Prof. Riccardo Torlone

Research group

• Big data
  

Research interests

• Data integration, data exchange, model management, user preferences, query relaxation, data lakes, NoSQL databases, keyword search, social networks, big data management, data engineering for ML, data provenance, ethics in data management.
• Graphically, using Wordle with the titles of my publications.

Publications

• List of publications at the DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
• List of publications at Google scholar

A (partial) list of recent papers:

Data Provenance

• Adriane Chapman, Luca Lauro, Paolo Missier, and Riccardo Torlone. Supporting Better Insights of Data Science Pipelines with Fine-grained Provenance. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 49(2): 6:1-6:42 (2024)
• Luca Gregori, Paolo Missier, Matthew Stidolph, Riccardo Torlone, Alessandro Wood: Design and Development of a Provenance Capture Platform for Data Science. ICDEW 2024: 285-290
• Adriane Chapman, Luca Lauro, Paolo Missier, and Riccardo Torlone. DPDS: Assisting Data Science with Data Provenance. Proc. VLDB Endow. 15(12): 3614-3617, 2022
• Adriane Chapman, Paolo Missier, Giulia Simonelli, Riccardo Torlone: Capturing and querying fine-grained provenance of preprocessing pipelines in data science. Proc. VLDB Endow. 14(4): 507-520 (2020)

Ethics in data management

• Donatella Firmani, Letizia Tanca, Riccardo Torlone: Ethical Dimensions for Data Quality. ACM J. Data Inf. Qual. 12(1): 2:1-2:5 (2020)
• Donatella Firmani, Letizia Tanca, Riccardo Torlone: Data Processing: Reflections on Ethics. PIE@CAiSE 2019

Data Integration and Exchange

• Paolo Atzeni, Luigi Bellomarini, Paolo Papotti, Riccardo Torlone. Meta-Mappings for Schema Mapping Reuse. PVLDB, 12(5): pag. 557-569, 2019.
• Paolo Atzeni, Riccardo Torlone. Data and Metadata Management. in Semantic Web Information Management: a Model-Based Perspective. pag. 9-24, 2010.
• 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. Heterogeneous Data Translation through XML Conversion. Journal of Web Engineering, 2005.

Polystores and Data Lakes

• Antonio Maccioni, Riccardo Torlone. Augmented Access for Querying and Exploring a Polystore. 34th IEEE Int. Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE'18), 2018.
• Antonio Maccioni, Riccardo Torlone. KAYAK: A Framework for Just-in-Time Data Preparation in a Data Lake. 30th Int. Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2018) , 2017.
• Antonio Maccioni, Riccardo Torlone. Crossing the finish line faster when paddling the Data Lake with Kayak. PVLDB 10(12), pag. 1853-1856, 2017.
• Antonio Maccioni, Edoardo Basili, Riccardo Torlone. QUEPA: QUerying and Exploring a Polystore by Augmentation. 2016 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pag. 2133-2136, 2016.

NoSQL databases

• Francesca Bugiotti, Luca Cabibbo, Paolo Atzeni, Riccardo Torlone. Data Modeling in the NoSQL World. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2020.
• Roberto De Virgilio, Antonio Maccioni, Riccardo Torlone. R2G: a Tool for Migrating Relations to Graphs. 17th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), pag. 640-643, 2014.
• Roberto De Virgilio, Antonio Maccioni, Riccardo Torlone. Model-Driven Design of Graph Databases. 33rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), pag. 172-185, 2014.
• Francesca Bugiotti1, Luca Cabibbo, Paolo Atzeni, Riccardo Torlone. Database Design for NoSQL Systems. 33rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), pag. 223-231, 2014.
• Paolo Atzeni, Christian S. Jensen, Giorgio Orsi, Sudha Ram, Letizia Tanca, Riccardo Torlone: The relational model is dead, SQL is dead, and I don't feel so good myself. SIGMOD Record 42(2): 64-68 (2013)
• Roberto De Virgilio, Antonio Maccioni, Riccardo Torlone. Converting relational to graph databases. 1st Workshop on Graph Data-management Experiences & Systems (GRADES), 2013.

Community Detection in Social networks

• Alessio Conte, Donatella Firmani, Maurizio Patrignani, Riccardo Torlone: A meta-algorithm for finding large k-plexes. Knowl. Inf. Syst. 63(7): 1745-1769 (2021)
• Alessio Conte, Donatella Firmani, Maurizio Patrignani, Riccardo Torlone. Shared-Nothing Distributed Enumeration of 2-Plexes. 28th Int. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2019.
• Alessio Conte, Donatella Firmani, Caterina Mordente, Maurizio Patrignani, Riccardo Torlone. Fast Enumeration of Large k-Plexes. 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), pag. 115-124, 2017.
  
• Alessio Conte, Roberto De Virgilio, Antonio Maccioni, Maurizio Patrignani, Riccardo Torlone. Finding All Maximal Cliques in Very Large Social Networks. 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), pag. 173-184, 2016.

Querying relaxation

• Roberto De Virgilio, Antonio Maccioni, Riccardo Torlone. A Unified Framework for Flexible Query Answering over Heterogeneous Data Sources. 11th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS), pag. 283-294, 2015.
  
• Davide Martinenghi, Riccardo Torlone. Taxonomy-based relaxation of query answering in relational databases. The VLDB Journal, 2014.
• Davide Martinenghi, Riccardo Torlone. Querying Databases with Taxonomies. 29th Int. Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), pag. 377-390, 2010.

User Preferences, Personalization and Adaptation

• Paolo Ciaccia, Davide Martinenghi, Riccardo Torlone: Preference Queries over Taxonomic Domains. Proc. VLDB Endow. 14(10): 1859-1871 (2021)
• Paolo Ciaccia, Davide Martinenghi, Riccardo Torlone.Foundations of Context-aware Preference Propagation. Journal of ACM, Article No.: 4, 2020.
• Paolo Ciaccia, Davide Martinenghi, Riccardo Torlone. Finding Preferred Objects with Taxonomies. 38th Int. Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2019.
• 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. 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 (2nd ed): 1560-1564, 2018.
• 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 IEEE Int. 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.