List of Members Institute Name: Engineering - Ingegneria Informatica
Description: Ingegneria Informatica ( referred to as Engineering, henceforth) is one of the largest Italian software houses and the leader of the Engineering Group (900 people and revenues of 100 billion lire in 1993). Engineering has a staff of about 420 people and its revenues in the past year were of 70 billion lire. Its capital is entirely private. Furthermore, it does not have a captive market. Engineering offers custom software, facilities management, software packages, and its own methodology and training services. It offers software products on the market, some of which it has developed itself (e.g., Endelon, Engipec) and others for which it acts as a distributor such as O2 DBMS by O2 Technology (F), Burogest and Burosyst by Tao (E), System Architect by Popkin Software and System (USA), RE-Vision by Eden System (USA).
Engineering has a number of joint ventures, aimed at technology transfer, with European and US companies such as Cort (F), GFI (F) and the Stanford Research Institute International (US).
Eleven branch offices ensure the company's presence throughout the Italian market. Engineering is basically a project-oriented organization, whose activities mainly concern the building of customized solutions for large organizations. It does much work for the banking, insurance sectors, but also for the local and cenral Italian governments.
In 1987, Engineering equipped a R&D software laboratory at Pomezia (Roma). The lab has been involved in various national and international research projects through which it has gained experience in a number of areas such as:
- Software Engineering (Software Process & Product Modeling, Computer & Human Interaction, Object-Oriented languages and DBMS, Rapid Prototyping, Semi-automatic generation of compilers and interpreters, Tools Integration);
- Enterprise Modeling;
- Workflow Management.
The lab has developed various research prototypes in the above areas and has published almost 30 papers in national and international conference proceedings and journals.
Engineering is currently involved as Coordinating Contractor in the Esprit projects P6115 "GOODSTEP" and P7089 "RECYCLE", and, as a Partner, in SQUID.
Researchers associated with the project:
Dr. Stefano De Panfilis
Brief CVs of Key Researchers:
Name: Dr. Stefano De Panfilis
Nationality: Italian
Academic Qualifications & Experience: Doctor with laude in Mathematics from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He was employed as software engineer by Engineering since 1984. In April 1986 he became Project Manager. In this responsibility he managed a business project of some 30 person/years including several subcontractors. By July 1988 he moved to the R&D department with the responsibility of the "Formal Methods" subproject. By December 1990 he is the responsible of a research project within the National "Progetto Finalizzato Sistemi Informatici e Calcolo Parallelo". Since 1993 he supported Engineering to receive the ISO-9001 compliance certificate. In April 1994 he became responsible of the Research Workpackage of the SQUID Project (ESPRIT). From January 1996 till now he managed the DOOR (ESPRIT IV), SQUAD (INCO-DC), and VALSE (TV&TT Initiative) projects, as well as the DECO' and DOMINARE ESSI PIEs.
Contact Details:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Stefano De Panfilis,
Address: Viale Castro Pretorio, 116, 00185 Roma, Italy
Telephone number: + 39 06-4474-1136
Telefax number: + 39 06-4465-981
EMail: depa@mail.eng.it
Last up-date: 6 June 1999