HI! I'm Davide Falessi and I'm a research scientist at Simula Research Laboratory in the Certus Software V&V Center. I play also the role of post-doc researcher and contract/adjunct lecturer in the Department of Informatics, Systems, and Production engineering of the University of Roma Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy) where I've also received my Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. degrees.

My main research interest is in devising and empirically assessing scalable solutions for the development of complex software-intensive systems with a particular emphasis on quality and security of requirements and architecture.

E-mail : mysurname@simula.no or mysurname@ing.uniroma2.it

Reviewer in international journals

1. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
2. IEEE Software,
3. Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier),
4. Information and Software Technology (Elsevier),
5. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice (Wiley),
6. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (World Scientific),
7. Advances in Software Engineering (Hindawi).

PC member

1. ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2011), Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 22-23 2011.
2. ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2010), Bolzano, Italy, September 16-17 2010.
3. IEE/IFIP Working Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2011), Boulder, Colorado, USA , 20-24 June 2011.
4. International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2011), Munich, Germany, August 22 - 26, 2011.
5. International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2010), South Korea, 13-17 September 2010.
6. SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK 2011), Hawaii, USA, 24 May 2011.
7. International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR 2011), Pohang, Korea, June 13-17 2011.
8. International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR 2009), Falls Church, VA, USA, September 27-30, 2009.
9. International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2011), Miami Beach, USA, July 7-9, 2011.
10. International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2010), Redwood City, California, USA, July 1-3, 2010.
11. International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2009), Boston, USA, July 1-3, 2009.
12. Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2011), Bari, Italy, June 20-22, 2011
13. Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2009), Oulu, Finland, June 15-17, 2009.
14. Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2008), Rome, Italy, June 23 - 25, 2008.
15. International Workshop on Quantitative Methods in Software Product Line Engineering (QMSPLE 2011), Munich, Germany, August 26, 2011.

Chair

1. Co-Chair of Posters and Short-Papers session at PROFES 2009, the 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2009) Rome, Italy, June 23-25, 2009.
2. Co-Chair of Workshop session at PROFES 2010, the 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2010) Limerick, Ireland, June 21-23, 2010.
3. Publicity Chair for the Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA): 2008 and 2009.

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1. "Design by Assessment: An automated support for decision-making of system design via a proactive safety and reliability assessment", Carlo Ieva, The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with Simula Res. Lab.

2. "Enhancing quality and similarity of requirements", Fabrizio Filizzola, The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati

3. "MODUS: A tool for goal based safety and reliability assessment of new technologies", Stefano Di Alesio, thesis has been enacted in collaboration with Simula Res. Lab.

4. "SafeSlice: A tool for Slicing and Inspecting SysML Models of Safety-Critical Systems", Antonio Messina, thesis has been enacted in collaboration with Simula Res. Lab. http://modelme.simula.no/SafeSlice/index.html

5. "Configuring distributed applications: a model driven approach", Stefano Scarrone, The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati

6. "Automating the testing procedure of distributed applications: a non-invasive approach", Emanuele Colarieti, The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati

7. "Towards interoperability among UML commercial tools: a broker approach", Alessandro D�Angi�, The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati

8. "SafeSlice EvidenceAgreement: A Collaborative Tool for Planning the Collection of Safety Evidence Based on the IEC 61508 Standard." Emanuele Turella, thesis has been enacted in collaboration with Simula Res. Lab. http://modelme.simula.no/EvidenceAgreement/index.html

9. "A tool supporting the systematic administration of safety standards: inception, development and preliminary validation", Daniele Fanni, The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati http://eseg.uniroma2.it/tools/IMPRESARIO/video/IMpRESARiO.htm

10. "A tool for automatically generating and visualizing feature diagrams in class diagrams.", Edoardo Varasi, The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati

11. "A tool for evaluating and comparing estimation models: inception, development and a validation on equivalent requirements.", Andrea Picchiani, The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati

12. "A tool supporting the selection of decision making techniques", Emanuele Graziani

13. "Automating the testing process: inception and development of a prototype tool", Ibrahim Khalili, The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati

14. "A tool for evaluating and comparing techniques for Natural Language Processing", Carlo Ieva, The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati

15. "Inception, Development and Preliminary validation of PROUD: a Proactive Reuse Opportunities Discovery tool", Simone Restani. The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati http://eseg.uniroma2.it/tools/PROUD/Dimostrazione%20PROUD%20v26.htm

16. "Discovering reuse opportunities: a new approach", Stefano DiAlesio, The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati

17. "Towards a distributed database in RAM", Stefano Pepe, The thesis has been enacted in collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati

January 10 - Now: adjunct research scientist in the department of software engineering, at Simula Research Laboratory (Norway), supervised by Prof. Lionel C. Briand. (http://simula.no/people/Falessi)

October 10 - October 11: Collaborating with SELEX Sistemi Integrati on "Architecture Specifications and Configurations for Distributed Complex Systems (ASC - DCS)"

September 09- May 10: Collaborating with SELEX Sistemi Integrati on "Ultra Large Scale Systems (ULS)- SW Scouting and Analysis"

May 08- May 09: Collaborating with SELEX Sistemi Integrati on "System Of Systems Software Architectural Design"

May 07- May 08: Collaborating with SELEX Sistemi Integrati on "System Of Systems Software Architectural Design"

May 09 - December 09: Collaborating with Finmeccanica Consulting SRL on "Software and Systems Engineering Technologies for Ultra Large Scale Systems"

October 06 - May 07: At the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), collaborating with Prof. Philippe Kruchten on software design decisions. (http://www.kruchten.com/philippe/)

June 05 - January 06: At the Product Line Architecture department of the Fraunhover Institute for Experimental Software Engineering and at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Involved in the BelAmi project (Ambient Intelligence topic) under the supervision of Prof. Rombach, Martin Becker and Dirk Muthig.

January 04 - May 05: At the Research and Development Department of MBDA Italia, under the supervision of Guido Pennella, in investigating the performances of the PVM middleware on VxWorks� Hard Real-Time Operating System, for Safety-Critical applications.

July 02 - September 02: Collaborating with T2 SRL for analyzing and implementing the porting of Windows based applications to Linux operative systems (http://www.t2srl.net/).

Journals

1. D. Falessi, G. Cantone, P. Kruchten, R. Kazman, Decision Making Technique in Software Architecture Design, A Comparative Survey , ACM Computing Surveys, 29 pages, 5-year impact factor:14,7 LINK

2. D. Falessi, Muhammad Ali Babar, G. Cantone, P. Kruchten, Applying empirical software engineering to software architecture: Challenges and lessons learned , Empirical Software Engineering; An International Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 250-276, 2010. DOI:10.1007/s10664-009-9121-0. 5-year impact factor: 1,8. LINK

3. D. Falessi, G. Cantone, A. Sarci�, G. Calavaro, C. D'Amore, P. Subiaco, Peaceful Coexistence: Agile Developer Perspectives on Software Architecture , IEEE Software, vol. 27, no. 2, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/MS.2010.49, 5-year impact factor: 2,7. LINK

4. D. Falessi, M. Sabetzadeh, L. Briand, E. Turella, T. Coq, and R. K. Panesar-Walawege, Planning for Safety Evidence Collection: A Tool-Supported Approach Based on Modeling of Standards Compliance Information, IEEE Software, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/MS.2011.116 5-year impact factor: 2,7. LINK

5. D. Falessi, G. Cantone, G. Canfora, A Procedure to Analyze the Performance of Natural Language Processing Techniques: Principles and Application , IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 5-year impact factor: 4,2

Book chapter

1. D. Falessi, G. Cantone,Exploring The Feasibility of Software Defects Orthogonal Classification , in Software and Data Technologies, Pages: 136-152, ISBN: 978-3-540-88654-9, Springer Berlin.

Edited books

1. D. Falessi, J. Heidrich,Product Focused Software Process Improvement 2008- Short paper session proceeding , Editor: Universitalia, ISBN: 8895244133, ISBN-13: 9788895244136, 2008.

2. D. Falessi, H. Zhang, T. Hall, M. H�st, M. Niazi, A. Mishra,11th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES2010) - Second Proceeding: Short Papers, Doctoral Symposium and Workshops , ISBN: 978-88-6507-067-3, 2010.

Conferences

*=Speaker at the event

1. *M. Sabetzadeh, D. Falessi, L. Briand, S. DiAlesio, D. McGeorge, V. Ahjem, J. Borg,Combining Goal Models, Expert Elicitation, and Probabilistic Simulation for Qualification of New Technology , The 13th IEEE International High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium, Boca Raton, FL, HASE 2011

2. *D. Falessi, S. Nejati, M. Sabetzadeh, L. Briand, A. Messina,SafeSlice: A Model Slicing and Safety Design Inspection Tool for SysML , The joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ( ESEC/FSE 2011), Szeged, Hungary, September 5-9, 2011.

3. *D. Falessi, G. Cantone, and G. Canfora,A Comprehensive Characterization of NLP Techniques for Identifying Equivalent Requirements , IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2010), Bolzano, Italy, 16-17 September 2010.

4. *D. Falessi, D. Muthig,Implementing Product Line Engineering in Industry: Feedback from the field to research , 9th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES08), 23-25 June 2008, Roman Hills, Italy, LNCS 5089/2008, Springer Berlin.

5. *D. Falessi, R. Capilla, G. Cantone,Value-Based Design Decision Rationale Documentation: A Replicated Experiment , Third Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK2008) co-located with the 30th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE2008), Leipzig, Germany, 10 - 18 May 2008.

6. *D. Falessi, G. Cantone, P. Kruchten,Value-Based Design Decision Rationale Documentation:Principles and Empirical Feasibility Study , Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, (WICSA 2008), Vancouver, Canada, 18-22 February 2008.

7. *D. Falessi, P. Kruchten, G. Cantone,Issues in Applying Empirical Software Engineering to Software Architecture , First European Conference on Software Architecture, (ECSA 2007), LNCS 4758/2007, Aranjuez (Madrid), 24-26 September, 2007.

8. *D. Falessi, G. Cantone, P. Kruchten,Do Software Architecture Design Methods Meet Architects Needs? , Sixth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, (WICSA 2007), Mumbai, India, 2007.

9. *D. Falessi, G. Cantone, C. Grande,A Comparison of Structured Analysis and object oriented analysis: an experimental study , International Conf. on SW and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2007), July 2007.

10. *D. Falessi, M. Becker, G. Cantone,Documenting Design Decision Rationale to Improve Individual and Team Design Decision Making: An Experimental Evaluation , ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE'06), Rio de Janeiro, 21-22 September 2006.

11. *D. Falessi, G. Cantone,Exploring Feasibility of Software Defects Orthogonal Classification , International Conference on Software and Data Tecnologies (ICSOFT 2006), Set�bal, Portugal, 11-14 September 2006. INSTICC Press 2006, ISBN 972-8865-69-4, Winner of theBest Student Paper Award

12. *D. Falessi, G. Cantone, M. Becker,Design Decision Rationale: Experiences and Towards a Systematic Use , SHaring and reusing Architectural Knowledge Workshop (SHARK'2006) at the International Conference on Software Reuse, Torino, 11-15 June 2006

13. D. Falessi, *G. Pennella and G. Cantone,Experiences, Strategies and Challenges in Adapting PVM to VxWorks� Hard Real-Time Operating System, for Safety-Critical Software , PVM/MPI, Capri, 2005. LNCS 3666/2005 Springer.