Francesco Smarra

925 total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 646 citations indexed

About

Francesco Smarra is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Smarra has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 646 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 15 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 11 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Francesco Smarra's work include Advanced Control Systems Optimization (9 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (7 papers) and Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (7 papers). Francesco Smarra is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Control Systems Optimization (9 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (7 papers) and Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (7 papers). Francesco Smarra collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Sweden. Francesco Smarra's co-authors include Alessandro D’Innocenzo, Rahul Mangharam, Achin Jain, Dario Ambrosini, Tullio de Rubeis, Madhur Behl, Maria Domenica Di Benedetto, Fabio Graziosi, Vincenzo Gattulli and Costanzo Manes and has published in prestigious journals such as Automatica, Applied Energy and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Smarra

30 papers receiving 627 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Data-driven model predictive control using random forests for building energy optimization and climate control
    2018 254 citations Francesco Smarra, Achin Jain et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Francesco Smarra Italy 12 273 270 233 87 82 34 646
Truong X. Nghiem United States 14 254 0.9× 241 0.9× 198 0.8× 75 0.9× 69 0.8× 61 643
Achin Jain United States 12 273 1.0× 281 1.0× 269 1.2× 88 1.0× 26 0.3× 20 645
Steven T. Bushby United States 11 234 0.9× 311 1.2× 149 0.6× 90 1.0× 49 0.6× 31 588
Stefano Pizzuti Italy 14 142 0.5× 356 1.3× 205 0.9× 49 0.6× 35 0.4× 41 693
Marc Baranski Germany 13 154 0.6× 305 1.1× 368 1.6× 124 1.4× 24 0.3× 37 598
Shujiang Li China 15 299 1.1× 195 0.7× 303 1.3× 51 0.6× 102 1.2× 68 867
Josh Wall Australia 11 152 0.6× 452 1.7× 207 0.9× 103 1.2× 39 0.5× 27 706
Saman Taheri United States 14 180 0.7× 379 1.4× 374 1.6× 96 1.1× 22 0.3× 18 832
Guanjing Lin United States 15 185 0.7× 428 1.6× 155 0.7× 92 1.1× 21 0.3× 29 679
A. Pouliezos Greece 12 257 0.9× 154 0.6× 89 0.4× 32 0.4× 38 0.5× 32 557

Countries citing papers authored by Francesco Smarra

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Fields of papers citing papers by Francesco Smarra

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Smarra

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Francesco Smarra. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Francesco Smarra based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Francesco Smarra. Francesco Smarra is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smarra, Francesco, et al.. (2025). Optimal control over Markovian wireless communication channels under generalized packet dropout compensation. Automatica. 176. 112240–112240. 1 indexed citations
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Smarra, Francesco, et al.. (2025). On the Performance of Geospatial Services Deployment: An Experimental Benchmark Analysis. Journal of Grid Computing. 23(2).
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Graziosi, Fabio, et al.. (2024). Queue Modeling for Geospatial Service on Edge-Cloud Architecture. IEEE Networking Letters. 7(1). 36–40.
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Smarra, Francesco, et al.. (2023). CADET: Control-Aware Dynamic Edge Computing for Real-Time Target Tracking in UAV Systems. 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Rinaldi, Claudia, et al.. (2022). An Edge-Based Machine Learning-Enabled Approach in Structural Health Monitoring for Public Protection. 45. 125–130. 1 indexed citations
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Smarra, Francesco, et al.. (2022). Machine Learning-based Approaches Comparison for Netflix/DAZN Streaming and Real Traffic Prediction. GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference. 3102–3107.
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Smarra, Francesco, et al.. (2022). Stability analysis of switched ARX models and application to learning with guarantees. Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid Systems. 46. 101250–101250. 7 indexed citations
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Smarra, Francesco, et al.. (2021). A Comparison of Classical Identification and Learning-Based Techniques for Cyber-Physical Systems. 179–185. 11 indexed citations
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Smarra, Francesco, et al.. (2021). On the Stability of Switched ARX Models, with an Application to Learning via Regression Trees. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 54(5). 61–66. 7 indexed citations
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Rubeis, Tullio de, Francesco Smarra, Niko Gentile, et al.. (2020). Learning lighting models for optimal control of lighting system via experimental and numerical approach. Science and Technology for the Built Environment. 27(8). 1018–1030. 3 indexed citations
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Smarra, Francesco & Alessandro D’Innocenzo. (2020). Learning Markov Jump Affine Systems via Regression Trees for MPC. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 53(2). 5252–5257. 1 indexed citations
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Smarra, Francesco, et al.. (2020). An entropy-based sensor selection algorithm for structural damage detection. 587. 1566–1571. 11 indexed citations
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Smarra, Francesco, et al.. (2020). A Hardware-in-the-Loop Framework for Urban Mobility Scenarios within the 5G Trial in L’Aquila. 1–4. 1 indexed citations
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Smarra, Francesco, Achin Jain, Rahul Mangharam, & Alessandro D’Innocenzo. (2018). Data-driven Switched Affine Modeling for Model Predictive Control. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 51(16). 199–204. 26 indexed citations
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Smarra, Francesco, Maria Domenica Di Benedetto, & Alessandro D’Innocenzo. (2018). Efficient routing redundancy design over lossy networks. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 28(6). 2574–2597. 2 indexed citations
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Jain, Achin, Francesco Smarra, & Rahul Mangharam. (2017). Data predictive control using regression trees and ensemble learning. 4446–4451. 29 indexed citations
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D’Innocenzo, Alessandro, Francesco Smarra, & Maria Domenica Di Benedetto. (2015). Further results on fault detection and isolation of malicious nodes in Multi-hop Control Networks. 1860–1865. 1 indexed citations
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Smarra, Francesco, Alessandro D’Innocenzo, & Maria Domenica Di Benedetto. (2015). Approximation methods for optimal network coding in a multi-hop control network with packet losses. 1962–1967. 8 indexed citations
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Benedetto, Maria Domenica Di, Alessandro D’Innocenzo, & Francesco Smarra. (2014). Fault-tolerant control of a wireless HVAC control system. 235–238. 2 indexed citations
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Smarra, Francesco, Alessandro D’Innocenzo, & Maria Domenica Di Benedetto. (2012). Fault Tolerant Stabilizability of MIMO Multi-Hop Control Networks. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 45(26). 79–84. 7 indexed citations

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