Recent and present activities

Currently involved in some research and development projects (see on the left and above) and in the following activities related to scientific conferences.

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RAISSS: progetto sui sistemi di gestione ferroviaria. Ricerca su (i) sistemi di gestione e controllo per le stazioni, (ii) sistemi di segnalamento ottico, (iii) sistemi di conteggio assi e consistenza del treno. (cofinanziato dalla Regione Toscana, con ECM)
ICARO: progetto sui sistemi cloud dinamici. Ricerca nell’ambito dei sistemi distribuiti (algoritmi di gestione automatica, modelli di sviluppo del cloud middleware, strumenti semantic computing e intelligence per la generazione e verifica delle problematiche di configurazione e combinazione automatica di servizi), della ricerca operativa (ottimizzazione di modelli di costo e di gestione del cloud). (cofinanziato dalla Regione Toscana, con Computer Gross, LiberoLogico e AltroLavoro)
COLL@BORA social innovation, progetto in ambito smart City.
SACVAR: Soluzioni Avanzate per l’acquisizione automatica della conoscenza, la sua gestione e valorizzazione della ricerca, soluzioni di matchmaking (cofinanziato dalla Regione Toscana)
Trace-IT sistemi per il segnalamento ferroviario. Progetto Coordinato da ECM in collaborazione con CNR di Pisa. Progetto PAR FAS della regione Toscana
ECLAP (as coordinator): EUROPEAN COLLECTED LIBRARY OF ARTISTIC PERFORMANCE, European Commissione Project ICT PSP, focussed on the study, implementation and set up of a Best Practice Network on cultural heritage content on performing art. The project is also going to experiment a set of technologies regarding semantic indexing and management, automated content processing, mobile distribution, multilingual indexing, social networking, multichannel distribution, apple applications, non linear story telling and annotations, semantic processing, integration with Europeana.
Mobile Emergency, (see web page at DISIT) an Apple App for iPhone. A tool to manage emergency in the hospital area. Developed in collaboration with the Maxi Emergency group on Mobile Medicine. The solution also implies the connection with a server to manage the emergencies and the help the people involved in getting the exit and the collecting centers according to model of interventions.
INEA LAB, "Laboratorio per l'Ingegneria Elettroacustica". Joined lab industry-university.
IUF.CSAVRI.org: Incubatore universitario Fiorentino, Portale educazionale dello IUF
www.APRETOSCANA.org: portale per la promozione della progettazione europea in toscana.
OSIM Open Space Innovative Mind: project has as main objective the realization of a portal on which the industries, students and interested researchers can pose questions with the aim of identifying the competences in terms of researchers and groups in the large knowledge of the University of Florence. In the literature, there is a number of systems that have been proposed to solve the above described problem of helping modeling knowledge bases, may be matching the demand (semantic query) against the offer (knowledge about domain). The accessible version is part of a wider project called Open Space Innovative Mind, which has been partially founded by ECRF, Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze. The OSIM project is presently under development.
MyStoryPlayer model and tools to operform and execute personal experiences as non-linear stories by following temporal and logical relationships formalized via semantic annotations. (DISIT page of MyStoryPlayer) In MyStoryPlayer, any media segment can be an annotation for another media element, the single media may be used as a basis to create an infinite number of media annotations. The user may navigate in the audiovisual annotations, thus creating its own non-linear experience. The solution has been studied and developed as a generalization of the models describing non-linear stories and navigation experiences, as one would appreaciate in navigatin on serials such as Lost, FlashForward, Odissey5, Doctor Who, etc. The solution may be adopted for modeling educational materials such as those that can be created for medical and theatrical environments. Also available on ECLAP.

DISIT lab and 4 different Innovations of DISIT Lab have been selected by the Italian Ministery Agency for the diffusion of Innovation Tecnologiesin the competition Italy of Innovators:

Cross Media Learning Management System at MIUR.INNOVAZIONE SELEZIONATA DA ITALIA DEGLI INNOVATORI..to get more, it is currently in use on:
- Flyer of XLMS in PDF
- ECLAP portal and EC CIP PsP project ECLAP Best Practice Network and e-learning support.
- Idraulica.fupress.com, a portal for e-learning and distance learning in Idraulic Engineering.
- Mobile Medicine, see below, a portal for medical distance learning and social networking.
- MyStooryPlayer semantic audiovisual annotation tool.
Mobile Medicine on MIUR..INNOVAZIONE SELEZIONATA DA ITALIA DEGLI INNOVATORI.to get more please see Mobile Medicine Social Network and iPad/iPhone and windows PDA tools
Mobile Emergency at MIUR -..INNOVAZIONE SELEZIONATA DA ITALIA DEGLI INNOVATORI... to get more on Mobile Emergency, an Apple App for iPhone. A tool to manage emergency in the hospital area. Developed in collaboration with the Maxi Emergency group on Mobile Medicine. The solution also implies the connection with a server to manage the emergencies and the help the people involved in getting the exit and the collecting centers according to model of interventions.
Content Processing Media Grid, AXCP on MIUR.INNOVAZIONE SELEZIONATA DA ITALIA DEGLI INNOVATORI.. to get more it is the core technology for semantic computing and media grid the so called AXCP Media Grid computing tools. It is going to appear on IEEE Multimedia in the 2011 and it has been developed starting from one of the results of AXMEDIS project .
- Technical Note in AXCP, download the PDF