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23 Papers

A Knowledge Base Guided Approach for Process Modeling in Complex Business Domain

Topics: Business Process Modeling; Business Process Modeling; Business Intelligence and Big Data

Authors: Roberto Paiano and Adriana Caione

Affiliation: University of Salento, Italy

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005974801690176

Proceedings of ICSOFT-EA 2016/ICSOFT, ISBN: 978-989-758-194-6

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The business process analysis requires an in-depth knowledge of factors such as the activities carried out; the actors involved; the domain or business context in which the activities are performed; the internal company structure; the current regulatory framework. This involves the employment and the collaboration of different professionals, such as business experts, domain experts and legal experts, along with a considerable effort in terms of time and resources. For the purpose of an efficient and effective management of business processes, it is also important to ensure the compliance with the company context and the flexibility with regard to changes that may occur within the company or at the legislative level. This paper shows a methodological and architectural approach guided by a knowledge base that describes the application domain. It is populated iteratively with the information extracted from the analysis of documents, regulations and requirements. The knowledge base is then used by the process designer as a guide for business process modelling and management.

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Artificial Intelligence	Enterprise Engineering	Knowledge-Based Systems
Business Process Management	Enterprise Information Systems	Symbolic Systems
e-Business	Knowledge Management and Information Sharing

Proteotronics: Application to Human 17-40 and Bacteriorhodopsin Receptors

Topics: Simulation and Modeling; Computational Biology

Authors: Eleonora Alfinito , Lino Reggiani , Rosella Cataldo , Giorgio De Nunzio , Maria Rachele Guascito and Livia Giotta

Affiliation: Università del Salento, Italy

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005905800320038

Proceedings of COMPLEXIS 2016, ISBN: 978-989-758-181-6

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Human olfactory 17-40 and Bacteriorhodopsin are two protein receptors that received particular attention in electronics, due to the possibility of implementing nano-biodevices able to detect odours and light and thus useful for medical and green energy harvesting applications. Some recent experiments concerning the electrical responses of these receptors are reviewed. Data are interpreted in the framework of a new science exploiting the complexity in biology and biomedical engineering called proteotronics. In particular, the single protein is modelled as an impedance network whose topological properties affect the electrical response as measured by experiments.

An Augmented Environment for Command and Control Systems

Topic: Human and Computer Interaction

Authors: Alessandro Zocco ¹ , Lucio T. De Paolis ² , Lorenzo Greco ³ and Cosimo L. Manes ²

Affiliations: ¹ Elettronica S.p.A., Italy , ² University of Salento, Italy , ³ Leto Ltd, United Kingdom

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005358902090214

Proceedings of VISAPP 2015/VISIGRAPP, ISBN: 978-989-758-091-8

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In the information age the ability to develop high-level situational awareness is essential for the success of any military operation. The power of network centric warfare comes from the linking of knowledgeable entities that allows information sharing and collaboration. By increasing the number of commanded platforms, the volume of the data that can be accessed grows exponentially. When this volume is displayed to an operator, there is an high risk to get a state of information overload and great care must be taken to make sure that what is provided is actually information and not noise. In this paper we propose a novel interaction environment that leverages the augmented reality technology to provide a digitally enhanced view of a real command and control table. The operator, equipped with an optical see-through head mounted display, controls the virtual context remaining connected to the real world. Technical details of the system are described together with the evaluation method. Twelve users evaluated the usability of the augmented environment comparing it with a wall-sized stereoscopic human computer interface and with a multi-screen system. Results showed the effectiveness of the proposed system in understanding complex electronic warfare scenarios and in supporting the decision-making process.

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Applications and Services		Enterprise Information Systems		Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics		Human and Computer Interaction

Extending WSLA for Service and Contract Composition

Topics: Enterprise Engineering; Business-It Allignment; EA and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Authors: Antonella Longo , Marco Zappatore and Mario Bochicchio

Affiliation: University of Salento, Italy

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005401503070315

Proceedings of ICEIS 2015, ISBN: 978-989-758-098-7

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Cloud Services (CSs) nowadays experience constantly improving successes in IT scenarios. Dynamic allocation of network, storage and computational resources, the hiding of visibility of internal IT components, as well as the pay-per-use paradigm are becoming more and more widespread ways to provide and consume services. The complexity of CSs is often due to service chains into which third-party services are aggregated in order to satisfy user requests. This confirms the need of modeling both contracts and corresponding Service Level Agreements (SLAs) referring to services provided to customers. Similarly, time-related variability issues in CSs require run-time performance monitoring and reporting solutions capable of comparing SLAs and feeding requesters with effective resource reservation and allocation policies. A detailed analysis in contracts and SLAs management has revealed a lack of expressivity in SLA specification and a consequent inadequacy in tools for describing and managing SLAs and contract composition. Therefore, we propose an extension of WSLA, a widely known SLA description language. We aim at modeling contracts and SLAs with additional details to support contract owners during service composition and its monitoring. The proposed approach has been adopted to develop and validate a tree-graph-based tool, to simplify SLA and contract composition.

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e-Business

Enterprise Engineering

Enterprise Information Systems

LEADER EU Program and Its Governance - A Fuzzy Assessment Model

Topics: Approximate Reasoning and Fuzzy Inference; Industrial, Financial and Medical Applications

Authors: Luca Anzilli , Gisella Facchinetti , Giovanni Mastroleo and Alessandra Tafuro

Affiliation: University of Salento, Italy

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005589401210130

Proceedings of FCTA 2015/ECTA, ISBN: 978-989-758-157-1

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In regard to the LEADER program (European Union initiative for rural development), in the paper the authors propose a model for assessing the governance system of Local Action Groups (LAGs) in terms of structure, decision making processes and principles that ensure a clear and transparent activity thus creating significant value for the community. Governance, in particular, is a highly important theme when it evaluates the impacts of LEADER measures: if the quality of their governance is high, they could contribute to make the rural development process more efficient in each region of EU. The empirical literature on this subject is not well developed and the authors hope and expect that this new assessment model will produce important ideas for making governance of the LAGs more effective. It is based on a Fuzzy Expert System and here are presented results for Puglia (Italy) LAGs.

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Approximate Reasoning and Fuzzy Inference	Fuzzy Systems	Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
Artificial Intelligence	Health Engineering and Technology Applications	Pattern Recognition
Biomedical Engineering	Human-Computer Interaction	Physiological Computing Systems
Biomedical Signal Processing	Industrial, Financial and Medical Applications	Sensor Networks
Computational Intelligence	Methodologies and Methods	Signal Processing
Computer-Supported Education	Neural Networks	Soft Computing
Domain Applications and Case Studies	Neurocomputing	Theory and Methods

Visualizing Cultural Digital Resources using Social Network Analysis

Topics: Data Analytics; Interactive and Online Data Mining; Visual Data Mining and Data Visualization; Business Intelligence Applications; Concept Mining

Authors: Antonio Capodieci ¹ , Daniele D’Aprile ¹ , Gianluca Elia ¹ , Francesca Grippa ² and Luca Mainetti ¹

Affiliations: ¹ University of Salento, Italy , ² Northeastern University, United States

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005585801860194

Proceedings of KDIR 2015/IC3K, ISBN: 978-989-758-158-8

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This paper describes the design and implementation of a prototype to extract, collect and visually analyse cultural digital resources using social network analysis empowered with semantic features. An initial experiment involved the collection and visualization of connections between cultural digital resources - and their providers - stored in the platform DiCet (an Italian Living Lab centred on Cultural Heritage and Technology). This step helped to identify the most appropriate relational data model to use for the social network visualization phase. We then run a second experiment using a web application designed to extract relevant data from the platform Europeana.eu. The actors in our two-mode networks are Cultural Heritage Objects (CHOs) shared by institutional and individual providers, such as galleries, museums, individual experts and content aggregators. The links connecting nodes represent the digital resources associated to the CHOs. The application of the prototype offers insights on the most prominent providers, digital resources and cultural objects over time. Through the application of semantic analysis, we were also able to identify the most used words and the related sentiment associated to them.

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Artificial Intelligence	Data Analytics	Knowledge-Based Systems
Business Analytics	Data Engineering	Symbolic Systems
Business Intelligence Applications	Interactive and Online Data Mining	Visual Data Mining and Data Visualization
Concept Mining	Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval

A Complete Framework for Fully-automatic People Indexing in Generic Videos

Topics: Segmentation and Grouping; Features Extraction; Content-Based Indexing, Search, and Retrieval; Object and Face Recognition

Authors: Dario Cazzato ¹ , Marco Leo ² and Cosimo Distante ²

Affiliations: ¹ University of Salento, Italy , ² National Research Council of Italy, Italy

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0004653502480255

Proceedings of VISAPP 2014/VISIGRAPP, ISBN: 978-989-758-004-8

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Face indexing is a very popular research topic and it has been investigated over the last 10 years. It can be used for a wide range of applications such as automatic video content analysis, data mining, video annotation and labeling, etc. In this work a fully automated framework that can detect how many people are present in a generic video (even having low resolution and/or taken from a mobile camera) is presented. It also extracts the intervals of frames in which each person appears. The main contributions of the proposed work are that no initializations neither a priory knowledge about the scene contents are required. Moreover, this approach introduces a generalized version of the k-means method that, through different statistical indices, automatically determines the number of people in the scene.

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Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics		Image and Video Analysis		Segmentation and Grouping
Features Extraction

Agile Information Systems for Collaborative Enterprises

Author: Barbara Livieri

Affiliation: University of Salento, Italy

Proceedings of DCEIS 2014/ICEIS, ISBN: Not Available

Quick Abstract

In the last years, new challenges have arisen for both business and technical aspects due to the movement towards a collaborative-SMEs-driven society, where collaborative enterprises are used as catalysts of competitive advantages. However, between 50%-70% of Collaborative Enterprises fails, due to the lack of tools and methods to measure performance in an inter-organizational environment, where common boundaries of firms fail. In this scenario, a new role has been recognized to Enterprise Information Systems. As stated from FInES annual report, IS should “enable new forms of participation and collaboration, catalyze further the formation of networked enterprises and business ecosystems. In this project, a possible solution to face these challenges is offered. The general objective is to build a framework and a set of tools to support the governance of CEs through monitoring and benchmarking. This can be enabled through a comprehensive online service, based on enterprise modelling techniques, the creation of a collaborative web application and of repositories, taxonomies and ontologies for CEs.

Effects of Stereoscopy on a Human-Computer Interface for Network Centric Operations

Topic: Human and Computer Interaction

Authors: Alessandro Zocco ¹ , Davide Cannone ¹ and Lucio Tommaso De Paolis ²

Affiliations: ¹ Elettronica S.p.A., Italy , ² University of Salento, Italy

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0004850902490255

Proceedings of VISAPP 2014/VISIGRAPP, ISBN: 978-989-758-009-3

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Network Centric Warfare can be accomplished thanks to a network of geographically distributed forces, granting a flow of increased contents, quality and timeliness of information, building up a shared situational awareness. When this flow is displayed to an operator, there is the possibility of reaching a state of information overload. To avoid this situation, new ways to conceive the interface between human and computer must be evaluated. This paper proposes an experimental stereoscopic 3D synthetic environment aimed to improve the understanding of the modern battle spaces. This facility is part of the LOKI Project, a Command and Control system for Electronic Warfare developed by Elettronica S.p.A. We discuss technical details of the system and describe a preliminary usability study. This first evaluation is very positive and encourages continuing research into Human-Computer Interaction for military applications.

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Applications and Services		Enterprise Information Systems		Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics		Human and Computer Interaction

Ontologies and Information Visualization for Strategic Alliances Monitoring and Benchmarking

Topic: Enterprise Engineering

Authors: Barbara Livieri , Mario A. Bochicchio and Antonella Longo

Affiliation: University of Salento, Italy

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0004896504020409

Proceedings of ICEIS 2014, ISBN: 978-989-758-029-1

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Cooperation among firms is universally seen as a catalyst of competitive advantages. However, 50% of alliances fails. This is often due to the lack of tools and methods to quantitatively track the effects of Strategic Alliances (SAs) on firms, to the inherent complexity of a comprehensive analysis of SAa and to the difficulty to link strategic alliances goals with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Nonetheless, performance management and performance measurement have a key role in the assessment of the achievement of alliances’ goals and of the impact of SAs on firms. In this context, the aim of this paper is to discuss how advanced information processing techniques (e.g. ontologies, taxonomies and information visualization) can be used for SAs monitoring and benchmarking. In particular, we propose an ontology for KPIs, rendered through data visualization tools, and a taxonomy for SAs. This allowed us to develop an interpretative framework able to support both SAs and firm managers to understand how to monitor their alliance and which KPIs to use. Finally, we discuss the pertinence and the coherency of the approach referring to the literature.

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e-Business

Enterprise Engineering

Enterprise Information Systems

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