Projects

• TISP (Trust Intermediary Service Provider) (since 2003). TourTrust is a three-year applied research project funded in 2004 by the Italian Ministry for Research and Education (2,4M€). TISP aims at developing a demonstrator for a Trust Intermediary Service Provider offering intermediation services to end-users and providers in the e-tourism market. The project is a collaboration with the Italian enterprise LaTraccia.
• IDN (InterDataNet) (since 2004) Internally funded research project. IDN concerns the definition of a layered middleware enabling collaboration in the management of distributed structured documents to support enhanced interoperability.

  InterDataNet (IDN) is both a project within the Web of Data and a vision towards the Semantic Web. IDN is a project because it aims to define an architectural solution to data interoperability through a layered middleware architecture grounding the Web of Data. IDN sustains global addressability of concepts and resources as well as basic collaborative oriented services for distributed and heterogeneous data management. IDN is a vision because its infrastructural solution can boost Tim Berners Lee’s Semantic Web vision by providing an extraordinary way of achieving the collaborative creation of shared information (Web of Data) and conceptualization (Semantic Web).  IDN definitely inherits the Web Science approach by integrating computer science and telecommunications views of the future of the Web without forgetting the Web of People which are ultimately the origin and the adopters of any technical innovations. (internal site, for IDN staff only)

• Arishtot/Internum (since 2007) MEDOCC European project. Sciences In the Mediterranean. Structuring the Mediterranean Basin by developing the scientific heritage common to both sides of the Mediterranean, using Information Society tools.
• eGovernment Service Marketplace (eGovSM) (2004-2006). Research project funded by the School of Applied Sciences, Fribourg, Switzerland in collaboration with the University of Florence. The eGovernment Service Marketplace intended to facilitate citizens’ interaction with public administrations through a single, personalized services access point.
• DMSML (Document Management and Sharing Markup Language) (2000-2004) Research project jointly funded by the School of Applied Sciences, Fribourg, (CH) and the University of Florence. DMSML language and Framework provided configuration interfaces and Document Management functionalities for the design and fast prototyping of DMSs (Document Management Systems).
• MEDIT – Multimedia Environment for Distributed Interactive Teaching (1996 – 1999). Research project funded by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in collaboration with the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) of Rouen, France. The project aimed to develop an authoring environment for the creation of web-based course activities to support Fluid Mechanics teaching at EPFL, CH. The project developed educational methods and technologies in Higher Education.
• E4 (Enhancing Engineering Education in Europe) European Socrates Project Thematic Network (2001-2004) and its evolution European Socrates Thematic Network TREE (2005-2006).Contributing to the development and the enrichment of the European dimension in Engineering Education (EE). Member of the Management Committee in E4 thematic network.