The document provides information about the SmartLab research group at the University of Genoa in Italy. It discusses SmartLab's work in areas like real-time analytics for fuel prediction and skid prediction in racing cars. It also mentions past projects involving traffic forecasting and bus arrival time prediction. The document outlines SmartLab's computing resources and plans to expand its IBM cluster. It discusses potential future work in areas like process mining, condition-based maintenance using NoSQL databases, and advanced data analytics.

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(Big) Data Analytics and Intelligent Systems
(for Transport)
Davide.Anguita@unige.it
SmartLab

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University of Genoa
Polytechnic School
2
Polytechnic
School
Established
in
1870
–
~1000
students
/year
Genuense
Athenaeum
Established
in
1481
35000
students
Italian
Rank:
2nd
(CENSIS
2010
-­‐
among
medium-­‐large
UniversiMes)
DITEN
Dept.
of
InformaMon
Technology,
Electrical
and
Naval
Engineering

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SmartLab People
SMARTLAB 3
Prof.
Sandro
Ridella
SmartLab
ScienMfic
Advisor
Prof.
Davide
Anguita
SmartLab
Coordinator
Dr.
Alessandro
Ghio
Postdoc
Research
Assistant
Luca
Ghelardoni
Postdoc
Research
Assistant
Luca
Oneto
Ph.D.
Student
Isah
Abdullahi
Lawal
ICE
Ph.D.
Student
(with
Univ.
of
London,
UK)
Jorge
Luis
Reyes
Or@z
ICE
Ph.D.
Student
(with
Univ.
Politec.
de
Catalunya,
Spain)
Giuseppe
Ripepi
Ph.D.
Student
(now
Postdoc
@
CNR)
+
Master
students
in:
• Industrial
Engineering
• Electronic
Engineering
• Computer
Engineering
• RoboMcs
Engineering
Mehrnoosh
Vahdat
ICE
Ph.D.
Student
(end
of
2013)

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Teaching and training
• Master Course in Industrial Engineering (SV)
– Business Intelligence
• Istituto Superiore di Studi in Tecnologie dell'Informazione
e della Comunicazione
– Business Intelligence & Analytics
• Master Course in Electronic Engineering
– Computational Intelligence
• Corporate training
SMARTLAB 4

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(Big) Data Analytics
• Present
– What can be done
• Past
– What we have learned to do
• Future
– What we intend to do
SMARTLAB 5

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(Big) Data Analytics
• Present
– What can be done
• Past
– What we have learned to do
• Future
– What we intend to do
SMARTLAB 6

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Analytics: a process
AbstracMon
InformaMon
storage
InducMon
DeducMon
AcMon
Learning
from
Data

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Big Data
8
Source: UC Berkeley School of Information

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(Big) Data
Servers
Running
Hadoop
at
Yahoo.com

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Big Data Analytics: V3
• Volume: The increase in data volumes within enterprise systems is caused
by transaction volumes and other traditional data types, as well as by new
types of data. Too much volume is a storage issue, but too much data is
also a massive analysis issue.
• Variety: IT leaders have always had an issue translating large volumes of
transactional information into decisions — now there are more types of
information to analyze — mainly coming from social media and mobile
(context-aware). Variety includes tabular data (databases), hierarchical
data, documents, e-mail, metering data, video, still images, audio, stock
ticker data, financial transactions and more.
• Velocity: This involves streams of data, structured record creation, and
availability for access and delivery. Velocity means both how fast data is
being produced and how fast the data must be processed to meet demand.
(Gartner – 2011)
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(Big) Data Analytics
11
Data
storage
/
Data
warehouse
/
OLAP
Visual
AnalyMcs
Data
Mining
Machine
Learning
…
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(Big) Data Analytics
• Present
– What can be done
• Past
– What we have learned to do
• Future
– What we intend to do
SMARTLAB 12

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Real-time analytics
Ferrari 13
Fuel
predicMon
Skid
predicMon

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Fuel prediction - problem
Ferrari 14
-1
-0.5
0
0.5
1
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
Fuel
i_ssr2
©
WikipediaProlific
KPIs:
Fuel
injectors
current

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Fuel prediction - solution
Ferrari 15
Gaussian
Kernel
Support
Vector
Regressor
with
Cross-­‐validated
Model
SelecMon
DB
Offline
Online

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Fuel prediction - results
Ferrari 16
Brazil
06-­‐Jun-­‐03
Lap
21-­‐28
OK
Alert
No
fuel

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Skid prediction - problem
Ferrari 17
©
Robert
KPIs:
Acc_x,
Acc_y,
Speed
©
Brian
Nelson

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Skid prediction - solution
Ferrari 18
Gaussian
Kernel
Support
Vector
Classifier
with
Cross-­‐validated
Model
SelecMon
DB
Offline
Skid
No
skid
Online

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Skid prediction - result
05/03/14 Prova 19
-3
-2.5
-2
-1.5
-1
-0.5
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000
Analog output
Real target
M.Schumacher
-­‐
Fiorano
PredicMon

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SMARTLAB 20
Smart Waves
In
cooperaMon
with
MoMon
predicMon
for
Landing
Period
Designator

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NeuroZenit
SMARTLAB 21
ForecasMng
of
urban
traffic
Part
of
Elsag
Zenit
system
In
cooperaMon
with

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SMARTLAB 22
Smart Bus
In
cooperaMon
with
Arrival
Mme
forecasMng
for
bus
fleets
Tests
performed
on
ATM
(Milan)
bus
#90

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SMARTLAB 23
Oracle Data Mining Suite
Oracle
10g
DM
Suite
–
Beta
tesMng

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SMARTLAB 24
EUNITE
European Network on Intelligent Technologies
ISAAC
Internet Smart Adaptive Algorithm
Computational Server
(2002
–
2004)

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… 2013…
SMARTLAB 25
(Grimilde)
4
x
Xeon
(8C)
–
64
virtual
cores
–
128
GB
Ram
(Arla)
2
x
Xeon
(4C)
–
16
virtual
cores
–
32
GB
Ram
6TB
NAS
–
Storage
1Gb/s
Ethernet

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…2015
SMARTLAB 26
(IBM
Cluster
-­‐
256
nodes)

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Business Intelligence on Clouds
SMARTLAB 27
Courtesy:
Salesforce.com
In
cooperaMon
with:

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(Big) Data Analytics
• Present
– What can be done
• Past
– What we have learned to do
• Future
– What we intend to do
SMARTLAB 28

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SMARTLAB 29
Analytics for Complex Data:
Process Mining
In
cooperaMon
with:
Log
file
Process
descripMon

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BigData@SIIT: NoSQL DBs…
• Wide Column: Hadoop / Hbase; Cassandra; Hypertable; Accumulo; Amazon SimpleDB;
Cloudata; Cloudera; HPCC; Stratosphere;
• Document Store: MongoDB; CouchDB; RavenDB; Clusterpoint Server; ThruDB;
Terrastore; RaptorDB; JasDB; SisoDB; SDB; SchemaFreeDB; djondb;
• Key Value/ Tuple Store: DynamoDB; Azure Table Storage; Couchbase Server; Riak;
Redis; LevelDB; Chordless; GenieDB; Scalaris; Tokyo Cabinet / Tyrant; Scalien; Berkeley
DB; Voldemort; Dynomite; KAI; MemcacheDB; Faircom C-Tree; HamsterDB; STSdb;
Tarantool/Box; Maxtable; RaptorDB; TIBCO Active Spaces; allegro-C; nessDB; HyperDex;
Mnesia; LightCloud; Hibari; BangDB; OpenLDAP;
• Graph Databases: Neo4J; Infinite Graph; Sones; InfoGrid; HyperGraphDB; DEX;
GraphBase; Trinity; AllegroGraph; BrightstarDB; Bigdata; Meronymy; OpenLink Virtuoso;
VertexDB; FlockDB;
• Multimodel Databases: OrientDB; ArangoDB; AlchemyDB;
• Object Databases: db4o; Versant; Objectivity; Gemstone; Starcounter; Perst; ZODB;
Magma; NEO; PicoLisp; siaqodb; Sterling; Morantex; EyeDB; HSS Database; FramerD;
Ninja Database Pro; Ndatabase;
• …
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Source:
nosql-­‐database.org

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BigData@SIIT - Condition
Based Maintenance
SMARTLAB 31
©
ERDMANN
Sotware

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Advanced Data Analytics
• Hierarchichal Functionality
– Descriptive Analytics
(what happened ?)
Data fusion, correlation, association,…
– Predictive Analytics
(what will happen ?)
Modelling, forecasting,…
– Prescriptive Analytics
(what should we do ?)
Interpretation, optimization,…
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FROM:
Shit2Rail
EC
PPP

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Incremental Data
Analytics
33
Time
Incremental
Knowledge
Building
for
Decision
Support
FROM:
Shit2Rail
EC
PPP

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Adaptive Data Analytics
• Domain adaptation
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Knowledge
transfer
FROM:
Shit2Rail
EC
PPP

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Contract based
knowledge exchange
35
Open
Data
FROM:
Shit2Rail
EC
PPP

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Open Linked Data
36
RDF:
Resource
DescripMon
Framework
format
RDF
query
language:
SPQRQL

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Open Data mashup
(example)
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Open Data 1
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Connectivity and information
sharing for intelligent mobility
Taken
from
hvp://whaMnspiresnick.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/urban-­‐density-­‐11.jpg
Boost
of
polluMon
CongesMon
of
people/freight
Urban
congesMon
costs
approx.
8
B£/yr
in
the
UK
Life
span
of
UK
ciMzens
living
in
large
urban
areas
reduced
by
approx.
8
months
Source
IBM
Human,
Social,
Envornmental,
Economic
(HSE2)
sustainability
issues
encompassed
Open
data
On-­‐field
sensors
WWW
…
CiMzen
centric
approach
Towards
TAVA
decision-­‐
making
T iming
A ccurate
V aluable
A cMonable
HSE2
KPIs
(Big)
Data
AnalyMcs
engine

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Things simply do not work (yet..)
Marassi
Stadium
Lack
of
ability
in
planning
acMviMes
by
contemplaMng
heterogeneous
available
informaMon

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Analytics Engine
!

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References
National Patents
• D.Anguita, S.Pischiutta S.Ridella, D.Sterpi, Dispositivo per l'esecuzione della fase in avanti di un
classificatore automatico, (Device for the computation of the feed-forward phase of a classifier), N.
0001371367, Dep. 10/01/2006, 08/03/2010.
• D.Anguita, S.Ridella, D.Sterpi, Procedimento e sistema per la classificazione automatica multiclasse di
dati di misura di una grandezza fisica, (Method and system for the automatic classification of multi-class
data), N. 0001352198, Dep. 23/07/2004, 19/01/2009.
Selected publications
• L.Ghelardoni, A.Ghio, D.Anguita, Energy Load Forecasting Using Empirical Mode Decomposition and
Support Vector Regression, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 549-556, 2013.
• L.Oneto, A.Ghio, D.Anguita, S.Ridella, An Improved Analysis of the Rademacher Data-dependent Bound
Using Its Self-Bounding Property, Neural Networks, Vol. 44, No., pp. 107-111, 2013.
• D.Anguita, A.Ghio, L.Oneto, S.Ridella, In-Sample Model Selection for Trimmed Hinge Loss Support
Vector Machine, Neural Processing Letters, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 275-283, 2012.
• D.Anguita, A.Ghio, L.Oneto, S.Ridella, In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Model Selection and Error
Estimation for Support Vector Machines, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol. 23,
No. 9, pp. 1390-1406, 2012.
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Technology Transfer
SMARTLAB 43
Spin-­‐off
founded
in
February
2007:
10%:
University
of
Genoa
10%:
Researchers
(University
of
Genoa)
60%:
Industry
partner
(IsoSistemi
S.r.l.)
20%:
Private
investors
Target
market:
Steel
Industry
Intelligence
BI
&
AnalyMcs

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Technology Transfer
SMARTLAB 44
Start-­‐up
founded
in
March
2013:
49%:
Researchers
(University
of
Genoa)
49%:
Industry
partner
(Infinity
S.p.A.)
2%:
Private
investors
In
preparaMon:
request
for
recogniMon
as
academic
Spin-­‐off
Target
market:
Manufacturing
Intelligence
Real-­‐Mme
AnalyMcs
Scheduling
&
Planning

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Thank you !
Davide.Anguita@unige.it