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Informazioni personali:
Nome cognome: Enrico Vicario
Anno di nascita: 1965
E mail: enrico.vicario@unifi.it
Homepage: https://stlab.dinfo.unifi.it/vicario/
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Legenda
Enrico Vicario (Ph.D. https://stlab.dinfo.unifi.it/vicario/) is a Full Professor of Informatics Engineering since 2002, and Director of the Sw Technologies Lab (https://stlab.dinfo.unifi.it/).
He was Head of the Department of Information Engineering (https://www.dinfo.unifi.it/) of the University of Florence from (Nov.2006-Oct.2024), member of the Academic Senate of the University of Florence (Nov.2012-Nov.2016), and vice-President of the scientific society of Italian Professors of Informatics Engineering (GII - http://www.gii.it/) (Sept.2013-Sept.2017).
He works in the area of Software Engineering, with focus on: applications and methods of quantitative evaluation of stochastic models; practice of software architecture and methodologies; and their connection through Model Driven Engineering approaches.
He is author of more than 170 papers indexed on Scopus, with HIndex 22 and total citation count higher than 1900 (data from Scopus). A list of publications on Google scholar is available at https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=h0uPOScAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao
He is a faculty member of the PhD program in Smart Computing, jointly delivered by the Universities of Florence, Pisa, and Siena (http://smartcomputing.unifi.it/).
Teaching
He presently teaches "Software Engineering" (undergraduate), "Software Architectures and Methodologies" (master), “Quantitative Evaluation of Stochastic Models” (master). In the past he also taught “Software Engineering for embedded systems” (master), "Verification and Testing Methods" (master), "Foundations of Computer Programming", "Internet SW Technologies", "Computer Architectures", "Operating Systems", "Usability Engineering". He is the author of the monographic book "Fondamenti di Programmazione: linguaggio c, strutture dati e algoritmi elementari, c++".
Professional service
He serves as chair of the steering committee of QEST, and served as General Chair of ISSRE'23 (Int. Symposium on SW Reliability Engineering), General co-Chair of ECMS'23 (European Conference on Modelling and Simulation), QEST'14, EPEW'14 FORMATS’14 and FMICS’24. He repeatedly served as member of the Program Committee of major conferences in the area of quantitative evaluation, including QEST (Quantitative Evaluation of Systems), ISSRE (Int. Symposium on SW Reliability Engineering), DSN (Dependable Systems and Networks), EDCC (European Dependable Computing Conference), EPEW (European Performance Engineering Workshop), FORMATS (Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems), ICPE (Int. Conference on Performance Engineering), ECMS (European Conference on Modelling and Simulation), ValueTools (Int.Conf. On Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools), MASCOTS, SmartComp, ICATPN (Applications and Theory of Petri Nets), ECRTS (Euromicro Conference on Real Time Systems).
Projects and Technology transfer
He carries out experimentation and technological transfer in the area of SW engineering, with focus on web and enterprise architectures, healthcare information systems, applications and methods of quantitative evaluation in workflow management, diagnostic, and predictive analysis.
He is scientific leader for the development of the Oris tool and Sirio Java library for production and evaluation of stochastic models (www.oris-tool.org).
He is workpackage leader and scientific responsible for the research unit of the University of Florence in the Structured Project Coherent (S1) for the development of a Digital-Twin-centered architecture for next generation networks and of the Focused Project Adapto working integration of model-based and AI-based optimization techniques for software-defined networks, within the RESTART project (https://www.fondazione-restart.it/), funded by the European Union in the Next Generation EU programme.
He was scientific responsible for the UNIFI Unit in the following projects funded by the Tuscany Regional government: AISS on a AI based Service management Suite (POR-FESR- 2024-2026); QUASAR on Quantitative Analysis for services and assets reliabity (POR-FESR 2021-2022); RACE on ICT tools supporting compliance in evidence based Cardiology (years 2016-2018 - FESR Program); GENIALE on the development of an electrometrical system for biological analyses (years 2017-2018 - FESR Program); LINFA on prediction and optimization methods for smart replenishment of drugs stocks in hospital units (years 2016-2018 - PAR-FAS program); JARVIS on Just-in-time Artificial Intelligence for the eValuation of Industrial Signals about HW/SW architecture of business critical cyber physical systems (years 2017-2019 - FESR Program)
He is scientific responsible for development and operation of the Electronic Health Record system Empedocle, in use since more than 8 years at the major Tuscany Hospital of Careggi in Florence.
He is co-founder and scientific director of two spin-offs of the University of Florence in the area of SW architecture and engineering of complex applications: Jaewa (www.jaewa.com), active since year 2013; and Wedge Engineering (https://www.wedge.srl/), active since February 2022.
He is Inventor of the World Patent "Job scheduler for electromechanical system for biological analysis", developed in a collaboration with BioMérieux Italia spa.
He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Technological District Advanced Manufacturing 4.0 of Tuscany Region. He served as a member of the eToscana Commitee and was scientific responsible for the certification of compliance of cooperation components in the Tuscany e-government infrastructure. He was a member of the testing committee of the Italian National eGovernment Interoperability Framework (SICA) at the Italian National Center for IT in the Public Administration (CNIPA).
He has been scientific responsible of the competence center on Information systems in healthcare working with the University Hospital of Careggi (AOUC) in the years 2008-2011, then with the central Tuscany healthcare system (ESTAV-Centro) in the years 2011-2013, and with the Institute for Oncological Studies and Prevention (ISPO - http://www.cspo.it/) of the Tuscany Region (2013-2019).
He was national scientific coordinator of the project “Wireless Sensor Networks for Dependable Monitoring of Critical Applications” (WiSeDeMon) funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research in the PRIN 2007 Programme, and scientific responsible of the research "Design and Verification Methods for Concurrent Real Time SW" in the SW initiative of FinMeccanica (now Leonardo).
He was scientific responsible for several non-competitive contracts for research and technological transfer for development of complex software applications and components, including various products in use within complex organizations: the Electronic Health Record system Empedocle in use within various wards of the hospital of Careggi in Florence; the electronic health record system of the national scientific society of migraines; several applications in use within the University of Florence (Tempro for reporting labour in EU research projects, Akademia for automation of workflow in the management of grants).
(october 2017)
Enrico Vicario is a Full Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Head of the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Florence (since November 2016).
He was born in 1965, he is married, with two children born in 1989.
He received the Master Degree in Electronics Engineering (cum laude) in 1990 and the Ph.D. in Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Florence in 1994.
From 1994 to 1998 he was an Assistant Professor at the Engineering School of the University of Florence. From 1998 to 2002, he was Associate Professor of Information Engineering, first at the University of Ancona, and then at the University of Florence.
He is a Full Professor since 2002.
He was a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Florence (Nov.2012-Nov.2016), and vice-President of the national board of the GII (Scientific society of Italian Professors of Computer Science and Engineering - http://www.gii.it/) (Sept.2013-Sept.2017).
He presently teaches "Software Engineering" and "Software Architectures and Methodologies" at the Engineering School of the University of Florence. In the past he also taught "Verification and Testing Methods", "Foundations of Computer Programming", "Internet SW Technologies", "Computer Architectures", "Operating Systems", "Usability Engineering". He is the author of the monographic book "Fondamenti di Programmazione: linguaggio c, strutture dati e algoritmi elementari, c++".
He is a member of the Faculty of the PhD program in Smart Computing (http://smartcomputing.unifi.it/), jointly delivered by the Universities of Florence, Pisa, and Siena, with the participation of Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento, with the support of the Tuscany Region Pegaso Programme.
He carries out scientific research and technological experimentation in the area of Software Engineering at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Florence, and more specifically at the Software Technologies Lab (http://stlab.dinfo.unifi.it/) His activity is specifically focused on two major subjects:
Until year 2000, he mainly worked on
He is author of more than 100 papers indexed on Scopus (including 11 papers in the IEEE Transactions on SW Engineering, 1 in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and 6 in other IEEE Transactions), with more than 1000 citations from 547 documents, and a total H-Index 15 (figures taken from Scopus, October 2017).
He was the National Scientific Coordinator of the project Wireless Sensor Networks for Dependable Monitoring of Critical Applications (WiSeDeMon) funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Reasearch in the PRIN 2007 Programme. He was responsible for several projects for technology transfer in the area and was scientific responsible for the research acivity on "Design and Verification Methods for Concurrent Real Time SW" of the SW Initiative of FinMeccanica Group.
He is a member of the steering committee of QEST (www.qest.org) and DCIT conferences, and was member of the Program Committee of various conferences, including FORMATS, QEST, ValueTools, ECRTS, ATPN, InfQ. He was the general chair of QEST'14 and EPEW'14, and chair of the organizing committee of FORMATS'14 and FMICS'14.
The technological activity addresses SW engineering methods and architectures, with major interests in OO analysis, design, and testing, enterprise architectures, application interoperability (cooperazione applicativa), healthcare information systems.
On these subjects he has been scientific responsible for a number of contracts with local and national enterprises and administrations. He served for several years as a member of the eToscana Commitee and was scientific responsible for the certification of compliance of cooperation components in the Tuscany e-government infrastructure. He was a member of the testing committee of the Italian National eGovernment Interoperability Framework (SICA) at the Italian National Center for IT in the Public Administration (CNIPA). He has been scientific responsible of the competence center on Information systems in healthcare working with the University Hospital of Careggi (AOUC) in the years 2008-2011, then with the central Tuscany healthcare system (ESTAV-Centro) in the years 2011-2013, and now with the Institute for Oncological Studies and Prevention (ISPO - http://www.cspo.it/) of the Tuscany Region.
He is scientific responsible for the UniFi Unit in the following projects funded by the Tuscany Regional government:
RACE: on ICT tools supporting compliance in evidence based Cardiology (years 2016-2018 - FESR Program)
Geniale: on the development of an electrometrical system for biological analyses (years 2017-2018 - FESR Program)
LINFA: on prediction and optimization methods for smart replenishment of drugs stocks in hospital units (years 2016-2018 - PAR-FAS program).
He is co-founder and scientific director of Jaewa, a spin-off of the University of Florence started in the year 2013.
