The paper "Textual and Content-Based Search in Repositories of Web Application Models" I co-authored together with Bojana Bislimovska, Alessandro Bozzon, and Piero Fraternali has now been published on the ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB). The article examines two different techniques for indexing and searching model repositories, with a focus on Web development projects encoded … Continue reading Textual and Content-Based Search in Repositories of Web Application Models – TWEB paper
The October 2013 issue of the ACM Transaction on the Web includes an article of ours on bottom-up domain model design of connected web data sources. This is becoming a more and more important problem as a wealth of data services is becoming available on the Web. Indeed, building and querying Web applications that effectively … Continue reading A bottom-up, knowledge-aware approach to integrating and querying web data services – ACM Trans. on the Web
Our paper: Answering search queries with CrowdSearcherhas been accepted and presented at WWW 2012 in Lyon.Here is the abstract:Web users are increasingly relying on social interaction to complete and validate the results of their search activities. While search systems are superior machines to get world-wide information, the opinions collected within friends and expert/local communities can ultimately … Continue reading Answering search queries with CrowdSearcher – WWW2012
Last week I have been attending WWW 2012 in Lyon and within it I joined the First International Workshop on Crowdsourcing Web search (CrowdSearch 2012) on April 17 to April 20 in Lyon, France. I enjoyed a lot the technical contributions and the extremely lively discussion and feedback from the audience (50+ people throughout the day).The program … Continue reading CrowdSearch 2012: my experience at the First International Workshop On Crowdsourcing Web Search at WWW2012
Together with Piero Fraternali and Daniel Schwabe I organized a workshop at ICWE 2011 on on Search, Exploration and Navigation of Web Data Sources, named ExploreWeb 2011.It was a new challenge for us, because it was at its first edition, but I can say it has been a quite successful event.We got 12 submissions and … Continue reading ExploreWeb workshop on exploration of (Semantic) Web data at ICWE 2011
Together with Alessandro Bozzon, I've presented a demonstration of the search computing exploratory search paradigm at WWW 2010.The demonstrated scenario is in the real estate and job search field. Suppose that a user is willing to find a new job with a specific expertise and in a certain city. Based on his findings, he also … Continue reading Search Computing demonstration at WWW 2010, Hyderabad, India
The new Springer LNCS book (volume 5950) Search Computing - Challenges and Directionsedited by Stefano Ceri and Marco Brambilla is in print.A preview of the book (with interactive table of contents) is now available. Publication of paper version of the book is scheduled for March 2010.
I have been invited to present a Challenge Talk at ESEC/FSE 2009, in Amsterdam on Search Computing. I presented the following talk on 28 August 2009 at Vrije University:Title: Engineering Search Computing Applications: Vision and ChallengesAbstract: Search computing is a novel discipline whose goal is to answer complex, multi-domain queries. Such queries typically require combining … Continue reading Invited Challenge Talk on Search Computing at ESEC/ ACM SIGSOFT FSE 2009
On June 23rd, 2009 I chaired the Pharos Federation Day, in Como. The program was the following: 09:30 - 10:00: Welcome and introduction (Marco Brambilla, WBM) 10:00 - 12:00: Exploitation scenarios and possibilities. Open discussion (Tonina Scuderi, ENG) 12:00 - 12:30: Demonstration of the PHAROS platform – front end demo (Alessandro Bozzon, WBM) [30’]14:00 - … Continue reading Pharos Federation Day, June 23
I co-organized the Pharos Summer School in Como from June 22nd to June 26th.You can have a look to the associated details here:http://www.pharos-audiovisual-search.eu/all-events/66-pharos-summer-school-june-2009.htmlSome pictures:
