Programme

7th Italian Workshop on Embedded Systems
(IWES 2022)

News!

Selected authors will be invited to contribute to a Special section on Springer Real-Time Systems.

Thursday

Thu 10:20
Participants' check-in
Speakers and registered attendees check in at the registration desk and receive their welcome kit.
Welcome coffee will be served in the hall foyer until the end of the session.

Welcome to IWES 2022!

DICAR Congress Hall

Thu 10:50
Welcome by the organisers
Eugenio Di Sciascio, Daniela De Venuto
Polytechnic of Bari
Workshop chairs
Gennaro Boggia
Polytechnic of Bari
Head of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering

Invited presentation

DICAR Congress Hall

Chairperson

Michele Ruta
Polytechnic of Bari
Thu 11:00
ICT technologies to support innovation in industries and smart cities
Antonio Puliafito
Director of the Smart Cities and Communities CINI Lab
Founder of SmartMe.IO S.r.l.

Industrial session 1

DICAR Congress Hall

Chairperson

Michele Ruta
Polytechnic of Bari
Thu 12:30
Enabling AI@the Edge
Davide Ruggiero
STMicroelectronics
Thu 12:45
Collins Aerospace: Applied Research and Technology
Fabio Federici
Collins Aerospace
Thu 12:55
MBDA Italia
Giovanni Nuzzo, Pasqua Piscopo
MBDA Italia
Thu 13:05
BUGSENG: Software Verification Systems and Services
Lavinia Battaglia, Roberto Bagnara
BUGSENG
Thu 13:15
Paving the way to Society/Industry 5.0. The SmartMe.IO Experience
Maurizio Giacobbe, Antonio Puliafito, Angelo Zaia
SmartMe.IO S.r.l.
Thu 13:25
AKKODIS S.r.l.
Marco Cappella, Daniele Pascali, Mario De Biase
Modis Consulting S.r.l.
Thu 13:35
Resiltech
Enrico Schiavone
Resiltech S.r.l.
Thu 13:45
Minerva Systems
Marco Solieri, Andrea Bastoni, Donato Ferraro
Minerva Systems S.r.l.
Thu 13:55
Teoresi S.p.A.
Alberto Bertone, Massimiliano Curti, Eugenio Romeo
Teoresi Group S.p.A.
Thu 14:05
Lunch
Served in the DICAR Hall

Presentation of research groups 1

DICAR Congress Hall

Chairperson

Enrico Tronci
Sapienza University of Rome
Thu 15:05
Embedded Systems & Smart Manufacturing CINI Lab @ Politecnico di Bari
Daniela De Venuto, Giovanni Mezzina, Michele Ruta, Eugenio Di Sciascio
Polytechnic of Bari
Thu 15:20
The MCLab at Sapienza University of Rome
Toni Mancini, Igor Melatti, Enrico Tronci, Marco Esposito, Leonardo Picchiami
Sapienza University of Rome
Thu 15:25
Embedded at Verona... for you
Davide Quaglia, Franco Fummi, Tiziano Villa, Graziano Pravadelli, Nicola Bombieri, Luca Geretti
University of Verona
Thu 15:30
TSN communications for automotive and industrial applications
Lucia Lo Bello, Luca Leonardi, Gaetano Patti
University of Catania
Thu 15:40
Resilient Computing Lab @ UNIFI
Tommaso Zoppi, Andrea Bondavalli, Andrea Ceccarelli, Paolo Lollini, Muhammad Atif, Lorenzo Sarti, Francesco Mariotti, Tommaso Puccetti, Francesco Terrosi
University of Florence
Thu 15:45
EDA Group @ Politecnico di Torino
Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino, Alberto Macii, Andrea Calimera, Santa Di Cataldo, Sara Vinco, Edoardo Patti, Lorenzo Bottaccioli, Daniele Jahier Pagliari, Gianvito Urgese, Matteo Risso
Polytechnic of Turin

Presentation of research groups 2

DICAR Congress Hall

Chairperson

Andrea Bondavalli
University of Florence
Thu 15:55
EmbedDET in PoliTO
Massimo Ruo Roch
Polytechnic of Turin
Thu 16:00
The Security and Embedded Laboratory
Salvatore Barone, Marcello Cinque, Luigi De Simone, Nicola Mazzocca, Daniele Ottaviano, Francesco Vitale
University of Naples "Federico II"
Thu 16:05
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Paolo Burgio, Gianluca Bellocchi, Gianluca Brilli, Alessandro Capotondi, Andrea Marongiu
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Thu 16:15
The FITNESS research group @ uniParthenope
Luigi Coppolino, Salvatore D'Antonio, Giovanni Mazzeo, Roberto Nardone, Luigi Romano
University of Naples "Parthenope"
Thu 16:20
Coffee break
Served in the hall foyer. The service will be running until the end of the session.

Community meetings

DICAR Congress Hall

Thu 16:30
IWES 2022 business meeting
Toni Mancini
Sapienza University of Rome
Thu 17:10
CINI ESSM Lab annual meeting
Nicola Mazzocca
University of Naples "Federico II"

Students' orientation session

Hall C

Thu 16:30
Teoresi Group
Thu 16:45
Collins Aerospace
Thu 17:00
AKKODIS S.r.l.

Industrial session 2

DICAR Congress Hall

Chairperson

Giovanni Mezzina
Polytechnic of Bari
Thu 17:50
Next-generation avionics systems: trends and open challenges
Fabio Federici
Collins Aerospace
Thu 18:05
Model-based design and quality management: an automated process for safety trusted production code
Eugenio Romeo, Paolo Bizzarri, Michele Settembrino
Teoresi Group S.p.A.
Thu 18:20
Deeply quantized neural networks for in-sensor and micro-controller computing
Danilo Pau
STMicroelectronics
Thu 18:35
ARGOS, Anti-theft Robust Galileo-based Operational System
Marco Cappella, Daniele Pascali, Mario De Biase
Modis Consulting S.r.l.
Thu 18:50
Time-Sensitive Autonomous Architectures
Donato Ferraro, Marco Solieri
Minerva Systems S.r.l.
Paolo Burgio
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Platforms for Embedded Systems

Hall C

Chairperson

Davide Quaglia
University of Verona
Thu 17:50
An Open-source Design Methodology for the Design Space Exploration of Accelerator-Rich Embedded Systems
Gianluca Bellocchi, Alessandro Capotondi, Andrea Marongiu
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Thu 18:05
Fine-grained bandwidth regulation for FPGA-based heterogeneous SoCs
Gianluca Brilli, Alessandro Capotondi, Paolo Valente, Paolo Burgio, Andrea Marongiu
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Giacomo Valente, Tania Di Mascio
University of L'Aquila
Thu 18:20
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Intelligence
Ivano Bilenchi, Arnaldo Tomasino, Filippo Gramegna, Saverio Ieva, Agnese Pinto, Floriano Scioscia, Michele Ruta
Polytechnic of Bari
Giuseppe Loseto
LUM University "Giuseppe Degennaro"
Thu 18:35
Design Space Exploration for ST’s Neural Compilation toolchain
Fabrizio Indirli, Cristina Silvano
Polytechnic of Milan
Giuseppe Desoli, Andrea Ornstein
STMicroelectronics
Thu 18:50
COOPERANT: dynamiC fOOd PrEserRvAtioN sysTem – A framework for Sustainable Smart Homes
Giovanni Mezzina, Dionisio Ciccarese, Daniela De Venuto
Polytechnic of Bari
Thu 19:05
End of first workshop day

Friday

Fri 09:00
Participants' check-in
Speakers and registered attendees check in at the registration desk and receive their welcome kit

Invited presentation

DICAR Congress Hall

Chairperson

Eugenio Di Sciascio
Polytechnic of Bari
Fri 09:30
Title to be announced
Eugenio Fedeli
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A.
Research and Development Division
Director

Panel

DICAR Congress Hall

Chairperson

Eugenio Di Sciascio
Polytechnic of Bari
Fri 10:00
The energy challenges of the future: How will the ICT and transportation industry change?
Antonino Mazzeo
University of Naples "Federico II"
Eugenio Fedeli
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A.
Research and Delopment Division
Director
Lucio Castrica
Mermec Group Italy
Sales Manager
In collaboration with the ESSM-CINI Lab
Fri 11:00
Coffee break
Served in the hall foyer

Invited presentations

DICAR Congress Hall

Chairperson

Daniela De Venuto
Polytechnic of Bari
Fri 11:30
Machine Learning at the edge
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
UC Berkeley
Fri 12:00
Many Shades of TinyML acceleration: a RISC-V open platform approach
Luca Benini
University of Bologna | ETH Zurich

Railway-oriented Systems

DICAR Congress Hall

Chairperson

Daniela De Venuto
Polytechnic of Bari
Fri 12:50
Testing Strategy of the RFI Unmanned Railway Vehicle
Mario Barbareschi
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A.
Fri 13:20
TrainSim: A Simulation Framework for LiDAR and Camera Dataset Generation in Railway Environments
Gianluca D'Amico, Mauro Marinoni, Federico Nesti, Giorgio Buttazzo
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Gianluigi Lauro, Salvatore Sabina
Hitachi Rail STS
Fri 13:35
A Vital Control Module to Improve Railway Control System Capabilities in Highly Automated Train Operations
Giovanni Mezzina, Cataldo Luciano Saragaglia, Giuseppe Narracci, Daniela De Venuto
Polytechnic of Bari
Mario Barbareschi, Salvatore De Simone, Diana Serra, Arturo Amendola
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A.
Alberto Moriconi
University of Naples "Federico II"
Fri 13:50
Automatic generation of non-intrusive unit-tests for safety-critical applications: a case study from the railway domain
Mario Barbareschi
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A.
Salvatore Barone, Valentina Casola
University of Naples "Federico II"
Fri 14:05
Lunch
Served in the DICAR Hall

Real-time Systems

DICAR Congress Hall

Chairperson

Giorgio Buttazzo
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Fri 15:05
Challenges and Open Problems for the Timing Predictability of Edge Frameworks
Daniel Casini
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Fri 15:20
Real-time issues in smart manufacturing systems
Davide Quaglia, Stefano Centomo, Nicola Bombieri, Michele Boldo, Mirco De Marchi
University of Verona
Fri 15:35
A Methodology for Static Reduction of Worst-Case Execution Time
Giacomo Ancona
University of Verona
Daniele Cattaneo, Gabriele Magnani, Denisov Lev, Michele Chiari, Giovanni Agosta
Polytechnic of Milan
Stefano Cherubin
Edinburgh Napier University
Fri 15:50
Dynamic partial reconfiguration on heterogeneous embedded platforms: timing predictability and bounding
Tania Di Mascio, Luigi Pomante, Giacomo Valente
University of L'Aquila
Fabio Federici
Collins Aerospace
Fri 16:05
Automatic Generation of Simulation Scenarios for Statistical Model Checking of Real-Time Systems
Toni Mancini, Enrico Tronci
Sapienza University of Rome

Embedded System Security

Hall C

Chairperson

Lucia Lo Bello
University of Catania
Fri 15:05
A Catalog-based AIG-Rewriting Approach to the Design of Approximate Components
Mario Barbareschi
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A.
Salvatore Barone, Nicola Mazzocca, Alberto Moriconi
University of Naples "Federico II"
Fri 15:20
Effective Static Analysis Shift Left for the Development of Safe and Secure Embedded Systems
Roberto Bagnara
University of Parma
Abramo Bagnara
BUGSENG
Fri 15:35
Lightweight DNAS for Inference Optimization on Constrained Embedded Nodes
Matteo Risso, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino, Daniele Jahier Pagliari
Polytechnic of Turin
Alessio Burrello
University of Bologna
Luca Benini
University of Bologna | ETH Zurich
Fri 15:50
Em-RIPE: Runtime Intrusion Prevention Evaluator for ARM Microcontroller Systems
Vahid Moghadam Eftekhari
CINI Cybersecurity National Lab
Gabriele Serra
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Gianluca Roascio
Polytechnic of Turin
Fri 16:05
Characterizing monitoring solutions for real-time embedded applications using virtualization
Marcello Cinque, Luigi De Simone, Nicola Mazzocca, Daniele Ottaviano, Francesco Vitale
University of Naples "Federico II"
Fri 16:20
Coffee break
Served in the hall foyer

Artificial Intelligence On-Device and Simulation

DICAR Congress Hall

Chairperson

Floriano Scioscia
Polytechnic of Bari
Fri 16:50
Deliver the Intelligence at the Edge via On-Device Training of Deep Learning Models on Microcontrollers
Rawan Mahmood Ahmad Nawaiseh
SmartMe.IO S.r.l.
Fabrizio De Vita, Dario Bruneo
University of Messina
Fri 17:05
On Deploying Machine Learners into Embedded Systems
Tommaso Zoppi, Andrea Ceccarelli, Andrea Bondavalli
University of Florence
Fri 17:20
Supporting AI-Powered Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems on Heterogeneous Platforms
Edoardo Cittadini, Mauro Marinoni, Alessandro Biondi, Giorgiomaria Cicero, Giorgio Buttazzo
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Fri 17:35
Exploiting Approximation in DNN Hardware Accelerators
Salvatore Monteleone
"Niccolò Cusano" University
Giuseppe Ascia, Vincenzo Catania, Maurizio Palesi, Davide Patti, Enrico Russo
University of Catania
Fri 17:50
DEPTHWISE ADDERNET: Energy-efficient deep neural networks for edge devices
Teodoro Urso, Filippo Minnella, Luciano Lavagno, Mihai Teodor Lazarescu
Polytechnic of Turin
Fri 18:05
Conclusions
Daniela De Venuto, Eugenio Di Sciascio
Polytechnic of Bari
Fri 18:15
End of workshop