Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) is a non-profit research foundation established by the Autonomous Province of Trento and inheriting the activities of Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC), which was based on the ideas of Bruno Kessler, a long-time member of the local government and founder of the University of Trento. In this presentation you will find out more about FBK and its role in the SUPERSEDE project

1. About FBK…
Anna Perini
Project Coordinator
FBK-ICT Center
Via Sommarive, 18, I-38123 Povo
Email: Perini@fbk.eu

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FBK – Research Centers
Humanities
Area

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Staff:
240 people
Profile:
- 110 researchers
- 60 technologists
- 70 PhD students
Excellence – H-index:
> 40: 3 researchers
> 30: 9 researchers
> 20: 16 researchers
Center for Information and
Communication Technology – Key Figures

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23 units grouped in 3
research lines and 3
high impact initiatives
Organizational Structure

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SE (Software Engineering)
The Software Engineering Research
Unit aims at investigating two strategic
areas of software development:
Requirements
Analysis and testing
• Goal oriented requirements for complex
socio-technical systems
• Risk analysis in open source adoption
• Regulatory compliance
• Automated reasoning for RE
Process
and
Product
Quality
Goal of the SE unit is to develop methodologies
and tools that support requirements analysis and
testing, to ensure high quality software
production
• Reverse engineering and re-
engineering
• Software protection
• Test case generation
• Web testing

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Other SE projects
SEAC started the reengineering of their software system from the current platform
(Cobol/ISAM) to the .NET platform with Microsoft SQL Server. The objective of this project
is to support such reengineering effort, by means of automated and innovative tools.
ASPIRE (Advanced Software Protection: Integration, Research and Exploitation) is a
European FP7 project (n. 609734), funded under the theme ICT-2013.1.5 (Trustworthy
ICT). ASPIRE establishes trustworthy software execution on untrusted mobile platforms
that have a persistent or occasional network connection to a trusted entity at their
disposal.
RISCOSS (Managing Risk and Costs in Open Source Software Adoption) is a European FP7
project (n.318249). RISCOSS offers novel risk identification, management and mitigation
tools and methods for community-based and industry-supported Open Source Software
(OSS) development, composition and life cycle management to individually, collectively
and collaboratively manage OSS adoption risks.

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SE - PEOPLE
Researchers:
Paolo Tonella (head)
Anna Perini (senior)
Angelo Susi
Mariano Ceccato
Roberto Tiella
PhD Students:
Matteo Biagiola
Jacek Dabrowski
Biniam Fisseha Dimissie
Gunel Jahangirova
Postdocs:
Denisse Munante
Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew

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Project Management Group (PMG)
Founded in January 2013, helps researchers in
all the phases of the project life cycle

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PMG - PEOPLE
Project Managers:
Matteo Gerosa (Head)
Silvia Valentini
Junior Project Managers:
Danilo Giampiccolo
Pamela Forner
Serena Bressan

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Ø Plays the role of project coordinator
Ø Leads WP3 on methods and tools for decision support, and in
particular T3.3, being the main contributor to the research and
development of the tool components on decision making processes by
leveraging on its extensive experience in decision making and automated
reasoning techniques
Ø Leads WP8 (project management), coordinating the
project’s organisational, administrative and financial aspects, and carrying
on quality assessment and risk management
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FBK also participates to all the other packages, with substantial contribution to:
Ø WP1: participates in all the three tasks by bringing its competence on user feedback management
and on argumentation-based user feedback platforms
Ø WP2: leads T2.3, conducting research and developing the part of the analysis tools devoted to
multi-modal feedback, and has a major role in T2.5, contributing with research on techniques for
the combined analysis of feedback and data at support of decision makers
Ø WP4: leads T4.3, conducting research and developing tools to reconfigure feedback gathering
depending on the decisions taken in WP3, and contributes to T4.1
Ø WP5: provides technical support for the integration of the tool components
Ø WP6: provides support for the use-case validation of WP3 components
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