Jacopo Soldani

Please find below a comprehensive list of my publications, where the colour boxes in front of each publication follow the DBLP colour scheme. Indexed publications are also listed on csauthors.net, DBLP, Google Scholar, Research Gate, Scopus, and WoS.

2026
M. Angiolini, S. Forti, J. Soldani, A. Brogi. Engineering Carbon-aware Software Services. Cluster Computing, vol. 29, issue 7, 2026.
S. Gazza, R. Amadini, A. Brogi, A. D'Iapico, S. Forti, S. Giallorenzo, P. Plebani, F. Ponce, J. Soldani, M. Vitali, G. Zavattaro. A Constraint-based Approach to Optimise QoS- and Energy-aware Cloud-Edge Application Deployments. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, vol. 26, issue 1, article no. 14, 2026.
O. Danushi, J. Soldani, S. Forti, A. Brogi. Time to Go Green: Carbon-Aware Request Scheduling in Software Services. 16th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2026).
L. Ferrante, S. Forti, J. Soldani. An Overview of Neuro-Symbolic Frameworks for Software Development. 41st Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2026).
O. Danushi, G. Bellini, S. Forti, J. Soldani, A. Brogi. Carbon-Aware Service Request Scheduling in Kubernetes. 12th European Conference On Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2026).
J. Massa, S. Forti, S. Bruschi, J. Soldani, A. Brogi. SCI-aware application placement in the cloud-edge continuum. 12th European Conference On Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2026).
A. Franco, L. Passaro, J. Soldani. Intelligent Detection of Design Patterns in Existing Source Code. International Workshop on Intelligent & Data-Driven Engineering for Software Architecture (IDEA-Arch 2026).
B. Zisa, L. Passaro, J. Soldani. Design Pattern-based Code Refactoring with LLMs. 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026).
F. Ponce, S. Gazza, A. D'Iapico, R. Amadini, A. Brogi, S. Forti, S. Giallorenzo, P. Plebani, D. Usai, M. Vitali, G. Zavattaro, J. Soldani. Failure-Resilient and Carbon-Efficient Deployment of Microservices over the Cloud-Edge Continuum. CoRR abs/2601.04123, 2026.

2025
O. Danushi, S. Forti, J. Soldani. Carbon-Efficient Software Design and Development: A Systematic Literature Review. ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 57, issue 10, article no. 267, 2025.
S. Moreschini, S. Pour, I. Lanese, D. Balouek, J. Bogner, X. Li, F. Pecorelli, J. Soldani, E. Truyen, D. Taibi. AI Techniques in the Microservice Life-Cycle: A Systematic Mapping Study. Computing, vol. 107, article no. 100, 2025.
F. Ponce, B. Miranda, R. Verdecchia, J. Soldani. Microservices Testing: A Systematic Literature Review. Information and Software Technology, vol. 188, 2025.
S. Schneider, A. Bakhtin, X. Li, J. Soldani, A. Brogi, T. Cerny, R. Scandariato, D. Taibi. Comparison of Static Analysis Architecture Recovery Tools for Microservice Applications. Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 30, article no. 128, 2025.
J. Soldani, S. Forti, L. Roveroni, A. Brogi. Explaining Microservices’ Cascading Failures from their Logs. Software: Practice & Experience, vol. 55, issue 5, pp. 809-828, 2025.
M. Stötzner, N. Krieger, S. Speth, M. Weller, S. Becker, J. Soldani, V. Morlock. A Method for the Quality-Aware Automated Selection of Deployment Technologies. Software: Practice & Experience, vol. 55, issue 11, pp. 1855-1876, 2025.
S. Forti, J. Soldani, A. Brogi. Carbon-aware software services. 11th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2025).
F. Ponce, S. Forti, J. Soldani, A. Brogi. Enhancing Failure Resilience of Cloud-Edge Microservices: The FREEDA Approach. 11th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2025).
V. Andrikopoulos, C. Pautasso, N. Ali, J. Soldani, X. Xu. Software Architecture - 19th European Conference, ECSA 2025, Limassol, Cyprus, September 15–19, 2025, Proceedings.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 15929.

2024
J. Soldani. An interview with Massimiliano Di Penta - 2023 SIGSOFT Awardee. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, vol. 49, issue 3, pp. 17-18, 2024.
J. Soldani, G. A. Papadopoulos, F. Rademacher. Service-oriented and cloud computing. Computing, vol. 106, n. 11, p. 3387, 2024.
F. Ponce, J. Soldani, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi. Beyond Security: Understanding the Multiple Impacts of Security Smells for Microservices. CLEI Electronic Journal, vol. 27, issue 2, article no. 6, 2024.
F. Ponce, A. Malnati, R. Negro, F. Arcelli Fontana, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi, J. Soldani. SST: A Tool to Support the Triage of Security Smells in Microservice Applications. SN Computer Science, vol. 5, article no. 1014, 2024.
T. Cerny, M.S. Hossain Chy, A. Elsayed, J. Soldani, J. Bogner. On maintainability and microservice dependencies: How do changes propagate? 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2024).
T. Cerny, M.S. Hossain Chy, M.A. Uddin, A.S. Abdelfattah, J. Soldani, J. Bogner. On Dependencies in Microservices: Dependency Management and Maintainability Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2024), Revised Selected Papers.
P. Wizenty, F. Ponce, F. Rademacher, J. Soldani, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi, S. Sachweh Model-Driven End-to-End Resolution of Security Smells in Microservice Architectures. 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2024).
F. Ponce, J. Soldani, C. Taramasco, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi. Triaging Microservice Security Smells, with TriSS 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2024).
F. Ponce, J. Soldani, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi. Towards Teamwise Informed Decisions On Microservice Security Smells. 18th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2024).
J. Soldani, R. Amadini, A. Brogi, S. Forti, S. Giallorenzo, P. Plebani, M. Vitali, G. Zavattaro. Towards Sustainable Deployment of Microservices over the Cloud-IoT Continuum, with FREEDA. 4th Workshop on Flexible Resource and Application Management on the Edge (FRAME 2024).
A. Bocci, A. Brogi, G. Cugola, S. Forti, L. Mottola, V. Pilloni, S. Romano, J. Soldani, E. Usai. Towards Enabling Observability of Energy Demand, with NEST. 4th Workshop on Flexible Resource and Application Management on the Edge (FRAME 2024).
M. Agostini, J. Soldani, A. Brogi. Detecting and Resolving Bad Organisational Smells for Microservices. 19th International Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT 2024).
R. Amadini, S. Gazza, J. Soldani, M. Vitali, A. Brogi, S. Forti, S. Giallorenzo, P. Plebani, F. Ponce, G. Zavattaro. Pick a Flavour: Towards Sustainable Deployment of Cloud-Edge Applications. 34th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2024).
M. Vitali, J. Soldani, R. Amadini, A. Brogi, S. Forti, S. Gazza, S. Giallorenzo, P. Plebani, F. Ponce, G. Zavattaro. FREEDA: Failure-Resilient, Energy-aware, and Explainable Deployment of Microservice-based Applications over Cloud-IoT Infrastructures. Research Projects Exhibition Papers Presented at the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (RPE @ CAiSE 2024).
O. Danushi, S. Forti, J. Soldani. Environmentally Sustainable Software Design and Development: A Systematic Literature Review. CoRR abs/2407.19901, 2024.
S. Forti, J. Soldani, A. Brogi. Carbon-aware Software Services. CoRR abs/2405.12582, 2024.
S. Schneider, A. Bakhtin, X. Li, J. Soldani, A. Brogi, T. Cerny, R. Scandariato, D. Taibi. Comparison of Static Analysis Architecture Recovery Tools for Microservice Applications. CoRR abs/2403.06941, 2024. Presented at MSR 2024, track on Registered Reports.

2023
J. Soldani, A. Brogi. Anomaly Detection and Failure Root Cause Analysis in (Micro)Service-Based Cloud Applications: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 55, issue 3, article no. 59, pp. 1-39, 2023. [Preprint] [Kudos]
J. Soldani. An interview with Chunyang Chen - 2023 SIGSOFT Awardee. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, vol. 48, issue 3, pp. 16-17, 2023.
J. Soldani. An interview with John Grundy - 2023 SIGSOFT Awardee. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, vol. 48, issue 3, pp. 17-18, 2023.
J. Soldani. An interview with Gail Murphy - 2023 SIGSOFT Awardee. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, vol. 48, issue 4, pp. 37-38, 2023.
G. Dell'Immagine, J. Soldani, A. Brogi. KubeHound: Detecting Microservices’ Security Smells in Kubernetes Deployments. Future Internet, vol. 15, issue 7, 2023.
J. Soldani, S. Forti, A. Brogi. yRCA: An Explainable Failure Root Cause Analyser. Science of Computer Programming, Original Software Publications track, vol. 230, 2023.
J. Soldani, J. Khalili, A. Brogi. Offline Mining of Microservice-based Architectures (Extended Version). Springer Nature Computer Science, vol. 4, article no. 304, pp. 1-17, 2023. [PDF]
F. Ponce, J. Soldani, C. Taramasco, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi. To Security and Beyond: On The Impacts of Microservice Security Smells and Refactorings. 2023 XLIX Latin American Computer Conference (CLEI 2023).
J. Soldani, M. Marinò, A. Brogi. Semi-automated Smell Resolution in Kubernetes-deployed Microservices. 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2023).
A. Bakhtin, X. Li, J. Soldani, A. Brogi, T. Cerny, D. Taibi. Tools Reconstructing Microservice Architecture: A Systematic Mapping Study. 17th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2023) - Tracks, Workshops, and Doctoral Symposium.
T. Howard-Grubb, J. Soldani, G. Dell'Immagine, F. Arcelli Fontana, A. Brogi. Smelling homemade crypto code in microservices, with KubeHound. 21st International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2023), Demonstration track.
P. Wizenty, F. Ponce, F. Rademacher, J. Soldani, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi, S. Sachweh. Towards Resolving Security Smells in Microservices, Model-Driven. 18th International Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT 2023).
P. Wizenty, F. Ponce, F. Rademacher, J. Soldani, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi, S. Sachweh. Model-Driven Security Smell Resolution in Microservice Architecture Using LEMMA. 18th International Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT 2023), Revised Selected Papers.
J. Soldani, D. Rendina, F. Arcelli Fontana, A. Brogi. Kubernetes-enabled Detection and Resolution of Architectural Smells for Microservices. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2023).
M. Gaglianese, J. Soldani, S. Forti, A. Brogi. Green Orchestration of Cloud-Edge Applications: State of the Art and Open Challenges. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2023).
M. Stötzner, S. Becker, U. Breitenbücher, G. Falazi, L. Harzenetter, K. Klein, O. Kopp, F. Leymann, J. Soldani, B. Weder. A Systematic Technology Review of Open-Source TOSCA Orchestrators. IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2023).
G. A. Papadopoulos, F. Rademacher, J. Soldani. Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing - 10th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference, ESOCC 2023, Larnaca, Cyprus, October 24-25, 2023, Proceedings.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14183.
S. Moreschini, S. Pour, I. Lanese, D. Balouek-Thomert, J. Bogner, X. Li, F. Pecorelli, J. Soldani, E. Truyen, D. Taibi. AI Techniques in the Microservices Life-Cycle: A Survey. CoRR abs/2305.16092, 2023.

2022
S. Forti, U. Breitenbücher, J. Soldani. Trending Topics in SE. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, vol. 47, issue 3, pp. 20-21, 2022.
J. Soldani. An interview with Xin Xia - 2022 SIGSOFT Awardee. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, vol. 47, issue 3, pp. 22-23, 2022.
U. Breitenbücher, S. Forti, J. Soldani. Software Engineering After the COVID-19 Outbreak. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, vol. 47, issue 4, p. 7, 2022.
J. Soldani. An interview with Miryung Kim - 2022 SIGSOFT Awardee. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, vol. 47, issue 4, pp. 32-33, 2022.
J. Soldani, M. Cameriero, G. Paparelli, A. Brogi. Modelling and Analysing Replica- and Fault-aware Management of Horizontally Scalable Applications. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, vol. 22, issue 3, article no. 74, pp. 1-32, 2022. [Kudos]
A. Brogi, J. Carrasco, F. Duran, E. Pimentel, J. Soldani. Self-Healing Trans-Cloud Applications. Computing, vol. 104, issue 4, pp. 809-833, 2022.
F. Ponce, J. Soldani, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi. Smells and Refactorings for Microservices Security: A Multivocal Literature Review. Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 192, 111393, 2022. [Preprint]
J. Soldani, L. Luthmann, M. Lochau, A. Brogi. Compositional Testing of Management Conformance for Multi-Component Enterprise Applications. Service Oriented Computing and Applications, vol. 16, issue 3, pp. 209-225, 2022. [PDF]
V. Yussupov, J. Soldani, U. Breitenbücher, F. Leymann. Standards-based Modeling and Deployment of Serverless Function Orchestrations Using BPMN and TOSCA. Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 52, issue 6, pp. 1454-1495, 2022.
J. Soldani, J. Khalili, A. Brogi. Offline Mining of Microservice-based Architectures. 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2022).
J. Soldani, S. Forti, A. Brogi. Failure Root Cause Analysis for Microservices, Explained. 22nd International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2022).
F. Ponce, J. Soldani, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi. Microservices Security: Bad vs. Good Practices. 2nd International Workshop on Designing and Measuring Security in Software Architectures (DeMeSSA 2022).
E. Ntentos, U. Zdun, J. Soldani, A. Brogi. Assessing Architecture Conformance to Coupling-Related Infrastructure-as-Code Best Practices: Metrics and Case Studies. 16th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2022).
F. Ponce, J. Soldani, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi. Should micoservices' security smells stay or get refactored? Towards a trade-off analysis. 16th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2022).
J. Soldani, R. Paoletti, A. Brogi. Pattern-Based Resolution of Integration Mismatches in Enterprise Applications. 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022).
J. Soldani, S. Forti, A. Brogi. Explainable Root Cause Analysis for Failing Microservices. Microservices 2022, informal proceedings.
V. Yussupov, U. Breitenbücher, A. Brogi, L. Harzenetter, F. Leymann, J. Soldani. Serverless or Serverful? A Pattern-based Approach for Exploring Hosting Alternatives. 16th International Symposium and Summer School (SummerSOC 2022).
C. Zirpins, G. Ortiz, Z. Nochta, O. Waldhorst, J. Soldani, M. Villari, D. Tamburri. Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. International Workshops of ESOCC 2022, Wittenberg, Germany, March 22–24, 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), vol. 1617.
J. Soldani, A. Brogi. Anomaly Detection and Failure Root Cause Analysis in (Micro)Service-Based Cloud Applications: A Survey. CoRR abs/2105.12378, 2021.
F. Ponce, J. Soldani, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi. Smells and Refactorings for Microservices Security: A Multivocal Literature Review.. CoRR abs/2105.12378, 2021.

2021
J. Soldani. Pains and Gains of Peer Reviewing in Software Engineering (5). ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, volume 46, issue 2, page 14, 2021.
J. Soldani. Pains and Gains of Peer Reviewing in Software Engineering (4). ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, volume 46, issue 1, page 8, 2021.
V. Yussupov, J. Soldani, U. Breitenbücher, A. Brogi, F. Leymann. FaaSten Your Decisions: A Classification Framework and Technology Review of Function-as-a-Service Platforms. Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 175, 110906, 2021. [Preprint]
E. Pimentel, J. Soldani. Preface to the Special Issue on Coordination and Self-Adaptiveness of Software Applications. Science of Computer Programming, vol. 204, 2021.
J. Soldani, G. Muntoni, D. Neri, A. Brogi. The μTOSCA toolchain: Mining, Analysing, and Refactoring Microservice-based Architectures Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 51, issue 7, pp. 1591-1621, 2021. [PDF]
M. Wurster, U. Breitenbücher, A. Brogi, F. Diez, F. Leymann, J. Soldani, K. Wild. Automating the Deployment of Distributed Applications by Combining Multiple Deployment Technologies. 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2021).
V. Yusspov, J. Soldani, U. Breitenbücher, A. Brogi, F. Leymann. From Serverful to Serverless: A Spectrum of Patterns for Hosting Application Components. 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2021).
J. Soldani, U. Breitenbücher, A. Brogi, L. Frioli, F. Leymann, M. Wurster. Tailoring Technology-Agnostic Deployment Models to Production-Ready Deployment Technologies. CLOSER (Revised Selected Papers) 2021.
J. Soldani, A. Brogi. Automated Generation of Configurable Cloud-Native Chaos Testbeds. 13th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems (SERENE 2021).
J. Soldani, G. Montesano, A. Brogi. What Went Wrong? Explaining Cascading Failures in Microservice-based Applications. 15th Symposium and Summer School On Service-Oriented Computing (SummerSOC 2021).
C. Zirpins, I. Paraskakis, V. Andrikopoulos, N. Kratzke, C. Pahl, N. El Ioini, A.S. Andreou, G. Feuerlicht, W. Lamersdorf, G. Ortiz, W.J. Van den Heuvel, J. Soldani, M. Villari, G. Casale, P. Plebani. Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing: International Workshops of ESOCC 2020, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 28-30, 2020, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), vol. 1360.

2020
J. Soldani. Pains and Gains of Peer Reviewing in Software Engineering (3). ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, volume 45, issue 3, page 17, 2020.
J. Soldani. Pains and Gains of Peer Reviewing in Software Engineering (2). ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, volume 45, issue 3, page 15, 2020.
M. Kuhrmann, D. Pfahl, J. Soldani. Software Engineering Worldwide. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, volume 45, issue 3, page 17, 2020.
J. Soldani. Pains and Gains of Peer Reviewing in Software Engineering. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, volume 45, issue 2, page 6, 2020.
J. Soldani, M. Kuhrmann, D. Pfahl. Pains and Gains of Peer Reviewing in Software Engineering. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, volume 45, issue 1, page 12-13, 2020.
M. Bogo, J. Soldani, D. Neri, A. Brogi. Fine-grained management of cloud-native applications, based on TOSCA. Internet Technology Letters, volume 3, issue 5, e212, 2020.
D. Neri, J. Soldani, O. Zimmermann, A. Brogi. Design principles, architectural smells and refactorings for microservices: A multivocal review. SICS Software-Intensive Cyber-Physical Systems, volume 35, issue 1, pages 3-15, 2020. [PDF] [Preprint]
M. Wurster, U. Breitenbücher, M. Falkenthal, C. Krieger, F. Leymann, K. Saatkamp, J. Soldani. The Essential Deployment Metamodel: A Systematic Review of Deployment Automation Technologies. SICS Software-Intensive Cyber-Physical Systems, volume 35, issue 1, pages 63-75, 2020. [PDF] [Preprint]
J.M. Jacquet, J. Soldani. Preface to the Special Issue on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems (FOCLASA 2018). Science of Computer Programming, volume 191, 2020.
M. Bogo, J. Soldani, D. Neri, A. Brogi. Component-aware Orchestration of Cloud-based Enterprise Applications, from TOSCA to Docker and Kubernetes. Software: Practice and Experience, volume 50, issue 9, pages 1793-1821, 2020. [Preprint]
M. Wurster, U. Breitenbücher, L. Harzenetter, F. Leymann, J. Soldani TOSCA Lightning: An Integrated Toolchain for Transforming TOSCA Light into Production-Ready Deployment Technologies. 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2020), Demonstration track.
G. Marquez, J. Soldani, F. Ponce, H. Astudillo. Frameworks and High-Availability in Microservices: An Industrial Survey. XXIII Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CibSE 2020).
M. Wurster, U. Breitenbücher, A. Brogi, F. Leymann, J. Soldani. Cloud-native Deploy-ability: An Analysis of Required Features of Deployment Technologies to Deploy Arbitrary Cloud-native Applications. 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Service Science (CLOSER 2020).
M. Wurster, U. Breitenbücher, L. Harzenetter, F. Leymann, J. Soldani, V. Yussupov. TOSCA Light: Bridging the Gap between the TOSCA Specification and Production-ready Deployment Technologies. 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Service Science (CLOSER 2020).
J. Soldani. Finding feasible application deployments in edge clusters, with limited resources. International Workshop on Edge Migration and Architecture (EdgeWays 2020).
V. Yussupov, U. Breitenbücher, C. Krieger, F. Leymann, J. Soldani, M. Wurster. Pattern-based Modelling, Integration, and Deployment of Microservice Architectures. 24th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2020).
J. Soldani, L. Luthmann, M. Lochau, A. Brogi. Testing conformance in multi-component enterprise application management. 8th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2020).
M. Wurster, U. Breitenbücher, A. Brogi, L. Harzenetter, F. Leymann, J. Soldani. Technology-agnostic Declarative Deployment Automation of Cloud Applications. 8th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2020).
G. Muntoni, J. Soldani, A. Brogi. Mining the Architecture of Microservice-Based Applications from their Kubernetes Deployment. 16th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications and Cloud Services (WESOACS 2020).
M. Bogo, J. Soldani, D. Neri, A. Brogi. Component-aware Orchestration of Cloud-based Enterprise Applications, from TOSCA to Docker and Kubernetes. CoRR abs/2002.01699, 2020.
V. Yussupov, J. Soldani, U. Breitenbücher, A. Brogi, F. Leymann. FaaSten Your Decisions: Classification Framework and Technology Review of Function-as-a-Service Platforms. CoRR abs/2004.00969, 2020.

2019
J. Soldani. Grey literature: A safe bridge between academy and industry?. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, volume 44, issue 3, pages 11-12, 2019.
A. Brogi, A. Corradini, J. Soldani. Estimating costs in multi-component enterprise applications. Formal Aspects of Computing, volume 31, issue 4, pages 421-451, 2019. [PDF]
C. Pahl, A. Brogi, J. Soldani, P. Jamshidi. Cloud Container Technologies: a State-of-the-Art Review. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, volume 7, issue 3, pages 677-692, 2019.
A. Brogi, J. Carrasco, F. Durán, E. Pimentel, J. Soldani. Robust management of trans-cloud applications. 2019 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2019).
A. Brogi, J. Soldani Identifying failure causalities in multi-component applications. 17th International Workshop on Coordination and Self-Adaptativeness of Software Applications (FOCLASA 2019).
M. Wurster, U. Breitenbücher, A. Brogi, G. Falazi, L. Harzenetter, F. Leymann, J. Soldani, V. Yussupov. The EDMM Modeling and Transformation System. 17th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2019), Demonstration track.
A. Brogi, D. Neri, J. Soldani. Freshening the air in microservices: Resolving architectural smells via refactoring. 15th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications and Cloud Services (WESOACS 2019).
A. Brogi, D. Neri, J. Soldani, O. Zimmermann. Design principles, architectural smells and refactorings for microservices: A multivocal review. CoRR abs/1906.01553, 2020.
M. Wurster, U. Breitenbücher, M. Falkenthal, C. Krieger, F. Leymann, K. Saatkamp, J. Soldani The Essential Deployment Metamodel: A Systematic Review of Deployment Automation Technologies. CoRR abs/1905.07314, 2020.

2018
A. Brogi, M. Danelutto, D. De Sensi, A. Ibrahim, J. Soldani, M. Torquati. Analysing Multiple QoS Attributes in Parallel Design Patterns-based Applications. International Journal of Parallel Programming, volume 46, issue 1, pages 81-100, 2018.
A. Brogi, A. Canciani, J. Soldani. Fault-aware management protocols for multi-component applications. Journal of Systems and Software, volume 139, pages 189-210, 2018. [Preprint]
J. Soldani, D. A. Tamburri, W. J. Van Den Heuvel. The Pains and Gains of Microservices: A Systematic Grey Literature Review. Journal of Systems and Software, volume 146, pages 215-232, 2018. [Preprint]
A. Brogi, D. Neri, L. Rinaldi, J. Soldani. Orchestrating incomplete TOSCA applications with Docker. Science of Computer Programming, volume 166, pages 194-213, 2018. [Preprint]
F. Bonchi, A. Brogi, A. Canciani, J. Soldani. Simulation-based matching of cloud applications. Science of Computer Programming, volume 162, pages 110-131, 2018. [Preprint]
A. Brogi, D. Neri, J. Soldani. A microservice-based architecture for (customisable) analyses of Docker images. Software: Practice and Experience, volume 48, issue 8, pages 1461-1474, 2018. [Preprint]
A. Brogi, L. Rinaldi, J. Soldani. TosKer: A synergy between TOSCA and Docker for orchestrating multi-component applications. Software: Practice and Experience, volume, 48, issue 11, pages 2061-2079, 2018. [Preprint]
A. Brogi, C. Pahl, J. Soldani On enhancing the orchestration of multi-container Docker applications. 4th International Workshop on Cloud Migration and Architecture (CloudWays 2018).
R. Guidotti, J. Soldani, D. Neri, A. Brogi, D. Pedreschi. Helping your Docker images to spread based on explainable models. European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2018).
A. Brogi, A. Canciani, J. Soldani. True concurrent management of multi-component applications. European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2018).
R. Guidotti, J. Soldani, D. Neri, A. Brogi. Explaining Successful Docker Images using Pattern Mining Analysis. Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations (STAF 2018).
J. Soldani. On modelling, analysing and reusing multi-component applications. 12th Advanced Summer School on Service Oriented Computing (SummerSOC).

2017
A. Brogi, P. Cifariello, J. Soldani. DrACO: Discovering Available Cloud Offerings. Computer Science: Research & Development, volume 32, issue 3-4, pages 269-279, 2017.
A. Brogi, A. Canciani, J. Soldani. Modelling the dynamic reconfiguration of application topologies, faults included. 19th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION 2017).
A. Brogi, D. Neri, J. Soldani. DockerFinder: Multi-attribute search of Docker images. 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2017).
A. Brogi, A. Di Tommaso, J. Soldani. Sommelier: A tool for validating TOSCA application topologies. MODELSWARD (Revised Selected Papers) 2017.
A. Brogi, A. Di Tommaso, J. Soldani. Validating TOSCA application topologies. 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD 2017).
A. Brogi, D. Neri, L. Rinaldi, J. Soldani. From (incomplete) TOSCA specifications to running applications, with Docker. 15th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptative Systems (FOCLASA 2017).
A. Brogi, A. Canciani, D. Neri, L. Rinaldi, J. Soldani. Towards a reference dataset of microservice-based applications. Microservices: Science and Engineering (MSE 2017).
A. Brogi, L. Rinaldi, J. Soldani. TosKer: Orchestrating applications with TOSCA and Docker. 3rd International Workshop on Cloud Adoption and Migration (CloudWays 2017).
A. Brogi, G. Mencagli, D. Neri, J. Soldani, M. Torquati. Container-based Support for Autonomic Data Stream Processing through the Fog. 1st International Workshop on Autonomic Solutions for Parallel and Distributed Data Stream Processing (Auto-DaSP 2017).

2016
A. Brogi, J. Soldani. Finding available services in TOSCA-compliant clouds. Science of Computer Programming, volumes 115-116, pages 177-198, 2016.
J. Soldani, T. Binz, U. Breitenbuecher, F. Leymann, A. Brogi. ToscaMart: A method for adapting and reusing cloud applications. Journal of Systems and Software, volume 113, pages 395-406, 2016.
A. Brogi, A. Canciani, J. Soldani, P. Wang. A Petri net-based approach to model and analyze the management of cloud applications. Transactions on Petri Nets and other models of Concurrency, volume 11, pages 28-48, 2016.
A. Brogi, J. Carrasco, F. D'Andria, E. Di Nitto, M. Guerriero, D. Perez, E. Pimentel, J. Soldani. SeaClouds: An Open Reference Architecture for Multi-cloud Governance. 10th European Conference on Software Architectures (ECSA 2016).
F. Bonchi, A. Brogi, A. Canciani, J. Soldani.. Behaviour-aware matching of cloud applications. 10th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE 2016).
A. Brogi, A. Canciani, J. Soldani. Fault-aware application management protocols. 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2016).

2015
A. Brogi, M. Fazzolari, A. Ibrahim, J. Soldani, P. Wang, J. Carrasco, J. Cubo, F. Duran, E. Pimentel, E. Di Nitto, F. D'Andria. Adaptive management of applications across multiple clouds: The SeaClouds Approach. CLEI Electronic Journal, volume 18, number 1, pages 1-14, 2015.
A. Brogi, A. Canciani, J. Soldani. Modelling and Analysing Cloud Application Management. 4th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2015).
Brogi, A. Canciani, J. Soldani, P. Wang. Modelling the behaviour of management operations in cloud-based applications. International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering (PNSE 2015).
J. Soldani. Towards a full-fledged support for designing cloud applications. PhD Symposium at the 4th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (PhD Symposium @ ESOCC 2015).

2014
A. Brogi, A. Ibrahim, J. Soldani, J. Carrasco, J. Cubo, E. Pimentel, and F. D'Andria. SeaClouds: a European project on seamless management of multi-cloud applications. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, volume 39, issue 1, pages 1-4, 2014.
S. Zenzaro, V. Gervasi, J. Soldani. WebASM: An Abstract State Machine Execution Environment for the Web. 4th International ABZ Conference (ABZ 2014).
A. Brogi, J. Soldani, P. Wang. TOSCA in a nutshell: Promises and perspectives. 3rd European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2014).
A. Brogi, J. Carrasco, J. Cubo, F. D'Andria, A. Ibrahim, E. Pimentel, J. Soldani. EU Project SeaClouds - Adaptive Management of Service-based Applications Across Multiple Clouds. 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2014).
A. Brogi, J. Carrasco, J. Cubo, F. D'Andria, A. Ibrahim, E. Pimentel, J. Soldani. SeaClouds: Seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of service-based applications. 27th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CibSE 2014).
A. Brogi, J. Soldani. Reusing cloud-based services with TOSCA. CLOUDCYCLE Workshop @ INFORMATIK 2014.

2013
A. Brogi, J. Soldani. Matching Cloud Services with TOSCA. 12th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self Adaptive systems (FOCLASA 2013).

Theses
J. Soldani. Modelling, analysing and reusing composite cloud applications. PhD Thesis, PhD Programme in Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, a.y. 2016/2017.
J. Soldani. Matching cloud services with TOSCA, and generating adapters if needed. MSc Thesis, PhD Programme in Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, a.y. 2012/2013.
J. Soldani. TCP Buffering in BSD. BSc Thesis, PhD Programme in Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, a.y. 2010/2011.