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Research activity
DBGroup
Research activity Context and motivation of
the research
The DBGroup research addresses issues related
to the storage, management, querying, and Managing large amounts of data, extracting
analysis of data. Big Data Integration techniques information and knowledge from them has
and entity recognition -the process for always been a great research interest, and
identifying the same real world entity in different undoubtedly offers competitive advantages
data sources- are the main current research when applied to real business problems. The
interests. Other topics include Semantic Web, recent big data explosion and the need of big
Data Mining, NLP and Databases. data required by artificial intelligence applications
make the DBGroup research topics particularly
challenging and timely.
Engagement of local entities Funded projects / grants
and fallout on the territory
DBGroup members collaborate with public The DBGroup participated in European and Local
and private organizations in data management projects. Recently, Trafair, a CEF Telecom project to
and analysis projects. An agreement with study the impact of the traffic on air pollution, Re-
CINECA allows DBGroup members to exploit search Alps, a CEF Telecom project to integrate open
the capabilities of one of the most powerful databases describing research laboratories, Keystone,
European super computers. Other projects a cost Action involving 200+ researchers working
concern Big Data Integration in the health sector in the keyword search area, SBDIOI40, a regional
by providing cutting-edge solutions for the project developing a data analytic platform.
Internet of Medical Things.
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