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Mauro Dragone

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Name and Title: 
Dr Mauro Dragone
Position: 
Post Doctoral Researcher
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+353 1 7162854
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Office: 
Science North / G03
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Clarity Centre
Science North
Dublin 4

Biography

I am a co-principal investigator, project manager and team leader at the CLARITY Centre for SensorWeb Technologies in Ireland and a postdoctoral researcher at University College Dublin (UCD), School of Computer Science and Informatics.

I received  a  4  year  degree  (laurea 110/110  cum  laude)   in  Computer Science at the University of Bologna, in 1998, and a PhD in Computer Science from UCD, in 2008. 

Besides my involvement in academia, I have more than 12 years of professional experience in the software industry during which I built up strong architectural design skills, especially in the area of distributed systems, system integration and enterprise applications.

My research focuses on ubiquitous & cognitive robotic systems and control architectures for autonomous agents, embracing both artificial intelligence and software engineering aspects.

I lead the European project RUBICON - Robotic UBIquitous COgnitive Network (FP7-ICT-269914),  a 2.5M project, focusing on creating a self-organizing, learning and goal-oriented robotic ecology - where a robotic ecology is defined as a network of heterogeneous computational nodes interfaced with sensors, effectors and mobile robot devices.

I am co-principal investigator of the European project HOBNET - HOlistic Platform Design for Smart Buildings of the Future InterNET (FP7-ICT/FIRE-257466), and project manager for the European project FIEMSER (FP7-ICT-248605), in the area of energy efficiency in buildings.

Together with Professor Gregory M.P. O'Hare, I coordinate the Ubirobot, Ubiquitous Robotic Test-bed, a collective of mobile robots which constitutes a university wide service for all researchers interested in developing ubiquitous robot applications.

Ancillary Research Activities

TPC membership:

  • AMAS-2010, the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
  • URAI-2010, the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence 
  • URAI-2011, the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence

     

Reviewer for:  

  • Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics

      

    • Delegation and membership:

    Professional

    Professional Associations:

    • Association: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), Function/Role: Member
    • Association: IRCEM Sensor Web Group, Function/Role: Member
    • Association: IEEE, Function/Role: Member

    Conference Contributions:

    • Mauro Dragone (2011) Member of the International Program Committee. [Conference Organising Committee Member], The 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence - URAI 2011, Incheon, Republic of South Korea , 23-NOV-11 - 26-NOV-11.
    • Mauro Dragone (2010) Session of Human-Computer Interaction. [Chaired Session], The 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence - URAI 2010, Bexco, Busan, Republic of South Korea , 24-NOV-10 - 27-NOV-10.
    • Rem Collier et al. (2010) The Eighth International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems in colocation with The Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems. [Conference Organising Committee Member], ProMAS, Toronto, Canada , 11-MAY-10 - 11-MAY-10.

    Committee Work:

    • Committee : Technical committee on software engineering for robotics and automation (RAS TC-SOFT).

    Employment:

    • Employer: University College Dublin (UCD)
      Position: Phd Student
    • Employer: CR2 Ltd
      Position: Senior software engineer/ team leader/ technical leader
    • Employer: Aeffe S.p.a
      Position: Software developer and system - administrator
    • Employer: Industrial Technical Institute B. Pascal, Cesena, Italy
      Position: Lecturer of Systems and Automation
    • Employer: CS-Computer, Cattolica (RM), Italy
      Position: Software Programmer, C++
    • Employer: The CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technology, UCD
      Position: Postdoctoral researcher

    Education:

    • Year 2008 Institution: University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
      Qualification: PhD Subject: Software Engineering in Robotics
    • Year 1992 Institution: Technical Industrial Institute (ITIS) Blaise Pascal, Cesena, Italy
      Qualification: Diploma Subject: Computer Science
    • Year 1998 Institution: University of Bologna, Department of Computer Science in Cesena, Italy
      Qualification: Degree Subject: Computer Science

    Languages:

    • Italian:
    • English:

    Reviews:

    • International Journal Of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (Ijmhci): Reviewer.
    • International Research Journal Of Automation In Construction: Reviewer.
    • Future Internet - Open Access Journal: Reviewer.

    Outreach Activities:

    • In the summer of 2004 I gave a two-week cycle of lectures on Artificial Intelligence at the Griffith College, Dublin 8.
    • In the summer of 2005 I worked with the Dublin-based profit-free organization Camara in conducting pre-ECDL courses in secondary schools around Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.

    Publications

    Book Chapters:

    • Abey Campbell, Rem Collier, Mauro Dragone, Levent Gorgu, Thomas Holz, Michael J. O¿Grady, G.M.P. O¿Hare, Antonella Sassu, John Stafford (2011) 'Facilitating Ubiquitious interaction using Intelligent Agents' In: Marielba Zacharias ; José Valente de Oliveira (eds). Human-Computer Interaction : The Agency Perspective. Heidelberg: Springer Berlin. [Details]
    • Dragone, M. and Holz, T. and O'Hare, G.M.P. and O'Grady, M.J. (2009) 'Mixed Reality Agent (MiRA) Chameleons' In: Mangina Phelan, Eleni and Carbo, Javier and Manuel Molina, Jose (eds). Agent-Based Ubiquitous Computing. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Atlantis Press. [Details]

    Peer Reviewed Journals:

    • O'Grady, M.J., Dragone, M., Tynan, R., O'Hare, G.M.P., Wan, J., Muldoon, C. (2011) 'Implicitly and Intelligently Influencing the Interactive Experience'. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence- Computer Scie, 6525 :91-98. [Details]
    • Sean E. Russell, Dominic Carr, Mauro Dragone, G. M. P. O'Hare and Rem W. Collier (2011) 'From Bogtrotting to Herding: A UCD Perspective'. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, . [Details]
    • O¿Grady, M.J., Muldoon, C., Dragone, M., Tynan, R., O¿Hare, G.M.P (2010) 'Towards Evolutionary Ambient Assisted Living Systems'. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 1 (1):15-29. [Details]
    • Holz, T. and Dragone, M. and O'Hare, G.M.P. (2009) 'Where Robots and Virtual Agents Meet: A Survey of Social Interaction Research across Milgram's Reality-Virtuality Continuum'. International Journal of Social Robotics, 1 (1):83-93. Available Online [DOI] [Details]
    • Thomas Holz, Abraham G. Campbell, Gregory M. P. O'Hare, John W. Stafford, Alan Martin, Mauro Dragone (2010) 'MiRA - Mixed Reality Agents'. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, . [Details]
    • Mauro Dragone, Jordan Howell, David Lillis, Rem Collier (2011) 'Separation of Concerns in hybrid agent and component systems'. International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 6 (2). [Details]
    • Jordan Howell, Jennifer Treanor, David Lillis, Mauro Dragone, Rem Collier, O'Hare, G.M.P. (2010) 'AF-ABLE in the Multi Agent Contest 2009'. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, . [Details]
    • Dragone, M, Holz, T, Duffy, BR, O'Hare, GMP, (2005) 'Social situated agents in virtual, real and mixed reality environments'. Machine Learning Challenges, 3661 (NA):166-177. [Details]

    Other Journals:

    • A.G. Ruzzelli, L. Gao, Colum Foley, Mauro Dragone, A. Schoofs, G.M.P O¿Hare, A. F. Smeaton (2010) 'Energy Landscape: A Platform For Building Consumption Monitoring and Comparison' IEEE Power and Energy magazine . [Details]
    • Gregory M. P. O'Hare, Mauro Dragone, Jennifer Treanor (2009) 'The CLARITY Ubiquitous Robotic Testbed. ERCIM News 2009(76), 2009' ERCIM News (76) . [Details]

    Conference Publications:

    • Mauro Dragone, Thomas Holz, Antonella Sassu, Gregory M.P. O'Hare (2010) Evaluating Social & Ubiquitous Human-Robot Interaction The 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence Bexco, Busan, Korea, , 24-NOV-10 - 27-NOV-10 [Details]
    • Görgü L., Campbell A., McCusker K., Dragone M., O¿Grady M.J., O¿Connor, N.E., O¿Hare G.M.P. (2010) FreeGaming: Mobile, Collaborative, Adaptive and Augmented ExerGaming The 8th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2010) [Details]
    • Walsh, M. O¿Grady, M. Dragone, M., Tynan, R. Ruzzelli, A., Barton, J. O¿Flynn, B, O¿Hare, G.M.P. & O¿Mathuna, C. (2010) The CLARITY Modular Ambient Health and Wellness Measurement Platform Fourth International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (NetWare 2010 - SENSORCOMM 2010) [Details]
    • O'Hare, G.M.P., Ruzzelli, A., Tynan, R., Dragone, M., Muldoon, C., O'Grady, M.J. (2010) An Agent-based Domestic Electricity Consumption Advisory System A workshop of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2010) [Details]
    • O'Grady, M.J., Dragone, M., Tynan, R., O'Hare, G.M.P., Wan, J., Muldoon, C. (2010) Implicitly Influencing the Interactive Experience A workshop of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2010) [Details]
    • O'Grady, M.J., Dragone, M., Tynan, R., Ruzzelli, A., Walsh, M., O'Hare, G.M.P. (2010) Diversity & Interoperability: Wireless Technologies in Ambient Assisted Living Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Workshop on Evolving Communications Networks: Education in the Service of Ireland¿s Next Generation Network Infrastructure Needs [Details]
    • Lillis, D., Collier, R., Dragone, M. & O'Hare, G.M.P. (2009) An Agent-Based Approach to Component Management Proceedings of Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2008) Budapest, Hungary, , 10-MAY-09 - 15-MAY-09 Available Online [Details]
    • Dragone M., Collier, R.W., Lillis, D., O'Hare, G.M.P (2009) Practical Development of Hybrid Intelligent Agent Systems with SoSAA In proceedings of the 20th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2009), Dublin, Ireland, 2009 Dublin, Ireland, [Details]
    • Dragone M., Lillis, D., Collier, R.W., O'Hare, G.M.P (2009) Hybrid Agent & Component-Based Management of Backchannels 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2009), Sofia, Bulgaria, 2009 Sofia, Bulgaria, [Details]
    • Dragone, M. and Holz, T. and O'Hare, G.M.P (2007) Using Mixed Reality Agents as Social Interfaces for Robots 16th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 2007 (RO-MAN 2007) Jeju Island, Korea, , 26-AUG-07 - 29-AUG-07 Available Online [Details]
    • Dragone, M. and Duffy, B.R. and Holz, T. and O'Hare, G.M.P. (2006) Fusing Realities in Human-Robot Social Interaction Joint Conference of the 37th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR '06) Munich, Germany, , 15-MAY-06 - 18-MAY-06 Available Online [Details]
    • Dragone, M. and Holz, T. and O'Hare, G.M.P (2006) Mixing robotic realities 2006 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2006) Sydney, Australia, , 29-JAN-06 - 01-FEB-06 Available Online [Details]
    • Dragone, M. and Holz, T. and Duffy, B.R. and O'Hare, G.M.P. (2005) Social Situated Agents in Virtual, Real and Mixed Reality Environments . In: Panayiotopoulos, T. and Gratch, J. and Aylett, R. and Ballin, D. and Olivier, P. and Rist, T eds. Fifth International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2005) Kos, Greece, , 12-SEP-05 - 14-SEP-05 , pp.166-177 Available Online [Details]
    • Dragone, M. and Holz, T. and Duffy, B.R. and O'Hare, G.M.P. (2005) Ubiquitous Realities through Situated Social Agents Eighteenth International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2005) Hong Kong, , 17-OCT-05 - 19-OCT-05 Available Online [Details]
    • G.M.P. O'Hare, A.G. Ruzzelli, R. Tynan, M. Dragone, C. Muldoon and M. O'Grady (2010) An Agent-based Domestic Electricity Consumption Advisory System First International Workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES), AAMAS Toronto, Canada, , 11-MAY-10 - 11-MAY-10 [Details]
    • Ruzzelli, A.G.,M. Dragone, M., O¿Hare, G.M.P Muldoon, C. Barbirato, A. and Jurdak. R. (2009) An Extensible Dashboard for Sensor Networks Control and Visualisation 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, (ESWN 2009) Cork, Ireland, [Details]
    • Howell R. Jordan, Jennifer Treanor, David Lillis, Mauro Dragone, Rem W. Collier, and G. M. P. O¿Hare (2009) AF-ABLE: ProMAS System Description in Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA-X) 2009, 9-10th September, Hamburg Hamburg, [Details]
    • Ruzzelli, A.G Jurdak, R., M. Dragone, M. Barbirato,A. G.M.P. O¿Hare, G.M.P Boivineau, and Roy, V. (2008) Octopus: A Dashboard for Sensor Networks Visual Control Proceedings of  14th Annual International conference on Mobile Computing and Networking [Details]
    • Dragone, M., and Lillis, D., R., and Collier, R.W., and O¿Hare, G. M. P. (2009) SoSAA: A Framework for Integrating Agents & Components 24th Annual Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2009), Special Track on Agent-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications [Details]
    • Dragone, M., et al. (2008) Dublin Bogtrotters: Agent Herders 6th International Workshop on Programming Multi Agent Systems (PROMAS-2008) [Details]
    • Holz, T., Dragone, M. O'Hare, G.M.P (2006) Mixed Reality Agents as Museum Guides, In Proceedings of Agent Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL) Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-06) Hakodate, Japan, , 08-MAY-06 - 12-MAY-06 [Details]
    • Dragone, M., Holz, T., O'Hare, G.M.P. & Duffy, B.R. (2005) Ubiquitous Realities through Situated Social Agents In Proceedings of 18th Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2005) Hong Kong, China, , 17-OCT-05 - 19-OCT-05 [Details]
    • Dragone, M., Duffy, B.R. & O'Hare, G.M.P. (2005) Social Interaction between Robots, Avatars and Humans In Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2005) Nashville, TN, USA, , 13-AUG-05 - 15-AUG-05 [Details]
    • Robot Soccer Anywhere: Dragone, M., O`Donaghue, R., Leonard, J.J., O`Hare, G.M.P., Duffy, B., Patrikalakis, A. & Leederkerken, J. (2005) Achieving Persistent Autonomous navigation, Mapping and Object Vision Tracking in Dynamic Environments In Proceedings of SPIE Opto Ireland [Details]
    • Duffy, B.R., Dragone, M., O'Hare G.M.P. (2005) Social Robot Architecture: A Framework for Explicit Social Interaction Android Science: Towards Social Mechanisms, CogSci 2005 Workshop Stresa, Italy, [Details]

    Published Reports:

    • V. Gay, I. Laresgoiti, J. Perez, S. Riano, B. Tellado, M. Bourdeau, A. Boissonat, M. Dragone, A. Schoofs, X. Liu, A. Ruzzelli, J. Vinuela Canon (2010) System architecture, FIEMSER European IST-248605 FP7 project public report. FIEMSER FP7 Project, http://www.fiemser.eu/. [Details]

    Research

    Research Interests:

      My research focuses on ubiquitous & cognitive robotic systems and control architectures for autonomous agents, embracing both artificial intelligence and software engineering aspects.

      I lead the European project RUBICON - Robotic UBIquitous COgnitive Network (FP7-ICT-269914),  a 2.5M project, focusing on creating a self-sustaining, self-organizing, learning and goal-oriented robotic ecology - where a robotic ecology is defined as a network of heterogeneous computational nodes interfaced with sensors, effectors and mobile robot devices.

      Enabling robots to seamlessly operate as part of such robotic ecologies is an important and extended challenge for robotics R&D and a key enabler for a range of advanced robotic applications. I coordinated the writing of the RUBICON proposal in 2010 availing of a coordination funding grant awarded by Enterprise Ireland.

      Together with Professor Gregory M.P. O'Hare, I coordinate the Ubirobot, Ubiquitous Robotic Test-bed (http://ubirobot.ucd.ie), a collective of mobile robots which constitutes a university wide service for all researchers interested in developing ubiquitous robot applications. 

      I am one of the core developers of the Agent Factory agent programming toolkit (http://www.agentfactory.com), the Octopus visualization GUI for WSN, and the SIXTH WSN middleware.

      For more information about my recent research, please visit my personal webpage


    Teaching

    Teaching Interests:

      I have an interest in teaching and mentoring postgraduate students and final year project undergraduate students. In the AY 2010/11, I designed and lectured COMP300220 2010: Distributed (Software) Systems, to final year and MSc students in Computer Science, at School of Computer Science and Informatics, UCD.