Lorenzo Carnevale;Maria Fazio

173
Citations
PEA: Parallel electrocardiogram-based authentication for smart healthcare systems

Yin Zhang;Raffaele Gravina;Huimin Lu;Massimo Villari

161
Citations
Exploring Container Virtualization in IoT Clouds

Antonio Celesti;Davide Mulfari;Maria Fazio;Massimo Villari

159
Citations
Security and Cloud Computing: InterCloud Identity Management Infrastructure

Antonio Celesti;Francesco Tusa;Massimo Villari;Antonio Puliafito

141
Citations
Big Data Storage in the Cloud for Smart Environment Monitoring

Maria Fazio;Antonio Celesti;Antonio Puliafito;Massimo Villari

130
Citations
Three-Phase Cross-Cloud Federation Model: The Cloud SSO Authentication

Antonio Celesti;Francesco Tusa;Massimo Villari;Antonio Puliafito

121
Citations
A Monitoring and Audit Logging Architecture for Data Location Compliance in Federated Cloud Infrastructures

Philippe Massonet;Syed Naqvi;Christophe Ponsard;Joseph Latanicki

117
Citations
AllJoyn Lambda: An architecture for the management of smart environments in IoT

Massimo Villari;Antonio Celesti;Maria Fazio;Antonio Puliafito

112
Citations
The Next Grand Challenges: Integrating the Internet of Things and Data Science

Rajiv Ranjan;Omer Rana;Surya Nepal;Mazin Yousif

110
Citations
Blockchain-Based Healthcare Workflow for Tele-Medical Laboratory in Federated Hospital IoT Clouds.

Antonio Celesti;Armando Ruggeri;Maria Fazio;Antonino Galletta

110
Citations
Adding long-term availability, obfuscation, and encryption to multi-cloud storage systems

Antonio Celesti;Maria Fazio;Massimo Villari;Antonio Puliafito

110
Citations
Exploiting the FIWARE cloud platform to develop a remote patient monitoring system

Maria Fazio;Antonio Celesti;Fermin Galan Marquez;Alex Glikson

102
Citations
Heterogeneous Sensors Become Homogeneous Things in Smart Cities

M. Fazio;M. Paone;A. Puliafito;M. Villari

99
Citations
Edge-Oriented Computing: A Survey on Research and Use Cases

Unknown

91
Citations
GUARDIAN: Blockchain-Based Secure Demand Response Management in Smart Grid System

Anish Jindal;Gagangeet Singh Aujla;Neeraj Kumar;Massimo Villari

90
Citations
How to Enhance Cloud Architectures to Enable Cross-Federation: Towards Interoperable Storage Providers

Maria Fazio;Antonio Celesti;Massimo Villari;Antonio Puliafito

11
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Celesti University of Messina

Maria Fazio University of Messina

Antonio Puliafito University of Messina

Rajiv Ranjan Newcastle University

Placido Bramanti University of Messina

Schahram Dustdar TU Wien

Omer F. Rana Cardiff University

Patrick Wetterwald Cisco Systems (United States)

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos Swinburne University of Technology

Prem Prakash Jayaraman Swinburne University of Technology

External Links

Personal website of Massimo Villari Google Scholar page

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