Research Interest

  • Spatio-Temporal data model and database
  • Semi-structured Database
  • Geospatial Semantic
  • Semantic Web
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • GIS system

Projects

  • Bando Faro: "Tracce Antiche e nuovi Percorsi": a joint work with Latin philologists of the department "Filologia Classica F. Arnaldi" under Prof. R. Valenti Supervision. The aim of the project was to find, document and give public access to the literary and historical evidences of typical agricultural products in the area of Campi Flegrei a rich archeological site located nearby Naples (Italy) needing promotion in the spirit of increasing the international attention on Italian Cultural Heritage Patrimony. The documented literary evidences are a collection of Latin and Greek excerpts from classic authors. I was in the web application designer team, together with Francesco Cerasuolo and Francesco Mangiacrapa, under the Prof A. Peron and F. Cutugno supervision. The web application, available here, allows the representation of Products, Literary Excerpts and Authors in a common framework enhancing their temporal and spatial dimensions and allows the user to query data in different manners.

Publication

Conferences

  • Cutugno F., Leano V.A., Mangiacrapa F., Peron A : A General Web-based Framework for Spatio-Temporal Exploration and Visualization applied to a Case Study on Cultural Heritage Data. In proceedings of International Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE'2012), Avignon, April, 24-27, 2012.
  • Cerasuolo F., Cutugno F, Leano V.A.: Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Exploration and Visualization with a new Visual Metaphor for Hierarchical and Stratified Temporal Domain. In proceedings of Web and Wireless Geographic Information System 2012 (W2GIS 2012), Springer (2012).
  • Cutugno F., Leano V.A, Rinaldi R., Mignini G.: Multimodal framework for mobile interaction. In proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2012), ACM (2012).
  • Cutugno F., Leano V.A, Mignini G., Rinaldi R.: Speech and Multimodal Interaction in mobile GIS Search: a case study In proceedings of Web and Wireless Geographic Information System 2012 (W2GIS 2012), Springer (2012).
  • Cutugno F., Leano V.A.: W-PhAMT: A web tool for phonetic multilevel timeline visualization. In proceedings of 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012).
  • Bimonte, S., Di Martino, S., Bertolotto, M., Ferrucci, F., Leano, V.A., Pinet. F.: GoOlap Vers l’Analyse Spatio-Multidimensionnelle à l’aide du Geobrowser Google Earth. INFORSID 2009.

Journals

  • Bertolotto, M., Bimonte, S., Di Martino, S., Ferrucci, F., Leano, V.A.: Spatial OnLine Analytical Processing of Geographic Data through the Google Earth Interface. Environmental geocomputation for sustainable development. Springer. 2011.

Poster (without proceedings)

  • Leano, V.A.: Fr.En.C.I.S.: A Spatio-Temporal Framework for Cultural Heritage Data Visualization and Exploration. 7th Reasoning Web Summer School, Galway, 23-27 August 2011
  • Leano, V.A., Petillo, G., Peron, A., Di Martino, S.: Gestione e Visualizzazione di dati Geografici. Innovazione in Azienda e Informatica. Napoli, 13 ottobre 2009.

Abstract

The Thesis pdf is here.
This thesis focuses on spatio-temporal data modeling and visualization with an application case of study in the Cultural Heritage field.
Spatio-temporal data visualization assumes an important role presenting data to users. Offering a synchronized view on three dimensions of data (i.e. descriptive, temporal and spatial) helps users in their knowledge discovery process. In Cultural Heritage field, time assumes an important role to explore data. The same timeline could be viewed in different thematic contexts, temporal domain could be stratified and the time reference could be qualitative and imprecise. Managing this kind of features improves the ability of the users to recognize patterns in data.
This thesis presents a framework oriented to the manipulation of Spatio-Temporal data with a particular attention to the temporal specification needs of the Cultural Heritage context, producing a prototype of a Content Management System (CMS). The proposed framework exploits the RDF technology for definition and manipulation of (meta-) data and adopts the OGC standards and open source technologies (PostGIS, Geoserver and Openlayers) for encoding, representing and retrieving spatial information. The available Spatio-Temporal metaphors are parametric, so users can personalize them depending on the specific application context and needs. A real case study in the Cultural Heritage field, concerning spatio-temporal information contained in literary Latin and Greek texts referred to the geographic area of Campi Flegrei (Naples, Italy), describes the framework functionalities.