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Welcome to AIRWiki!

AIRWiki is AIRLab's wiki. It was born as a tool for teachers, researchers and students to share information about projects in an easy and quick way. However, it quickly evolved into a display of the activities of the Lab too: you are invited to browse this wiki, to discover what we at the AIRLab are working on.

There is also an official AIRLab website: http://www.airlab.elet.polimi.it/. Look there for a description of what the AIRLab is, who works in it, and what scientific interests they have. But if you want an overview of what we at the AIRLab actually work on, AIRWiki is the right place!

Research areas

At the AIRLab we work on a very broad range of topics, organized in these areas:

• Agents, Multiagent Systems, Agencies
• BioSignal Analysis
• Computer Vision and Image Analysis
• E-Science
• Machine Learning
• Ontologies and Semantic Web
• Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
• Robotics
• Soft Computing

Such areas are described in this page of the AIRLab website.

Projects

Research work in the above areas is done within projects. Details about active and finished projects are available at the Projects page. Ongoing projects will be covered as soon as enough - and structured enough - information about them is available.

How do I access the contents of this wiki?

AIRWiki is conceptually composed of two layers: a public layer and a private layer.

• The public layer contains a description of the activities performed within the AIRLab, and is visible to everyone on the internet.
• The private layer can be accessed, and modified, by registered users only.

AIRWiki is a work in progress, but its public layer is (relatively) stable and describes the Lab and the projects we work on. The private layer of AIRWiki, instead, contains work notes written from the people who are presently working on those projects. Such notes, when ready, will eventually be suitably formatted and moved to the public layer... but right now they aren't, and would not be useful for the general public.

In operative terms, the public layer is the main namespace of AIRWiki: this includes the Main Page you are currently looking at and the web pages that open when you click most of the links within AIRWiki. The private layer, on the other hand, is composed of the pages belonging to all the other namespaces defined within AIRWiki, such as User pages (namespace User).

The most important pages of the private layer of AIRWiki are those in the Talk namespace, called discussion pages. These are the pages where users write their work notes. A discussion page is automatically associated to each public page, and is accessible by clicking the "discussion" tab on the top of the public page.

How can I contribute?

Contribution to the wiki (i.e. creation and modification of pages) is limited to Registered users.

If you are a registered user and have information you want to share (description of what you do, links to useful sources of information, HOWTOs about lab tools, and so on) just publish them on AIRWiki: it's as easy as creating a new page! Moreover, a wiki always needs help in terms of maintenance, linking between pages, shaping of a structure and so on. And well, in this very moment it also needs a logo ;-) If you want to help please send an email to either migliore (at) elet (dot) polimi (dot) it or eynard (at) elet (dot) polimi (dot) it.

AIRLab structures

To work, you generally need a place and/or some hardware. The following links tells you...

• ...where: The Labs
• ...what: What's in the AIRLab

AIRLab survival guide

Sometimes the most difficult problems are not what you expect...

• Bureaucracy
• Tips'n'tricks