A038 copertina - Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica, automatica ...

Contents
Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 General Information 3
2.1 Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2 Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3 People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4 Doctoral Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.5 Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.6 Seminars and Workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.7 Awards and Individual Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3 Research 21
3.1 Algorithm Design and Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.2 Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3.3 Combinatorial Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.4 Computer Networks and Pervasive Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.5 Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Perception . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.6 Continuous Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.7 Data Management and Service-Oriented Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.8 Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.9 High Performance and Dependable Computing Systems . . . . . . . . . . 50
3.10 Human-Computer Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3.11 Hybrid Control Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.12 Industrial Organization and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3.13 Modeling, Simulation, and Control in Biological and Biomedical Systems 65
3.14 Multi-Agent and Multi-Robot Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
3.15 Networked Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
3.16 R&D, Innovation, and Internationalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
3.17 Robotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
3.18 Robust and Nonlinear Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
3.19 Web Algorithmics and Data Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90