V. Bartalesi, C. Meghini. Formal Components of Narratives. Post Proceedings of the Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL) 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Springer International Publishing, 2016

One of the main problems of the current Digital Libraries (DLs) is the limitation of the informative services offered to the user who express their queries in natural language. Indeed, DLs provide simple search functionalities which return a list of the...

D. Davalle, A. Leoni, L. Fanucci: "Verification environment for a SpaceFibre CODEC compliant with the standard draft F3", 23rd SpaceWire Working Group, ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, April 21, 2015

A SpaceFibre CODEC fully compliant with the standard draft F3 has been implemented as a previous work. In order to test it, a complete verification environment has been developed using the state-of-the-art verification framework for SystemVerilog, that...

D. Davalle, A. Leoni, L. Fanucci: "Independent implementation of a SpaceFibre CODEC compliant with standard draft F3", 22nd SpaceWire Working Group, ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, December 11, 2014

SpaceFibre is the emerging technology for on-board satellite communication. It represents a big improvement with respect to its predecessor SpaceWire, in particular it has a data rate beyond 2Gbps, it includes a Fault Detection Isolation and Recovery...

T. Marcucci, M. Gabiccini, and A. Artoni. "A Two-Stage Trajectory Optimization Strategy for Articulated Bodies With Unscheduled Contact Sequences." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2.1 (2017): 104-111.

In this paper, we propose a two-stage strategy for optimal control problems of robotic mechanical systems that proves to be more robust, and yet more ecient, than straightforward solution strategies. Specifically, we focus on a simplified humanoid...

M. Bianchi, R. Haschke, G. Büscher, S. Ciotti, N. Carbonaro, A. Tognetti (2016): “A Multi-Modal Sensing Glove for Human Manual-Interaction Studies”, Electronics, 5(3), 42, July 2016

We present an integrated sensing glove that combines two of the most visionary wearable sensing technologies to provide both hand posture sensing and tactile pressure sensing in a unique, lightweight, and stretchable device. Namely, hand posture...

E. Biondi,C. Boldrini,A. Passarella,M. Conti: “What youlose when you snooze: intercontact times and power-saving mode in opportunistic networks”,Submitted to ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems,September 2016

In opportunistic networks, putting devices in energy saving mode is crucial to preserve their battery, and hence to increase the lifetime of the network and foster user participation. A popular strategy for energy saving is duty cycling. However, when...

E. Biondi, C. Boldrini, R. Bruno: “Optimal Deployment of Stations for a Car Sharing System with Stochastic Demands: a Queueing Theoretical Perspective”, In Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (pp. 1-7), November 2016.

Car sharing holds a promise of reducing traffic congestion and pollution in cities as well as of boosting the use of public transport when used as a last-mile solution in a multi-modal transportation scenario. Despite this huge potential, several...

E. Biondi, C. Boldrini, R. Bruno: “The Impact of Regulated Electric Fleets on the Power Grid: the Car Sharing Case”, In Proceedings of IEEE 2nd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI 2016) (pp. 1-6), September

On-demand mobility services, such as bike and car sharing, are experiencing an exponential growth and are expected to play an essential role in future transportation systems. In addition, car sharing is recognised as a key driving force for the...

E. Biondi, C. Boldrini, R. Bruno: “Optimal Charging of Electric Vehicle Fleets for a Car Sharing System with Power Sharing”, Technical Report IIT TR-01-2016, February 2016.

Electric car sharing services have been growing in popularity in the last years but operators are striving to reduce the costs of deploying and managing their charging infrastructure. Charging technologies that offer power sharing have the potential to...

M. Sfrecola, A. Corucci, A. Monorchio, "Hybridizing Ray Tracing and Method of Moments for Over-the-sea Prediction of LTE Signal", APS/URSI 2016

This paper presents the results of a measurements campaign performed on a dedicated 1.8 GHz Long Term Evolution (LTE) system along a 47 kilometers path in the maritime area near Livorno, Italy. The comparison between the measured Reference Signal...

G. Franzini, S. Aringhieri, T. Fabbri, M. Razzanelli, L. Pollini, M. Innocenti, “Human-Machine Interface for Multi-Agent Systems Management using the Descriptor Function Framework”, in Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, Springer, 2016.

Human-machine interfaces for command and control of teams of autonomous agents is an enabling technology for the development of reliable multi-agent systems. Tools for proper modelling of these systems are sought in order to ease the creation of...

G. Franzini, L. Pollini, M. Innocenti, "H-infinity Controller Design for Spacecraft Terminal Rendezvous on Elliptic Orbits using Differential Game Theory", in Proc. 2016 American Control Conference, Boston (MA), USA, Jul. 2016, pp. 7438-7443.

The paper presents a H-infinity guidance law for spacecraft low-thrust terminal rendezvous on elliptic orbits. The dynamics of the rendezvous on elliptic orbits are governed by a set of linear time-varying equations, in literature known as linear...

A. Mannocci: “Data Flow Monitoring: system requirements and design”. OpenAIRE2020. Deliverable D8.4, October 2015.

A. Mannocci: "Monitoring data quality in research data infrastructures", Early career poster session at Research Data Alliance (RDA) 4th Plenary Meeting, Amsterdam, Sep 2014

A. Mannocci, P. Manghi: “DataQ: A Data Flow Quality Monitoring System for Aggregative Data Infrastructures”. In 20th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) (pp. 357-369). Springer International Publishing, Septe

Aggregative Data Infrastructures (ADIs) are information systems offering services to integrate content collected from data sources so as to form uniform and richer information spaces and support communities of users with enhanced access services to such...

M. Artini, C. Atzori, A. Bardi, S. La Bruzzo, P. Manghi, A. Mannocci: “The OpenAIRE Literature Broker Service for Institutional Repositories”. In D-Lib Magazine, 21(11), 3, November 2015.

OpenAIRE is the European infrastructure for Open Access scholarly communication. It populates and provides access to a graph of objects relative to publications, datasets, people, organisations, projects, and funders aggregated from a variety of data...

A. Mannocci, V. Casarosa, P. Manghi, F. Zoppi: “The EAGLE data aggregator: data quality monitoring”. In 7th EAGLE International Conference, January 2016.

The EAGLE project aggregates epigraphy related content from about 20 different data providers, and makes its content available to both Europeana and to scholars. Data Quality monitoring is a key issue in Aggregative Data Infrastructures, where content...

A. Mannocci, V. Casarosa, P. Manghi, F. Zoppi: “The EAGLE Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy: a technical perspective” IRCDL 2015

The project EAGLE (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, a Best Practice Network partially funded by the European Commission) aims at aggregating epigraphic material provided by some 15 different epigraphic archives (about 80% of the...

Luca Frosini, gCube accounting framework - Software Paper

This framework provide facilities to persist and query accounting data in a distributed infrastructure (grid/cloud). The framework discover dynamically the connector of the NoSQL DB to use to persist accounting data. Moreover it discovers the connection...

Luca Frosini, gCube document store framework - Software Paper

Document Store Framework is a set of libraries allowing to store information in NoSQL document store. The data models are discovered at runtime and each document is validated before persisting it. The framework persist the data in NoSQL document store...