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CitySpaces: A virtual/real platform for exploring, learning about and interacting with the layered histories of city spaces

The CitySpaces project has the objective of conceiving a multichannel digital media approach for exploring, learning about and interacting with the layered histories of city spaces. A CitySpaces is a virtual-real system for exploring cities overlaid with their rich geo-history, including the diverse histories of people, architecture and the urban environment, as well as the […]

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TETI: Integrated technologies for sustainable management of underwater cultural heritage

Four out of five parts of the world are underwater and sea also acts as a jealous custodian of the traces of human evolution. Today, technology can have unfortunate consequences on this wellestablished equilibrium, allowing people to destroy in few years what has been sleeping in the deep for centuries. We must save our past,

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HASEW: Household Appliance System with Equipped Walls

Three quarters of the global population are predicted to live in urban areas by 2050. Shortcomings of natural resources and increasing demand of user-friendly domotics make the design of innovative home environments imperative. The goal goes far beyond collecting different appliances, each independently designed. The real challenge is to design a synergic home environment in

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SSP: Switched Positive Dynamical Systems for Cloud Computing Load Balancing

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

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

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

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

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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