2026 Michele Colajanni: 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	40	9233	8966	260	258	247	7627

Overview

Michele Colajanni is affiliated with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. Their research focuses primarily within the field of Computer Science, including significant work in several subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Signal Processing, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The scientist has contributed to research on various topics related to cybersecurity and computing. These topics include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Security and Verification in Computing, Smart Grid Security and Resilience, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Cloud Data Security Solutions, and Blockchain Technology Applications and Security.

Recent publications by Michele Colajanni include:

Flexible zero trust architecture for the cybersecurity of industrial IoT infrastructures, 2024, Ad Hoc Networks
Survivable zero trust for cloud computing environments, 2021, Computers & Security
Deep Reinforcement Adversarial Learning Against Botnet Evasion Attacks, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Hardening Random Forest Cyber Detectors Against Adversarial Attacks, 2020, Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
A Data-driven Characterization of Modern Android Spyware, 2020, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Michele Colajanni has published frequently in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna), and Ad Hoc Networks.

Frequent coauthors in their research work include Mirco Marchetti, Mauro Andreolini, Giovanni Apruzzese, Andrea Venturi, and Luca Ferretti. Collaborative work with these coauthors spans multiple publications.

Best Publications

Dynamic load balancing on Web-server systems

V. Cardellini;M. Colajanni;P.S. Yu

1058
Citations
The state of the art in locally distributed Web-server systems

Valeria Cardellini;Emiliano Casalicchio;Michele Colajanni;Philip S. Yu

772
Citations
On the effectiveness of machine and deep learning for cyber security

Giovanni Apruzzese;Michele Colajanni;Luca Ferretti;Alessandro Guido

312
Citations
Analysis of task assignment policies in scalable distributed web-server systems

M. Colajanni;P.S. Yu;D.M. Dias

270
Citations
Modeling Realistic Adversarial Attacks against Network Intrusion Detection Systems

Giovanni Apruzzese;Mauro Andreolini;Luca Ferretti;Mirco Marchetti

210
Citations
Dynamic load balancing in geographically distributed heterogeneous Web servers

M. Colajanni;P.S. Yu;V. Cardellini

207
Citations
Analysis of high volumes of network traffic for Advanced Persistent Threat detection

Mirco Marchetti;Fabio Pierazzi;Michele Colajanni;Alessandro Guido

187
Citations
Redirection algorithms for load sharing in distributed Web-server systems

V. Cardellini;M. Colajanni;P.S. Yu

175
Citations
Evaluation of anomaly detection for in-vehicle networks through information-theoretic algorithms

Mirco Marchetti;Dario Stabili;Alessandro Guido;Michele Colajanni

167
Citations
A client-aware dispatching algorithm for web clusters providing multiple services

Emiliano Casalicchio;Michele Colajanni

167
Citations
Distributed, Concurrent, and Independent Access to Encrypted Cloud Databases

Luca Ferretti;Michele Colajanni;Mirco Marchetti

144
Citations
Geographic load balancing for scalable distributed Web systems

V. Cardellini;M. Colajanni;P.S. Yu

143
Citations
Dynamic Load Management of Virtual Machines in Cloud Architectures

Mauro Andreolini;Sara Casolari;Michele Colajanni;Michele Messori

138
Citations
Request redirection algorithms for distributed Web systems

V. Cardellini;M. Colajanni;P.S. Yu

131
Citations
PSBLAS: a library for parallel linear algebra computation on sparse matrices

Salvatore Filippone;Michele Colajanni

124
Citations
Dual time-scale distributed capacity allocation and load redirect algorithms for cloud systems

Danilo Ardagna;Sara Casolari;Michele Colajanni;Barbara Panicucci

120
Citations
Scheduling algorithms for distributed Web servers

M. Colajanni;P.S. Yu;D.M. Dias

118
Citations
Deep Reinforcement Adversarial Learning Against Botnet Evasion Attacks

Giovanni Apruzzese;Mauro Andreolini;Mirco Marchetti;Andrea Venturi

105
Citations
Addressing Adversarial Attacks Against Security Systems Based on Machine Learning

Giovanni Apruzzese;Michele Colajanni;Luca Ferretti;Mirco Marchetti

98
Citations
Web switch support for differentiated services

Valeria Cardellini;Emiliano Casalicchio;Michele Colajanni;Marco Mambelli

94
Citations
A Cluster-Based Web System Providing Differentiated and Guaranteed Services

Mauro Andreolini;Emiliano Casalicchio;Michele Colajanni;Marco Mambelli

88
Citations
Adaptive TTL schemes for load balancing of distributed Web servers

Michele Colajanni;Philip S. Yu

88
Citations
Detecting attacks to internal vehicle networks through Hamming distance

Dario Stabili;Mirco Marchetti;Michele Colajanni

84
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip S. Yu University of Illinois at Chicago

Laurence T. Yang St. Francis Xavier University

Dhiraj K. Pradhan University of Bristol

Tarek El-Ghazawi George Washington University

Albert Y. Zomaya University of Sydney

Seif Haridi Royal Institute of Technology

Karl Aberer École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Geyong Min University of Exeter

Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa

Antonio Corradi University of Bologna

External Links

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