Research projects

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2008-2010

"Denaro Media"
The project aims at defining and prototyping a Multichannel Collaborative Content Management System able to support the creation, storage, retrieval and publications of multimedia contents towards different communication media (Web, TV, Mobile TV, Radio, etc.) in a collaborative environment. The project includes research activities concerning the semantic annotation of multimedia contents, the usage of information retrieval techniques for searching and reusing contents, and the publication of descriptive metadata on contents by means of emerging standards such as RSS and RDF-SPARQL.

2007-2008

"SOGEI"
The project aims at realizing a solution for the development of enterprise Web portals by integrating open source software solutions including the OpenCMS Content Management Systems, the JetSpeed portal, the OpenLDAP directory and the JOSSO single-sign system.

2005-2008

"Service Centric Systems Engineering (SeCSE)"
The primary goal of this research project is to create methods, tools and techniques for systems intergrators and service providers to support the cost-effective development and use of dependable services and service-centric applications. The project brings together IT companies, developers and research labs and is driven by the emerging needs in the automotive and telecommunications industries.
Technically, SeCSE focuses on four ares for the engineering of sw systems: specification, discovery, design, and management of services for which new techniques and tools will be delivered. These tools and techniques will be integrated to provide a SeCSE development environment and, based on visionary scenarios from application partners, domain-specific adaptations.

2004-2005

"GPAWeb"
The project was intend to reengineer and migrate onto the Web an application (named GPA) for the e-procurement in the Public Health centers and adotpion of the Web meta-platform. The GPA software was developed by Biosal Scrl, an ICT company seated in Novoli (Le) Italy. I am responsible of the coordination of the project activities that will be developed by the Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Lecce, Italy.

2003-2004

"Intese"
The INTESE project (INnovative Technologies against Social Exclusion) was a pioneer project aimed at exploring new ways of communication for the dissemination of information concerning the asylum and immigration policy in Europe. It has been funded through the Joint Actions of the SOCRATES, LEONARDO & YOUTH PROGRAMMES, call DG EAC No 04/02 of the European Commission (project number N° 107417) and involves various European partners.

2003

Survey on Organizational and Tecnological Innovation of Italian Municipalities
The project aimed at conducting a survey and to study the innovative models of e-government setted up by Italian local administrations. The commission for the research was granted to the University of Lecce by the Italian Minister for the Innovation and the Technologies.

2000-2001

Innovative Systems for e-commerce of ICT products and services
The project aimed at researching and experimenting innovative solutions for electronic commerce of ICT products and services. The project was implemented by SVIC, an ICT small company seated in Lecce, and was funded by Regione Puglia among the POR program of Regional fundings.

Technological Solutions for the Migration of Legacy Business Software on a Web Centric Architecture
The project, funded by the Regione Puglia, was aimed at reengineering a business legacy software developed by Sinfor (an ICT company based in Lecce) on a Web centric architecture, using design methodologies and developing technologies suitable for Web application.