2020
Cicirelli, F.; Gentile, A. F.; Greco, E.; Guerrieri, A.; Spezzano, G.; Vinci, A.
An Energy Management System at the Edge based on Reinforcement Learning Proceedings Article
In: 2020, ISBN: 9781728173436.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Edge computing, Energy Management Systems, internet of things, multi-agent systems, Reinforcement Learning
@inproceedings{Cicirelli2020c,
title = {An Energy Management System at the Edge based on Reinforcement Learning},
author = {F. Cicirelli and A. F. Gentile and E. Greco and A. Guerrieri and G. Spezzano and A. Vinci},
doi = {10.1109/DS-RT50469.2020.9213697},
isbn = {9781728173436},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, DS-RT 2020},
abstract = {In this work, we propose an IoT edge-based energy management system devoted to minimizing the energy cost for the daily-use of in-home appliances. The proposed approach employs a load scheduling based on a load shifting technique, and it is designed to operate in an edge-computing environment naturally. The scheduling considers all together time-variable profiles for energy cost, energy production, and energy consumption for each shiftable appliance. Deadlines for load termination can also be expressed. In order to address these goals, the scheduling problem is formulated as a Markov decision process and then processed through a reinforcement learning technique. The approach is validated by the development of an agent-based real-world test case deployed in an edge context.},
keywords = {Edge computing, Energy Management Systems, internet of things, multi-agent systems, Reinforcement Learning},
pubstate = {published},
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2018
Cicirelli, Franco; Fortino, Giancarlo; Guerrieri, Antonio; Mercuri, Alessandro; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
A Metamodel Framework for Edge-Based Smart Environments Proceedings Article
In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), pp. 286-291, 2018.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Computational modeling, Edge computing, internet of things, Metamodeling, modeling, Object oriented modeling, Sensors, smart environments, Smart Office, Timing, Unified modeling language
@inproceedings{8360343,
title = {A Metamodel Framework for Edge-Based Smart Environments},
author = { Franco Cicirelli and Giancarlo Fortino and Antonio Guerrieri and Alessandro Mercuri and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8360343/},
doi = {10.1109/IC2E.2018.00067},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-01},
booktitle = {2018 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E)},
pages = {286-291},
abstract = {Smart Environments (SEs) are pervasive systems usually built on top of IoT-based sensing and actuation devices which are spread in an environment. The increase of the on-board computational capacity of the used devices opens to the possibility of naturally exploiting the edge computing paradigm in which the computation is pushed at the edge of the network. Anyway, despite the huge interest towards SEs, there is a lack of approaches for their design. This paper proposes an enhancement of the existing Smart Environment Metamodel (SEM) framework suited for designing SEs. The provided extension aims at taking into account issues related to edge computing, management of timing information and definition of the data types involved in data sources. The effectiveness of the whole proposal is assessed through a case study describing the development of a Smart Office.},
keywords = {Computational modeling, Edge computing, internet of things, Metamodeling, modeling, Object oriented modeling, Sensors, smart environments, Smart Office, Timing, Unified modeling language},
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Cicirelli, F.; Fortino, G.; Guerrieri, A.; Mercuri, A.; Spezzano, G.; Vinci, A.
Exploiting the sem framework for modeling smart cities Book
2018, ISSN: 16113349.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Implementation, internet of things, Meta-modeling, modeling, Smart Cities, Smart Street Cosenza
@book{Cicirelli2018b,
title = {Exploiting the sem framework for modeling smart cities},
author = {F. Cicirelli and G. Fortino and A. Guerrieri and A. Mercuri and G. Spezzano and A. Vinci},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-97795-9_9},
issn = {16113349},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
volume = {10794 LNCS},
abstract = {Smart Cities are smart environments extending over a wide geographical area having the aim of improving the quality of life of the citizens and optimizing the management of city resources. Despite the paramount interest towards these systems, there is a lack of approaches for their design. The Smart Environment Metamodel (SEM) is a framework which is well suited for the development of smart environments in general, and Smart Cities in particular. SEM allows the design of such systems by offering two different perspective focusing on functional and data requirements. This paper aims at showing the effectiveness of SEM by exploiting the framework for the design of a case study referring to a realized Smart City application developed in the city of Cosenza, Italy.},
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Cicirelli, F.; Guerrieri, A.; Mercuri, A.; Spezzano, G.; Vinci, A.
IoT-centric edge computing for context-aware smart environments Proceedings Article
In: 2018, ISBN: 9781538672440.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Context awareness, Edge computing, internet of things, Methodological approaches, smart environments
@inproceedings{Cicirelli2018d,
title = {IoT-centric edge computing for context-aware smart environments},
author = {F. Cicirelli and A. Guerrieri and A. Mercuri and G. Spezzano and A. Vinci},
doi = {10.1109/ICIOT.2018.00031},
isbn = {9781538672440},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
journal = {Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things, ICIOT 2018 - Part of the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services},
abstract = {The ever increasing diffusion of the Internet of Things is currently promoting the development of pervasive Smart Environments. The effectiveness of such systems is highly related to the capability of dealing with possible changes in users' habits, adapting the system to people needs and envisaging people behaviors. For this purposes, it becomes important to have methodological approaches and technologies favoring the development of cognitive systems aware of what is happening inside them. In this paper a methodological approach for the development of context-aware IoT-based Smart Environments is proposed. Such approach relies on a three-layered architecture offering some well suited abstractions taking also into account that computational resources in a system can be located either at the edge of the network or in the Cloud. A case study is proposed which concerns the development of a Smart Office devoted to forecast workers' presence and to adapt the office environmental conditions to them.},
keywords = {Context awareness, Edge computing, internet of things, Methodological approaches, smart environments},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
2017
Cicirelli, Franco; Fortino, Giancarlo; Guerrieri, Antonio; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
Metamodeling of Smart Environments: from Design to Implementation Journal Article
In: Advanced engineering informatics, 2017, ISSN: 1474-0346.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: cyber physical systems, development methodology, internet of things, modeling, smart environments
@article{cic:advei:2017,
title = {Metamodeling of Smart Environments: from Design to Implementation},
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issn = {1474-0346},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-08-01},
journal = {Advanced engineering informatics},
abstract = { A smart environment is a physical environment enriched with sensing, actuation, communication and computation capabilities aiming at acquiring and exploiting knowledge about the environment so as to adapt itself to its inhabitants' preferences and requirements. In this domain, there is the need of tools supporting the design and analysis of applications. In this paper, the Smart Environment Metamodel (SEM) framework is proposed. The framework allows to model applications by exploiting concepts specific to the smart environment domain. SEM approaches the modeling from two different points of view, namely the functional and data perspectives. The application of the framework is supported by a set of general guidelines to drive the analysis, the design and the implementation of smart environments. The effectiveness of the framework is shown by applying it to the modeling of a real smart office scenario that has been developed, deployed and analyzed.},
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Cicirelli, Franco; Guerrieri, Antonio; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
An edge-based platform for dynamic smart city applications Journal Article
In: Future Generation Computer Systems, pp. -, 2017, ISSN: 0167-739X.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: cyber physical systems, Edge computing, internet of things, multi-agent systems, smart city, Urban computing
@article{Cicirelli2017,
title = {An edge-based platform for dynamic smart city applications},
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doi = {10.1016/j.future.2017.05.034},
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year = {2017},
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abstract = {Abstract A Smart City is a cyber-physical system improving urban behavior and capabilities by providing ICT-based functionalities. An infrastructure for Smart City has to be geographically and functionally extensible, as it requires both to grow up with the physical environment and to meet the increasing in needs and demands of city users/inhabitants. In this paper, we propose iSapiens, an IoT-based platform for the development of general cyber-physical systems suitable for the design and implementation of smart city services and applications. As distinguishing features, the iSapiens platform implements the edge computing paradigm through both the exploitation of the agent metaphor and a distributed network of computing nodes directly scattered in the urban environment. The platform promotes the dynamic deployment of new computing nodes as well as software agents for addressing geographical and functional extensibility. iSapiens provides a set of abstractions suitable to hide the heterogeneity of the physical sensing/actuator devices embedded in the system, and to support the development of complex applications. The paper also furnishes a set of methodological guidelines exploitable for the design and implementation of smart city applications by properly using iSapiens. As a significant case study, the design and implementation of a real Smart Street in the city of Cosenza (Italy) are shown, which provides decentralized urban intelligence services to citizens.},
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Cicirelli, Franco; Guerrieri, Antonio; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea; Briante, Orazio; Iera, Antonio; Ruggeri, Giuseppe
An edge-based approach to develop large-scale smart environments by leveraging SIoT Proceedings Article
In: Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on, pp. 738–743, IEEE 2017, ISBN: 978-1-5090-4428-3.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Edge computing, internet of things, multi-agent systems, smart environments, social internet of things
@inproceedings{cicirelli2017edge,
title = {An edge-based approach to develop large-scale smart environments by leveraging SIoT},
author = {Franco Cicirelli and Antonio Guerrieri and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci and Orazio Briante and Antonio Iera and Giuseppe Ruggeri},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8000182/},
doi = {10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000182},
isbn = {978-1-5090-4428-3},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on},
pages = {738--743},
organization = {IEEE},
abstract = {Abstract—Large-scale Smart Environments (LSEs) are open and dynamic systems where issues related to scalability and interoperability require to be carefully addressed. Moreover, as such systems typically extend on a wide area and include a huge number of interacting devices, aspects concerning services and objects discovery and reputation assessment require being managed. Despite the increasing interest in this topic, there is a lack of approaches for developing LSEs. This paper proposes an agent-based approach for the development of LSEs which leverages Edge Computing and Social Internet of Things paradigms in order to address the above mentioned issues. The effectiveness of such an approach is assessed through a case study involving a Smart School District environment.
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Cicirelli, Franco; Guerrieri, Antonio; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea; Briante, Orazio; Iera, Antonio; Ruggeri, Giuseppe
Edge Computing and Social Internet of Things for large-scale smart environments development Journal Article
In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-1, 2017, ISSN: 2327-4662.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Edge computing, internet of things, multi-agent systems, smart city, smart environments
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title = {Edge Computing and Social Internet of Things for large-scale smart environments development},
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doi = {10.1109/JIOT.2017.2775739},
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abstract = {Large-scale Smart Environments (LSEs) are open and dynamic systems typically extending over a wide area and including a huge number of interacting devices with a heterogeneous nature. Thus, during their deployment scalability and interoperability are key requirements to be definitely taken into account. To these, discovery and reputation assessment of services and objects have to be added, given that new devices and functionalities continuously join LSEs. In spite of the increasing interest in this topic, effective approaches to develop LSEs are still missing. This paper proposes an agent-based approach that leverages Edge Computing and Social Internet of Things paradigms in order to address the above mentioned issues. The effectiveness of such an approach is assessed through a sample case study involving a commercial road environment.},
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Cicirelli, F.; Fortino, G.; Guerrieri, A.; Spezzano, G.; Vinci, A.
Edge enabled development of Smart Cyber-Physical Environments Proceedings Article
In: 2017, ISBN: 9781509018970.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Agent Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Edge computing, internet of things, smart environments, Smart Office
@inproceedings{Cicirelli2017d,
title = {Edge enabled development of Smart Cyber-Physical Environments},
author = {F. Cicirelli and G. Fortino and A. Guerrieri and G. Spezzano and A. Vinci},
doi = {10.1109/SMC.2016.7844769},
isbn = {9781509018970},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2016 - Conference Proceedings},
abstract = {Smart Cyber-Physical Environments are augmented physical environments whose behaviours are enhanced through the use of ICT technologies. The goal is to offer new services and functionalities devoted to meet people's needs and preferences, and to better exploit existing services and infrastructures. The use of IoT technologies, paired with the edge computing, fosters the development of Smart Environment applications having the important features of reliability, scalability and extensibility. This paper proposes an approach for the design and the implementation of Smart Cyber Physical Environment applications having the aforementioned features. The approach relies on the use of isapiens which is an IoT platform enabling edge computing through the exploitation of the agent metaphor. Such platform provides effective abstractions which are able to hide heterogeneity of both the adopted hardware devices and communication protocols. The approach is validated through a case study involving the realization of a Smart Office prototype for profiling and monitoring daily working activities and performing actuations in the environment on the basis of the obtained information.},
keywords = {Agent Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Edge computing, internet of things, smart environments, Smart Office},
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2016
Cicirelli, Franco; Fortino, Giancarlo; Giordano, Andrea; Guerrieri, Antonio; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
On the Design of Smart Homes: A Framework for Activity Recognition in Home Environment Journal Article
In: Journal of medical systems, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 200, 2016, ISSN: 0148-5598.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: activity recognition, analytics, cloud computing, internet of things, multi-agent systems, smart homes, wearable wireless body sensor networks, wireless sensor and actuator networks
@article{cicirelli2016design,
title = {On the Design of Smart Homes: A Framework for Activity Recognition in Home Environment},
author = {Franco Cicirelli and Giancarlo Fortino and Andrea Giordano and Antonio Guerrieri and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci},
doi = {doi:10.1007/s10916-016-0549-7},
issn = {0148-5598},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-07-28},
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abstract = {A smart home is a home environment enriched with sensing, actuation, communication and computation capabilities which permits to adapt it to inhabitants preferences and requirements. Establishing a proper strategy of actuation on the home environment can require complex computational tasks on the sensed data. This is the case of activity recognition, which consists in retrieving high-level knowledge about what occurs in the home environment and about the behaviour of the inhabitants. The inherent complexity of this application domain asks for tools able to properly support the design and implementation phases. This paper proposes a framework for the design and implementation of smart home applications focused on activity recognition in home environments. The framework mainly relies on the Cloud-assisted Agent-based Smart home Environment (CASE) architecture offering basic abstraction entities which easily allow to design and implement Smart Home applications. CASE is a three layered architecture which exploits the distributed multi-agent paradigm and the cloud technology for offering analytics services. Details about how to implement activity recognition onto the CASE architecture are supplied focusing on the low-level technological issues as well as the algorithms and the methodologies useful for the activity recognition. The effectiveness of the framework is shown through a case study consisting of a daily activity recognition of a person in a home environment.},
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Giordano, Andrea; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
A Smart Platform for Large-Scale Networked Cyber-Physical Systems Book Chapter
In: Management of Cyber Physical Objects in the Future Internet of Things Methods, Architectures and Applications, Springer, 2016.
BibTeX | Tags: cyber physical systems, internet of things, multi-agent systems
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Giordano, Andrea; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
Smart Agents and Fog Computing for Smart City Applications Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Smart Cities, pp. 137–146, Springer International Publishing 2016.
BibTeX | Tags: cyber physical systems, fog computing, internet of things, multi-agent systems, smart city
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title = {Smart Agents and Fog Computing for Smart City Applications},
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Cicirelli, Franco; Fortino, Giancarlo; Guerrieri, Antonio; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
A meta-model framework for the design and analysis of smart cyber-physical environments Proceedings Article
In: 20th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2016, Nanchang, China, May 4-6, 2016, pp. 687–692, IEEE, 2016.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: cyber physical systems, development methodology, internet of things, modeling, smart environments, uml
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2015
Giordano, Andrea; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Sunarsa, Hanry; Vinci, Andrea
Twitter to integrate human and Smart Objects by a Web of Things architecture Proceedings Article
In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), 2015 IEEE 19th International Conference on, pp. 355–361, IEEE 2015.
BibTeX | Tags: internet of things, smart objects, twitter
@inproceedings{giordano2015twitter,
title = {Twitter to integrate human and Smart Objects by a Web of Things architecture},
author = {Andrea Giordano and Giandomenico Spezzano and Hanry Sunarsa and Andrea Vinci},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
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pages = {355--361},
organization = {IEEE},
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Fortino, Giancarlo; Giordano, Andrea; Guerrieri, Antonio; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
A Data Analytics Schema for Activity Recognition in Smart Home Environments Proceedings Article
In: Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Sensing, Processing, and Using Environmental Information: 9th International Conference, UCAmI 2015, Puerto Varas, Chile, December 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, pp. 91, Springer 2015.
BibTeX | Tags: activity recognition, analytics, cloud computing, internet of things, multi-agent systems, smart homes, wireless sensor and actuator networks
@inproceedings{fortino2015data,
title = {A Data Analytics Schema for Activity Recognition in Smart Home Environments},
author = {Giancarlo Fortino and Andrea Giordano and Antonio Guerrieri and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
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2014
Giordano, Andrea; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
Smart Object e forme di cooperazione Technical Report
2014.
BibTeX | Tags: internet of things, smart objects, swarm intelligence
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title = {Smart Object e forme di cooperazione},
author = {Andrea Giordano and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci},
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2013
Belcastro, Loris; Giordano, Andrea; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
Definizione dell'architettura software di un Sistema Cyber-Physical Technical Report
2013.
BibTeX | Tags: cyber physical systems, internet of things, multi-agent systems
@techreport{CNRPRODOTTI342295,
title = {Definizione dell'architettura software di un Sistema Cyber-Physical},
author = {Loris Belcastro and Andrea Giordano and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
keywords = {cyber physical systems, internet of things, multi-agent systems},
pubstate = {published},
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