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  1. μ-VF: Enabling Virtualization of Embedded FPGAs

    Article • June 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  2. HERALD: A Hybrid distributEd leaRning incrementAL & feDerated solution for knowledge distillation in COVID-19 classification

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, January 2026, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  3. µ-VF: Enabling Virtualization of Embedded FPGAs

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Vincenzo Bucaria, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  4. Federated learning across the compute continuum: A hierarchical approach with splitNNs and personalized layers

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, December 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  5. Securing Modbus in legacy industrial control systems: A decentralized approach using proxies, Post-Quantum Cryptography and Self-Sovereign Identity

    Article • Journal of Information Security and Applications, November 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  6. An integration perspective of security, privacy, and resource efficiency in IoT-Fog networks: A comprehensive survey

    Article • Computer Networks, October 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  7. Seamless remote roaming activation in LoRaWAN via an API-driven gateway bridge service

    Article • Journal of Network and Computer Applications, October 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  8. From Edge to Cloud: Securing Distributed Containerized Applications

    Article • June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  9. Mutable Blockchains in IoT-Driven Sustainable Urban Planning: Challenges, and Analytical Modeling

    Article • June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  10. Reconfigurable Distributed Model Predictive Control for Decentralized IT/OT Systems

    Article • June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  11. State-Based Modeling and Anomaly Detection in Industrial Systems Using DEVS

    Article • June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  12. Bridging ACO-Based Drone Logistics and Computing Continuum for Enhanced Smart City Applications

    Article • Drones, May 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  13. Exploring and Mitigating Gradient Leakage Vulnerabilities in Federated Learning

    Article • March 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  14. RTHM: Real-Time Hard Timeout Management for Reliable QoS in Industry 4.0 Networks

    Article • March 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  15. Enhancing CNN Performance Through Tiny Image Sets and Incremental Learning Techniques

    Article • March 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  16. Proxy-Based Approach for Securing Modbus Communication with Post-quantum Cryptography: A Hydrogen-Based Smart Grid Case Study

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  17. Discrete Event Modeling and Simulation Approaches for IIoT

    Article • WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS, December 2024, World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  18. Operational Technologies in Industrial Control System: Cybersecurity Perspectives and Research Trends

    Article • December 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  19. On the Way to Distribute Compute Continuum Urban Applications by Deploying Clusters of Drones

    Article • November 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  20. Bridging IoT Protocols with the Web of Things: A Path to Enhanced Interoperability

    Article • August 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  21. Enhancing UAV Operational Efficiency through Cloud Computing and Autopilot System Integration

    Article • June 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  22. Paving the Way for an Urban Intelligence OpenStack-Based Architecture

    Article • June 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  23. MocapMe: DeepLabCut-Enhanced Neural Network for Enhanced Markerless Stability in Sit-to-Stand Motion Capture

    Article • Sensors, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  24. FaaS for IoT: Evolving Serverless towards Deviceless in I/Oclouds

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, May 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  25. 3D Printing and Blockchains for an Emergency Response Supply Chain

    Article • June 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  26. A Deep Learning-Driven Self-Conscious Distributed Cyber-Physical System for Renewable Energy Communities

    Article • Sensors, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  27. An NLP-guided ontology development and refinement approach to represent and query visual information

    Article • Expert Systems with Applications, March 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  28. A Resilient Fire Protection System for Software-Defined Factories

    Article • IEEE Internet of Things Journal, February 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  29. A Fog-Based Architecture for Latency-Sensitive Monitoring Applications in Industrial Internet of Things

    Article • IEEE Internet of Things Journal, February 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  30. Cloud-based Web of Things: A Telemedicine Use Case

    Article • January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  31. Empirical Analysis of Federated Learning Algorithms: A Federated Research Infrastructure Use Case

    Article • January 2023, Scitepress

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  32. Infrastructure-centric, NetworkServer-agnostic LoRaWAN Roaming

    Article • December 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  33. A Cloud-Based and Dynamic DNS Approach to Enable the Web of Things

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, November 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  34. Interfacing Intelligent Personal Assistant to SDI/O with one click

    Article • July 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  35. On the way to a configurable testbed to support IoT research

    Article • June 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  36. Managed ELK deployments at the Edge with OpenStack and IoTronic: an italian Smart City case study

    Article • June 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  37. Cloud-based Network Virtualization in IoT with OpenStack

    Article • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino, Carlo Puliafito

  38. Deviceless: A Serverless Approach for the Internet of Things

    Article • December 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  39. IoT/Cloud-Powered Crowdsourced Mobility Services For Green Smart Cities

    Article • November 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  40. BLE-Enabled On-Site Diagnostics For An IoT/Cloud-Controlled Energy Substation

    Article • August 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  41. DILoCC: An approach for Distributed Incremental Learning across the Computing Continuum

    Article • August 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  42. From Vertical to Horizontal Buildings Through IoT and Software Defined Approaches

    Article • August 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  43. Design and evaluation of a fog platform supporting device mobility through container migration

    Article • Pervasive and Mobile Computing, July 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  44. Verifiable and auditable authorizations for smart industries and industrial Internet-of-Things

    Article • Journal of Information Security and Applications, June 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  45. Video representation and suspicious event detection using semantic technologies

    Article • Semantic Web – Interoperability Usability Applicability, March 2021, IOS Press

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino, Carlo Puliafito, Ashish Singh Patel

  46. Enabling Secure RESTful Web Services in IoT using OpenStack

    Article • December 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  47. A Stack4Things-based Web of Things Architecture

    Article • November 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  48. Internet of Things Network Infrastructure for The Educational Purpose

    Article • October 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  49. Cloud-based Enabling Mechanisms for Container Deployment and Migration at the Network Edge

    Article • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino, Carlo Puliafito

  50. Experimenting with smart contracts for access control and delegation in IoT

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, October 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  51. A NodeRED-based dashboard to deploy pipelines on top of IoT infrastructure

    Article • September 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  52. Fog-Enabled Industrial WSNs to Monitor Asynchronous Electric Motors

    Article • September 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  53. Smart Healthy Intelligent Room: Headcount through Air Quality Monitoring

    Article • September 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  54. Toward a Function-as-a-Service Framework for Genomic Analysis

    Article • September 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  55. Design of a Trustless Smart City system: The #SmartME experiment

    Article • Internet of Things, June 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  56. A deep learning approach for pressure ulcer prevention using wearable computing

    Article • Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  57. Optimal Selection Techniques for Cloud Service Providers

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  58. A Mininet-Based Emulated Testbed for the I/Ocloud

    Article • December 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  59. Transparent, Provenance-assured, and Secure Software-as-a-Service

    Article • September 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  60. Authorization Transparency for Accountable Access to IoT Services

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  61. Enabling Container-Based Fog Computing with OpenStack

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  62. Blockchain-Based Publicly Verifiable Cloud Storage

    Article • June 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  63. Software-Defined City Infrastructure: A Control Plane for Rewireable Smart Cities

    Article • June 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  64. Toward a Trustless Smart City: the #SmartME Experience

    Article • June 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  65. Enabling Workload Engineering in Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing through OpenStack-based Middleware

    Article • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, April 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  66. Container Migration in the Fog: A Performance Evaluation

    Article • Sensors, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Carlo Puliafito, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  67. An IoT service ecosystem for Smart Cities: The #SmartME project

    Article • Internet of Things, March 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  68. Data agility through clustered edge computing and stream processing

    Article • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, December 2018, Wiley

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  69. A Cloud-Based Overlay Networking for the Internet of Things: Quantitative Evaluation

    Article • October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  70. Hierarchical load balancing as a service for federated cloud networks

    Article • Computer Communications, September 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  71. Blockchain and IoT Integration: A Systematic Survey

    Article • Sensors, August 2018, MDPI AG

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  72. Extending Openstack for Cloud-Based Networking at the Edge

    Article • July 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  73. Blockchain-Based IoT-Cloud Authorization and Delegation

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  74. Companion Fog Computing: Supporting Things Mobility Through Container Migration at the Edge

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  75. Virtualization and Migration at the Network Edge: An Overview

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  76. Metropolitan intelligent surveillance systems for urban areas by harnessing IoT and edge computing paradigms

    Article • Software Practice and Experience, May 2018, Wiley

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  77. Building a Smart City Service Platform in Messina with the #SmartME Project

    Article • May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  78. Crowdsourcing and Stigmergic Approaches for (Swarm) Intelligent Transportation Systems

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  79. Data Processing in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems Through Edge Computing

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  80. I/Ocloud: Adding an IoT Dimension to Cloud Infrastructures

    Article • Computer, January 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  81. Integrating IoT and cloud in a smart city context: the #SmartME case study

    Article • International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, January 2018, Inderscience Publishers

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  82. Secure Registration and Remote Attestation ofIoTDevices Joining the Cloud: TheStack4ThingsCase of Study

    Article • October 2017, Wiley

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  83. Towards a Global Intelligent Surveillance System

    Article • September 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  84. Providing Sensor Services by Data Correlation: The #SmartME Approach

    Article • July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  85. Pushing Intelligence to the Edge with a Stream Processing Architecture

    Article • June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  86. Head in a Cloud: An approach for Arduino YUN virtualization

    Article • June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  87. Extending Bluetooth Low Energy PANs to Smart City Scenarios

    Article • May 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  88. Fenci Message from General Co-Chairs

    Article • May 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  89. Orchestrated Multi-Cloud Application Deployment in OpenStack with TOSCA

    Article • May 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  90. Device-Centric Sensing: An Alternative to Data-Centric Approaches

    Article • IEEE Systems Journal, March 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  91. Quantitative evaluation of Cloud-based network virtualization mechanisms for IoT

    Article • January 2017, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  92. User-Space Network Tunneling Under a Mobile Platform: A Case Study for Android Environments

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  93. Turning Messina into a Smart City: The #SmartME Experience

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  94. Personalized Health Tracking with Edge Computing Technologies

    Article • BioNanoScience, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  95. IoT-cloud authorization and delegation mechanisms for ubiquitous sensing and actuation

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  96. Hospitalized Patient Monitoring and Early Treatment Using IoT and Cloud

    Article • BioNanoScience, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  97. A Stack4Things-based platform for mobile crowdsensing services

    Article • November 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  98. Real-time guidance system for cranes to manage risks due to releases of hazardous materials

    Article • September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  99. Deploying advanced services in the #SmartME infrastructure

    Article • September 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  100. Stack4Things: a sensing-and-actuation-as-a-service framework for IoT and cloud integration

    Article • Annals of Telecommunications, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  101. An IoT Testbed for the Software Defined City Vision: The #SmartMe Project

    Article • May 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  102. Stack4Things as a fog computing platform for Smart City applications

    Article • April 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  103. Mobile crowdsensing as a service: A platform for applications on top of sensing Clouds

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, March 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  104. A Crowd-Cooperative Approach for Intelligent Transportation Systems

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, January 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  105. An OpenStack-Based Implementation of a Volunteer Cloud

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  106. BEACON: A Cloud Network Federation Framework

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  107. Enabling mechanisms for Cloud-based network virtualization in IoT

    Article • December 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  108. Software Defined Cities: A Novel Paradigm for Smart Cities through IoT Clouds

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  109. Stack4Things: An OpenStack-Based Framework for IoT

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  110. A Smart City Lighting Case Study on an OpenStack-Powered Infrastructure

    Article • Sensors, July 2015, MDPI AG

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  111. A utility paradigm for IoT: The sensing Cloud

    Article • Pervasive and Mobile Computing, July 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  112. A Modular Approach to Collaborative Development in an OpenStack Testbed

    Article • June 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  113. Enabling Collaborative Development in an Open Stack Testbed: The Cloud Wave Use Case

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  114. Cloud-Based Network Virtualization: An IoT Use Case

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  115. A framework for device-centric sensing cloud

    Article • International Journal of Cloud Computing, January 2015, Inderscience Publishers

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  116. Stack4Things: Integrating IoT with OpenStack in a Smart City context

    Article • November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  117. ENERGY-EFFICIENT MACHINE-TO-MACHINE NETWORKS BUR AKKA NTA RCI A ND H USSEIN T. MOU F TA H

    Article • June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  118. Mobiles for Sensing Clouds: the SAaaS4Mobile Experience

    Article • Scalable Computing Practice and Experience, January 2014, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  119. Application deployment for IoT: An infrastructure approach

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  120. Abstraction of On-Board Resources in Mobiles: SAaaS4Mobile, a First Step towards a Sensing Cloud

    Article • November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  121. Towards the Cloud of Things Sensing and Actuation as a Service, a Key Enabler for a New Cloud Paradigm

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  122. An Architecture for Runtime Customization of Smart Devices

    Article • August 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  123. Infrastructure Setup and Deployment in Sensing Cloud Environments

    Article • July 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  124. A hypervisor for infrastructure-enabled sensing Clouds

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  125. Exploiting SAaaS in Smart City Scenarios

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  126. The Core Approach of SAaaS in Action: The Planning Agent

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  127. Sensing and Actuation as a Service: A New Development for Clouds

    Article • August 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  128. Enabling the Cloud of Things

    Article • July 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino