2011

SSP: Switched Positive Dynamical Systems for Cloud Computing Load Balancing

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

The project focuses on a very important challenge currently arising in Cloud infrastructure design, namely the problem of optimal allocation of load among virtual machines. Efficient load balancing in a Cloud environment can indeed lead to important benefits for both end users and service providers. In particular, end users can experience a better quality of […]

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PROPER: Future perspectives of joint prostheses

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

The project deals with the open issues and future perspectives of joint prostheses. The main topic of the project concerns wear of the bearing surfaces. Cobalt-chromium-molybdenum alloys are widely used in total hip and knee joint replacement. They are able to form efficient artificial joints by means of coupling metal-on-polymer or metal-on-metal contacts. However, a

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Green Move: Design and testing of an innovative transport system for vehicle sharing

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

Green Move is a new project for an innovative electric vehicle sharing system in Milan founded by Regione Lombardia and developed by 8 departments and centers of the Politecnico di Milano. Vehicle sharing consists of the use of a shared car, taken from the user in a special parking area and left in the same

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E-SCAPE: New tools and new opportunities for the localization of Expo 2015 general interest services along the Canale Cavour, a backbone of the Milan–Turin urban region

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

The recent completion of the high speed railway in the north west of Italy is producing significant changes in the entire territorial system, establishing a difference between the nodes of Milan and Turin, positively connected to the “long” (and fast) networks of mobility, and the intermediate places that suffer from disadvantages due to their location

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IMPARAR: Improving access to resources at reduced risk for urban areas with strong informal settlements: towards sustainable growth for the town of Guayaquil and major social inclusion of citizens

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

Resource protection management and increasing access to public services is today perceived as a precondition to human promotion and social development, especially in low income economies. The project focused on the municipality of Guayaquil (EC) which, with its 3 million inhabitants, 2 of which living in informal settlements, is the economic capital of the country.

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ARAM-AOCS: Development of innovative attitude and orbit control for low-cost and low-mass spacecrafts

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

The aim of the ARAM-AOCS project was to design an Attitude and Orbit Control system for a new class of small, affordable and easy-to-use satellites. The idea was proposed and supported by the Politecnico di Torino Electronics Department, that developed AraMiS, aiming to provide a modular satellite architecture in a very short period of time.

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SustHealth: Sustainable High Quality Healthcare

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

One of the most significant problems of today’s society is the unsustainable way of living. To guarantee a better future, people should change their habits and behavior in many fields, not neglecting the most difficult and complex issues. Healthcare structures are by definition very complex realities, since they include numerous services, various kinds of facilities

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CoSpaR: Components for Space Robotics

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

In the next decades, planetary exploration will play an important role in directing global technological development and at the same time will provide an extensive application and testing field for many innovative technologies. In support of exploration missions, new space systems must be developed requiring research on many new technologies involving robotics, automation, bio-engineering, artificial

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FUSE: Future Scenarios in Banking: new Services and sustainability

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

The banking sector has always been facing a big challenge: coping with continuous and fast-evolving financial services. Nowadays, financial institutions need to be not only promoters of innovation but also of sustainable services. The concept of sustainability is intended from the economic, environmental and social viewpoints. As a result, the financial service industry is ahead

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SME 2.0: “Software as a service” as a breakthrough change for Small and Medium Enterprises

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

The software market for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is today facing a technological breakthrough and growing importance of distribution methods represented by “Cloud Computing” and “Software as a Service” (SaaS). Existing technologies, software packages and vendor business models are apidly changing, and future market leadership will be based both on new software adoption models

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DeCoSe: Designing Collaborative Services to boost social innovation in Smart Cities

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

The aim of the DeCoSe project was to envisage collaborative service ideas to stimulate social innovation in the context. The project was developed in conjunction with European Research funded in the framework of the 7FR called Peripheria (in which Politecnico di Milano is involved as partner) whose aim was to conceive, develop and prototype digital services

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