RESEARCH AREA: Knowledge Management

Issues concerning pattern management have been investigates. Specifically, the research activities on this topic include:

• Models for pattern representation
• Languages for pattern management

Prototypes

• PSYCHO: a Prototype System for Pattern Management

People

• Barbara Catania
• Anna Maddalena

Selected publications

• B. Catania and A. Maddalena. Pattern Management: Practice and Challenges. To appear in Jerome Darmont and Omar Boussaid, editors, Processing and Managing Complex Data for Decision Support, Idea Group Publishing, 2006.
• B. Catania, A. Maddalena, M. Mazza. PSYCHO: A Prototype System for Pattern Management. In Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, pages 1346-1349, 2005. Demo Paper.
• B. Catania, A. Maddalena, M. Mazza, E. Bertino, S. Rizzi. A Framework for Data Mining Pattern Management. In Proc. of the 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD 2004), pages 87-98, September 2004.
• M. Terrovitis, P. Vassiliadis, S. Skiadopoulos, E. Bertino, B. Catania, e Anna Maddalena. Modeling and Language Support for the Management of Pattern-Bases. In Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Statistical and Scientific Database Management (SSDBM'04), Santorini, Grecia, June 2004.
• S. Rizzi, E. Bertino, B. Catania, et al. Towards a Logical Model for Patterns. In Proc. of the Inf. Conf. on Conceptual Modeling (ER'03), October 2003.
• E. Bertino, B. Catania, and G.P. Zarri. Intelligent Database Systems: a Synopsis. Addison Wesley, New York, 2001.