{"id":791,"date":"2015-10-19T11:21:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T09:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agile-group.org\/?p=791"},"modified":"2025-11-24T17:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:25:32","slug":"gavina-baralla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agile-group.org\/en\/gavina-baralla\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavina Baralla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.agile-group.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Gavinarid-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Gavina Baralla is a fixed-term Assistant Researcher (RTDa) in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Cagliari, within the scientific sector INF\/01 \u2013 Computer Science.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"325\" data-end=\"806\">Her research focuses on methodologies and technologies for software engineering in the field of blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies, with particular attention to smart contract development and analysis, security of decentralized systems, LLM-assisted models for the design and testing of blockchain applications, integration between DLT, IoT, and Edge Computing, and blockchain applications in areas such as e-health, heritage asset management, and supply chain systems.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"808\" data-end=\"1170\">She is a member of the Agile Group at the University of Cagliari and coordinates the research unit in <em data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"972\">IoT &amp; LLM-Assisted Blockchain Engineering (AI4SE &amp; Edge-DLT)<\/em>. She is also a founding partner of the university spin-off Quantum Futuris S.r.l., which develops advanced software solutions in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and IoT.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1172\" data-end=\"1402\">She is a lecturer in the Database and Data Analytics course within the Bachelor\u2019s Degree Program in Informatics and Data Analytics (IADA) at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1404\" data-end=\"1739\">She holds a Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE) at the University of Cagliari, with a dissertation focused on enabling technologies for the development of smart cities. She previously earned a Master\u2019s Degree in Electronic Engineering at the same university.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1741\" data-end=\"2087\">She is the author or co-author of several papers published in international conferences and journals in the fields of blockchain, smart contracts, and distributed systems. She contributes to scientific and project activities related to DLT, including competitive projects on traceability, e-health, data security, and decentralized architectures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>e-mail<\/strong>: gavinabaralla [at] diee.unica.it<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pubblications:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Google Scholar\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.it\/citations?user=VSLEty0AAAAJ&amp;hl=it\">https:\/\/scholar.google.it\/citations?user=VSLEty0AAAAJ&amp;hl=it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--\n<em>Articles on International Journals<\/em>\n\n\n<ol>\n \t\n\n<li>Andrea Pinna, Simona Ibba, Gavina Baralla, Roberto Tonelli, Michele Marchesi, A Massive Analysis of Ethereum Smart Contracts. Exploratory study and code metrics. Information and software technology - IEEE Access, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Katiuscia Mannaro, Gavina Baralla, Andrea Pinna, and Simona Ibba. A blockchain approach applied to a teledermatology platform in the Sardinian Region (Italy). Information, 9(2):44, 2018<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<em>Articles on International Conferences<\/em>\n\n\n<ol>\n \t\n\n<li>Gavina Baralla, Andrea Pinna, and Giacomo Corrias. Ensure traceability in European food supply chain by using a blockchain system. In Proceedings of the 2nd InternationalWorkshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain. ACM, 2019,May (IN PRESS)<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Gavina Baralla, Simona Ibba, Michele Marchesi, Roberto Tonelli, and Sebastiano Missineo. A blockchain based system to ensure transparency and reliability in food supply chain. In European Conference on Parallel Processing, pages 379\u2013391. Springer, 2018<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Simona Ibba, Andrea Pinna, Gavina Baralla, and MicheleMarchesi. Icos overview: Should investors choose an ICO developed with the lean startup methodology? In International Conference on Agile Software Development, pages 293\u2013308. Springer,2018.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Simona Ibba, Gavina Baralla, Andrea Pinna, and Roberto Tonelli. Survey: how much the academic startups know and use agile software and lean startup methodologies? In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development: Companion, page 2. ACM, 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Katiuscia Mannaro, Gavina Baralla, and Chiara Garau. A goal-oriented framework for analyzing andmodelling city dashboards in smart cities. In Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR2017 2, pages 179\u2013195. Springer, 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Gavina Baralla, Simona Ibba, and Riccardo Zenoni. Aposentu: A social semantic platform for hotels. In KDIR, pages 269\u2013274, 201<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Gavina Baralla, Andrea Pinna, Roberto Tonelli, Katiuscia Mannaro and Michele Marchesi. A Blockchain approach for the sustainability in tourism management in the Sulcis area. INPUT aCAdemy. June 2019 (IN PRESS)<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Roberto Tonelli, Andrea Pinna, Gavina Baralla, and Simona Ibba. Ethereum smart contracts as blockchain-oriented microservices. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development: Companion, XP \u201918,pages 21:1\u201321:2, New York, NY, USA, 2018. ACM<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Gavina Baralla, Katiuscia Mannaro, and Michele Marchesi. A proposed taxonomy of mobile public utility applications. In KMIS, pages 241\u2013246, 2017<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Katiuscia Mannaro, Gavina Baralla, Simona Ibba, Andrea Pinna, and Chiara Garau. Towards a smart region: The case study of a teledermatology platform in Sardinian region (Italy). In 2017 IEEE 13th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), pages 370\u2013377. IEEE, 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Marco Stocchi, Ilaria Lunesu, Simona Ibba, Gavina Baralla, and Michele Marchesi. The future of bitcoin: a synchrosqueezing wavelet transform to predict search engine query trends. In KDWeb, 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Marco Stocchi, Ilaria Lunesu, Simona Ibba, Gavina Baralla, and Michele Marchesi. A synchrosqueezed wavelet transform assisted machine learning framework for time series forecasting. In KDWeb, 2016<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Filippo Eros Pani, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Giulio Concas, and Gavina Baralla. An approach to knowledge formalization. In Emerging Ideas on Information Filtering and Retrieval, pages 89\u2013104. Springer, 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Filippo Eros Pani, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Giulio Concas, and Gavina Baralla. The web knowledge management: A taxonomy-based approach. In International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering, and KnowledgeManagement, pages 230\u2013244. Springer, 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>Filippo Eros Pani,Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Giulio Concas, and Gavina Baralla. An approach to manage the web knowledge. In International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2013), pages 81\u201388. SCITEPRESS\u2013Science and Technology Publications, 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ol>\n\n\n&nbsp;\n--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavina Baralla is a fixed-term Assistant Researcher (RTDa) in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Cagliari, within the scientific sector INF\/01 \u2013 Computer Science. 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