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 Cluster Computing (ISSN: 1386-7857).
- Special Issue on Advancements in Service-Oriented Software
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
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, 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025), Limassol, Cyprus, 15-19 September 2025
PC member, 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, track on Cloud Continuum (Cloud Continuum @ SAC 2025), Catania, Italy, 31 March-4 April 2025
PC member, 15th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Service Science (CLOSER 2025), Porto, Portugal, 1-3 April 2025
PC member, 17th International Conference on Advanced Service Computing (SERVICE COMPUTATION 2025), Valencia, Spain, 6-10 April 2025
PC member, 17th International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eLmL 2025), Nice, France, 18-25 May 2025
PC member, International Workshop on Causal Methods in Software Engineering (CauSE 2025), held in conjunction with FSE 2025, Trondheim, Norway, June 2025
PC member, 6th International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2025), Shanghai, China, 23-25 May 2025
PC member, International Workshop on Adaptable Cloud Architectures (WACA 2025), Lille, France, 20 June 2025
PC member, 31st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EURO-PAR 2025), Dresden, Germany, 25-29 August 2025
PC member, 33rd International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2025), Belgrade, Serbia, 3-5 September 2025

Past events
2025: ESOCC 2025 (PC member)
2024: IEEE SOSE 2024 (PC chair), AMP 2024 (PC member), CCIOT 2024 (PC member), CLOSER 2024 (PC member), CoopIS 2024 (PC member), CNIOT 2024 (PC member), ECSA 2024 (PC member), eLmL 2024 (PC member), Euro-PAR 2024 (PC member), FSE 2024 (PC member), ICTS4eHealth (PC member), ISD 2024 (PC member), QUALIFIER 2024 (PC member), QUATIC 2024 (PC member), SERVICE COMPUTATION 2024 (PC member).
2023: ESOCC 2023 (PC chair), IEEE SOSE 2023 (PC chair), Microservices 2023 (PC chair), SEAA 2023 (PC member), AI4Health 2023 (PC member), ASMECC (PC member), APCT 2023 (PC member), BDIOT 2023 (PC member), CCIOT 2023 (PC member), CLOSER 2023 (PC member), CNIOT 2023 (PC member), CoopIS 2023 (PC member), CyMaEn 2023 (PC member), ECSA 2023 (PC member), eLmL 2023 (PC member), FastContinuum 2023 (PC member), ICTS4eHealth 2023 (PC member), SERVICE COMPUTATION 2023 (PC member), SIoTEC 2023 (PC member), SITIS 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
2024: Best Paper Award, for the paper Detecting and Resolving Bad Organisational Smells for Microservices presented at ICSOFT 2024
2023: Best Paper Award, for the paper Semi-automated Smell Resolution in Kubernetes-deployed Microservices presented at CLOSER 2023
2023: Best Student Paper Award, for the paper Towards Resolving Security Smells in Microservices, Model-Driven presented at ICSOFT 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