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Time-Constrained Node Visit Planning for Collaborative UAV-WSN Distributed Applications.
2022
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are often studied as tools to perform data collection from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Path planning is a fundamental aspect of this endeavor. Works in the current literature assume that data are always ready to be retrieved when the UAV passes. This operational model is quite rigid and does not allow for the integration of the UAV as a computational object playing an active role in the network. In fact, the UAV could begin the computation on a first visit and retrieve the data later. Potentially, the UAV could orchestrate the distributed computation to improve its performance, change its parameters, and even upload new applications to the sensor network…
Towards a Smart Campus Through Participatory Sensing
2018
In recent years, the percentage of the population owning a smartphone has increased significantly. These devices provide users with more and more functions that make them real sensing platforms. Exploiting the capabilities offered by smartphones, users can collect data from the surrounding environment and share them with other entities in the network thanks to existing communication infrastructures, i.e., 3G/4G/5G or WiFi. In this work, we present a system based on participatory sensing paradigm using smartphones to collect and share local data in order to monitor make a campus 'smart'. In particular, our system infers the activities performed by users (e.g., students) in a campus in order …
SMART CONTRACTS E TECNOLOGIE BASATE SU REGISTRI DISTRIBUITI NELLA L. 12/2019
2021
The essay addresses the issue of the regulation of smart contracts and technologies based on distributed ledgers, as regulated by the national law 12/2019. It highlights some critical issues related to the formulation and understanding of these concepts, definitely relevant for scholars but, at the same time, very complex in their understanding, giving the multidisciplinary implications they are related to. Finally, the essay addresses the two different approaches in the matter, the European and the national one, and underlines the necessity of a more uniform perspective, also in consideration of the missing guidelines by the Agenzia per l’Italia digitale (AgID).
L'ultima stazione della Via Crucis. Dalle fiumane di Elizabeth Smart a "Superflumina" di Salvatore Sciarrino
2017
Introducendo la sua opera in atto Superflumina (2010) - undicesimo dei suoi lavori per il teatro musicale - Salvatore Sciarrino fa esplicito riferimento al romanzo di Elisabeth Smart, "Sulle fiumane della Grand Central Station mi sono seduta e ho pianto" (1945), da cui è nata l'idea del libretto. Come sempre, tuttavia, il compositore rielabora profondamente il testo originario e lo adatta al suo ideale di teatro essenziale e archetipico, traendone nuclei drammaturgici estremamente prosciugati. All'artificio verbale fa poi riscontro l'artificio della scrittura musicale: alla novità della concezione del suono - che ne ha fatto uno dei protagonisti del panorama musicale degli ultimi cinquant'a…
Autenticità digitale. L’esperienza turistica aumentata di un sito UNESCO
2022
The article proposes a reflection on the topic of authenticity with reference to digital solutions developed for cultural heritage. After a brief theoretical review on digital authenticity, the article analyzes as a case study an application for mobile devices, which offers augmented reality content and digital reconstructions of spaces, monuments and activities of the Roman city of Tarraco (Tarragona), included by UNESCO in the World Heritage List. The research conducted according to a qualitative methodology returns evidence of the centrality of authenticity in the tourist experience and in the strategies aimed at fostering the attractiveness of places.
Tecnologie digitali per la visibilità del patrimonio culturale. L'immagine di Tarragona nella prospettiva dell'offerta
2023
This work aims to contribute to the debate on the role of new technologies in the process of urban image construction, presenting as a case study the digital offering of the UNESCO site of Tarragona. Inclusion on the World Heritage List may represent a decisive event in the definition of an urban image, which new technologies can promote and project to the outside world. By making the winning narrative visible, technologies offer spaces for tourist desire and consumption and show us how cities are told by highlighting some aspects and excluding others. After explaining the dynamics of the context under study, the paper demonstrates how digital tools can convey a brand, mediate or transfigur…
Understanding the smartphone generation: is problematic smartphone use associated with low body esteem among adolescent girls and boys?
2020
Contemporary adolescents increasingly engage with social media via their smartphones, and problematic smartphone use has been identified as a growing concern. The aim of the current study was to examine the association between problematic smartphone use and body esteem among adolescent boys and girls. A sample of 647 adolescents (mean age: 14.15 years; 56.7% females) completed measures of problematic smartphone use, emotional regulation, and body esteem. Findings from hierarchical regression models revealed that problematic smartphone use was weakly associated with body esteem among both adolescent girls and boys. Furthermore, difficulties with emotional regulation were moderately associate…
Sustainable user-driven innovation supporting Open Government policies- A System Dynamics perspective applied to the Municipality of Palermo-
Going beyond a technocratic e-government paradigm, this research aims at analyzing how, through the two-ways interaction supported by Web 2.0 technology, skilled external collaboration and knowledge-sharing between citizens and public administrations can offer new ways of citizen participation, enhancing political decision-making process and public value creation. Particularly, the purpose is to investigate how skilled citizens can serve as contributors to tasks that are traditionally performed by designated civil servants and now are outsourced to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call for contributions. To this end, we have conducted a field research in…
Pragmatic revolution
2015
Abstract La fine del secolo breve ha definito la globalizzazione come mainstream politico sociale e intellettuale. L’Ottocento della rivoluzione industriale determina un modello in cui il progresso tecnologico e la crescita economica avrebbero dovuto emancipare i popoli, seguendo il credo liberale, dispensando benessere e democrazia. Il modello intellettuale e di vita basato sul mercato autoregolato definisce un mondo sempre tendente alla crisi materiale e intellettuale. Le bolle speculative e le ricorrenti crisi economiche hanno definito una realtà asimmetrica rispetto alla teoria. Karl Polanyi ricostruisce abilmente sia tutti gli stadi evolutivi della trasformazione sociale che conducono …
Competenze professionali e smart working: il caso della Regione Siciliana
2021
The contribution focuses on the analysis of the distribution of skills in the Sicilian Region and the effects of smart working. The objective are: 1) the analysis of the distribution of implicit competences; 2) the evaluation they themselves attribute to the quality of these competences; 3) the relationship existing between these competences, the awareness of them, the evaluation of them and SW.