Thesis Proposals
Take a look at my research activity and contact me via e-mail for thesis proposals.
Kinds of thesis:
- Research-oriented – these aim at providing (small) contributions to the state of the art in some target field;
- Software engineering projects – these are works aimed at developing complex software (cf., distributed systems);
- Surveys / Systematic Literature Reviews – the works include a comprehensive study of the literature (e.g., on self-* systems, multi-agent systems, collective intelligence) and an original synthesis (e.g., in terms of a taxonomy, learned lessons, challenges and opportunities).
Proposals
- Integration of ScaFi and the ARGoS Robot Simulator
- Graphical application visualisation, monitoring, and debugging – with links to Model@Runtime
- Investigations on aspects related to “collective intelligence”
- Investigations on non-conventional programming paradigms (cf. macro-programming)
- Testing solutions for complex adaptive multi-agent systems
- Web platforms for knowledge-intensive workflows
- DSLs for generating universal (web-based, desktop, mobile) knowledge-intensive workflow applications
Some of these proposals are detailed in the following.
Integration of ScaFi and the ARGoS Robot Simulator
- Type of work: software engineering project
- Goal: allowing the execution of ScaFi programs to control robots in the ARGoS Robot Simulator
- Requirements: knowledge of C/C++ (since ARGoS is implemented in C++) and Java/Scala (since ScaFi runs on the JVM)
- Mainly aimed at: Master Students
- Type of work: software engineering project
- Goal: the goal is to support the configurable creation of web-based knowledge-intensive workflow platforms, e.g. according to literature models (cf. SLRs). For instance, suppose you are carrying out a collaborative research project. You and your groupmates need to select a bunch of papers or references to study. Then you need to analyse them, and take notes about them. This process consists of multiple phases: paper gathering, preliminary analysis, paper filtering, detailed analysis, and production of plots. The goal is to build a configurable platform allowing customisation of similar workflows and the flexible integration of plugins/tools therein for analyses etc.
- Requirements: web-based and database technologies
- Mainly aimed at: Bachelor / Master Students
Past co-supervised theses
Take a look here for theses (co-)supervised by me in the past.
Some highlights (Master’s Degree):
- “A platform for aggregate computing over LoRaWAN network”, Placuzzi, 2020
- “A Reinforcement Learning approach to discriminate unsafe devices in aggregate computing systems”, Volonnino, 2020
- “Towards Aggregate Processes in a Field Calculus-Based Platform”, Foschi, 2018
- “Distributing Aggregate Computations on top of Akka Actors”, Peruzzi, 2018
- “Tecniche e algoritmi di aggregate computing a supporto di contesti di smart mobility”, Berlini, 2017
- “Design and Deployment of an Execution Platform based on Microservices for Aggregate Computing in the Cloud”, Farneti, 2017
Some highlights (Bachelor’s Degree):