Big Data & Compute Continuum Lab

Supported by significant European and national funding, the Big Data & Compute Continuum Lab is at the forefront of integrating Big Data in Industry 4.0, developing platforms for data-driven business insights. 

The Big Data & Compute Continuum Lab is coordinated by Prof. Mauro Tortonesi.

Our focus is on large-scale, high-performance distributed processing of vast amounts of data, adopting an innovative and holistic approach. The group explores creative methodologies to develop flexible and widely applicable Big Data and MLOps platforms across various fields, such as the optimization of production processes in Industry 5.0. 

Additionally, it develops methodologies and tools for managing IT services within the Compute Continuum—the unified and distributed ecosystem of resources between the edge and the cloud—using highly innovative approaches such as computational intelligence, reinforcement learning, value-of-information, and digital twin.

We have a strong international orientation and have established structural scientific collaborations with prestigious institutions and is involved in several research projects funded through public calls, also in collaboration with world-leading manufacturing companies.

Among our academic partners, feature: Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), IBM TJ Watson Research Center, St. John’s University, Ghent University, and the University of Manchester. Among our industriual partners, feature: Carpigiani Group, Bonfiglioli Group, EMAG, MARPOSS, and MEP.

Academic collaborations

Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC)

Pensacola, FL, USA 

IBM TJ Watson Research Center

New York, NY, USA

St. John’s University

New York, NY, USA

Ghent University - IMEC, IDLab, Department of Information Technology

Gent, Belgium

BME - Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Budapest, Hungary


Industrial partnerships

Bonfiglioli Group

Bologna, Italy

Carpigiani Group

Bologna, Italy

EMAG SU

Anzola dell'Emilia (BO), Italy

Marposs

Bentivoglio (BO), Italy

MEP

Pergola (PU), Italy

Awards

2024 ITADATA Best Paper Award

The 3rd Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science

17-19 September 2024 | Pisa, Italy

Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection in Industry 5.0 (Co-authors: Lorenzo Colombi, Michela Vespa, Nicolas Belletti, Matteo Brina, Simon Dahdal, Filippo Tabanelli, Elena Bellodi, Mauro Tortonesi, Cesare Stefanelli, Massimiliano Vignoli)


2024 CNOM Best Paper Award

and

19th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2023)

30 October - 2 November | Niagara Falls, Canada

for the paper

Characterization of Microservice Response Time in Kubernetes: A Mixture Density Network Approach. (Co-authors: L. Manca, D. Borsatti, F. Poltronieri, M. Zaccarini, et al.)


Best Paper Award

2023 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS) 

for the paper

A Data Mesh Approach for Enabling Data-Centric Applications at the Tactical Edge (Co-authors: S. Dahdal, C. Stefanelli, N. Suri, M. Tortonesi)


Best Student Paper Award 

IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 2020 

for the paper

Value of Information based Optimal Service Fabric Management for Fog Computing (Co-authors: F. Poltronieri, M. Tortonesi, A. Morelli, C. Stefanelli, N. Suri)

Participations

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair

20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024)

28-31 October 2024 | Prague, Czech Republic

Distinguished Experts Panel

4th International Workshop on Analytics for Service and Application Management (AnServApp2024), co-located with CNSM 2024

28 October 2024 | Prague, Czech Republic

Keynote Speech

INSIDE Association Thematic Meeting

13 June 2024 | Budapest, Hungary

Keynote Speech

"AI for Manufacturing 4.0"

SPS Italia

27 May 2024 | Parma, Italy

Guest Speaker in Panel

Panel on "Network Digital Twin"

37th Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2024)

6-10 May 2024 | Seoul, Korea

Distinguished Expert Panel

5th Workshop on Management for Industry 5.0 (MFI5.0), co-located with NOMS 2024

6 May 2024 | Seoul, Korea

Keynote Speech

4th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Internet of Things Management (Manage-IoT 2024), co-located with NOMS 2024

6 May 2024 | Seoul, Korea

Guest Speaker

Big Data e Manifattura: esempi di applicazione in ambito Industry 4.0

The European House - Ambrosetti (TEHA)

11 April 2024 | Trento, Italy

Keynote Speech

27th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN 2024)

11-14 March 2024 | Paris, France

The Big Data & Compute Continuum Lab's team with the Coordinator, Prof. Mauro Tortonesi. From left to right: Dr. Filippo Poltronieri, Filippo Tabanelli, Mattia Zaccarini, Matteo Brina, Umberto Ardinghi, Prof. Mauro Tortonesi, Lorenzo Colombi, Ion Boleac, Valeria Bevilacqua, Simon Dahdal, Alessandro Gilli.