ASP Cycle

AdMIRE 2: Advanced Mobile Intelligence and Reactive Environments

AdMIRE, Advanced Mobile Intelligence and Reactive Environments, presents a revolutionary vision in which the “intelligence” is placed on the mobile device. “Mobile” as “personal”, always available in the hands of the user, able to hold all his/her knowledge. The environment is perceived as “reactive”: equipped with ICT sensors and controls it “reacts” to user requests,

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RBOF: The retail bank in the future: emerging business models and new customer relationship management strategies

Significant changes are affecting the retail banking industry in the last few years. The risk of disintermediation coming from the rise of new models such as Financial Social Networks or direct banking players, changes in the regulatory framework about payments (i.e. SEPA) and the deployment of new Information and Communication Technologies are generating a profound

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Space Hotel Design

In 2001, space tourism became a reality. Millionaire Dennis Tito was the first “fee-paying” space tourist: he flew to the International Space Station (ISS) and spent one week there. Since then, an additional six space tourists flew to the ISS, including one woman. At the moment, this adventure is only affordable to the very wealthy.

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Sharitage: Creating a planned and participatory form of cultural heritage management

In a new perspective of the value of the past, the preservation domain is being enlarged by a strong increase in the types of artifacts being considered worthy of protection and conservation: in addition to monumental high-style architecture (traditionally the preservation concern) many new categories of sites are now recognized as equally meritorious: cultural and

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IPROS: An integrated prognostics and logistic support system for the engines of an aircraft fleet

The IPROS project addresses an issue of growing importance: that of maximizing up time equipment while minimizing maintenance and operating costs. The area of intelligent maintenance and prognostic-enabled condition-based maintenance of machinery is a vital one for today’s complex systems in industry, aerospace vehicles, ships, automotive industry, and elsewhere. As manning levels are reduced and

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S.P.I.: SkateParkItaly

“The SkatePark SkateParkItaly” (S.P.I.) is a spin-off project from Gangcity, a cultural project supported by a program of scientific research that has completed studies, surveys and reflections on the complex world of the gangs and their spinoff cultures. It documents troubled peripheral urban areas, void of any form of control, to initiate regeneration, re-appropriation and

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