Presentation of the Institute for

Informatics and Telematics

Dr. Domenico LaforenzaDirector of the Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT)CNR - National Research CouncilItaly

On site visit of the Evaluation Panel L.2: Information EngineeringOctober, 19 2009

Pisa, CNR Research Campus, Room A 27

Genesys of the CNR ICT Institutes in Pisa

The CNR Scientific OrganisationalStructure

The Matrix Structure of the CNRIn

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tes

(108

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Departments (11)

• Italian National Research Programme• EU Framework Programmes• Etc.

• Talented People• Scientific and Technological Competences

• Facilities and Instrumentations• Etc.

“La luce della Scienzacerco, e’l beneficio”

Galileo Galilei

Department(s)Projects, Research Units and Modules

Department

Project 1

Research Unit 1

Module 1

Research Unit M

Project N

Research Unit 1

Module 1 Module K

Research Unit X

ICT Department ProjectsInvolvement of IIT Research Groups

ó Devices and Technologies for Telematic Networks

ó Data Mining, Ontologies and Semantic Web

ó Grid and High Performance Computing

ó Multimodal and Multidimensional Content and Media

ó Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems

ó BioInformatics (Inter-Departmental)

ó Security (Inter-Departmental)

Projects of the CNR ICT DepartmentInvolvement of IIT Research Groups

Devices and Technologies

for TelematicNetworks

Grid and High Performance Computing

Modeling and

Simulation of Complex

Systems

Multimodal and

Multidimensional Content

and Media

Data Mining,

Ontologiesand

Semantic Web

BioInformatics(Inter-

Departmental)

Security (Inter-Departmental)

http://www.ict.cnr.it/

Commesse e Moduli(2008)

Commesse dell’Istituto partecipa con almeno un moduloq ICT.P00.002-Registrazione nomi a dominio nel ccTLD .itq ICT.P07.011-Progettazione sviluppo e monitoraggio di reti telematicheq ICT.P11.011-Metodi e algoritmi efficienti per la risoluzione di problemi complessiq INT.P01.001-Ubiquitous Internetq INT.P01.007-Sicurezza dell'informazione

Moduli in Commesse di altri Istitutiq INT.P01.004.002-Individuazione di anomalie tramite sampling del traffico di reteq INT.P02.003.003-Algoritmica per bioinformatica

IIT-CNR: The Mission

n Carry out research, development, technology transfer and training in the fields of information and communication technologies and computational science

n In line with the strategy of the:v CNR ICT Departmentv EU FP7

n IIT is naturally and concretely projected towards the Internet of the Future

IIT-CNR: Fields of Expertise

Consolidate expertise in algorithmics and in areas of research and development:vHigh-Speed, Mobile and Pervasive

NetworksvTrust, Security and Privacy vAdvanced Web TechnologiesvInternet Governance

The Institute for Informatics and Telematics(IIT-CNR)Main research areas

u Information and communication technologiesuTransport networks and Internet quality of

serviceu Internetworking techniques and network

securityuTrust, privacy and security uAlgorithms and computational complexityuAlgorithms for WEB technologiesu Innovative Web technologiesuComputational biology

Internet of the Future

Mapping of the IIT-CNR on theInternet of the Future

Trustworthy and Secure

Future Internet

UbiquitousInternet

Algorithms and

Computational Mathematics

Innovative Web

Technologies

Planning, Design, and Monitoring of

TelematicNetworks

Internet Services and Technological Development

The IIT Family

Director

Research Groups

Algorithms and Computational Mathematics

Innovative Web Technologies

Trustworthy and Secure Future

Internet

Ubiquitous Internet

Technological Services

Registro .IT

Planning, Design, and Monitoring of

Telematic Networks

Internet Services and Technological

Development

General Services

Director Secretariat

Administration

Personnel

Scientific Secretariat

Technical Office and Auxiliary Services

Board of the Institute

Director

Dr. Domenico LaforenzaDirector of the Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT)Italian National Research Council (CNR)Via G. Moruzzi, 156126 Pisa, ItalyPhone: +39 050 315-2123Fax: +39 050 315-2113Mobile: +39 348-3962628email: domenico.laforenza@iit.cnr.itIITWeb Site: http://www.iit.cnr.it/domenico.laforenza

Board of the Institute

Andrea Passarella

Maurizio Martinelli

Marco Pellegrini Anna Vaccarelli Giuseppe Vasarelli

Maria Claudia BuzziDomenico Laforenza

The two souls of IIT: Research and Advanced Services

Research Activities

Technological Development

The Institute for Informatics and Telematics(IIT-CNR)Research Groups

Marco Conti

Paola Favati

Fabio Martinelli

Andrea Marchetti

The Institute for Informatics and Telematics(IIT-CNR)Technology Services

Marco Sommani

Maurizio Martinelli

Domenico Laforenza

IIT-CNR: Personnel Distribution(Total: 154 People – October 2009)

38.31%

14.29%

29.87%

7.79%4.55% 5,19%

37.66% (58)

51.95%

IIT-CNR: Personnel Distribution(Total: 154 People – October 2009)

14.94%

9.09%

28.57%

4.55% 5.19%

37.66%

IIT-CNR: Staff Personnel Distribution(Total: 81 People - September 2009)

28.40% 17.28%

54.32%

Algorithms and Computational Mathematics

7.78%

Ubiquitous Internet

11.98%

Trustworthy and Secure Future Internet

8.38%

Innovative Web Technologies

6.59%

34.13%

Planning, Design, and Monitoring of Telematic Networks

3.59%

Internet Services and Technological Development

14.97%

General Services

12.57%

Pubblications Trend

Journal Papers (ISI) Journal Papers (not ISI) Conference Proceedings

Personnel in Training

Training Activities

n Master on Internet Technologies, in collaboration with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa

n Pisa International School on Next Generation Internet (Ph.D. School)

n Local Cisco Networking Academy (Academy ID: 36507)

n Registry ccTLD .it: Several technical courses for the Italian Maintainers

n Traning Courses organised for other CNR Institutes

Training Activities

Training Activities

Training Activities

Capacity to Attract External Funds

Income Trend (€)

Funding by CNR (Headquarters)

CNR Funding to support IIT (K€)

Income Trend: European Projects

Involvement inFP7 Project

Total Funds attracted (2008)

Funds attracted (2008)(only Research Groups)

Started in 2009

Funds Attraction Capacity

How Much Does IIT cost ?

Total Personnel Costs (2008)

EU Projects

Total Personnel (Staff) Costs (2008)

IIT Personnel (Staff) Costs (2008)Distributed by involvement

€4.431.209,77

46%54%

Consolidated Costs (2008)€4.244.293,39

Permanent Staff Costs and Location (Area della Ricerca)

Costs are not included

IIT Overal Costs (2008)(Area della Ricerca costs not included)

€ 8.675.503,16

23.88%

12.06%

12.99%

56.08%

The .it Registry

§ Delegated to CNR on December 23rd, 1987

§ Involves about 70 FTE (Full Time Equivalent)

§ More than 2,400 Registrars

§ Open to EU juridical and natural persons

§ More than 1.700.000 Registered Domain Names

§ Average Registration Time: about 2 Days….

http://www.nic.it/

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Organisational Structure

Operations

Legal aspects External Relations

International Relations

DirectorIIT/Registry

Systems

ManagementCommittee

RulesCommittee

Travel&Sub. (141 K€)

Digital Divide Reduction

Operational Costs (2.6 M€)

Term-Contract Workers (Interinali) (971 K€)

Term-Contract Workers (CoCoCo) (1.1 M€)

Personnel (Staff) (2.3 M€)

Business Model (Today)

Operations

Contracts

Re-investment in Research

Instrumental Goods (350 K€)

Provision for Operational Stability

Consolidated Income 2008

€ 8.899.930,73

Consolidated Costs2008

€ 7.507.045,47

1.4 M€

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Influencing Factors

Market SituationAutomation Degree

Liberalization EffectsNational Politics

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Towards the new “synchronous” System

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Very Important Event

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Synchronous and Asynchronous(Max. Estimate)

Synchronous Start-upSeptember, 28 2009

AsynchronousPhase-out

August 2011

Problem: Personnel Overstaffing(involves about 25 Term-contract workers)

“Asynchronous” vs. “Synchronous”

• Average Registration Time: 2 Days• Registrations from Monday to Friday

• Average Registration Time: 2 Hours• Registrations: H24/7/364Days

Asynchronous Synchronous

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Async. vs. Sync.

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Communication Campaign

Communication Campaign(From November 2009)

Officially Announced

Tomorrow, October 20 2009, at the

CNR Headquarters in Rome

Coexistence of Research and ServicesSynergies and Mutual Benefits

Research Activities

Technological Development

Coexistence of Research and ServicesSynergies and Mutual Benefits

IIT• Advanced Solutions• New Technologies• Know-how, ….

€€€€for

R&D

Re-investment in Research: Strategic ActionsThe PhD Scholarship Programme 2010-2013

Plan of Re-investment (K€) in Research, Development & Training (2009-2011)

Re-investment in ResearchTwo Examples

Strategic Data Mining in the .it Domain

n The goal of Strategic Data Mining on the Web is to extract information (not easily detectable looking to a single web site) about trends and social phenomena,

n Business intelligence applications (social, commercial),

n Web structure is a “simple” social network in which links (except navigational ones) among Web sites represent social or business interactions,

n Web structure and Web pages contain complementary information:u Web-graph analysis allows to discover hidden large scale phenomena,u Web-pages analysis allows to provide a textual description of the

discovered phenomena.

Courtesy of Filippo Geraci and Marco Pellegrini

ComWatch architectureCrawling of the .it

Automatic extraction and classification of communities topics

Web pages Web graph

Cyber-communities extraction

ComWatch Web Interface3D Map of the World Wide

Web (www.vlib.us)

Courtesy of Filippo Geraci and Marco Pellegrini

On going research

n Enrich our model using informations about users and query logs

n Temporal analisys of the evolution of Web communities

Courtesy of Filippo Geraci and Marco Pellegrini

“MimoNet: Maximizing Capacity of Next Generation Wireless Networks through Network-level Optimization of Wireless MIMO Technology”

Main idea: exploiting multi-antenna technologies to provide breakthroughcapacity increase in wireless mesh networks

Budget: 1.650K Euros for 5 years duration

Project proposed for ERC-StartingGrant 2009. The project passed both evaluation steps (only around 13% of the project passed both steps), and was judged “fundable, but not high enough in the rank to be funded”

The MIMONET project

Courtesy of Paolo Santi

1. The Principal Investigator: 3.0/4 (threshold 2.0)

2. The research project: 2.75/4 (threshold 2.0)

Panel Comments:

“...the PI has good publication record, exceptionally high citation numbers,

outstanding or best paper awards, and a good H-index.”

“...the proposal is mostly theoretical..”

“The panel therefore considers the proposal of good quality and fundable, however at a relatively low position in the ranking order.”

MIMONET: excerpts of panel comments

Courtesy of Paolo Santi

MIMONETd: spatially separated collision domains

Single Collision Domain

communication link

interference

MIMONETd approach (decomposition):1.find near optimal solution for a SCD2.study how this solution changes when another SCD at distance d is introduced, as a function of d3.find near-optimal solution for 2 (or more) spatially separated SCDs

d

Courtesy of Paolo Santi

MimoNetd: downsized version of the project funded by IIT-CNR

Budget: 600K Euros for 3 years duration

Criteria for the auditing of the (internally) funded ideas/projects

n NO deliverables, NO cost statements, NO mid-termreviews, NO rehearsals,…… Zero Bureaucracy!

n Creation of an international evaluation panel composed of recognized experts in the field

n Just one review meeting per year

n If the panel report is OK: Go Ahead! u Otherwise STOP THE FUNDING !

Investments for New Facilities: Collaborative EnvironmentsCourtesy of : De Vita, Kraft, Marinai

Internet Governance

Internet governance is the development and application by Governments, theprivate sector and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles,norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programmes that shape theevolution and use of the Internet.

Internet Governance forum (IGF)

http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/

CNR and theInternet Governance

CNR contributes for the definition of an Italian position inside ICANN, WSIS, and IGF

One of the first Italian Players in this area

1999: CNR hosts and coordinate the Italian W3C Office

1992: CNR is one of the founders of the Internet Society

1986: First Italian ARPANET node (Istituto CNUCE-CNR)- Start-up of R&D, diffusion and promotion of Internet Culture and Technologies

1987: IANA Delegated CNUCE-CNR for the management of the “country code “.it”

Since 1999, Stefano Trumpy(CNR IIT) is GAC memberrepresenting the Italian

Government (XIII, XIV, XV, XVI Legislature)

§ Critical Internet Resources

§ Freedom of expression§ Access§ Diversity

§ Security

§ Rights and Principles

A unique experiment in the area of global governance is constitutively multistakeholder, going beyond the typical inter-

governmental model in the international arena

2006Athens

2007Rio de Janeiro

2008Hyderabad

2009Sharm El Sheikh

2010Vilnus

Internet Governance Forum

IGF Italia 2009Pisa October 5-7, 2009

Future Perspectives

n To fix some problems related to the Personnel

n To strengthen the strategic partnerships and create more opportunities for cooperation-collaboration

n To pursue (reinforce), and support multidisciplinary approaches to Research

n To increase the awareness about the importance to generate value from Research

n To get a better cooperation and integration inside the Institute

Personnel

n New Permanent Staff (Stabilizzazioni)1. Paolo Mori, Researcher 2. Andrea Passarella, Researcher3. Marinella Petrocchi, Researcher 4. Cristian Lucchesi, Technician5. Lorenzo Luconi Trombacchi, Technician6. Leonardo Mariani, Technician

n New Permanent Staff Positions assigned to IIT-CNRu #6 Researchersu #2 Technologistsu #4 Administratives/Technicians

Allocation of the New Permanent Staff Positions (Only Researchers)

Bioinformatics

Future Internet

ICT for the Marine-Maritime Sector

Problem: Personnel Overstaffing

(involves about 25 term-contractworkers)

Strategic Lines

Networking

Internationalisation

Partnership

Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale

Future Internet Target

Effectiveness and Efficiency of the Italian Public Administration

GREAT SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT

Actions to “generate value”:

Michelangelo - Giudizio universale partic.3

DipartimentoDigitalizzazione e innovazione tecnologica

Convenzione Operativa CNIPA-CNR per applicazioni

ICT per la Pubblica Amministrazione

Progetti: Fascicolo Sanitario Elettronico

Salute in Rete

Collaborazione Trattamento Dati REGISTRO.IT

Istituzionale:Progetti di ricerca: FAR, FIRB, PRIN, …

Progetti approvati in INDUSTRIA 2015Bando Mobilità Sostenibile

(EASY RIDER, SISTEMA, SLIMPORT, IMPULSO, MOTUS, PEGASUS)

Multidisciplinariety

Some points to be addressed

IIT-CNR Self Assessment

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Number of Publications in Int. Journals

European and international

collaborations

Capacity to attract external funds

Postdocs, PhD students, Master thesis

National and international awards Patents

Cooperation with industry

Cooperation with Public Administration

Advanced Services

Final Consideration

Allocuzione di Papa PIO XII AI PARTECIPANTI AL CONGRESSO SCIENTIFICO NAZIONALE ITALIANODEDICATO ALLE ATTIVITÀ GINNICO-SPORTIVE«DI GRAN CUORE»8 novembre 1952

Paraphrasing…

Today, it is my opinion that IIT-CNR doesn’tseem to incurr such a kind of risk……..

Thank You for Your Attention

Merci de Votre AttentionGrazie per l’attenzione

Evaluation Tables (2003-2007)Table 1: Available Resources

Evaluation Tables (2003-2007)Table 2: Scientific Pubblications

Evaluation Tables (2003-2007)Table 3: Promotion of the scientific and technological dissemination

Evaluation Tables (2003-2007)Table 6: Education activity and scientific exchanges

Evaluation Tables (2003-2007)Table 7: Participation to projects and contracts implementation

Evaluation Tables (2003-2007)Table 7/2: Participation to projects and contracts implementation

Evaluation Tables (2003-2007)Table 7/3: Participation to projects and contracts implementation

Evaluation Tables (2003-2007)Table 7/3: Participation to projects and contracts implementation