Flora Amato is a researcher in the field of Information Management. Her research activities involve both theoretical and experimental work in Information Integration, Formal Modeling, Verification Techniques and Knowledge Management. 

She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of University of Napoli Federico II, Faculty of Engineering, where she carries out her research activity since 2006. 

She gained qualification for Associate Professor in August 2017. 

She graduated summa cum laude in Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences at the University Federico II of Naples in 2005. She received in 2009 the "Doctor of Philosophy" (PhD) degree in Computer and Control Engineering at the same University. 

She was visiting researcher at the Departament de Ciències de la Computació of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain) in the period from March to April, 2013, where she collaborated with Prof Fatos Xhafa on semantic techniques for the definition and the composition of processes. She was a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Maryland (USA) in the period from February to March 2015, and in September 2015; where she collaborated with Professor V.S. Subrahmanian on topics of data analysis and anomaly detection.

She served as Editor for several International Journals.  She was also General and Program Chair for several International Conferences and many workshops.

She was member of more than 40 Program and Organization Committees and International Advisory Board of International Conferences. She served also as general and Program Chair of International Conferences.

In 2017 she was awarded with the Best Paper Price at the 11th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2017),Torino, Italy. July 10-th - July 12-th, 2017.

In 2010, she won the national award "Working Capital" for best research projects, promoted by Telecom Italia S.p.A. obtaining research funds for designing a platform for semantic search. In 2009, she was awarded with the prize "Scrivi il Futuro" for the best research projects proposed by Ph.D. students from scientific faculties.

In 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 she received an award for the significant scientific contribution in the International Conference on P2p, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC- 2013/2014/2015/2016/2017) conference (sponsored by IEEE).

In 2016 and 2017, she received an award for the significant scientific contribution in the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2016/2017)

She is author of more than 120 research papers, published on IEEE Transaction, Elsevier Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, Elsevier Knowledge-Based Systems and Elsevier International Journal of Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory; Transactions on Data Privacy, Logic Journal of the IGPL of Oxford University Press and Inderscience International Journals.

Short Facts:

# Journals (scopus): 26

# Conferences Proceedings (scopus): 73

# Book Chapters (scopus): 21

# Editorials (scopus): 8

# citations (scopus): 641

# Workshops Chaired(scopus):  8

She is 

• Leader of the  Work Package 4-Informatics of the European Project CREA,  Conflict Resolution with Equitative Algorithms - Grant Agreement number: 766463 — CREA — JUST-AG- 2016/JUST-AG- 2016-05. Coordonated by University of Naples ``Federico II''.

• Scientific manager, for the local unit of CeRICT scrl - Centro Regionale Information Communication Technology, of  the project PON03PE_00159_5 Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). Programma Operativo Nazionale (PON) Ricerca e Competitività 2007-2013

• Scientific manager  for the research activity agreement between CeRICT scrl - Centro Regionale Information Communication Technology and KIRANET srl, www.kiranet.it. The agreement was signed on activities related to the FidMed FIT project.

• Principal Investigator of the Departmental Research Project BOSON: Behavior analysis of Online conducts on SOcial Networks, funded by  Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples. 01.12.2017.

She participated to several funded projects, both national and international. 

She cooperates with different Italian and International Academic Institutions and Research Institutes. In her Research activities, she collaborates with other academic institutions and research centers in public and private research projects. The results of her research activities have been used in numerous collaborations with Italian and international companies (Telecom Italy spa, Engineering s.p.a., Ansaldo STS s.p.a.), public institutions (National Council of Notaries, Campania Local Government, Monaldi and Pascale Hospitals of Naples) and Regional Competence Centers on ICT and SCARL technologies.

She is lecturer at the course of “Artificial Intelligence” and “Multimedia Systems” for the Degree Course in Computer Engineering, at the University of Naples “Federico II”. She was lecturer at the courses of “Foundations of Informatics”, “Elements of Computer Science” and “Tools and Programming Techniques” at the same University.

2)  Amato Flora, Nicola Mazzocca, Francesco Moscato (2017), Model driven design and evaluation of security level in orchestrated cloud services. JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, ISSN: 1084-8045, doi: 10.1016/j.jnca.2017.12.006 

 

 3) Amato Flora, Moscato Francesco (2016). Model transformations of MapReduce Design Patterns for automatic development and verification. JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING, ISSN: 0743-7315, doi: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2016.12.017 

 

4) Amato Flora, Castiglione Aniello, De Santo Aniello, Moscato Vincenzo, Picariello Antonio, Persia Fabio, Sperlí Giancarlo (2017). Recognizing human behaviours in online social networks. COMPUTERS & SECURITY, ISSN: 0167-4048, doi: 10.1016/j.cose.2017.06.002 

 

5) Amato Flora, Moscato Francesco (2017). Exploiting Cloud and Workflow Patterns for the Analysis of Composite Cloud Services. FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS, vol. 67, p. 255-265, ISSN: 0167-739X, doi: 10.1016/j.future.2016.06.035 

[PROGRAM CHAIR] Program Chair of the 6th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data & Web Technologies (EIDWT-2018). March 15-17, 2018 Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania. http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/eidwt/2018/comitees.php 

[INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD] International Advisory Board Member of the11th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2017). Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), Torino, Italy. July 10-th - July 12-th, 2017. http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/cisis/2017/conf-officers.php

[INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD] International Advisory Committee Member of the 5-th International Conference on Emerging Internetworking, Data & Web Technologies (EIDWT-2017). Wuhan, China. June 10-11, 2017. http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/eidwt/2017/comitees.html 

[PROGRAM CHAIR] Program Chair of the 11th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC-2016). Soonchunhyang (SCH) University, Asan, Korea. November 5-7, 2016. http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/3pgcic/2016/committee.html 

[SPECIAL ISSUES CHAIR ] Special Issues Chair of  the 9-th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2017) Ryerson University, Canada. August 24 - 26, 2017. http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/incos/2017/index.html