Maria Grazia Fugini

Maria Grazia Fugini
Politecnico di Milano | Polimi · Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering

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Geographic maps can be enriched with knowledge about temporal-referenced multimedia contents to focus on specific topics related to contexts such as Cultural Heritage, History, Tourism, and so on, facilitating multimedia content integration, time management and self-adaptivity to different application contexts when exploring a geo context. This pap...
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In social robotic systems, robots interact with humans to collaborate for different tasks. In this paper we consider industrial scenarios, where a shop floor can be reconfigured and specific tasks can be assigned to robots that operate as assistants to human operators. We propose to use a Knowledge Representation approach to describe the human-robo...
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The paper illustrates the basic features of a framework where knowledge is associated to geographic maps, to link geographical elements with geo and temporal-referenced contents. Among the key features, multimedia contents management and adaptivity to different application contexts are the most relevant. We propose a mixed approach to classify stor...
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The role of participatory communities all over the world calls for new models and tools to support citizens in taking part in decisions about the design and planning of urban design. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be the basis for effective ways of participation for citizens and for helping them achieve a more active role in s...
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The role of participatory communities all over the world calls for new models and tools to support citizens in taking part in decisions about the design and planning of urban design. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be the basis for effective ways of participation for citizens and for helping them achieve a more active role in s...
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This paper presents a textual Big Data Analytics solution developed for Enterprise Content Management of document data. The paper wants to present an example of approach to an industrial problem in a real setting. The project deals on extraction of semantic information and process metadata from an automated document processing system in a Big Data...
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In the past few years, Android security is enhanced and state-of-the-art anti-malware tools have been introduced to counter Android malware. These tools use both static and dynamic analysis techniques to detect malicious applications. Despite these, the attack surface against Android phones has risen exponentially and malware detection tools are fa...
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The spread of IoT and wearable devices is bringing out gesture interfaces as a solution for a more natural and immediate human-machine interaction. The "Seamless" project is an industrial research and development experience, aimed to build a virtual environment where data collected by IoT sensors can be navigated through a gesture interface and vir...
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The spread of IoT and wearable devices is bringing out gesture interfaces as a solution for a more natural and immediate human-machine interaction. The “Seamless” project is an industrial research and development experience, aimed to build a virtual environment where data collected by IoT sensors can be navigated through a gesture interface and vir...
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This paper presents the approach to Big Data Analytics (BDA) developed in the "Sistema Innovativo Big Data Analytics" (SIBDA) Project. The Project aim is to study and develop innovative solutions in the field of BDA for three companies cooperating in a temporary association of enterprises. We discuss elements of Big Data tackled in the Project, nam...
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This paper presents the analysis of quality regarding a textual Big Data Analytics approach developed for documents. In the context of a project dealing with extraction of knowledge from document and process data in a Big Data environment, the paper focuses on performance and data confidence indexes to evaluate the quality of the underlying process...
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This paper presents an environment where a set of data collected by IoT sensors can be navigated through gesture recognition algorithms and through virtual reality tools. In particular, the aim of recognizing human gestures is to give commands through a wearable control device. The paper presents the Seamless project, where the recognition and visu...
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The aging of the working population calls for innovative approaches to monitor and support the changes of physical, physiological and psycho-social capabilities of workers over time, as well as to promote habits aimed at improving both health and productivity. This paper presents the WorkingAge (Smart Working Environments for All Ages-WA) project,...
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Health and social care services are under increasing pressure to come up with adequate solutions to manage the demand and supply equation. Integrated care is one way to deal with this wicked problem, but new approaches and service implementation strategies are necessary to realize its full value and quality of outcome. Focusing on the four relevant...
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This paper presents an architecture for Big Data Analytics regarding unstructured content. The architecture is proposed as an industrial solution in a real setting. In particular, the paper focuses on BD (Big Data) for Smart Companies and on Enterprise Content Management for extraction of information from textual BD. It presents the process archite...
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This paper shows the solutions developed in the Project “Sistema Innovativo Big Data Analytics” - SIBDA. The needs of the three involved companies are described, which led to define an overall framework in the field of Big Data through application cases. The functional and technological requirements of an integrated Big Data Architecture are given....
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A framework related to how to benchmark public websites in the labor sector is proposed using approaches coming from eGovernment. A methodological approach to benchmark these sites is presented consisting of a set of indicators to be applied step-by-step to labor websites to evaluate their usage and effectiveness. The paper shows how this approach,...
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In this chapter, we present an overview of our proposed Generalized World Entities (GWEs) paradigm, to be used to add a semantic/conceptual dimension to IoT/WoT (Internet of Things/Web of Things) procedures. GWEs offer a unified way to model seamlessly, at the conceptual level, both the digital counterparts of elementary entities, such as physical...
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This paper focuses on the [email protected]/* */ Project - Innovazione Sociale e Assistenza Digitale in Ambienti Controllati - funded by Regione Lombardia. It aims at designing a new technological and organizational model for integrated care to frail people (Integrated Care - IC) at home or in assisted environments. Assistance at home foresees inte...
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This book examines the various ways in which co-production can contribute to the creation, design, and delivery of public services, namely by engaging the expertise of users and their networks, by promoting public services that are better targeted and more responsive to users, by cutting costs against the background of austerity in public finance,...
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Co-production is an umbrella term whose meaning has been widely debated on and whose practical consequences for public service delivery are an open research issue. This introductory chapter attempts to define what co-production is and what it is not, by an overview of the up-to-date literature. The chapter concludes by presenting the aims of the bo...
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http://www.springer.com/in/book/9783319305561 This book examines the various ways in which co-production can contribute to the creation, design, and delivery of public services, namely by engaging the expertise of users and their networks, by promoting public services that are better targeted and more responsive to users, by cutting costs against t...
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This book describes the state-of-the-art in trusted computing for embedded systems. It shows how a variety of security and trusted computing problems are addressed currently and what solutions are expected to emerge in the coming years. The discussion focuses on attacks aimed at hardware and software for embedded systems, and the authors describe s...
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Nowadays, a problem of great topical interest for Health Systems is the care of frail people. These individuals require both health and social care services (integrated care), preferably provided at home. From this viewpoint, both the literature and empirical experience suggest the necessity for new proposals for ICT architectures that can cost-eff...
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Collaborative systems have been evolving fast in the last decade. Nowadays, collaborative mechanisms are highly present on the Web, and collaboration can be seen as an inherent part of the Web essence. Numerous technologies, frameworks and tools are now on the field to facilitate the fast development of core communication mechanisms and the reuse o...
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This chapter focuses on building a framework for classifying e-Government projects according to concepts such as activities, stakeholder relationships and types and information system typologies. We examine public administration models and their need for adequate information system support, discussing the reasons why the ICTs still only provide lim...
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This chapter proposes an evaluation methodology for public ICT-based labor market services, based on analysis existing e-Government assessment frameworks. We used several evaluation methods to identify the main e-Government assessment dimensions, levels, stakeholders and value dimensions for labor market systems.
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This chapter makes a detailed comparison of the information systems underpinning the BLL and the SOC, considering the basic approaches adopted in the respective models, design and development, in accordance with the social and legal requirements for each region, and also analyzing and diagnosing them in terms of performance. The key findings are co...
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This chapter describes the Italian Borsa Lavoro Lombardia (BLL) portal, an interoperable regional system connected to the Italian national labor market system and operating as a node to provide employment, training and education services in Lombardy. Discussed are BLL’s premises and aims, stakeholders, alignment with guidelines for Italian e-Govern...
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This chapter analyses the Catalan public employment service (Servei d’Ocupació de Catalunya, SOC) and the relationship between public agencies in Spain, considering, in particular, the main constraints related to their legal frameworks within the labor market. Existing technical architectures, databases, portals, ICT applications and services are a...
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This book focuses on building a framework for classifying e-Government projects according to concepts such as activities, stakeholder relationships and types and information system typologies. We examine public administration models and their need for adequate information system support, discussing the reasons why the ICTs still only provide limite...
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This chapter contains an introduction to the basic e-Government concepts that frame the approach followed in this publication. We also analyze the historical evolution of these systems in terms of the main actions carried out by institutions in support of their development. The analysis in support of the development of the proposed framework is app...
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This book explores the factors that affect the efficiency and effectiveness of electronic government (e-Government) by analyzing two employment- service systems in Italy and Catalonia: the Borsa Lavoro Lombardia Portal (Lombardy Employment Services Portal) and the Servei d’Ocupació de Catalunya (Catalan Employment Services Portal). The evaluation m...
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This chapter discusses two systems in the employment services in Lombardy and in Catalonia aimed at providing a relevant eGovernment function to citizens and companies. The cases are the Borsa Lavoro Lombardia (BLL) Portal and the Catalan Services to Employment (SOC) Portal. By analyzing their features we show the differences in the use of ICT (Inf...
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Spatial data stored in distributed geographic repositories need to be provided according to security requirements. This requires systems storing spatial data to not only prohibit different illegal attacks, but also to maintain information security when attacked and intruded and to provide data confidentiality based on the security requirements of e...
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The 2014 edition of the Web2Touch (W2T) Track aims at presenting alternatives to address interoperability and distributed knowledge management problem for Web systems. In particular, it provides a view on the field of secure and knowledge-intensive Web collaboration using semantic techniques to share experiences, challenges and opportunities, and t...
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Energy-aware services can be obtained by composing Green Performance Indicators (GPIs) into a Green Certificate (GC), a document showing a service's energy-related performance along all the service lifecycle. This paper describes a methodology to create the GC and to use it for service selection and in service-based business processes.
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Energy-awareness in services can be obtained through annotations regarding energy consumption. In this paper, annotations are given as Green Performance Indicators (GPIs). A service is annotated in terms of its structure, of the used IT platform, and of development costs, human resources, and environment impact. GPIs relate to service development,...
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This paper gives an overview of the issues to be tackled when managing a secure smart power grid. It is targeted to applicative scenarios, namely smart metering, electric car (E-car) management and home multimedia gateway based on power-line data transmission. The ENIAC JU TOISE project concepts, wherein the paper is framed, are introduced. Then th...
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Risk management in work environments requires the introduction of mechanisms able to identify the causes and the indications, which precede accidents in order to avoid them whenever this is possible. Most of the accidents are announced by risk events, which may be identified and managed before their evolution into accidents through preventive strat...
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Green IT mainly focuses on techniques to extend the products longevity or to virtualise physical resources as well as the provision of energy efficient hardware infrastructures. Less attention has been paid on the applications that run on the machines and their impact on energy consumption. This paper proposes an approach for enabling an efficient...
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In work environments, considered as pervasive environments with persons, materials, and tools which can be controlled via heterogeneous technological devices, several risks can be corrected and even prevented if properly managed. We propose an approach to address risks in work environments through trusted web services widespread on the various devi...
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The high number of accidents in living areas, work environments, and ambient, in general, can benefit of prevention mechanisms able to identify the causes and the indications which precede accidents, and to put in place strategies to avoid risks whenever this is possible. To this aim, this paper presents a risk management architecture for monitorin...
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We present the design issues which are encountered when addressing risks in working environments. Risks occur when changes in the working environment alter some ordinary working parameters. The management of risks requires design decisions which influence the performances of the system. In this paper we present the issues concerning: the definition...
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This paper deals with a tool developed to support training and education in the field of security and safety in work areas, plants, or industrial environments. The tool comprises the dashboards enabling administrators and users to simulate risks and accidents to be ready for interventions in case of occurrence. Based on a computational model of ris...
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Considering the ever increasing of information technology usage in our everyday life and the huge concentration of computational resources at remote service centers, energy costs become one of the biggest challenging issues for IT managers. Mechanisms to improve energy efficiency in service centers are divided at different levels which range from s...
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Energy saving has been mainly focused on techniques to extend the products longevity or to virtualize physical resources. On the contrary, less attention has been paid on the applications that run on the machines and that also contribute to the energy consumption. In this paper we introduce an approach for defining energy-aware adaptive business pr...
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This paper provides a Web-service based software architectural perspective on the design of systems able to identify; and solve risky situations that may occur in work environments. The technological and computational advances in the IT world (e.g., service-oriented, wearable services) may provide a significant support for the management of risks,...
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In this paper, we propose an approach to face emergencies and risky situations through real-time wearable services in industrial environments. We outline the social and technological features of a wearable-based service system, which aims to improve safety in workplaces. To achieve this goal, we propose a system composed of real-time wearable servi...
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Acknowledged as important factors for business environments operating as virtual organizations (VOs), trust and reputation are receiving attention also in Grids devoted to scientific applications where problems of finding suitable models and architectures for flexible security management of heterogeneous resources arise. Being these resources highl...
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One of the challenging topics to address through the advances made in information technology domain is the management of risk in work environments. This is due to the heterogeneity of issues which should be considered such as technological and social just to name two of the most important ones. In this context the key ideas of Web-enabled architect...
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SEEMP is a European Project that promotes increased partnership between labour market actors and the development of closer relations between private and public Employment Services, making optimal use of the various actors’ specific characteristics, thus providing job-seekers and employers with better services. The need for a flexible collaboration...
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Future complex architectures for Web-Services-based delivery of services and objects require applications able to deal with different levels of Quality of Service (QoS) and able to describe also the quality of the associated object. In order to allow applications adapting in front of degraded quality in a pre-determined way, all the nodes participa...
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Web Services and the Grid allow distributed research teams to form dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations sharing high performance computing resources, large scale data sets and instruments for solving computationally intensive scientific applications, thereby forming Virtual Laboratories. This paper aims at exploring security issues of...
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Open Source Software (OSS) for e-Science should make reference to the paradigm of a distributed surrounding over a multi system mix of Web Services and Grid technologies, allowing data exchanging through services, according to standards in the area of the Grid and of Service Oriented Computing (SOC). In fact, biologists, medical doctors, and scient...
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SEEMP is a European Project that promotes increased partnership between labour market actors and the development of closer relations between private and public employment services, making optimal use of the various actors’ specific characteristics, thus providing job-seekers and employers with better services. The need for a flexible collaboration...
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Web service composition can be adopted to integrate information systems as complex composed processes. While interfaces of services are known at composition time, the quality of the composed process may depend on the ability of component services to react to unforseen situations, such as data quality problems and coordination problems. In this work...
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In building cooperative distributed information systems, a methodology for analysis, design and implementation of security requirements of involved data and processes is essential for obtaining mutual trust between cooperating organizations. Moreover, when the information system is built as a cooperative set of e-services, security is related to th...
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Sommario Il Progetto PRIN Quadrantis si propone di modellare gli aspetti legati alla cooperazione degli e-Service concentrandosi sulle prob- lematiche legate alla QoS e sulle possibili azioni di recovery che, a valle di una diagnosi per determinare la causa del problema, possano imple- mentare politiche di adattivita. La modellazione degli e-servic...
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Web service composition can be adopted to develop information systems through integration of services to obtain complex composed services. While interfaces of services are known at composition time, the quality of a composed service may depend on the ability of its component services to react to unforeseen situations, such as data quality problems...
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A framework is proposed that would create, use, communicate, and distribute information whose organizational dynamics allow it to perform a distributed cooperative enterprise also in public environments over open source systems. The approach assumes the Web services as the enacting paradigm, possibly over a grid, to formalize interaction as coopera...