Invited talks, seminars and tutorials

2007

• "Crimine informatico", Master in Scienze Forensi, University of Parma, September 2007
• "Performance and Scalability", PANEL, 16th Int. World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007), Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2007
• "Models and mechanisms for management of complex Web systems", Department of Computer Science, University of Roma, May 2007
• "Integrazione delle reti e dei servizi", Comune di Modena, April 2007
• "New technologies and Web marketing", Associazioni Piccole Imprese, Modena, Mar. 2007
• "Performance prediction models for Internet-based servers", Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, Mar. 2007
• "Distributed architectures for Web content and service delivery", "Architectures for future Internet-based applications", Series of lectures at the School for PhD students, Universitad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, Feb. 2007

2006

• "Gestione del processo sicurezza all'epoca del Documento Programmatico sulla Sicurezza", Il processo d’integrazione tra misure attive e misure passive per la tutela dei dati nel rispetto delle normative vigenti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Nov. 2006
• "Security of Web-based applications on geographical networks", Ditech, Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy, June 2006
• "Scalable architectures and services for ubiquitous Web access", TUTORIAL, 15th Int. World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006), Edinburgh, UK, May 2006
• "I nuovi servizi basati su Internet quale opportunità di sviluppo per l'università e il suo territorio", MoNET anniversary, Teatro San Carlo, Modena, Mar. 2006

2005

• "Nuovo mondo virtuale e criminalità informatica", Master in Criminologia e Psichiatria Forense, University of San Marino, San Marino, Oct. 2005
• "Do we need more Web performance research?", PANEL, 14th Int. World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005), Chiba, Japan, May 2005

2004

• "Emerging Internet-based services: New frontiers for performance models and applications", Keynote speaker, Quest2004, Twente, The Netherlands, September 2004
• "Open issues in self-inspection and self-decision mechanisms for supporting complex and heterogeneous information systems", Invited talk, SELF-* Workshop, Bertinoro, Italy, May 2004
• "Web engineering and benchmarking", Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, March 2004

2003

• "Internet and Web: A stair to heaven?", Anniversary of Istituto Corni, Modena, Nov. 2003
• "Distributed architectures and algorithms for collaborative adaptation and management of Web resources", AT&T Research, Florham Park, New Jersey, June 2003
• "Distributed systems for cooperative transcoding", Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, June 2003
• "Benchmarking of locally and geographically distributed Web-server systems", TUTORIAL, 12th Int. World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003), Budapest, Hungary, May 2003

2002

• "Main characteristics and opportunities of the present and future technological scenario", Tecnologie per l'informazione e le comunicazioni per lo sviluppo locale (Partenalia project), Invited speaker, Teatro Storchi, Modena, November 2002
• "Benchmarking models and tools for distributed Web server systems", TUTORIAL, IFIP WG7.3 Performance 2002, Roma, September 2002
• "Middleware performance analysis: Many issues, few solutions", Invited speaker, WOSP Conference, Roma, July 2002
• "Internet-based infrastructures for the delivery of multimedia contents", Invited speaker, TEACH conference on Multimedia applications and content delivery networks, Milano, June 2002
• "High performance Web-based systems", Keynote speaker, Web Technology Forum 2002, Torino, May 2002
• "Simulation models and performance evalutaion of Web systems", Department of Computer Science, University of Venice, February 2002
• "Distributed Web systems: The state of the art", Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, February 2002
• "Distributed Web systems: Research perspectives", Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, February 2002

2001

• "Introduction to QoS-based Web services", Centro ELIS, Roma, June 2001
• "Distributed architectures for the World Wide Web", Department of Information Engineering, Università di Pavia, May 2001
• "Internet Companies", Residenza Universitaria Torleone, Fondazione RUI, Bologna, March 2001
• "High performance systems for Web-based services", Series of lectures at the School for PhD students in Information Engineering, University of Naples, February 2001

2000

• "Scalable Web-server systems: Architectures, Models and Load Balancing Algorithms", TUTORIAL, ACM Int. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (ACM Sigmetrics 2000), Santa Clara, California, June 2000
• "Architetture e bilanciamento del carico per sistemi e servizi Web scalabili", Department of Information Engineering, University of Pavia, May 2000