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Vincenzo Piuri
University of Milan

Department of Information Technologies
Advanced Research Center on Evolutionary Knowledge
for Design Innovation by High-Performance Computing
via Bramante 65

26013 Crema (CR)

Italy
phone: +39-02-5033-0066 or +39-0373-898-066
secretary: +39-02-5033-0011 or +39-0373-898-011
fax: +39-02-5033-0010

piuri@elet.polimi.it

secondary address:
Politecnico di Milano

Department of Electronics and Information
piazza L. da Vinci 32

20133 Milano

Italy
phone: +39-02-2399-3606 secretary: +39-02-2399-3623
fax: +39-02-2399-3411

piuri@elet.polimi.it

Università degli Studi di Milano - UNIMI

Description of the organisation

The University of Milan (UNIMI) is one of the most known Italian institutions for higher education, theoretical scientific research, and applied research, in several scientific areas including the ones related to information sciences and technologies.

The “Advanced Research Center on Evolutionary Knowledge for Design Innovation by High-Performance Computing”, in the Department of Information Technologies, has specific expertise in the following areas:

-         information processing architectures, embedded architectures for signal/image processing and for process control, real-time architectures and systems, reconfigurable architectures, fault tolerant systems, massively computing systems, networking,

-         system optimization and operational research,

-         operating systems and environments, middleware, interoperability, security,

-         measurement and monitoring systems, system control, industrial automation,

-         theoretical aspects of soft computing (neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, evolvable computing), high-level design of composite (algorithmic + soft computing) systems, machine learning, industrial applications of soft computing for identification, monitoring and control, signal and image processing, feature extraction and pattern matching, classification, bioengineering and biomedical applications, non-intrusive defect analysis.

More information can be found at:

Web site of the organization: http://www.unimi.it

Web site of the involved department: http://www.dti.unimi.it

Web site of the involved laboratory: http://www.dti.unimi.it/arc

 
Contribution to CARiMan:

Contributions to

B.4.1 Integrating activities

     JPA En: Environmental CARiMan

B.4.2 Programme for jointly executed research activities

     JPA TI: Transmission and interfaces, security of data transmission

     JPA SP: Signal processing, classification, recognition and evaluation

     JPA SA: System architecture

B.4.3 Activities to spread excellence

     JPA D1: exchange of post-doc researchers, students, and experts

     JPA D2: Conferences, meetings and workshops

     JPA D4: Publications

Short description of the organisation

The University of Milan (UNIMI) is one of the most known Italian institutions for higher education, theoretical scientific research, and applied research, in several scientific areas including the ones related to information sciences and technologies.

The “Advanced Research Center on Evolutionary Knowledge for Design Innovation by High-Performance Computing”, in the Department of Information Technologies, has specific expertise in information processing distributed architectures, operating research, soft computing, system control, and industrial applications.

 
CV of the partners

Vincenzo Piuri is Full Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Milan, Italy. His research interests include distributed and parallel computing systems, application-specific processing architectures, fault tolerance, theory and industrial applications of neural techniques for identification, prediction, control, signal and image processing. Original results have been published in more than 150 papers in book chapters, international journals, and proceedings of international conferences. He is Fellow Member of the IEEE and member of ACM, INNS, AEI. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. He is Vice President of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and Vice President of the IEEE Neural Networks Society.

 
Publications

C. Alippi, V. Piuri, F. Scotti, "High-level Design of Composite Systems", in Soft Computing in Software Engineering : Theory and Applications, E. Damiani, L.C. Jain, M.Madravio eds., Springer Verlag, , 2003

S. Ferrari, V. Piuri, “Neural networks in intelligent sensors and measurement systems for industrial applications”, in Neural Networks for Instrumentation, Measurement, and Related Industrial Applications, Editors: S. Ablameyko, L. Goras, M. Gori, and V. Piuri, IOS Press, 2003, pp. 19-42

L. Breveglieri, V. Piuri, "Digital median filters", Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, July 2002, pp. 191-206

S. Ferrari, N.A. Borghese, V. Piuri, "Multiscale models for data processing: an experimental sensitivity analysis", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, August 2001, pp. 995–1002

C. Alippi, V. Piuri, F. Scotti, "Accuracy vs. Complexity in RBF Neural Networks: A System Level Design Approach", IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, February 2001, pp. 32-36

C. Alippi, E. Casagrande, V. Piuri, F. Scotti, "Composite Real-Time Image Processing for Railways Track Profile Measurement", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 49, June 2000, pp. 559-564

F. Marino, V. Piuri, E.E. Swartzlander, Jr., “A Parallel Implementation of the 2-D Discrete Wavelet Transform without Interprocessor Communications”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 47, Nov. 1999, pp. 3179-3184

C. Alippi, V. Piuri, “Neural Modelling of Dynamic Systems with Non-measurable State Variables”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 48, Dec. 1999, pp. 1073-1080

C. Citterio, A. Pelagotti, V. Piuri, L. Rocca, “Function Approximation: a Fast-Convergence Neural Approach Based on Spectral Analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 10, n. 4, 1999, pp. 725-740

L. Cristaldi, A. Ferrero, V. Piuri, "Programmable instruments, virtual instruments, and distributed measurement systems: what is really useful, innovative and technically sound?", IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, vol. 2, Sept. 1999, pp. 20-27

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