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Vision
The application lab develops software to support services for the mobility of people and objects and the sharing of data and knowledge in a mobile environment.
It is widely acknowledged that the support of the growth of mobility and transportation faces challenges which may lead to critical situations (e.g., congestion, excessive consumption of resources, exploding costs) unless radically new interdisciplinary approaches are developed. Some of the DISI research groups have the know-how and tools which can be integrated into innovative ways to address these challenges.
Through the shared knowledge, the complexity of the system will be analyzed at different description levels and simulated though the support of massively parallel machines developed by the industrial partner.
Through simulations, the emergence of behavior will be studied from the distributed and asynchronous interaction of large numbers of intelligent entities with learning and strategic capabilities.
Research Areas
The multi-disciplinary approach required to address in a strategic manner real-world problems involves both theoretical and practical tools including:
- Intelligent optimization strategies and reactive search
- Gossiping optimization schemes and peer-to-peer communication
- Distributed and parallel computing
- Percolation methods to study individual mobility
- Smart wireless communication systems
- Vehicular networking: vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication
- Models and analysis of processes involved in mobility
- Multimedia services like tracking and surveillance.
Application Areas
The focus of the lab is on developing applications for mobility management by building on seeds developed in the past by the participating RPs, in particular through their common participation in the TRITon project sponsored by Siemens, which will be a valid starting point for some of the investigations considered in this AL. TRITon is a research and innovation project funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento aimed at advancing the state of the art in the management of road tunnels, specifically to improve safety and reduce energy costs. The objective of this application lab is to enlarge the focus from individual tunnels to the complete transportation network consisting of infrastructures (roads, freeways, trains) and interacting systems (individual mobility, public transportation, private transportation companies, logistics, etc.). Other related projects include the bilateral Italy-USA DAMASCO project on intelligent transportation systems, and the past WILMA project (with PAT funding) about wireless internet connectivity and location-aware services, plus a series of national and international projects in areas related to the lab application focus.
The main detailed application areas addressed are:
- Traffic and mobility: models, management, optimization and services example: dynamic traffic re-routing and correction processes
- Intelligent transportation systems and logistics
- Support of social networks in a mobile environment, support for identity-and-location-aware services example: social networks for safe car pooling
- Image processing, tracking and surveillance, real-time traffic monitoring targeted to citizens and officials
- Vehicular information networks: mobility services are envisaged in the future to be partially supported by communication- and sensor-enabled user vehicles, able to collect data and perform information diffusion.
Members
Faculty
| R. Battiti | M. Brunato | F. Casati |
| F. De Natale | F. Granelli | R. Lo Cigno |
| A. Massa | A. Montresor | T. Palpanas |
Research Programs
LION - machine Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioNMultimedia Signal Processing and Understanding
Wireless Communication
Distributed Systems
Data and Knowledge Management
Networking
Partners
CRF - Centro Ricerche FIATFinmeccanica
Gruppo Industriale Tosoni
PAT - Provincia Autonoma di Trento (Autonomous Province of Trento)
Siemens s.p.a.