Main research interests
Ubiquitous Computing
- WikiCity
- WikiCity Rome
- Real-time value added services generation based on location and time sensitive data services
- Architecure for user generated data gathering, push services, multimodal interfaces
The research deals with the development of an open source real time control system for a city. We are developing a new platform for storing and exchanging data which are location and time-sensitive, making them accessible to users through mobile devices, web interfaces and physical interface objects. This platform enables people to become distributed intelligent actuators, which pursue their individual interests in cooperation and competition with others, and thus become prime actors themselves in improving the efficiency of urban systems. Relevant projects:
Real Time City: A system for real-time data gathering, processing and presentation
The research deals with the realization of a system for the real time gathering of data from different networks in the city, the server-side processing and combination, and a client-side presentation by means of visual software. Relevant projects:
- New York Talk Exchange
- Real Time Amsterdam
- Real Time Rome
Analysis of Urban Dynamics
The research focuses primarily on explorations for revealing the similarity of urban areas based the similarity of their mobile network usage. A novel approach has been defined for extracting the longitudinal trends from Erlang signals through eigenvalues, clustering areas with similar network activity into discrete groups, and comparing these to the distribution of business activities in Rome. Relevant projects:
- Cellular Census: Explorations in Urban Data Collection
- Eigenplaces: analyzing cities using data from the cellular network
- Telecom systems analysis
Analysis and Design of Control Systems
Distributed control systems
Fundations for reconfigurable and autonomous cyber-physical systems: cyber-cities and cyber-universities
Cyber-physical systems combine computational systems with physical and engineered systems and can include bionics, automated manufacturing, or systems for monitoring critical infrastructure. This project aims to address the key challenge of realizing a foundational, mathematical understanding of the interaction between the cyber and the physical in these systems in order to both configure a system to respond to unexpected events, and also to quantify the system's limits in responding.Control system theory
Control system applications