Academy
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, the company creating and supporting the SpagoWorld Initiative, has always been collaborating with different Universities, specially in managing common research activities. In addition, the open source is a new opportunity for consolidating these relationships, enlarging the collaboration to the didactic activities. We believe that the open source software can and should be used in the educational field not only because is free of cost, but specially as a formative base for the IT specialists of tomorrow.
The SpagoWorld team is available for workshops and presentations at the University and for collaboration on the research activities.
Different presentations on open source and on the SpagoWorld projects have already been made within courses and masters at some Italian universities.
Herewith below are mentioned some of the consolidated relationships with Universities and/or single professors, significant results and demonstrations.
University of Milan - Italy
Information Technology Department
www.dti.unimi.it
The SESAR (Software Engineering Software Architecture Research Lab) research group, composed by prof. Ernesto Damiani, Alberto Colombo and Fulvio Frati, collaborates to the development of both the conception model and the data meta-model supporting the Spago4Q platform.
The University of Milan is the first contributor to this platform.
University of Padua - Italy
Mathematics and Science Faculty - Computer Science Degree
www.scienze.unipd.it
Statistics Faculty - Statistics for Enterprise Management Degree
www.stat.unipd.it
A collaboration with this University has been active for a long time. This collaboration includes different presentations and workshops on the SpagoBI project within the Data Mining (Computer Science Degree) and Enterprise Information Systems (Statistics degree) courses held by prof. Susi Dulli
Gabriele Ruffatti, SpagoWorld Executive Board member, is currently an Adjunct Professor for open source at the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science degree.
As a result of these collaborations, we can mention:
Two contributions (bug fixing) to the Spago software by two students of the Computer Science degree:
- SPAGO-28: SourceBean should use JAXP to discover a SAX parser - by Enrico Pilotto
- SPAGO-31: The method toXML of the SourceBean doesn't handle properly multivalue attributes - by Luca Rossi
Two contributions to the SpagoBI demo (some analysis of the Inventory area) by two students of the Computer Science degree: Fabio Gallonetto and Carlo Tomba.
Two specialistic degree thesis in Computer Science at Faculty of Mathematics and Science:
- The Metadata in the Data Warehouse: a prototype for SpagoBI of OLAP modelling and CWM representation - by Giulio Gavardi (download here)
- EII: Integration between geo-referenced and business intelligence data for the SpagoBI platform - by Nicodemo Valerio (download here)
A three years degree thesis at Faculty of Statistics:
- SpagoBI and PentahoBI: two Open Source Software for the Business Intelligence - by Roberto Marchetto (download here)
University of Padua - Italy
Master in Innovation and Project Management
www.masterinnovazione.org
Since 2005 the SpagoWorld team is collaborating with prof. Moreno Muffatto, offering presentations and workshops on innovation and open source, within this 1st level Master.