Projects

To understand what is required to support new innovative Internet applications, a solid understanding of Internet content characteristics (size, distribution, form, structure, evolution, dynamic) is necessary. The LAWA project will build an Internet-based experimental testbed for large-scale data analytics. Its emphasis is on developing a sustainable infrastructure, scalable methods, and easily usable software tools for aggregating, querying, and analyzing heterogeneous data at Internet scale.

DSD cooperates with Nuance to design and implement web services built on Nuance technologies in a cloud environment. The project targets the production of high availability, elastic components, which will be able to serve individuals as well as high profile business partners of Nuance.

Study and realize a demonstrator of a multichannel, multistatic single receiver configuration for Array Passive Radar, making use of digital signals of opportunity (e.g. DVB-T, UMTS, OFDM radar). The passive radar can exploit multiple frequency channels of the same illuminator of Opportunity (IO) (e.g. different DVB-T channels) and/or multiple IOs located in different positions and operating in the same band (DVB-T repeaters) and/or other possible combinations. Terrestrial, airborne and space borne platforms will be taken into account.

The P-GRADE Grid Portal is a web based, service rich environment for the development, execution and monitoring of workflows and workflow based parameter studies on various grid platforms. P-GRADE Portal hides low-level grid access mechanisms by high-level graphical interfaces, making even non grid expert users capable of defining and executing distributed applications on multi-institutional computing infrastructures. Workflows and workflow based parameter studies defined in the P-GRADE Portal are portable between grid platforms without learning new systems or re-engineering program code.

The EGI-InSPIRE project (Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe) started on 1 May 2010, co-funded by the European Commission (contract number: RI-261323) for four years, as a collaborative effort involving more than 50 institutions in over 40 countries. Its mission is to establish a sustainable European Grid Infrastructure (EGI).

Fresh food: a growing challenge

A significant trend witnessed in numerous regions worldwide is the change of customers’ expectations regarding food quality. Trends of converting to lighter food can be observed, and growing customer concerns are experienced regarding preservatives, additives, microbial contamination and nutrient deterioration due to processing, storage or transportation conditions. Driven by these tendencies, customers now turn more and more towards fresh food with little intervention in its raw materials.

Virtual Factory Framework (VFF) is a Collaborative Research Project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme
VFF objective is to research and implement the underlying models and ideas at the foundation of a new conceptual framework designed to implement the next generation Virtual Factory, constantly synchronized with the real one.
Project approach identified 4 pillars:

1. Reference Model for factory planning
2. VF Manager
3. Functional Modules
4. Integration of Knowledge

Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) representations of dynamic models and Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) based feasibility play a central role in modern control theory. The PI introduced a definition of the Higher Order Singular Valued Decomposition (HOSVD) based canonical form of LPV models, which is the first unique representation of LPV models, and developed the Tensor Product (TP) model transformation, which is capable of numerically reconstructing this canonical form.