Publications

 

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Legend

  • [C] – Full conference paper
  • [S] – Short conference paper
  • [P] – Poster / demo / extended abstract
  • [B] – Book chapter
  • [J] – Journal
  • [W] – Workshop paper

NOTE: Publications with Italian affiliations in computer science typically adopt alphabetical order for author names.

List of peer-reviewed publications

  1. [C] M. T. Paracha, D. J. Dubois, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, and D. Choffnes. “IoTLS: Understanding TLS Usage in Consumer IoT Devices”. IMC 2021: 21th ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Virtual, 2021.
  2. [C] A. M. Mandalari, D. J. Dubois, R. Kolcun, M. T. Paracha, H. Haddadi, and D. Choffnes. “Blocking without Breaking: Identification and Mitigation of Non-Essential IoT Traffic”. PETS 2021: 21th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Virtual, 2021.
  3. [C] S. J. Saidi, A. M. Mandalari, R. Kolcun, H. Haddadi, D. J. Dubois, D. Choffnes, G. Smaragdakis, and A. Feldmann. “A Haystack Full of Needles: Scalable Detection of IoT Devices in the Wild”. IMC 2020: 20th ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Virtual, 2020.
  4. [C] D. J. Dubois, R. Kolcun, A. M. Mandalari, M. T. Paracha, D. Choffnes, and H. Haddadi. “When Speakers Are All Ears: Characterizing Misactivations of IoT Smart Speakers”. PETS 2020: 20th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Virtual, 2020.
  5. [C] T. Van Ede, R. Bortolameotti, A. Continella, J. Ren, D. J. Dubois, M. Lindorfer, D. R. Choffnes, M. van Steen, and A. Peter. “FLOWPRINT: Semi-Supervised Mobile-App Finger- printing on Encrypted Network Traffic”. NDSS 2020: 27th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, California, USA, 2020.
  6. [C] J. Ren, D. J. Dubois, D. Choffnes,; A. M. Mandalari, R. Kolcun, H. Haddadi. “Information Exposure for Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional, Network-Informed Measurement Approach”. IMC 2019: 19th ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019 (community contribution award).
  7. [C] J. Ren, M. Lindorfer, D. J. Dubois, A. Rao, D. Choffnes, N. Vallina-Rodriguez. “Bug Fixes, Improvements, … and Privacy Leaks – A Longitudinal Study of PII Leaks Across Android App Versions”. NDSS 2018: 25th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, California, USA, 2018.
  8. [C] Jiawei Wen, Lihua Ren, Feng Yan, D. J. Dubois, Giuliano Casale, Evgenia Smirni. “How to Supercharge the Amazon T2: Observations and Suggestions”. CLOUD 2017: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2017.
  9. [J] D. J Dubois and Giuliano Casale. “OptiSpot: minimizing application deployment cost using spot cloud resources”. Cluster Computing, 2016.
  10. [S] D. J. Dubois, G. Casale. “Performance Prediction for Burstable Cloud Resources”. VALUETOOLS 2016: 10th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, Taormina, Italy, 2016.
  11. [C] D. J. Dubois, C. Trubiani, and G. Casale. “Model-driven Application Refactoring to Minimize Deployment Costs in Preemptible Cloud Resources”. CLOUD 2016: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016.
  12. [C] D. J. Dubois and G. Casale. “Autonomic Provisioning and Application Mapping on Spot Cloud Resources”. ICCAC 2015: IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2015 (best paper award).
  13. [C] D. J. Dubois, G. Valetto, D. Lucia, E. Di Nitto. “Mycocloud: Elasticity through Self-Organized Service Placement in Decentralized Clouds”. CLOUD 2015: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, New York, NY, USA, 2015.
  14. [P] A. Miyamoto, D. J. Dubois, Y. Bando, K. Watanabe, V. M. Bove Jr. “Demo abstract: A Proximity-based Aerial Survivor Locator Based on Connectionless Broadcast”. PerCom 2015: 13th IEEE International Conference of Pervasive Computing and Communications, St. Louis, MO, USA, 2015 (demo track).
  15. [C] D. J. Dubois, Y. Bando, K. Watanabe, A. Miyamoto, M. Sato, W. Papper, V. M. Bove Jr. “Supporting Heterogeneous Networks and Pervasive Storage in Mobile Content-Sharing Middleware”. CCNC 2015: 12th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2015.
  16. [S] J. Suzuki, Y. Kawahara, H. Yoshida, Y. Bando, K. Watanabe, D. J. Dubois, N. Watanabe. Automatic Estimation of Influence of Acquaintances in a Social Group and Its Key Influencers from Their Communication and Location History. HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Greece, 2014.
  17. [C] D. J. Dubois, Y. Bando, K. Watanabe, H. Holtzman. “Lightweight Self-organizing Reconfiguration of Opportunistic Infrastructure-mode WiFi Networks”. SASO ’13: 2013 International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2013.
  18. [S] D. J. Dubois, Y. Bando, K. Watanabe, H. Holtzman. “ShAir: Extensible Middleware for Mobile Peer-to-Peer Resource Sharing”. ESEC/FSE ’13: 2013 Joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2013 (industry track).
  19. [S] D. J. Dubois, G. Tamburrelli. “Understanding Gamification Mechanisms for Software Development”. ESEC/FSE ’13: 2013 Joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2013 (new ideas track).
  20. [J] N. M. Calcavecchia, B. A. Caprarescu, E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, D. Petcu. “DEPAS: A Decentralized Probabilistic Algorithm for Auto-Scaling”. Computing, Special Issue on Extreme Distributed Systems, Springer, 2012.
  21. [C] E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, A. Margara. “Reconfiguration Primitives for Self-adapting Overlays in Distributed Publish-Subscribe Systems”. SASO ’12: 2012 International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Lyon, France, 2012.
  22. [W] D. J. Dubois. “Toward Adopting Self-organizing Models for the Gamification of Context-Aware User Applications”. GAS ’12: 2nd International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, Co-located with ICSE ’12, Zurich, 2012.
  23. [B] N. M. Calcavecchia, E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, C. Ghezzi, V. Mazza, and M. Rossi. “Complex Autonomic Systems for Networked Enterprises: Mechanisms, Solutions and Design Approaches”. Adaptive infRasTructures for DECentralized Organizations, Springer, 2012.
  24. [C] G. Valetto, P. Snyder, D. J. Dubois, E. Di Nitto, N. M. Calcavecchia. “A Self-organizing Load-Balancing Algorithm for Overlay-Based Decentralized Service Networks”. SASO ’11: 2011 International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2011.
  25. [B] D. Barbagallo, E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, R. Mirandola “A Bio-Inspired Algorithm for Energy Optimization in a Self-organizing Data Center”. Self-Organizing Architectures, Springer, 2010.
  26. [S] B. Caprarescu, E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, and N. Calcavecchia. “SOS Cloud: Self-Organizing Services in the Cloud”. In Bionetics ’10: Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems, Boston, USA, 2010 (work in progress track).
  27. [C] D. J. Dubois, C. Nikolaou, M. Voskakis. “A Model Transformation for Increasing Value in in Service Networks through Intangible Value Exchanges”. ICSS ’10: 2010 International Conference on Service Science, Hangzhou, China, 2010.
  28. [P] E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois and R. Mirandola. “Overlay self-organization for traffic reduction in multi-broker publish-subscribe systems”. ICAC ’09: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Autonomic computing, Barcelona, Spain, 2009.
  29. [W] E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois and R. Mirandola. “On Exploiting Decentralized Bio-inspired Self-organization Algorithms to Develop Real Systems”. Proceedings of Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), Co-located with ICSE’09, Vancouver, Canada, 2009.
  30. [C] E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, R. Mirandola, F. Saffre, and R. Tateson. “Applying self-aggregation to load balancing: Experimental results”. In Bionetics ’08: Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems, Hyogo, Japan, 2008.
  31. [P] E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, R. Mirandola, F. Saffre, and R. Tateson. “Self-Aggregation Techniques for Load Balancing in Distributed Systems”. In SASO ’08: Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Venice, Italy, 2008.
  32. [C] E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, and R. Mirandola. “Self-aggregation algorithms for autonomic systems”. In Bionetics ’07: Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 2007.
  33. [C] D. Devescovi, E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, and R. Mirandola. “Self-organization algorithms for autonomic systems in the selflet approach”. In Autonomics ’07: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Autonomic computing and communication systems, Frascati, Italy, 2007.

Thesis

  • D. J. Dubois. “Self-organizing Methods and Models for Software Development”. Ph.D. Thesis, Politecnico di Milano, 2011.

Technical reports and deliverables

  1. D. J. Dubois. “An Approach for Improving Business Process Management in Agile Service Networks”, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Minor Research, 2009.
  2. D. J. Dubois. “Bio-inspired Self-organization Methods and Models for Software Development”, GIIS 2009, Salerno, Italy.
  3. F. Saffre, A. Simaitis, E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, L. Ferrari, A. Manzalini, C. Moiso. “Designing for Self-*: Fine Tuning and Calibration of Selected Local Rules”, CASCADAS Deliverable D3.7, 2008.
  4. E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, G. Galvalisi, A. Simaitis, F. Saffre. “Software Implementation of Modules for Adaptive Aggregation and Unit Differentiation”, CASCADAS Deliverable D3.6, 2008.
  5. E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, R. Mirandola. “Software Implementation of Modules for Adaptive Aggregation and Unit Differentiation”, CASCADAS Deliverable D3.3, 2007.