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Sara Casolari

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Sara Casolari
Research assistant

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Via Vignolese 905
41125 Modena, Italy
Tel.:   +39 0592056143
Fax :   +39 0592056129
E-mail:  sara.casolari@unimore.it

Research Interests

  • Stochastic models for the data interpretation
    • Anomaly detection
    • Load representation models
    • Load prediction models
    • Stream processing
  • Design and management of large systems for Internet-based applications
    • Load balancing
    • Web cluster architectures
    • Geographically distributed systems
    • Cloud computing
    • Distributed systems for content adaptation and personalization

Recent professional activities

  • Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous System (ICAS 2011)
  • Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Application (ASMTA 2011)
  • Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2010)
  • Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Application (ASMTA 2010)
  • Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2009)

Selected Publications

  • Design and management of large systems for Internet-based applications


    • Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Marcello Pietri, Stefania Tosi, Resilient and adaptive networked systems, Invited book chapter in Adaptive, Dynamic, and Resilient Systems, Auerbach Publications, Apr. 2014.

    • Danilo Ardagna, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, Barbara Panicucci, Dual Time-scale Distributed Capacity Allocation and Load Redirect Algorithms for Cloud Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier. Vol. 72(6), Jun. 2012.

    • Danilo Ardagna, Sara Casolari, Barbara Panicucci, Flexible Distributed Capacity Allocation and Load Redirect Algorithms for Cloud Systems, Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud 2011), Washington DC, USA, 4-7 July 2011.

    • Canali Claudia, Sara Casolari, Riccardo Lancellotti, A quantitative methodology to identify relevant users in social networks, Proc. of the International Workshop on Business Applications of Social Network Analysis (IEEE BASNA 2010), Bangalore, India, 15 December 2010.

    • Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Stefania Tosi, "A hierarchical architecture for on-line control of private cloud-based systems", WWW/Internet 2010, Timisoara, Romania, October 14-17 2010.(best paper award)

    • Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, Michele Messori, "Dynamic load management of virtual machines in cloud architectures", First Int. Conference on Cloud Computing (ICST CLOUDCOMP2009), Munich, Germany, October 19-21 2009.

    • Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajnni, "Autonomic request management algorithms for geographically distributed Internet-based systems". Proc. of the Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO 2008), Venice, Italy, October 20-24 2008.

    • Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, Mirco Marchetti, "Dynamic load balancing for network intrusion detection systems based on distributed architectures". Proc. of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA07), Cambridge, MA, USA, July 12-14 2007.

    • Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, "Trend-based load balancer for multi tier distributed system" . Proc. of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecomunication Systems (IEEE ACM MASCOTS 2007), Istanbul, Turkey, October 2007.

    • Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, "A distributed architecture for gracefully degradable Web-based services". Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, (IEEE NCA06), Cambridge, MA, USA, July 24-26 2006.

    • Claudia Canali, Sara Casolari, Riccardo Lancellotti, "Distributed Systems to Support Efficient Adaptation for Ubiquitous Web". Proc. of the 2005 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2005), Sorrento, Italy, September 2005.

    • Claudia Canali, Sara Casolari, Riccardo Lancellotti, "Architectures for scalable and flexible Web personalization services", Proc. of The International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications (IEEE AAA-IDEA 2005), Orlando, Florida, June 2005.
  • Stochastic models for the data interpretation

    • Stefania Tosi, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, "Detecting correlation between server resources for system management", accepted for publication in Journal of Computer and System Science, Elsevier.

    • Stefania Tosi, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, "Data clustering in highly variable domains", Computer Networks, Elsevier, Vol. 57(15), pp. 3025-3038, Oct. 2013

    • Stefania Tosi, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, "Supporting data center management through clustering of data streams", Proc. of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT'12), Paris, France, 25-27 July, 2012.

    • Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, Stefania Tosi, "Selective resource characterization for evaluation of system dynamics", ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 39, n. 4, Mar. 2012.

    • Sara Casolari, Francesco Lo Presti, Stefania Tosi, "An adaptive model for online detection of relevant state changes in Internet-based systems", Performance Evaluation, Elsevier, Vol. 69, pp. 206-226, Mar. 2012.

    • Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, Stefania Tosi, "Detecting behavioral variations in system resources of large data centers", 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2011) and the 11th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2011), Paphos, Cipro, August 2011.

    • Sara Casolari, Stefania Tosi, "Efficient detection of changes in server operations in enterprise data center", Informatica Quantitativa (InfQ 2011), Lipari, Giugno 2011.

    • Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, Francesco Lo Presti, Stefania Tosi, "Real-time models supporting management decisions in highly variable systems", Proc. of the 29th IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IEEE IPCCC 2010), New Mexico, USA, December 2010.

    • Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, "On the selection of models for runtime prediction of system resources", Autonomic Systems, Springer (Eds. Danilo Ardagna, Li Zhang), 2010.

    • Sara Casolari, Francesco Lo Presti, Stefania Tosi, "A wavelet-based method for the online detection of relevant changes in highly variable time series", Informatica Quantitativa (InfQ 2010), Pisa, Luglio 2010.

    • Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, "Short-term prediction models for server management in Internet-based contexts",Decision Support Systems (DSS), Elsevier, vol. 48, no. 1, Dec. 2009.

    • Sara Casolari, Marco Villani, Michele Colajanni, Roberto Serra, "Separating internal and external fluctuation in distributed Web-based services", European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2009), Warwick, UK, September 2009.

    • Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, Francesco Lo Presti, "Runtime state change detector of computer system resources under non stationary conditions", Proc. of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecomunication Systems (IEEE ACM MASCOTS 2009), London, September 2009.

    • Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, Stefania Tosi, "Self-adaptive techniques for the load trend evaluation of internal system resources". Proc. of the fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2009), Valencia, Spain, April 20-25 2009

    • Sara Casolari, Self-Adaptive distributed systems for Internet-based services,PhD. Thesis, in Computer Engineering and Science, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, February 2008.

    • Sara Casolari, Mauro Andreolini, Michele Colajanni, "Runtime prediction models for Web-based system resources". Proc. of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecomunication Systems (IEEE ACM MASCOTS 2008), Baltimore, MA, September 2008.

    • Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, "Models and framework for supporting run-time decisions in Web-based systems". ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), vol. 2, no. 3, Aug. 2008

    • Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, "Self-inspection mechanisms for the support of autonomic decisions in Internet-based systems". Proc. of the third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, (ICAS 2007), Athens, Greece, June 19-25 2007. (best paper award)

    • Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, "Load prediction models in Web-based systems". Proc. of the first International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2006), Pisa, Italy, October 11-13 2006

  • Additional publications

    • Federica Boraldi, Maria Inmaculada Garcia-Fernandez, Dealba Gheduzzi, Chiara De Vincenzi Paolinelli, Purification Sanchez, Pedro Valdivielso, Maria Jose Morilla, Daniela Quaglino, Deanna Guerra, Sara Casolari, Ivonne Pasquali-Ronchetti,"Parameters of oxidative stress are present in the circulation of PXE patients". Elsevier Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, 2008

    • Federica Boraldi, Maria Inmaculada Garcia-Fernandez, Dealba Gheduzzi, Chiara De Vincenzi Paolinelli, Purification Sanchez, Pedro Valdivielso, Maria Jose Morilla, Daniela Quaglino, Deanna Guerra, Sara Casolari, Ivonne Pasquali-Ronchetti, "Antioxidant status in the circulation of patients with pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE)". SISC 2007

Research Project

  • ScalaServ (2010-2011): "Scalable and robust architectures for supporting advanced network-based services". Funded by the Italian and Spanish Ministries of University (program Italy-Spain Integrated Actions).

  • COMIFIN (2009-2011): "Communication Middleware for Monitoring Financial Critical Infrastructures. Funded by EU in grant agreement FP7-ICT-SEC-2008 no. 225407

  • AUTOSEC (2009-2010): "Autonomic Security". Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN project)

  • PERF (2002-2005): "Performance evaluation of complex systems: Techniques, methodologies and tools". Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (FIRB project)

Teaching Activity

Sara Casolari