Papers by Marco Zappatore
Computational reasoning over radiopropagation models and their formulations
Semantic frameworks are more and more used to access knowledge and to enhance cooperation in scie... more Semantic frameworks are more and more used to access knowledge and to enhance cooperation in scientific research. An increasing need of resource sharing and integration is coming out in the electromagnetic domain as well. This paper provides a proposal for an electromagnetic ontology framework, designed with the objective of maximizing knowledge reusability and integrability. It follows a modular, layered architecture, based on a robust sharable conceptualization, given by publicly available well-known top-level ontologies. The implementation of an ontology in the area of radiopropagation modeling is provided as specific example of practical application. Finally, the paper illustrates a simple example of reasoning, which demonstrates how the ontology supports advanced knowledge processing by simple query codification.
Towards a Flexible Context-aware Pervasive Alert Generation System
Abstract: This paper presents a proposal for a context-aware framework for alert generation. The ... more Abstract: This paper presents a proposal for a context-aware framework for alert generation. The framework is based on a general purpose architecture integrating three core technologies: ontology representation, multi-agent paradigm and rule-based logic. The ...
Personal mobile devices are nowadays so pervasive that a broad range of novel learning practices ... more Personal mobile devices are nowadays so pervasive that a broad range of novel learning practices and paradigms can profitably exploits them. Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is one of them. In MCS, mobiles act as data sources for monitoring tasks (e.g., traffic planning, air pollution monitoring, emergency management), thanks to their computational capability and their embedded sensors. From a pedagogical perspective, MCS offers continuous learning experiences that increases students’ skills and expertise by engaging them directly into practical activities and on-the-field analyses. However, the wide diffusion of mobiles requires a reliable wireless coverage, to guarantee proper Quality of Service levels, thus potentially increasing the electromagnetic field levels in a given geographical area. Therefore, we propose a complete data warehouse solution that exploits MCS paradigm to pursue three main research purposes. Firstly, motivating students from engineering courses to acquire a better knowledge in wireless communication topics by offering them experiential and collaborative learning approaches. Secondly, performing a preliminary screening of the signals received by mobiles for 3G/4G standards (e.g., UMTS, LTE), since this domain did not benefit from MCS solutions so far. Thirdly, identifying prospective areas where more detailed measuring campaigns must be addressed. A deep analysis of the achievable pedagogical benefits as well as the thorough description of both design and implementation phases is provided. Evaluation results and preliminary users’ feedback complete this research work.
Cloud computing services are seeing great success in IT scenarios. Dynamic reservation and alloca... more Cloud computing services are seeing great success in IT scenarios. Dynamic reservation and allocation of network, storage and computational resources, the hiding of visibility of internal IT components, as well as the pay-per-use paradigm are nowadays more and more widespread ways to provide and consume services. Their complexity, however, is clearly visible in composing services to satisfy users’ requests, as well as in performance monitoring and service level comparisons. Effective ways are then needed to model both contracts and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) referring to the services that have to be provided to customers. However, this is hindered by a lack of expressivity in current SLA specifications and a consequent inadequacy in tools for managing SLAs and contract composition aspects. Therefore, we present a possible extension of WSLA, a widely known SLA description language, for modeling contracts and SLAs suitable to support contract owners during service composition and monitoring phases. An ad-hoc developed tool based on tree-graphs is examined to assess the feasibility of the proposed model and to simplify SLA and contract composition.
Towards An Ontology Infrastructure for Electromagnetism
Ontologies are more and more adopted to provide knowledge sharing and reuse, and to promote coope... more Ontologies are more and more adopted to provide knowledge sharing and reuse, and to promote cooperation between several scientific fields. An increasing need of cooperation and resource sharing is emerging in the electromagnetic arena as well. The range of potential semantic-...
A Biomechanical Analysis System of Posture
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2014
A collaborative multi-videoconferencing platform for online optical microscopy
Proceedings of 2015 12th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV), 2015
Using Mobile Crowd Sensing to teach technology and entrepreneurship in high schools: An experience from Southern Italy
2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2015
Service and contract composition: A model and a tool
2015 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), 2015
Cloud computing services are seeing great success in IT scenarios. Dynamic reservation and alloca... more Cloud computing services are seeing great success in IT scenarios. Dynamic reservation and allocation of network, storage and computational resources, the hiding of visibility of internal IT components, as well as the pay-per-use paradigm are nowadays more and more widespread ways to provide and consume services. Their complexity, however, is clearly visible in composing services to satisfy users’ requests, as well as in performance monitoring and service level comparisons. Effective ways are then needed to model both contracts and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) referring to the services that have to be provided to customers. However, this is hindered by a lack of expressivity in current SLA specifications and a consequent inadequacy in tools for managing SLAs and contract composition aspects. Therefore, we present a possible extension of WSLA, a widely known SLA description language, for modeling contracts and SLAs suitable to support contract owners during service composition and monitoring phases. An ad-hoc developed tool based on tree-graphs is examined to assess the feasibility of the proposed model and to simplify SLA and contract composition.
SLA composition in service networks
Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - SAC '15, 2015
Extending WSLA for Service and Contract Composition
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 2015
Collaborative learning from Mobile Crowd Sensing: A case study in electromagnetic monitoring
2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2015
Personal mobile devices are nowadays so pervasive that a broad range of novel learning practices ... more Personal mobile devices are nowadays so pervasive that a broad range of novel learning practices and paradigms can profitably exploits them. Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is one of them. In MCS, mobiles act as data sources for monitoring tasks (e.g., traffic planning, air pollution monitoring, emergency management), thanks to their computational capability and their embedded sensors. From a pedagogical perspective, MCS offers continuous learning experiences that increases students’ skills and expertise by engaging them directly into practical activities and on-the-field analyses. However, the wide diffusion of mobiles requires a reliable wireless coverage, to guarantee proper Quality of Service levels, thus potentially increasing the electromagnetic field levels in a given geographical area. Therefore, we propose a complete data warehouse solution that exploits MCS paradigm to pursue three main research purposes. Firstly, motivating students from engineering courses to acquire a better knowledge in wireless communication topics by offering them experiential and collaborative learning approaches. Secondly, performing a preliminary screening of the signals received by mobiles for 3G/4G standards (e.g., UMTS, LTE), since this domain did not benefit from MCS solutions so far. Thirdly, identifying prospective areas where more detailed measuring campaigns must be addressed. A deep analysis of the achievable pedagogical benefits as well as the thorough description of both design and implementation phases is provided. Evaluation results and preliminary users’ feedback complete this research work.
EM programmer's notebook: Effective search and exploitation of electromagnetic knowledge in the Web
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
We all are aware of the huge amount of electromagnetic information and knowledge available in the... more We all are aware of the huge amount of electromagnetic information and knowledge available in the Web, both in the form of PDF scientific papers, and in other forms (e.g., software, datasets). Similarly, we all have experienced the frustration of searching the Web for papers and other information, and getting useless or unsatisfactory results. All these limitations clearly demonstrate that information technologies (IT) need further progress so as to improve the efficiency of the mentioned processes. Indeed, there is fervid activity around this goal, and some interesting achievements have begun to appear in terms of search effectiveness and navigation satisfaction. Novel formats for representing scientific-paper contents are proposed, enhancing machine processing capability. However, embracing the new information technology proposals requires a cultural change from authors and from editors, and we cannot take it for granted that it will happen in the near future. Moreover, already-pu...
A Linked Data Approach to Electromagnetic Pollution Monitoring
This paper describes how novel knowledge modeling and management techniques borrowed from the Sem... more This paper describes how novel knowledge modeling and management techniques borrowed from the Semantic Web were exploited to publish data coming from Electromagnetic (EM) pollution monitoring to the Linked Data Cloud. The paper shows how, starting from requirements coming from the EM use case, the procedure of data publishing was carried out, with the support of public tools, shared standards and established methodologies. A synthetic comparison between available tools is provided, a knowledge model integrating proprietary and public ontologies and vocabularies described, and a practical use case narrated. In this way, starting from a concrete use case, a panoramic on Linked Data capabilities and on state-of-art procedures, tools and standards is provided.
The bibliographic reference collection GRC2014 for the Online Laboratory Research community
Proceedings of 2015 12th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV), 2015
Towards Massive Open Online Laboratories: An experience about electromagnetic crowdsensing
Proceedings of 2015 12th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV), 2015
Forms of Collaboration in Collaborative Enterprises: An Ontological Model
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2014
Reasoning techniques and their relations to cognition and reality gained significant momentum fue... more Reasoning techniques and their relations to cognition and reality gained significant momentum fueled by the advent of complex information sys-tems which rely on robust and coherent, formal representations of their subject matter. In this sense, ontologies can provide models of different aspects of a business entity contributing to intra- and inter-enterprise information systems. This is particularly relevant for collaborative enterprises, which are entities far more complex than single enterprises. In particular, for the governance of col-laborative enterprises it is essential to determine the relevant KPIs for the type of collaborative enterprise, taking into account several characteristics such as lifecycle and size. The main objective of this work is to develop an ontology of collaborative enterprises which enables the semi-automatic classification of in-stances. To this aim, we take into account the type of collaborative enterprise, its maturity (i.e., the lifecycle phase), size, territorial extension and other characteristics.
Towards an XBRL Ontology Extension for Management Accounting
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014
Genetic Optimization for Optimum 3G Network Planning: an Agent-Based Parallel Implementation
Novel Algorithms and Techniques in Telecommunications and Networking, 2009
Abstract-The continuous evolution of wireless networks, as well as the attention paid by the publ... more Abstract-The continuous evolution of wireless networks, as well as the attention paid by the public opinion to human exposure to electromagnetic fields radiated by basestation antennas, render the development of software tools to support optimum design and planning of 3G ...
A versatile context-aware pervasive monitoring system: Validation and characterization in the health-care domain
2010 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, 2010
Abstract This paper presents a proposal for a context-aware framework for alert generation. The f... more Abstract This paper presents a proposal for a context-aware framework for alert generation. The framework is organized according to a general purpose agent-based architecture, centered around an ontological context representation. The ontology provides the ...
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