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most citedCrowdsourcing through Cognitive Opportunistic Networks

20 citations · 50 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.DC2026

Trade-offs in Decentralized Agentic AI Discovery Across the Compute Continuum

Patrizio Dazzi, Emanuele Carlini, Matteo Mordacchini +1

Agentic systems deployed across the compute continuum need discovery mechanisms that remain effective across cloud, edge, and intermittently connected domains. In some emerging age…

cs.MA2026

Usable Agent Discovery for Decentralized AI Systems

Patrizio Dazzi, Emanuele Carlini, Matteo Mordacchini +1

Large-scale agentic systems run on distributed infrastructures where many software agents share physical hosts and are discovered via peer-to-peer mechanisms. Discovery must handle…

cs.DC2025

A Parallel and Distributed Rust Library for Core Decomposition on Large Graphs

Davide Rucci, Sebastian Parfeniuc, Matteo Mordacchini +3

In this paper, we investigate the parallelization of -core decomposition, a method used in graph analysis to identify cohesive substructures and assess node centrality. Although…

cs.DC2025★ 1 cited

A Fast-Converging Decentralized Approach to the Weighted Minimum Vertex Cover Problem

Matteo Mordacchini, Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi

We address the problem of computing a Minimum Weighted Vertex Cover (MWVC) in a decentralized network. MWVC, a classical NP-hard problem, is foundational in applications such as ne…

cs.DC2025

Decentralized and Self-adaptive Core Maintenance on Temporal Graphs

Davide Rucci, Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi +2

Key graph-based problems play a central role in understanding network topology and uncovering patterns of similarity in homogeneous and temporal data. Such patterns can be revealed…

cs.DC2024★ 2 cited

Graph Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning for Proactive Application Image Placement

Antonios Makris, Theodoros Theodoropoulos, Evangelos Psomakelis +4

The shift from Cloud Computing to a Cloud-Edge continuum presents new opportunities and challenges for data-intensive and interactive applications. Edge computing has garnered a lo…

cs.NI2022★ 10 cited

Design and evaluation of a cognitive approach for disseminating semantic knowledge and content in opportunistic networks

Matteo Mordacchini, Lorenzo Valerio, Marco Conti +1

In cyber-physical convergence scenarios information flows seamlessly between the physical and the cyber worlds. Here, users' mobile devices represent a natural bridge through which…

cs.NI2021★ 14 cited

A Social Cognitive Heuristic for Adaptive Data Dissemination in Mobile Opportunistic Networks

Matteo Mordacchini, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti

It is commonly agreed that data will be one of the cornerstones of Future Internet systems. In this context, mobile Opportunistic Networks (ONs) are one of the key paradigms to sup…

cs.NI2021★ 20 cited

Crowdsourcing through Cognitive Opportunistic Networks

M. Mordacchini, A. Passarella, M. Conti +5

Untile recently crowdsourcing has been primarily conceived as an online activity to harness resources for problem solving. However the emergence of opportunistic networking (ON) ha…

cs.NI2021

Human-centric Data Dissemination in the IoP: Large-scale Modeling and Evaluation

Matteo Mordacchini, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella +1

Data management using Device-to-Device (D2D) communications and opportunistic networks (ONs) is one of the main focuses of human-centric pervasive Internet services. In the recentl…

cs.DC2021★ 1 cited

Efficient Resources Distribution for an Ephemeral Cloud/Edge continuum

Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi, Luca Ferrucci +1

This paper presents the idea and the concepts behind the vision of an Ephemeral Cloud/Edge Continuum, a cloud/edge computing landscape that enables the exploitation of a widely dis…

cs.NI2020★ 1 cited

AoI-based Multicast Routing over Voronoi Overlays with Minimal Overhead

Michele Albano, Matteo Mordacchini, Laura Ricci

The increasing pervasive and ubiquitous presence of devices at the edge of the Internet is creating new scenarios for the emergence of novel services and applications. This is part…

cs.DC2016

Challenges to be addressed for realising an Ephemeral Cloud Federation

Emanuele Carlini, Massimo Coppola, Patrizio Dazzi +1

This paper sketches the challenges to address to realise a support able to achieve an Ephemeral Cloud Federation, an innovative cloud computing paradigm that enables the exploitati…

cs.SI2015★ 1 cited

Epidemic Information Diffusion: A Simple Solution to Support Community-based Recommendations in P2P Overlays

Patrizio Dazzi, Matteo Mordacchini, Laura Ricci

Epidemic protocols proved to be very efficient solutions for supporting dynamic and complex information diffusion in highly dis- tributed computing infrastructures, like P2P enviro…

cs.NI2013

ATLAAS-P2P: a two layer network solution for easing the resource discovery process in unstructured networks

Ranieri Baraglia, Patrizio Dazzi, Matteo Mordacchini +1

ATLAAS-P2P is a two-layered P2P architecture for developing systems providing resource aggregation and approximated discovery in P2P networks. Such systems allow users to search th…

cs.DC2011

On Democracy in Peer-to-Peer systems

Ranieri Baraglia, Patrizio Dazzi, Matteo Mordacchini +2

The information flow inside a P2P network is highly dependent on the network structure. In order to ease the diffusion of relevant data toward interested peers, many P2P protocols…