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Associate Professor

Federico Montori

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

Research interests

  • Mobile Crowdsensing
  • IoT Data Analytics
  • Context-Aware Computing
  • IoT Automation

Short bio

Federico Montori is an Associate Professor with the University of Bologna, Italy, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering in 2019. He received the B.S. and the M.S. in Computer Science, both summa cum laude, from the University of Bologna in 2012 and 2015 respectively.

He has been a visiting researcher at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, and Luleå Tekniska Universitet, Sweden. He participated in several EU projects and has been Work Package leader for the H2020 Project Arrowhead Tools.

His primary research interests include Internet of Things, Mobile CrowdSensing (MCS), context-aware computing, IoT automation and data analysis for IoT scenarios.

Publications

  1. 2026journal

    A navigation framework for bicycle riders based on environmental and contextual factors

    Federico Montori, Rocco Pastore, Luca Sciullo, Luciano Bononi, Luca Bedogni

    Pervasive and Mobile Computing

  2. 2026journal

    Pioneering the Hybridization of Federated Learning in Human Activity Recognition

    Alfonso Esposito, Yasmin Moghbelan, Ivan Zyrianoff, Leonardo Ciabattini, Federico Montori, Marco Di Felice

  3. 2025conference

    A Location-Aware WebAssembly-Based Software Update Framework for IoT End Devices

    Ivan Zyrianoff, Federico Montori, Angelo Trotta, Luca Sciullo, Lorenzo Gigli, Carlos Alberto Kamienski, Marco Di Felice

    Consumer Communications and Networking Conference

  4. 2025journal

    DeepMetaIoT: A Multimodal Deep Learning Framework Harnessing Metadata for IoT Sensor Data Classification

    Muhammad Sakib Khan Inan, Kewen Liao, Haifeng Shen, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Federico Montori, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

    IEEE internet of things journal

  5. 2025conference

    Extreme edge sensing-as-a-service: Bridging containerization for iot end devices

    Davide Berardi, Ivan Zyrianoff, Federico Montori, Marco Di Felice

    IEEE Conference on Computer Communications

  6. 2025conference

    Internet of Things Dataset for Human Operator Activity Recognition in Industrial Environment

    Abdur Forkan, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Clarence Antonmeryl, Federico Montori, Abhik Banerjee, Kaneez Fizza, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

    International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

  7. 2025conference

    Simulating Realistic User Mobility for Mobile Crowdsensing Using TACSim: A Performance Study

    Matteo Rontini, Christine Bassem, Federico Montori

    International Conference on Smart Computing

  8. 2025conference

    SOCIALTRUSTR: Blockchain Solution for the Traceability and Validity of Online Content Dissemination

    Manuel Arto, Luca Sciullo, Lorenzo Gigli, Ivan Zyrianoff, Cristiano Aguzzi, Federico Montori

    International Conference on Blockchain

  9. 2025conference

    Traceability and Research in the Agricultural Chain of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs): An IoT-based Approach

    Ivan Zyrianoff, Andrea Iannoli, Federico Montori, Luca Sciullo, Luciano Bononi, Alice Baldissara, Beatrice Brintazzoli, Enrico Dall'Olio, Mattia Alpi, Rocco Enrico Sferrazza, Giovanni Dinelli, Ilaria Marotti, Marco Di Felice

    2025 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry (MetroAgriFor)

  10. 2025journal

    ZONIA: a zero-trust oracle system for blockchain IoT applications

    Lorenzo Gigli, Ivan Zyrianoff, Federico Montori, Luca Sciullo, Carlos Alberto Kamienski, Marco Di Felice

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal

  11. 2024conference

    An mcs navigation system based on road surface quality for bicycle riders

    Federico Montori, Rocco Pastore, Luca Sciullo, Luciano Bononi, Luca Bedogni

    International Conference on Smart Computing

  12. 2024journal

    Cache-it: A distributed architecture for proactive edge caching in heterogeneous iot scenarios

    Ivan Zyrianoff, Lorenzo Gigli, Federico Montori, Luca Sciullo, Carlos Alberto Kamienski, Marco Di Felice

    Ad Hoc Networks

  13. 2024conference

    Comparison of Commercial Pedometer Applications: A Rigorous Approach

    Alessio Terzi, Federico Montori, Lorenzo Gigli, Luca Bedogni, Marco Di Felice, Luciano Bononi

    International Conference on Smart Computing

  14. 2024journal

    Dynamic execution of engineering processes in cyber-physical systems of systems toolchains

    Federico Montori, Marek S Tatara, Pál Varga

    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

  15. 2024journal

    Edge human activity recognition using federated learning on constrained devices

    Angelo Trotta, Federico Montori, Leonardo Ciabattini, Giulio Billi, Luciano Bononi, Marco Di Felice

    Pervasive and Mobile Computing

  16. 2024conference

    Inferring the Urban Noise Pollution with Sparse Data through Crowdsensing

    Jacopo Rimediotti, Federico Montori, Luca Sciullo, Luciano Bononi

    2024 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops)

  17. 2024conference

    On the decentralization of mobile crowdsensing in distributed ledgers: an architectural vision

    Lorenzo Gigli, Federico Montori, Mirko Zichichi, Luca Bedogni, Stefano Ferretti, Marco Di Felice

    Consumer Communications and Networking Conference

  18. 2024conference

    Raising Awareness for Inertial Sensors-based Keylogging on Smartphones

    Federico Montori, Luca Sciullo, Luca Bedogni

    Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

  19. 2024journal

    Relativistic digital twin: Bringing the IoT to the future

    Luca Sciullo, Alberto De Marchi, Angelo Trotta, Federico Montori, Luciano Bononi, Marco Di Felice

    Future Generation Computer Systems

  20. 2023journal

    A decentralized oracle architecture for a blockchain-based iot global market

    Lorenzo Gigli, Ivan Zyrianoff, Federico Montori, Cristiano Aguzzi, Luca Roffia, Marco Di Felice

    IEEE Communications Magazine

  21. 2023conference

    A Joint Evaluation Methodology for Service Quality and User Privacy in Location Based Systems

    Luca Bedogni, Chiara Franceschini, Federico Montori

    Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

  22. 2023journal

    A metadata-assisted cascading ensemble classification framework for automatic annotation of open IoT data

    Federico Montori, Kewen Liao, Matteo De Giosa, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Luciano Bononi, Timos Sellis, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal

  23. 2023journal

    An iot toolchain architecture for planning, running and managing a complete condition monitoring scenario

    Federico Montori, Ivan Zyrianoff, Lorenzo Gigli, Alessandro Calvio, Riccardo Venanzi, Simone Sindaco, Luca Sciullo, Federica Zonzini, Matteo Zauli, Nicola Testoni, Alessandro Bertacchini, Elisa Londero, Enrico Alessi, Marco Di Felice, Luciano Bononi, Paolo Bellavista, Luca De Marchi, Alessandro Marzani, Paolo Azzoni, Tullio Salmon Cinotti

    IEEE Access

  24. 2023conference

    Design and development of a mobile dapp for mobile crowdsensing over evm-enabled blockchains

    Lorenzo Gigli, Federico Montori, Giacomo Galletti, Luca Sciullo, Luca Bedogni

    International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems

  25. 2023conference

    Designing a hybrid push-pull architecture for mobile crowdsensing using the web of things

    Luca Sciullo, Federico Montori, Ivan Zyrianoff, Lorenzo Gigli, Davide Tinti, Marco Di Felice

    International Conference on Smart Computing

  26. 2023journal

    Joint privacy and data quality aware reward in opportunistic Mobile Crowdsensing systems

    Luca Bedogni, Federico Montori

    Journal of Network and Computer Applications

  27. 2023conference

    Optimizing IoT-based human activity recognition on extreme edge devices

    Angelo Trotta, Federico Montori, Giacomo Vallasciani, Luciano Bononi, Marco Di Felice

    International Conference on Smart Computing

  28. 2023journal

    Privacy preservation for spatio-temporal data in mobile crowdsensing scenarios

    Federico Montori, Luca Bedogni

    Pervasive and Mobile Computing

  29. 2023conference

    Texting and Driving Recognition leveraging the Front Camera of Smartphones

    Federico Montori, Marco Spallone, Luca Bedogni

    Consumer Communications and Networking Conference

  30. 2023journal

    Towards marketing 4.0: Vision and survey on the role of IoT and data science

    Himadri Sikhar Khargharia, Muhammad Habib ur Rehman, Abhik Banerjee, Federico Montori, Abdur Rahim Mohammad Forkan, Prem Prakash Jayaraman

    Societies

  31. 2023journal

    Towards Marketing 4.0: Vision and Survey on the Role of IoT and Data Science. Societies 2023, 13, 100

    HS Khargharia, MHu Rehman, A Banerjee, Federico Montori, ARM Forkan, PP Jayaraman

  32. 2022journal

    6G to take the digital divide by storm: Key technologies and trends to bridge the gap

    Chiara Suraci, Sara Pizzi, Federico Montori, Marco Di Felice, Giuseppe Araniti

    Future Internet

  33. 2022conference

    A hierarchical architectural model for iot end-user service composition

    Federico Montori, Vincenzo Armandi, Luca Bedogni

    Consumer Communications and Networking Conference

  34. 2022journal

    A survey on the web of things

    Luca Sciullo, Lorenzo Gigli, Federico Montori, Angelo Trotta, Marco Di Felice

    IEEE access

  35. 2022conference

    Artifact: C3PO-converter of open API specification to WoT objects

    Ivan Zyrianoff, Lorenzo Gigli, Federico Montori, Cristiano Aguzzi, Sebastian Kaebisch, Marco Di Felice

    2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops)

  36. 2022conference

    Blockchain and web of things for structural health monitoring applications: A proof of concept

    Lorenzo Gigli, Luca Sciullo, Federico Montori, Alessandro Marzani, Marco Di Felice

    Consumer Communications and Networking Conference

  37. 2022journal

    Digital twin collaborative platforms: Applications to humans-in-the-loop crafting of urban areas

    Luciano Bononi, Lorenzo Donatiello, Danila Longo, Martina Massari, Federico Montori, Lorenzo Stacchio, Gustavo Marfia

    IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine

  38. 2022journal

    IoT edge caching: taxonomy, use cases and perspectives

    Ivan Zyrianoff, Angelo Trotta, Luca Sciullo, Federico Montori, Marco Di Felice

    IEEE Internet of Things Magazine

  39. 2022journal

    Joint power control and structural health monitoring in industry 4.0 scenarios using eclipse arrowhead and web of things

    Carlo Puliafito, Lorenzo Gigli, Ivan Zyrianoff, Federico Montori, Antonio Virdis, Stefano Di Pascoli, Enzo Mingozzi, Marco Di Felice

    Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

  40. 2022journal

    LA-MQTT: Location-aware Publish-subscribe Communications for the Internet of Things

    Federico Montori, Lorenzo Gigli, Luca Sciullo, Marco Di Felice

    ACM Transactions on Internet of Things

  41. 2022journal

    Location contact tracing: Penetration, privacy, position, and performance

    Luca Bedogni, Federico Montori, Flora Salim

    Digital Government: Research and Practice

  42. 2022journal

    Pedometers for Smartphones: Analysis and Comparison of Real-Time Algorithms

    Giacomo Neri, Federico Montori, Lorenzo Gigli, Luca Bedogni, Marco Di Felice, Luciano Bononi

    World Forum on Internet of Things

  43. 2022conference

    Seamless integration of RESTful web services with the web of things

    Ivan Zyrianoff, Lorenzo Gigli, Federico Montori, Cristiano Aguzzi, Sebastian Kaebisch, Marco Di Felice

    2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops)

  44. 2022conference

    Wotwins: Automatic digital twin generator for the web of things

    Luca Sciullo, Angelo Trotta, Federico Montori, Luciano Bononi, Marco Di Felice

    IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks

  45. 2021conference

    A toolchain architecture for condition monitoring using the eclipse arrowhead framework

    Federico Montori, Ivan Zyrianoff, Lorenzo Gigli, Riccardo Venanzi, Simone Sindaco, Cristiano Aguzzi, Federica Zonzini, Matteo Zauli, Nicola Testoni, Enrico Alessi, Marco Di Felice, Luciano Bononi, Paolo Bellavista, Luca De Marchi, Tullio Salmon Cinotti

    Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

  46. 2021journal

    INFORM: a tool for classification and semantic annotation of IoT datastreams

    Alireza Hassani, Federico Montori, Kewen Liao, Pari Delir Haghighi, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Matteo De Giosa, Arkady Zaslavsky

    World Forum on Internet of Things

  47. 2021conference

    Iot end-user service composition via a visual programming interface

    Federico Montori, Vincenzo Armandi, Luca Bedogni

    International Conference on Smart Computing

  48. 2021conference

    Modeling an industrial revolution: How to manage large-scale, complex iot ecosystems?

    Géza Kulcsár, Pál Varga, Marek S Tatara, Federico Montori, Michel A Inigo, Gianvito Urgese, Paolo Azzoni

    IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network Management

  49. 2021conference

    Two-way integration of service-oriented systems-of-systems with the web of things

    Ivan Zyrianoff, Lorenzo Gigli, Federico Montori, Carlos Alberto Kamienski, Marco Di Felice

    Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

  50. 2020conference

    A privacy preserving framework for rewarding users in opportunistic mobile crowdsensing

    Federico Montori, Luca Bedogni

    2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)

  51. 2020conference

    Delivering iot smart services through collective awareness, mobile crowdsensing and open data

    Federico Montori, Luca Bedogni, Gianluca Iselli, Luciano Bononi

    2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)

  52. 2020journal

    Discovering web things as services within the arrowhead framework

    Luca Sciullo, Federico Montori, Angelo Trotta, Marco Di Felice, Tullio Salmon Cinotti

    Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

  53. 2020conference

    Industry 4.0 solutions for interoperability: a use case about tools and tool chains in the arrowhead tools project

    Riccardo Venanzi, Federico Montori, Paolo Bellavista, Luca Foschini

    International Conference on Smart Computing

  54. 2020journal

    Performance evaluation of hybrid crowdsensing systems with stateful CrowdSenSim 2.0 simulator

    Federico Montori, Luca Bedogni, Claudio Fiandrino, Andrea Capponi, Luciano Bononi

    Computer Communications

  55. 2020conference

    Toolchain modeling: Comprehensive engineering plans for industry 4.0

    Géza Kulcsár, Marek S Tatara, Federico Montori

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS SOCIETY

  56. 2019conference

    An industrial IoT solution for evaluating workers' performance via activity recognition

    Abdur Rahim Mohammad Forkan, Federico Montori, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Ali Yavari, Ahsan Morshed

    IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

  57. 2019conference

    An interoperable tool-chain for energy monitoring applications

    Davide Brunelli, Tullio Salmon Cinotti, Hugo Woehrl, Cristiano Aguzzi, Federico Montori, Luca Benini

    AEIT International Annual Conference

  58. 2019conference

    Crowdsensim 2.0: A stateful simulation platform for mobile crowdsensing in smart cities

    Federico Montori, Emanuele Cortesi, Luca Bedogni, Andrea Capponi, Claudio Fiandrino, Luciano Bononi

    International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

  59. 2018journal

    An Explorative Study on Application of System of Systems for Implementing Digital Twins

    Javad Ghofrani, Federico Montori, Pal Varga

  60. 2018journal

    Classification and annotation of open internet of things datastreams

    Federico Montori, Kewen Liao, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Luciano Bononi, Timos Sellis, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

    WISE

  61. 2018conference

    Dual-mode wake-up nodes for iot monitoring applications: Measurements and algorithms

    Luca Bedogni, Luciano Bononi, Roberto Canegallo, Fabio Carbone, Marco Di Felice, Eleonora Franchi Scarselli, Federico Montori, Luca Perilli, Tullio Salmon Cinotti, Angelo Trotta

    2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

  62. 2018journal

    Joint coverage, connectivity, and charging strategies for distributed UAV networks

    Angelo Trotta, Marco Di Felice, Federico Montori, Kaushik R Chowdhury, Luciano Bononi

    IEEE Transactions on Robotics

  63. 2018journal

    Machine-to-machine wireless communication technologies for the Internet of Things: Taxonomy, comparison and open issues

    Federico Montori, Luca Bedogni, Marco Di Felice, Luciano Bononi

    Pervasive and Mobile Computing

  64. 2018journal

    The Curse of Sensing: Survey of techniques and challenges to cope with sparse and dense data in mobile crowd sensing for Internet of Things

    Federico Montori, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Ali Yavari, Alireza Hassani, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

    Pervasive and Mobile Computing

  65. 2017journal

    A collaborative internet of things architecture for smart cities and environmental monitoring

    Federico Montori, Luca Bedogni, Luciano Bononi

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal

  66. 2017conference

    Achieving IoT interoperability through a service oriented in-home appliance

    Federico Montori, Luca Bedogni, Filippo Morselli, Luciano Bononi

    Global Communications Conference

  67. 2017journal

    Application system design: Complex systems management and automation

    Michele Ornato, Tullio Salmon Cinotti, Alberto Borghetti, Paolo Azzoni, Alfredo D’Elia, Fabio Viola, Federico Montori, Riccardo Venanzi

  68. 2017conference

    Automotive communications in LTE: A simulation-based performance study

    Federico Montori, Marco Gramaglia, Luca Bedogni, Marco Fiore, Farid Sheikh, Luciano Bononi, Andrea Vesco

    IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

  69. 2017journal

    Distributed data collection control in opportunistic mobile crowdsensing

    Federico Montori, Luca Bedogni, Luciano Bononi

    SmartObjects@MobiCom

  70. 2017journal

    Is WiFi suitable for energy efficient IoT deployments? A performance study

    Federico Montori, Riccardo Contigiani, Luca Bedogni

    International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Leveraging a better tomorrow

  71. 2016journal

    A co-simulation platform for the analysis of the impact of electromobility scenarios on the urban distribution network

    Federico Montori, Alberto Borghetti, Fabio Napolitano

    International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Leveraging a better tomorrow

  72. 2016journal

    An integrated traffic and power grid simulator enabling the assessment of e-mobility impact on the grid: a tool for the implementation of the smart grid/city concept

    Luca Bedogni, Luciano Bononi, Alberto Borghetti, Riccardo Bottura, Alfredo D'Elia, Marco Di Felice, Federico Montori, Fabio Napolitano, Carlo Alberto Nucci, Tullio Salmon Cinotti, Fabio Viola

    JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND INNOVATION

  73. 2016conference

    Electro mobility automation through the arrowhead framework

    Alfredo D'Elia, Fabio Viola, Federico Montori, Paolo Azzoni, Matteo Maiero

    Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

  74. 2016journal

    On the integration of heterogeneous data sources for the collaborative Internet of Things

    Federico Montori, Luca Bedogni, Luciano Bononi

    International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Leveraging a better tomorrow

  75. 2016journal

    SenSquare: A mobile crowdsensing architecture for smart cities

    Federico Montori, Luca Bedogni, Alain Di Chiappari, Luciano Bononi

    World Forum on Internet of Things

  76. 2016conference

    Smart energy services integrated within the arrowhead communication framework

    Federico Montori, Tullio Salmon Cinotti, Davide Brunelli

    International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion

  77. 2015journal

    Impact of interdisciplinary research on planning, running, and managing electromobility as a smart grid extension

    Alfredo D’elia, Fabio Viola, Federico Montori, Marco Di Felice, Luca Bedogni, Luciano Bononi, Alberto Borghetti, Paolo Azzoni, Paolo Bellavista, Daniele Tarchi, Randolf Mock, Tullio Salmon Cinotti

    IEEE Access

  78. 2013conference

    An interoperable architecture for mobile smart services over the internet of energy

    Luca Bedogni, Luciano Bononi, Marco Di Felice, Alfredo D'Elia, Randolf Mock, Federico Montori, Francesco Morandi, Luca Roffia, Simone Rondelli, Tullio Salmon Cinotti, Fabio Vergari

    IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks