Le tecnologie di micro manufacturing sono largamente riconosciute come tecnologie abilitanti fondamentali per affrontare le 'grandi sfide' della società del 21esimo secolo, poiché favoriscono la realizzazione di nuovi prodotti innovativi con applicazioni in numerosi settori, penalizzati dall'attuale situazione economica internazionale che risente dei rischi legati all'aumento del costo dell'energia, della diminuzione delle risorse e della manodopera. Il beneficio ultimo è di migliorare e ...

La Posta Elettronica Certificata (PEC) è una estensione della Posta Elettronica disponibile in Internet. Estendendo il classico sistema di posta elettronica e aggiungendo nuove funzioni che servono a certificare (in modo tale da avere valore legale) i vari eventi cui è soggetto un messaggio durante il suo transito in rete (invio dal mittente, trasporto, consegna al destinatario), la PEC si configura oggi come uno strumento semplice, rapido ed efficace per snellire processi, velocizzare ...

We present a set of integrated tools designed and developed for the digital acquisition and structural analysis of historical monuments and buildings. The assessment of monuments requires various types of expertise and technologies. The St@rt project (Sciences and Technologies for the Artistic, Architectural and Archaeological Tuscan heritage), funded by the region of Tuscany (Italy) for the three year period 2007-2010, aimed at integrating different research and administrative expertise in ...

Vehicular networks are large-scale communication systems envisioned to exploit wireless technologies to interconnect moving cars. The principle is to let vehicles 'talk' to each other or to some roadside infrastructure through wireless links, so as to build autonomous networks in urban areas or along highways. Vehicular networks are foreseen to provide drivers with real-time information on potential dangers, traffic conditions, and travel times. By exploiting such data, drivers (or fast-reacting ...

I pedoni in gruppo e le folle si comportano come pecore, quando non sanno dove andare, e si possono controllare: una scoperta, a cui ha contribuito l'Iac-Cnr, che con un'opportuna guida 'nascosta' potrebbe consentire di gestire in modo ottimale situazioni quali i flussi dei pellegrini al prossimo Giubileo. L'esperimento è apparso su arXiv In situazioni di confusione, i gruppi umani si comportano esattamente come le greggi: tendono a seguire le persone davanti a loro, in particolare se sembrano ...

I veicoli delle ultime generazioni sono governati quasi interamente da sistemi elettronici. La storia ci ricorda che è stato necessario introdurli per ridurre le emissioni inquinanti dei veicoli, per poi passare lentamente ad integrare sistemi di controllo della frenatura, dell'assetto, della coppia e potenza del motore, fino ad arrivare a sistemi autonomi che mediano le richieste del guidatore per rendere più sicura e confortevole la marcia del veicolo. Tutto questo è nato nell'auto, ma è ...

With the increasing influence of technology on our lives, it is becoming ever more important to offer new ambient intelligence solutions which enable humans to adapt and organize their lives around computational technologies and technologies that adapt to meet user behaviour. We apply machine learning techniques to demonstrate how user needs can be satisfied and anticipated by adding Ambient Intelligence solutions to any environment equipped with well-established commercial domotic ...

We present a novel environment that supports the design of multi-device service-based interactive applications by using several user interface abstraction levels and utilizing the composition of annotated services. Web services are increasingly used to support remote and distributed access to application functionalities, thus enabling a large gamut of interactive applications. However, when the user support (the service front end) is developed after delivering the Web services, it is often ...

OpenAIRE will deliver "an electronic infrastructure and supporting mechanisms for the identification, deposition, access, and monitoring of FP7 and ERC funded articles", where the main supporting mechanism will be a European Helpdesk System. The infrastructure will be based on state-of-the-art software services of the D-Net Software Toolkit developed within the DRIVER and DRIVER-II projects and the Invenio digital repository software developed at CERN. Although simple in conception, ...

Il progetto conTatto nasce dall'esperienza di terapista nel settore della neuropsichiatria infantile della D.ssa Grazia Ragone e della D.ssa Marina Pagliarini operata all'interno di strutture ospedaliere con modalità e tecniche di musicoterapia riabilitativa ed educativa e dall'esperienza di informatici del Dr.Leonello Tarabella e del Dr.Massimo Magrini operata all'interno dell'Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Area della Ricerca del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerca di Pisa, ...

Hand-handled user devices, such as smartphones and tablets, as well as in-vehicle sensors are becoming extremely popular and represent a fertile ground for the development of crowdsensing (or, equivalently, community urban sensing) applications. Indeed, user devices are typically equipped with cameras, gyroscope, air-quality sensor, and accelerometer. The data obtained through such devices, as well as the ones gathered by in-vehicle sensors, can be combined with cellular BS positioning or GPS so ...

n recent years scientists have been rethinking research workflows in favour of innovative paradigms to support multidisciplinary, computationally-heavy and data-intensive collaborative activities. In this context, e-Infrastructures can play a crucial role in supporting not only data capture and curation but also data analysis and visualization. Their implementation demands seamless and on-demand access to computational, content, and application services such as those typified by the Grid and ...

Conditions appropriate to gas-surface interactions on satellite surfaces in orbit have not been successfully duplicated in the laboratory. However, measurements by pressure gauges and mass spectrometers in orbit have revealed enough of the basic physical chemistry that realistic theoretical models of the gas-surface interaction can now be used to calculate physical drag coefficients. The dependence of these drag coefficients on conditions in space can be inferred by comparing the physical drag ...

The Computational Universe conjecture relates complexity in physics with emergence in computation. Our current research efforts are meant to put the surprisingly powerful notion of (computational) emergence at the service of recent quantum gravity theories, with special attention to the Causal Set Programme, which assumes causality among events as the most fundamental structure of spacetime, and causal sets as the most appropriate way to describe it. Our physical universe is discrete, finite, ...

A research team at the Signal and Image Processing Lab of ISTI-CNR has been involved in studying data analysis algorithms for the European Space Agency's Planck Surveyor Satellite since 1999. The huge amount of data on the cosmic microwave background radiation provided by the Planck sensors requires very efficient analysis algorithms and high-performance computing facilities. The CNR group has proposed some of the source separation procedures that are now operational at the Planck data ...

Objective of the lab is to work on the Virtual Factory. The digital representation of the factory and manufacturing phases become virtual by using simulation tools and specific applications that makes the representation and the processes dynamic and up-to-date. To project the factory and manufacturing processes simulation and 3-D/virtual Reality models, methods and tools are used. The group who works under this denomination applies new technology to the manufacturing sector. Components of the ...

In April 2008 the European project SUBTUNE (Widely Tuneable VCSELs using subwavelength gratings) started and will last for three years. This project aims to realize VCSELs (Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers) tuneable in wavelength over large intervals using different techniques, so to cover different emission windows and applications: 850nm, 1550nm and 2000nm. To that end the MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, see Focus 2003) technology will be adopted to realize an optical cavity of ...

I Campi Flegrei sono una area vulcanica attiva che si estende ad ovest della città di Napoli e caratterizzata da intensi fenomeni deformativi (bradisismo), con forti variazioni del livello del suolo sia in abbassamento, sia in sollevamento (questi ultimi spesso accompagnati da terremoti). Dopo la crisi degli anni ottanta, la zona era entrata in una lunga fase di subsidenza interrotta prima da un episodio di risalita nel 2000 (circa 5 centimetri in un anno). I dati satellitari, elaborati dai ...

The DLib group, led by Donatella Castelli, of the ISTI-CNR Networked Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory has developed an highly innovative application framework, gCube, for building and operating e-Infrastructures promoting an effective and efficient sharing of computing, content, and application services resources. These e-Infrastructures simplify the creation of Virtual Research Environments (VRE), i.e. collaborative digital environments through which scientists, addressing common ...

AWARE (A tool for monitoring and forecasting Available WAter REsource in mountain environment) has been funded with the contribution of the European Commission - Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry - under the Sixth Framework Programme. The project, started in July 2005, has been concluded in June 2008. In AWARE the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA) of CNR co-ordinated a team of hydrologists, remote sensing specialists and information system analysts ...

L'Internet del futuro sarà assai diverso dall'attuale. Il risultato finale sarà il passaggio da una rete di macchine ad una rete di persone in grado di interagire tra loro e con l'ambiente che li circonda in modo naturale e trasparente rispetto alla tecnologia. I dispositivi degli utenti (telefoni cellulari, palmari, lettori musicali, ecc.) non solo potranno essere connessi alla rete Internet per accedere all'informazione ma saranno parte integrante della rete stessa e fornitori, essi stessi, ...

Sono state realizzate e caratterizzate per la prima volta guide a canale in vetri telluriti drogati con erbio mediante irraggiamento con fascio ionico di N+ di energia pari 1.5 MeV. Il valore della ricerca consiste nel fatto che i vetri telluriti drogati con erbio possiedono caratteristiche spettroscopiche molto interessanti ad esempio in termini di larghezza di banda di fluorescenza (circa 60 nm) e sezione d'urto di emissione stimolata (9o10-21 cm2) a 1.5 micron, superiori ad altri tipi di ...

In its research activity IREA produces an amount of data related to geographic areas that are observed through time: from snow cover to the extension of glaciers on Alps, from pollution in pre-Alpine lakes to burned areas in Italian natural parks. Such geographic information is often the result of research projects performed in collaboration with organisations responsible for land management (public administrations, government departments, local environmental agencies, etc.), for which it ...

DESEREC is an Integrated Project of the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union under the "Information Society Technologies" priority, strategic objective "Towards a global dependability and security framework" . Its main goal is the definition of a framework to increase the dependability of existing and new networked Information Systems by means of an architecture based on the following modules: a) Modelling & simulation: DESEREC devises and develops innovative approaches and tools to ...

The growing diffusion of the Information and Communication Technology among any everyday assets and services is nowadays referred to as the "Pervasive ICT". The term "pervasive" well represents the trend that very soon hundreds of billions of microprocessors will be embedded within objects that do not even appear as ICT products and will govern in practice every aspect of our lives. This true revolution is progressively changing every business and the very way companies exist and compete. In any ...

La ricerca di filmati sul Web è diventata un'attività molto popolare da cui deriva la necessità di poter disporre di sommari concisi e informativi sul contenuto dei filmati presenti sul web. Per esempio, un filmato apparentemente legittimo potrebbe contenere scene non adatte ai minori ed il sommario dovrebbe essere in grado sia di dare un'idea sul contenuto globale, sia di evidenziare scene anomale o comunque non omogenee con il resto del filmato. Le tecniche note allo stato dell'arte per la ...

Sistema iperspettrale che movimenta uno spettrografo di linea e un sistema d'illuminazione a fibre ottiche su un piano di scansione posto a circa 22 cm dalla superficie del dipinto, con una fascia di tolleranza sulla profondità di quasi 3 cm. L'area massima di scansione è di ~1x1 m2, sulla quale sono acquisite in meno di quattro ore, le misure di ~11 spettri puntuali di riflettanza per millimetro, campionati ogni 1.2 nm. I dati di misura sono condensati in un unico file (~130 Gbytes / m2), ...

The "Multimedia/Multilingual Information Retrieval" group of the Networked Multimedia Information Systems (NMIS) laboratory of ISTI-CNR, has developed a domain-specific multimedia/multilingual search engine targeted for the Cultural Heritage (CH) sector. The search engine, known as Multi Match, is the result of the activities of a European research project with the same name, coordinated by ISTI-CNR (see http://www.multimatch.org/). Cultural heritage content is everywhere on the web, in ...

Supercapacitors are electrochemical devices which can be efficiently used together with primary electric current generators in mobile applications. They are characterized in supplying high electric power for short times (seconds), while the electrical generators (batteries and fuel cells) are suitable in delivering electric current for longer times at constant load. Thus supercapacitors, may be advantageously used, together with batteries and fuel cells, in the electric vehicles, in the ...

Institute CNR/TAE has developed a hydrogen generator (from light hydrocarbons like methane, LPG) for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell, named HYGEN II, in order to overcome the main limits of the hydrocarbons steam reforming technology, for residential use. The proposed solution is based on autothermal reforming reactions. HYGen II can reach a nominal hydrogen production of 5 Nm3h-1 (from methane, propane, LPG, butane) with a maximum hydrogen production of 8.5 Nm3h-1. The net size (mm) of the fuel ...