Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena 41125, Italy
Emanuele Carlini
High Performance Computing Laboratory, Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Pisa 56124, Italy
Michelangelo Ceci
Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari 70125, Italy
Barbara Furletti
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory, ISTI-CNR, Pisa 56127, Italy
Fosca Giannotti
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory, ISTI-CNR, Pisa 56127, Italy
Donato Malerba
Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari 70125, Italy
Mario Mezzanzanica
Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan 20126, Italy
Anna Monreale
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory, ISTI-CNR, Pisa 56127, Italy
Gabriella Pasi
Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communications, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan 20126, Italy
Dino Pedreschi
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory, ISTI-CNR, Pisa 56127, Italy
Raffele Perego
High Performance Computing Laboratory, Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Pisa 56124, Italy
Salvatore Ruggieri
Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa 56127, Italy
The aim of this article is to synthetically describe the research projects that a selection of Italian universities is undertaking in the context of big data. Far from being exhaustive, this article has the objective of offering a sample of distinct applications that address the issue of managing huge amounts of data in Italy, collected in relation to diverse domains.
