BUCCAFURRI Francesco

Francesco Buccafurri is a full professor of computer science at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy. In 1995 he took the PhD degree in computer science at the University of Calabria. In 1996 he was visiting researcher at the database and knowledge representation group of Vienna University of Technology. His research interests include cybersecurity and privacy, social networks, deductive-databases, knowledge-representation and non-monotonic reasoning, model checking, data compression, data streams, agents, P2P systems. He has published more than 160 papers in top-level international journals and conference proceedings. He serves as a referee for international journals and he is a member of a number of conference PCs. Francesco Buccafurri is Associate Editor of Information Sciences (Elsevier) and IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, he is included in the editorial board of a number of other international journals, and played the role of PC chair and PC member in many international conferences. He is memeber of the IEEE computer society. Prof. Buccafurri plays also the role of Vice Rector responsible for the Information Systems. Since April 28, 2020, Prof. Buccafurri is a member of the Commission appointed by the Ministry for Universities and Scientific Research for the definition of the National Research Plan for the period 2021-2027 in the area of Cybersecurity (PNR 2020-2027).