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  1. Advancing ESSecA: a step forward in Automated Penetration Testing

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Massimiliano Rak, Felice Moretta

  2. GDPR compliance through standard security controls: An automated approach

    Article • Journal of High Speed Networks, May 2024, IOS Press

    Massimiliano Rak, Giovanni Salzillo

  3. A methodology for vulnerability assessment and threat modelling of an e-voting platform based on Ethereum blockchain

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  4. Automated threat modelling and risk analysis in e-Government using BPMN

    Article • Connection Science, December 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Massimiliano Rak

  5. Automated Generation of 5G Fine-Grained Threat Models: A Systematic Approach

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  6. ESSecA: an Automated Expert System for Threat Modeling and Penetration Testing for IoT Ecosystems

    Article • August 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Salzillo, Massimiliano Rak

  7. ESSecA: An automated expert system for threat modelling and penetration testing for IoT ecosystems

    Article • Computers & Electrical Engineering, April 2022, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  8. Security and Privacy Service Level Agreement composition for Internet of Things systems on top of standard controls

    Article • Computers & Electrical Engineering, March 2022, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  9. Automated Threat Modeling Approaches: Comparison of Open Source Tools

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  10. Risk Analysis Automation Process in IT Security for Cloud Applications

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  11. Demystifying the role of public intrusion datasets: A replication study of DoS network traffic data

    Article • Computers & Security, September 2021, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  12. Towards HybridgeCAN, a hybrid bridged CAN platform for automotive security testing

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  13. A Conceptual Model for the General Data Protection Regulation

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  14. Threat Modeling of Edge-Based IoT Applications

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  15. Design and Development of a Technique for the Automation of the Risk Analysis Process in IT Security

    Article • January 2021, Scitepress

    Massimiliano Rak

  16. A cloud-edge smart infrastructures for road safety

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  17. A novel Security-by-Design methodology: Modeling and assessing security by SLAs with a quantitative approach

    Article • Journal of Systems and Software, May 2020, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  18. A methodology for automated penetration testing of cloud applications

    Article • International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, January 2020, Inderscience Publishers

    Massimiliano Rak

  19. Discovery of DoS attacks by the ZED-IDS anomaly detector

    Article • Journal of High Speed Networks, November 2019, IOS Press

    Massimiliano Rak, Umberto Villano, Marta Catillo

  20. Toward the automation of threat modeling and risk assessment in IoT systems

    Article • Internet of Things, September 2019, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  21. Optimization and Validation of eGovernment Business Processes with Support of Semantic Techniques

    Article • June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  22. Benchmark-Based Cost Analysis of Auto Scaling Web Applications in the Cloud

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  23. WETICE 2019 - General Track

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  24. Service Level Agreement-based GDPR Compliance and Security assurance in (multi)Cloud-based systems

    Article • IET Software, February 2019, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Massimiliano Rak, Wissam Mallouli

  25. Model-based deployment of secure multi-cloud applications

    Article • International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, January 2019, Inderscience Publishers

    Massimiliano Rak

  26. Automated Risk Analysis for IoT Systems

    Article • October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  27. Internet of things reference architectures, security and interoperability: A survey

    Article • Internet of Things, September 2018, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  28. Security-by-design in multi-cloud applications: An optimization approach

    Article • Information Sciences, July 2018, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  29. A Proposal of a Cloud-Oriented Security and Performance Simulator Provided as-a-Service

    Article • June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  30. A Security SLA-Driven Moving Target Defense Framework to Secure Cloud Applications

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Massimiliano Rak

  31. Per-service security SLAs for cloud security management: model and implementation

    Article • International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, January 2018, Inderscience Publishers

    Massimiliano Rak

  32. Cloud Security Requirements Analysis and Security Policy Development Using HOOMT

    Article • December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Massimiliano Rak

  33. Dynamic security assurance in multi-cloud DevOps

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  34. Automatically Enforcing Security SLAs in the Cloud

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, September 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  35. A Security Metric Catalogue for Cloud Applications

    Article • July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  36. MUSA Deployer: Deployment of Multi-cloud Applications

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  37. Malware Detection for Secure Microgrids: CoSSMic Case Study

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  38. Local and interregional alpha EEG dynamics dissociate between memory for search and memory for recognition

    Article • NeuroImage, April 2017, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  39. Secure microGRID in Cloud: The CoSSMic Case Study

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  40. Security Assurance of (Multi-)Cloud Application with Security SLA Composition

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  41. An Automatic Tool for Benchmark Testing of Cloud Applications

    Article • January 2017, Scitepress

    Massimiliano Rak

  42. SLAs for cloud applications: agreement protocol and REST-based implementation

    Article • International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, January 2017, Inderscience Publishers

    Massimiliano Rak

  43. Security SLA in Next Generation Data Centers, the SPECS Approach

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  44. Security SLAs for Cloud Services: Hadoop Case Study

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  45. SLA-based Secure Cloud Application Development

    Article • Scalable Computing Practice and Experience, October 2016, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience

    Massimiliano Rak

  46. Cloud Security: From Per-Provider to Per-Service Security SLAs

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  47. A Security SLA-driven Methodology to Set-Up Security Capabilities on Top of Cloud Services

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  48. Per-Service Security SLa: A New Model for Security Management in Clouds

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  49. SLA-Driven Monitoring of Multi-cloud Application Components Using the MUSA Framework

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  50. A framework for cloud-aware development of bag-of-tasks scientific applications

    Article • International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, January 2016, Inderscience Publishers

    Massimiliano Rak

  51. Cloud Challenges towards Free Flow of Data

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2016, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  52. Methodology to Obtain the Security Controls in Multi-cloud Applications

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    Massimiliano Rak

  53. On the Next Generations of Infrastructure-as-a-Services

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    Massimiliano Rak

  54. Providing Security SLA in Next Generation Data Centers with SPECS: The EMC Case Study

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    Massimiliano Rak

  55. Security-by-design in Clouds: A Security-SLA Driven Methodology to Build Secure Cloud Applications

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2016, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  56. Towards a Proof-based SLA Management Framework

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    Massimiliano Rak

  57. DoS Protection in the Cloud through the SPECS Services

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  58. Economic Denial of Sustainability Mitigation in Cloud Computing

    Article • October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  59. Early Prediction of the Cost of Cloud Usage for HPC Applications

    Article • Scalable Computing Practice and Experience, September 2015, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience

    Massimiliano Rak

  60. SLA-Based Secure Cloud Application Development: The SPECS Framework

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  61. Security Monitoring in the Cloud: An SLA-Based Approach

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  62. REST-Based SLA Management for Cloud Applications

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  63. Cloud Evaluation: Benchmarking and Monitoring

    Article • April 2015, Wiley

    Massimiliano Rak

  64. Assisted sintering of silver nanoparticle inkjet ink on paper with active coatings

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Håkan Olin, Massimiliano Rak

  65. Performance prediction of cloud applications through benchmarking and simulation

    Article • International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, January 2015, Inderscience Publishers

    Massimiliano Rak

  66. Stealthy Denial of Service Strategy in Cloud Computing

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, January 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  67. On the Adoption of Security SLAs in the Cloud

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  68. Early Prediction of the Cost of HPC Application Execution in the Cloud

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  69. A Portable Tool for Running MPI Applications in the Cloud

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  70. Cloud-Aware Development of Scientific Applications

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  71. Developing Secure Cloud Applications

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  72. An SLA-based brokering platform to provide sensor networks as-a-service

    Article • International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, January 2014, Inderscience Publishers

    Massimiliano Rak

  73. SecLA-Based Negotiation and Brokering of Cloud Resources

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  74. An SLA-Based Approach to Manage Sensor Networks as-a-Service

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  75. Security as a Service Using an SLA-Based Approach via SPECS

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  76. Developing Secure Cloud Applications: A Case Study

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  77. Cost/Performance Evaluation for Cloud Applications Using Simulation

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  78. The mOSAIC Benchmarking Framework: Development and Execution of Custom Cloud Benchmarks

    Article • Scalable Computing Practice and Experience, April 2013, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience

    Massimiliano Rak

  79. Planting parallel program simulation on the cloud

    Article • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, March 2013, Wiley

    Massimiliano Rak

  80. A Proposal of a Simulation-Based Approach for Service Level Agreement in Cloud

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  81. Concurrent simulation in the cloud with the mJADES framework

    Article • International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, January 2013, Inderscience Publishers

    Massimiliano Rak

  82. Experiences in building a mOSAIC of clouds

    Article • Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and Applications, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  83. The CloudGrid approach: Security analysis and performance evaluation

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, January 2013, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  84. SLA-Oriented Security Provisioning for Cloud Computing

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  85. Simulation-Based Performance Evaluation of Cloud Applications

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  86. An intrusion detection framework for supporting SLA assessment in Cloud Computing

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  87. Ontology-based Negotiation of security requirements in cloud

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  88. [Front matter]

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

    Massimiliano Rak, Dr. Juan Manuel Corchado

  89. An SLA-based Broker for Cloud Infrastructures

    Article • Journal of Grid Computing, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Salvatore Distefano, Massimiliano Rak

  90. Benchmarks in the Cloud: The mOSAIC Benchmarking Framework

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  91. Intrusion Tolerance in Cloud Applications: The mOSAIC Approach

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  92. mJADES: Concurrent Simulation in the Cloud

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  93. Cloud-Based Concurrent Simulation at Work: Fast Performance Prediction of Parallel Programs

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

    Massimiliano Rak

  94. Intrusion Tolerance of Stealth DoS Attacks to Web Services

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  95. Enhancing an Autonomic Cloud Architecture with Mobile Agents

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  96. NEGOTIATION POLICIES FOR PROVISIONING OF CLOUD RESOURCES

    Article • January 2012, Scitepress

    Massimiliano Rak

  97. User Centric Service Level Management in mOSAIC Applications

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  98. A SLA-based interface for security management in cloud and GRID integrations

    Article • December 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  99. Cloud Application Monitoring: The mOSAIC Approach

    Article • November 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  100. QoS Management in Cloud@Home Infrastructures

    Article • October 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Salvatore Distefano, Massimiliano Rak

  101. Building an interoperability API for Sky computing

    Article • July 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  102. CHASE: An Autonomic Service Engine for Cloud Environments

    Article • June 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  103. Intrusion Tolerant Approach for Denial of Service Attacks to Web Services

    Article • June 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  104. Performance Prediction for HPC on Clouds

    Article • January 2011, Wiley

    Massimiliano Rak

  105. Cloud@Home: Performance Management Components

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Salvatore Distefano, Massimiliano Rak

  106. The Cloud@Home Project: Towards a New Enhanced Computing Paradigm

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Salvatore Distefano, Massimiliano Rak

  107. A Cloud Agency for SLA Negotiation and Management

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  108. Access Control in Cloud-on-Grid Systems: The PerfCloud Case Study

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  109. Architecturing a Sky Computing Platform

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  110. Security and Performance Trade-off in PerfCloud

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  111. Identity federation in cloud computing

    Article • August 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  112. Autonomic Composite-service Architecture with MAWeS

    Article • February 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  113. Cloud Agency: A Mobile Agent Based Cloud System

    Article • February 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  114. Instantaneous Load Dependent Servers (iLDS) Model for Web Services

    Article • February 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  115. An interoperability system for authentication and authorisation in VANETs

    Article • International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, January 2010, Inderscience Publishers

    Massimiliano Rak

  116. Web Services Resilience Evaluation using LDS Load dependent Server Models.

    Article • Journal of Communications, January 2010, Engineering and Technology Publishing

    Massimiliano Rak

  117. A Service for Virtual Cluster Performance Evaluation

    Article • January 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  118. PerfCloud: Performance-Oriented Integration of Cloud and GRID

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  119. PerfCloud: GRID Services for Performance-Oriented Development of Cloud Computing Applications

    Article • June 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  120. Self-optimization of secure web services

    Article • Computer Communications, December 2008, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  121. Simulation-based optimization of multiple-task GRID applications

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, June 2008, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  122. Message from General Chair(s)

    Article • January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  123. A Framework for Mobile Agent Platform performance Evaluation

    Article • June 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  124. Cluster systems and simulation: from benchmarking to off-line performance prediction

    Article • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, January 2007, Wiley

    Massimiliano Rak

  125. Optimizing secure Web Services with MAWeS: A case study

    Article • January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  126. Static evaluation of Certificate Policies for GRID PKIs interoperability

    Article • January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  127. Autonomic Web service development with MAWeS

    Article • January 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  128. Performance Oriented Development and Tuning of GRID Applications

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  129. Self-optimization of MPI Applications Within an Autonomic Framework

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  130. Performance prediction through simulation of a hybrid MPI/OpenMP application

    Article • Parallel Computing, October 2005, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  131. An Innovative Policy-Based Cross Certification Methodology for Public Key Infrastructures

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  132. Security design and evaluation in a VoIP secure infrastracture: a policy based approach

    Article • January 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  133. Self-optimizing MPI Applications: A Simulation-Based Approach

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  134. Performance simulation of a hybrid openMP/MPI application with HeSSE

    Article • January 2004, Elsevier

    Massimiliano Rak

  135. Security level evaluation: policy and fuzzy techniques

    Article • January 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  136. A Performance-Oriented Technique for Hybrid Application Development

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  137. Performance modeling of scientific applications: scalability analysis of LAPW0

    Article • January 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  138. Off-Line Performance Prediction of Message-Passing Applications on Cluster Systems

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  139. MetaPL: A Notation System for Parallel Program Description and Performance Analysis

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  140. The Transition from a PVM Program Simulator to a Heterogeneous System Simulator: The HeSSE Project

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  141. Access Control in Federated Clouds

    Article • IGI Global

    Massimiliano Rak

  142. Access Control in Federated Clouds

    Article • IGI Global

    Massimiliano Rak

  143. Security Issues in Cloud Federations

    Article • IGI Global

    Massimiliano Rak

  144. Design and implementation of TruMan, a Trust Manager Component for Distributed Systems

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  145. A Simulation-Based Framework for Autonomic Web Services

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  146. Performance-Driven Development of a Web Services Application using MetaPL/HeSSE

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Massimiliano Rak

  147. Building Autonomic and Secure Service Oriented Architectures with MAWeS

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  148. Interoperable Grid PKIs Among Untrusted Domains: An Architectural Proposal

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  149. Mobile Agents Self-optimization with MAWeS

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak

  150. A SLA evaluation methodology in Service Oriented Architectures

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Massimiliano Rak