About

Marco Lackovic was – between 2007 and 2015 – a research fellow and teaching assistant of concurrent programming and object oriented programming at the University of Calabria, where he received a master’s degree and a PhD in Computer Engineering.

In his academic years he was also a software engineer with experience in designing, developing, deploying, testing and maintaining distributed applications, based on REST and SOAP web services and worked on services for ubiquitous mobile applications.

His experiences include:

  • the design and development of services for indexing and discovery of smart objects, using JAX-RS and Apache Lucene;
  • the design and development of Weka4WS and the Knowledge Grid, two frameworks to support the composition and execution of distributed data mining workflows, using WSRF based web services, on the Globus Toolkit grid platform;
  • sysadmin of the Grid Computing Laboratory at the University of Calabria.

Research interests:

  • Distributed Scientific Workflows
  • Grid Computing
  • Mobile Human Computer Interaction
  • Location Based Services
  • Context-aware Systems
  • Indexing and Discovery Services
  • Service Oriented Architectures