Dr. Giovanni Toffetti Carughi

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Associate Professor - ICCLab

blog.zhaw.ch/icclab/giovanni-toffetti/

Expertise and research interests

Cloud computing, Cloud Robotics, Distributed Systems

Educational background

PhD. Politecnico di Milano (2007)
Laurea in ingegneria informatica, Politecnico di Milano (2001)

Projects

• NEPHELE – A Lightweight Software Stack and Synergetic Meta-Orchestration Framework for the Next Generation Compute Continuum / Team member / Project ongoing
• TomGrowthAI / Project co-leader / Project completed
• Digital Mobility/Logistics Hub / Team member / Project completed
• ECRP – Enterprise Cloud Robotics Platform / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Militano, Leonardo; Arteaga, Adriana; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Mitton, Nathalie,

  2023.

  The cloud-to-edge-to-IoT continuum as an enabler for search and rescue operations.

  Future Internet.

  15(2), pp. 55.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15020055

• Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Brunner, Sandro; Blöchlinger, Martin; Spillner, Josef; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

  2017.

  Self-managing cloud-native applications : design, implementation and experience.

  Future Generation Computer Systems.

  72, pp. 165-179.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2016.09.002

• Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

  2019.

  Cloud robotics with ROS

  .

  In:

  Koubaa, Anis, ed.,

  Robot operating system (ROS).

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 119-146.

  Studies in Computational Intelligence ; 831.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20190-6_5

• Murphy, Seán; Militano, Leonardo; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Maurer, Remo,

  2022.

  Efficient delivery of robotics programming educational content using cloud robotics [paper].

  In:

  2022 7th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE 2022).

  7th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE), Singapore, 18-20 November 2022.

  IEEE.

  pp. 222-226.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRAE56463.2022.10056179

• Toffetti, Giovanni; Militano, Leonardo; Murphy, Seán; Maurer, Remo; Straub, Mark,

  2022.

  Cloud native robotic applications with GPU sharing on Kubernetes [paper].

  In:

  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022.

  arXiv.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.03936

• Borla, Nicolas; Kuster, Fabian; Langenegger, Jonas; Ribera, Juan; Honegger, Marcel; Toffetti, Giovanni,

  2021.

  Teat pose estimation via RGBD segmentation for automated milking [paper].

  In:

  Task-Informed Grasping: Agri-Food manipulation (TIG-III) Workshop at ICRA 2021, Xi’an, China, 30 May - 5 June 2021.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22586

• Roost, Dano; Meier, Ralph; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Stadelmann, Thilo,

  2020.

  Combining reinforcement learning with supervised deep learning for neural active scene understanding [paper].

  In:

  Active Vision and Perception in Human(-Robot) Collaboration Workshop at IEEE RO-MAN 2020 (AVHRC’20), online, 31 August - 4 September 2020.

  University of Essex.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20419

• Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Lötscher, Tobias; Kenzhegulov, Saken; Spillner, Josef; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

  2017.

  Cloud robotics : SLAM and autonomous exploration on PaaS [paper].

  In:

  UCC '17 Companion Companion Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing.

  10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC '17), Austin, USA, 5-8 December 2017.

  ACM.

  pp. 65-70.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3147234.3148100

• Spillner, Josef; Ramírez López, Manuel; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni,

  2017.

  Cloud-native databases : an application perspective [paper].

  In:

  Mann, Zóltan Ádám; Stolz, Volker, eds.,

  Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing... Autor: Zoltán Ádám Mann Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing : Workshops of ESOCC 2017, Oslo, Norway, September 27-29, 2017, Revised Selected Papers.

  3rd International Workshop on Cloud Adoption and Migration (CloudWays), Oslo, Norway, 27-29 September 2017.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 102-116.

  Communications in Computer and Information Science ; 824.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79090-9_7

• Lötscher, Tobias; Marti, Christof; Ramírez López, Manuel; Spillner, Josef; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni,

  2016.

  Service Prototyping Lab Report - 2016 (Y1).

  Lab Reports

  ; 1.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3709

• Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Brunner, Sandro; Blöchlinger, Martin; Dudouet, Florian; Edmonds, Andrew,

  2015.

  An architecture for self-managing microservices [paper].

  In:

  AIMC '15 Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automated Incident Management in Cloud.

  International Workshop on Automated Incident Management in Cloud (AIMC'15), Bordeaux, France, 21-24 April 2015.

  New York:

  ACM.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2747470.2747474

• Brunner, Sandro; Blöchlinger, Martin; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Spillner, Josef; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

  2015.

  Experimental evaluation of the cloud-native application design [paper].

  In:

  2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC).

  4th International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Application Management (CloudAM), Limassol, Cyprus, 7-10 December 2015.

  IEEE.

  pp. 488-493.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3782

• Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni,

  2015.

  MCN : beyond NFV.

  In:

  7th Cloud Control Workshop, Nässlingen, 9-11 June 2015.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

An Adaptive Utilization Accelerator for Virtualized Environments
D Breitgand, Z Dubitzky, A Epstein, O Feder, A Glikson, I Shapira, ...
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering ..., 2014

Kriging controllers for cloud applications
A Gambi, G Toffetti, C Pautasso, M Pezze
Internet Computing, IEEE 17 (4), 40-47, 2013

Graph transformations and software engineering: Success stories and lost chances
G Toffetti, M Pezzè
Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 24 (3), 207-217, 2013

Assurance of Self-adaptive Controllers for the Cloud
A Gambi, G Toffetti, M Pezzè
Assurances for Self-Adaptive Systems, 311-339, 2013

Modeling cloud performance with kriging
A Gambi, G Toffetti
Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Software Engineering ..., 2012

Web engineering for Cloud computing
G Toffetti
Model Driven Web Engineering, 2012

Monitoring Services in a Federated Cloud: The RESERVOIR Experience
S Clayman, G Toffetti, A Galis, C Chapman
Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and ..., 2012

Probabilistic fifo ordering in publish/subscribe networks
A Malekpour, A Carzaniga, G Toffetti Carughi, F Pedone
Network Computing and Applications (NCA), 2011

End-to-end reliability for best-effort content-based publish/subscribe networks
A Malekpour, A Carzaniga, F Pedone, G Toffetti Carughi
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Distributed event ..., 2011

Reservoir-when one cloud is not enough
B Rochwerger, D Breitgand, A Epstein, D Hadas, I Loy, K Nagin, ...
Computer 44 (3), 44-51, 2011

State-of-the Art and trends in the Systematic Development of Rich Internet Applications
G Toffetti, S Comai, JC Preciado, M Linaje
Journal of Web Engineering 10 (1), 70-86, 2011

Protecting SLAs with surrogate models
A Gambi, G Toffetti, M Pezzè
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Principles of Engineering ..., 2010

Engineering rich internet applications with a model-driven approach
P Fraternali, S Comai, A Bozzon, G Toffetti Carughi
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) 4 (2), 7, 39, 2010

Monitoring Service Clouds in the Future Internet.
S Clayman, A Galis, C Chapman, G Toffetti, L Rodero-Merino, ...
Future Internet Assembly, 115-126, 2010

Towards Web 2.0 Applications
A Bozzon, S Comai, P Fraternali, G Toffetti Carughi
Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0, and X.0: Technologies, Business, and Social Applications, 2010

Future Internet Monitoring Platform for Computing Clouds
S Clayman, A Galis, G Toffetti, L Vaquero, B Rochwerger, P Massonet
Towards a Service-Based Internet, 215-217, 2010

Engineering autonomic controllers for virtualized web applications
G Toffetti, A Gambi, M Pezzé, C Pautasso
Web Engineering, 66-80, 2010

Model-driven web engineering performance prediction with layered queue networks
A Gambi, G Toffetti, S Comai
Current Trends in Web Engineering, 25-36, 2010

Practical high-throughput content-based routing using unicast state and probabilistic encodings
A Carzaniga, G Toffetti Carughi, C Hall, AL Wolf
Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Tech. Rep 6, 2009

A conceptual modeling approach to business service mashup development
A Bozzon, M Brambilla, FM Facca, G Toffetti Carughi
Web Services, 2009. ICWS 2009. IEEE International Conference on, 751-758, 2009

Modeling distributed events in data-intensive rich internet applications
G Toffetti Carughi, S Comai, A Bozzon, P Fraternali
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Web information systems ..., 2007

Modeling data-intensive Rich Internet Applications with server push support
G Toffetti Carughi
7th International Conference on Web Engineering, 2007

Applying Web-based Networking Protocols and Software Architectures for providing adaptivity, personalization, and remotization features to Industrial Human Machine Interface Applications.
A Bozzon, M Brambilla, P Fraternali, P Speroni, G Toffetti
AINA, 940-947, 2007

Conceptual modeling and code generation of data-intensive Rich Internet applications
G Toffetti Carughi
PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, 2007

A behavioral model for rich internet applications
S Comai, G Toffetti Carughi
Web Engineering, 364-369, 2007

Conceptual modeling and code generation for rich internet applications
A Bozzon, S Comai, P Fraternali, G Toffetti Carughi
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Web engineering, 353-360, 2006

Capturing RIA concepts in a web modeling language
A Bozzon, S Comai, P Fraternali, G Toffetti Carughi
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web, 907-908, 2006

Web usability: principles and evaluation methods
M Matera, F Rizzo, G Toffetti Carughi
Web engineering, 143-180, 2006

A graph-based approach to transform XML documents
G Taentzer, G Toffetti Carughi
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, 48-62, 2006

Image compression in a multi-camera system based on a distributed source coding approach
G Toffetti, M Tagliasacchi, M Marcon, A Sarti, S Tubaro, K Ramchandran
Proc. European Signal Processing Conference, 2005

Webratio, an innovative technology for web application development
R Acerbis, A Bongio, S Butti, S Ceri, F Ciapessoni, C Conserva, ...
Web Engineering, 779-779, 2004

Architectural Issues and Solutions in the Development of Data-Intensive Web Applications
F S. Ceri, P. Fraternali, Ciapessoni, C Conserva, R Elli, C Greppi, ..., 2003

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