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A Data Mining Approach to the Monitoring of Public Programs for the Retraining of Unemployed Workers

A recent report of the Upjohn Institute on a framework for an optimal labour market information hereafter LMI system said that "Government must play a major role to ensure there is a public LMI system, which produces reliable and relevant information, and that LMI is disseminated in user friendly ways...

Tags: Monitoring, Worker, University Of Bologna, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Government, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-03-12

Passive Ultrawide Bandwidth RFID

UltraWide Bandwidth UWB technology is a promising solution for next generation RadioFrequency Identification RFID systems to overcome most of the main limitations of current RFID systems such as very short operating range, insufficient ranging resolution for accurate localization, sensitivity to interference and scarce multiple access capability. In this paper, the...

Tags: UWB, Bandwidth, University Of Bologna, RFID, Ultrawideband (UWB), Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2008-08-14

An Open Source Distributed Platform for the Control of the PUMA 560 Manipulator

In this paper, an RTAI-Linux based distributed platform for the control of the PUMA 560 robotic manipulator is presented. From the mechanical point of view, the PUMA 560, besides being one of the first and most popular 6-DOF anthropomorphic manipulator, is still a very good example of implementation of small...

Tags: Platform, Open Source, Computer Science, University Of Bologna, Productivity

White papers 2007-10-24

High Mobility in a Realistic Wireless Environment: A Mobile IP Handoff Model for NS-2

Wireless technology has the great merit to allow users' mobility. However, this may affect the functioning of all the applications and traditional protocols, worsening the already known problems with wireless connections and requiring the design and evaluation of novel solutions. Scenarios involving high mobility can be very complex; think, for...

Tags: Mobile, Mobility, IP, Mobile IP, University Of Bologna, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2007-03-30

A Formal Account of Contracts for Web Services

The paper defines a formal contract language along with subcontract and compliance relations. It then extrapolates contracts out of processes, that are a recursion-free fragment of CCS. The paper finally demonstrates that a client completes its interactions with a service provided the corresponding contracts comply. The contract language may be...

Tags: Web, Contract, Compliance, Web Service, University Of Bologna, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-06-27

World's Oldest University Supports 250,000 Students and Alumni With New Technology

The University of Bologna is the second-largest university in Italy. Its 7,000 employees in 23 faculties support more than 120,000 students across 235 degree courses. The University of Bologna wanted to streamline its directory service system to better support its students, alumni, and employees across several sites, departments, and countries....

Tags: Alumni, Directory Service, Microsoft Corp., University Of Bologna, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software

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EcoCar Professional Edition 2.0 (Windows)

Eco-Car Professional Edition is a smart application software to find out how much you can save or loose if you do Car-Pooling instead drive to your destination address alone. It need an Internet connection and the computation can take several minutes, depends from the band speed. All the costs and...

Tags: Internet Connection, Logistics, Microsoft Windows, Eco-Car, Eco-Car Professional Edition, Car-Pooling, Supply Chain, Transportation, Internet, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-10-09

Neuro Genetic-Nearest Neighbor Based Data Mining Techniques for Fingerprint Classification and Recognition System

The proposed fingerprint classification using Data Mining technique, Neuro Genetic-Nearest Neighbor based recognition, overcomes low recognition rate, low accuracy, increased time of recovery and improves the classification rate. The proposed method involves various stages like image enhancement, line detector based feature extraction and neural network classification using Learning Vector Quantization...

Tags: Classification, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Engineering, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2007-11-01

Software to ease divorce pains

If you went through a divorce during your life, you know it can be painful. Who will keep the house or the kids? How the money will be distributed? Even if professional mediators are involved, the process can really be unpleasant. According to LiveScience, two programs developed by Australian researchers...

Tags: Software, Decision Support System, Negotiation, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Italian University Reduces IT Support Costs by More Than One-Tenth

The Arrigo Serpieri Institute of Higher Education in Agricultural Technology is located in Bologna, Italy. It has 70 teachers and 450 students, offering specialist graduates to local agribusiness. They needed a more efficient solution that didn't cost too much, but would support AutoCAD 2007 - the industry standard in the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2007-05-01

Three proposals for ad-based Wi-Fi

Wireless Bologna As citywide networks become popular, a model of ad-supported free Wi-Fi is on the rise. That's an issue Andrew Townsend at the Institute for the Future addresses in a recent blog post. The trend brings up three key issues, Townsend writes on the IFTF blog: guaranteeing citizens'...

Tags: Wireless Bologna, wireless

Blog posts 2006-06-07