NeP4B Networked Peers For Business

WP 5Task T 5.4Deliverable D5.4

Final report on dissemination(final, 21.12.2009)

Abstract –

This report, realized by CEFRIEL, with the contribution of UniMo, UniMiB and ISTI, describes the activities regarding dissemination and exploitation of project results within the NEP4B project. The report includes the list of publications and presentations of project results, a partner-specific descriptions of the activities of dissemination and exploitation and a final chapter on intellectual property rights.

Document information

Document ID code D5.4

Keywords Dissemination, Exploitation, IPR

Classification FINAL Date of reference 16.12.2009

Distribution level NeP4B Consortium

Editor Irene Celino CEFRIEL

Authors Francesco GuerraClaudio GennaroAlessio CareniniAndrea Maurino

UniMoISTICEFRIELUniMiB

Version history

Date Version Description

16/12/2009 FINAL Final version

09/12/2009 DRAFT 0.1 Draft version

Contents

1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.....................................................................................4

2 DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES PERFORMED DURING THE NEP4B PROJECT........................................................................................................................5

2.1 JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS AND BOOK CHAPTERS.................................................52.2 NATIONAL CONGRESSES AND CONFERENCES PUBLICATIONS............................62.3 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES PUBLICATIONS................................................7

3 PARTNER REPORT ON DISSEMINATION AND EXPLOITATION ACTIONS.......................................................................................................................13

3.1 UNIMO REPORT................................................................................................133.2 CEFRIEL REPORT............................................................................................153.3 UNIMIB REPORT..............................................................................................163.4 ISTI REPORT....................................................................................................16

4 Management of Intellectual Property Rights...........................................................18

1 Executive Summary

This deliverable is aimed at collecting the results of all the dissemination and exploitation activities of the project partners with regards to the NeP4B results during the project time-span.

Those activities were carried out by the partners according to the dissemination and exploitation plans described in deliverable D5.1 “Dissemination and Exploitation plans”, to which this document refers. As a consequence, this deliverable contains a thorough report about all the dissemination and exploitation occasions (publications, conferences and seminars, invited talks, organized events, etc.) both for the NeP4B consortium as a whole and for each partner individually.

For those reasons, this document contains both a complete list of all dissemination opportunities, which contains also joint publications between consortium partners, and a partner-specific section, in which each involved unit report about the implementation of its dissemination and exploitation plan, eventually explaining the future steps after the project end to continue the employment, reuse and advertisement of NeP4B project results.

Moreover, since the project also contributed with a number of software prototypes resulting from the research activities, in this deliverable we also report about the Intellectual Property Rights protection and the licences used, in case, to release the software components.

The remainder of the document is structured as follows: Chapter 2 lists all the dissemination actions performed during the whole project duration; Chapter 3 presents the partner-specific report on dissemination and exploitation activities; in this section each partner briefly illustrates the outcomes of those activities with regards to their respective plan as described in deliverable D5.1. Finally Chapter 4 includes some details about the IPR and licensing of the software results of the project.

2 Dissemination activities performed during the NeP4B project

This Chapter includes the report of all dissemination activities performed by the NeP4B consortium partners during the whole project duration.

Due to the very high number of publications and invited talks performed, we divide the list in three sections for sake of readability. Section 2.1 lists the papers published on international scientific journals or book chapters included in international books; Section 2.2 includes publications and speeches at national (Italian) congresses and conferences; Section 2.3 specifies the publications and speeches at international events.

It is also worth noting that NeP4B organized and sponsored the “1st International Workshop on Interoperability through Semantic Data and Service Integration”, co-located with the 17th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2009), on June 25th, at Camogli (Genova), Italy. More details are given at http://sebd09.disi.unige.it/satellite-events.html.

Other partner-specific dissemination events not listed in this chapter can be included in the various sections of Chapter 3.

2.1 Journal publications and book chapters

F. Falchi, C. Gennaro, P. Zezula. Nearest Neighbor Search in Metric Spaces through Content-Addressable Networks. Information Processing and Management, 43(3):665-683. May 2007.

D. Milano, M. Scannapieco, and T. Catarci, Measuring and Diffusing Data Quality in a Peer-to-Peer Architecture, International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (ISSN 1548-1115), 3 (2007), no. 1.

D. Milano, M. Scannapieco, and T. Catarci, Structure Aware XML Object Identification, Data Engineering Bullettin - Special Issue on Data Quality 29 (2006).

S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, C. Sartori, "Extracting Relevant Attribute Values for Improved Search", IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 26-35, Sept/Oct, 2007 (special issue on Semantic-Web-Based Knowledge Management).

C. Gennaro. Regia: a Metadata Editor for Audiovisual Documents. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 36(3):185-201. February 2008.

Andrea Esuli, Tiziano Fagni, and Fabrizio Sebastiani. Boosting Multi-label Hierarchical Text Categorization Information Retrieval, 11(4):287-313, 2008.

C. Batini, C. Cappiello, C. Francalanci, A. Maurino. Methodologies for data quality assessment and improvement. Accettata ACM Computing surveys, in fase di stampa.

Fabio Aiolli, Riccardo Cardin, Fabrizio Sebastiani, and Alessandro Sperduti. Preferential Text Classification: Learning Algorithms and Evaluation Measures. Information Retrieval. (in fase di stampa).

F. Falchi, C. Gennaro, F.Rabitti, P. Zezula. Distance browsing in distributed multimedia databases. Future Generation Computer Systems. Elsevier Science 2008. (in fase di stampa).

Diego Milano, Monica Scannapieco, Tiziana Catarci. (2009). Quality of XML Data: Measurement and Diffusion in a Peer-to-Peer Architecture. In: A. Gunasekaran. Global Implications of Modern Enterprise Information Systems: Technologies and Applications. p. 261-287, IGI Global publication.

Tiziana Catarci, Hervè Panetto, Monica Scannapieco (2008). Editorial. Information Systems, vol. 33(7-8); p. 595-596, ISSN: 0306-4379.

Tiziana Catarci, REenèe J Miller (2008). Guest editorial: special issue on metadata management. VLDB Journal, vol. 17(6); p. 1345-1346, ISSN: 1066-8888.

Carola Aiello, Tiziana Catarci., P. Ceravolo, Ernesto Damiani, Monica Scannapieco, and M. Viviani (2008). Emergent Semantics in Distributed Knowledge Management. In: L. JAIN. Evolution of WEB in an Artificial Intelligence Environment. p. 201-220, Springer Verlag, ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-540-79139-3.

Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Wilma Penzo, Simona Sassatelli, Giorgio Villani. Paving the Way to an Effective and Efficient Retrieval of Data over Semantic Overlay Networks. In The Semantic Web for Knowledge and Data Management: Technologies and Practices, Zhongmin Ma (Ed.), IGI Global, 2008.

Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Wilma Penzo, Simona Sassatelli. Data-Sharing P2P Networks with Semantic Approximation Capabilities. IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 13, Number 5, pp.60-70, September/October 2009.

Falchi F., Gennaro C., Rabitti F., Zezula P. Distance browsing in distributed multimedia databases. In: Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 25 (1) pp. 64 - 76. Elsevier, 2009.

Fabio Aiolli, Riccardo Cardin, Fabrizio Sebastiani, and Alessandro Sperduti. Preferential Text Classification: Learning Algorithms and Evaluation Measures. Information Retrieval. Volume 12, Number 5 / October, 2009. Springer: Heidelberg, DE. pp. 559-580

F. Mandreoli, R. Martoglia, W. Penzo, S. Sassatelli and G. Villani. "Leveraging Semantic Approximations in Heterogeneous XML Data Sharing Networks: the SUNRISE Approach". To appear in the book "Soft Computing in XML Data Management", Zhongmin Ma (Ed.), Springer, 2010.

Sonia Bergamaschi, Laura Po, Serena Sorrentino and Alberto Corni, Dealing with Uncertainty in Lexical Annotation, Demo Paper at 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ERPD 2009), to appear in Special Issue of the "Journal of Theoretical and Applied Informatics" (Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada RITA) 2010.

2.2 National Congresses and Conferences publications

F. Mandreoli W. Penzo A. M. Perdichizzi: Semantic Web Service Composition in the NeP4B Project: Challenges and Architectural Issues. In Proceedings of the 15th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Technologies (SEBD 2007). June 2007, Torre Canne (Fasano, BR), Italy

F. Mandreoli R. Martoglia E. Ronchetti: Disambiguation of Structure-Based Information in the STRIDER System. In Proceedings of the 15th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Technologies (SEBD 2007). June 2007, Torre Canne (Fasano, BR), Italy

S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, C. Sartori. "A new type of metadata for querying data integration systems". In proceedings of the Convegno Nazionale Sistemi di Basi di Dati Evolute (SEBD2007), Torre Canne (Fasano, BR), 17-20 June 2007

F. Mandreoli, R. Martoglia, S. Sassatelli and W. Penzo: Semantic Routing for Effective Search in Heterogeneous and Distributed Digital Libraries. In Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Management Systems (IRCDL 2007), January 2007, Padova, Italy.

F. Mandreoli, R. Martoglia, S. Sassatelli and W. Penzo Semantic Query Routing Experiences in a PDMS. In Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop (SWAP 2006), December 2006, Pisa, Italy.

E. Della Valle. SOA e Web 2.0. Business Business Integration Forum 2007 - Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0, Italy, October 26, 2007

E. Della Valle. Web 2.0 le sfide per le moderne dot-com. Guide 2007 Event, c/o Forum IBM Italia, Italy, November 15, 2007

S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, C. Sartori, M. Vincini, "RELEVANT News: a semantic news feed aggregator", 4thWorkshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2007), Bari, Italy, December 18-20, 2007

G. Amato, P. Bolettieri, F. Debole, F. Falchi, C. Gennaro, F. Rabitti. Using MPEG-7 for Automatic Annotation of Audiovisual Content in eLearning Digital Libraries. In 4th Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems. January 2008.

E. Della Valle. Le sfide per i CIO delle Enterprise 2.0. IDC - Virtualization & Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2008, Italy, February 19, 2008

S. Lodi, F. Mandreoli, R. Martoglia, W. Penzo and S. Sassatelli, "Boosting a Network of Semantic Peers", In Proceedings of the 16th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Technologies (SEBD 2008), June 2008, Mondello (PA), Italy.

F. Mandreoli, R. Martoglia, W. Penzo, S. Sassatelli and G. Villani, "Efficient and Effective Query Answering in a PDMS with SUNRISE", In Proceedings of the 16th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Technologies (SEBD 2008), June 2008, Mondello (PA), Italy.

M. Comerio, A. Maurino, M. Vincini, G. Viscusi: Issues in Peer-to-Peer Electronic Services. SEBD 2008: 350-357

C. Gennaro, M. Mordacchini, S. Orlando, F. Rabitti. A Scalable Distributed Data Structure for Multi-Feature Similarity Search. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2008), pages 302-309. June 2008.

S. Bergamaschi, L. Po, S. Sorrentino: Automatic annotation for mapping discovery in data integration systems. SEBD 2008:334-341 June 2008.

Morandi V., Sgobbi F., Learning processes in business networks of SMEs: two case studies in the ICT industry, XIX Riunione Scientifica Annuale AiIG, Palermo, 23-24 Ottobre 2008.

Sonia Bergamaschi, Laura Po, Serena Sorrentino, Alberto Corni.- Uncertainty in data integration systems: automatic generation of probabilistic relationships, Itais 2009, Costa Smeralda (Italy) October 2-3, 2009.

Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Wilma Penzo, Giorgio Villani. Semantics-driven Approximate Query Answering on Graph Databases. In Proc. of the 17th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD), Camogli (GE), Italia, Giugno 2009.

Sonia Bergamaschi, Serena Sorrentino (2009). Semi-automatic compound nouns annotation for data integration systems, In SEBD, June 21 – 24 2009, Camogli (Genova), Italy.

Claudio Gennaro. Scalable Similarity Self Join in a Metric DHT System. Proceedings of the 17th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (Camogli, Genova, 21-24 June 2009). Atti, pp. 81-88. Seneca Edizioni, 2009.

Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Simona Sassatelli, Paolo Tiberio, Wilma Penzo, Claudio Gennaro, Matteo Mordacchini, Salvatore Orlando. Toward an Effective and Efficient Query Processing in the NeP4B Project. In Proc. of the V Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS (itAIS), Paris, France, Dicembre 2008.

F. Mandreoli, R. Martoglia, W. Penzo and G. Villani "Semantics-driven Approximate Query Answering on Graph Databases", In Proceedings of the 17th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2009), June 2009, Camogli (GE), Italy.

2.3 International Conferences publications

M. Brambilla, I. Celino, S. Ceri, D. Cerizza, E. Della Valle, F. Facca, A. Turati, C. Tziviskou WebML and Glue: an integrated discovery approach for the SWS Challenge. In SerComp & SWS Challenge '07 Workshop, 2007, USA

Batini, Barone, Maurino, Ruffini, Mastrella, A Framework And A Methodology For Data Qualità Assessment And Monitoring. In proc. of the 12th ICIQ, 2007, USA

M. Comerio, F. De Paoli, A. Maurino and M. Palmonari. NFP-aware Semantic Web Services Selection proc. of the 11th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007), U.S.A.

M. Palmonari, F. Guerra, A. Turati, A. Maurino, D. Beneventano, E. Della Valle, A. Sala, D. Cerizza - Toward a unified View of Data and Services - Proc of the International Workshop on Semantic Data and Service Integration 2007 SDSI07

C. Gennaro, M. Mordacchini, S. Orlando, F. Rabitti. MRoute: A Peer-to-Peer Routing Index for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces. In Proc. of the 5th DBISP2P workshop, 2007.

P. Bolettieri, F. Falchi, C. Gennaro, F. Rabitti. Automatic Metadata Extraction and Indexing for Reusing e-Learning Multimedia Objects. In Proc. of the ACM Workshop MS 2007. 2007.

P. Bolettieri, F. Falchi, C. Gennaro, F. Rabitti. A Digital Library Framework for Reusing e-Learning Video Documents. In the EC-TEL Conference, Greece, 2007.

V. Morandi, The management of joint research projects between Industry and University, presentato alla conferenza "Partnerships: Achieving Collaborative Advantage" presso Copenhagen Business school, 2007

I.Celino, E. Della Valle, D. Cerizza and A. Turati. Squiggle: an experience in model-driven development of real-world Semantic Search Engines - In Proc.of ICWE 2007, Italy

M. Brambilla, I. Celino, S. Ceri, D. Cerizza, E. Della Valle, F. Facca, A. Turati, C. Tziviskou WebML and Glue: an integrated discovery approach for the SWS Challenge. In Semantic Web Service Challenge 2006 Phase IV, Austria, 2007.

F. Falchi, C. Gennaro, F. Rabitti, P. Zezula. A Distributed Incremental Nearest Neighbor Algorithm. In proc.of the Infoscale Conference, pages 4. ACM Press, 2007.

F. Mandreoli R. Martoglia W. Penzo S. Sassatelli G. Villani: SUNRISE: Exploring PDMS Networks with Semantic Routing Indexes. In Proceedings of the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), Innsbruck, Austria, June 2007.

S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, C. Sartori. "Relevant values: new metadata to provide insight on attribute values at schema level". In proc.of the 9th ICEIS conference, Portugal, 2007

U.Küster, A. Turati, M. Zaremba, B. König-Ries, D. Cerizza, E.Della Valle, M. Brambilla, S. Ceri, F.M. Facca, C. Tziviskou: Service Discovery with SWE-ET and DIANE - A Comparative Evaluation By Means of Solutions to a Common Scenario - In proc.of the ICEIS conference, Portugal, 2007

F. Mandreoli W. Penzo A. M. Perdichizzi. A P2P-based Architecture for Semantic Web Service Automatic Composition. In Proceedings of the 1st DEXA International Workshop on Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises (SWAE 2007), Regensburg, Germany, September 2007.

M. Palmonari, F. Guerra, A. Turati, A. Maurino, D. Beneventano, E. Della Valle, A. Sala, D. Cerizza: "Toward a Unified View of Data and Services", In proceedings of the first International International Workshop on Semantic Data and Service Integration, Co-located with VLDB 2007, Vienna, Austria. September 23, 2007

D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, M. Vincini, M. Orsini, R. Carlos Nana, "Query Translation on Heterogeneous Sources in MOMIS Data Transformation Systems", VLDB 2007 - Third International Workshop on Database Interoperability (InterDB 2007), Vienna, Austria, September 24, 2007

S. Bergamaschi, L. Po, A. Sala, and S. Sorrentino, "Data source annotation in data integration systems", Fifth International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P), VLDB 2007 33st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. University of Vienna, Austria, September 24, 2007

G. Amato, P. Bolettieri, F. Debole, F. Falchi, C. Gennaro, F. Rabitti, P. Savino. A Tutorial on the MILOS Multimedia Content Management System, at the Ninth Russian National Research Conference Digital Libraries (RCDL 2007), Pereslavl, Russia. October 2007.

S. Bergamaschi, A. Sala, "Creating and Querying an Integrated Ontology for Molecular and Phenotypic Cereals Data", Special Session on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics of the 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, Corfù, Greece, October 11-12, 2007.

E. Della Valle, A. Turati, D. Cerizza, I. Celino WebML and Glue: an integrated discovery approach for the SWS Challenge. Fifth International Semantic Web Service Challenge, Stanford (USA) 5-6 November 2007.

F. Corcoglioniti, I. Celino, E. Della Valle. Towards a Semantic Contact Management FEWS2007 Workshop at ISWC/ASWC 2007, Busan (Korea), 12 November 2007.

S. Bergamaschi, L. Po, and S. Sorrentino, "Automatic annotation in data integration systems", The 6th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, November 27-29, 2007.

F. Mandreoli, R. Martoglia, W. Penzo, S. Sassatelli and G. Villani, "SRI@work: Efficient and Effective Routing Strategies in a PDMS", In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2007), Nancy, France, December 2007.

M. Scannapieco, I. Figotin, E. Bertino, A. K. Elmagarmid: Privacy preserving schema and data matching. SIGMOD Conference 2007: 653-664

G. Barcaroli, M. Scannapieco, C. Vaccari, and D. Zardetto. Migrating a Critical Application Towards Open Source: the Istat Experience 1st International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools Enabling eGovernment (MET-TEG 2007).

C. Gennaro, M. Mordacchini, S. Orlando, F. Rabitti. Processing complex similarity queries in peer-to-peer networks. In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing (SAC 2008), pages 473-478 . ACM Press, February 2008.

F. Mandreoli, R. Martoglia, W. Penzo, S. Sassatelli and G. Villani, "Building a PDMS Infrastructure for XML Data Sharing with SUNRISE", In Proceedings of the 3rd International EDBT Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML Information on the Web (DATAX 2008), Nantes, France, March 2008.

F. Mandreoli, R. Martoglia, S. Sassatelli, W. Penzo and S. Lodi, "Semantic Peer, Here are the Neighbors You Want!", In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2008), Nantes, France, March 2008.

Morandi V., Sgobbi F., Collaborative Know-How in Networks of SMEs: A Case Study in the ICT Industry, DIME ScientificConference, W.P.1.1 Parallel Session on Communities and Incentives for Knowledge Creation, 7-9 April 2008, BETA, Strasbourg.

E. Della Valle, I. Celino and D. Cerizza. Agreeing While Disagreeing, a Best Practice for Business Ontology Development 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008) Innsbruck, Austria 5-7 May 2008.

C. Gennaro. A Content-Addressable Network for Similarity Join in Metric Spaces. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (Infoscale 2008). ACM Press, June 2008.

Laura Po. "Improving Data Integration through Disambiguation Techniques", Doctoral Symposium Papers of the 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2008) London, UK, June 2008

F. Cusmai, C. Aiello, M. Scannapieco and T. Catarci. Record Linkage as a Multiobjective Optimization Problem solved by Evolutionary Computation, ESTEEM'08 1st International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and cooperaTion in opEn systEMs Rome, Italy, July 1st, 2008.

E. Della Valle. NeP4B contribution to Semantic Web Service Challenge: a logistic scenario. STI International Service Convent, Istambul (Turkey) 2-4 July 2008.

Gangadharan G.R., Comerio M., Truong H.L., D'Andrea V., De Paoli F. and Dustdar S. License-aware Service Selection. In proc. of EEE (IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services) 2008, Crystal City, Washington, D.C., USA, July 21-24, 2008.

F. Cusmai, C. Aiello, M. Scannapieco and T. Catarci, EARL: an Evolutionary Algorithm for Record Linkage QDB '08, 6th International Workshop on Quality in Databases, in conjuction with VLDB 2008, August 2008.

D. Beneventano, C. Gennaro, F. Guerra. A Methodology for Building and Querying an Ontology representing Data and Multimedia Sources. In 4th ODBIS Workshop on Ontologies-based Techniques for DataBases in Information Systems and Knowledge Systems. August 2008.

Morandi V., Sgobbi F., Learning by networking or learning about networking?, EUNIP Conference, San Sebastian, 11-12 September 2008.

A. Carenini, D. Cerizza, E. Della Valle, A. Turati, M. Comerio, F. De Paoli, A. Maurino, M. Palmonari. GLUE2: a Web Service Discovery Engine with Non-Functional Properties. The 6th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2008), Dublin (Ireland) November 12-14, 2008.

Serena Sorrentino, Sonia Bergamaschi, Macjei Gawinecki, Laura Po- Schema Normalization for Improving Schema Matching, ER ’09, 9-12 November 2009, Gramado, Brasil.

Domenico Beneventano, Francesco Guerra, Andrea Maurino, Matteo Palmonari, Gabriella Pasi, Antonio Sala "Unified Semantic Search of Data and Services” In proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, Milan, Italy, 30 Sept – 2 Oct 2009.

Domenico Beneventano, Sonia Bergamaschi, Serena Sorrentino - Extending WordNet with compound nouns for semi-automatic annotation in data integration systems- IEEE NLP-KE’09- 24-27 Semptember 2009, Dalian, China.

Sonia Bergamaschi, Francesco Guerra, Mirko Orsini, Claudio Sartori, Maurizio Vincini: " An ETL tool based on semantic analysis of schemata and instances” In proceedings of Advanced Knowledge-based Systems Invited Session of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge-based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2009), September 28-30, 2009, Santiago, Chile.

Sonia Bergamaschi, Francesco Guerra, Mirko Orsini, Claudio Sartori, Maurizio Vincini: " Improving Extraction and Transformation in ETL by Semantic Analysis” In proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Knowledge Management , 3-4 September 2009, Vicenza, Italy.

Laura Po, Serena Sorrentino, Sonia Bergamaschi, Domenico Beneventano (2009). Lexical Knowledge Extraction: an Effective Approach to Schema and Ontology Matching, ECKM ’09, 3-4 September 2009, Vicenza, Italy.

Raquel Trillo Lado, Laura Po, Sergio Ilarri, Sonia Bergamaschi, Eduardo Mena Semantic Access to Data from the Web, 1st International Workshop on Interoperability throught Semantic Data and Service Integration, June 25 2009, Camogli (GE), Italy.

Domenico Beneventano and Claudio Gennaro, Matteo Mordacchini, R.Carlos Nana Mbinkeu. Query Processing in a Mediator System for Data and Multimedia. Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Interoperability through Semantic Data and Service Integration June 25th, 2009, Camogli (Genova), Italy. pp. 101-115.

Claudio Gennaro, Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Matteo Mordacchini, Wilma Penzo, Simona Sassatelli. Combining Semantic and Multimedia Query Routing Techniques for Unified Data Retrieval in a PDMS. Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Interoperability through Semantic Data and Service Integration June 25th, 2009, Camogli (Genova), Italy. pp. 17-28.

Sonia Bergamaschi, Francesco Guerra, M. Orsini, C. Sartori, Maurizio Vincini: "Semantic Analysis for an Advanced ETL framework” In proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Interoperability through Semantic Data and Service Integration June 25th, 2009, Camogli (Genova), Italy.

Francesco Guerra, Andrea Maurino, Matteo Palmonari, G. Pasi, Antonio Sala " Searching for Data and Services” In proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Interoperability through Semantic Data and Service Integration June 25th, 2009, Camogli (Genova), Italy.

Sonia Bergamaschi, Francesco Guerra, F. Mandreoli, Maurizio Vincini, "Working in a dynamic environment: the NeP4B approach as a MAS” In proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Agent and Peer to Peer Computing, Budapest, Hungary, 11 May 2009.

Francesco Guerra, Sonia Bergamaschi, M.Orsini Antonio Sala, C. Sartori, "Keymantic: A keyword Based Search Engine using Structural Knwoledge", In proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Milano, Italy 6-10 May 2009.

Tiziano Fagni, Fabrizio Falchi and Fabrizio Sebastiani. Adaptive Committees of Feature-Specific Classifiers for Image Classification. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Image Mining Theory and Applications (IMTA-09), Lisboa, PT, 2009, pp. 113-122.

Domenico Beneventano, Francesco Guerra, Andrea Maurino, Matteo Palmonari, Gabriella Pasi, Antonio Sala, "Unified Semantic Search of Data and Services", Third International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 09) Milan, October 1-2, 2009

Gianluigi Viscusi, Andrea Maurino, Simone Grega. An Ontology Based Approach to Data Quality Initiatives Cost-Benefit Evaluation. American Conference on information Systems 2009.

Pen Li, Marco Comerio, Andrea Maurino, Flavio De Paoli, An Approach to Non-functional Property Evaluation of Web Services. In International Conference on Web Services, 2009.

Matteo Palmonari, Marco Comerio, Flavio De Paoli, An Effective and flexible Approach to NFP-based Ranking of Semantic Web Services, International Conference on Service Oriented Computing 2009.

Marco Comerio, Flavio De Paoli, Pen Li, Andrea Maurino. Advanced Non-functional Property Evaluation of Web Services, European Conference on Web Services, 2009.

Irene Celino, Dario Cerizza, Francesco Corcoglioniti, Alberto Guarino, Andrea Turati and Emanuele Della Valle: "STAR:chart -- Preserving Data Semantics in Web-based Applications", In Proceedings of the 12th Business Information Systems Conference (BIS 2009), Poznan, Poland, April 2009.

Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Wilma Penzo, Giorgio Villani. Flexible Query Answering on Graph-modeled Data. In Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), St. Petersburg, Russia, Marzo 2009.

Andrea Esuli and Fabrizio Sebastiani. Active Learning Strategies for Multi-Label Text Classification. Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'09), Toulouse, FR, 2009, pp. 102-113.

Andrea Esuli and Fabrizio Sebastiani, Encoding Ordinal Features into Binary Features for Text Classification, Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'09), Toulouse, FR, 2009, pp. 771-775.

Andrea Esuli and Fabrizio Sebastiani, Training Data Cleaning for Text Classification, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'09), Cambridge, UK, 2009, pp. 29-41. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5766, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, DE.

Stefano Baccianella, Andrea Esuli and Fabrizio Sebastiani , Evaluation Measures for Ordinal Text Classification, Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'09), Pisa, IT, 2009.

F. Cusmai , Carola Aiello, Monica Scannapieco, Tiziana Catarci: EARL: an Evolutionary Algorithm for Record Linkage, Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Quality in Databases (QDB 2008), in conjuction with VLDB 2008, August 25th, Auckland, New Zealand, 2008.

F. Cusmai , Carola Aiello, Monica Scannapieco, Tiziana Catarci: Record Linkage as a Multiobjective Optimization Problem solved by Evolutionary Computation, in Proc of the First International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and cooperaTion in opEn systems (ESTEEM 2008), In cooperation with the 2nd International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2008) Rome, Italy, 2008.

N. Cibella, M. Fortini, Monica Scannapieco,T. Tosco,T. Tuoto, Theory and Practice in Developing a Record Linkage Software, in Proc. of the International Workshop on Integration Methodologies, Vienna, Austria, 2008.

Domenico Beneventano, Sonia Bergamaschi, Claudio Gennaro, Francesco Guerra, Matteo Mordacchini and Antonio Sala. A Mediator System for Data and Multimedia Sources. In the proceeding of the Data Integration through Semantic Technology Workshop at the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference. 08-11 december 2008, Bangkok

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3 Partner report on dissemination and exploitation actions

This Chapter is dedicated to the report on dissemination and exploitation actions performed by the consortium partners in the project time-span. Each section illustrates the activities carried out by the partners to exploit NeP4B project results. It could be useful to refer to the deliverable D5.1 “Dissemination and Exploitation plan”, where each partner explained the plan for its individual actions.

3.1 UniMo report

The UniMO Unit was the NeP4B project coordinator and was consequently responsible for the general dissemination of the overall project. Such activity includes the website development and updating, the development of a flyer about the project and other actions for the project divulgation. UniMO planned also several individual exploitation activities concerning largely exploitation of the knowledge gained in the project inside and outside the University to establish contacts for co-operations and future projects with companies and other research institutions.

General dissemination: the dissemination of the project themes to the general public and to the industry allowed us to spread the project goals and results, and consequently to find scenarios where to apply the obtained results. A flyer synthesizing the project goals and motivations has been published and disseminated in several meetings and workshops.

Figure 1: flyer external side.

Figure 2: flyer internal side.

Exploitation in education: Knowledge about semantic web concepts and data integration systems gained in the project has been integrated in several classes and practical training courses planned at the Engineering Faculty (Modena) and Economics Faculty at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Moreover, some tutorials about the project themes have been planned at the International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies held at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

MSc theses in the area of semantic web, electronic commerce, database management and information systems have been offered. The aim is to motivate students to work in these areas and to find potential new research staff for our research group. Six PhD students addressed and reported in their thesis the result of their activity in the NeP4B project themes.

Exploitation in research: Results of the NeP4B projects have been published in international journals and conference, workshop proceedings. Academic workshops and conferences have been organized based on our expertise in semantic web technology and data integration systems. These activities aimed at establishing the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia as a well-known research institution in the areas of the semantic web and data integration systems. Such activities will help the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia to be involved in further research activities such as thematic networks and projects. A special issue of the Information Systems journal on “Semantic Integration of Data, Multimedia, and Services” has been proposed (UNIMORE – UNIMIB – UNIROMA1). Finally a tutorial on Data and Service Integration has been delivered by Sonia Bergamaschi, Andrea Maurino (Unimib) at the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2009 - 6 October 2009) (UNIMORE - UNIMIB)

Workshop organized

1) International Workshop “Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing"(AP2PC) held by AAMAS 2009

2) International Workshop on Interoperability through Semantic Data and Service Integration held by SEBD 2009

3) International Workshop “Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web” (DESWeb 2010) held by ICDE 2010

4) International Workshop "Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises" (SWAE2008) workshop held by DEXA 2008

5) International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2008) held by VLDB 2008

6) International Workshop "Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing" held by AAMAS 2008

7) International Workshop "Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises" (SWAE2008) workshop held by DEXA 2007

8) International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2008) held by VLDB 2007

9) International Workshop "Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing" held by AAMAS 2007

3.2 CEFRIEL report

CEFRIEL’s mission is to fill the gap between the university research activities and the innovation needs of industries and public administrations. Universities are typically devoted to basic and applied research. Industries focus is mainly on product development and distribution. Even if there is an increasing overlapping among these phases, the distinction of roles still holds and may create a barrier to the effective industry-academia cooperation and the ability to transfer research results to the market. CEFRIEL role aims at filling the gap.

CEFRIEL implements its mission in three different but complementary activities:

– Education: focus in transferring knowledge about technologies and strategies– Consultancy: focus in providing services and innovation to industries– Research: focus in gathering knowledge and expertisesDuring the duration of the NeP4B project, CEFRIEL was able to pursuit its mission in the three types of activities.

Education:

– On March 3rd 2009, CEFRIEL organized a Seminar entitled “Le tecnologie semantiche tra presente e futuro” inviting CEFRIEL stakeholders and customers. During this seminar, CEFRIEL presented some of the most innovative application of Semantic Web technologies, including a presentation of results gathered in the NeP4B project. Considering the successful outcome of this event, CEFRIEL estimates 3 more editions in 2010-2011.

– CEFRIEL updated the executive training course devoted to “Web Evolution” by including expertises about semantic-based technologies gained during the NeP4B project. This course belongs to CEFRIEL catalogue of training for executives; in 2009 we delivered 4 edition of this course, and we estimate at least 8 more editions for 2010-2011.

– CEFRIEL improved the executive training course devoted to “Web 2.0” by adding the expertises matured during the NeP4B project regarding Semantic Navigation and RDFa. This course belongs to CEFRIEL catalogue of training for executives; in 2009 we delivered 3 edition of this course, and we estimate at least 6 more editions for 2010-2011.

Consultancy:

– CEFRIEL enhanced its skills to provide better services to customers. In particular, the expertise gained in the project leads to a better support to customers in selecting the best Web and Web 2.0 tools accordingly to their needs; with this regards, CEFRIEL expects to develop 10 project proposals in 2009 with a 20-30% success rate.

– CEFRIEL also expects to reuse concepts, ideas and software developed in the project to provide its customers with custom solutions; with this regards, CEFRIEL expects at least 4 new projects for 2010-2011.

Research:

– CEFRIEL expects to reuse concepts, ideas and software related to the NeP4B project results in other research projects. Moreover, CEFRIEL improved its prospects for participating in other research projects (EU or national) related to the technologies and scenarios addressed in the NeP4B project.

– Moreover, the fruitful collaboration between CEFRIEL and the other NeP4B partners paves the way to further opportunities of exchange and cooperation with them in the future, strengthening the relationship between CEFRIEL and the academic world.

3.3 UniMiB report

The UniMib Unit was active in the general dissemination of the overall project. UniMiB planned also several individual exploitation activities concerning largely exploitation of the knowledge gained in the project inside and outside the University to establish contacts for co-operations and future projects with companies and other research institutions.

General dissemination: the dissemination of the project themes to the general public and to the industry allowed us to spread the project goals and results, and consequently to find scenarios where to apply the obtained results.

Exploitation in education: Knowledge about semantic web services concepts, data quality and data integration systems gained in the project has been integrated in several classes and practical training courses planned at the Computer Science bachelor and Master degree course. Moreover, some tutorials about the project themes have been planned at the Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies held at the University of Milano Bicocca. MSc theses in the area of semantic web services, data quality, database management and information systems have been offered. The aim is to motivate students to work in these areas and to find potential new research staff for our research group. Two PhD students addressed and reported in their thesis the result of their activity in the NeP4B project themes.

Exploitation in research: Results of the NeP4B projects have been published in international journals and conference, workshop proceedings. These activities aimed at establishing the University of Milano Bicocca as a well-known research institution in the areas of the semantic web services and data quality. Such activities will help the University of Milano Bicocca to be involved in further research activities such as thematic networks and projects. A special issue of the Information Systems journal on “Semantic Integration of Data, Multimedia, and Services” has been proposed (UNIMORE – UNIMIB – UNIROMA1). Finally a tutorial on Data and Service Integration has been delivered by Sonia Bergamaschi (UniMo), Andrea Maurino at the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2009 - 6 October 2009) (UNIMORE - UNIMIB).

3.4 ISTI report

The Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR) is the most relevant governmental organization to promote, co-ordinate and regulate scientific research in the interest of the scientific and technological progress of Italy. In addition to the main activities of research and consulting, CNR stipulates research contracts with external bodies; contributes to studies, researches and scientific missions through study assignments abroad of Italian

scientists and assignments of foreign scientists in Italy; provides scholarships for Italian and foreign students; promotes the organization of conferences, conventions, courses and seminars. Furthermore, according to a re-organization which is underway, CNR institutes will have the possibility to create new companies as a spin off of their research activities. Another major role of CNR is the co-ordination (in co-operation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) of the Italian participation in international scientific and technical initiatives. ISTI is one of the largest CNR institutes conducting research activities in the Information Technology field. In particular, ISTI has the “Multimedia Networked Information Systems Laboratory laboratory” (NeMIS), over the past 15 years, has gained considerable experience in a number of areas of particular relevance to the objectives of NeP4B: Design of Object- Oriented Information systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Access Methods for Similarity Search, User Profile Modelling, Personalisation, Digital Library Architecture.

ISTI-CNR as a research institution cannot exploit economically the results but only propose them to other enterprises for exploitation. This activity will be carried out using the technology transfer program which is one of the institutional activities belonging to CNR.

General dissemination:

– It has been mentioned that one of the roles of CNR is the consulting activity, done internally to CNR and in favour of other organizations and industries. The experience gained in the project will be extremely useful to improve the quality of the consulting work.

– The project was presented in the context of the meetings planned in institutional CNR institutes for technology transfer between the ISTI and industrial of Tuscany. Specifically, the project has been presented to the California Consortium Project (http://www.progettocalifornia.com), which proposes the study, development and promotion of scientific industrial park with high technology in Western Tuscany. We expect to present the results of the project in further meetings between ISTI Project and California, given their interest in possible trials.

– The project was presented during the meeting "Club delle Imprese Innovative 2009" organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Pisa on May 2009.

– The marbel scenario of the Project was presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Image Mining Theory and Applications. Lisboa – Portugal on February 2009,

Exploitation in the industry:

The project was presented during the start-up of the collaboration with to the local SME Metro S.P.A.

3.5 Future dissemination activities

The dissemination of the NeP4B results will continue later than the end of the project. Some demonstrations to companies will be planned in order to acquire data of other real scenarios where to evaluate the NeP4B solutions and to transfer the technologies investigated and developed in the project to the companies. Moreover, the UniMo unit is interested to continue the research activities in the project themes with the other project units. For this reason, some meetings will be organized aiming at developing another research proposal where, starting from the NeP4B outcomes, the research activity may continue.

In the previous sections, the individual partners envisioned some future dissemination activities and also some events (special issues of journals, dedicated workshops at relevant conferences) that will take place after the official end of the project.

4 Management of Intellectual Property Rights

This Chapter details the software prototypes developed in the projects. The purpose is not to go into technical specific aspects of the prototypes – which are covered by WP3 deliverables – but to address the Intellectual Property Rights.

In Table 4.1, for each prototype, we give details about the NeP4B consortium partners who hold and/or share the Intellectual Property Rights.

Moreover, since the NeP4B project also committed to share its results with the open community, in order to maximize the potential reuse of the project results, some of those software prototypes are delivered as open source. In this case, the licensing policy is indicated.

Finally, for each prototype, we also indicate the conditions for its use, i.e. if the software is free, if it is free under special conditions (for example, for research purposes) or it is not free to use.

Component IPR Owner(s) Open Source License vs. Closed Source

Free / Not Free / Free for Research

P3.2.1.1 - A system for extracting metadata and annotating (semi)-structured data sources

UniMo, ISTI Closed Source Free for research

P3.2.1.2 - A system for the incremental building of the PVV

UniMo, UniMiB, ISTI

Closed Source Free for research

P3.2.1.3 - A system for extracting metadata and annotating textual and multimedia data sources

ISTI Closed Source Free for research

P3.2.1.4 - A system for query reformulation and conflict resolution for (semi-)structured data sources

UniMo Closed Source Free for research

P3.2.2.5 - WSMO Discovery Engine QoS-aware

CEFRIEL, UniMiB

Open Source (GPLv2) see http://glue2.sourceforge.net/

Free

P3.2.2.6 - Data user interface demonstrator

CEFRIEL Closed Source Free use of the prototypes built in the project

P3.5.1.1 - A system for Secure Reputation Distribution mechanism

CEFRIEL Open Source (GPLv2) see http://glue2.sourceforge.net/

Free

P3.5.1.2 - A system for the Discover of Semantic Mappings Among Peers

UniMo, ISTI Closed Source Free for research

Component IPR Owner(s) Open Source License vs. Closed Source

Free / Not Free / Free for Research

P3.5.1.3 - A system for the Distributed Query Support for Processing Semantic Queries over the P2P Network

ISTI, UniMo Closed Source Free for research

P3.5.1.4 - The Distributed Version of the WSMO Discovery Engine QoS-aware

CEFRIEL, UniMiB

Open Source (GPLv2) see http://glue2.sourceforge.net/

Free

Table 4.1 – IPR and licensing of the components developed within the NeP4B project