Between 2014 and 2016, at ICAR-CNR, I collaborated on the activities of the Res-Novae Project: “Building Road Networks – New Virtuous Objectives for the Environment and Energy”, financed by the Italian Government, PON Research and Competitiveness 2007- 2013.
My main contributions to the project involved:
- The design and experimental validation of an intelligent platform for cloud-assisted cyber-physical systems to support the development and execution of Smart City applications.
- The design and validation of a cyber-physical system for managing urban drainage networks, based on swarm intelligence.
- The design, implementation, and deployment of the Smart Street Cosenza demonstrator, a Smart City prototype created in the City of Cosenza.
Some related scientific publications are given below:
1.
Cicirelli, F.; Guerrieri, A.; Mercuri, A.; Spezzano, G.; Vinci, A.
Cognitive smart environment: An approach based on concept hierarchies and sensor data fusion Journal Article
In: International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, vol. 13, iss. 5, 2018, ISSN: 17402131.
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abstract = {Sensor data fusion gathers technological solutions for collecting, classifying and combining data from multiple sensors in a smart environment for augmenting knowledge about the system and realising cognitive behaviours. The goal is to make effective the management of acquired data and to promote the realisation of cognitive systems which can sense the environment, reason, and properly (re)act for reaching some purposes. Anyway, the development of such systems asks for suitable approaches able to deal with issues like heterogeneity, sensor/actuator management, system reactivity, behavioural modelling, and context awareness. This paper proposes a multi-tier approach, based on concept hierarchies and sensor data fusion, dealing with the above aspects. The approach favours separation of concerns and abstractions. It relies on the use of the agent metaphor and statecharts. The iSapiens platform is suggested for implementation purposes. As a significant case study, the development of a smart museum located in Cosenza (Italy) is proposed.},
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Sensor data fusion gathers technological solutions for collecting, classifying and combining data from multiple sensors in a smart environment for augmenting knowledge about the system and realising cognitive behaviours. The goal is to make effective the management of acquired data and to promote the realisation of cognitive systems which can sense the environment, reason, and properly (re)act for reaching some purposes. Anyway, the development of such systems asks for suitable approaches able to deal with issues like heterogeneity, sensor/actuator management, system reactivity, behavioural modelling, and context awareness. This paper proposes a multi-tier approach, based on concept hierarchies and sensor data fusion, dealing with the above aspects. The approach favours separation of concerns and abstractions. It relies on the use of the agent metaphor and statecharts. The iSapiens platform is suggested for implementation purposes. As a significant case study, the development of a smart museum located in Cosenza (Italy) is proposed.
2.
Cicirelli, Franco; Guerrieri, Antonio; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
An edge-based platform for dynamic smart city applications Journal Article
In: Future Generation Computer Systems, pp. -, 2017, ISSN: 0167-739X.
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abstract = {Abstract A Smart City is a cyber-physical system improving urban behavior and capabilities by providing ICT-based functionalities. An infrastructure for Smart City has to be geographically and functionally extensible, as it requires both to grow up with the physical environment and to meet the increasing in needs and demands of city users/inhabitants. In this paper, we propose iSapiens, an IoT-based platform for the development of general cyber-physical systems suitable for the design and implementation of smart city services and applications. As distinguishing features, the iSapiens platform implements the edge computing paradigm through both the exploitation of the agent metaphor and a distributed network of computing nodes directly scattered in the urban environment. The platform promotes the dynamic deployment of new computing nodes as well as software agents for addressing geographical and functional extensibility. iSapiens provides a set of abstractions suitable to hide the heterogeneity of the physical sensing/actuator devices embedded in the system, and to support the development of complex applications. The paper also furnishes a set of methodological guidelines exploitable for the design and implementation of smart city applications by properly using iSapiens. As a significant case study, the design and implementation of a real Smart Street in the city of Cosenza (Italy) are shown, which provides decentralized urban intelligence services to citizens.},
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Abstract A Smart City is a cyber-physical system improving urban behavior and capabilities by providing ICT-based functionalities. An infrastructure for Smart City has to be geographically and functionally extensible, as it requires both to grow up with the physical environment and to meet the increasing in needs and demands of city users/inhabitants. In this paper, we propose iSapiens, an IoT-based platform for the development of general cyber-physical systems suitable for the design and implementation of smart city services and applications. As distinguishing features, the iSapiens platform implements the edge computing paradigm through both the exploitation of the agent metaphor and a distributed network of computing nodes directly scattered in the urban environment. The platform promotes the dynamic deployment of new computing nodes as well as software agents for addressing geographical and functional extensibility. iSapiens provides a set of abstractions suitable to hide the heterogeneity of the physical sensing/actuator devices embedded in the system, and to support the development of complex applications. The paper also furnishes a set of methodological guidelines exploitable for the design and implementation of smart city applications by properly using iSapiens. As a significant case study, the design and implementation of a real Smart Street in the city of Cosenza (Italy) are shown, which provides decentralized urban intelligence services to citizens.
3.
Garofalo, Giuseppina; Giordano, Andrea; Piro, Patrizia; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
A distributed real-time approach for mitigating CSO and flooding in urban drainage systems Journal Article
In: Journal of network and computer applications, vol. 78, pp. 30–42, 2017, ISSN: 1084-8045.
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abstract = {In an urban environment, sewer flooding and combined sewer overflows (CSOs) are a potential risk to human life, economic assets and the environment. To mitigate such phenomena, real time control systems represent a valid and cost-effective solution. This paper proposes an urban drainage network equipped by sensors and a series of electronically movable gates controlled by a decentralized real-time system based on a gossip-based algorithm which exhibits good performance and fault tolerance properties. The proposal aims to exploit effectively the storage capacity of the urban drainage network so as to reduce flooding and CSO. The approach is validated by considering the urban drainage system of the city of Cosenza (Italy) and a set of extreme rainfall events as a testbed. Experiments are conducted by using a customized version of the SWMM simulation software and show that the CSO and local flooding volumes are significantly reduced.},
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In an urban environment, sewer flooding and combined sewer overflows (CSOs) are a potential risk to human life, economic assets and the environment. To mitigate such phenomena, real time control systems represent a valid and cost-effective solution. This paper proposes an urban drainage network equipped by sensors and a series of electronically movable gates controlled by a decentralized real-time system based on a gossip-based algorithm which exhibits good performance and fault tolerance properties. The proposal aims to exploit effectively the storage capacity of the urban drainage network so as to reduce flooding and CSO. The approach is validated by considering the urban drainage system of the city of Cosenza (Italy) and a set of extreme rainfall events as a testbed. Experiments are conducted by using a customized version of the SWMM simulation software and show that the CSO and local flooding volumes are significantly reduced.
4.
Giordano, Andrea; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
Smart Agents and Fog Computing for Smart City Applications Proceedings Article
In: E. Alba, Chicano (Ed.): Smart Cities. Smart-CT 2016, pp. 137–146, Springer International Publishing 2016.
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5.
Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
Pattern Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems Journal Article
In: Procedia Computer Science, vol. 52, pp. 1016–1021, 2015.
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6.
Giordano, Andrea; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
Rainbow: an Intelligent Platform for Large-Scale Networked Cyber-Physical Systems. Proceedings Article
In: Fortino, Giancarlo; Karnouskos, Stamatis; Marrón, Pedro José (Ed.): Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects for Smart Cities 2014 (UBICITEC 2014) co-located with CPS 2014, Berlin, Germany, Apr 14, 2014., pp. 70–85, CEUR-WS.org, 2014, ISSN: 1613-0073.
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abstract = {Recent advancements in the fields of embedded systems,communication technologies and computer science, have laid the foundations for new kinds of applications in which a plethora of physical devices are interconnected and immersed in an environment together with human beings. These so-called Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) issue a design challenge for new architecture in order to cope with problems such as the heterogeneity of devices, the intrinsically distributed nature of these systems, the lack of reliability in communications, etc. In this paper we introduce Rainbow, an architecture designed to address CPS issues. Rainbow hides heterogeneity by providing a Virtual Object (VO) concept, and addresses the distributed nature of CPS introducing a distributed multi-agent system on top of the physical part. Rainbow aims to get the computation close to the sources of information (i.e., the physical devices) and addresses the dynamic adaptivity requirements of CPS by using Swarm Intelligence algorithms.},
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Recent advancements in the fields of embedded systems,communication technologies and computer science, have laid the foundations for new kinds of applications in which a plethora of physical devices are interconnected and immersed in an environment together with human beings. These so-called Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) issue a design challenge for new architecture in order to cope with problems such as the heterogeneity of devices, the intrinsically distributed nature of these systems, the lack of reliability in communications, etc. In this paper we introduce Rainbow, an architecture designed to address CPS issues. Rainbow hides heterogeneity by providing a Virtual Object (VO) concept, and addresses the distributed nature of CPS introducing a distributed multi-agent system on top of the physical part. Rainbow aims to get the computation close to the sources of information (i.e., the physical devices) and addresses the dynamic adaptivity requirements of CPS by using Swarm Intelligence algorithms.
7.
Giordano, Andrea; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
Designing Cyber-Physical Systems for Smart Infrastructures: The Rainbow Platform. Journal Article
In: ERCIM News, vol. 2014, no. 97, 2014, ISSN: 09264981.
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represent a design challenge. The Rainbow platform has been developed to facilitate the development of new CPS architectures.
8.
Giordano, Andrea; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea; Garofalo, Giuseppina; Piro, Patrizia
A cyber-physical system for distributed real-time control of urban drainage networks in smart cities Proceedings Article
In: Fortino, Giancarlo; Fatta, Giuseppe Di; Li, Wenfeng; Ochoa, Sergio F.; Cuzzocrea, Alfredo; Pathan, Mukaddim (Ed.): Internet and Distributed Computing Systems – 7h International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, IDCS 2014, Calabria, Italy, September 22-24, 2014. Proceedings, pp. 87–98, Springer International Publishing Springher, 2014, ISBN: 978-3-319-11691-4.
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