Research

Participations in research projects

Principal Investigator

• Creation of a computational framework to model and study West Nile Disease (supported by CRT foundation)
  Start date of the project: 13/02/2020 Duration: 24 months.
  This project aims will be the development of a new computational framework for the study of West Nile Disease which provides new tools for the evaluation, prevention and control of this disease. The novelties and strengths of such framework will be: (1) the use of a graphical formalism based on Petri Nets to simplify the model creation and to provide an intuitive description of the system behaviour; (2) the implementation of an R package to provide a user-friendly interface; (3) the containerization (into Docker images) of all the implemented analysis techniques to improve the framework portability and to ensure the reproducibility of the derived results; (4) The definition of a well-defined schema and related infrastructure to allow users to integrate their own analysis workflows in the framework.
• Experimentation and study of models for the evaluation of the performance and the energy efficiency for the Competence Center for Scientific Computing at the University of Turin (supported by CRT foundation)
  Start date of the project: 13/03/2017 Duration: 24 months.
  This project aims to study the performance of the new Scientific Computing center (C3S) of the University of Turin through measurement campaigns and suitable formal models, creating a series of ad-tools hoc with which to analyze and develop strategies to enable load distribution to increase performance and reliability while reducing operating costs and the impact environmental. A distinctive feature of this project will be the creation and calibration of the model through the experimental data obtained by the realization of a measurement and monitoring infrastructure for C3S.

Thematic Research Group Leader

• High Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data application (cHIPSet - COST Action n. IC1406)
  Start date of the project: 08/04/2015 Duration: 36 months.
  The Action will share best practices and research on novel data-aware programming models for parallel computing with a specific focus on simulation workloads. A key goal of the activity is to support both code and performance portability across different HPC platforms for problems requiring the management of massive data.

Researcher

• Holistic Human Factors and System Design of Adaptive Cooperative Human-Machine Systems (European ARTEMIS-2012ASP8);
  Start date of the project: 01/10/2013 Duration: 36 months.
  HOLIDES addresses the development and qualification of Adaptive Cooperative Human-Machine Systems (AdCoS) that are urgently needed to enhance usability and safety as well as to boost the confidence of human operators. HOLIDES will therefore develop a Human Factors Reference Technology Platform (HF-RTP) to foster interoperability and to support human factors along the whole engineering lifecycle.
• Parallel Patterns for Adaptive Heterogeneous Multicore Systems (European FP7- 288570);
  Start date of the project: 01/10/2011 Duration: 36 months.
  ParaPhrase project aims to produce a new structured design and implementation process for heterogeneous parallel architectures, where developers exploit a variety of parallel patterns to develop component based applications that can be mapped to the available hardware resources, and which may then be dynamically re-mapped to meet application needs and hardware availability.
• Advanced Methodologies for the Analysis and management of the Future Internet (supported by Compagnia di San Paolo foundation);
  Start date of the project: 01/10/2012 Duration: 36 months.
  The goal of the project is to extend and improve existing mathematical methods (based on stochastic processes, diffusion approximations, decomposition, ag- gregation, copulas, temporal logics, game theory, compressive sensing, network coding) to develop advanced frameworks, methodologies and tools for approach- ing the analysis and management of novel architectures proposed for "Future Internet" (FI). Our methodologies, designed to address the very large scale and complex models deriving from these architectures and validated by realistic simulations, will help to select, configure and manage services and applications paving the way to FI.
• Advancing the Barley Genome (CRIS NUMBER: 0218967 - USA);
  Start date of the project: 01/09/2009 Duration: 36 months.
  The goal of this new project, through accomplishment of short-term gene sequencing and physical map-related goals, is to further facilitate marker-assisted breeding by greatly improving access to knowledge of barley genes. As a corollary, the information developed from this project also will accelerate map-based cloning efforts, which also lead to improved markers as well as alter.
• Wireless Sensor Networks for Dependable Monitoring of Critical Applications (MIUR-PRIN);
  Start date of the project: 01/10/2008 Duration: 24 months.
  The project aims to investigate innovative solutions for the application of WSN networks to the realization of monitoring systems for safety critical applications. This objective is pursued by means of the integration of two complementary research lines: a technological line aimed to develop solutions for the efficient management of the network resources and to increase its quality of service and lifetime; a methodological line aimed to develop modelling and quantitative evaluation techniques that make the reliability figures predictable and support efficient management strategies.
• Performance Evaluation of Complex System: Techniques, Methodologies and Tools (MIUR-FIRB);
  Start date of the project: 01/10/2006 Duration: 36 months.
  This Project focuses on the foundations of performance evaluation with the aim of developing new techniques, methodologies and tools for the analysis of the complex systems driving the Information Society. The topics addressed within the Project encompass all the aspects of performance evaluation, from measurement and characterization techniques, to formalisms for the qualitative and quantitative modeling of complex systems, to solution methods for analytical, numerical and simulation models.
• CRitical UTility InfrastructurAL resilience (European IST research project 2006-2009)
  Start date of the project: 01/01/2006 Duration: 36 months.
  This project is an European IST research project approved from the EU within the Sixth Framework Program (FP6). The project addresses new networked ICT system for the management of the electric power grid, in which artefacts controlling the physical process of electricity transportation need to be connected with information infrastructures, through corporate networks, which are in turn connected to the Internet.