Research interests
Data integration, adaptive information systems, data warehousing
and OLAP, Web based information systems, XML data management, Semantic Web,
data modelling and database design, data exchange and versioning, model management.
Recent papers Data and Metadata Exchange
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.
Adaptive Information Systems
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. 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.
L. Cabibbo, R. Torlone. An Architecture for Data Warehousing Supporting
Data Independence and Interoperability. IJCIS 10(3), pag. 377-397, 2001.
L. Cabibbo, R. Torlone. A Framework for the Investigation of Aggregate
Functions in Database Queries. In International Conference on Data Base
Theory (ICDT'99), Jerusalem, Israel, pag. 383-397, 1999.
Triggers and active databases