Department of Science and Technological Innovation (DiSIT)
Computer Science Institute
University of Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro"
Viale Teresa Michel, 11 - 15121 - Alessandria - Italy

Marco Guazzone was born in Alessandria (Italy) in 1976.
He took his Laurea degree summa cum laude in Computer Science on July 2007 at the University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy).
He got his Ph.D. in Science and High Technology (spec. Computer Science) on March 2012 at the University of Torino (Italy).
Between the years 1996-2007, he worked for several IT companies.
Between the years 2011-2013 he has been Research Fellow at the University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy).
From February 2013 to January 2014, he is a Research Fellow at the University of Torino (Italy).
From June 2014 to May 2015, he is a Research Fellow at the University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy).
Since May 2015, he is a Researcher (RTD A) at the University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy).

Marco Guazzone research interests involve computing paradigms in distributed systems (e.g., Cloud computing and Edge/Fog computing) and digital forensics.
Currently, his research is focused on the following areas:

• Grid Computing
• Cloud Computing
• Edge and Fog Computing
• Green Computing
• Mobile Device Forensics
• Workload Characterization

• Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico and Marco Guazzone
  Profit-aware Resource Management for Edge Computing Systems.
  Proc. of the 1^st International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys 2018), 2018, Accepted.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF]
• Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico, Paolo Castagno, Marco Guazzone and Matteo Sereno
  A Game-Theoretic Approach to Coalition Formation in Fog Provider Federations.
  Proc. of the 3^rd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC), 2018, Accepted.
  Best Paper Award
  Paper: [DOI | PDF]
• Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico and Marco Guazzone
  Prometheus: A flexible toolkit for the experimentation with virtualized infrastructures.
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 30(11):e4400, 2018.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF] ~ Code: [GitHub]
• Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico and Marco Guazzone
  Forensic Analysis of Telegram Messenger on Android Smartphones.
  Digital Investigation, 23:31-49, 2017.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF]
• Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico and Marco Guazzone
  FCMS: A Fuzzy Controller for CPU and Memory Consolidation under SLA Constraints.
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 29(5):e3968, 2017.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF] ~ Code: [GitHub]
• Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico and Marco Guazzone
  Forensic Analysis of the ChatSecure Instant Messaging Application on Android Smartphones.
  Digital Investigation, 19:44-59, 2016.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF]
• Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico and Marco Guazzone
  FC2Q: Exploiting Fuzzy Control in Server Consolidation for Cloud Applications with SLA Constraints.
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 27:4491-4514, 2015.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF] ~ Code: [GitHub]
• Cosimo Anglano, Marco Guazzone and Matteo Sereno
  Maximizing Profit in Green Cellular Networks through Collaborative Games.
  Computer Networks, 75, Part A:260-275, 2014.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF]
• Marco Guazzone, Cosimo Anglano and Matteo Sereno
  A Game-Theoretic Approach to Coalition Formation in Green Cloud Federations.
  Proc. of the 14^th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), pp. 618-625, 2014.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF] ~ Code: [GitHub]
• Luca Albano, Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico, and Marco Guazzone
  Fuzzy-Q&E: achieving QoS guarantees and energy savings for cloud applications with fuzzy control.
  Proc. of the 3^rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC 2013), 2013.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF]
• Marco Guazzone, Cosimo Anglano, and Massimo Canonico
  Exploiting VM Migration for the Automated Power and Performance Management of Green Cloud Computing Systems.
  Proc. of the 1^st International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centres (E2DC 2012), 2012.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF] ~ Extended Version: [PDF] ~ Talk: [PDF]
• Marco Guazzone, Cosimo Anglano, and Massimo Canonico
  Energy-Efficient Resource Management for Cloud Computing Infrastructures.
  Proc. of the 3^rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2011), 2011.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF] ~ Talk: [PDF]
• Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico, and Marco Guazzone
  The ShareGrid Peer-to-Peer Desktop Grid: Infrastructre, Applications, and Performance Evaluation.
  Journal of Grid Computing, 8(4):543-570, 2010.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF]
• Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico, Marco Guazzone, Marco Botta, Sergio Rabellino, Simone Arena, and Guglielmo Girardi
  Peer-to-Peer Desktop Grids in the Real World: The ShareGrid Project.
  Proc. of the 8^th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID), pp. 609-614. Lyon, France, May 2008.
  Paper: [DOI | PDF]

Thesis

• Marco Guazzone
  Power and Performance Management in Cloud Computing Systems.
  PhD Thesis.
  Advisor: Cosimo Anglano
  University of Torino. Torino, Italy, March 2012.
  
  "Power and Performance Management of Cloud Computing Systems" by Marco Guazzone is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
  [PDF]
• Marco Guazzone
  Caratterizzazione del Carico per Sistemi Grid. (In Italian)
  Graduate Thesis.
  Main Supervisor: Cosimo Anglano
  Assistant Supervisor: Massimo Canonico
  University of Piemonte Orientale. Alessandria, Italy, July 2007.
  
  "Caratterizzazione del Carico per Sistemi GRID" by Marco Guazzone is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Italy License
  [PDF]

Technical Reports

• Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico, Marco Guazzone, and Matteo Zola
  The TAAROA Project Specification.
  Technical Report. University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy, February 2009.
  [PDF]
• Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico, and Marco Guazzone
  The ShareGrid Portal: an easy way to submit jobs on computational Grids.
  Technical Report. University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy, October 2008.
  [PDF]

Past projects:

• The EFFICIENT project.
  The EFFICIENT project is an Italian Research project, founded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). EFFICIENT is a two-year project, started in March 2010. EFFICIENT is coordinated by the Prof. Franco Davoli (University of Genova), and includes five Research Units:
  • the University of Genova (UNIGE),
  • the Technical University of Torino (POLITO),
  • the University of Roma "La Sapienza" (UNIRM),
  • the University of Pisa (UNIPI), and
  • the University of Piemonte Orientale (UNIPMN).
  Click here for more information.
• The ShareGrid project.
  Funded by the TOP-IX non-profit organization and the Piemonte Region under the Innovation Development Program.
  Click here for more information.
• The TAAROA project.
  Funded by the TOP-IX non-profit organization and the Piemonte Region under the Innovation Development Program.

• Open source software projects
• Member of the Editorial Board of International Journals:
  • Springer Journal of Cluster Computing (Associate Editor, since 2018)
• Program Chair for International Conferences:
  • HPCC: 2014 (track chair)
  • IoTSMS: 2018 (PhD forum chair)
• Session Chair for International Conferences:
  • EdgeSys: 2018
  • FMEC: 2018
• Member of the Program Committee for International Conferences:
  • EECSI: 2018
  • EnA-HPC: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • FCST: 2015, 2017
  • GREEN: 2016, 2017, 2018
  • GSCIT: 2015, 2016
  • ICCISN: 2017
  • ICW TELKOMNIKA: 2018
  • IEEE BDCloud: 2015
  • IEEE CIT: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • IEEE DASC: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • IEEE GreenCom: 2017
  • IEEE HPCC: 2018
  • IEEE ICSCEE: 2018
  • IEEE IINTEC: 2017, 2018
  • IEEE ISCAIE: 2018
  • INAIT: 2019
  • InfQ: 2016, 2017
  • OptiMoCS: 2018
  • SpaCCS: 2017
  • SIET: 2018
  • USENIX HotEdge: 2018
  • WSCAR: 2018
• Peer reviewer for:
  • International Conferences (in addition to those for which I served as Program Chair or Program Committee member):
    • ACM SIGMETRICS: 2017
    • BIBE: 2014
    • CloudID: 2013
    • EnA-HPC: 2013
    • ETNGRID: 2010
    • ExtremeGreen: 2013
    • GreenCom: 2011, 2012
    • Grid: 2010
    • HotP2P: 2008, 2010
    • ICA3PP: 2011
    • ICC: 2015
    • INGRID: 2007
    • ISPA: 2012
    • PCGRID: 2010
    • PDP: 2015
    • SSCC: 2008
    • ValueTools: 2013
    • WCI: 2015
  • International Journals:
    • Elsevier Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
    • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
    • IEEE Systems Journal
    • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
    • IEEE Transactions on Communications
    • IEEE Transactions on Computers
    • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
    • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
    • PLOS ONE
    • Springer Journal of Cluster Computing
    • Wiley Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

• Algorithms 1 (University of Piemonte Orientale): Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017
• Cloud Computing for Science (Ph.D. Program in Computer Science, University of Torino): 2018/2019
• Multimedia Systems (University of Piemonte Orientale): Spring 2012, Spring 2013
• Operating Systems 2 (University of Piemonte Orientale): Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018

• ACM (since 2018).
• DCS research group at University of Piemonte Orientale (since 2007).
• CINI (since 2015).
• CNIT (since 2017).
• GRIN (since 2015).
• IEEE Society (from 2010 to 2015).
• IEEE Computer Society (from 2010 to 2016).
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (since 2014).
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (since 2014).
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Cloud Computing (since 2014).
• IEEE Green ICT Community (since 2014).
• IEEE Rebooting Computing Technical Community (since 2016).
• IEEE Services Computing Community (since 2017).
• InfQ (infQ) (since 2010).
• Cyber Security National Laboratory (since 2017).
• Big Data National Laboratory (since 2018).
• Performance Evaluation and System Validation Group (QMIPS) at University of Torino (since 2010).