Jacopo Soldani

Research Interests

I am part of the Service-Oriented, Cloud and Fog Computing (SOCC) research group. My current research interests include, but are not limited to, what follows.

Service, Cloud, and Fog Computing
Microservices and Cloud-Native Solutions, Deployment and Management Automation, Faults and fault resilience, Application of Formal Methods

Empirical Software Engineering
Systematic Grey Literature Reviews, Multivocal Reviews, Systematic Reviews, Systematic Mapping Studies

Editorship

Editorial Board Membership
Editor-in-Chief of ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (ISSN: 0163-5948) since January 2022
Formerly: Associate Editor from October 2019 to December 2021
Academic Editor of PLOS ONE (ISSN: 1932-6203) since October 2019
Associate Editor of Frontiers in Computer Science (ISSN: 2624-9898) since June 2022
Associate Editor of Journal of Systems and Software (ISSN: 0164-1212) since February 2022
Formerly: Editorial Board Member from March 2021 to January 2022
Topical Advisory Panel Member of Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903) since December 2020

Former memberships
Editorial Member of Mathematics and Computer Science (ISSN: 2575-6028) from June 2020 to June 2022

Guest Editorship
Guest Editor of special issues of Computing (ISSN: 0010-485X).
- Special Issue on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
Guest Editor of special issues of Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903).
- Special Issue on Service-Oriented Systems and Applications
- Special Issue on Advances on Cloud Computing and Internet of Things
Guest Editor of special issues of Information (ISSN: 2078-2489).
- Special Issue on Microservices and Cloud-Native Solutions: From Design to Operation
- Special Issue on Deployment and Management Automation
Guest Editor of two special issues of Science of Computer Programming (ISSN: 0167-6423).
- Special Issue on Coordination and Self-Adaptiveness of Software Applications
- Special Issue on Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems

Conference Organisation

Forthcoming events
PC chair, 17th IEEE International Conference On Service-Oriented System Engineering (IEEE SOSE 2023), Athens, Greece, 17-20 July 2023.
PC chair, 5th International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2023), Pisa, Italy, 10-12 October 2023
PC chair, 10th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023), Cyprus, 24-26 October 2023
PC member, FastContinuum Workshop, (FastContinuum 2023), Coimbra, Portugal, 15 April 2023
PC member, 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2023), Prague, Czech Republic, 26-28 April 2023
PC member, 15th International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eLmL 2023), Venice, Italy, 24-28 April 2023
PC member, 4th International Workshop on Secure IoT, Edge and Cloud systems (SIoTEC 2023), Bangalore, India, 1-4 May 2023
PC member, 4th International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2023), Xiamen, China, 26-28 May 2023
PC member, 15th International Conference on Advanced Service Computing (SERVICE COMPUTATION 2023), Nice, France, 26-30 June 2023
PC member, 3rd IEEE Conference on ICT Solutions for eHealth (ICTS4eHealth 2023), Tunis, Tunisia, 9-12 July 2023
PC member, 7th International Conference on Big Data and Internet of Things (BDIOT 2023), Beijing, China, 11-13 August 2023
PC member, 49th Euromicro Conference Series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2023), special track on European Research Projects, Durres, Albania, 6-8 September 2023
PC member, 17th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2023), Istanbul, Turkey, 18-22 of September 2023
PC member, 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (CCIOT 2023), Okinawa, Japan, 22-24 September 2023
PC member, 1st ASMECC Workshop on Autonomic and Self-* Management for the Edge-Cloud Continuum (ASMECC), Toronto, Canada, 25-29 September 2023

Past events
2023: APCT 2023 (PC member), CyMaEn 2023 (PC member).
2022: PhD Symposium @ CCGrid 2022 (PC Chair), PhD Symposium @ ESOCC 2022 (PC Chair), AI4Health 2022 (PC member), AMP 2022 (PC member), ASPAI 2022 (PC member). BDIOT 2022 (PC member), CCIOT 2022 (PC member), CLOSER 2022 (PC member), CoopIS 2022 (PC member), DASA 2022 (PC member), eLmL 2022 (PC member), ESOCC 2022 (PC member), EU Projects Track @ ESOCC 2022 (PC member), FIST 2022 (PC member), ICTS4eHealth 2022 (PC member), ISSA @ SITIS 2022 (PC member), SERVICE COMPUTATION 2022 (PC member), SIoTEC 2022 (PC member), SOSE 2022 (PC member).
2021: ICSA 2021 (Publicity Chair), AMP 2021 (PC member), BDIOT 2021 (PC member), CCIOT 2021 (PC member) CLOSER 2021 (PC member), DASA 2021 (PC Member), DistInSys 2021 (PC member), eLmL 2021 (PC member), FACS 2021 (PC member), SERVICE COMPUTATION 2021 (PC member), SIoTEC 2021 (PC member), SwForum 2021 (PC member).
2020: PhD Symposium @ ESOCC 2020 (PC Chair), AIdSH 2020 (PC member), AMP 2020 (PC member), ASPAI 2020 (PC member), BDIOT 2020 (PC member), CCIOT 2020 (PC member), CLOSER 2020 (PC member), DASA 2020 (PC Member), ECONF 2020 (PC Member), eLmL 2020 (PC member), ESOCC 2020 (PC Member), FOCLASA 2020 (PC member), ICTS4eHealth 2020 (PC member), Microservices 2020 (PC member), SERVICE COMPUTATION 2020 (PC Member), SIoTEC 2020 (PC Member).
2019: FOCLASA 2019 (PC chair), ASPAI 2019 (PC member). CCIOT 2019 (PC member), CISAI 2019 (PC member), CoopIS 2019 (PC member), FACS 2019 (PC member), ESEC/FSE 2019 - Tool Demos (PC Member), MiDOS-SAC 2019 (PC member), SERVICE COMPUTATION 2019 (PC member),
2018: FOCLASA 2018 (PC chair), CISAI 2018 (PC member), TeC4C 2018 (PC member), SERVICE COMPUTATION 2018 (PC member), AMARETTO 2018 (PC member).
2017: ESOCC 2017 - EU Projects Track (PC member), ReSerCh-SMD 2017 (PC member).

Participation in Research Projects

Completed Projects
Project Member and Website Manager, DECLware: Declarative methodologies for designing and deploying applications, funded by the University of Pisa (grant agreement: PRA_2018_66). Duration: July 2018 - July 2020
Project Member, AMaCA: Automating the Management of Composite Applications, co-funded by Regione Toscana, Extra Srl, and University of Pisa under the framework POR-FSE 2014-2020 ( (CUP: I51J17000020004, FSE ID: 172813). Duration: March 2018 - February 2020
Project Member, Through the Fog: Deploying, programming and supporting Fog computing applications, funded by the University of Pisa (grant agreement: PRA_2016_64). Duration: October 2015 - October 2016
Project Member, SeaClouds: Seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of service-based applications, funded by the European Union (grant agreement: EU-FP7-ICT-610531). Duration: October 2013 - March 2016

Memberships

Research Groups
Member, ACM SIGSOFT
Member, IFIP Working Group on Service-Oriented Systems
Coordinator of the Research Community Group, Microservices Community

Standardisation Committees
Member, OASIS TOSCA Technical Committee

Awards

Awards
2023: Best Paper Award, for the paper Semi-automated Smell Resolution in Kubernetes-deployed Microservices presented at CLOSER 2023
2022: Best Artifact Award, for the tool introduced in the paper Failure Root Cause Analysis for Microservices, Explained presented at DAIS 2022
2022: Best Paper Award, for the paper Offline Mining of Microservice-based Architectures presented at CLOSER 2022
2019: Best Demo Award, for the demo paper The EDMM Modeling and Transformation System presented at ICSOC 2019
2018: Christos Nikolau Memorial PhD Award, for the best PhD thesis in the area of service-oriented computing (awarded at SummerSOC 2018)
2018: Best Paper Award, for the paper True concurrent management of multi-component applications presented at ESOCC 2018
2016: Best Paper Award, for the paper Fault-aware application management protocols presented at ESOCC 2016

Acknowledgments
2020: Top Cited Paper, for the article TosKer: A synergy between TOSCA and Docker for orchestrating multi-component applications, which was among the top cited articles published by the journal Software: Practice and Experience between Jan 2018 and Dec 2019
2020: Distinguished Referee of the journal Software: Practice and Experience, for the outstanding service to the journal based on the criteria of quality, timeliness, and volume of reviews