2008 “The Shining design methodology based on self dynamic reconfigurable architectures”

“The Shining embedded system design methodology based on self dynamic reconfigurable architectures”, Carlo A. Curino, Vincenzo Rana, Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Francesco Redaelli, Donatella Sciuto , to appear at “The 13th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference” (ASP-DAC 2008).

 

BIBTEX:

@inproceedings{CurinoFRRSS08,
    title = {The Shining embedded system design methodology based on self dynamic reconfigurable architectures.},
    author = {Carlo Curino and Luca Fossati and Vincenzo Rana and F. Redaelli and Marco D. Santambrogio and Donatella Sciuto},
    booktitle = {ASP-DAC},

    pages = {595-600},
    publisher = {IEEE},
    url = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/aspdac/aspdac2008.html#CurinoFRRSS08},
    year = {2008},
    biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/22541bd0635aa7c2bf91520d28b65ea40/dblp},
    description = {dblp},
    ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2008.4484021}, date = {2008-05-06},
    keywords = {dblp }
}
 

2009: And what can Context do for Data?

To appear “And what can Context do for Data?” Cristiana Bolchini, Carlo A. Curino, Giorgio Orsi, Elisa Quintarelli, Rosalba Rossato, Fabio A. Schreiber, Letizia Tanca to appear in the Communication of ACM

 ABSTRACT:

Common to all actors in today’s information world is the problem of lowering the “information noise”, both reducing the amount of data to be stored and accessed, and enhancing the “precision” according to which the available data fit the application requirements. Thus, fitting data to the application needs is tantamount to fitting a dress to a person, and will be referred to as data tailoring. The context will be our scissors to tailor data, possibly assembled and integrated from many data sources. 

2007: A Data-oriented Survey of Context Models

“A Data-oriented Survey of Context Models” Cristiana Bolchini, Carlo A. Curino, Elisa Quintarelli, Fabio A. Schreiber, Letizia Tanca, Sigmod Record December 2007

 ABSTRACT: 

Context-aware systems are pervading everyday life, there- 
fore context modeling is becoming a relevant issue and an 
expanding research field. This survey has the goal to pro- 
vide a comprehensive evaluation framework, allowing appli- 
cation designers to compare context models with respect to 
a given target application; in particular we stress the anal- 
ysis of those features which are relevant for the problem of 
data tailoring. The contribution of this paper is twofold: a 
general analysis framework for context models and an up- 
to-date comparison of the most interesting, data-oriented 
approaches available in the literature. 
 
The paper can be obtain here:  curino-context-survey2007.pdf
 
BIBTEX:
@article{journals/sigmod/BolchiniCQST07,
    title = {A data-oriented survey of context models.},
    author = {Cristiana Bolchini and Carlo Curino and Elisa Quintarelli and Fabio A. Schreiber and Letizia Tanca},
    journal = {SIGMOD Record},
    number = {4},
    pages = {19-26},
    url = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/sigmod/sigmod36.html#BolchiniCQST07},
    volume = {36},
    year = {2007},
    biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2dc097c422484c4bac21a5bb9f33e680b/dblp},
    description = {dblp},
    ee = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1361348.1361353}, date = {2008-04-11},
    keywords = {dblp }
}
 

2009 Context Information for Knowledge Reshaping

“Context Information for Knowledge Reshaping” Cristiana Bolchini, Carlo A. Curino, Elisa Quintarelli, Fabio A. Schreiber, Letizia Tanca, accepted to Journal of Web Engineering and Technology Topic on “Web-based Knowledge Representation and Management”

ABSTRACT:

More and more often we face the necessity of extracting appropri-
ately reshaped knowledge from an integrated representation of the information
space. Be such global representation a central database, a global view of sev-
eral ones, or an ontological representation of an information domain, we face
the need of defining personalized views for the knowledge stakeholders: single
users, companies or applications. We propose to exploit the information usage
context within a methodology for context-aware data design, where the notion
of context is formally defined, together with its role within the process of view
building by information tailoring. This paper presents our context model, called
Context Dimension Tree, which plays a fundamental role in tailoring the infor-
mation space according to the user information needs.

 

2007 X-SOM Results for OAEI 2007

X-SOM results for OAEI 2007” Carlo A. Curino, Giorgio Orsi, Letizia Tanca, The Second International Workshop on Ontology Matching colocated with ISWC 2007 
  
 ABSTRACT: This paper summarizes the results of the X-SOM tool in the OAEI 

 2007 campaign. X-SOM is an extensible ontology mapper that combines vari- 

 ous matching algorithms by means of a feed-forward neural network. X-SOM 

 exploits logical reasoning and local heuristics to improve the quality of mappings 

 while guaranteeing their consistency. 

 

 BIBTEX: 

 

2005 “Mobile Data Collection in Sensor Networks: The TinyLime Middleware”, Carlo A. Curino, Matteo G

2005 “Mobile Data Collection in Sensor Networks: The TinyLime Middleware”, Carlo A. Curino, Matteo Giani, Marco Giorgetta, Alessandro Giusti, Gian Pietro Picco, Amy L. Murphy. Special Issue of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on “Security in Wireless Mobile Computing Systems”, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 446-469, Elsevier, December 2005

 ABSTRACT:

In this paper we describe TinyLime, a novel middleware for wireless sensor networks
that departs from the traditional setting where sensor data is collected by a cen-
tral monitoring station, and enables instead multiple mobile monitoring stations to
access the sensors in their proximity and share the collected data through wireless
links. This intrinsically context-aware setting is demanded by applications where
the sensors are sparse and possibly isolated, and where on-site, location-dependent
data collection is required. An extension of the Lime middleware for mobile ad hoc
networks, TinyLime makes sensor data available through a tuple space interface,
providing the illusion of shared memory between applications and sensors. Data
aggregation capabilities and a power-savvy architecture complete the middleware
features. The paper presents the model and application programming interface of
TinyLime, together with its implementation for the Crossbow MICA2 sensor plat-
form.

BIBTEX:

@ARTICLE{1392743,
title={TinyLIME: bridging mobile and sensor networks through middleware},
author={Curino, C.; Giani, M.; Giorgetta, M.; Giusti, A.; Murphy, A.L.; Picco, G.P.},
journal={Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2005. PerCom 2005. Third IEEE International Conference on},
year={8-12 March 2005},
volume={},
number={},
pages={ 61-72},
keywords={ ad hoc networks, middleware, mobile computing, shared memory systems, software engineering, wireless sensor networks Crossbow Mote sensor platform, TinyLIME, middleware, mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, shared memory, software development, tuple space interface},
doi={10.1109/PERCOM.2005.48},
ISSN={}, }

 

2004 PoLiDBMS: Design and Prototype Implementation of a DBMS for Portable Devices

C. Bolchini, C. Curino, M. Giorgetta, A. Giusti, A. Miele, F. A. Schreiber, and L. Tanca, “PoLiDBMS: Design and Prototype Implementation of a DBMS for Portable Devices,” in Proc. of the 12th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2004), 2004, pp. 166-177.

ABSTRACT:

BIBTEX:

@inproceedings{SEBD2004,

author = {Cristiana Bolchini and Carlo Curino and Marco Giorgetta and Alessandro Giusti and Antonio Miele and Fabio A. Schreiber and Letizia Tanca},
Isbn = {88-901409-1-7},
Booktitle = {Proc. of the 12th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2004)},
Location = {S. Margherita di Pula, Cagliari, Italy},
Pages = {166-177},
Title = {PoLiDBMS: Design and Prototype Implementation of a DBMS for Portable Devices},
pdf = {sebd2004.pdf},
Year = {2004}
}

2006 Ontology-based Information Tailoring

C. Curino, E. Quintarelli, and L. Tanca, “Ontology-based Information Tailoring,” in Proc. IEEE of 2nd Int. Workshop on Database Interoperability (InterDB 2006), 2006, pp. 5-5.

ABSTRACT:

Current applications are often forced to filter the richness of datasources in order to reduce the information noise the user is subject to. We consider this aspect as a critical issue of applications, to be factorized at the data management level. The Context-ADDICT system, leveraging on ontology-based context and domain models, is able to personalize the data to be made available to the user by “context-aware tailoring”. In this paper we present a formal approach to the definition of the relationship between context (represented by an appropriate context model) and application domain (modeled by a domain ontology). Once such relationship has been defined, we are able to work out the boundary of the portion of the domain relevant to a user in a certain context. We also sketch the implementation of a visual tool supporting the application designer in this modeling task

BIBTEX:

@inproceedings{INTERDB2006,
author = {Carlo Curino and Elisa Quintarelli and Letizia Tanca},
Booktitle = {Proc. IEEE of 2nd Int. Workshop on Database Interoperability (InterDB 2006)},
Keywords = {Contex-ADDICT scenario and architecture},
Location = {Atlanta, USA},
Month = {April},
Title = {Ontology-based Information Tailoring},
Pages = {5-5},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDEW.2006.104},
pdf = {interdb2006.pdf},
Year = {2006}

}

2006 Context integration for mobile data tailoring

C. Bolchini, C. Curino, F. A. Schreiber, and L. Tanca, “Context integration for mobile data tailoring,” in Proc. IEEE/ACM of Int. Conf. on Mobile Data Management, 2006.

ABSTRACT:

Independent, heterogeneous, distributed, sometimes transient and mobile data sources produce an enormous amount of information that should be semantically integrated and filtered, or, as we say, tailored, based on the user’s interests and context. Since both the user and the data sources can be mobile, and the communication might be unreliable, caching the information on the user device may become really useful. Therefore new challenges have to be faced such as: data filtering in a context-aware fashion, integration of not-known-in-advance data sources, automatic extraction of the semantics. We propose a novel system named Context-ADDICT (Context-Aware Data Design, Integration, Customization and Tailoring) able to deal with the described scenario. The system we are designing aims at tailoring the available information to the needs of the current user in the current context, in order to offer a more manageable amount of information; such information is to be cached on the user’s device according to policies defined at design-time, to cope with data source transiency. This paper focuses on the information representation and tailoring problem and on the definition of the global architecture of the system.

 

BIBTEX:

@inproceedings{MDM2006,

author = {Cristiana Bolchini and Carlo Curino and Fabio A. Schreiber and Letizia Tanca},
Booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/ACM of Int. Conf. on Mobile Data Management},
Keywords = {Contex-ADDICT scenario and architecture},
Location = {Nara, Japan},
Month = {May},
Organization = {IEEE, ACM},
Title = {Context integration for mobile data tailoring},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2006.52},
pdf = {mdm2006.pdf},
Year = {2006}

}

2007 CADD: a tool for context modeling and data tailoring

C. Bolchini, C. A. Curino, G. Orsi, E. Quintarelli, F. A. Schreiber, and L. Tanca, “CADD: a tool for context modeling and data tailoring,” in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2007, pp. 221-223.

ABSTRACT:

 

The aim of this demonstration is the presentation of (1)
the design methodology, (2) the corresponding design tool
(CADD) and (3) the client-server application that we have
developed to support context-aware data tailoring.

BIBTEX:

@inproceedings{MDM2007,
author = {Cristiana Bolchini and Carlo A. Curino and Giorgio Orsi and Elisa Quintarelli and Fabio A. Schreiber and Letizia Tanca},
Title = {CADD: a tool for context modeling and data tailoring},
Booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Mobile Data Management (MDM)},
Pages = {221-223},
Year = {2007},
doi = {http://doi.dx.org/},
pdf = {mdm2007.pdf}

}