Vito Giordano

Università di Pisa | UNIPI · Department of Energy, Process and System Engineering

Industry 4.0 has led to a huge increase in data coming from machine maintenance. At the same time, advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models provide new ways to analyse this data. In our research, we use NLP to analyse maintenance work orders, and specifically the descriptions of failures and the corresponding repair a...

analyzing academic data, particularly lesson records, to extract information about educational concepts. The ultimate goal is to construct a comprehensive profile that reflects the user’s accumulated knowledge throughout their learning journey. Two distinct methods are introduced for concept extraction: a gazetteer-based Named Entity Recognition ap...

Images provide concise representations of design artifacts and emerge as the primary mode of communication among innovators, engineers, and designers. The advanced of Artificial Intelligence tools which integrates image and textual information can significantly support the Engineering Design process. In this paper we create 5 different datasets com...

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been extensively applied in design, particularly for analyzing technical documents like patents and scientific papers to identify entities such as functions, technical feature, and problems. However, there has been less focus on understanding semantic relations within literature, and a comprehensive definition...

The novel generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed by OpenAI, i.e., ChatGPT, rised a great interest in both scientific and business contexts. This new wave of technological advancement typically produces deep transformation in the workplace, requiring new skills. However, none of the studies in literature provide quantitative analysis and...

This study delves into the evolving role of generative Large Language Models (LLMs). We develop a data-driven approach to collect and analyse tasks that users are asking to generative LLMs. Thanks to the focus on tasks this paper contributes to give a quantitative and granular understanding of the potential influence of LLMs in different business a...

The changing learning landscape due to digitalization, green transition, and pandemic have emphasized the need for lifelong learning and up-skilling. The increasing availability of online resources has created a demand for personalized learning experiences tailored to individual learners. While numerous systems have been developed to recommend pers...

The current ways of coping with uncertainty such as changes during product design or use have been through methods such as easy restructuring (e.g., modularity with buffer in interface definition), by overdesign and so on. The present investments on maintaining products in the economy for “as long as possible” is challenging these strategies from a...

Patents are an invaluable source of data that can be beneficial for Engineering Design (ED). Patenting is one of the main means for disclosing the inventive process. For this reason, the description of the problem solved should also be included in any patents. The ED literature lacks a proper definition of a problem, resulting in a fragmented scena...

Digital media are a means to deliver products and services, but also a channel to interact with consumers and a source of information on users’ preferences. Data shared by customers on the web, the User-Generated Content (UGC), can give entrepreneurs a detailed perspective of the market. This work examines an application of Natural Language Process...

Team composition in Project Based Learning is the first task for the class and has a great impact on the learning experience. Anyway, little space is dedicated in literature about team composition, considering their personal inclinations towards design tasks. For these reasons we propose a tool that aims to map the design skills of students to opti...

Patents are the main means for disclosing an invention. These documents encompass many steps of the inventive process starting with the definition of the problem to be solved and ending with the identification of a solution. In this study we focus on three fundamental concepts of the inventive process: (A) technical problems; (B) solutions; and (C)...

Identifying technologies is a key element for mapping a domain and its evolution. It allows managers and decision makers to anticipate trends for an accurate forecast and effective foresight. Researchers and practitioners are taking advantage of the rapid growth of the publicly accessible sources to map technological domains. Among these sources, p...

Despite the growing concern about the impact technologies might have on the working force, literature provides quantitative models to highlight the susceptibility to automation of Job profiles as a whole. However, there is little evidence on studies assessing the automatability of skills, knowledge and abilities required to perform today’s tasks. I...

Digital and green transition calls for new social and economic growth models. Industrial stakeholders should rethink supply chains, considering the vulnerability of the environment and the effects of human activities on it. Policies and regulations in employment are more and more focused on green workers with skills and mindset orientation for sust...

Engineering Design (ED) is a complex process in which the reuse of knowledge is crucial: applying the knowledge consolidated in previous design activities to future design activities means performing them in a better way. The relevance of data in ED is even more crucial in a business context in which Data Science (DS) is literally revolutionizing t...

The digitalisation of all the activities from the closer to the shopfloor (manufacturing and production) to the more abstract ones, typical of office duties, is pervading the new digital era and Covid19 accelerated such a transition. Although more and more data are available, companies are reluctant to share their data and the more they are linked...

A series of disruption, technologies, and events characterized the last ten years. To cite a few of them Industry 4.0 paradigm (and related technologies) came out, blockchain and smart contracts affirmed as a potential technology beyond the currency sector, the new hype on Artificial Intelligence created high expectations and interest and, finally,...

Patents are the main means for disclosing an invention. These documents encompass many steps of the inventive process starting with the definition of the problem to be solved and ending with the identification of a solution. In this study we focus on three fundamental concepts of the inventive process: (A) technical problems; (B) solutions; and (C)...

ESCO is a multilingual classification of Skills, Competences, Qualifications, and Occupations created by the European Commission to improve the supply of information on skills demand in the labour market. It is designed to assist individuals, employers, universities and training providers by giving them up to date and standardized information on sk...

Data, information and knowledge are strongly involved in Engineering Design (ED) process. Despite the crucial role played by data in the design process, there is a lack of studies about how different data are used and generated by the various phases of the ED process. This study is a first attempt to fill this gap by mapping which data types are in...

One of the first task of an innovative project is delineating the scope of the project itself or of the product/service to be developed. A wrong scope definition can determine (in the worst case) project failure. A good scope definition become even more relevant in technological intensive innovation projects, nowadays characterized by a highly dyna...

Identifying technology convergence is getting harder, especially in fast-evolving and cross-technological fields. On the other side, natural language processing and network analysis researchers is to provide a novel method for mapping technologies and their relations over time, in order to identify dynamic patterns of convergence and to test it on...

Scientific discoveries and technologies played a significant role in the digital revolution that occurred over the last years. But what is their role in the turmoil brought by the current pandemic? The aim of this paper is to show how digital technologies are operating during this first phase of the spreading of COVID-19. The study analyses and deb...

L’insieme dei processi di trasformazione che vanno sotto il nome di Quarta rivoluzione industriale sta determinando un fortissimo mutamento nei processi organizzativi e nei processi di produzione delle imprese. In mercati del prodotto sempre più integrati, l’adeguamento al mutamento tecnologico delle forme organizzative, dei processi gestionali e d...