I wrote this paper as a student of the course of Software Engineering at Politecnico di Milano taught by Prof. Carlo Ghezzi. The following is the abstract of the article:
Factors like the interconnection, the heterogeneity and the high dynamism characterize ICT systems like software, services or nets. The management of such systems, consequently, becomes particularly complex and expensive. The autonomic computing defines an architecture which promises to pull down costs of maintenance of ICT systems defining an architecture in which each entity can self-repair, self-configure, self-optimize and self-protect itself. This paper represents an overview of the new paradigm, in which we go through the definition of the conceptual elements of the architecture, the standards, the technologies available and some examples of applications.
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Autonomic Computing

I wrote this paper as a student of the ASP (Alta Scuola Politecnica, link). The following is the abstract of the article:
Traffic congestion is nowadays one of the biggest problems of livability of cities. The continuous growth of number of vehicles and the difficulty to use funds effectively to improve the capacity of the road is bringing bad times to the local administrators. Mobility managers are in crisis while they are choosing which prohibition to apply to improve the fluidness of cars’ flow. The motorists, as usual, are not happy with the continuous rise of new constraints to their freedom. Consequently, new models that act to control the demand rather than to eliminate the demand are rising up. This paper describes methods for the demand control, in particular road pricing and the recent credit-based mobility system that promise to create a virtuous circle that self-adjusts the demand while it preserves the motorists’ freedom.

Credit-based mobility system

I wrote this paper as a student of the ASP (Alta Scuola Politecnica, link). The following is the abstract of the article:
Nowadays the marketplace is extremely dynamic and competitive, the continuous requests of innovation and the following creative destruction is bringing bad times to the management. The corporate leaders are in crisis while they are tackling the problem of human resources reorganisation and if the profits of corporations are increasing, the stress caused by high level of work is rising too. Consequently, the model of the worker is crossing a new era; it is changing from a single manual-worker entity to a networked knowledge-worker entity. This paper describes how the organisations are trying to address this process, analysing different approaches to the management of organisation it presents real case studies augmented by mean of historical perspective. A proper conception of the organisation can foster and promote valuable changing and innovation inside firms while it preserves the human dimension.

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The organisation in the era of knowledge workers

This is the project for the course of Software Engineering II, with Prof. Carlo Ghezzi at Politecnico di Milano. In this article, I explain the differences and the analogies between two kinds of paradigms, the Agent-Oriented paradigm and the Service-Oriented paradigm. I sketch also the two main instances of each paradigm, FIPA for Agent-Oriented and Web Services for Service-Oriented.

The main claim is that, in the modern era of on-line composition and orchestration of Web Services, we need some paradigm that can fit very well in dynamic and impredictable situations; in shorts if we want to achieve a high degree of autonomy and intelligence of services maybe we can use the Agent-Paradigm to models these situations.

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Web Services and Agents

Wireless Sensor Networks 2004, Palace Hotel @ Como
I have took part at this conference, it was so interesting.
I would like to investigate about the intersection among this field and the agent-oriented area. In particular how the concepts from the agent-area can drive the development of a wireless sensor network.
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