Prof. Giancarlo Ruffo, Ph.D.: a short bio

Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum

My CV: [pdf]

Publications

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A. Books

• [A.3] C. Cattuto, G. Ruffo and F. Menczer
  HYPERTEXT 2009, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Torino, Italy, June 29 - July 1, 2009. ACM Press.
  
  • Official Announcement to ACM SIGWEB: [pdf]
  • ACM official documentation: [pdf]
  • Markus Strohmaier (ACM SIGWEB) review: [pdf]
• [A.2] L. Benussi, C. Blengino, A. Glorioso, G. Ramello, G. Ruffo and M. Travostino
  Copyright Digitale: l'impatto delle nuove tecnologie tra economia e diritto. Presentazione di: Marco Ricolfi, Giappichelli, Torino 2009.
  
  • Copertina: [prima][quarta]
  • Contributo: L'(in)sostenibile leggerezza della copia digitale
• [A.1] F. Bergadano, A. Mantelero, G. Ruffo, and G. Sartor
  Digital Privacy. Giuristi e informatici a confronto, Giappichelli, Torino 2006.
  
  • Copertina: [prima][quarta]
  • Contributo: Protezione della Privacy e della Proprietà Intellettuale: Il Caso del Peer-to-Peer in Italia

B. Tutorials and invited seminars

• [B.2] G. Ruffo
  Privacy on Demand: a Difficult Challenge in a Highly Connected World
  in Bandwidth on Demand, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 09072, 08.02 - 11.02.2009, ISSN 1862 - 4405, Published by LZI
  Download: [web]
• [B.1] G. Ruffo
  Peer-to-Peer Market Places: Technical Issues and Revenue Models
  Inter-Domain Management, First International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, AIMS 2007, Oslo, Norway, June 21-22, 2007. LNCS 4543 Springer.
  Download: [pdf]

C. Journals and books chapters

• [C.13] A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, A. Panisson, G. Ruffo, and R. Schifanella
  On Human Proximity Dynamics for Data Diffusion through Ad-Hoc Networks
  in AD HOC NETWORKS Journal, Elsevier (accepted for publication)
• [C.12] L. Aiello, and G. Ruffo
  LotusNet: tunable privacy for distributed on-line social network services
  in Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer (accepted for publication)
• [C.11] L. Aiello, M. Milanesio, G. Ruffo, and R. Schifanella
  An identity-based approach to secure P2P applications with Likir
  in Computer Communications, Elsevier (accepted for publication)
• [C.10] S. Lian, D. Kanellopoulos, G. Ruffo
  Recent Advances in Multimedia Information System Security
  in Informatica Journal of Computing and Informatics (Special Issue in Multimedia Information System Security) 33(1): 3-24 (2009), ISSN 0350-5596
  Download: [pdf]
• [C.9] A. Glorioso, U. Pagallo and G. Ruffo
  The Social Impact of P2P Systems
  in Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking, Shen, X; Yu H.; Buford, J.; Akon, M. (Eds.) 2010 ISBN: 978-0-387-09750-3. Springer. 2009.
  Download: [pdf]
• [C.8] G. Ruffo e R. Schifanella.
  A Peer-to-Peer Recommender System Based on Spontaneous Affinities
  in ACM Trans. Internet Technol. 9, 1 (Feb. 2009), 1-34.
  Download: [pdf]
• [C.7] G. Ruffo e R. Schifanella.
  FairPeers: Efficient Profit Sharing in Fair Peer-to-Peer Market Places
  in Journal of Network and Systems Management (Special Issue on Peer-to-Peer Technologies in Network and Service Management), 15(3): 355-382 (2007), Springer.
  Download: [pdf]
• [C.6] G. Ruffo, R. Schifanella, G. Ballocca, and R. Politi.
  Integrated Techniques and Tools for Web Mining, User Profiling and Benchmarking analysis
  in Web Mining: an Overview, October 2006, ICFAI University Press. ISBN: 81-314-0420-X.
  Download: [pdf]
• [C.5] F. Bergadano, A. Giallombardo, A. Puliafito, G. Ruffo, L. Vita
  Java-Based and Secure Learning Agents for Information Retrieval in Disributed Systems
  in Information Sciences, num. 113, 1999, North Holland, pp. 55-84.
  Download: [pdf]
• [C.4] F. Bergadano, B. Crispo, G. Ruffo
  High Dictionary Compression for Proactive Password Checking
  in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Vol.1, No.1, November 1998, ACM Press, pp. 3-25.
  Download: [pdf]
• [C.3] F. Bergadano, A. Giallombardo, A. Puliafito, G. Ruffo, L. Vita
  Security Agents for Information Retrieval in Distributed Systems
  in Parallel Computing, num. 22(13) 1997, North Holland, pp. 1719-1731.
  Download: [pdf]
• [C.2] F. Bergadano, D. Gunetti, M. Nicosia, G. Ruffo
  Towards the Learnability of Prolog Programs
  in G. Tascini, F. Esposito, U.Roberto, P.Zingaretti editors, Machine Learning and Perception, Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 23 World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 1996, pp. 180-187.
  Download: [pdf]
• [C.1] F. Bergadano, D. Gunetti, M. Nicosia, G. Ruffo
  Learning Logic Programs with Negation as Failure
  in L. De Raedt editor, Advances in Inductive Logic Programming, IOS Press, 1996, pp. 107-123;
  Download: [pdf]

D. Conference and workshops with peer-review

• [D.27] L. M. Aiello, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, G. Ruffo, R. Schifanella
  Link creation and profile alignment in the aNobii social network
  In SocialCom'10: Proc. of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2010
• [D.26] L. M Aiello, and G. Ruffo
  Secure and Flexible Framework for Decentralized Social Network Services
  In Proc. of the Security and Social Networking Workshop, (SESOC 2010), Mannheim, Germany, 29 Mar 2010, IEEE Computer Society.
• [D.25] L. M Aiello, M. Milanesio, G. Ruffo, R. Schifanella
  Tagging with DHARMA
  In Proc. of the Seventh International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HOT-P2P 2010), April, 2010, Atlanta (USA). IEEE Computer Society digital library
• [D.24] A. Basso, M. Milanesio and G. Ruffo
  Events discovery for personal video recorders.
  In Proc. of the Seventh European Conference on European interactive Television Conference (Leuven, Belgium, June 03 - 05, 2009). EuroITV '09. ACM, New York, NY, 171-174
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.23] R. Schifanella, A. Panisson, C. Gena and G. Ruffo.
  MobHinter: Epidemic Collaborative Filtering and Self-Organization in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, in the 2nd ACM Intern. Conf. on Recommender Systems 2008 (RecSys 2008), October 23-25, 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland. ACM Press.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.22] L. M. Aiello, M. Milanesio, G. Ruffo, R.Schifanella
  Tempering Kademlia with a Robust Identity Based System,
  In the 8th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing 2008 (P2P'08), September 8-11, 2008, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. IEEE Press.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.21] A. Panisson, G. Ruffo and R. Schifanella
  X-Hinter: a Framework for Implementing Social Oriented Recommender Systems,
  in Proc. of the 21th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2008), June 19-21, 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. ACM Press
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.20] M. Milanesio, G. Ruffo
  Iterative Key Based Routing for Web Services Addressing and Discovery,
  in Inter-Domain Management, Proc. of First International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, AIMS 2007, Oslo, Norway, June 21-22, 2007, LNCS 4543 Springer. Download: [pdf]
• [D.19] U. Pagallo, G. Ruffo
  P2P Systems in Legal Networks: Another "Small World" Case,
  in Proc. of 11th Intern. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL 2007, Stanford, CA (USA). June 2007, ACM Press.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.18] G. Ruffo, R. Schifanella
  Evaluating Peer-to-Peer Recommender Systems that Exploit Spontaneous Affinities,
  in Proc. of 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Seoul, South Korea. March, 2007, ACM Press.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.17] M. Milanesio, G. Ruffo, R. Schifanella
  A Totally Distributed Iterative Scheme for Web Services Addressing and Discovery,
  in Proc. of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2007), Nov. 19-21, 2007, Cambridge, MA, USA. ACTA Press.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.16] G. Ruffo, R. Schifanella, E. Ghiringhello
  A Decentralized Recommendation System based on Self-Organizing Partnerships, in IFIP-Networking'06, Maggio 2006, Coimbra (Portugal) LNCS 3976, pp. 618-629, Springer-Verlag, 2006.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.15] M. Milanesio and G. Ruffo
  Publishing, Retrieving and Streaming Lectures via Application Level Multicast , in Intern. Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW'06, Guadaloupe (Fr), Febraury 2006. IEEE Press.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.14] D. Catalano, G. Ruffo, and R. Schifanella
  A P2P Market Place Based on Aggregate Signatures, in Proc. of 3rd Int. Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA05), 2005 Int. Workshop on Applications and Economics of Peer to Peer Systems, November, Nanjing, P. R. China, in G. Chen et al. (Eds.): ISPA Workshops 2005, LNCS 3759, pp. 54-63, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.13] D. Gunetti, C. Picardi and G. Ruffo
  Dealing with Different Languages and Old Profiles in Keystroke Analysis of Free Text, in S. Bandini, editor, Proc. of the Nineth Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA-2005), Milan, Italy. LNCS 3673, pages 347-358. Springer-Verlag, 2005.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.12] D. Gunetti, C. Picardi and G. Ruffo
  Keystroke Analysis of Different Languages: a Case Study, in Proc. of the 2005 Intern. Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2005), September 8-10, 2005, Madrid, Spain. LNCS 3646, Springer Verlag, pp. 133--144.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.11] G. Ruffo and R. Schifanella
  Scalability Evaluation of a Peer-to-Peer Market Place based on Micro-Payments, in Proc. of the 2nd Inter. Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HOT-P2P 2005), July 2005. San Diego, CA (USA). IEEE Press.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.10] G. Ruffo and F. Bergadano
  EnFilter: a Password Enforcement and Filter Tool based on Pattern Recognition Techniques, in Proc. of the 2005 International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2005) - Special Session in ''Pattern Recognition in Computer Security'', September 6-8, 2005, Cagliari, Italy. LNCS 3617, Springer Verlag, pp.75--82.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.9] D. Catalano and G. Ruffo
  A Fair Micro-Payment Scheme for Profit Sharing in a P2P Network, in Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HOT-P2P 2004), October 8th, 2004. Volendam, The Netherlands. IEEE Press.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.8] G. Ruffo, R. Schifanella, M. Sereno and R. Politi
  WALTy: A User Behavior Tailored Tool for Evaluating Web Application Performance, in Proc. of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA04), August 30 - September 1, 2004, Cambridge, MA, USA. IEEE Press.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.7] G. Ruffo, R. Schifanella, M. Sereno and R. Politi
  WALTy: A Tool for Evaluating Web Application Performance, in Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST) 2004, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 27 - 30, 2004. IEEE Press.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.6] G. Ruffo
  Legal File and Profit Sharing in a Peer to Peer Network, in Proc. of the Security and Management (SAM'04) Conference, Las Vegas, June 2004, CSREA Press.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.5] G. Ballocca, P. Politi, G. Ruffo, V. Russo
  Benchmarking a Site with Realistic Workload, in Proc. of the 5th IEEE Workshop on Workload Characterization (WWC-5), November 25th 2002, Austin (Texas), IEEE Press.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.4] B. Crispo e G. Ruffo.
  Reasoning about Accountability within Delegation, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Communication Security (ICICS-2001), LNCS 2229, Springer Verlag, November 2001, Xìan (China).
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.3] D. Gunetti, G. Ruffo
  Intrusion Detection through Behavioral Data in Proc. of the third symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, LNCS 1642, August 1999, Amsterdam (NL). Springer Verlag, pp. 383-394
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.2] F. Bergadano, B. Crispo, G. Ruffo
  Proactive Password Checking with Decision Trees in Proceedings of CCCS97 ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, April 1997, Zurich (Switzerland). ACM Press, pp. 67-76.
  Download: [pdf]
• [D.1] F. Bergadano, A. Puliafito, S. Riccobene, G. Ruffo, L. Vita
  Intelligent Agents: a Tool for Managing and Retrieving Information in Distributed Systems, in Proc. of ICCCN96 Fifth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks Ottobre 1996, Rockville, Maryland, USA. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 271-272.
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E. Theses

• [E.2] G. Ruffo:
  Learning Single and Multiple Instance Decision Trees for Computer Security Applications, Ph.D. Dissertation, Computer Science Department, University of Turin, 2000
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• [E.1] G. Ruffo:
  Applicazione della Programmazione Logica Induttiva allo Sviluppo Semi-Automatico del Software, Tesi di Laurea, Mathematics and Computer Science Department, University of Catania, 1995