POLIMI

Politecnico di Milano is a State University in Italy, established in 1863, ranked as one of the most outstanding European universities in Engineering, Architecture, and Industrial Design, with approximately 40,000 students. In the Department of Electronics and Information, the Information Systems group has a long research experience in information systems modelling and design methods and it developed in recent years a framework for adaptive web services for business applications. Politecnico di Milano competences relevant for the project are in the area of adaptive service engineering, on modelling and optimizing QoS in web services, and in the design of cost-effective information systems architectures. Recent research work has focused on multilevel optimization and control of information systems, considering both performance and energy consumption parameters.