AIRWiki

Welcome to AIRWiki!

AIRWiki is AIRLab's wiki. AIRLab is the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory of the Politecnico di Milano University (Italy).

AIRWiki 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 work on.

If you are looking for a description of what the AIRLab is, who works in it, and what scientific interests they have, the best place is not AIRWiki, but instead AIRLab's own website. But if you want an overview of what these people actually do, 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

These areas are described in detail on this page of AIRLab's 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 are covered as soon as enough - and structured enough - information about them is available.

Information about how to set up and manage a project page can be found at Projects - HOWTO. You must be one of the Registered users to modify the wiki, though.

How do I access the contents of this wiki?

AIRWiki is conceptually composed of two layers:

• a public layer, visible to everyone on the internet, containing information about the AIRLab and a description of the projects we work on;
• a private layer, accessible to registered users only, used as a work-in-progress repository of notes about such projects.

The public layer of AIRWiki is (relatively) stable: it is mainly constituted by documentation about past and ongoing projects, accessible through the Projects page. The private layer, instead, is a flexible device to store information and quickly share it between the people who work in the AIRLab. Much of this information will eventually be suitably formatted and moved to the public layer.

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. For each public page, a discussion page is automatically created and associated to it: such discussion page 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, and so on) just publish them on AIRWiki: it's easy and - dare we say it? - fun! As a guideline, consider putting on AIRWiki everything you would have liked to find there... instead of being forced to find out the hard way. And everything future students who will build upon your work would like to find.

At Projects - HOWTO you can find instructions and guidelines about how to set up a page for the project you work on and how to add new information to it.

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.

The AIRLab

Work (generally speaking) is done somewhere, using something and to reach some goal ;-) For the AIRLab, the following links tell you...

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

If you want details about who the professors and researchers working at the AIRLab are and what scientific work they do, just go to the AIRLab website.

AIRLab survival guide

Some things are neither scientific nor technical, but you must know them all the same to work in the AIRLab...

• Bureaucracy (administrative procedures)
• Tips'n'tricks (things that can save you much trouble)
• AIRLab rules (they are few and simple, but you have to follow them)

As we are on the subject of survival (read: how to avoid hurting yourself or others), remember that to work in the AIRLab you must know the Safety norms and comply with them.