Projects at Madeira-ITI

This overview lists the current projects at Madeira-ITI, sorted by start date.

Madeira Life
Jos van Leeuwen
1 September, 2009

aims to become the ultimate portal and social web for the Madeira region. The Madeira region represents a small part of the world and is literally strongly bounded. As a consequence, the social interactions of its inhabitants in the physical world are more restricted than in other parts of the world, which actually offers a potential for creating special interactions. Visitors of ‘Madeira Life’ will not just interact with a virtual world, but with the real world of Madeira. The project integrates mobility, location-awareness, and physical connections in the real world with social web and communication services for both cultural and commercial activities in the region.
This project is a three-year collaboration of Lab:USE with ZON Madeira, Madeira Tecnopolo, and Carnegie Mellon University, funded through the +Conhecimento program of the regional government.

Novel sensing techniques for urban transport
Vassilis Kostakos
1 September, 2009
This project aims to develop novel and inexpensive techniques for sensing passenger behaviour on public transport. Detailed passenger behaviour includes knowledge of where passengers get on the bus and where they get off the bus.  The existing electronic ticketing systems on the Horários do Funchal busses only record when/where passengers get on the bus.  There is currently no data about where individual passengers get off the bus, hence it is impossible to derive an O/D matrix from ticketing data alone.  In addition, other public services can benefit from people localization data, such as environmental control and analysis, socio–economic evaluation, mobility planning and control, urban planning and control, health planning and control.

 
SINAIS
Nuno Nunes
1 September, 2009

SINAIS aims to motivate sustainable behaviour in individuals and communities, regarding their resource consumption and transportation activities. The project is funded by the Portuguese National Science Foundation under the framework of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program. This is a 3-year research project led by Lab:USE at the University of Madeira in a consortium that involves Carnegie Mellon University, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, the Portuguese Catholic University and several companies and government agencies.

Web Security and Privacy
Vassilis Kostakos
1 September, 2009

This multidisciplinary project addresses issues of security, privacy and trust in the context of web and location-based services. This project will carry out fundamental research in 5 key themes:

  1. Build tools to enable end-users to effectively control their privacy, focusing on social networking websites.
  2. Create training material and automated systems to combat phishing, in the context of the web and location-based services.
  3. Develop and evaluate mechanisms and design principles to help users decide whether or not they can trust different types of digital services.
  4. Test automated approaches to detecting copyright breach and enforcement of copyright policies in the context of peer-to-peer networks and related services.
  5. Use formal methods to validate policy languages developed in the context of online social networking.
ZON Service Engineering
Leonel Nóbrega
1 September, 2009

ZON Service Engineering is a project that will provide the real-world setting to test and drive breakthrough ideas in business IT alignment, SOA and service design. In particular it will contribute to create a new set of languages and tools that will enable practical implementation of the BITAM-SOA architecture in a real-world scenario of a complex service-oriented company like ZON Madeira. Practically, the project will encompass the re-engineering of ZON services, including metrics that are considered by the company stakeholders to reflect their business concerns. ZON Service Engineering is a 3 year joint project between ZON Madeira, Madeira Tecnopolo, University of Madeira and University of Porto. It involves partners from Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon and the University of Hawaii. It is funded under the +Conhecimento initiative and led by University of Madeira.