DISIT lab and research group is active since 1994. It is one of the most active ICT labs of the University of Florence, metropolitan Tuscany area. DISIT successfully developed a relevant number of International and National research, development and innovation projects. DISIT provides an infrastructure for cloud and distributed computing. DISIT has coordinated a number of large EC projects, in many others has covered the role of partner, and also coordinating scientific and technical WP and performing activities of dissemination and assessment.  DISIT has received a relevant number of awards and is directly involved into top level international conferences, advisory boards, and committees.
DISIT research areas: big data, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed systems, formal models, metrics definition and assessment: Smart City integrated solutions: https://www.disit.org/km4city Data Mining and understanding: OD ingestion, quality improvement, data fusion, reconciliation: http://www.disit.org/6056   Open Data: OD, LOD, RDF stores visual tools, link discovering, enrichment, such as: https://log.disit.org Data analytics: statistics, clustering, logistic and holistic regression, machine learning, indexing and search, similarity distance,   Semantic computing: ontology / knowledge modeling, reasoning, deduction, recognition, disambiguation, prediction, inference, such as: https://www.disit.org/6568 high performance distributed systems, Grid and parallel computing: https://www.disit.org/6566, https://www.disit.org/5551 RDF store: indexing, high performance, parallel querying Content and data protection: IPR modeling, conditional access, digital rights management, MPEG-21 (http://www.axmedis.org), https://www.disit.org/5509,  protected content players, etc.	flyer Km4City Production
DISIT solutions for: user behaviour analysis, multilingual and cross media indexing, user and collective profiling, indoor/outdoor navigation, media synchronisation, matchmaking, audio transcoding, sentient and autonomous agents and tools, open data, linked open data. Smart City modelling and tools, decision support system, prediction:  https://servicemap.disit.org Smart Cloud engine and reasoning, simulation, optimization, prediction: https://www.disit.org/5604, see video on http://www.disit.org/6544 Cultural heritage and social media: recommendations, user profiling, indexing, matchmaking: https://www.disit.org/6038, http://www.disit.org/6470 Automated content production and management: adaptation, DRM, .. https://www.disit.org/6566, https://www.disit.org/5551	DISIT Lab overview

(see more on Publications and Current Projects page, see on the left bar of this page for the Conferences in which DISIT is directly involved). See web page of DISIT coordinator Prof. Paolo Nesi

 
DISIT commitment for the next European Commission Calls are reported below, while major information can be easily recovered by performing a query above, by searching on the web page, projects, documents, papers, deliverables and slides available and indexed on the DISIT Lab web site. The reported links are only to show examples.
DISIT lab may develop original solutions in RIA project as well as solutions grounded on available DISIT tools for specified TRL for IA, inovation action projects:

Big Data, Smart Cities and Distributed Systems:

• massive and parallel computing for big data: models and tools
• noSQL distributed RDF stores for big data deduction, multiple custom indexes for RDF stores
• data anaytics, causality vs correlation, data mining, data fusion and reconciliation
• sensors networks, internet of things
• learning algorithms and methods for data analytics, pattern recognition, prediction, condition detection
• reasoners for: temporal, spatial, natural language
• Origin Destination Matrix for Smart City and user behavior analysis
• DISIT Twitter Vigilance
• see for example projects and tools: Sii-Mobility, RESOLUTE H2020, AXMEDIS
• low and high TRL tools

 
Smart City models and applications:

• Smart City ontology and tools, Smart City integrated solutions: https://www.disit.org/km4city
• Open data and linked open data: tools, algorithms reasoners
• noSQL distributed RDF stores for big data deduction, multiple custom indexes for RDF stores
• OD and LOD tools for rendering and link discovering
• data mining, data fusion and reconciliation, data harvesting scheduling
• data protection and property management and licensing
• deducting and learning methods for data analytics
• big data structure and tools for smart city
• Origin Destination Matrix for Smart City and user behavior analysis
• DISIT Twitter Vigilance: to follow the users and sentiments on keywords passing on twitter
  Smart Decision System, decision support system for smart city based on System Thinking, connected to Km4City model.
• indoor/outdoor navigation systems: Mobile Emergency
• Florence data set: see https://LOG.disit.org and https://Servicemap.disit.org (see below)
• see for example projects and tools such as: sii-mobility, Collabora, Mobile Emergency, ... Social Museum and Smart Tourism.
• high TRL tools

 
Collective Awarness Platforms:

• Social media tools and platforms
• Collective profiling computing, suggestions and recommendations
• Scalable social media platforms, LOD for cultural heritage
• Open data and linked open data: tools (LOG, Service map), algorithms reasoners
• Ontologies for collective communities, knowledge and competences,
• matchmaking (see APREToscana), crowd sourcing
• applications on: mobile, spart TV, tables, etc.
• natural language processing algorithms and tools: profile processing, comments understanding, affective analysis, social media analysis.
• intellectual property right models and tools: see IPR wizard and model
• see for example projects and tools: ECLAP, OSIM, APRETOSCANA
• high TRL tools

Creative industry, creativity, elearning: 

• media computing, non linear story player, MyStoryPlayer tool
• recording experiences: navigation, collaboration, etc.
• cross media aggregation, play lists and courses
• cross media multilingual indexing and retrieval
• intelligent cross media content
• collaborative work models and tools: mobile, smart TV, etc.
• mobile and tablet tools for learning and impaired people
• natural language processing tools, for social media, blog, and human discussion analysis and understanding
• see projects: ECLAP, IMAESTRO
• Low and high TRL tools

 
Smart cloud:

• Cloud ontologies for smart cloud
• Smart Cloud tools and web page with video
• Cloud simulation, verification and validation of resources, configuration
• Dynamic Service Level Agrement for cloud
• Cloud optimization tools for resources, cloud monitoring
• Cloud applications for: education, business, cultural heritage, knowledge management
• Cloud and big data computing integration
• Cloud interoperability and federation
• see for example project and tools of: ICARO cloud
• Low and high TRL tools

Linked Open Graph                                 ServiceMap for LOD                         Smart City tools
    

Smart Decision System                 Origin Destination Matrix Tool               Twitter Vigilance
     

DISIT directly supported conferences: ICSOFT2014, ,ICECCS2014, DMS2014, MobiWIS2014, ICSOFT2014, DATA 2014, ..
 
DISIT research results have been successfully applied in solutions/tools for: social networks (ECLAP, ApreToscana), social learning (Mobile Medicine, FC), smart cities for mobility, smart cloud and intelligence (ICARO Cloud), health care, brain information modelling and analysis, business intelligence, mobile solutions, autonomous agents, content processing (AXCP), automated formatting, web based content aggregation, content based retrieval (XmediaCBIR), digital rights management (AXMEDIS), collaborative work, audiovisual annotation, CAS, GRID, P2P, crowd sourcing, multimedia middleware, ... (see more on Current Projects page and on Tools Page where some of the produced innovations and tools are listed).
DISIT has generated Effective Knowledge spinoff company participated by the University of Florence.
 

Some Flyers as PDF (for links to the projects web pages see on the left):

• DISIT lab overview/flyer: DISIT
• recent framewors and tools:Linked Open Graph, MyStoryPlayer, DiCCoF, SocialGraph, AXMEDIS AXCP
• running projects in Smart City area: Sii-Mobility(ENG), Coll@bora(ENG), Sii-Mobility(ITA), Coll@bora(ITA)
• running projects on transporation: TRACE-IT, RAISSS, TESYSRAIL, Sii-Mobility(ENG)
• running projects on Smart Cloud: ICARO
• main mobile applications: Content Organizer, Mobile Emergency(ITA), MobileEmergency(ENG)
• spin off web site: Effective Knowledge
• from Effective Knowledge: e-Brain(ITA), e-Brain(ENG), OSIM(ITA), OSIM(ENG).
• running platforms: ECLAP, AXMEDIS, OSIM, APREToscana, SMNet.org, IUF.CSAVRI.ORG, Mobile Medicine, Sentient Multimedia Network, etc.
• see more on Tools Page, and Current Projects page.

References of DISIT activities in the areas of:

• Smart Cities: in this area DISIT Lab is working on two new projects cofounded by the italian Ministry on Education, Univeristy and Research, MIUR. In the the two projects DISIT lab is the Scientific and Technical Coordinator with Paolo Nesi, and it is providing competence on knowledge modeling, data intelligence, bigdata, social media, cloud computing, inference tools, mobile tools, etc.
  • RESOLUTE H2020 project: RESilience management guidelines and Operationalization appLied to Urban Transport Environment
  • Sii-Mobility: objectives are the: (i) reduction of social costs of mobility, (ii) simplify the use of mobility systems, (iii) developing working solutions and application, with testing methods, (iv)  contribute to standardisation organs, and establishing relationships with other smart cities’ management systems. The Sii-Mobility platform will be capable to provide support for SME and Public Administrations. Sii-Mobility PDF overview, Sii-Mobility(ITA)
  • Coll@bora: aims to solve problems of management and protection of information needed to build effective and protected collaborations in the teams following the disabled.Coll@bora PDF voerview, Coll@bora(ITA)
• knowledge mining and semantic understanding and indexing via natural language processing in Italian, English, German, France; automated ontology production, semantic queries providing results with relevance and semantic similarity, matchmaking, knowledge mining and discovering. Projects as: OSIM, SACVAR, and also OSIM for blog monitoring for Pharmaco-vigiliance.
• social media, social semantic tools, for social network, social media, semantic computing, cross media recommendations, cross media indexing, data mining, knowledge modelling, in projects as ECLAP, mobile medicine, APREtoscana, etc.
  • Cross media learning management system, Social learning tool
  • ECLAP: best practice network, social network for cross media content
  • IUF.CSAVRI.org: enterprise Incubator of university of Florence, collaborative and educational tools for the incubator
  • www.APRETOSCANA.org: collaborative portal for the promotion of European Research in Tuscany, stimulation and valorisation of Tuscany Reasearch in the world.
  • Mobile Medicine Social Network: A multichannel best practice network for medical personnel
• Train Control Systems for high speed trains and metro and thus formal methods, logic programming, formal verification autonomous agents and operators, standards as ETCS, ERTMS, etc. With projects as: TRACE-IT, RAISSS, TESYSRAIL.
• Smart Cloud computing, cloud automation, optimization and intelligence, monitoring and reasoning about cloud behaviour, verification of configuration consistencies, identification and prediction of critical cases, etc. See projects such as: ICARO
  
• parallel and distributed processing of automated semantic computing and production, framework and tools to setup called AXCP tool, developed as a starting point in AXMEDIS, IEEE Multimedia of April 2012, and furtherly developed in many other projects and years of work.
  • AXCP flyer and technical note
  • AXCP tools, technical note, Semantic computing, media grid, big data
  • Micro grids for scalable media computing and intelligence on distributed scenarios, IEEE Multimedia, 2012
  • clusters based on AXCP, hadoop, nutch, etc.
• DiCCoF: Cognitive Computing Framework based on Massive and parallel support on which one can script processes and their relationships/flows that put in execution algorithms and tools exploiting tools and DiCCoF services (crawling, ingesting, in LOD, indexing, mining, adapting, recognition, etc.), with plugins and tools of third parties.
  • DiCCoF description in PDF
  • GET flyer on LOG
• Semantic and sentient computing tools DICCOF (DiCCoF PDF Overview) as:
  • CoSKOSAM: Collaborative tool for SKOS and ontology management, automated production of ontologies (see http://openmind.disit.org), Natural Language processing languages: English, Italian, German, Spanish, Francoise. OSIM project and tools.
  • Semantic Query tool and wizard on the basis of OSIM RDF database queried by SPARQL (see http://openmind.disit.org),
  • MyStoryPlayer: semantic model and tool for non linear media annotations, synchronization and relationships (see http://www.eclap.eu/super/msp/ ) also promoted by Europeana. Download the MyStoryPlayer Flyer.
  • Linked Open Graph provides algorithms and tools to solve the problem dynamically showing the relationships and resolving connections. The Users can play with graph elements moving and zooming, turning on/off connections, filtering and expanding, exploring and playing to see more information, exploiting connection with LOD, etc. Get the Linked Open Graph flyer Go on http://log.disit.org to access at dbPedia, Sii-Mobility, Europeana, Cultura italia, British Museum, Linked Goe Data via Linked Open Graph.
  • Social Graph connecting and relating people, content, actions, etc., navigating among them, exploiting Open data and Linked Open Data, exploiting name resolution via dbPedia, geoname resolution, etc (see http://log.disit.org/ ) also promoted by Europeana. Download the Social Graph flyer,
  • Time Line Navigator tool for identifying, mining and disambiguating dates contained in textual documents, navigation in temporal line (see http://www.eclap.eu/177596 )
  • Name Extractor, Resolver and Manager to cope with names recognition and identification, synonymous management, creating links with dbpedia, geonames, vip names, user names, etc. also in Social Graph (see http://www.eclap.eu/177605 ),
  • XMediaCBIR Content Based Information Retrieval for producing search and recommendation algorithms integrating both textual and content descriptors for similarities and retrieval algorithms
  • MatchMaking to support the match from offers and demands (see http://www.apretoscana.org/5221)
  • Content Organizer mobile application for semantic organization of content on your iPhone, iPad in connection with enabled social media and portal solutions with augmented reality, gps, QR, retrieval, indexing, ebook, cross media, also available on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone (see http://www.eclap.eu/94220 ) Download the Content Organizer Flyer
  • Mobile Emergency: indoor and outdoor navigation tools and emergency management, automated intervention management, see Apple Store. Download the Mobile Emergency Flyer
  • IPR Wizard assistive tools for IPR licensing and permission setting according to rights ontologies and relationships
  • Multimedia Crawler to search and mining media content from social media portals as VIMEO and aggregators connected to Europeana, a tool for the creative industry, for teachers, and cultural institutions.
  • AXCP: scalable media grid, development tool kit for parallel and distributed semantic computing (see http://www.axmedis.org ) AXCP flyer and technical note
  • Georesolution and navigation: geo location, geo distribution, etc.
  • Social media integration with OpenAuth, embedding, citations, etc.
• Fondazione ICON. A non-profit organization committed to bridge brain studies towards a new computational paradigm: the connectome-inspired computing. This is CON, the International Center of Computational Neurophotonics, founded in July 2011 with the support of LENS (European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy), the University of Florence and the IBM Foundation.
• Joined lab industry-university INEA LAB, "Laboratorio per l'Ingegneria Elettroacustica".
• International and national projects. scientific responsible of international research projects such as: IMAESTRO, MUPAAC, WEDELMUSIC, MUSICNETWORK, ICCOC, MOODS, IMEASY, VISICON, VARIAZIONI, OFCOMP, OPTAMS, AXMEDIS and so forth. For further reference on each and every project. He has played the role of Project Coordinator for MOODS, MUSICNETWORK, WEDELMUSIC and AXMEDIS. 
• standardisation group in the MPEG ISO (International Standard Organization), for the MPEG SMR, for MPEG M3W (middleware for software component distribution), MPEG-21 (distribution and DRM models, protection models). Many of DISIT contributions have been taken into account and are integrated part of world-wide standards, like MPEG ISO. DISIT people have been editor in standards such as MPEG-4 SMR and MPEG M3W

Awards

DISIT has received a number of awards, for projects such as WEDELMUSIC, AXMEDIS. And Awards for best paper conferences and for innovation.
 

• ISO MPEG award to Paolo Nesi and Pierfrancesco Bellini for the service provided as MPEG AHG chair of MPEG SMR, and editing of the Part 23 of the MPEG4 standard.
• Best paper awards: IEEE ICECCS su TILCO, AXMEDIS, DMS2011 su OSIM, DMS2014 con Mobile emergency, DMS2015 con NLP on Hadoop.
• 4 different Innovations of DISIT Lab have been selected by the Italian Ministery Agency for the diffusion of Innovation Technologies in the national competition Italy of Innovators.
  • Cross Media Learning Management System at MIUR..INNOVAZIONE SELEZIONATA DA ITALIA DEGLI INNOVATORI.to get more, it is currently in use on: ECLAP portal and EC CIP PsP project ECLAP Best Practice Network and e-learning support in connection with Europeana, APRETOSCANA, Mobile Medicine, a portal for medical distance learning and social networking.
  • Mobile Medicine on MIUR.INNOVAZIONE SELEZIONATA DA ITALIA DEGLI INNOVATORI..to get more please see Mobile Medicine Social Network and iPad/iPhone and windows PDA tools
  • Mobile Emergency at MIUR -..INNOVAZIONE SELEZIONATA DA ITALIA DEGLI INNOVATORI... to get more on Mobile Emergency, an Apple App for iPhone. A tool to manage emergency in the hospital area. Developed in collaboration with the Maxi Emergency group on Mobile Medicine. The solution also implies the connection with a server to manage the emergencies and the help the people involved in getting the exit and the collecting centers according to model of interventions.
  • Content Processing Media Grid, AXCP on MIUR.INNOVAZIONE SELEZIONATA DA ITALIA DEGLI INNOVATORI.. to get more it is the core technology for semantic computing and media grid the so called AXCP Media Grid computing tools. It is going to appear on IEEE Multimedia in the 2011 and it has been developed starting from one of the results of AXMEDIS project . Technical Note in AXCP, download the PDF 
• winner of MIREX 2009 competition: DISIT partecipated to MIREX competition for the 2009, about the polyphonic music transcoding algorithms and tools. Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking Results. DISIT resulted to be the winner for the Tukey-Kramer HSD Multi-Comparison for Task2B (Piano). Conference 2009.
• AXMEDIS FP6 IST research and development project: considered as one of the most succesfull IP projects of the FP6 in the area of content and tools. Social Network and content demonstration: XMF
• WEDELMUSIC project has been selected as one of the best top 20 projects in the area of “Cross media content and publishing” for the FP 5 of the European Commission. On such grounds it has been granted with the support of the ADOPT-IT project, even after the WEDELMUSIC project reached its end.
• Discovery technology award: DISIT reached the final in the area of Information Technology, among several submitted papers, with his research work for the MOODS project, where Prof. P. Nesi was coordinator. The project itself has been proposed for candidacy by the Disney Company in 2001.
• Pirelli Internet Technology Award 2002, DISIT reached the final in the area of Information Technology among more than 1200 submitted papers, with his research work for the project WEDELMUSIC IST FP 5.