Pubblications

@article{Cicirelli2017,
title = {An edge-based platform for dynamic smart city applications},
author = {Franco Cicirelli and Antonio Guerrieri and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci},
url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X16308342},
doi = {10.1016/j.future.2017.05.034},
issn = {0167-739X},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-06-15},
journal = {Future Generation Computer Systems},
pages = {-},
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.},
keywords = {cyber physical systems, Edge computing, internet of things, multi-agent systems, smart city, Urban computing},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@article{iotj2017,
title = {Edge Computing and Social Internet of Things for large-scale smart environments development},
author = {Franco Cicirelli and Antonio Guerrieri and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci and Orazio Briante and Antonio Iera and Giuseppe Ruggeri},
doi = {10.1109/JIOT.2017.2775739},
issn = {2327-4662},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
volume = {PP},
number = {99},
pages = {1-1},
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.},
keywords = {Edge computing, internet of things, multi-agent systems, smart city, smart environments},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@inproceedings{giordano2016smartb,
title = {Smart Agents and Fog Computing for Smart City Applications},
author = {Andrea Giordano and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {International Conference on Smart Cities},
pages = {137--146},
organization = {Springer International Publishing},
keywords = {cyber physical systems, fog computing, internet of things, multi-agent systems, smart city},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}

@inproceedings{giordano2014rainbow,
title = {Rainbow: an Intelligent Platform for Large-Scale Networked Cyber-Physical Systems.},
author = {Andrea Giordano and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci},
editor = {Giancarlo Fortino and
Stamatis Karnouskos and
Pedro José Marrón},
url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1156/paper6.pdf},
issn = {1613-0073},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects for Smart Cities 2014 (UBICITEC 2014) co-located with CPS 2014, Berlin, Germany, Apr 14, 2014.},
volume = {1156},
pages = {70--85},
publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
abstract = {Recent advancements in the fields of embedded systems,communication technologies and computer science, have laid the foundations for new kinds of applications in which a plethora of physical devices are interconnected and immersed in an environment together with human beings. These so-called Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) issue a design challenge for new architecture in order to cope with problems such as the heterogeneity of devices, the intrinsically distributed nature of these systems, the lack of reliability in communications, etc. In this paper we introduce Rainbow, an architecture designed to address CPS issues. Rainbow hides heterogeneity by providing a Virtual Object (VO) concept, and addresses the distributed nature of CPS introducing a distributed multi-agent system on top of the physical part. Rainbow aims to get the computation close to the sources of information (i.e., the physical devices) and addresses the dynamic adaptivity requirements of CPS by using Swarm Intelligence algorithms.},
keywords = {cloud computing, cyber physical systems, multi-agent systems, smart city, swarm intelligence},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}

@inproceedings{giordano2014cyber,
title = {A cyber-physical system for distributed real-time control of urban drainage networks in smart cities},
author = {Andrea Giordano and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci and Giuseppina Garofalo and Patrizia Piro},
editor = {Giancarlo Fortino and
Giuseppe Di Fatta and
Wenfeng Li and
Sergio F. Ochoa and
Alfredo Cuzzocrea and
Mukaddim Pathan},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-11692-1_8},
isbn = {978-3-319-11691-4},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {Internet and Distributed Computing Systems - 7h International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, IDCS 2014, Calabria, Italy, September 22-24, 2014. Proceedings},
volume = {8729},
pages = {87--98},
publisher = {Springher},
organization = {Springer International Publishing},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
abstract = {This paper focuses on a distributed real time control approach applied to drainage networks. The increasing of urbanization and climate change heightens the challenge for new technologies to be developed for drainage networks. Higher runoff volume, produced by the increase in impervious surfaces and intense rain events, overwhelms the existing urban drainage systems. Recent technical improvements have enabled the exploitation of real-time control on drainage networks. The novelty in this paper regards the use of a totally decentralized approach based on a proper combination of a Gossip-based algorithm, which ensures a global correct behaviour even if local faults occur, and a classic controlling technique (PID) used for local actuations.},
keywords = {combined sewer overflow, cyber physical systems, flooding, multi-agent systems, real-time control, smart city, swarm intelligence, urban drainage system, wireless sensor and actuator networks},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}

@article{giordano2014designing,
title = {Designing Cyber-Physical Systems for Smart Infrastructures: The Rainbow Platform.},
author = {Andrea Giordano and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci},
url = {http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/images/stories/EN97/EN97-web.pdf},
issn = {09264981},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
journal = {ERCIM News},
volume = {2014},
number = {97},
publisher = {ERCIM},
series = {ERCIM news},
abstract = {Although Cyber-Physical System (CPS) technologies are essential for the creation of smart infrastructures, enabling the optimization and management of resources and facilities, they
represent a design challenge. The Rainbow platform has been developed to facilitate the development of new CPS architectures.},
keywords = {cyber physical systems, multi-agent systems, smart city},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@inproceedings{garofalo2014applicazione,
title = {Applicazione di un sistema distribuito di controllo in tempo reale di una rete di drenaggio urbano},
author = {Giuseppina Garofalo and Andrea Giordano and Andrea Vinci},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {XXXIV Congresso Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche (IDRA 2014)},
organization = {Zaccaria Editore},
keywords = {cyber physical systems, flooding, multi-agent systems, real-time control, smart city, urban drainage system},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}