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Massimo Villari

Massimo Villari

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
42
Citations
7571
World Ranking
8371
National Ranking
230

Massimo Villari 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 Massimo Villari sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 327 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Massimo Villari 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 Massimo Villari sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Osmotic Computing: A New Paradigm for Edge/Cloud Integration

    Massimo Villari;Maria Fazio;Schahram Dustdar;Omer Rana

  • Reservoir - When One Cloud Is Not Enough

    B Rochwerger;D Breitgand;A Epstein;D Hadas

  • Internet of Things and Edge Cloud Computing Roadmap for Manufacturing

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

  • Open Issues in Scheduling Microservices in the Cloud

    Maria Fazio;Antonio Celesti;Rajiv Ranjan;Chang Liu

  • 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

  • PEA: Parallel electrocardiogram-based authentication for smart healthcare systems

    Yin Zhang;Raffaele Gravina;Huimin Lu;Massimo Villari

  • Exploring Container Virtualization in IoT Clouds

    Antonio Celesti;Davide Mulfari;Maria Fazio;Massimo Villari

  • Security and Cloud Computing: InterCloud Identity Management Infrastructure

    Antonio Celesti;Francesco Tusa;Massimo Villari;Antonio Puliafito

  • Big Data Storage in the Cloud for Smart Environment Monitoring

    Maria Fazio;Antonio Celesti;Antonio Puliafito;Massimo Villari

  • Three-Phase Cross-Cloud Federation Model: The Cloud SSO Authentication

    Antonio Celesti;Francesco Tusa;Massimo Villari;Antonio Puliafito

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

    Philippe Massonet;Syed Naqvi;Christophe Ponsard;Joseph Latanicki

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

    Massimo Villari;Antonio Celesti;Maria Fazio;Antonio Puliafito

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

    Rajiv Ranjan;Omer Rana;Surya Nepal;Mazin Yousif

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

    Antonio Celesti;Armando Ruggeri;Maria Fazio;Antonino Galletta

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

    Antonio Celesti;Maria Fazio;Massimo Villari;Antonio Puliafito

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

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

  • Heterogeneous Sensors Become Homogeneous Things in Smart Cities

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

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

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

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

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

    Maria Fazio;Antonio Celesti;Massimo Villari;Antonio Puliafito

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Celesti
Antonio Celesti University of Messina
Maria Fazio
Maria Fazio University of Messina
Antonio Puliafito
Antonio Puliafito University of Messina
Rajiv Ranjan
Rajiv Ranjan Newcastle University
Placido Bramanti
Placido Bramanti University of Messina
Omer F. Rana
Omer F. Rana Cardiff University
Patrick Wetterwald
Patrick Wetterwald Cisco Systems (United States)
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos Swinburne University of Technology
Prem Prakash Jayaraman
Prem Prakash Jayaraman Swinburne University of Technology

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