The ITIS LabThe ITIS Lab

DISCo - Dip. di Informatica, Sistematica e ComunicazioneUniversità di Milano Bicocca

viale Sarca 336/14, 20124, Milano (Italy)

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PeoplePeople

• Head of the lab• Flavio De Paoli, PhD associate professor

• Permanent members• Alessandra Agostini associate professor

• Carlo Batini full professor, department head• Giorgio De Michelis full professor• Andrea Maurino, PhD researcher• Marcello Sarini, PhD researcher• Carla Simone full professor

• Temporary members• Daniele Barone phd student• Silvia Calegari, PhD junior scientist• Marco Comerio phd student• Federico Cabitza, PhD junior research fellow• Giuseppe Frisoni junior scientist• Simone Grega junior scientist• Marco P. Locatelli, PhD junior scientist• Marco Loregian, PhD junior research fellow• Gianluigi Viscusi, PhD junior scientist

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FoundationsFoundations

• In 2007, four labs already collaborating in several initiatives merged to found the ITIS Lab

COOTECHCooperation Technologies

COOTECHCooperation Technologies

MACModels and

Architecturesfor Coordination

MACModels and

Architecturesfor Coordination

SEQUOIASService and

Quality OrientedInformation Systems

SEQUOIASService and

Quality OrientedInformation Systems

DSEDistributed Systems

Engineering

DSEDistributed Systems

Engineering

ITISInnovative Technologies forInteraction and Services

ITISInnovative Technologies forInteraction and Services

• Cooperative Systems is the gluing concept around which ITIS is built

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Interaction technologies andubiquitous computing• Rich semantic interfaces• Multimodal and multi-channel access• Seamless interaction with

heterogeneous

devices • Context-aware computing

Interaction technologies andubiquitous computing• Rich semantic interfaces• Multimodal and multi-channel access• Seamless interaction with

heterogeneous

devices • Context-aware computing

Distributed Systems & ServicesEngineering• Peer-2-Peer cooperative systems• Knowledge Management• Semantic Web services• Web service selection and composition• Business Process Management and

Workflow Management Systems

Distributed Systems & ServicesEngineering• Peer-2-Peer cooperative systems• Knowledge Management• Semantic Web services• Web service selection and composition• Business Process Management and

Workflow Management Systems

Cooperation technologies• Models and tools to enhance human

coordination• Community of practices and Community

Systems• Inspirational Learning Environments• Healthcare

Cooperation technologies• Models and tools to enhance human

coordination• Community of practices and Community

Systems• Inspirational Learning Environments• Healthcare

Information systems• Data quality• Service-based multidisciplinary

methodologies• e-Government• Cooperative Information systems

Information systems• Data quality• Service-based multidisciplinary

methodologies• e-Government• Cooperative Information systems

Research areasResearch areas

• ITIS research focuses on four main areas:

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SkillsSkills

Cooperation Technologies• Definition and design of:

• Models and architectures to build flexible, adaptive, and innovative technologies

• Technologies to facilitate and support collaboration, communication, coordination, and knowledge sharing

• Systems supporting communities both at work and in everyday life

• Focusing on:• Knowledge workers and complex work settings

characterized by heterogeneity, mobility, distributedness, and high dynamicity (e.g., healthcare, archeology)

• Social integration of penalized subjects (e.g., elderly, children)

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SkillsSkills

Information Systems• Interdisciplinary Methodologies for e-

Government: technological vs. social, economic, juridical and organizational issues

Data Quality• Methodologies and techniques for Data

Quality Measurement and Improvement in Cooperative Systems and Data Integration

• A comprehensive methodology that considers

costs + processes + dimensions + techniques, to choose the “optimal” improvement processes

• Quality Driven Query Answering & Data cleansing

• Dependencies among dimensions

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SkillsSkills

Services Engineering• Service-Oriented Computing

• Models and techniques to address non-functional properties (NFP)

• Description and composition of service qualities

• Semantics to enhance the business perspectives • Services linked to business processes • Selection of value-added services• Repository-based solutions

• Quality-Driven Web-service design• An innovative design methodology that considers

business requirements + technological opportunities + user profilesto deliver added-value business services

• Business process management• NFP-based selection and execution of (composite) Web

Services• Multi-channel Services

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ITIS projectsITIS projects

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Projects & InitiativesProjects & Initiatives

eG4M (Italian FIRB MIUR) - eGov for Mediterranean Countries - 2005-08 • eProcurement in developing countries: a comprehensive methodology• Social, economic, juridical and organizational issues

SEEMP (EU IST FP6) - Single European Employment Market Place - 2006-08• Service integration for Public Employment Services• Data quality and non-functional properties

NeP4B (Italian FIRB MIUR) - Network Peers for Business - 2006-09• An organizational model based on collaborative business processes • An infrastructure based on independent and interoperable semantic peers

ORME (Italian industrial project Ministry of Economic Development) – Operational Risk Management Environment - 2006-08• ORME-DQ tools for Data Quality measurement and improvement

SWIRLS (Internal project) - Supporting Wards with Interactive - 2005 Resources and Logic-based Systems• Contextual flexible and adaptive support to clinical care

MOSAICO (Internal project) - Organizational Models and Cooperative - 2007

Information Systems for distributed care• Patient and process centered support in health care domain• Providing technological support to facilitate continuity of care.

NEXTT, UniMiB spin-off initiative - 2007• industrial development and delivery of methodologies and

prototypes for business-oriented eServices

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Past ProjectsPast Projects

MILK (EU IST FP5) - Multimedia Interaction for Learning and Knowing - 2002-04

• Knowledge Management system to support communities of workers in organizations

• Ontology-based profiling & reach semantic interface and interaction

ATELIER (EU IST- FP5) - 2001-04 Architecture and Technology for Inspirational Learning Environments• Learning environments based on creative practices in design, architecture

and art• Ontology-based knowledge management services for seamless interaction

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Networked Peers forNetworked Peers forBusinessesBusinesses

• NeP4B aims to develop a technological infrastructure to enable companies of any nature, size and geographic location to search for partners, exchange data, negotiate and collaborate.

• The infrastructure will be based on independent and interoperable semantic peers who behave as nodes of a virtual trusted network

ITIS tasks• Value model for networked peers

• Strategic and organizational issues

• Semantic Repository of Services• Value based Model for G2B Services

• Semantic Web Services• Model for non functional properties

(NFP) description• Development of an engine for NFP-

based semantic web services discovery and selection

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LocalMatching algorithm

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SEEMP• Translates• Ranks• Cleansthe results

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Single European EmploymentSingle European EmploymentMarket PlaceMarket Place

• The SEEMP (Single European Employment Market Place) project aims at enhancing the already provided e-Employment services by means of• ontology-based, peer-to-peer (P2P)

interoperability infrastructure, • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

ITIS tasks• Quality Driven Query Answering

• Knowledge meta-model for evaluating data sources

• Quality driven Query answering tool• Data cleansing

• General techniques• Web Services Selection

• Ranking algorithm based on Non Functional Properties (NFP)

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eGovernment foreGovernment forMediterranean CountriesMediterranean Countries

• The eGovernment for Mediterranean Countries (MCs) project aims at investigating new methodologies for supporting MCs in establishing and consolidating the most suitable eGovernment projects

• The goal is to help Developing Countries and Countries with economies in transition in modernising their public administration through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by providing them a set of tools including:• the eGovernment Reference Model (eModel)• an eGovernment methodology, that provides

extensive guidelines for the effective design and deployment of eGovernment plans solutions for their specific context

ITIS tasks• Methodolology for eGovernment Planning

(Strategic and Operational)• Focus on Quality and Organizational

issues.• Relationships between technology and the

other perspectives

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Supporting Wards with InteractiveSupporting Wards with InteractiveResources and Logic-based SystemsResources and Logic-based Systems

• Providing a contextual flexible and adaptive support to clinical care.

• ITIS Tasks:• Design a decision support system considering paper-

based clinical documentation (PaperMind initiative)

• Design an augmented clinical record to promote awareness information about care activities w.r.t. the current patient’s context (MedAware initiative)

• Design a framework to integrate clinical record with clinical pathways (PAT.i.E(I)NT initiative)

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MOSAICOMOSAICO

• The project is about distributed care and aims at providing a technological support to facilitate continuity of care.

• In particular: it aims to design technologies to support coordination among several heterogeneous actors spread over the territory, with different competences and skills, working for different institutions involved in the care of a patient

• ITIS Tasks:• field studies to identify functionalities to support

the coordination among distributed actors• mock-ups design to test with clinicians the

effectiveness and usability of the proposed functionalities

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EducationEducation

• Sistemi Informativi e Tecnologie per l’Interazione

Obblig. Sistemi distribuiti

Architetture, modelli e proprietà di sistemi

distribuiti, Middleware e standards, Service

Oriented Computing

Basi di dati (complementi)

Componenti funzionali di un DBMS. Bas i di dati

distribuite, eterogenee, autonome.

Ottimizzazione di interrogazioni

uno tra

Tecnologie per la Cooperazione

Funzionalità di supporto alla cooperazione. Classi di

applicazioni. Configurazione di

piattaforme standard.

Gestione Docum. in ambiente WEB

SI

Information Retrieval

Linguaggi di mark-up (HTML, XML) e loro

applicazioni. Librerie DOM. Estrazione

dell’informazione e sue proprietà. Va lutazione di

performance e sperimentazione.

Linguaggi per il Coordinamento e la

Cooperazione

TI

Interazione Uomo-Macchina

Linguaggi di coordinamento data-driven e control-

driven. Ambienti di coordinamento.

Applicazioni context-aware. Progettazione

dell’interfaccia. Criteri di valutazione.

Nuovi paradigmi di interazione.

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Contact detailsContact details

DISCo - Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica

e ComunicazioneUniMiB - Università di Milano Bicocca Viale Sarca 336/1420126 Milano Italy

Web sitehttp://www.itis.disco.unimib.it

Head of the ITIS LabFlavio De Paoli ••• depaoli@disco.unimib.it

Contact personMarco Loregian ••• loregian@disco.unimib.it