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Research on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (RAISE)

The research of the RAISE group at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano is focused on the development of adaptive information systems, handling the most critical issues along the entire data lifecycle and the design and development of novel IS architectures. The research mainly addresses quality-aware design of IS architectures to create adaptive information systems, with the goal of dynamically evolve in order to meet specific requirements and maintain the system operations. Application areas include healthcare, industry 4.0/5.0, cybersecurity, judiciary.

Research Topics

Data Quality Assessment and Improvement

This line of research has defined models and methods for the evaluation / monitoring and improvement of data quality, and has developed methodologies for the analysis and redesign of quality-oriented processes.

Contact: Cinzia Cappiello, Barbara Pernici, Camilla Sancricca
Data-centric AI

Data-centric AI emphasizes the critical role of high-quality input data in data analytics. Complete, consistent, and error-free data significantly enhance the performance and accuracy of AI models, enabling the generation of valuable insights.

Contact: Cinzia Cappiello, Monica Vitali, Camilla Sancricca, Barbara Pernici
Cloud/Edge Federated Data Sharing Architectures

The research aims to define methods and models for establishing trusted, efficient, and sustainable data sharing among organizations within a federation, covering every stage from planning to actual data transfer. A data mesh approach serves as the reference model, supported by deployable platforms in a hybrid cloud/edge environment that enforces policies based on agreements between participating parties.

Contact: Pierluigi Plebani, Monica Vitali, Matteo Falconi, Valeria Fortina, Yang Shudan
Business Process Monitoring

Research in Business Process Management focuses on enhancing the monitoring phase by developing tools to model monitoring requirements through BPMN extensions, incorporating commitments, and utilizing robust platforms based on smart devices integrated with blockchain. Additionally, it involves analyzing collected data to predict future behaviors and the impact of low quality in event logs.

Contact: Pierluigi Plebani, Barbara Pernici, Musa Salamov
Green Information Systems

Reducing the environmental impact of service-oriented applications deployed across heterogeneous infrastructures is essential for minimizing the overall IT footprint. Our research aims to enhance these applications with adaptive capabilities, enabling them to adjust dynamically based on their operational context. Specifically, we focus on monitoring, adapting, and optimizing energy efficiency and carbon footprint, leveraging insights from real-time data.

Contact: Monica Vitali, Barbara Pernici
Information Security and Security Analysis

Security research addresses privacy in service systems and the Cloud, architectural solutions in the integration of information systems, and security of big data and business intelligence systems. For the design phase, the design and impact of security policies in IS and data are studied. To support security monitoring, security warnings based on low-level system log analysis and process mining are studied.

Contact: Mariagrazia Fugini, Cinzia Cappiello, Barbara Pernici, Pierluigi Plebani
Big Data Analysis

Research in this field has focused on the design of systems for data segmentation, recommendation systems for personalized content filtering based on user requests and prediction systems able to simulate future behavior and support users in their decisions. This line of research has also developed methodologies and tools for Social Media Intelligence. The challenge of the research concerns the measurement of the impact of emergency events through social media.

Contact: Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pernici, Carlo Bono, Jingxian Wang

Projects

H2020

CS-AWARE-NEXT

Cybersecurity awareness and incident response platform (2022–2025).

Contact: C. Cappiello
H2020

TEADAL

Trustworthy, Energy-Aware federated DAta Lakes along the computing continuum.

Contact: P. Plebani
HORIZON

BETTER

Better rEal-world healTh-daTa distributEd analytics Research platform.

Contact: C. Cappiello
National

HealthBigData

National initiative on big data analytics for healthcare.

 
PNRR

MICS

Made in Italy Circolare e Sostenibile — circular and sustainable manufacturing.

Contact: P. Plebani
PNRR

FAIR

Future Artificial Intelligence Research – Spoke 4 Adaptive AI (2023–2025). Context-based adaptive approaches in machine learning.

Contact: B. Pernici
PRIN 2022

Discount Quality

Human-in-the-Loop for quality data — impact of improving data quality in data science (2023–2025).

Contact: B. Pernici
PRIN 2022

FREEDA

Federated and privacy-preserving data analytics (2023–2026).

Contact: M. Vitali
Fondazione CARIPLO

CARIPLO Project

 

Contact: P. Plebani

Staff

RAISE Group

RAISE group on the DEIB website — Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano.

Barbara Pernici
Barbara Pernici
Professor
CC
Cinzia Cappiello
Professor
PP
Pierluigi Plebani
Professor
MV
Monica Vitali
Professor
Camilla Sancricca
Camilla Sancricca
PhD Candidate
Jingxian Wang
Jingxian (Cecily) Wang
PhD Candidate
Matteo Falconi
Matteo Falconi
PhD Candidate
Shudan Yang
Shudan Yang
PhD Candidate
VF
Valeria M. Fortina
PhD Candidate