Ernesto Damiani

Ernesto Damiani is a Full Professor at the Universita degli Studi di Milano, where he leads the SESAR research lab, and the leader of the Big Data Initiative at the EBTIC/Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Ernesto holds/has held visiting positions at a number of international institutions, including George Mason University in Virginia, US, Tokyo Denki University, Japan, LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) at Lyon, France. He is a Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Progress of Science. He is the Principal Investigator of the H2020 TOREADOR project. He was a recipient of the Chester-Sall Award from the IEEE IES Society (2007). He was named ACM Distinguished Scientist (2008) and received the IFIP TC2 Outstanding Contributions Award (2012). Ernesto serves in the editorial board of several international journals; among others, he is the EiC of the International Journal on Big Data and of the i. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Service-oriented Computing and of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. Ernesto is a senior member of the IEEE and served as Vice-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics. In 2008, Ernesto was nominated ACM Distinguished Scientist and received the Chester Sall Award from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. Ernesto has co-authored over 350 scientific papers and many books, including "Open Source Systems Security Certification" (Springer 2009).

Publications

Innovations, Developments, and Applications of Semantic Web and Information Systems
Innovations, Developments, and Applications of Semantic Web and Information Systems
Miltiadis D. Lytras, Naif Aljohani, Ernesto Damiani, Kwok Tai Chui. © 2018. 473 pages.
In the last few years, there has been an increased advancement and evolution in semantic web and information systems in a variety of fields. The integration of these approaches...
An Agent-Based Model for Awareness-Based Sustainability
An Agent-Based Model for Awareness-Based Sustainability
Giovanna Sissa, Ernesto Damiani. © 2015. 18 pages.
This chapter discusses the effects of social interaction on collective behavior regarding the reduction of limited-resource consumption. Our working hypothesis is that key...
Foreword
Foreword
Ernesto Damiani. © 2013. 2 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book IT Security Governance Innovations: Theory and Research.
Using XML-Based Multicasting to Improve Web Service Scalability
Using XML-Based Multicasting to Improve Web Service Scalability
Joe Tekli, Ernesto Damiani, Richard Chbeir. © 2012. 29 pages.
Web services’ (WS) emphasis on open standards provides substantial benefits over previous application integration techniques. A major WS feature is SOAP, a simple, robust and...
Digital Culture and E-Tourism: Technologies, Applications and Management Approaches
Digital Culture and E-Tourism: Technologies, Applications and Management Approaches
Miltiadis Lytras, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, Ernesto Damiani, Lily Diaz. © 2011. 270 pages.
In the digital world of the knowledge society, developing the infrastructures required to provide citizens with access to cultural content and tourism services demands a...
Semantic Web Personalization and Context Awareness: Management of Personal Identities and Social Networking
Semantic Web Personalization and Context Awareness: Management of Personal Identities and Social Networking
Miltiadis Lytras, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, Ernesto Damiani. © 2011. 232 pages.
The Semantic Web has evolved as a blueprint for a knowledge-based framework aimed at crossing the chasm from the current Web of unstructured information resources to a Web...
Foreword
Foreword
Ernesto Damiani. © 2009. 3 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Open and Novel Issues in XML Database Applications: Future Directions and Advanced Technologies.
Semantic Knowledge Management: An Ontology-Based Framework
Semantic Knowledge Management: An Ontology-Based Framework
Antonio Zilli, Ernesto Damiani, Paolo Ceravolo, Angelo Corallo, Gianluca Elia. © 2009. 458 pages.
The massive quantity of data, information, and knowledge available in digital form on the web or within the organizational knowledge base requires a more effective way to control...
Secure Authentication Process for High Sensitive Data E-Services: A Roadmap
Secure Authentication Process for High Sensitive Data E-Services: A Roadmap
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Ernesto Damiani, Fulvio Frati, Salvatore Reale. © 2009. 16 pages.
The widespread diffusion of online services provided by public and private organizations, firstly driven by e-commerce and more recently by egovernment applications, has stressed...
KIWI: A Framework for Enabling Semantic Knowledge Management
KIWI: A Framework for Enabling Semantic Knowledge Management
Ernesto Damiani, Paolo Ceravolo, Angelo Corallo, Gianluca Elia, Antonio Zilli. © 2009. 24 pages.
Research on semantic-aware knowledge management provides new solutions, technologies, and methods to manage organizational knowledge. These solutions open new opportunities to...
Introduction to Ontology Engineering
Introduction to Ontology Engineering
Paolo Ceravolo, Ernesto Damiani. © 2009. 26 pages.
This chapter provides an introduction to ontology engineering discussing the role of ontologies in informative systems, presenting a methodology for ontology design, and...
Towards Semantic-Based P2P Reputation Systems
Towards Semantic-Based P2P Reputation Systems
Ernesto Damiani, Marco Viviani. © 2009. 19 pages.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems represent nowadays a large portion of Internet traffic, and are fundamental data sources. In a pure P2P system, since no peer has the power or...
Secure Authentication Process for High Sensitive Data E-Services: A Roadmap
Secure Authentication Process for High Sensitive Data E-Services: A Roadmap
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Ernesto Damiani, Fulvio Frati, Salvatore Reale. © 2008. 15 pages.
The widespread diffusion of distributed services, providing access to resources through the Net, has stressed the need of secure ways to authenticate users. The heterogeneity of...
Multimedia Security and Digital Rights Management Technology
Multimedia Security and Digital Rights Management Technology
Eduardo Fernandez-Medina, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Ernesto Damiani, Mario Piattini, Perangela Samarati. © 2008. 33 pages.
Multimedia content delivery applications are becoming widespread thanks to increasingly cheaper access to high bandwidth networks. Also, the pervasiveness of XML as a data...
Security, Privacy, and Trust in Mobile Systems
Security, Privacy, and Trust in Mobile Systems
Marco Cremonini, Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina Capitani di Vimercati, Pierangela Samarati. © 2008. 8 pages.
Access to general purpose information and communication technology (ICT) is not equally distributed on our planet: developed countries represent about 70% of all Internet users...
Secure Authentication Process for High Sensitive Data E-Services: A Roadmap
Secure Authentication Process for High Sensitive Data E-Services: A Roadmap
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Ernesto Damiani, Fulvio Frati, Salvatore Reale. © 2007. 16 pages.
The widespread diffusion of distributed services, providing access to resources through the Net, has stressed the need of secure ways to authenticate users. The heterogeneity of...
Open Culture for Education and Research Environment
Open Culture for Education and Research Environment
Ernesto Damiani, Paul G. Mezey, Paolo M. Pumilia, Anna M. Tammaro. © 2007. 26 pages.
Some contemporary theoretical and technological issues that are becoming of paramount importance for building a cross-disciplinary research and knowledge-sharing environment are...
Privacy- Enhanced Identity Management for E-Services
Privacy- Enhanced Identity Management for E-Services
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Marco Cremonini, Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Fulvio Frati, Pierangela Samarati. © 2007. 18 pages.
This chapter introduces the concept of privacy-enhanced identity management for e-services supporting the users needs to protect their privacy and sensitive information. Business...
Security, Privacy, and Trust in Mobile Systems
Security, Privacy, and Trust in Mobile Systems
Marco Cremonini, Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina Capitani di Vimercati, Pierangela Samarati, Angelo Corallo, Gianluca Elia. © 2006. 6 pages.
Access to general purpose information and communication technology (ICT) is not equally distributed on our planet: developed countries represent about 70% of all Internet users...
Security, Privacy, and Trust in Mobile Systems and Applications
Security, Privacy, and Trust in Mobile Systems and Applications
Marco Cremonini, Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Angelo Corallo, Gianluca Elia. © 2005. 30 pages.
Mobile systems and applications are raising some important information security and privacy issues. This chapter discusses the need for privacy and security in mobile systems and...
Multimedia Security and Digital Rights Management Technology
Multimedia Security and Digital Rights Management Technology
Eduardo Fernandez-Medina, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Ernesto Damiani, Mario Piattini, Pierangela Samarati. © 2004. 43 pages.
Multimedia content delivery applications are becoming widespread thanks to increasingly cheaper access to high bandwidth networks. Also, the pervasiveness of XML as a data...