Mr. Alessandro Mazzetti
Birth: 28.12.1957 in Alessandria (Italy)
Address: Via Brin 124; 16039, Sestri Levante (GE) - Italy
Tel: +39-335-6454.491     -     e-mail: mazzetti@planasia.it
Italian citizen

High school: scientific "Liceo S. Carlo", diploma with full marks.
University : State University of Milan, faculty of Physics, specialization on Cybernetics, degree on Feb.1981, mark 110/110 with honours
Graduation thesis: Implementation of a Pascal compiler in Z-80 assembler; stage in SGS-Ates (today ST Microelectronics - Agrate, Milano)

Italian: mother tongue
English: excellent writing and reading, good speaking;
French: good reading, fair writing and speaking.

Author of 5 books, among which:

• "Intelligenza e Vita" ("Intelligence and Life") 165 pag+floppy, Apogeo/Rai-Televideo (C) 1994
• "Reti Neurali Artificiali" ("Artificial Neural Networks") 110 pages, Apogeo/Rai (C) 1991 (german edition by Heinz Heise)

Author of 27 scientific international papers and 45 dissemination papers. Most representative are:

• "Distributed Interactive Real-time Multimedia Applications", Waters2010, 1st Int. Workshop on Methodologies for Real-time Systems, Brussels, Belgium - July 2010
• "Virtual Cities Of Art in Geo-Referenced Communities", Ubiquitous Learning - Ticemed 2009, Milano - May 2009
• "e-Maintenance and Business Intelligence for High Voltage Power Network Components", KES 2002, International. conf. on Knowledge-Based Intelligent & Engineering Systems, Crema, Sept 2002

Prizes:

• "Ricettexpert": first prize "Best Application for Mobile Devices", Siemens-Mobile, Sun, Java Assoc, 2003
• "DOSSIER": first prize "Informatics awards - user friendly systems and languages", Sperry-Cilea, Milan, 1984

Offices:

• Professor of Università dell’Insubria at Varese: courses "Knowledge Engineering" and "Intelligent Systems" faculty of "Informatics", 2002-2003
• Member of scientific committee at: International Workshop on "Soft Computing in Remote Sensing Data Analysis", Milan, December 1995
• Invited speaker at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: Expert Systems for Government applications, Pisa, June 1991
• Tutor at ISSEK Workshop (International School on Synthesis of Expert Knowledge) Udine, Italy, Oct 1990
• Supervisor of 4 University students ("relatore di Tesi Laurea")

Miscellanea:

• Sail instructor, President of a Nautical Club, Interior Decorator.

Software Consultant, , Sestri Levante (GE), since 2008
Position: freelance (professional consultancy)

• Senior Project Manager at GIUNTI LABS for European Research Projects (FP7) in the fields:
  • eLearning, Competence Networks, Web2.0, Knowledge Management (project TENCompetence);
  • Cloud Computing, Virtual Worlds, Real-time Web Services (project IRMOS);
  • Mobile Devices, Federated Digital Repositories, Biodiversity (project Key To Nature).
  • Adaptive eLearning Environment (project GRAPPLE);
• Senior Consultant for transmission and interpretation of geological data in Witsml format (OILTEAMS)
• Web Community and Internet Sites for a Sailing Association

PLANASIA S.a.s., consultancy and software company, Milan, September 1994 to december 2005 - http://www.planasia.it
Position: Founder, Owner and Scientific Manager; 3 people; revenues 110 K euro

• Banking projects for anti-recycling and magistrature (SMOUSE - DEUTSCHE BANK - BPU - LEHMAN)
• Project Manager for development of Software for Power Plants and Electric Networks (ENEL, CESI, ABB, CISE)
• eLearning system for technical plant operator (TERNA)
• sales manager for electric contracts (DYNAMEETING)
• Project Manager for technology innovation projects (UNIV. INSUBRIA - REGIONE LOMBARDIA)
• Senior Consultant for development of a monitoring system for portal performances (VODAFONE)
• Project Manager in the development of portal for management of university stages (UNIVERSITA' di BOLOGNA)
• Project Manager and Engineer in the develoment of PLEXPERT (tool for Expert Systems on Internet and Wap)
• Project Manager in design and development of Web sites (www.sisal.it ; www.phytogate.com )
• Senior Consultant in the development of Intranet System (Bea Weblogic) for Banks (CARTA-SI, INEC)
• Senior Consultant in the development of Software for State Lottery OnLine Games: SuperEnalotto, Totip (SISAL)
• Senior Consultant in development of a Decision Support System for Pipelines (SNAM, AQUATER, CNR-ITIM)
• Scientific Director for EUROPEAN Project "Firemen": Fuzzy Remote Sensing of Images for Fire Prevention.
• Director in development of Motion Analysis Systems for Clinical applications (BTS - Bioengineering).
• Project Manager in several software projects (AERMACCHI, TELECA, SIMIONATO, USL, CDM, Etaconsult,…)
• Product Manager for Innovative Software Tools and Development Environments: Sales support, technical support, project managemet and training for products: Blaze-Advisor, Neuralworks, FuzzyClips, ZISC-Neural-Hardware (AURION, BlazeSoft, NeuralWare, Togai, IBM-Paris Research Center).

CAP-GEMINI-ITALIA Spa, Systems House, Milan, October 1987 to August 1994
Position: Innovation Skill Manager; Quadro, 6 people; revenues 750 M ITL

• Product Manager for Innovative Tools: Nexpert, Dataviews, Til-Shell, Neuralworks.
• Taskforce Leader for Client/Server initiative; responsible of Best-Practice-Forum of C/S Skill Centre
• Team Leader and Senior Consultant in dozens of projects on Expert System: real time ES, monitoring, plant diagnosis, satellite optimization,... Clients: FIAT, TELESPAZIO, AERMACCHI, ENI,... Tools: Nexpert, C, Oracle, DB3,...
• Director of AI Training Centre: Neural Networks, Expert Systems, Knowledge Engineering Methodology, Prolog, Machine Learning
• Expert Club Member: main interface toward Cap Gemini Innovation (Paris, Grenoble) for European projects ENVIRONMENT, EUREKA, ESPRIT, BRITE.
• Co-founder of commission "knowledge based systems" of UNINFO (normation institution)

SYSTEMS DESIGNERS Spa, British software consultancy, Milan, September 85 to September 87
Position: Team Leader in "Expert Systems Application Centre", 3 people, revenues 200 M ITL

• development of an Expert System for cost estimation of telecommunication installations (TELETTRA);
• team leader in the development of a Knitting Machine system;
• technical support in the marketing of SAGE, POPLOG and SD-PROLOG (AI-products).

ITALTEL-SIT Spa, Telecommunication Company, Milan, June 1984 to August 1985.
Position: System Engineer in "Central Research Direction".

• design of PRAGMA, a software tool for specification of big digital telephone exchanges;
• supervision of university students developing graduation thesis on Prolog and Petri Nets.

ETNOTEAM Spa, System Software Consultancy, Milan. March 1981 to May 1984.
Position: Programmer in "System Software Group" and "Languages Group".

• adaption of a C-compiler into Olivetti M40 environment;
• development of DOSSIER, a spread-sheet or PC, distribuited by Mondadori and Longman;
• project leader in development of manuals on: Pascal+ (Olivetti), Data Base (Honeywell);
• project leader in design of TEFAX, a functional quality control tool for software projects;
• teacher of Pascal, Advanced programming, Formal languages, Software quality control;

• "Intelligenza e Vita" ("Intelligence and Life") 165 pages + floppy, Rai-Televideo / Apogeo Publ. (C) 1994
• "Reti Neurali Artificiali" ("Artificial Neural Networks") 110 pages, Rai / Apogeo (C) 1991 German edition by Verlag Heinz Heise, Hannover, (C) 1992
• "Introduzione pratica al Prolog" ("Prolog primer") 100 pages, Muzzio Publ. (C) 1989
• "Applicazioni dei Sistemi Esperti" ("Expert Systems applications") 140 p., Muzzio P. (C) 1987
• "Costruire un Sistema Esperto" ("Expert System building") 170 pages, Muzzio Publ. (C) 1986

Scientific Papers:

• "Distributed Interactive Real-time Multimedia Applications", Waters2010, 1st Int. Workshop on Methodologies for Real-time Systems, Brussels, Belgium - July 2010
• "Virtual Cities Of Art in Geo-Referenced Communities", Ubiquitous Learning - Ticemed 2009, Milano - May 2009
• "Expert Web Services and Expert Wireless Solutions", Magazine "Intelligenza Artificiale" - Year 1 - N. 3 - September 2004
• "Rule Based Reasoning for Heuristic Dialogue with Small Screen Mobile Devices", AIMS 2003", Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems" Ubicomp 2003 - fifth Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Seattle, USA, October ,2003
• "A Knowledge-Based Web Site for Agriculture", KES2002, International. conf. on Knowledge-Based Intelligent & Engineering Systems, Crema, Sept 2002
• "e-Maintenance and Business Intelligence for High Voltage Power Network Componnets", KES2002, International. conf. on Knowledge-Based Intelligent & Engineering Systems, Crema, Sept 2002
• "An Expert System for Decision Support in the Management of Pipelines", International Gas Research Conference - San Diego (CA - USA), Nov 98
• "Interpretazione Interattiva dei Dati in ambito Internet/Intranet", Workshop AI*IA on Organizational Tools and Intelligent Access for Heterogeneous Information - Padova, Sept 98
• "Soft Computing nel Telerilevamento e nel Controllo", Giornata di studio ANIPLA soft computing e ambiente - Firenze, Apr 97
• "A hybrid fuzzy expert system for decision support in the management of pipelines ...", WILF97 - 2nd Italian Workshop on Fuzzy Logic - Bari, Mar 97
• "Strumenti di sviluppo per Sistemi Basati sulla Conoscenza", Giornata di studio ANIPLA su processi produttivi - Milano, Oct 96
• "Sistemi di ausilio all'evoluzione e manutenzione della conoscenza", 5th Symposium of Italian Association for AI (AI*IA). Napoli, Italy, Sept 96
• "Knowledge Base Refinement for Fuzzy Classifiers using Neural Networks", 2nd Joint Conference on Information Science, Wrightsville, North Carolina, USA, Oct 95
• "Trattamento degli Allarmi di Centrale Termoelettrica", 4th Congress of Italian Association for AI (AI*IA). Firenze, Oct 95
• "EPHES: Expert System for HEalth Survelliance", Congresso della Società Italiana Medicina del Lavoro, Bologna, Italy, Oct 95
• "FI.R.E.M.EN.: Fire Risk Evaluation in Mediterranean Environment", Int. Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS applic. to Forest Fire Manag., Alcalà de Henares, Spain, Sept 95
• "An Expert System for the Configuration of Airborne Data Acquisition Formats", ETTC95, European Test and Telemetry Conference, Toulon, France, May 95
• "FI.R.E.M.EN.: A Knowledge-Based Decision Support System for Fire Risk Evaluation in Mediterranean Environment", Giornata di studio sul Telerilevamento e GIS, Trento, Oct 94
• "Integration of Neural Networks techniques in Fuzzy classification of Remote Sensing Data" International Conference on Image Processing, S.Remo, Italy, June 93
• "Problem Dependent Learning in Neural Networks" GAA93 - Workshop on Machine Learning, Milan, Italy, June 93
• "Integration of Fuzzy Reasoning techniques in error backpropagation learning algorithm" 6th Workshop on Neural Networks, Vietri, Italy, May 93
• "QLIS: support tool for Quality of Life" Congress AICA (Italian Association for Automatic Computing), Torino, Italy, Oct 92
• "Tobia, a Real Time Expert System for Plant Assistance" 2nd congress of Italian Association for AI (AI*IA). Palermo, Oct 91
• "Learning of Fuzzy Classification Rules in Medical Diagnosis" GAA91 Workshop on Machine Learning, Bari, Italy, Mar 91
• "Explanation Based Learning in Neural Networks" International Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Milan, Italy ,Sept 90
• "Context Driven Learning and Inductive Programming" 1st congress of Italian Association for AI (AI*IA), Trento, Italy, Nov 89
• "Automatic knowledge Acquisition throug Dynamic Induction" International Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Milan, Italy, May 88
• "TEFAX: a functional quality control tool for software projects", Afcet, 2nd Colloque de Genie logiciel, Nice, France, June 84;

Dissemination Papers:

• Challenge2000 - Data Consult - 1 article on Business Intelligence
• Informatica Oggi - Jackson - 9 articles on Neural Networks, Expert systems, Artificial Intelligence, Development environments
• Automazione Oggi - Jackson - 2 articles on Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic
• Automazione e Strumentazione - Ed. Bias - 3 articles on Expert Systems, Remote Sensing,...
• Sistemi & Impresa - Ed. ESTE - articles on Expert Systems application, Neural Networks
• Applicando - Editronica - 16 articles on Pascal, Structured Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Video Games,...
• ZeroUno - Mondadori - 3 articles on Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Spreadsheets
• Sistemi Software - Ritman - articles on Knowledge Acquisition and Fuzzy Reasoning
• Note di Software - University of Milan- articles on Expert Systems applications
• Tecnica & Tecnologia - A.M.M.A. - articles on Tools for Expert Systems
• Sistemi e Automazione - Ed. ESTE - articles on Man Machine Interfaces
• Bit - Jackson - articles on Artificial Intelligence
• Scienza & Vita - Rusconi - introduction to Fuzzy Logic
• Sole 24 Ore Libri - chapter of the book "Guida pratica all'investimento" (Investment Guide)