Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”

Ageing population is growing faster in EU. ICT can provide solutions for Active Ageing, however the success ofnovel ICT solutions depends on the user perception about their efficacy to support toward health promotion and globalwellness.NESTORE will develop an innovative, multi-dimensional, personalized coaching system to support healthy ageingby: 1) Generating and sustaining motivation to take care of health; 2) Suggesting healthy nutrition and personalizedphysical and mental coach, as well as social interaction, to prevent decline and preserve wellbeing.The main concept is to develop NESTORE as a friend and a coach able to support both the individual and the socialdimension. The friend NESTORE understands the emotional status of the user; the coach NESTORE understands the“weaknesses” of the user and proposes actions and activities that improve and maintain wellbeing. Key innovationelement in NESTORE is the design of “pathways of interest” able to provide hints and services according to the user’spreferences, while ensuring that the overall wellbeing and health status is maximised.NESTORE leverages on novel ICT technologies: 1) multi-domain unobtrusive monitoring system, including wearableand environmental sensors and tangible objects, 2) intelligent Decision Support System, to analyse the seniors’behaviour and provide personalized targets toward wellbeing 3) active coaching, developed as conversational agent,embodied in a physical companion that assumes different forms, able to establish affective communication throughmultimodal communication channels and to engage older people with personalized coaching activities in a single ormultiple domains.Methodological strengths of our approach are: 1) co-design research adopted throughout the project 2) thoroughsystem validation with respect to usability, acceptability and effectiveness 3) development of a sustainable ecosysteminvolving citizens and stakeholders for the co-production of wellness.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Francesco Furfari

Ageing population is growing faster in EU. ICT can provide solutions for Active Ageing, however the success ofnovel ICT solutions depends on the user perception about their efficacy to support toward health promotion and globalwellness.NESTORE will develop an innovative, multi-dimensional, personalized coaching system to support healthy ageingby: 1) Generating and sustaining motivation to take care of health; 2) Suggesting healthy nutrition and personalizedphysical and mental coach, as well as social interaction, to prevent decline and preserve wellbeing.The main concept is to develop NESTORE as a friend and a coach able to support both the individual and the socialdimension. The friend NESTORE understands the emotional status of the user; the coach NESTORE understands the“weaknesses” of the user and proposes actions and activities that improve and maintain wellbeing. Key innovationelement in NESTORE is the design of “pathways of interest” able to provide hints and services according to the user’spreferences, while ensuring that the overall wellbeing and health status is maximised.NESTORE leverages on novel ICT technologies: 1) multi-domain unobtrusive monitoring system, including wearableand environmental sensors and tangible objects, 2) intelligent Decision Support System, to analyse the seniors’behaviour and provide personalized targets toward wellbeing 3) active coaching, developed as conversational agent,embodied in a physical companion that assumes different forms, able to establish affective communication throughmultimodal communication channels and to engage older people with personalized coaching activities in a single ormultiple domains.Methodological strengths of our approach are: 1) co-design research adopted throughout the project 2) thoroughsystem validation with respect to usability, acceptability and effectiveness 3) development of a sustainable ecosysteminvolving citizens and stakeholders for the co-production of wellness.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Francesco Furfari

Il presente progetto propone l’integrazione della fonte geotermica a bassa temperatura, contenuta nelsottosuolo in falde acquifere multistrato e sedimenti, ed il solare fotovoltaico ad integrazionedell’alimentazione elettrica delle pompe di calore (PDC) geotermiche. Per l’estrazione del calore geotermico abassa profondità si opera su falde acquifere attraverso pozzi di produzione e reiniezione con tecnologie diperforazione e completamento pozzi innovativi.

L’energia termica prodotta dall’impianto dimostratore alimenterà il carico termico-sanitario di un edificio aduso direzionale e, per risolvere le asincronicità tra produzione e carico e ottimizzare la gestione tecnico-economica dell’intero sistema saranno studiati, messi a punto e realizzati dimostratori di accumuli dell’energiatermica estratta.

L’ottimizzazione tecnico economica dell’intero sistema, in logica smart grids, richiede inoltre una gestionerazionale ed accurata delle utenze termiche mantenendo alto il benessere psico-fisico degli utenti dell’edificio.Risulta complesso “quantificare” l’impatto che diverse azioni correttive (ad esempio, sull’impianto diriscaldamento/condizionamento) hanno sui livelli di benessere percepito, o quale sia il giusto trade-off trarisparmio dei consumi energetici (elettricità e/o calore) e riduzione del benessere. Saranno, quindi, ideati emessi a punto sistemi ICT innovativi per migliorare l’efficienza dell’edificio, con particolare attenzione aiconsumi energetici ed agli impianti di riscaldamento e raffreddamento, facilitando l’integrazione della sorgentegeotermica negli impianti preesistenti e migliorando i livelli di comfort percepiti dagli utenti.

Project duration: 24 months;    Financial Institution: Ente Pubblico Locale

Contact:  Paolo Barsocchi

Ageing population is growing faster in EU. ICT can provide solutions for Active Ageing, however the success ofnovel ICT solutions depends on the user perception about their efficacy to support toward health promotion and globalwellness.NESTORE will develop an innovative, multi-dimensional, personalized coaching system to support healthy ageingby: 1) Generating and sustaining motivation to take care of health; 2) Suggesting healthy nutrition and personalizedphysical and mental coach, as well as social interaction, to prevent decline and preserve wellbeing.The main concept is to develop NESTORE as a friend and a coach able to support both the individual and the socialdimension. The friend NESTORE understands the emotional status of the user; the coach NESTORE understands the“weaknesses” of the user and proposes actions and activities that improve and maintain wellbeing. Key innovationelement in NESTORE is the design of “pathways of interest” able to provide hints and services according to the user’spreferences, while ensuring that the overall wellbeing and health status is maximised.NESTORE leverages on novel ICT technologies: 1) multi-domain unobtrusive monitoring system, including wearableand environmental sensors and tangible objects, 2) intelligent Decision Support System, to analyse the seniors’behaviour and provide personalized targets toward wellbeing 3) active coaching, developed as conversational agent,embodied in a physical companion that assumes different forms, able to establish affective communication throughmultimodal communication channels and to engage older people with personalized coaching activities in a single ormultiple domains.Methodological strengths of our approach are: 1) co-design research adopted throughout the project 2) thoroughsystem validation with respect to usability, acceptability and effectiveness 3) development of a sustainable ecosysteminvolving citizens and stakeholders for the co-production of wellness.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Francesco Furfari

L'Agenzia internazionale per l'energia2 ha stimato che il 22% di tutte le emissioni di CO2sono generate dal settore trasporti, di cui il 73% è generato dal trasporto su strada. InEuropa il trasporto su strada rappresenta il 93% delle emissioni totali di CO2 legate aitrasporti e poco più del 19% delle emissioni totali di gas metano utilizzato nelle abitazioni.Il trasporto su strada rappresenta quindi la seconda categoria di interesse per la UE‐153.Oggi più di 700 milioni di veicoli operano nel settore dei trasporti stradali per sostenere leesigenze di trasporto di una popolazione mondiale di circa 6,8 miliardi di persone, di cui il64% è dislocata in centri urbani. Entro il 2050 il numero di veicoli nel settore dei trasportisu strada potrebbe crescere fino a quasi 3000 milioni4 e la popolazione mondiale sarà dicirca 9 miliardi, di cui il 78% in aree urbane. Oltre al clima, le fonti di emissione (CO, CH4,NOx, N2O, composti organici volatili, carboni cloro e perfluoro, tetrafluoruro di silicio,metalli pesanti e particolato) dei sistemi di trasporto influenzano la qualità dell'aria,dell'acqua e del suolo5 e il rumore prodotto dai veicoli incide negativamente sulla salutedegli individui e riduce il valore dell'ambiente urbano. Infine, la quantità di emissioni erumore imputabili al settore dei trasporti può essere influenzata da fattori quali l'usoeccessivo dei veicoli, l'età e la loro scarsa manutenzione.

Project duration: 43 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Erina Ferro

Ageing population is growing faster in EU. ICT can provide solutions for Active Ageing, however the success ofnovel ICT solutions depends on the user perception about their efficacy to support toward health promotion and globalwellness.NESTORE will develop an innovative, multi-dimensional, personalized coaching system to support healthy ageingby: 1) Generating and sustaining motivation to take care of health; 2) Suggesting healthy nutrition and personalizedphysical and mental coach, as well as social interaction, to prevent decline and preserve wellbeing.The main concept is to develop NESTORE as a friend and a coach able to support both the individual and the socialdimension. The friend NESTORE understands the emotional status of the user; the coach NESTORE understands the“weaknesses” of the user and proposes actions and activities that improve and maintain wellbeing. Key innovationelement in NESTORE is the design of “pathways of interest” able to provide hints and services according to the user’spreferences, while ensuring that the overall wellbeing and health status is maximised.NESTORE leverages on novel ICT technologies: 1) multi-domain unobtrusive monitoring system, including wearableand environmental sensors and tangible objects, 2) intelligent Decision Support System, to analyse the seniors’behaviour and provide personalized targets toward wellbeing 3) active coaching, developed as conversational agent,embodied in a physical companion that assumes different forms, able to establish affective communication throughmultimodal communication channels and to engage older people with personalized coaching activities in a single ormultiple domains.Methodological strengths of our approach are: 1) co-design research adopted throughout the project 2) thoroughsystem validation with respect to usability, acceptability and effectiveness 3) development of a sustainable ecosysteminvolving citizens and stakeholders for the co-production of wellness.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Francesco Furfari

Il progetto Energia da Fonti Rinnovabili e ICT per la Sostenibilità Energetica (in breve progetto Sostenibilità Energetica) intende studiare e sperimentare un insieme coordinato di soluzioni innovative per rendere le città sostenibili da un punto di vista energetico- ambientale. Per raggiungere questo obiettivo, il progetto si base sull’uso diffuso di fonti energetiche rinnovabili (e delle relative tecnologie per l’accumulo e la gestione dell’energia) e sull’utilizzo estensivo di tecnologie ICT per la gestione avanzata dei flussi energetici e rendere i servizi della città energeticamente efficienti adattandoli alla domanda (e quindi favorire il risparmio energetico e l’uso razionale dell’energia) e alla disponibilità di energia da fonti rinnovabili, anche con il coinvolgimento consapevole dei cittadini.

Project duration: 48 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Erina Ferro

Il presente progetto propone l’integrazione della fonte geotermica a bassa temperatura, contenuta nelsottosuolo in falde acquifere multistrato e sedimenti, ed il solare fotovoltaico ad integrazionedell’alimentazione elettrica delle pompe di calore (PDC) geotermiche. Per l’estrazione del calore geotermico abassa profondità si opera su falde acquifere attraverso pozzi di produzione e reiniezione con tecnologie diperforazione e completamento pozzi innovativi.

L’energia termica prodotta dall’impianto dimostratore alimenterà il carico termico-sanitario di un edificio aduso direzionale e, per risolvere le asincronicità tra produzione e carico e ottimizzare la gestione tecnico-economica dell’intero sistema saranno studiati, messi a punto e realizzati dimostratori di accumuli dell’energiatermica estratta.

L’ottimizzazione tecnico economica dell’intero sistema, in logica smart grids, richiede inoltre una gestionerazionale ed accurata delle utenze termiche mantenendo alto il benessere psico-fisico degli utenti dell’edificio.Risulta complesso “quantificare” l’impatto che diverse azioni correttive (ad esempio, sull’impianto diriscaldamento/condizionamento) hanno sui livelli di benessere percepito, o quale sia il giusto trade-off trarisparmio dei consumi energetici (elettricità e/o calore) e riduzione del benessere. Saranno, quindi, ideati emessi a punto sistemi ICT innovativi per migliorare l’efficienza dell’edificio, con particolare attenzione aiconsumi energetici ed agli impianti di riscaldamento e raffreddamento, facilitando l’integrazione della sorgentegeotermica negli impianti preesistenti e migliorando i livelli di comfort percepiti dagli utenti.

Project duration: 24 months;    Financial Institution: Ente Pubblico Locale

Contact:  Paolo Barsocchi

L'Agenzia internazionale per l'energia2 ha stimato che il 22% di tutte le emissioni di CO2sono generate dal settore trasporti, di cui il 73% è generato dal trasporto su strada. InEuropa il trasporto su strada rappresenta il 93% delle emissioni totali di CO2 legate aitrasporti e poco più del 19% delle emissioni totali di gas metano utilizzato nelle abitazioni.Il trasporto su strada rappresenta quindi la seconda categoria di interesse per la UE‐153.Oggi più di 700 milioni di veicoli operano nel settore dei trasporti stradali per sostenere leesigenze di trasporto di una popolazione mondiale di circa 6,8 miliardi di persone, di cui il64% è dislocata in centri urbani. Entro il 2050 il numero di veicoli nel settore dei trasportisu strada potrebbe crescere fino a quasi 3000 milioni4 e la popolazione mondiale sarà dicirca 9 miliardi, di cui il 78% in aree urbane. Oltre al clima, le fonti di emissione (CO, CH4,NOx, N2O, composti organici volatili, carboni cloro e perfluoro, tetrafluoruro di silicio,metalli pesanti e particolato) dei sistemi di trasporto influenzano la qualità dell'aria,dell'acqua e del suolo5 e il rumore prodotto dai veicoli incide negativamente sulla salutedegli individui e riduce il valore dell'ambiente urbano. Infine, la quantità di emissioni erumore imputabili al settore dei trasporti può essere influenzata da fattori quali l'usoeccessivo dei veicoli, l'età e la loro scarsa manutenzione.

Project duration: 43 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Erina Ferro

​In questo progetto saranno studiate e sviluppate metodologie integrate di monitoraggio, diagnostica e conservazione di costruzioni murarie antiche basate su reti di sensori wireless, droni e strumenti di calcolo innovativi. Le wireless sensor networks che saranno impiegate per le varie misurazioni dovranno considerare, da una parte, i vincoli architettonici, strutturali e funzionali che caratterizzano le strutture monumentali dei centri storici, e dall’altra le esigenze legate alla propagazione del segnale, ed inoltre dovranno essere ottimizzate in termini di costi globali  e impatto ambientale. I parametri per il monitoraggio strutturale (e quindi i tipi di sensori da utilizzare) saranno definiti con l’aiuto di codici di calcolo open-source per la simulazione del comportamento statico e dinamico di costruzioni in muratura, quali NOSA-ITACA (sviluppato dal Laboratorio di Meccanica dei Materiali e delle Strutture dell’Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo” CNR-ISTI) Mady e Code-Aster. Ad integrazione dei dati prodotti dalle reti di sensori sarà utilizzato un drone che consentirà acquisizioni video e foto delle strutture. I dati provenienti sia dalle reti di sensori sia dal drone verranno convogliati verso un sistema avanzato di elaborazione dell’informazione, chiamato Centro di Controllo del Monitoraggio, all'interno del quale tutti i dati verranno elaborati ed integrati per fornire agli utilizzatori finali del Sistema utili informazioni e segnalazioni sulle condizioni strutturali delle costruzioni monitorate.

Project duration: 30 months;    Financial Institution: Ente Pubblico Locale

Contact:  Paolo Barsocchi

The demand for larger and more interconnected software systems is constantly increasing, but the ability of developers tosatisfy it is not evolving accordingly. The most limiting factor is software validation, which typically requires very costly andcomplex testing processes. This project aims at significantly improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the testing processand, with it, the overall quality of large software systems. For this, we propose to apply the “divide-and-conquer” principle,which is commonly used for architecting complex software, to testing by developing a novel test orchestration theory andtoolbox enabling the creation of complex test suites as the composition of simple testing units. This test orchestrationmechanism is complemented with a number of tools that include: (1) Capabilities for the instrumentation of the Softwareunder Test enabling to reproduce real-world operational conditions thanks to features such as Packet Loss as a Service,Network Latency as a Service, Failure as a Service, etc. (2) Reusable testing services solving common testing problemsincluding Browser Automation as a Service, Sensor Emulator as a Service, Monitoring as a Service, Security Check as aService, Log Ingestion and Analysis as a Service, Cost Modeling as a Service, etc. (3) Cognitive computing and machinelearning mechanisms suitable for ingesting large amounts of knowledge (e.g. specifications, logs, software engineeringdocuments, etc.) and capable of using it for generating testing recommendations and answering natural language questionsabout the testing process. The ElasTest platform thus created shall be released basing on a flexible Free Open SourceSoftware and a community of users, stakeholders and contributors shall be grown around it with the objective of transformingElasTest into a worldwide reference in the area of large software systems testing and of guaranteeing the long termsustainability of the project generated results.

Project website: http://www.elastest.eu

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Antonia Bertolino

​In questo progetto saranno studiate e sviluppate metodologie integrate di monitoraggio, diagnostica e conservazione di costruzioni murarie antiche basate su reti di sensori wireless, droni e strumenti di calcolo innovativi. Le wireless sensor networks che saranno impiegate per le varie misurazioni dovranno considerare, da una parte, i vincoli architettonici, strutturali e funzionali che caratterizzano le strutture monumentali dei centri storici, e dall’altra le esigenze legate alla propagazione del segnale, ed inoltre dovranno essere ottimizzate in termini di costi globali  e impatto ambientale. I parametri per il monitoraggio strutturale (e quindi i tipi di sensori da utilizzare) saranno definiti con l’aiuto di codici di calcolo open-source per la simulazione del comportamento statico e dinamico di costruzioni in muratura, quali NOSA-ITACA (sviluppato dal Laboratorio di Meccanica dei Materiali e delle Strutture dell’Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo” CNR-ISTI) Mady e Code-Aster. Ad integrazione dei dati prodotti dalle reti di sensori sarà utilizzato un drone che consentirà acquisizioni video e foto delle strutture. I dati provenienti sia dalle reti di sensori sia dal drone verranno convogliati verso un sistema avanzato di elaborazione dell’informazione, chiamato Centro di Controllo del Monitoraggio, all'interno del quale tutti i dati verranno elaborati ed integrati per fornire agli utilizzatori finali del Sistema utili informazioni e segnalazioni sulle condizioni strutturali delle costruzioni monitorate.

Project duration: 30 months;    Financial Institution: Ente Pubblico Locale

Contact:  Paolo Barsocchi

Ageing population is growing faster in EU. ICT can provide solutions for Active Ageing, however the success ofnovel ICT solutions depends on the user perception about their efficacy to support toward health promotion and globalwellness.NESTORE will develop an innovative, multi-dimensional, personalized coaching system to support healthy ageingby: 1) Generating and sustaining motivation to take care of health; 2) Suggesting healthy nutrition and personalizedphysical and mental coach, as well as social interaction, to prevent decline and preserve wellbeing.The main concept is to develop NESTORE as a friend and a coach able to support both the individual and the socialdimension. The friend NESTORE understands the emotional status of the user; the coach NESTORE understands the“weaknesses” of the user and proposes actions and activities that improve and maintain wellbeing. Key innovationelement in NESTORE is the design of “pathways of interest” able to provide hints and services according to the user’spreferences, while ensuring that the overall wellbeing and health status is maximised.NESTORE leverages on novel ICT technologies: 1) multi-domain unobtrusive monitoring system, including wearableand environmental sensors and tangible objects, 2) intelligent Decision Support System, to analyse the seniors’behaviour and provide personalized targets toward wellbeing 3) active coaching, developed as conversational agent,embodied in a physical companion that assumes different forms, able to establish affective communication throughmultimodal communication channels and to engage older people with personalized coaching activities in a single ormultiple domains.Methodological strengths of our approach are: 1) co-design research adopted throughout the project 2) thoroughsystem validation with respect to usability, acceptability and effectiveness 3) development of a sustainable ecosysteminvolving citizens and stakeholders for the co-production of wellness.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Francesco Furfari

We propose visionary research to develop modeling, computational, and ICT tools needed to predict and influencedisease spread and other contagion phenomena in complex social systems. To achieve non-incremental advanceswe will combine large scale, realistic, data-driven models with participatory data-collection and advanced methodsfor Big Data analysis. In particular we will go beyond the one-dimensional focus of current approaches tackling oneaspect of the problem at a time. We will interconnect contagion progression (e.g. epidemics) with social adaptation,the economic impact and other systemic aspects that will finally allow a complete analysis of the inherent systemicrisk. We will develop models dealing with multiple time and length scales simultaneously, leading to the definitionof new, layered computational approaches. Towards policy impact and social response we will work to close theloop between models, data, behavior and perception and develop new concepts for the explanation, visualizationand interaction with data and models both on individual and on collective level. We will cast the fundamentaladvances into an integrated system building on widely accepted open ICT technologies that will be used and usefulbeyond the project. As a tangible ICT outcome directed at facilitating the uptake and impact of the project, we willimplement “Interactive Social Exploratories” defined as interactive environments which act as a front-end to aset of parameterizable and adjustable models, data analysis techniques, visualization methods and data collectionframeworks. In summary, we aim to (1) produce fundamental theoretical, methodological and technological advances(2) mold them into a broadly usable ICT platform that will be a catalyst for producing, delivering, and embeddingscientific evidence into the policy and societal processes and (3) evaluate the system empirically with policy makersand citizens focusing on the concrete problem of epidemic spreading.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Fosca Giannotti

Linee guida per l’organizzazione di un progetto di adattamento domestico per l’autonomia personale (ADA) finalizzato al miglioramento delle condizioni di vita delle persone con disabilità grave nella propria abitazione.

Project website: http://open.toscana.it/web/toscana-accessibile/sperimentazione-adattamento-domestico-

Project duration: 18 months;    Financial Institution: Ente Pubblico Locale

Contact:  Barbara Leporini

We propose visionary research to develop modeling, computational, and ICT tools needed to predict and influencedisease spread and other contagion phenomena in complex social systems. To achieve non-incremental advanceswe will combine large scale, realistic, data-driven models with participatory data-collection and advanced methodsfor Big Data analysis. In particular we will go beyond the one-dimensional focus of current approaches tackling oneaspect of the problem at a time. We will interconnect contagion progression (e.g. epidemics) with social adaptation,the economic impact and other systemic aspects that will finally allow a complete analysis of the inherent systemicrisk. We will develop models dealing with multiple time and length scales simultaneously, leading to the definitionof new, layered computational approaches. Towards policy impact and social response we will work to close theloop between models, data, behavior and perception and develop new concepts for the explanation, visualizationand interaction with data and models both on individual and on collective level. We will cast the fundamentaladvances into an integrated system building on widely accepted open ICT technologies that will be used and usefulbeyond the project. As a tangible ICT outcome directed at facilitating the uptake and impact of the project, we willimplement “Interactive Social Exploratories” defined as interactive environments which act as a front-end to aset of parameterizable and adjustable models, data analysis techniques, visualization methods and data collectionframeworks. In summary, we aim to (1) produce fundamental theoretical, methodological and technological advances(2) mold them into a broadly usable ICT platform that will be a catalyst for producing, delivering, and embeddingscientific evidence into the policy and societal processes and (3) evaluate the system empirically with policy makersand citizens focusing on the concrete problem of epidemic spreading.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Fosca Giannotti

Il CRAIM, Centro di Ricerca per l'Analisi delle Informazioni Multimediali è un laboratorio congiunto costituito dall'Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR e il Dipartimento di Pubblica sicurezza della Polizia di Stato (DIPPS). Obiettivo principale del Centro è lo sviluppo di strumenti e metodologie avanzate per l'analisi delle informazioni di natura testuale e multimediale in contesti di Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), ossia di dati provenienti da fonti aperte. Gli strumenti e le metodologie sviluppate dovranno essere in grado di far fronte ai nuovi scenari investigativi emergenti, quali ad esempio l'antiterrorismo.Nell'ambito del CRAIM, il laboratorio Networked Multimedia Information Systems (NeMIS) dell'Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" si occupa dell'analisi automatica delle immagini attraverso tecniche di deep learning e approcci big multimedia data e di ricerca scalabile ed efficiente.

Project duration: 32 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Fabrizio Falchi

Il progetto APIC ha lo scopo di realizzare una piattaforma web verticalizzata per il settore della produzione e trasformazione della carta orientata all' integrazione di informazioni provenienti da vari sensori, oggetti ed applicazioni con la possibilità di realizzare regole che personalizzano il comportamento delle varie soluzioni secondo il modello "Trigger Action Rules".

Project duration: 18 months;    Financial Institution: Ente Pubblico Locale

Contact:  Carmelina Santoro

Il progetto FITS.ME mira a progettare ed implementare un sistema integrato in grado di facilitare l’orientamento degli utenti all’interno di edifici di grandi dimensioni, ovviando in maniera intuitiva ed efficace al disorientamento che questi spesso lamentano muovendosi all’interno di strutture estese e complesse (ad es. ospedali, uffici pubblici, edifici storici e grandi musei). Il sistema si dimostrerà particolarmente utile ed efficace per quegli utenti che manifestano ridotte capacità di orientamento (es. disabili, anziani, degenti ospedalieri). Il progetto prefigura lo sviluppo di un dispositivo interattivo indossabile innovativo (Dispositivo Indossabile di Posizionamento o DIP), dotato di interfacce di tipo vibro-tattile.

Project website: http://hiis.isti.cnr.it/FITS.ME/

Project duration: 20 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Fabio Paternò

Il progetto PersonAAL ambisce ad estendere il tempo che gli anziani possono vivere nel loro ambiente domestico, aumentando la loro autonomia e assistendoli nello svolgimento delle attività quotidiane per mezzo di applicazioni web intelligenti e intuitive. Queste forniscono agli utenti un’assistenza personalizzata e dipendente dal contesto nelle loro case con il duplice l'obiettivo di migliorare la qualità della vita e diminuire il costo dell’assistenza sanitaria. In particolare lo scopo di questo progetto è di fornire agli anziani mezzi utili e utilizzabili per un migliore mantenimento del loro stile di vita. Tali mezzi dovrebbero consentire loro una maggiore consapevolezza e controllo del loro stile di vita attuale, fornendo loro informazioni pertinenti e contestualizzate in un modo intuitivo e naturale. Ciò sarà realizzato tramite lo sviluppo di nuove soluzioni per le applicazioni web personalizzate accessibili e dipendenti dal contesto e per migliorare la cura remota formale e informale degli anziani. A questo proposito, il progetto prevede di fornire agli sviluppatori un ambiente di progettazione che include considerazioni di accessibilità e principi di “design-for-all” durante la fase di sviluppo delle applicazioni Web, e un supporto run-time per adattare e personalizzare le applicazioni per la cura degli anziani precedentemente create, alle esigenze degli specifici utenti, alle loro capacità che possono variare nel tempo, alle caratteristiche dell’ambiente e dei dispositivi utilizzati.Inoltre il progetto utilizzerà questo ambiente per migliorare e ottimizzare tre applicazioni di supporto esistenti, aggiungendo la tecnologia di personalizzazione, in modo da rendere tali applicazioni più efficaci e meglio allineate con le esigenze degli anziani.La selezione delle interfacce utente più adatte da fornire agli utenti sarà realizzata da una piattaforma intelligente sulla base del contesto di utilizzo (che copre vari aspetti rilevanti come considerazioni sulle caratteristiche dell'utente, dell'ambiente fisico/sociale circostante, e del dispositivo utilizzato), e con il supporto di regole di adattamento fornite anche da caregivers formali o informali. Le applicazioni multi-canale e adattate saranno quindi in grado di assistere remotamente gli anziani tramite vari dispositivi (PC, TV, smartphone, etc.) e diverse modalità di interazione (grafica, vocale, gestuale), fornendo interfacce utente in grado di adattarsi dinamicamente alla situazione attuale in modo tempestivo e contestualizzato con precisione.

Project website: http://www.personaal-project.eu

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Fabio Paternò

The objective of this Project is to extend the time older people can live in theirhome environment by increasing their autonomy and assisting them in carryingout activities of daily living. In particular, our goals are to provide older adults affected by milddementia with useful and usable means to increase their awareness and controlof their current lifestyle, by providing them with relevant and tailoredinformation in an intuitive and natural manner. This will be achieved throughan intelligent platform able to monitor users’ behaviour and remotely controltheir lighting system.

Project website: http://www.aal-petal.eu

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Fabio Paternò

The EOSCpilot project will support the first phase in the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as described in the EC Communication on European Cloud Initiatives [2016]. 

• It will establish the governance framework for the EOSC and contribute to the development of European open science policy and best practice; 

• It will develop a number of pilots that integrate services and infrastructures to demonstrate interoperability in a number of scientific domains; and 

• It will engage with a broad range of stakeholders, crossing borders and communities, to build the trust and skills required for adoption of an open approach to scientific research. 

These actions will build on and leverage already available resources and capabilities from research infrastructure and einfrastructure organisations to maximise their use across the research community. The EOSCpilot project will address some of the key reasons why European research is not yet fully tapping into the potential of data. In particular, it will: 

• reduce fragmentation between data infrastructures by working across scientific and economic domains, countries and governance models, and 

• improve interoperability between data infrastructures by demonstrating how data and resources can be shared even when they are large and complex and in varied formats.

In this way, the EOSC pilot project will improve the ability to reuse data resources and provide an important step towards building a dependable open-data research environment where data from publicly funded research is always open and there are clear incentives and rewards for the sharing of data and resources. 

Project website: http://https://eoscpilot.eu/

Project duration: 28 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Donatella Castelli

OpenAIRE2020 represents a pivotal phase in the long-term effort to implement and strengthen the impact of the Open Access (OA) policies of the European Commission (EC), building on the achievements of the OpenAIRE projects. OpenAIRE2020 will expand and leverage its focus from (1) the agents and resources of scholarly communication to workflows and processes, (2) from publications to data, software, and other research outputs, and the links between them, and (3) strengthen the relationship of European OA infrastructures with other regions of the world, in particular Latin America and the U.S. Through these efforts OpenAIRE2020 will truly support and accelerate Open Science and Scholarship, of which Open Access is of fundamental importance.OpenAIRE2020 continues and extends OpenAIRE’s scholarly communication infrastructure to manage and monitor the outcomes of EC-funded research. It combines its substantial networking capacities and technical capabilities to deliver a robust infrastructure offering support for the Open Access policies in Horizon 2020, via a range of pan-European outreach activities and a suite of services for key stakeholders. It provides researcher support and services for the Open Data Pilot and investigates its legal ramifications. The project offers to national funders the ability to implement OpenAIRE services to monitor research output, whilst new impact measures for research are investigated. OpenAIRE2020 engages with innovative publishing and data initiatives via studies and pilots. By liaising with global infrastructures, it ensures international interoperability of repositories and their valuable OA contents.To ensure sustainability and long-term health for the overall OpenAIRE infrastructure, the proposed OpenAIRE2020 project will establish itself as a legal entity, which will manage the production-level responsibilities securing 24/7 reliability and continuity to all relevant user groups, data providers and other stakeholders.

Project website: http://https://www.openaire.eu/

Project duration: 42 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Donatella Castelli

Open Access and Open Scholarship have revolutionized the way scholarly artefacts are evaluated and published, while the introduction of new technologies and media in scientific workflows has changed the “how and to whom” science is communicated, and how stakeholders interact with the scientific community. OpenUP addresses key aspects and challenges of the currently transforming science landscape and aspires to come up with a cohesive framework for the reviewdisseminateassess phases of the research life cycle that is fit to support and promote Open Science. Its main objectives are to a) identify and determine ground-breaking mechanisms, processes and tools for peer-review for all types of research results (publications, data, software), b) explore, identify and classify innovative dissemination mechanisms with an outreach aim towards businesses and industry, education, and society as a whole, and c) analyse a set of novel indicators that assess the impact of research results and correlate them of channels of dissemination. It will do so by following a user-centred, evidence-based approach, engaging all stakeholders (researchers, publishers, funders, institutions, industry, public) in an open dialogue through a series of workshops, conferences and training, and validating all interim results via a set of seven pilots involving communities from four research disciplines: life sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities, energy. It will finally produce a set of concrete, practical, validated policy recommendations & guidelines for national and European stakeholders, including EU institutions, a valuable tool in advancing a more open and gender-sensitive science system. OpenUP partners bring expertise and capacity for evaluating and promoting new approaches in support of open science with decade-long experiences in establishing OA e-Infrastructures, excellent skills and innovative approaches for dissemination, impact indicators and policy design and implementation. OpenUP is carried out by two CNR Institutes, IRPPS (under the coordination of Daniela Luzi) and ISTI (under the coordination of Donatella Castelli).Administrative reporting towards the UE and the Coordinator is under the responsibility of ISTI (Donatella Castelli and Franco Zoppi).

Project website: http://openup-h2020.eu/

Project duration: 30 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Donatella Castelli

We propose visionary research to develop modeling, computational, and ICT tools needed to predict and influencedisease spread and other contagion phenomena in complex social systems. To achieve non-incremental advanceswe will combine large scale, realistic, data-driven models with participatory data-collection and advanced methodsfor Big Data analysis. In particular we will go beyond the one-dimensional focus of current approaches tackling oneaspect of the problem at a time. We will interconnect contagion progression (e.g. epidemics) with social adaptation,the economic impact and other systemic aspects that will finally allow a complete analysis of the inherent systemicrisk. We will develop models dealing with multiple time and length scales simultaneously, leading to the definitionof new, layered computational approaches. Towards policy impact and social response we will work to close theloop between models, data, behavior and perception and develop new concepts for the explanation, visualizationand interaction with data and models both on individual and on collective level. We will cast the fundamentaladvances into an integrated system building on widely accepted open ICT technologies that will be used and usefulbeyond the project. As a tangible ICT outcome directed at facilitating the uptake and impact of the project, we willimplement “Interactive Social Exploratories” defined as interactive environments which act as a front-end to aset of parameterizable and adjustable models, data analysis techniques, visualization methods and data collectionframeworks. In summary, we aim to (1) produce fundamental theoretical, methodological and technological advances(2) mold them into a broadly usable ICT platform that will be a catalyst for producing, delivering, and embeddingscientific evidence into the policy and societal processes and (3) evaluate the system empirically with policy makersand citizens focusing on the concrete problem of epidemic spreading.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Fosca Giannotti

OpenAIRE2020 represents a pivotal phase in the long-term effort to implement and strengthen the impact of the Open Access (OA) policies of the European Commission (EC), building on the achievements of the OpenAIRE projects. OpenAIRE2020 will expand and leverage its focus from (1) the agents and resources of scholarly communication to workflows and processes, (2) from publications to data, software, and other research outputs, and the links between them, and (3) strengthen the relationship of European OA infrastructures with other regions of the world, in particular Latin America and the U.S. Through these efforts OpenAIRE2020 will truly support and accelerate Open Science and Scholarship, of which Open Access is of fundamental importance.OpenAIRE2020 continues and extends OpenAIRE’s scholarly communication infrastructure to manage and monitor the outcomes of EC-funded research. It combines its substantial networking capacities and technical capabilities to deliver a robust infrastructure offering support for the Open Access policies in Horizon 2020, via a range of pan-European outreach activities and a suite of services for key stakeholders. It provides researcher support and services for the Open Data Pilot and investigates its legal ramifications. The project offers to national funders the ability to implement OpenAIRE services to monitor research output, whilst new impact measures for research are investigated. OpenAIRE2020 engages with innovative publishing and data initiatives via studies and pilots. By liaising with global infrastructures, it ensures international interoperability of repositories and their valuable OA contents.To ensure sustainability and long-term health for the overall OpenAIRE infrastructure, the proposed OpenAIRE2020 project will establish itself as a legal entity, which will manage the production-level responsibilities securing 24/7 reliability and continuity to all relevant user groups, data providers and other stakeholders.

Project website: http://https://www.openaire.eu/

Project duration: 42 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Donatella Castelli

Open Access and Open Scholarship have revolutionized the way scholarly artefacts are evaluated and published, while the introduction of new technologies and media in scientific workflows has changed the “how and to whom” science is communicated, and how stakeholders interact with the scientific community. OpenUP addresses key aspects and challenges of the currently transforming science landscape and aspires to come up with a cohesive framework for the reviewdisseminateassess phases of the research life cycle that is fit to support and promote Open Science. Its main objectives are to a) identify and determine ground-breaking mechanisms, processes and tools for peer-review for all types of research results (publications, data, software), b) explore, identify and classify innovative dissemination mechanisms with an outreach aim towards businesses and industry, education, and society as a whole, and c) analyse a set of novel indicators that assess the impact of research results and correlate them of channels of dissemination. It will do so by following a user-centred, evidence-based approach, engaging all stakeholders (researchers, publishers, funders, institutions, industry, public) in an open dialogue through a series of workshops, conferences and training, and validating all interim results via a set of seven pilots involving communities from four research disciplines: life sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities, energy. It will finally produce a set of concrete, practical, validated policy recommendations & guidelines for national and European stakeholders, including EU institutions, a valuable tool in advancing a more open and gender-sensitive science system. OpenUP partners bring expertise and capacity for evaluating and promoting new approaches in support of open science with decade-long experiences in establishing OA e-Infrastructures, excellent skills and innovative approaches for dissemination, impact indicators and policy design and implementation. OpenUP is carried out by two CNR Institutes, IRPPS (under the coordination of Daniela Luzi) and ISTI (under the coordination of Donatella Castelli).Administrative reporting towards the UE and the Coordinator is under the responsibility of ISTI (Donatella Castelli and Franco Zoppi).

Project website: http://openup-h2020.eu/

Project duration: 30 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Donatella Castelli

Il progetto APIC ha lo scopo di realizzare una piattaforma web verticalizzata per il settore della produzione e trasformazione della carta orientata all' integrazione di informazioni provenienti da vari sensori, oggetti ed applicazioni con la possibilità di realizzare regole che personalizzano il comportamento delle varie soluzioni secondo il modello "Trigger Action Rules".

Project duration: 18 months;    Financial Institution: Ente Pubblico Locale

Contact:  Carmelina Santoro

Il progetto PersonAAL ambisce ad estendere il tempo che gli anziani possono vivere nel loro ambiente domestico, aumentando la loro autonomia e assistendoli nello svolgimento delle attività quotidiane per mezzo di applicazioni web intelligenti e intuitive. Queste forniscono agli utenti un’assistenza personalizzata e dipendente dal contesto nelle loro case con il duplice l'obiettivo di migliorare la qualità della vita e diminuire il costo dell’assistenza sanitaria. In particolare lo scopo di questo progetto è di fornire agli anziani mezzi utili e utilizzabili per un migliore mantenimento del loro stile di vita. Tali mezzi dovrebbero consentire loro una maggiore consapevolezza e controllo del loro stile di vita attuale, fornendo loro informazioni pertinenti e contestualizzate in un modo intuitivo e naturale. Ciò sarà realizzato tramite lo sviluppo di nuove soluzioni per le applicazioni web personalizzate accessibili e dipendenti dal contesto e per migliorare la cura remota formale e informale degli anziani. A questo proposito, il progetto prevede di fornire agli sviluppatori un ambiente di progettazione che include considerazioni di accessibilità e principi di “design-for-all” durante la fase di sviluppo delle applicazioni Web, e un supporto run-time per adattare e personalizzare le applicazioni per la cura degli anziani precedentemente create, alle esigenze degli specifici utenti, alle loro capacità che possono variare nel tempo, alle caratteristiche dell’ambiente e dei dispositivi utilizzati.Inoltre il progetto utilizzerà questo ambiente per migliorare e ottimizzare tre applicazioni di supporto esistenti, aggiungendo la tecnologia di personalizzazione, in modo da rendere tali applicazioni più efficaci e meglio allineate con le esigenze degli anziani.La selezione delle interfacce utente più adatte da fornire agli utenti sarà realizzata da una piattaforma intelligente sulla base del contesto di utilizzo (che copre vari aspetti rilevanti come considerazioni sulle caratteristiche dell'utente, dell'ambiente fisico/sociale circostante, e del dispositivo utilizzato), e con il supporto di regole di adattamento fornite anche da caregivers formali o informali. Le applicazioni multi-canale e adattate saranno quindi in grado di assistere remotamente gli anziani tramite vari dispositivi (PC, TV, smartphone, etc.) e diverse modalità di interazione (grafica, vocale, gestuale), fornendo interfacce utente in grado di adattarsi dinamicamente alla situazione attuale in modo tempestivo e contestualizzato con precisione.

Project website: http://www.personaal-project.eu

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Fabio Paternò

The objective of this Project is to extend the time older people can live in theirhome environment by increasing their autonomy and assisting them in carryingout activities of daily living. In particular, our goals are to provide older adults affected by milddementia with useful and usable means to increase their awareness and controlof their current lifestyle, by providing them with relevant and tailoredinformation in an intuitive and natural manner. This will be achieved throughan intelligent platform able to monitor users’ behaviour and remotely controltheir lighting system.

Project website: http://www.aal-petal.eu

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Fabio Paternò

Ageing population is growing faster in EU. ICT can provide solutions for Active Ageing, however the success ofnovel ICT solutions depends on the user perception about their efficacy to support toward health promotion and globalwellness.NESTORE will develop an innovative, multi-dimensional, personalized coaching system to support healthy ageingby: 1) Generating and sustaining motivation to take care of health; 2) Suggesting healthy nutrition and personalizedphysical and mental coach, as well as social interaction, to prevent decline and preserve wellbeing.The main concept is to develop NESTORE as a friend and a coach able to support both the individual and the socialdimension. The friend NESTORE understands the emotional status of the user; the coach NESTORE understands the“weaknesses” of the user and proposes actions and activities that improve and maintain wellbeing. Key innovationelement in NESTORE is the design of “pathways of interest” able to provide hints and services according to the user’spreferences, while ensuring that the overall wellbeing and health status is maximised.NESTORE leverages on novel ICT technologies: 1) multi-domain unobtrusive monitoring system, including wearableand environmental sensors and tangible objects, 2) intelligent Decision Support System, to analyse the seniors’behaviour and provide personalized targets toward wellbeing 3) active coaching, developed as conversational agent,embodied in a physical companion that assumes different forms, able to establish affective communication throughmultimodal communication channels and to engage older people with personalized coaching activities in a single ormultiple domains.Methodological strengths of our approach are: 1) co-design research adopted throughout the project 2) thoroughsystem validation with respect to usability, acceptability and effectiveness 3) development of a sustainable ecosysteminvolving citizens and stakeholders for the co-production of wellness.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Francesco Furfari

Il progetto FITS.ME mira a progettare ed implementare un sistema integrato in grado di facilitare l’orientamento degli utenti all’interno di edifici di grandi dimensioni, ovviando in maniera intuitiva ed efficace al disorientamento che questi spesso lamentano muovendosi all’interno di strutture estese e complesse (ad es. ospedali, uffici pubblici, edifici storici e grandi musei). Il sistema si dimostrerà particolarmente utile ed efficace per quegli utenti che manifestano ridotte capacità di orientamento (es. disabili, anziani, degenti ospedalieri). Il progetto prefigura lo sviluppo di un dispositivo interattivo indossabile innovativo (Dispositivo Indossabile di Posizionamento o DIP), dotato di interfacce di tipo vibro-tattile.

Project website: http://hiis.isti.cnr.it/FITS.ME/

Project duration: 20 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Fabio Paternò

The objective of this Project is to extend the time older people can live in theirhome environment by increasing their autonomy and assisting them in carryingout activities of daily living. In particular, our goals are to provide older adults affected by milddementia with useful and usable means to increase their awareness and controlof their current lifestyle, by providing them with relevant and tailoredinformation in an intuitive and natural manner. This will be achieved throughan intelligent platform able to monitor users’ behaviour and remotely controltheir lighting system.

Project website: http://www.aal-petal.eu

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Fabio Paternò

The EOSCpilot project will support the first phase in the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as described in the EC Communication on European Cloud Initiatives [2016]. 

• It will establish the governance framework for the EOSC and contribute to the development of European open science policy and best practice; 

• It will develop a number of pilots that integrate services and infrastructures to demonstrate interoperability in a number of scientific domains; and 

• It will engage with a broad range of stakeholders, crossing borders and communities, to build the trust and skills required for adoption of an open approach to scientific research. 

These actions will build on and leverage already available resources and capabilities from research infrastructure and einfrastructure organisations to maximise their use across the research community. The EOSCpilot project will address some of the key reasons why European research is not yet fully tapping into the potential of data. In particular, it will: 

• reduce fragmentation between data infrastructures by working across scientific and economic domains, countries and governance models, and 

• improve interoperability between data infrastructures by demonstrating how data and resources can be shared even when they are large and complex and in varied formats.

In this way, the EOSC pilot project will improve the ability to reuse data resources and provide an important step towards building a dependable open-data research environment where data from publicly funded research is always open and there are clear incentives and rewards for the sharing of data and resources. 

Project website: http://https://eoscpilot.eu/

Project duration: 28 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Donatella Castelli

OpenAIRE2020 represents a pivotal phase in the long-term effort to implement and strengthen the impact of the Open Access (OA) policies of the European Commission (EC), building on the achievements of the OpenAIRE projects. OpenAIRE2020 will expand and leverage its focus from (1) the agents and resources of scholarly communication to workflows and processes, (2) from publications to data, software, and other research outputs, and the links between them, and (3) strengthen the relationship of European OA infrastructures with other regions of the world, in particular Latin America and the U.S. Through these efforts OpenAIRE2020 will truly support and accelerate Open Science and Scholarship, of which Open Access is of fundamental importance.OpenAIRE2020 continues and extends OpenAIRE’s scholarly communication infrastructure to manage and monitor the outcomes of EC-funded research. It combines its substantial networking capacities and technical capabilities to deliver a robust infrastructure offering support for the Open Access policies in Horizon 2020, via a range of pan-European outreach activities and a suite of services for key stakeholders. It provides researcher support and services for the Open Data Pilot and investigates its legal ramifications. The project offers to national funders the ability to implement OpenAIRE services to monitor research output, whilst new impact measures for research are investigated. OpenAIRE2020 engages with innovative publishing and data initiatives via studies and pilots. By liaising with global infrastructures, it ensures international interoperability of repositories and their valuable OA contents.To ensure sustainability and long-term health for the overall OpenAIRE infrastructure, the proposed OpenAIRE2020 project will establish itself as a legal entity, which will manage the production-level responsibilities securing 24/7 reliability and continuity to all relevant user groups, data providers and other stakeholders.

Project website: http://https://www.openaire.eu/

Project duration: 42 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Donatella Castelli

We propose visionary research to develop modeling, computational, and ICT tools needed to predict and influencedisease spread and other contagion phenomena in complex social systems. To achieve non-incremental advanceswe will combine large scale, realistic, data-driven models with participatory data-collection and advanced methodsfor Big Data analysis. In particular we will go beyond the one-dimensional focus of current approaches tackling oneaspect of the problem at a time. We will interconnect contagion progression (e.g. epidemics) with social adaptation,the economic impact and other systemic aspects that will finally allow a complete analysis of the inherent systemicrisk. We will develop models dealing with multiple time and length scales simultaneously, leading to the definitionof new, layered computational approaches. Towards policy impact and social response we will work to close theloop between models, data, behavior and perception and develop new concepts for the explanation, visualizationand interaction with data and models both on individual and on collective level. We will cast the fundamentaladvances into an integrated system building on widely accepted open ICT technologies that will be used and usefulbeyond the project. As a tangible ICT outcome directed at facilitating the uptake and impact of the project, we willimplement “Interactive Social Exploratories” defined as interactive environments which act as a front-end to aset of parameterizable and adjustable models, data analysis techniques, visualization methods and data collectionframeworks. In summary, we aim to (1) produce fundamental theoretical, methodological and technological advances(2) mold them into a broadly usable ICT platform that will be a catalyst for producing, delivering, and embeddingscientific evidence into the policy and societal processes and (3) evaluate the system empirically with policy makersand citizens focusing on the concrete problem of epidemic spreading.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Fosca Giannotti

We propose visionary research to develop modeling, computational, and ICT tools needed to predict and influencedisease spread and other contagion phenomena in complex social systems. To achieve non-incremental advanceswe will combine large scale, realistic, data-driven models with participatory data-collection and advanced methodsfor Big Data analysis. In particular we will go beyond the one-dimensional focus of current approaches tackling oneaspect of the problem at a time. We will interconnect contagion progression (e.g. epidemics) with social adaptation,the economic impact and other systemic aspects that will finally allow a complete analysis of the inherent systemicrisk. We will develop models dealing with multiple time and length scales simultaneously, leading to the definitionof new, layered computational approaches. Towards policy impact and social response we will work to close theloop between models, data, behavior and perception and develop new concepts for the explanation, visualizationand interaction with data and models both on individual and on collective level. We will cast the fundamentaladvances into an integrated system building on widely accepted open ICT technologies that will be used and usefulbeyond the project. As a tangible ICT outcome directed at facilitating the uptake and impact of the project, we willimplement “Interactive Social Exploratories” defined as interactive environments which act as a front-end to aset of parameterizable and adjustable models, data analysis techniques, visualization methods and data collectionframeworks. In summary, we aim to (1) produce fundamental theoretical, methodological and technological advances(2) mold them into a broadly usable ICT platform that will be a catalyst for producing, delivering, and embeddingscientific evidence into the policy and societal processes and (3) evaluate the system empirically with policy makersand citizens focusing on the concrete problem of epidemic spreading.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Fosca Giannotti

One of the many challenges people with various degrees of disabilities face is their difficulties in accessing mainstreamproducts and services thus being excluded from benefiting from Web content and services on an equal basis as peoplewithout disabilities. Marginalising people with disabilities on this level is a critical and problematic issue, especially in today’s“Information Society”, where access to information should be equally available to all. While these challenges have beenidentified (also by EC with the recently Web Accessibility Directive which was entered into force on 22/12/2016), they havenot been addressed yet efficiently.In this context and building on ongoing tools and work, WADcher will research, develop and demonstrate an innovativeDecision Support Environment for large scale hybrid web accessibility assessment services. WADcher aims to build a largescale infrastructure by integrating extended and enhanced existing web accessibility solutions, and by also making themcustomizable to the needs of different stakeholders in EU member states. The minimisation of costs and development timealong with increased scalability, accessibility and usability for all types of end-users will be also analysed. Specifically, theWADcher Innovation Action will be based on the following pillars: 1) build a large scale accessibility assessmentinfrastructure; 2) develop and demonstrate advanced decision support tools for assisting developers and designers to createaccessible assets; 3) implement a web accessibility observatory platform for hybrid combination of automatic/expert reviews;4) validate WADcher results under a significant number of pilots and users and a coherent Web Accessibility Conformancemethodology; 5) develop methods and tools with which organizations can measure the evidence, accuracy and quality oftesting results; 6) liaise with relevant standardisation bodies and create needed impact through proactive dissemination andexploitation.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Fabio Paternò

Clouds and mobile applications have been two key drivers for innovation in the last decade, strengthening industry competitiveness and economic growth. The current technological and social landscape calls for a shift towards the introduction of a hybrid computing paradigm, following the rise and limitations of mobile applications. BASMATI aims at providing a complete ecosystem that integrates cloud federation with mobile devices, while addressing challenges related to resource heterogeneity, ultra-scalable provisioning, offloading, context- and situation identification, quality of service and security guarantees, targeting (crowds of) users accessing their data and applications across borders. BASMATI will provide an integrated brokerage platform targeting federated clouds with heterogeneous resources and supporting the efficient, cost-effective execution of mobile cloud applications in a transparent and ubiquitous manner. Runtime-adaptable federation patterns also considering business aspects, dynamic and runtime-optimized brokerage and offloading decisions will enable fully automated resource exploitation: cloud to cloud, device to federation and device to device. Modelling and prediction of applications and users in terms of mobility patterns, behavior and interactions will provide insight to the aforementioned decisions, while runtime reconfiguration of mobile services will foster the achievement of ultra-scalability. The envisioned hybrid infrastructure management will allow abstracting heterogeneous resources and enabling dynamic service networks based on evolving situations. BASMATI will be evaluated against three real-world use cases: Large Events management (including audio-streaming in dynamic and crowded scenarios), TripBuilding in dynamic environments and Virtual Mobile Desktop for highly nomadic users, which will be provided by BASMATI platform and validated during a 2018 international large event (Das Fest) counting 250.000 participants across a week.

Project duration: 26 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Patrizio Dazzi

The demand for larger and more interconnected software systems is constantly increasing, but the ability of developers tosatisfy it is not evolving accordingly. The most limiting factor is software validation, which typically requires very costly andcomplex testing processes. This project aims at significantly improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the testing processand, with it, the overall quality of large software systems. For this, we propose to apply the “divide-and-conquer” principle,which is commonly used for architecting complex software, to testing by developing a novel test orchestration theory andtoolbox enabling the creation of complex test suites as the composition of simple testing units. This test orchestrationmechanism is complemented with a number of tools that include: (1) Capabilities for the instrumentation of the Softwareunder Test enabling to reproduce real-world operational conditions thanks to features such as Packet Loss as a Service,Network Latency as a Service, Failure as a Service, etc. (2) Reusable testing services solving common testing problemsincluding Browser Automation as a Service, Sensor Emulator as a Service, Monitoring as a Service, Security Check as aService, Log Ingestion and Analysis as a Service, Cost Modeling as a Service, etc. (3) Cognitive computing and machinelearning mechanisms suitable for ingesting large amounts of knowledge (e.g. specifications, logs, software engineeringdocuments, etc.) and capable of using it for generating testing recommendations and answering natural language questionsabout the testing process. The ElasTest platform thus created shall be released basing on a flexible Free Open SourceSoftware and a community of users, stakeholders and contributors shall be grown around it with the objective of transformingElasTest into a worldwide reference in the area of large software systems testing and of guaranteeing the long termsustainability of the project generated results.

Project website: http://www.elastest.eu

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Antonia Bertolino

The EOSCpilot project will support the first phase in the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as described in the EC Communication on European Cloud Initiatives [2016]. 

• It will establish the governance framework for the EOSC and contribute to the development of European open science policy and best practice; 

• It will develop a number of pilots that integrate services and infrastructures to demonstrate interoperability in a number of scientific domains; and 

• It will engage with a broad range of stakeholders, crossing borders and communities, to build the trust and skills required for adoption of an open approach to scientific research. 

These actions will build on and leverage already available resources and capabilities from research infrastructure and einfrastructure organisations to maximise their use across the research community. The EOSCpilot project will address some of the key reasons why European research is not yet fully tapping into the potential of data. In particular, it will: 

• reduce fragmentation between data infrastructures by working across scientific and economic domains, countries and governance models, and 

• improve interoperability between data infrastructures by demonstrating how data and resources can be shared even when they are large and complex and in varied formats.

In this way, the EOSC pilot project will improve the ability to reuse data resources and provide an important step towards building a dependable open-data research environment where data from publicly funded research is always open and there are clear incentives and rewards for the sharing of data and resources. 

Project website: http://https://eoscpilot.eu/

Project duration: 28 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Donatella Castelli