Curriculum Vitae of Paolo Romano

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1 Curriculum Vitae of Paolo Romano

2 Personal Information Place and Date of Birth: Rome (Italy), 4 March 1979 Citizenship: Italian Office Address: Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Antonio Ruberti (D.I.S.), Via Ariosto 25, Rome, Italy paolo.romano@dis.uniroma1.it Home Page: romanop Telephone : (+39) (Mobile) (+39) (Office) Fax: (+39) Education PhD in Computer Engineering at the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, Sapienza Rome University (February 2007) Title: Protocols for End-to-End Reliability in Multi-Tier Systems Advisor: Prof. F. Quaglia Sapienza, Rome University. External Referees: Prof. D.K. Pradhan (University of Bristol, UK) and Prof. M. Singhal (Ohio State University, USA). Master Degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (October 2002), Title: Fault Tolerant Web-Sever Systems. Advisors: Prof. S. Tucci and Prof. B. Ciciani Final Rank: 100/100 summa cum laude. Certificate of Advance English from Cambridge University, June Current Position Post-doc and research contractor at the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, Sapienza Rome University. 2

3 Research Topics Dependable Distributed Systems: Fault-tolerance in multi-tier systems Fault-tolerant platforms for RFID data acquisition services Multi-Path protocols for large scale transactional systems Formal verification of distributed protocols Performance Modelling and Evaluation: QoS in content delivery networks Modelling of DBMS concurrency control schemes Approximate solution methods for complex queuing systems Modelling of standard security mechanisms via Petri-nets Autonomic Databases: Automatic workload and data access pattern characterization Adaptive concurrency control and data replication schemes Scientific Publications Internation Journals IJ1 F. Quaglia and P. Romano, Ensuring e-transaction with Asynchronous and Uncoordinated Application Server Replicas, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol.18, no.3, IJ2 P. Romano, F. Quaglia and B. Ciciani, A Lightweight and Scalable e-transaction Protocol for Three-Tier Systems with Centralized Back-End Database, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol.17, no.11, pp , International Conferences 2007: IC1 B.Ciciani, A.Santoro and P. Romano, Approximate Analytical Models for Networked Servers Subject to MMPP Arrival Processes, 3

4 Proc. 6th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 07), IEEE Computer Society Press, July 2007 (Best Paper Award). IC2 D. Cucuzzo, S. D Alessio, F. Quaglia and P. Romano, A Lightweight Heuristic-based Mechanism for Collecting Committed Consistent Global States in Optimistic Simulation, Proc. 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 07), IEEE Computer Society Press, October 2007, to appear. 2006: IC3 P.Romano and F.Quaglia, Providing e-transaction Guarantees in Asynchronous Systems with Inaccurate Failure Detection, Proc. 5th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 06), IEEE Computer Society Press, July IC4 P.Romano, F.Quaglia and B.Ciciani, Design and Evaluation of a Parallel Edge Server Invocation Protocol for Transactional Applications over the Web, Proc. 6th IEEE Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 06), IEEE Computer Society Press, January IC5 P. Romano, F. Quaglia and B. Ciciani, A Simulation Study of the Effects of Multi-path Approaches in e- Commerce Applications, Proc. 11th IEEE Workshop on Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems (DPDNS 06), IEEE Computer Society Press, : IC6 F.Quaglia and P.Romano, Reliability in Three-Tier Systems without Application Server Coordination and Persistent Message Queues, Proc. 20th Annual ACM-SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 05), ACM Press, IC7 P.Romano, F.Quaglia and B.Ciciani, Design and Analysis of an e-transaction Protocol Tailored for OCC, Proc. 5th IEEE Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 05), IEEE Computer Society Press,

5 IC8 P.Romano and F.Quaglia, A Path-Diversity Protocol for the Invocation of Distributed Transactions over the Web, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 05), IEEE Computer Society Press, : IC9 P.Romano, F.Quaglia and B.Ciciani, A Protocol for Improved User Perceived QoS in Web Transactional Applications, Proc. 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 04), IEEE Computer Society Press, August/September IC10 P.Romano, F.Quaglia and B.Ciciani, Ensuring e-transaction Through a Lightweight Protocol for Centralized Back-end Database, Proc. 2nd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 04), LNCS, Springer-Verlang, : IC11 B.Ciciani, F.Quaglia, P.Romano and D.Dias, Analysis of Design Alternatives for Reverse Proxy Cache Providers, Proc. 11th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCO- TS 03), IEEE Computer Society Press, October IC12 P.Romano, M.Romero, B.Ciciani and F.Quaglia, Validation of the Sessionless Mode of the HTTPR Protocol, Proc. 23rd IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems (FORTE 03), LNCS, Springer- Verlang, September-October Submitted Articles SIJ1 P. Romano and F. Quaglia, Providing e-transaction Guarantees in Asynchronous Systems with no Assumptions on the Accuracy of Failure Detection, Currently Under Review 5

6 Participation in Technical Committees of International Conferences Paolo Romano was a member of the technical committees of the following international conferences in the distributed computing area: 1. 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS) rd IEEE International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS) th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA) rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS) rd IEEE International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS) th IEEE Workshop on Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network- Centric Systems (DPDNS) th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA) nd IEEE International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS) nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS) Academic Teaching Activity 2006/2007: i) Teaching assistant for the course of Computers I, Degree in Computers and Networks Engineering, Sapienza Rome University. ii) Invited lecturer for the course of Advanced Computer Architectures, Degree in Computer Engineering, Sapienza Rome University. iii) Professor for the course of Computer Architectures II, Degree in Computer Engineering, Sapienza Rome University. 6

7 2005/2006: i) Teaching assistant for the course of Computer Architectures I, Degree in Computers and Networks Engineering, Sapienza Rome University. ii) Teaching assistant for the course of Computer Architectures II, Degree in Computers and Networks Engineering, Sapienza Rome University. iii) Invited lecturer for the course of Advanced Computer Architectures, Degree in Computer Engineering, Sapienza Rome University. 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004/2005: i) Teaching assistant for the course of Computer Architectures I, Degree in Computers and Networks Engineering, Sapienza Rome University. ii) Teaching assistant for the course of Computer Architectures II, Degree in Computers and Networks Engineering, Sapienza Rome University. Other Professional Activities 2007: Professor of the Unix Shell Programming courses for the training programs of Covansys-Lucent and Sytel-Reply : Research and teaching assistant at the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, D.I.S., Sapienza Rome University. 2003: Member of the technical committee for the standardization of the OASIS WS-Reliable Messaging Consultant for the technical center of R.U.P.A. (Unified Network for Italian Public Administration) involved within the national e-government project in the specification of the national standard (SOAP) envelope to be used by the Italian public administration entities. 7

8 One year ( ) research grant by the C.I.N.I. (Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l Informatica) in the context of the FIRB Project Middleware for advanced services distributed on large scale wired-wireless infrastructures. Public Domain Software PDS1 Paolo Romano MicroOpGen: The PD32 Micro-Operations Generator ciciani/microopgen (May 2006) Free software for the visualization of the micro-operations associated to the PD32 processor s Assembly Instruction Set. Reference Software for the Computer Architectures I and Computer Architectures II courses, Degree in Computers and Networks Engineering, Sapienza Rome University. PDS2 Paolo Romano and Matteo Leonetti DIS Simulator: The PD32 simulator (May 2006) Free software for the simulation of the PD32 processor. Reference Software for in the Computer Architectures I and Computer Architectures II courses, Degree in Computers and Networks Engineering, Sapienza Rome University. PDS3 Paolo Romano, Milton Romero, Bruno Ciciani and Francesco Quaglia HTTPR Validation via the SPIN Model Checker quaglia/other/httpr (Oct 2003) Promela code used for the validation of the HTTPR protocol through the SPIN Model Checker ( Technical Skills Programming Languages: Java (J2SE, J2EE), C++, C, PHP, Assembler, Promela (Spin Model Checker), Fortran Web Service Technologies: XML, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, WS-RX. DBMS: expertise with a large number of commercial and open-source products (e.g. IBM DB2, Oracle, Solid SQL Server, AG Tamino XML Database, MySQL). Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL s internals gained 8

9 while integrating novel concurrency control and demarcation schemes within its kernel. Operating Systems: expertise as system administrator, shell and system programmer with both Linux and Windows Operating Systems. 9