Scientific publications
Papers, reports and much more.
On this page, you can find all the scientific publications (papers, reports…) produced by the consortium to promote and explain the project research.
- Roadrunner: Accelerating Data Delivery to WebAssembly-based Serverless Functions by C. Marcelino, T. Pusztai and S. Nastic.
Conference paper of the “26th International Middleware Conference” (Middleware 25), 15-19 December 2025 (download the paper) - An LLM-Based Approach to Generating Authorization Policies for Data Products by V. M. Fortina and P. Plebani.
Workshop paper of the “2nd International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing for AI Applications” (SOC4AI 2025), 1-4 December 2025 (download the paper) - Towards Trusted Service Monitoring: Verifiable Service Level Agreements by F. Castillo, E. Brito, S. Werner, P. Pullonen-Raudvere, and J. Heiss.
Conference paper of the “23rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing” (ICSOC 2025), 1-4 December 2025 (download the paper) - Automating Policy-as-code Generation Pipeline for Data Products: an OpenAPI-driven Rego generator by M. Brambilla, M. Falconi, V. M. Fortina, P. Plebani and M. Vitali.
Conference paper of “23rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing” (ICSOC 2025), 1-4 December 2025 (downaload the paper) - A Non-Intrusive Framework for Deferred Integration of Cloud Patterns in Energy-Efficient Data-Sharing Pipelines by S. Masoudi, M. E. M. Daly, J. Kiesel, and S. Ta.
Conference paper of “23rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing” (ICSOC 2025), 1-4 December 2025 (downalod the paper) - Artifact for A Non-Intrusive Framework for Deferred Integration of Cloud Patterns in Energy-Efficient Data-Sharing Pipelines by S. Masoudi, M. E. M. Daly, J. Kiesel, and S. Ta.
Conference paper of “23rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing” (ICSOC 2025), 1-4 December 2025 (download the paper) - Optimizing Energy Consumption of Edge-Cloud Environments: A comparative Study Between PPO and PSO by A. Espinosa, X. Samos, D. Ulied, J. Marias and R. Touma.
Article published in the “International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems“ journal, December 2025 (download the pdf) - Privacy-Preserving On-chain Permissioning for KYC-Compliant Decentralized Applications by F.Piper, K. Wolf, and J. Heiss.
Conference paper of the “7th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services” (BRAINS 2025), 18-21 November 2025 (download the paper) - Active Inference for Digital Twins: Predicting and Optimising IoT Processing Service Performance by E.Pretel, B. Sedlak, V. Casamayor-Pujol, E. Navarro, V. López-Jaquero, P. González and S. Dustdar.
Conference paper of the “15th International Conference on the Internet of Things” (IoT 2025), 18-21 November 2025 (download the pdf) - Threshold Trust Logic by N. Voorneveld.
Conference paper of the “30th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems” (NordSec 2025), 12-13 November 2025 (download the pdf) - Databelt: A continuous data path for serverless workflows in the 3D compute continuum by C. Marcelino, L. Guelmino, T. Pusztai and S. Nastic.
Article published in the “Journal of Systems architecture“, November 2025 (download the paper) - Multi-dimensional Autoscaling of Processing Services: A Comparison of Agent-based Methods by B. Sedlak, A. Furutanpey , Z. Wang , V. Casamayor Pujol, and S. Dustdar.
Workshop paper of the “6th International Workshop on Active Inference” (IWAI 2025), 15-17 October 2025 (download the pdf) - Reducing Storage Volume of Sensor Data Towards Sustainable Data Science Modeling by A. Boixader, R. Touma, and K. Gibert.
Conference paper of the “27th International Congress of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence” (CCIA 2025), 15-17 October 2025 (download the pdf) - Leveraging Swarm Learning for Edge-Cloud Optimisation by X. Samos, and R. Touma.
Conference paper of the “27th International Congress of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence” (CCIA 2025), 15-17 October 2025 (download the pdf) - SynthGuard: Redefining Synthetic Data Generation with a Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Workflow Framework by E. Brito, M. Shoush, K. Tamm, P. Etti and L. Kamm.
Conference paper of the “International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security” (ARES 2025), 11-14 August 2025 (download the paper) - Stardust: A Scalable and Extensible Simulator for the 3D Continuum by T. Pusztai, J. Hisberger, C. Marcelino, and S. Nastic.
Conference paper of the “2025 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications” (EDGE 2025), 7-12 July 2025 (download the pdf) - Scalable Policy-as-Code Decision Points for Data Products by M. Brambilla and P. Plebani.
Conference paper of the “2025 International Conferences on Web Services”, (ICWS 2025), 7-12 July 2025 (download the paper) - Improving Content-Based Data Product Retrieval in Federated Environments with LLM and Sampling by M. Falconi and P. Plebani.
Workshop paper of the “1st Workshop on Large Language Models for Service-Oriented Architectures and Systems Design” (LLM-SOA@CAiSE 2025), 16-20 June 2025 (download the paper) - Energy Profiling of Data-Sharing Pipelines: Modeling, Estimation, and Reuse Strategies by S. Masoudi, S. Werner, P. Plebani, and S. Tai.
Conference paper of the “37th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering” (CAiSE 2025), 16-20 June 2025 (download the pdf) - Cosmos: A Cost Model for Serverless Workflows in the 3D Compute Continuum by C. Marcelino, S. Gollhofer-Berger, T. Pusztai, and S. Nastic.
Conference paper of the “2025 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing” (SMARTCOMP 2025), 16-19 June 2025 (download the pdf) - Trustworthy decentralized autonomous machines: A new paradigm in automation economy by F. Castillo, O. Castillo, E. Brito and S. Espinola.
Conference paper of the “7th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency” (ICBC 2025), 2-6 June 2025 (download the paper) - Trusted Compute Units: A Framework for Chained Verifiable Computations by F. Castillo, J. Heiss, S. Werner, and S. Tai.
Conference paper of the “7th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency” (ICBC 2025), 2-6 June 2025 (download the pdf) - PRE-Share Data: Assistance Tool for Resource-aware Designing of Data-sharing Pipelines by S. Masoudi.
Conference paper of the “22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA-poster track 2025)” (ICSA 2025), 31 March – 4 April 2025 (download the pdf) - Towards Multi-dimensional Elasticity for Pervasive Stream Processing Services by B. Sedlak, A. Morichetta, P. Raith, V. Casamayor Pujol, and S. Dustdar.
Conference paper of the “Percom 2025 — Work in Progress (WIP)” (Percom 2025), 17-21 March 2025 (download the pdf) - Adaptive Green Cloud Applications: Balancing Emissions, Revenue, and User Experience through Approximate Computing by M. Vitali, P. Wiesner, K. Kreutz and R. Gandola.
Article published in the “Future Generation Computer Systems” journal, March 2025 (download the paper) - Model-based verification of data protection mechanisms in collaborative business processes by S. Belluccini, R. De Nicola, M. Dumas, P. Pullonen-Raudvere, B. Re, and F. Tiezzi.
Article published in the “Software and Systems Modeling” journal, January 2025 (download the pdf) - Human-based Distributed Intelligence in Computing Continuum Systems by P.K. Donta, B. Sedlak, I. Murturi, V. Casamayor Pujol, and S. Dustdar.
Article published in the “IEEE Internet Computing” magazine, January 2025 (download the pdf)
- Truffle: Efficient Data Passing for Data-Intensive Serverless Workflows in the Edge-Cloud Continuum by C. Marcelino, and S. Nastic.
Conference paper of the “2024 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing” (UCC 2024), 16-19 December 2024 (download the pdf) - HyperDrive: Scheduling Serverless Functions in the Edge-Cloud-Space 3D Continuum by T. Pusztai, C. Marcelino, and S. Nastic.
Conference paper of the “2024 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing” (SEC 2024), 4-7 December 2024 (download the pdf) - SLO-Aware Task Offloading within Collaborative Vehicle Platoons by B. Sedlak, A. Morichetta, Y. Wang, Y. Fei, L. Wang, S. Dustdar, and X. Qu.
Conference paper of the “22nd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing” (ICSOC 2024), December 2024 (download the pdf) - Optimizing Energy Consumption of Kubernetes Clusters with Deep Reinforcement Learning by A. Espinosa, D. Ulied, J. Escrig, A. Fernàndez-Fernàndez, and R. Touma.
Article published in the “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications” journal, November 2024 (download the pdf) - GoldFish: Serverless Actors with Short-Term Memory State for the Edge-Cloud Continuum by C. Marcelino, J. Shahhoud, and S. Nastic.
Conference paper of the “14th International Conference on the Internet of Things” (IoT ’24), 19-22 November 2024 (download the pdf) - Advocate – Trustworthy Evidence in Cloud Systems by S. Werner, S. Masoudi, F. Castillo, F. Piper, and J. Heiss.
Conference paper of the “6th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services” (BRAINS 2024), October 2024 (download the pdf) - TrustOps: Continuously Building Trustworthy Software by E. Brito, F. Castillo, P. Pullonen-Raudvere, and S. Werner.
Conference paper of the “Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing” (EDOC 2024 conference), September 2024 (download the pdf) - Diffusing High-Level SLOs in Microservice Pipelines by B. Sedlak, V. Casamayor Pujol, P.K. Donta, and S. Dustdar.
Conference paper of the “2024 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering” (IEEE SOSE 2024), July 2024 (download the pdf) - Markov Blanket Composition of SLOs by B. Sedlak, V. Casamayor Pujol, P.K. Donta, and S. Dustdar.
Conference paper of the “2024 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications” (IEEE EDGE 2024), June 2024 (download the pdf) - Towards sustainable deployment of microservices over the cloud-IoT continuum, with FREEDA by J. Soldani, R. Amadini, A. Brogi, S. Forti, S. Giallorenzo, P. Plebani, M. Vitali, and G. Zavattaro.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Flexible Resource and Application Management on the Edge (FRAME ’24), June 2024 (download the pdf) - Data Friction: Physics-Inspired Metaphor to Evaluate the Technical Difficulties in Trustworthy Data Sharing by M. Falconi, G. Lombardo, P. Plebani, and S. Werner.
Conference paper of the “Advanced Information Systems Engineering” (CAiSE Conference 2024), June 2024 - A Systematic Review on Privacy-Aware IoT Personal Data Stores by G.P. Pinto, P.K. Donta, S. Dustdar, and C. Prazeres.
Article published in the “MDPI Sensors” journal, March 2024 (download the pdf) - Learning Techniques for the Internet of Things by P.K. Donta, A. Hazra, and L. Loven.
Article published in the “Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024” journal, February 2024 (download the pdf) - Equilibrium in the Computing Continuum through Active Inference by B. Sedlak, V. Casamayor Pujol, P.K. Donta, and S. Dustdar.
Article published in the “Future Generation Computing Systems” journal, January 2024 (download the pdf) - A reference architecture for serverless big data processing by S. Werner, and S. Tai.
Article published in the “Future Generation Computing Systems” journal, January 2024 (download the pdf)
- Refactoring ETL Flows in The Wild by D. Adas, O. Eytan, G. Khazma, J. Sampé, and P. Ta-ShmaI.
Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData2023), 15-18 December 2023 (download the pdf) - Blockchain-based Zero Trust on the Edge by C. Bicer, I. Murturi, P.K. Donta, and S. Dustdar.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conf. on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence (CSCI’23), 13-15 December 2023 (download the pdf) - CWASI: A WebAssembly Runtime Shim for Inter-function Communication in the Serverless Edge-Cloud Continuum by C. Marcelino, and S. Nastic.
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2023), Wilmington, Germany, 6-9 December 2023 (download the pdf) - Designing Reconfigurable Intelligent Systems With Markov Blankets by B. Sedlak, V. Casamayor Pujol, P.K. Donta, and S. Dustdar.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2023), Rome, Italy, 28 November – 1 December 2023 (download the pdf) - Learning-driven Zero Trust in Distributed Computing Continuum Systems by I. Murturi, P.K. Donta, V. Casamayor Pujol, A. Morichetta, and S. Dustdar.
Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (IEEE CyberSciTech/PICom/DASC/CBDCom 2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 14-17 November 2023 (download the pdf) - CommunityAI: Towards Community-based by I. Murturi, P.K. Donta, and S. Dustdar.
Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI), Atlanta, United States, 1-3 November 2023 (download the pdf) - Exploring the Potential Distributed Computing Continuum Systems by P.K. Donta, I. Murturi, V. Casamayor Pujol, B. Sedlak, and S. Dustdar.
Article published in the Computers – MDPI Journal, October 2023 (download the pdf) - Enriching Cloud-native Applications with Sustainability Features by M. Vitali; P. Schmiedmayer, and V. Bootz.
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2023), Boston, USA, 25-28 September 2023 (download the pdf) - A Privacy Enforcing Framework for Data Streams on the Edge by B. Sedlak, I. Murturi, P.K. Donta, and S. Dustdar.
Article published in the “IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing” journal, September 2023 (download the pdf) - TEADAL: Trustworthy, Energy-Aware federated DAta Lakes along the computing continuum by P. Plebani, R. Kat, F. Pallas, S. Werner, G. Inches, P. Laud, and R. Santiago.
Proceedings of the CAISE ForumRPE@CAiSE’23: Research Projects Exhibition at the International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2023), Zaragoza, Spain, 12-16 July 2023 (download the pdf) - Towards Designing Energy-Aware Cybersecurity Policies by M. Salnitri, and P. Plebani.
Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2023), Zaragoza, Spain, 12-16 July 2023 (download the pdf) - A Data-Centric Approach for Reducing Carbon Emissions in Deep Learning by A. Vitali.
Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2023), Zaragoza, Spain, 12-16 July 2023 (download the pdf) - Controlling Data Gravity and Data Friction: From Metrics to Multidimensional Elasticity Strategies by B. Sedlak, V. Casamayor Pujol, P.K. Donta, and S. Dustdar.
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Software Services Engineering (IEEE SERVICES 2023), Chicago, USA, 2-8 July 2023 (download the pdf) - Towards Intelligent Data Protocols for the Edge by P.K. Donta, and S. Dustdar.
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Software Services Engineering (IEEE SERVICES 2023), Chicago, USA, 2-8 July 2023 (download the pdf) - Adopting Data Mesh principles to Boost Data Sharing for Clinical Trials by M. Falconi, and P. Plebani.
Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH 2023), Chicago, USA, 2-8 July 2023 (download the pdf) - Towards Serverless Data Exchange Within Federations by B. Sedlak, V. Casamayor Pujol , P.K. Donta, S. Werner, K. Wolf, M. Falconi, F. Pallas, S. Dustdar, S. Tai, and P. Plebani.
Proceedings of the 17th Symposium and Summer School On Service-Oriented Computing (SummerSOC 2023), Heraklion, Greece, 25 June – 1 July 2023 (download the pdf) - Governance and sustainability of distributed continuum systems: a big data approach by P.K. Donta, B. Sedlak, V. Casamayor Pujol, and S. Dustdar.
Article published in the Journal of Big Data vol 10, Springer, April 2023 (download the pdf) - Empowering trusted data sharing for data analytics in a federated environment: A blockchain-based approach by P. Plebani, D. Rossetto, and F. Tiezzi.
Article published in the “Frontiers in Blockchain” journal, April 2023 (download the pdf) - Active Inference on the Edge: A Design Study by B. Sedlak, V. Casamayor Pujol, P.K. Donta, and S. Dustdar.
Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Pervasive and Resource-constrained Artificial Intelligence (PeRConAI 2023), 15-17 March 2023 (download the pdf)