Publications

• "An Almost Optimal Algorithm for Generalized Threshold Group Testing with Inhibitors'', accepted for publication in Journal of Computational Biology (With Hong-Bin Chen).

• "New combinatorial structures with applications to efficient group testing with inhibitors'', J. of Combinatorial Optimization (special issue), 15 (2008), 77-94.

• "Largest families without an r-fork'', Order, 24 (2007), 181-191. (With G. O. H. Katona)

• "Optimal Algorithms for Two Group Testing Problems and New Bounds on Generalized Superimposed Codes'', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 10 (2006), 4673-4680. (With U. Vaccaro).

• "Optimal Two-Stage Algorithms for Group Testing Problems'', SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 34, 5 (2005), 1253-1270. (With L. Gasieniec, U. Vaccaro)

•  "Largest family without A&cup B &sube C&cap D, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 331--336.  (With G. O. H. Katona, K. J. Swanepoel)

• "Secure E-Coupons", Electronic Commerce Research, 5 (2005), 117-139. (With C. Blundo, S. Cimato)

• "Randomness in secret sharing and visual cryptography schemes'', Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 314 (2004), n.3, 351-374. (With A. De Santis),

• "Constructions of generalized superimposed codes with applications to group testing and conflict resolution in multiple access channels'', Theoretical Computer Science,  vol. 306,  1-3 (2003), 223-243. (With U. Vaccaro).

• "Bounds and Constructions for Metering Schemes",  Communications in Information and Systems, vol. 2, n. 1 (2002), 1-28. (With C. Blundo, B. Masucci)

• "Improved Schemes for Visual Cryptography",  Design, Codes, and Cryptography, vol. 24 (2001), 255 - 278. (With C. Blundo, A. De Santis)

•  "Efficient Algorithms for Chemical Threshold Testing Problems", Theoretical Computer Science, vol 259 (2001), 493 - 511. (With L. Gargano, U. Vaccaro)

• "Improved Algorithms for Group Testing with Inhibitors",  Information Processing Letters, vol. 67 (1998), 57 - 64. (With U. Vaccaro)

• "A Predetermined Algorithm for Detecting a Counterfeit Coin with Multi-Arms Balances",  Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 86 (1998), 181 - 200.

•   "Group Testing with Unreliable Tests",  Information Sciences, vol. 96, Issue 1-2 (1997), 1-14.  (With L. Gargano, U. Vaccaro)

• "Optimal Detection of a Counterfeit Coin with Multi-Arms Balances",  Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 61 (1995), 121-131.  (With L. Gargano, U. Vaccaro)

• "Combinatorial Group Testing for Corruption Localizing Hashing", in Proceedings of COCOON2011 (With G. Di Crescenzo)

• "A lower bound for generalized superimposed codes with application to group testing with inhibitors'', in Proceedings of ISIT2007, 341-345.

• "New Results and Applications of Superimposed Codes (and Related Combinatorial Structures)
  to the Design of Efficient Group Testing Procedures'', in Proceedings of  ISIT2004, 257. (With U. Vaccaro)
   
• "Generalized Framework for Selectors with Applications in Optimal Group Testing",   in Proceedings of ICALP 2003, 81-96.   (With L. Gasieniec, U. Vaccaro)

• "Efficient Constructions of Generalized Superimposed Codes with Applications to Group Testing and Conflict Resolution in Multiple Access Channels'', in Proceedings of ESA 2002, 335-347.  (With U. Vaccaro)

• "Generalizations of Superimposed Codes with Applications to Efficient Design of Pooling Experiments", in Proceedings of ISIT2002.  (With U. Vaccaro)

• "A Lightweight Protocol for the Generation and Distribution of Secure E-coupons", in Proceedings of the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference - WWW2002, Honolulu, Hawaii. (With C. Blundo, S. Cimato)

• "Online Advertising: Secure E-coupons", in Proceedings of The Ninth Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, ICTCS'2001, LNCS. (With S. Cimato)

• "Secret Sharing and Visual Cryptography Schemes (A Randomness Preserving Transformation)",  Proceedings of the IFIP TC11 16th International Conference on Information Security, IFIP/SEC'01, 123-137. (With A. De Santis)

• "Metering Schemes with Pricing",  Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Distributed Computing, DISC 2000,   Lectures Notes in Computer Science,  LNCS vol. 1914  (2000) 194-208. (With C. Blundo, B. Masucci)

• "Dynamic Multi-Threshold Metering Schemes",  Proceedings of 7th Annual International Workshop, SAC 2000,  LNCS vol. 2012 (2001) 130-143. (With  C. Blundo, B. Masucci, D. R. Stinson)

• "An Information Theoretical Approach to Metering Schemes",  Proceedings of 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory,  49.  (With B. Masucci)

• "Randomness in Visual Cryptography",  Proceedings of 17th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, STACS 2000,  LNCS vol. 1770 (2000), 626-638. (With A. De Santis)

• "New Results on the Randomness of Visual Cryptography Schemes",  in Proceedings of Workshop on Cryptography and Computational Number Theory, CCNT'99,  187-201. (With A. De Santis)

• "New Constructions for Visual Cryptography",  Proceedings of The Sixth Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, ICTCS '98,  (World Scientific, Singapore), 290-303. (With C. Blundo )

•  "Improved Algorithms for Chemical Threshold Testing Problems",  in Proceedings of The Fourth Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON'98, Taipei, Taiwan, R.o.C., LNCS  vol. 1449 (1998), 127-136. (With L. Gargano, U. Vaccaro)

• "A Group Testing Approach to Improved Corruption Localizing Hashing", ICALP2011GT. (With G. Di Crescenzo)