2026 Paolo Ciancarini: 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	39	9762	9481	289	287	305	6530

Overview

Paolo Ciancarini is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy, focusing on research within computer science and engineering. Their scholarly output spans various aspects of software engineering, information systems, and artificial intelligence.

Their research topics include:

Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
Software Engineering Research
Open Source Software Innovations
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Artificial Intelligence in Games
Sports Analytics and Performance
E-Government and Public Services

Ciancarini's main fields of study are computer science and engineering, with subfields emphasizing:

Information Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science Applications
Management Information Systems
Computer Networks and Communications

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

IEEE Access
Frontiers in Computer Science
Electronics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Scientometrics

Notable recent papers by Paolo Ciancarini are:

"Non Verbal Communication in Software Engineering - An Empirical Study," 2021, IEEE Access
"Software as storytelling: A systematic literature review," 2022, Computer Science Review
"Analysis of Energy Consumption of Software Development Process Entities," 2020, Electronics
"Digital Transformation in the Public Administrations: A Guided Tour for Computer Scientists," 2024, IEEE Access

Ciancarini has also contributed to book publications, including:

Frontiers in Software Engineering, published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2021
Alma Mater University Chess Tournament, published by Fondazione Bologna University Press eBooks in 2024

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

Giancarlo Succi
Marcello Missiroli
Mirko Farina
Daniel Russo
Raffaele Giancarlo

Best Publications

Agent-oriented software engineering: the state of the art

Michael Wooldridgey;Paolo Ciancarini

399
Citations
Agent-oriented software engineering

P. Ciancarini;M. Wooldridge

317
Citations
Coordination models and languages as software integrators

Paolo Ciancarini

279
Citations
The concurrent language, Shared Prolog

Antonio Brogi;Paolo Ciancarini

249
Citations
Coordination Languages and Models

Paolo Ciancarini;Chris Hankin

236
Citations
Agent-oriented software engineering (workshop session)

Paolo Ciancarini;Michael Wooldridge

206
Citations
Coordinating multiagent applications on the WWW: a reference architecture

P. Ciancarini;R. Tolksdorf;F. Vitali;D. Rossi

188
Citations
Architecting families of software systems with process algebras

Marco Bernardo;Paolo Ciancarini;Lorenzo Donatiello

180
Citations
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II

Michael J. Wooldridge;Gerhard Weiß;Paolo Ciancarini

156
Citations
Jada - Coordination and Communication for Java Agents

Paolo Ciancarini;Davide Rossi

145
Citations
Software process enactment in Oikos

V. Ambriola;P. Ciancarini;C. Montangero

133
Citations
Automatic typing of DBpedia entities

Aldo Gangemi;Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese;Valentina Presutti;Francesco Draicchio

132
Citations
Multiagent System Engineering: The Coordination Viewpoint

Paolo Ciancarini;Andrea Omicini;Franco Zambonelli

132
Citations
Managing complex documents over the WWW: a case study for XML

P. Ciancarini;F. Vitali;C. Mascolo

128
Citations
Distributed programming with logic tuple spaces

Paolo Ciancarini

126
Citations
Interaction abstract machines

Jean-Marc Andreoli;Paolo Ciancarini;Remo Pareschi

120
Citations
PageSpace: an architecture to coordinate distributed applications on the Web

Paolo Ciancarini;Adreas Knoche;Robert Tolksdorf;Fabio Vitali

117
Citations
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: First International Workshop, AOSE 2000 Limerick, Ireland, June 10, 2000 Revised Papers

Paolo Ciancarini;Michael J. Wooldridge

95
Citations
Monte Carlo tree search in Kriegspiel

Paolo Ciancarini;Gian Piero Favini

92
Citations
A survey of coordination middleware for XML-centric applications

Paolo Ciancarini;Robert Tolksdorf;Franco Zambonelli

88
Citations
Multiagent system engineering : The coordination viewpoint

P. Ciancarini;A. Omicini;F. Zambonelli

84
Citations
Object-based models and languages for concurrent systems : ECOOP '94 Workshop on Models and Languages for Coordination of Parallelism and Distribution, Bologna, Italy, July 5, 1994 : proceedings

Paolo Ciancarini;Oscar Marius Nierstrasz;明憲米沢

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Valentina Presutti University of Bologna

Aldo Gangemi University of Bologna

Cecilia Mascolo University of Cambridge

Alberto Sillitti Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Giancarlo Succi University of Bologna

Franco Zambonelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Michael Wooldridge University of Oxford

Matthias Rauterberg Eindhoven University of Technology

Marco Roccetti University of Bologna

Davide Rossi University of Bologna

External Links

Personal website of Paolo Ciancarini Google Scholar page

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