Prof. Riccardo Torlone

Research group

• Databases and Information Systems

Research interests

• Data integration, data exchange, model management, adaptive information systems and personalization, data warehousing and OLAP, Web based information systems, Semantic Web, data modelling and database design.
• Graphically, using Wordle with the titles of my publications.

Projects

Current

• EASE: Entity Aware Search Engines
• Nyaya: Reasoning over Large Semantic Datasets
• GAIA: Generic Mappings for Data Exchange

Past

• NGS: New Generation Search Engine
• ReverseWeb: Data Reverse Engineering of Web Sites
• FAWIS: Flexible Adaptation of Web Information Systems
• DaWaII: Data Warehouse Integration
• MAIS: Multichannel Adaptive Information Systems
• MOSES: MOdular and Scalable Environment for the Semantic web
• WISDOM: Web Intelligent Search based on DOMain ontologies

Publications

• List of publications at the University of Trier Computer Science Bibliography

A (partial) list of recent papers:

Querying with ontologies

• Davide Martinenghi, Riccardo Torlone. Querying Databases with Taxonomies. 29th Int. Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), pag. 377-390, 2010.

Semantic-Web Data Management

• Roberto De Virgilio, Giorgio Orsi, Letizia Tanca, Riccardo Torlone. Semantic Data Markets: a Flexible Environment for Knowledge Management. 20th Int. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2011.

Data and Metadata Exchange

• Paolo Atzeni, Riccardo Torlone. Data and Metadata Management. in Semantic Web Information Management: a Model-Based Perspective. p. 9-24, 2010.
• Andrea Calì, Riccardo Torlone. Checking Containment of Schema Mappings (Preliminary Report). 3rd Alberto Mendelzon Int. Workshop on Foundations of Data Management, 2009.
• Paolo Papotti, Riccardo Torlone. Schema Exchange: Generic Mappings for Transforming Data and Metadata. Data Knowl. Eng. 68(7): 665-682, 2009.
• Paolo Atzeni, Paolo Cappellari, Riccardo Torlone, Philip A. Bernstein, Giorgio Gianforme. Model-Independent Schema Translation. VLDB Journal, 17(6): 1347-1370, 2008.
• Paolo Papotti, Riccardo Torlone. Schema Exchange: a Template-based Approach to Data and Metadata Translation. ER Conference, pag. 36-50, 2007.
• Paolo Papotti, Riccardo Torlone. Automatic Generation of Model Translations. CAiSE Conference, pag. 36-50, 2007.
• Paolo Papotti, Riccardo Torlone. Heterogeneous Data Translation through XML Conversion. Journal of Web Engineering, 2005.
• Riccardo Torlone, Paolo Atzeni. Chameleon: an Extensible and Customizable Tool for Web Data Translation. VLDB Conference, pag. 1085-1088, 2003.
• Riccardo Torlone, Paolo Atzeni. A Unified Framework for Data Translation over the Web. 2nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'01), pag. 350-358, 2001.

Search Engine for Cross Domain Queries.

• Daniele Braga, Diego Calvanese, Alessandro Campi, Stefano Ceri, Florian Daniel, Davide Martinenghi, Paolo Merialdo, Riccardo Torlone. NGS: a framework for multi-domain query answering. Workshop of ICDE on Information Integration Methods, Architectures, and Systems (IIMAS), pag. 254-261, 2008.

Personalization and Adaptation

• Paolo Ciaccia, Riccardo Torlone. Modeling the Propagation of User Preferences. 30th Int. Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2011. (Best paper award)
• Roberto De Virgilio, Riccardo Torlone, Geert-Jan Houben. Rule-based Adaptation of Web Information Systems. World Wide Web 10(4): 443-470, 2007.
• Roberto De Virgilio, Riccardo Torlone, Geert-Jan Houben. A Rule-based Approach to Content Delivery Adaptation in Web Information Systems. 7th Int. Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06), Nara, Japan, 2006.
• Roberto De Virgilio, Riccardo Torlone. Modeling Heterogeneous Context Information in Adaptive Web-based Applications. 6th Int. Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE'06), Palo Alto, California, USA
• Riccardo Torlone, Roberto De Virgilio. A General Methodology for Context-Aware Data Access. 4th Int. ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MOBIDE'05), Baltimore, USA, 2005.
• Riccardo Torlone, Paolo Ciaccia. Management of User Preferences in Data Intensive Applications. 11th Italian National Conference on Advanced Data Base Systems (SEBD'03), Cetraro, Italy, 2003.
• Riccardo Torlone, Paolo Ciaccia. Which Are My Preferred Items? Workshop on Recommendation and Personalization in eCommerce (RPEC'02), Malaga, Spain, 2002.

Data warehousing

• Riccardo Torlone. Interoperability in Data Warehouses. Encyclopedia of Database Systems 2009: 1560-1564, 2009.
• Riccardo Torlone. Two approaches to the integration of heterogeneous data warehouses. Distributed and Parallel Databases 23(1):69-97, 2008.
• L. Cabibbo, I. Panella, R. Torlone. DaWaII: a Tool for the Integration of Autonomous Data Marts. 22nd Int. Conference nd International Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE'06), 2006.
• L. Cabibbo, R. Torlone. Integrating Heterogeneous Multidimensional Databases 17th Int. Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'05), 2005.
• L. Cabibbo, R. Torlone. On the Integration of Autonomous Data Marts 16th Int. Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'04), 2004.
• Riccardo Torlone. Conceptual Multidimensional Models. Chapter in book: Multidimensional Databases: Problems and Solutions. Idea Group, 2003.

Triggers and active databases

• Danilo Montesi, Riccardo Torlone. Analysis and optimization of active databases. Data Knowl. Eng. 40(3): 241-271, 2002.