A social robot has to recognize human social intention in order to fully interact with him/her. People intention can be inferred by processing verbal and non-verbal communicative signs. In this work we describe an act...
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A social robot has to recognize human social intention in order to fully interact with him/her. People intention can be inferred by processing verbal and non-verbal communicative signs. In this work we describe an actions classification module embedded into a robot’s cognitive architecture, contributing to the interpretation of users behavior.
This paper presents the development of a software tool called SDN Owl that is used to facilitate a quick and easy construction of SDN testbed using open source software. SDN OWL is based on using a few computers, Linu...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538681657;9781538681640
This paper presents the development of a software tool called SDN Owl that is used to facilitate a quick and easy construction of SDN testbed using open source software. SDN OWL is based on using a few computers, Linux operating system, Ansible, and OpenvSwitch to build an SDN testbed. The prototype testbed has been built using SDN OWL. The experimental results show that the SDN testbed that is built can function properly with a reasonable performance. In addition, the performance of hardware installation and container installation has been investigated as well. The result of this work enables an easy creation of a cost-effective SDN testbed from commodity computing components. This is very crucial for many small companies and research teams that want to study and develop the next generation SDN services and tools.
There exist several initiatives worldwide to deploy quantum key distribution (QKD) over existing fibre networks and achieve quantum-safe security at large scales. To understand the overall QKD network performance, it ...
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The Urban Intelligence (UI) paradigm conceived by CNR consists of an ecosystem of digital technologies joined within a Digital Twin (DT) of the city aimed at improving the city governance towards goals addressed also ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781665472500
The Urban Intelligence (UI) paradigm conceived by CNR consists of an ecosystem of digital technologies joined within a Digital Twin (DT) of the city aimed at improving the city governance towards goals addressed also by the UN Agenda 2030, such as urban environment, sustainability and resilience, wellbeing and quality of life, local development, and social inclusion. In particular, UI provides a set of candidate policies in complex scenarios, and supports policy makers and stakeholders in designing shared, evidence-based, and integrated solutions. UI is being applied for the first time to two Italian cities, Matera and Catania, paving the way for a deeper scientific framing of the paradigm, as well as for the technological development and testing of the core UI ecosystem in real-life situations. The paper introduces the UI key-concepts and components, illustrates the ongoing experimentations in these pilot cities related to the development of two DTs on parts of the urban areas, and presents some initial results.
Many management actions for networking infrastructures require to simultaneously consider the state of several network elements. This is particularly critical in the case of reconfigurable deployments, such as Virtual...
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Question Classification is a core module of Question Answering paradigm. Development of classification models based on neural networks showed that convolutional architectures allow obtaining uppermost results for this...
Question Classification is a core module of Question Answering paradigm. Development of classification models based on neural networks showed that convolutional architectures allow obtaining uppermost results for this task. In particular, this type of approach avoids extracting features from questions, by treating text as a sequence of words, and transforming each word in a dense vector, named word embedding. Among different techniques to learn word embeddings, a recent approach takes into account also subword information, which could be very useful for morphologically rich languages. In this paper, a Question Classification approach based on word embedding using subword information and Convolutional Neural Networks is proposed, in order to improve classification accuracy. In particular, questions taken from a TRC dataset are considered, and a comparison between English and Italian languages is reported, by highlighting eventual improvements obtained by initializing word embeddings with advanced vectors learned in an unsupervised manner using skip- gram model and comprising character-based information.
In the last few years, modern immersive technology has been used to exploit new digital resources overcoming the limitations of conventional exhibitions proving to be an invaluable instrument capable of bridging the g...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538693865;9781538693858
In the last few years, modern immersive technology has been used to exploit new digital resources overcoming the limitations of conventional exhibitions proving to be an invaluable instrument capable of bridging the gap between the visitor and the cultural space. However, to promote visitor enjoyment and to enhance the learning process in relation to the cultural heritage, it is fundamental to propose the cultural data to the visitor in an appropriate way through interfaces that help to focus the visitor's attention on the work of art in question. With this aim, new graphical user interfaces should be designed, following a diegetic approach and so providing a more natural and immersive environment to the user. Inspired by the gaming industry, in which the diegetic transformation of graphical user interfaces has already been introduced, in this paper, we will analyze the opportunities offered by the diegetic approach and will evaluate its relevance to the cultural domain. We will highlight the issues related to the applicability of diegetic user interfaces to an immersive virtual exhibition by discussing the different types of cultural data that can be proposed to a visitor and how that should be fictionally integrated into the scene.
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 pos...
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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.
Improving seasonal influenza forecasting combining official data sources with web search and social media is a recent research topic which can enhance situational awareness of healthcare organizations when monitoring ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538660522
Improving seasonal influenza forecasting combining official data sources with web search and social media is a recent research topic which can enhance situational awareness of healthcare organizations when monitoring the outbreak of seasonal flu. In this paper, a prediction model based on autoregression that combines data coming from official influenza surveillance system, with data from web search and social media regarding influenza is proposed. The model is evaluated on the two influenza seasons 2016-2017 and 2017-2018, restricted to Italy. The results show that by using Web-based social data, like Google search queries and tweets, we can obtain accurate weekly influenza predictions up to four weeks in advance. The proposed approach improves real-time influenza forecast compared to traditional surveillance systems based on data from sentinel doctors: the prediction error is reduced up to 47%, while the Pearson's correlation is improved of about 24%.
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