Ricerca

(The content of the page was last updated by Giorgio Brajnik on 2011)

Introduction

The purpose of this method is to fill a gap concerning evaluation of web accessibility. In fact, the most often used method is the standards review (or conformance testing) coupled with WCAG 1.0/2.0 guidelines or Section 508 requirements (or other similar principles). On the other side there are methods that are used less often, like user testing. Both methods can be used for assessing accessibility levels, but there are shortcomings in both cases.

(this page was written by Giorgio Brajnik in 2009)

Goal of this research

The goal of this research is to study effectiveness of methods that can be used to assess accessibility of web sites and applications.

In particular a method called "Barrier Walkthrough" has been devised, has been suggested to a group of students, and experimentally evaluated in order to compare its effectiveness with that of the more usual method called "Conformance Testing".

The barrier walkthrough method aims at determining the level of accessibility of a web site, defined as:

1. The Integrated Healthcare Timetabling Competition 2024, co-organized by the IOLab, will start September 1st, 2024.
2. My seminar on Educational Timetabling, part of the Scheduling Seminar initiative, is available on YouTube.

Local Search framework

• EasyLocal++

Timetabling

• Post Enrollment Course Timetabling Problem
• Generalized Balanced Academic Curriculum Problem
• Curriculum-Based Course Timetabling Problem

Main Research Interests

• Scheduling and Timetabling Problems (my timetabling seminar)
• Local Search & Metaheuristics for Combinatorial Problems
• Problem Specification Languages and Tools
• Optimization Software Tools

Industrial Collaborations

• Danieli Automation
• Windex
• EasyStaff

31.01.2007-01.12.2007-31.08.2008   responsabile scientifico "Raccolta dell'acqua piovana negli insediamenti della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia tra tradizione e innovazione", convenzione di ricerca tra il Dipartimento di Ingengneria civile dell'Università degli Studi di Udine e l'Autorità di Bacino Regionale della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia (report: DICA-ABR 2.pdf)

Assegno di ricerca

Progetto di Ateneo ex L.R. 34 art. 5 c. 29-33

Università degli Studi di Udine - CID Centro Informazione Documentazione del Comune di Torviscosa

Attività di ricerca avviata durante il tirocinio presso la SABAP Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio del Friuli Venezia Giulia, 07/2016 - 08/2016, responsabile scientifico arch. Stefania Casucci.

Research project started within the internship at SABAP Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio del Friuli Venezia Giulia, 07/2016 - 08/2016, supervisor arch. Stefania Casucci.

mappa in versione beta elaborata nel 2018 e aggiornata a ottobre 2021

beta version map produced in 2018 and updated in october 2021

Main research interests

• Local search algorithms
• Metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization problems 

Local Search Framework

• I am co-maintainer of EasyLocal, which is an object-oriented framework that can be used as a general tool for the development of local search algorithms.

Repositories of optimization problems

• Optimization Hub

Timetabling