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DC urban light railway systems are used for public transportation in many towns worldwide. In these systems, short-circuit currents are often similar, both in steady-state magnitude and in rate-of-rise, to normal operation currents. In order to properly set the protection relays, to obtain short-circuit discrimination and to avoid nuisance trippings, it is important to analyze short circuit and normal operation current patterns. It is also important to highlight that normal operation current patterns are not only those related to rolling stock acceleration, but also to zone commutation. This paper presents the results of several measurement campaigns, performed for this purpose, on the tram network of Turin, Italy. The measurements results are then used to propose optimized settings for the installed overcurrent protections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the problem of power penetration of photovoltaic (PV) systems in urban networks. After a qualitative problem description, two different environments for PV systems have been analyzed: rural and urban networks. Concerning the rural network, a single line has been simulated in order to evaluate the relation between the number of PV systems installed along the line and the maximum PV power installable. In the second part of this paper, possible problems due to power penetration have been examined concerning a clustered PV system that will be installed in the city of Torino (Italy) within the ambit of the EU project called POLYCITY. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA) '07 held in Torino, Italy from September 17 to 21, 2007 is presented. Topics include the use of wireless communication systems, the use of numerical techniques, and the advances in bioelectromagnetics. Politencio di Torino and the Italian National Research Council (IEIIT-CNR) were the organizers of the conference.

Grading programming assignments of courses on distributed programming can greatly benefit from extensive testing, especially if quality aspects such as portability, robustness, security, and performance have to be evaluated. This paper presents a framework that was developed at the Turin Polytechnic, Turin, Italy, to enable seamless and fast implementation of Web portals for automated management of student programming assignments. By using a computational grid facility to schedule testing jobs on different hosts, the framework offers high flexibility and scalability, thus enabling computationally intensive tests and some kinds of distributed tests, such as portability tests and field tests, which otherwise would be difficult to automate. The grid can be made of ordinary and even nondedicated or dismissed PCs, which, according to the authors' experience, is enough to offer students online extensive testing services. The framework was successfully used in two courses on distributed programming, located at different sites, partially overlapped in time, and attended by a total of 60 students. However, the framework should be scalable enough to work with increasing numbers of students and courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the Electromagnetic Metrology Symposium (EMS) to be held in Torino, Italy on September 9-13, 2013.

The 13th edition of the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), and the first edition of the IEEE AP-S Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (IEEE APWC), were held at Torino, Italy, September 12–16,2011. ICEAA has the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, and the Torino Wireless Foundation as principal cosponsors. Other technical cosponsors of this edition of ICEAA 2011 were the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), the IEEE ED and MTT Societies, the IEEE Italy Section, and the IEEE North Italy AP, ED and MTT Joint Chapter. IEEE APWC was the first conference of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society held outside the North American continent. Following the memorandum of understanding between ICEAA and IEEE AP-S finalized in September 2010 at Sydney, Australia, the two conferences shared a common registration, organizing and scientific committees, venue, reception, and banquet, and social events. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Discusses the events during the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications held September 8 to 12, 2003 in Torino, Italy. Sponsors; Registrant distribution; Offer of plenary sessions providing maximum interaction among attendees; Presentation of papers on wireless communications chaired by Danilo Erricolo; Session on electromagnetic modeling chaired by N.J. Champagne.

The article focuses on the High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR) workshop, which took place in Torino, Italy during June 24-27, 2003 under the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE and was financially supported by a number of other organizations. The workshop is the flagship meeting of the IEEE Communication Society's Technical Committee on Communication Switching and Routing. One hundred thirty participants from 24 countries attended the workshop. The technical program covered a wide spectrum of research topics, such as switch architectures, wavelength- division multiplexiing networks, scheduling algorithms, quality of service issues, metro ring networks, optical burst switching networks, resilience, protection and restoration, traffic engineering, packet lookup, classification and forwarding and routing. A lot of attention was devoted in HPSR 2003 to switch architecture. Traffic engineering is a hot topic that is tightly related to routing. Multipoint-to-point label switched path trees has been proposed as a technique to reduce label space usage.