Projects
WASABI: White-label shop for digital intelligent assistance and human-AI collaboration in manufacturing
Project founded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe financing program
2023-2027
The WASABI vision is that digital assistance and conversational AI become standard practices to reach sustainability goals in manufacturing. Humans will use it, for instance, to identify and assess opportunities to turn waste into a resource, and to reorganize work to minimize carbon footprints. Access to these benefits will be as simple as selecting and configuring Apps from an online store and interoperability minimizes vendor-lock-in and maximizes information valorization. New AI-focused training services for employees will be a general practice too. They let workers experience solutions and teach them about the capabilities, risks, and limitations of AI in manufacturing. Digital assistance solutions will blend into Europe’s emerging legal framework for AI and they will be affordable and manageable even by small producers.
HybridAI: an hybrid approach to Natural Language Understanding
Project founded by ExpertAI
2022-2024
The objective of the project is to study neuro-symbolic techniques, here called HybridAI, aiming to improve the state-of-the-art in the field of for Natural Language Understanding and Knowledge Graph (KG) Enrichment. Hybrid Machine Learning refers to a learning process where, in the training phase, we exploit symbolic representations (e.g., concepts, relationships) and NLU rules that are not part of the immediate perceptual level (i.e., the sequence of characters and words) of the input documents but are represented in Knowledge Graphs. The project focuses on diffferent Graph Enrichment tasks such as KG expansion with neologisms and KG link prediction from corpora of documents.ITSERR: Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE
Strengthening and creation of Research Infrastructures PNRR project
2022-2025
ITSERR is a project designed according to the needs of the Religious Studies scientific community to support the existing national infrastructure and bring it to a higher level of maturity, in terms of involvement of technology and ability to increase the innovation, quality and variety of the knowledge produced by the community of Religious Studies. The research aims at the development of Digital Maktaba (in Arabic "maktaba", "library") whose aim is to establish procedures for the extraction, management of libraries and archives and to develop virtuous models in the field of cataloguing that can accommodate texts written in non-Latin alphabets, starting with the case of the Arabic alphabet and testing it also with other alphabets.Work Datafication and Behavioral Visibility in The Digital Workplace
Interdisciplinary Fondo Ateneo per la Ricerca (FAR) Project
2022-2023
The research, conducted in collaboration with engineers and business economists, aims to explore new analytical potentials in the data flows generated by employees on Enterprise Collaboration Software (ECS) for the innovation of HRM (Human Resource Management). The research aims to delve into the digital exhausts, search for data representations of employees’ attitudes (quantitative research methods) and understand their performative character by investigating how aggregate quantification feedbacks on employees’ perception and work behaviors (qualitative research methods).Assessment of well-being state in Post-acute COVID Syndrome: an international multicentre prospective cohort study
Project founded by Giliad Inc.
2022-2023
The project concerns with the Post-acute COVID syndrome (PACS), a syndrome which still requires a detailed characterization and identification of clinically meaningful endpoints. The study involves a population of PACS patients coming from three clinics in Modena, Tel Aviv, and Padova for which EHRs, clinical visits and wearable AX3 data are available. The main projects hypothesis are: 1) PACS can be addressed using innovative geriatric outcomes realted to the notion of Intrinsic Capacity, 2) ML offers a game-changer in health data analytics and a unique opportunity for ‘P4 medicine’. To this end, the project goal is twofold: 1) To characterize PACS phenotypes. This will be achieved through Clustering Analysis using persistent signs, symptoms, and onset of the new disease conditions, 2) To generate a data-driven Intrinsic capacity Index representing a summary wellness state, negatively associated with frailty phenotype and positively associated with HRQoL and resilience.
IMOCO4.E: Intelligent Motion Control under Industry 4.E
European H2020-ECSEL Funded Project
2021-2024
The project aims to deliver vertically distributed edge-to-cloud intelligence for machines, robots and other physical cyber-human systems with actively controlled moving elements. The two main pillars of the project are digitaltwin and AI (machine / deep learning) principles. At the data management level, one of the main objectives is to analyze and process the machine data at the appropriate levels of the feedback control circuits and synchronize the digital twins with the simulated physical world or in real time, also through machine learning techniques.Machine Learning to Operationalize WG definition and Generate a Personalized Phenotypic Characterization in PLWHIV
Project founded by Giliad Inc.
2021
Lipodystrophy in people leaving with HIV (PLWHIV) is a syndrome characterized by a constellation of lipid metabolism disorders, insulin resistance, and fat redistribution. Even though lipodystrophy has been observed for the first time two decades ago, several important questions remain unexplored. The main aim of this project is to address some of such topical questions by adopting a Machine Learning approach. Specifically, the project aims are as follows: Aim 1: To determine the relative effects of weight gain/ loss over time, which we call “weight deltas (WD)”; Aim 2: To formulate plausible causal models that may explain WD for patients with different characteristics; Aim 3: To use the WD definition to predict retrospectively clinically meaningful event including new onset of Diabetes, NAFLD, Multimorbidity, Frailty, Disability and Death.
FIRST: virtual Factories Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovation
EU Horizon 2020 Marie Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE program
2017-2022
The manufacturing industry is entering a new era in which new ICT technologies and collaboration applications are integrated with traditional manufacturing practices and processes to increase flexibility in manufacturing, mass customisation, increase speed, better quality and to improve productivity. Virtual factory models needs to be created before the real factory is implemented to better explore different design options, evaluate their performance and virtual commission the automation systems thus saving time-to-production. The project “vF Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovaTion” (FIRST) provides new technology and methodologies to describe manufacturing assets; to compose and integrate existing services into collaborative virtual manufacturing processes; and to deal with evolution of changes.
CLASS: Coordinating Edge And Cloud For Big Data Analytics
European H2020 Funded Project
2018-2020
The project aims to develop a new software architecture framework to help big data developers in efficiently distributing data analytics workloads along the compute continuum (from edge to cloud) in a comprehensive and transparent way, providing at the same time real-time guarantees.Framing Employee Attitudes and Digital Work Behaviors to Support Data-Driven Human Resource Management
Interdisciplinary Fondo Ateneo per la Ricerca (FAR) Project
2018-2020
As processes and organizations become increasingly digitalized, work behaviors produce an asset of digital traces that provides unprecedented information to HRM. While traditional surveys are expensive and “picture-like”, digital data flows are cheap and provide “movie-like” representations. This project aims at exploring the potential of data flows generated by employees on companies’ digital platforms for the innovation of people management towards analytics-based HRM.SocialGQ: Techniques for the semantic, approximate and user-aware querying of social-graph data
Fondo Ateneo per la Ricerca (FAR) Project
2016-2018
The research concerns the creation of an innovative solution for the effective and efficient querying of social graph data, overcoming the limits of the current research tools available in state of the art and jointly exploiting the user-aware, textual and semantic components of the data.
AMBIT
Fondazione CRM co-funded Project
2014-2016
The AMBIT (Algorithms and Models for Building context-dependent Information delivery Tools) project aims to study and develop a prototype software architecture for the development of context-dependent applications and systems, i.e., tools that provide users with services that are customized according to the context in which they operate.
The project also has important application outcomes, both for the operational partners and for the companies and organizations in the area. From this point of view, some application areas appear to be particularly suitable for the adoption of such a notion of context: among these, online advertising, interactive applications for the development of the Modena area, smart help-desk systems.
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Pegasus
Industria 2015 Project
2009-2012
The aim of the PEGASUS (mobility management project through infotelematics systems for urban areas, passengers vehicles and goods safety) is to carry out an integrated infotelematics platform acting as enabler of a systemic approach to sustainable and safe management of people, vehicles and goods’ flows within urban areas. In particular, the platform will be based on the collection and real-time processing of data arising from vehicles, infrastructure and their interactions and will exploit them in view of improving mobility management in urban and sub-urban areas.
Facit SME
European FP-7 Funded Project
2009-2012
The FACIT SME project addresses SMEs operating in the ICT domain. The goals are: to facilitate the use of Software Engineering (SE) methods and to systematize their application integrated with the business processes; to provide efficient and affordable certification of these processes according to internationally accepted standards; to securely share best practices, tools and experiences with development partners and customers.
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Outdoor Video Protection: innovative vision and information technologies for safe outdoors work environments
Regional Project
2009-2010
The main purpose of the project is the monitoring of wide open spaces, with particular reference to hazardous workplaces such as construction sites, in order to detect intruders or situations that are not up to standard. These environments are very complex to control, usually spread over very large areas whose access points are most often unknown and not monitored. The solution proposed in the project plans to overcome these limitations by resorting to the use of multimodal sensor fusion, by jointly using cameras and RFID technologies.
Semantic Self-organizing Mobile Networks of Radio Sensors
DII Department Project
2007-2009
The research focuses on sensor networks in all ICT disciplines, with the aim of integrating aspects related to technology and microelectronic systems, design of interconnection systems via ad hoc radio communication, organization of digital information and the formulation and efficient execution of queries based on semantics. In particular, research in computer science is concerned with providing connection capacity, self-organization, and suitable algorithms to retrieve and manage information in a distributed mobile environment.
NeP4B: Networked Peers for Business
Italian FIRB Project
2006-2009
NeP4B goal is to contribute innovative ICTs solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), by developing an advanced technological infrastructure to enable companies of any nature, size and geographic location to search for partners, exchange data, negotiate and collaborate without limitations and constraints.
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WISDOM: Web Intelligent Search based on DOMain ontologies
Italian Council co-funded Research Project
2005-2007
The huge amount of data and services available on the Web requires the development of systems that, overcome the "information overloading" problem of traditional search engines. In particular, there is the need of developing novel tools for the integration, the localization and the customizable fruition of informative resources. WISDOM goal is to develop intelligent techniques and tools, based on domain ontologies, to perform effective and efficient information search on the WEB.
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DELOS – A Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
IST Network of Excellence
2004-2006
Digital Libraries (DL) have been made possible through the integration and use of a number of IC technologies, the availability of digital content on a global scale and a strong demand for users who are now online. They are destined to become essential part of the information infrastructure in the 21st century. The DELOS network intends to conduct a joint program of activities (JPA) aimed at integrating and coordinating the ongoing research activities of the major European teams working in DL-related areas with the goal of developing the next generation DL technologies.
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Semantic Web techniques for the management of digital identity and the access to norms
Italian Council co-funded Research Project
2004-2006
The objective of the research is the study of information systems and services aimed at facilitating the involvement of the citizen in the eGovernance process. In this context, the main effort is devoted to the development of a technological infrastructure based on the Semantic Web for the citizen’s personalized access to Public Administration services. The service chosen for the project development is the access to norm texts, while the personalization of the service consists of the retrieval and reconstruction of all and only norms that are valid and applicable to the citizen also according to his/her digital identity.
Technologies and Services for Enhanced Content Delivery (ECD)
CNR co-funded Research Project
2002-2005
The project is focused on developing tools and technologies for delivering enhanced contents to final users. This entails identifying relevant material from various sources, transforming it, adding to it metadata and other useful distinguishing information, organizing it and delivering the most relevant material to interested users in a timely fashion.
La dinamica della norma nel tempo: aspetti giuridici ed informatici
Italian Council co-funded Research Project
2002-2003
The research investigates the issue of the dynamics of norms over time to analyze models, tools, methodologies for describing the effects of the legislative changes produced in the normative system. In particular, the research has been directed to the development and production of instruments for facilitating the identification and determination of current legislation and for suggesting rules of good standardization.