Communication Middleware for Monitoring Financial Critical Infrastructure
Roberto Baldoni
Prof. Roberto Baldoni is a full professor at University of Rome “La Sapienza” and currently leads MIDLAB. He published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers (from theory to practice) and developed several innovative prototypes in the fields of distributed, pervasive and P2P computing, middleware platforms and information systems infrastructure. He is the founder of the MIDdleware LABoratory (MIDLAB) and he has been PI of many national and european research projects. He regularly serves as an expert for the EU commission in the evaluation of EU projects in the security&dependability, embedded systems, and e-gov areas. He belongs to the Executive Board of the RESIST NoE and he is the coordinator person for the EU project SM4ALL on networked embedded systems. He regularly chairs committees of premiership international conferences and workshops. In 2007, he has been the PC-CoChair of the 27th Symposium of Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS07) and of Autonomics Conference. Always in 2007, he was invited to deliver a motivating talk at the Information Day on Networked Embedded Systed (May 2007) and a keynote to the 4th International Workshop on Dependable Embedded Systems (WDES 2007). In 2008, he has been the General Chair of the International Conference on Distributed Event Based Systems (DEBS08). In 2009 he will be the PC chair of the track "Reliable and Dependable Systems" of ICDCS 2009. Roberto Baldoni has been involved in a series of EU-US meetings for defining common Agendas on Security in the Future Internet. Finally he belongs to the Scientific Committee of SAPIENZA Innovazione the technology incubator of the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, where he is the Director of the Security program. In this role he works in the Security program of ARTEMISIA.