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Decision
Theater
(2014-2017)
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Decision Theater
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PICO
(2007-2010)
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PICO is a project carried out in collaboration with
CEFRIEL and Politecnico di Torino. PICO aims at the distribution of
innovative telecommunication services for differentiated users in emergency
situations, related to both prevention and consequent participation in case
of natural catastrophes.
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METAMORPHOS
MEthods and Tools for migrAting
software systeMs towards web and service Oriented aRchitectures: exPerimental
evaluation, usability, and tecHnOlogy tranSfer
(2007-2008)
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Software systems undergo, during their lifetime, repeated maintenance and
evolution activities to correct faults, or to meet the customers' or market's
needs. Recently, a large part of the maintenance effort is due to the
migration of traditional applications toward the Web, to make them accessible
from wireless devices and to reengineer existing systems towards
service-oriented architectures. The effort devoted to reverse engineering and
migration activities in particular is a large part of the total life-cycle
effort and it could be greatly reduced by adopting proper support tools.
The
adoption of reverse engineering and migration tools in industry cannot be
made without a systematic and quantitative evaluation, in particular
concerning usability. If a tool is difficult to use, it will hardly be
adopted, no matter how useful it may be. Although, this need has been widely
discussed in the past and guidelines to define, plan and conduct empirical
studies have been defined, very few studies have been conducted for the evaluation
of migration methods and tools.
The objective of this project is to facilitate the selection and the
adoption of reverse engineering and migration techniques and tools in
industry. To pursue such an objective, the project aims at empirically
evaluating reverse engineering and migration techniques and tools that can
potentially fulfill industry needs. The empirical evaluation will be
conducted in three different stages: a first stages aiming at surveying the
state of the art and of the practice; a second stage aiming at assessing the
different techniques in a controlled environment; and a third stage, in which
techniques will be further experimented in industry with some case studies.
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RE-TRUST
(Remote EnTrusting by RUn-time Software auThentication )
(2006-2008)
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When the software industry discusses software integrity,
the current meaning is the protection of static software modules (e.g., by
verifying the signature of their originator). In contrast, dynamic software
authentication in real-time during execution is a known problem without a
satisfactory solution. Specifically, how to ensure that a trusted code (i.e.,
the software as was specified and implemented) is running on an untrusted
machine at all times and that the original code functionality has not been modified
prior to or during run-time, is an open research challenge.
This project will investigate both
novel SW-based and SW-based with hardware assistance, methodologies for
solving this problem by employing a trusted logic component on an untrusted
machine that in turn authenticates its operation continuously during
run-time. The method assures a remote entrusting component so that if the
authentication is successful, then the original software functionality is
then executed on the untrusted machine.
By providing a more cost-effective trusted software-based infrastructure the
RE-TRUST project will have a major impact on the trust and security R&D
landscape and potentially a major long-term impact on business and commercial
applications.
The proposed RE-TRUST project is
primarily a network-based add-on software approach; such approaches have a
typically low deployment cost. A successful solution to the central issues of
DRM (digital right management), data privacy in Grid computing and
network/server protection/trust problems, e.g., for e-commerce and
e-government will have major economic benefits in Europe and elsewhere. The
realization of the proposed objective poses major scientific and engineering
challenges of an interdisciplinary nature: (1) SW engineering, (2)
cryptography, (3) security protocols, (4) operating systems, (5) network
protocols and (6) smart cards. Thus, a high quality academic and industrial
consortium has been assembled, accordingly.
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SPICE
(Service Platform for Innovative Communication Environment)
(2006-2008)
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SPICE is addressing the still unsolved problem of designing, developing
and putting into operation efficient and innovative mobile Service
creation/execution platforms for networks beyond 3G.
This project will research, prototype and evaluate an extendable overlay
architecture and framework to support, easy and quick service creation, test
and deployment of intelligent mobile communication and information services.
Building on significant advances in IT technologies, the SPICE platform will
support multiple heterogeneous execution platforms allowing for new,
innovative services to be spread across different operator domains and over
different countries realizing a variety of business models.
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OPUCE
(Open Platform for User-centric service Creation and Execution)
(2006-2008)
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The purpose of this project is to bridge advances in networking,
communication and information technology services towards a unique service
environment where personalized services will be dynamically created and
provisioned by the end-user itself regardless of ambiance and location.
The project will produce an open service infrastructure to enable users
for easy service creation and deployment in heterogeneous environments and
ambiances, allowing services to be accessed in a seamless way by a multitude
of devices connected via different networks. It will have tangible benefits
to end-users as it will enrich services variety and relevance to their needs,
and to service providers as it will ease the service creation and extend the
scope of services that can be offered. It will leverage the business of SMEs
by facilitating quick creation and deployment of a new range of services as
smart users by ad-hoc cooperation with other business players. From this the
number of service providers and users will increase and consequently the
amount of equipment sold by manufacturers, which will provide the enabling
platform elements.
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WISE
(Wireless Internet Service Engineering)
(2001-2004)
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The
wireless Internet will be based upon wirelines and devices from the
traditional Internet, and will reuse some of its techniques and protocols.
However, the wireless Internet will not be a simple add-on to the wireline
Internet. From the technical point of view, new challenging problems arise
from the handling of mobility, handsets with reduced screens and varying
bandwidth. From the business point of view, the business models will change.
As a result, it is easy to forecast that developing and operating the new
mobile services will be a challenging software and system integration
problem, in a new business scenario, with scarcity of qualified personnel.
This project aims at anticipating these problems by producing integrated
methods and tools to engineer services on the wireless Internet, and by
testing them on real world pilot services.
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CERCOM
(Centro di Eccellenza per le
Radio COmunicazioni Multimediali)
(2001-2003)
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It
is a research center founded by the Dipartimento di Elettronica (DELEN) and
the Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica (DAUIN) of Politecnico di
Torino, funded by the Italian Ministry of education. Its goal is to provide,
by means of research, development and education, a significant contribution
to the solution of some of the most important technological problems in the
field of wireless communications.
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Eurescom P1109
(Next Generation Networks: the service offering standpoint)
(2001-2002)
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Eurescom
Project P1109 aims at the evaluation of solutions for Next Generation
Networks from a service offering standpoint, and at the promotion of delivery
of NGN Service Platforms (NGSP). The project selects some of the solutions,
which are coming out on the market in the area of Next Generation Networks
(i.e. Media Gateway/Media Gateway Controllers, Call Agent and Softswitch),
evaluate them through lab trials and define migration scenarios towards next
generation networks and services.
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UNIK
(UNIversal Kit)
(2001- )
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The
UNIK project is an internal research project. Its objective is to develop a
unified framework supporting and operating NG (Next Generation) services over
hybrid networks (i.e. PSTN and Internet). The overall architecture is
organized in three tiers: the "platform" including all products and
technologies necessary to operate the network and possibly service adapters;
the "NIPS"(Network Intelligence Provider Servers) on top of the platform,
and including all provider servers - so-called NI in-the-network; and
the "NICK" (NI Customer Kit), including all client applications,
possibly downloadable in a dynamic way.
UNIK software is distributed as opensource, and it serves as experimental
laboratory for research and thesis works and teaching.
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Added-value
TINA VPN
(TINA Fellowship Program 2001)
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The
project purpose is the definition of a framework for the provisioning of
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in a way that is transparent to generic users
for both VPN membership definition (i.e. interface abstraction) and VPN
operation (i.e. outsourced or network based).
The focus is on the usage of TINA concepts mainly over the IP world:
having in mind the TINA Business Model, the project will to point out the set
of new network capabilities needed by a Connectivity Provider (CP) in order
to become a "VPN-Connectivity Provider" (VCP) supposing that the
physical network is based on IP technology. Besides network capabilities, the
project defines an information model for the VPN description, which
encompasses the issues of multiple provider cooperation and which arranges the
QoS delivery problem.
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The
Gate
(to Virtual Communities)
(TINA Fellowship Program 2001)
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The
project overall objective is to implement a virtual networked environment to
support the free and autonomous exchange of information among individuals
distributed over the Internet.
This networked environment has been called "The Gate" as it will
permit individuals to access a virtually global environment composed of a set
of freely accessible thematic communities, and to perceive this environment
according to personalized settings, flavor and objectives.
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ACTS AC003 VITAL
(Validation of Integrated Telecommunication Architectures for the Long
term)
(1995-1998)
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The
VITAL (Validation of Integrated Telecommunication Architectures for the Long
term) project aims at validating TINA (Telecommunication Information Network
Architecture) by specifying, designing and implementing a prototype of the
software architecture based on the object-oriented paradigm and object
distribution principles. The prototype will represent a platform on which the
project develops, integrates and experiments advanced telecommunication
services, like video-conferencing and video on demand, still maintaining the
compliance with traditional communication services.
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ACTS 30055 SCARAB
(Smart Card and Agent enabled ReliABle access)
(1998-1999)
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The
SCARAB (Smart Card and Agent enabled ReliABle access) project aims at
evaluating, positioning and demonstrating the use of smart cards as a
universal token for seamless access to a multitude of (broadband)
telecommunication services in an open service architecture. It will identify
the implications of agent technology for supporting mobility, security and
reliability in and across heterogeneous network environments.
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