Prof. Giovanni Maria Sacco
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Didattica
Interazione Uomo-Macchina

Modelli Avanzati e Architetture di Basi di Dati
programmi, materiale didattico, modalita' di esame e voti degli esami
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BOOK
Theory, Practice, and Experience

The Information Retrieval Series , Vol. 25
Sacco, Giovanni Maria; Tzitzikas, Yannis (Eds.)
SPRINGER 2009, XVII, 340 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-642-02358-3
Research
Dynamic Taxonomies Research Group
SIG-FIND Special Interest and Research Group on Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search
Highlights
System-R: a milestone in data management
with Mario Schkolnick: the hot set model for buffer management
TODS paper
MIT Kerberos Authentication Service
with Dorothy Denning: Timestamps in key distribution protocols and the first attack on key protocols
A fundamental paper in computer security: over 800 citations
CACM paper
Fragmentation aka Recursive hash partitioned join
The FIRST sub-sort-merge join algorithm
TODS paper
Dynamic taxonomies aka Faceted Search
A breakthrough in intelligent access to information, and the current de facto standard for product selection in e-commerce
TKDE paper
Recent Papers
2015
G.M. Sacco
Exploratory Access to Wikipedia through Faceted Dynamic Taxonomies
Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Workshop: Wikipedia, a Social Pedia: Research Challenges and Opportunities
G.M. Sacco
Dynamic Taxonomies for Intelligent Information Access
In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition (pp. 3883-3892). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch382
2013
G.M. Sacco
Citizen-Centric Access to E-Government Information Through Dynamic Taxonomies
In S. Saeed, & C. Reddick (Eds.) Human-Centered System Design for Electronic Governance (pp. 37-48). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-3640-8.ch003
2012
with G. Nigrelli, A. Bosio, M. Chiarle, F. Luino
Dynamic taxonomies applied to a web-based relational database for geo-hydrological risk mitigation
COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES (ISSN:0098-3004) , pp. 182- 187, Vol. 39.
Global guided interactive diagnosis through dynamic taxonomies
25th IEEE Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems, Rome, 2012
Fast block-compressed inverted lists
23rd DEXA Conference, Vienna
2011
with G. Berio, A. Di Leva, M. Harzallah
Competence management over social networks through dynamic taxonomies,
in Boughzala I., Dudezert A., Knowledge Management 2.0: Organizational Models and Enterprise Strategies, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, pp. 103- 120.
2010
Dynamic Taxonomies
invited paper in: Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, Second Edition, Schwartz D., Te'eni D. (eds.), IGI Global, 2010
2009
Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search
Theory, Practice and Experience
Springer
Editors: Giovanni Maria Sacco and Yannis Tzitzikas

Chapter 1 The Model
Chapter 3 Comparison with Other Techniques (with S. Ferre and Y. Tzitzikas)
Chapter 5 Extensions to the Model (with S. Ferre)
Chapter 7 Taxonomy Design (with W. Dakka and P. Ipeirotis)
Chapter 8 System Implementation (with Y. Tzitzikas and S. Ferre)
Chapter 9 Applications and Experiences (with S. Ferre)
Chapter 10 Conclusions (with Y. Tzitzikas)
Buffer Management
invited paper in Encyclopedia of Database Systems Özsu, M. Tamer; Liu, Ling (Eds.), Springer
2008
Rosso Tiziano: a system for user-centered exploration and discovery in large image information bases
DEXA 2008, Turin, 1-5 September 2008, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, p. 297-311
DT-miner: data mining for the people
2nd Int. Workshop on Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search, Turin, 3 September 2008, IEEE Press, p. 387-391
e-RARE: interactive diagnostic assistance for rare diseases through dynamic taxonomies
2nd Int. Workshop on Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search, Turin, 3 September 2008, IEEE Press, p. 407-411
Dynamic Taxonomies
selected for reprint in: Knowledge Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (6 Volumes), Jennex, M. E. ed, IGI Global, 2008
originally in: Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, D. Schwartz ed., Idea Group, 2005
with G. Berio and M. Harzallah
e-HRM -- Integrating Architectures for Competence Management
in: Encyclopedia of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges in e-HRM, Torres, T., Arias, M. ed., IGI Global, 2008
Dynamic taxonomies for intelligent information access
in: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 2nd edition, Khosrow-Pour, M. ed, IGI Global, 2008
2007
Research Results in Dynamic Taxonomy and Faceted Search Systems
DEXA FIND'07 Int. Workshop on Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search, Regensburg, 2007
extended version of the SIGIR'2006 Workshop on Faceted Search paper
Interactive Exploration and Discovery of e-Government Services
dg.o2007 8th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Philadelphia, May 20-23, 2007
Intelligent user-centric access to public information
in: Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour ed. Idea Group Inc.
Dynamic taxonomies: guided interactive diagnostic assistance
in: Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems, N. Wickramasinghe ed., Idea Group, 2007
with G. Berio and M. Harzallah
Portals for integrated competence management
in: Encyclopedia of Portal Technology and Applications, A. Tatnall ed., Idea Group Inc.
E-commerce portals: guided product selection and comparison
in: Encyclopedia of Portal Technology and Applications, A. Tatnall ed., Idea Group Inc.
Dynamic taxonomies: intelligent user-centric access to complex portal information
in: Encyclopedia of Portal Technology and Applications, A. Tatnall ed., Idea Group Inc.
2006
Some Research Results in Dynamic Taxonomy and Faceted Search Systems
SIGIR'2006 Workshop on Faceted Search, August 2006 Seattle, WA, USA
Truly Adaptive Optimization: the Basic Ideas
DEXA 2006, 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Krakow, Poland, September 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer 2006
Analysis and Validation of Information Access through Mono, Multidimensional and Dynamic Taxonomies
FQAS 2006, 7th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, Milano, June 2006, Springer LNAI 4027, 2006 [Revised version of "Conventional taxonomies vs. dynamic taxonomies"]
Dynamic taxonomies and guided searches
J. of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57:6, April 2006
User-centric access to e-government information: e-citizen discovery of e-services
2006 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University
2005
Dynamic Taxonomies
in: Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, D. Schwartz ed., Idea Group
Guided interactive information access for e-citizens
EGOV05 – Int. Conf. on E-Government, within the Dexa Conf. Framework, Copenhagen, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3591 Springer 2005
The intelligent e-store: easy interactive product selection and comparison
7th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology, IEEE CEC'05, Munich, July 2005
DBWorld Xtended: semantic dissemination of information through dynamic taxonomies
5th Int. Conf. on Knowledge Management, I-KNOW05, Graz, J. of Universal Computer Science, Springer 2005
Guided interactive diagnostic systems
IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Dublin, 2005
No (e-)Democracy without (e-)Knowledge
TCGOV 2005, TED Conference on e-Government, Bolzano, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3416 Springer 2005
2004
Uniform access to multimedia information bases through dynamic taxonomies
IEEE 6th Int. Symp. on Multimedia Software Engineering, Miami, December 13-15, 2004
Accessing Multimedia Infobases through Dynamic Taxonomies
8th Int. Conf. of ISKO, London, 2004
with Matteo Baldoni, et al.:
A formal framework for handling audiovisual materials
ACM MIS 2004, Int. Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems College Park, 2004
2003
The Intelligent E-Sales Clerk: the Basic Ideas
INTERACT'03, September 1-5, 2003 - Zürich, Switzerland
Systematic Browsing for Multimedia Infobases
CISST 2003, June 23 - 26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Dynamic taxonomies and guided searches
ACM CHI 2003 - Best Practices and Future Visions for Search UIs: A Workshop, Miami, 2003
2000
Dynamic taxonomies: a model for large information bases
IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, May/June 2000