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Description
Research Units/Projects
Advisory Board
News and Upcoming Research Seminars
Current Conferences
Past Conferences
Resident Faculty

Description

The Computer Science and Applications Research Area supports a broad research agenda in the two main fields of Computer Networks and Architectures and Software Systems for Global Computing.

The themes covered include, but are not limited to: advanced communication paradigms for future internet, architectures for model driven software development, complex systems, economically principled growing model of the internet, formal methods for software validation and verification, greening of the future internet, infrastructure-free communications and self-organization, model checking, orchestration and coreography languages, probabilistic and stochastic interactive models and logics, process calculi and high level languages for global computing, wireless enabled context awareness.

The research groups integrate the efforts of professors, researchers, and PhD students in both theoretical and applied problems, involving a wide range of topics and methodologies, with a strong collaborative and interdisciplinary approach.

Research Units/Projects

Research Units are created within and across the Research Area to meet the evolution of frontiers of scientific research, combining scientific rigor and relevance in research activities id high relevance for applications and policy.
Research Units can host one or more research projects.

Current research units:

C3 − Culture, Communication & Computing:
The C3 unit, Culture, Communication & Computing design unit at the IMT Lucca aim at conducting and design innovative research, technologies and application to explore new paradigms related to cultural heritage, to rethink how innovative technologies can improve users' activities & experiences, and generate new concepts to enrich the user experience in the context of cultural heritage. With a strong design approach, we are interested in exploring the emerging paradigms to combine the cultural, the social and the physical space. We research the emerging potentialities of mobile computing, context awareness, new narratives and environmental monitoring techniques.
The C3 unit is financed by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca.
Director: Federico Casalegno
IEE − Industrial Energy Efficiency
The IEE Unit aims to develop methods, tools and algorithms for the monitoring and for the modeling and analysis of systems for energy production, co-production, consumption, acquisition and distribution, with particular reference to industrial energy efficiency.
The IEE unit is financed by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca.
Director: Rocco de Nicola
PRIAn - Pattern recognition and image analysis
The PRIAn unit aims at applying a wide range of techniques to identify complex patterns in high dimensional data, collaborating closely with experimental groups in various domains, with particular reference to biological and medical images.
Director: Angelo Bifone

Advisory Board

Coordinator

Martin Wirsing - Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)

Members

Michel Cosnard, INRA, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - Sophia Antipolis (France)
Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research, Cambridge (UK)
Robert Kahn, Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Reston, VA (USA)
Carlo Ratti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)

News and Upcoming Research Seminars

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Please check the Computer Science and Applications Research Seminars page for past seminars.

Current Conferences

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Past Conferences

From April 12, 2010 To April 15, 2010

European Wireless 2010

From November 7, 2006 To November 9, 2006

Trustworthy Global Computing, 2006 International Symposium

Resident Faculty

Professors
Alberto Bemporad
Rocco De Nicola
Assistant Professors
Maria Grazia Buscemi	m.buscemi@imtlucca.it
Alberto Lluch Lafuente	alberto.lluch@imtlucca.it
Francesco Tiezzi
Sotirios Tsaftaris
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Daniele Bernardini
Panagiotis Patrinos	panagiotis.patrinos@imtlucca.it
Matteo Rubagotti	matteo.rubagotti@ing.unitn.it
Visiting Professor
Michele Loreti

In addition to resident faculty, IMT faculty is extended to external scholars who collaborate with IMT on regular basis through a series of activities, mainly:

Lectures in Ph.D. programs:
Seminars:
- Research Area in Economics and Institutional Change
- Research Area in Computer Science and Applications
Participation in academic boards, mainly:
- Advisory Board: Research Area in Economics and Institutional Change
- Advisory Board: Research Area: Computer Science and Applications
- Ph.D programs scientific boards (check Ph.D Programs web page)
Participation in selection and evaluation committees for faculty recruitment and evaluation. All are involved in Ph.D. student supervision.

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