FIUMARA Giacomo

Giacomo Fiumara
Curriculum vitae et studiorum
Associate Professor of Computer Science with the University of Messina
Università degli Studi di Messina
Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra
viale Ferdinando Stagno d’Alcontres 31, Messina, 98166, Italy

E-mail: gfiumara@unime.it

## Education
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• PhD in Physics, University of Messina, 1993
• MSc (Laurea) in Physics, University of Messina, 1989


## Professional experience
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• 2021/10/01 – today: Associate Professor of Computer Science with the University of Messina
• 2008/12/28 – 2021/09/30: Assistant Professor of Computer Science with the University of Messina
• 1992 – 2008: Professor of Mathematics and Physics in High Schools, Messina
• 1996 – 2004: ICT consultant for public-service bodies and private companies, Messina

## Research interests
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• Social Network Analysis and Network Science
• Data science
• Automatic extraction of data from web sources (Web data extraction)
• Criminal networks
• Knowledge representation
• Semantic Web
• Computer simulation of model systems
• Digital Health
• Bioinformatics

## Patents
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• Agreste S., Catanese S., De Meo P., Fiumara G., A method for predictive analysis of social
structure of criminal organizations IT Patent no. 102019000000911 (filed 2019, granted as of 02
March 2022)


## Publications
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• Google Scholar profile (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F0yd2zEAAAAJ&hl=it)
• ORCID: 0000-0003-1528-7203
• Clarivate Web of Science: AAF-2653-2019


## Editorial activities
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Peer Review Activities
• Clarivate Web of Science: AAF-2653-2019
• International journals: Applied Network Science, Applied Sciences, Complexity, Computing, En-
tropy, Expert Systems with Applications, Future Internet, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on
Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Enginee-
ring, International Journal on Information Security and Privacy, International Journal of Medical
Informatics, Information, Information Sciences, Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining,
Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, Journal of Personalized Medicine,
Molecules, Online Social Networks and media, Plos One, Preventive Medicine
• International conferences: ISDA (2011, 2012, 2013,2015), WIMS (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016,
2017, 2018, 2019), DISIO (2012), ICTERI(2014), NAiL (2014), ICAIL (2015), Law-BD (2015),
WICT (2015), WEB (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), NetCrime (2017, 2019), NTICT (2019)
Editorial Board Membership
• Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Access (Scimago rank: Q1 in Computer Science)
• Academic Editor for the journal Complexity (Scimago rank: Q2 in Computer Science)
• Editor for the journal Applied Sciences
• Member of the editorial board: International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP)
(2019-2021)

## Ad Hoc Review of Proposals
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• In 2019 I reviewed a project submitted for a VENI grant upon designation of the NWO (Nether-
lands Organisation for Scientific Research)
Special Issues
• “How Neural Networks See Social Networks?” (Future Internet, in progress)
• “Artificial Intelligence in Complex Networks” (Applied Sciences, in progress)


Projects and funding
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• 2009: Scientific coordinator of project MADStore (Microformat Atom Document Store) funded
by P.O.R. Sardegna 2000-2006 (measure 3.13)
• 2009: Scientific coordinator of project OSEMS (Open Source Enterprise Management Solution)
funded by P.O.R. Sardegna 2000-2006 (measure 3.13)
• 2009: Scientific coordinator of the intramural project (University of Messina) “Logic programming
and its applications: Web and virtual environments”
• 2017: FFABR funding (award of the Italian Research Ministry)
• 2021: FFABR funding (award of the University of Messina)

## Teaching
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• Member of the Doctoral Board in Mathematics and Computational Sciences of the University of
Messina, Catania, and Palermo (dal 15/05/2017 al 30/09/2022)
• Member of the teaching staff of the MSc and BSc degrees in Computer Science of the University
of Messina
• Member of the teaching staff of the MD in Medicine and Surgery of the University of Messina
• Supervisor of more than 180 MSc and BSc dissertations
• Supervisor of four PhD theses: Emilio Ferrara (2012), Salvatore Catanese (2017), Annamaria
Ficara (2022), Francesco Curreri (in progress, third year), and Sabrina Mezzatesta (first year)
• Courses I have taught: Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Algorithms and Data Struc-
tures (BSc in Computer Science), Advanced Algorithms and Computational Methods, Advanced
Operating Systems (MSc in Computer Science)
• In 2015 I acted as examiner for a PhD thesis at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
(RMIT)
• In April 2018 I visited the Department of Computer Science at the University of Murcia (Spain)
where I lectured on Network Science
• In September 2019 I visited the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cluj-Napoca
(Romania) where I lectured on Network Science
• In May 2022 I visited the Department of Physics at the Birzeit University (Birzeit, Palestine)
where I lectured on Python programming in Data Science