| Francesco Longo was born in Messina on November 16th 1982. He received his Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Messina (Italy) in november 2007, final score 110/110 summa cum laude. The title of his thesis was ‘‘Symbolic representation of the reachability graph of non-Markovian stochastic Petri net’’. From settember 2007 to June 2008 he worked at the University of Messina within the PON Project ‘‘Progetto per l’Implementazione e lo Sviluppo di una e-Infrastruttura in Sicilia basata sul paradigma della grid (PI2S2)’’ with the aim of designing and implementing a QoS management system in Grid environment. In June 2008 he received a Master’s degree in Open Source and Computer Security. He received his Ph.D in ‘‘Advanced Technologies for Information Engineering’’ at the University of Messina in April 2011. Between May 2010 and October 2010 he spent a period as a visiting scholar in the United States at the Duke University (Durham, NC) where he had the opportunity to callaborate with Prof. Kishor S. Trivedi in the modeling of Cloud systems and in the quantitative evaluation of their performance and availability. Since 2010 he is teaching assistant for the subject ‘‘Valutazione delle prestazioni’’ (Performance evaluation) at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Messina. He is now a post doc researcher within the Vision Cloud european project at the University of Messina. His main research intersts include performance and reliability evaluation of distributed systems (mainly Grid and Cloud) with main attention to the use of non-Markovian stochastic Petri nets. |
