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I participated to several national and international projects, among which the most prominent are:
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CUBRIK Project
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The CUBRIK project is a 36 month large-scale Integrating Project partially funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework ICT Programme for Research and Technological Development.
The project is driven by its four global objectives: 1)advance SoTA in the multimedia search domain, especially in the areas of content enrichment, query processing, and relevance feedback, with the help of open source components and pipelines for search-driven applications. 2) Putting humans in the loop, by empowering multimedia search with an innovative networked human computation framework that combines the conventionally segregated areas of user behavior analysis, crowdsourcing, social network and trust analysis and gaming with a purpose. 3) Opening the search box by enabling component-based development of tailor-made multimedia search applications. 4) Starting-up a multimedia search business ecosystem.
The consortium consists of 15 partners from across Europe bringing complementary expertise.
More information on the CUBRIK Project and on the
related people, events, publications, and technologies:
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The
BPM4People Project
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The BPM4People project aims at designing and bringing to the
market innovative methodologies, software tools, and vertical
applications for the implementation of Social Business Process
Management (Social BPM), i.e., processes collaboratively
defined and collaboratively executed by organizations and
their stakeholders (employees, customers, citizens).
More information on the BPM4People Project and on the
related people, events, publications, and technologies:
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The SECO Project
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Search Computing (Seco) is a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), responding to the 2008 Call for "IDEAS Advanced Grants", a program dedicated to the support of investigation-driven frontier research. SeCo started on November 1st, 2008 and will last 5 years, until October 31, 2013.
More information on the SECO Project and on the related people, events, publications, and technologies:
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The PHAROS Project
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With Web Models, the spinoff company of Politecnico di Milano, we work in the project PHAROS (Platform for searcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces), an Integrated Project co-financed by the European Union under the Information Society Technologies Programme (6th Framework Programme) – Strategic Objective 'Search Engines for Audiovisual Content' (2.6.3)
The PHAROS mission is to advance audiovisual search from a point-solution search engine paradigm to an integrated search platform paradigm. This platform will be built on an innovative, open, and distributed architecture that enables consumers, businesses and organisations to unlock the values found in audiovisual content.
The PHAROS search platform is a new infrastructure for managing and enabling access to information sources of all types, supporting advanced audiovisual processing, content handling, and management that will enhance control, creation, and sharing of multimedia for all users in the value chain. The impact for the specific audiovisual industry will be to strengthen and extend product and service offerings, integrating oustanding technologies and achieving a competitive advantage by integrating solutions addressing the full content management processing chain.
More information on the PHAROS Project and on the related technologies:
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The WebSI Project
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The WebSI Project is developing three suites of tools for building
data-centric and service-centric Web applications. The Web Site Design
Suite will focus on tools to assemble Web applications at high-level,
and on the integration of traditional Web conceptual modelling methods
with Web services and workflows. The Service Composition Suite will
provide composition abstractions in order to integrate Web Service
calls into complex conversations. The Data Integration Suite will
provide primitives for collecting and integrating data from multiple
sources, using XML and Xquery. The three tool suites will be usable
in an ASP Infrastructure layer, which provides the hosting of internal
services and databases. Three applications are being developed to
help focus the design on real problems, to demonstrate the WebSI technology,
and to ensure market needs feedback.
More information on the WebSI Project and on the the technologies
developed in the projects:
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The WebML Project
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I was Technical Director of the Esprit Project named
WWW Intelligent Information Infrastructure (W3I3). The purpose
of W3I3 (ended on August 31 2000) has been to propose a model-driven approach
to Web site design, especially suited for multi-device, mobile e-commerce
applications. The most prominent result of W3I3 is WebML, a high-level language for specifying the
structure of the content of the Web applications and the organization and
presentation of such a content in a Web site. WebML specifications are produced
by means of a suite of Java-based tools for Web site development (Site Designer,
Presentation Designer, Site Manager). Specifications are internally formatted in
XML and processed in an software architecture, which includes XSL-enabled
device-specific code generators (currently targeting HTML and WML) and platform
adapters (currently targeting ASP and JSP server-side scripting technologies).
More information on the W3I3 Project and on the Web Modeling
Language can be found at the WebML site
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The IDEA Project
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From 1992 to 1997 I worked in the IDEA project, a five-year Esprit
Project sponsored by the EEC with academic, research, and industrial partners from six
countries. The main objective of the IDEA Project is to investigate the use
and promote the spread of object-oriented and rule-based technologies in next-generation
information systems.
Toghether with Stefano Ceri and Stefano Paraboschi, I have supervised the implementation
of an active database system prototype (the Algres Testbed of Chimera), and the
realization of three Java-enabled tools (IADE, ARACHNE, ARGONAUT) for active rule design
and analysis. This work has spanned four years and has required the supervision of more
than thirty graduation theses.The tools are fully operational and have been demonstrated
at various international conferences including SIGMOD'93-95, EDBT 96, and ICDE 97.One
of the main results of the project is The Idea Methodology, co-authored
with Stefano Ceri. The IDEA Methodology addresses the analysis, design, prototyping, and
implementation of modern database systems
applications; it takes advantage of modern approaches which have been developed in the
context of database design, but also in the broader context of object-oriented
software engineering. The distinguishing feature of the IDEA Methodology is the emphasis
on both deductive rules and active rules, which significantly enriches the semantics
supported within a database applications
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