Phd Activity of ANNA MADDALENA

Last updated 18 October 2007 by Anna Maddalena .

PhD Courses and Credits

2-14/03/2003
Scuola Internazionale dei Dottorandi di Informatica, Bertinoro (BO), Italy
- Advanced Algorithm Design and Engineering (15 ore)
  Docente: Prof. Christos Zaroliagis
- Multi-Resolution Geometric Modeling (15 ore)
  Docente: Prof. Leila De Floriani, Prof. Enrico Puppo
  Esame: SOSTENUTO (20/20)
- Statistical Learning Theory (15 ore)
  Docente: Prof. Alessandro Verri
- Reliability theory and methods (15 ore)
  Docente: Prof. Andrea Bobbio
  Esame: SOSTENUTO (20/20)
AA 2002/2003 Basi di Dati Evoluzioni recenti (48 ore)
Corso di Laurea in Informatica
DISI - Univ. di Genova
Docente: Prof. Barbara Catania
Esame: SOSTENUTO (20/20)
5-10/09/2004
Seventh EDBT Summer School on XML and Databases, Santa Margherita di Pula (CG), Italy
- Formal Methods for XML: Algorithms & Complexity
  Thomas Schwentick
  Esame: POSITIVO
- XML Query Processing: Storage and Query Model Interplay
  Ioana Manolescu
  Esame: POSITIVO
- General techniques for XML Query processing
  Daniela Florescu
  Esame: POSITIVO
- Build your own XQuery processor!
  Jérôme Siméon
  Esame: POSITIVO
- XML & Data integration
  Alon Halevy
  Esame: POSITIVO
- Web services Composition: A Story of Models, Automata and Logics
  Rick Hull
  Esame: POSITIVO
- Full-Text Querying in XML
  Sihem Amer-Yahia
  Esame: POSITIVO
- Fully (or Purely) Relational XPath and XQuery Processors
  Maurice van Keulen, Torsten Grust
  Esame: POSITIVO

Teaching Assistant Activity

AA 2007/2008
Laboratorio di Basi di dati (II anno - CCL in Informatica)
titolari: Barbara Catania - Giovanna Guerrini
esercitazioni di laboratorio guidate - progetto di laboratorio - assistenza agli esami

AA 2006/2007
Laboratorio di Basi di dati (II anno - CCL in Informatica)
titolari: Barbara Catania - Giovanna Guerrini
esercitazioni di laboratorio guidate - progetto di laboratorio - assistenza agli esami

2006/2007 - Attività di supervisione alle tesi di laurea specialistica di Marco Tozzi. DISI - Università di Genova.
2006/2007 - Attività di supervisione alle tesi di laurea triennale di Paola Oneto. DISI - Università di Genova.
2006/2007 - Attività di supervisione alle tesi di laurea triennale di Daniele Mazzeo. DISI - Università di Genova. Relatori: Dott.ssa Anna Maddalena, Prof.ssa Barbara Catania.
2006/2007 - Attività di supervisione alle tesi di laurea triennale di Sara Iacono. DISI - Università di Genova. Relatori: Dott.ssa Anna Maddalena, Prof.ssa Barbara Catania.
AA 2005/2006
Laboratorio di Basi di dati (II anno - CCL in Informatica)
titolare: Barbara Catania
esercitazioni di laboratorio guidate - prove di laboratorio ed assistenza agli esami

2005/2006 - Attività di supervisione alle tesi di laurea (V.O.) di Daniele Verbena. DISI - Università di Genova. Relatori: Prof.ssa Barbara Catania, Dott.ssa Anna Maddalena. Co-relatore: Prof.ssa Gabriella Dodero.
2005/2006 - Attività di supervisione alle tesi di laurea specialistica di Barbara Tacchino. DISI - Università di Genova. Relatori: Prof.ssa Marina Ribaudo, Dott.ssa Anna Maddalena. Co-relatore: Prof.ssa Barbara Catania.

AA 2004/2005
Laboratorio di Basi di dati (II anno - CCL in Informatica)
titolare: Barbara Catania
esercitazioni di laboratorio guidate - prove di laboratorio ed assistenza agli esami

AA 2003/2004
Laboratorio di Basi di dati (II anno - CCL in Informatica)
titolare: Barbara Catania
esercitazioni di laboratorio guidate - prove d'esame di laboratorio ed assistenza agli esami

2003/2004 - Attività di supervisione alle tesi di laurea (V.O.) di Maurizio Mazza. DISI - Università di Genova. Relatore: Prof.ssa Barbara Catania. Co-relatore: Dott.ssa Anna Maddalena
2003/2004 - Attività di supervisione alle tesi di laurea triennale di Simone Mello. DISI - Università di Genova. Relatori: Prof.ssa Barbara Catania, Dott.ssa Anna Maddalena

AA 2002/2003
Laboratorio di Basi di dati I (II anno - CCL in Informatica)
titolare: Barbara Catania
esercitazioni di laboratorio guidate (18 ore) - prove di laboratorio ed assistenza agli esami

Research Activity

Supervisor: Barbara Catania
Thesis Advisor: Barbara Catania
Research interests: Databases - XML - Datawarehousing e Webhousing - Knowledge Management - Datamining

Pubblications

2007

M. Terrovitis, P. Vassiliadis, S. Skiadopoulos, E. Bertino, B. Catania, A. Maddalena, and S. Rizzi. Modeling and Language Support for the Management of Pattern-Bases. Data & Knowledge Engineering, vol 62(2): 368-397
A. Maddalena, B. catania. Towards an Interoperable Solution for Pattern Management. In Proc. of the 3rd Int.Workshop on Database Interoperability (InterDb'07), in conjunction with VLDB 2007 Conference, Vienna - Austria, September 24, 2007
A.Maddalena and B.Catania. Modeling and Managing Heterogeneous Patterns: the PSYCHO Experience. In Florent Masseglia, Pascal Poncelet and Maguelonne Teisseire, editors, Successes and New Directions in Data Mining, Idea Group Publishing. Inc., ISBN9781599046457
A.Maddalena, M.Tozzi. Una soluzione interoperabile per la gestione della conoscenza. DISI-TR-07-09.(pdf)

2006

B. Catania and A. Maddalena. Flexible Pattern Management within PSYCHO. In Proc. of the 2nd Int. Workshop on Pattern Representation and Management (PaRMa'06), in conjunction with EDBT 2006 Conference, Munich - Germany, March 30, 2006, LNCS 4254, pp. 789-800, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. (full version).
B. Catania and A. Maddalena. Pattern Management: Practice and Challenges. In J.Darmont and O.Boussaid, editors, Processing and Managing Complex Data for Decision Support, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. ISBN159140656-0

2005

B.Catania, A.Maddalena, and A.Vakali. Indexes for XML Documents: a Classification. IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE vol.9(5):64 - 71, September-October, 2005.
S.Bressan, B. Catania, Z.Lacroix, Y.G. Li, and A.Maddalena. Accelerating Queries by Pruning XML Documents. Data & Knowledge Engineering, vol. 54(2): 211-240. 2005.
B.Catania, A.Maddalena, and M.Mazza. PSYCHO: A Prototype System for Pattern Management. In Proc. of the 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases(VLDB'05), Trondheim, Norway, August 30 - September 2, 2005, pp.1346-1349.
A.Vakali, B.Catania, and A.Maddalena. XML data stores: emerging practices. IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE vol.9(2):62 - 69, March-April, 2005.

2004

B.Catania, A.Maddalena, M.Mazza, E.Bertino, and S.Rizzi. A Framework for Data Mining Pattern Management. In Proc. of the 15th European Conference on Machine Learning and 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD'04), Pisa, Italy, September 20-24,2004. LNAI 3202, pp. 87-98, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. (abstract, full version)
M. Terrovitis, P. Vassiliadis, S. Skiadopoulos, E. Bertino, B. Catania, A. Maddalena. Modeling and Language Support for the Management of Pattern-Bases. In Proc. of the 16th Int. Conf. on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'04), Santorini Island, Greece, June 21-23, 2004. (full version)
E.Bertino, B.Catania, and A.Maddalena. Toward a Language for Pattern Manipulation and Querying. In Proc. of the Int. Workshop on Pattern Representation and Management (PaRMa'04), in conjunction with EDBT 2004 Conference, Heraklion - Crete, Greece, March 18, 2004.
A.Maddalena. Pattern Based Management: Data Models and Architectural Aspects. In Proc. of the ICDE/EDBT Ph.D. Workshop, in conjunction with EDBT 2004 Conference, Heraklion - Crete, Greece, March 18, 2004. LNCS 3268, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
S.Bressan, Z.Lacroix, Y.G. Li, and A.Maddalena. Prune XML before you search it: XML Transformations for Query Optimization. In Proc. of the Int. Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML information on the Web (DataX), in conjunction with EDBT 2004 Conference, Heraklion - Crete, Greece, March 18, 2004. LNCS 3268, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
B.Catania, and A.Maddalena. A Framework for Cluster Management. In Proc. of the Int. Workshop on Clustering Information over the Web (ClustWeb), in conjunction with EDBT 2004 Conference, Heraklion - Crete, Greece, March 18, 2004. LNCS 3268, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

2003

E.Bertino, B.Catania, M. Golfarelli, M. Halkidi, A.Maddalena, S.Skiadopoulos, S. Rizzi, M.Terrovitis, P. Vassiliadis, M. Varzigiannis, and E.Vrachnos. The Logical Model for Patterns. TR-2003-02, PANDA.
S.Bressan, B. Catania, Z.Lacroix, Y.G. Li, and A.Maddalena. Equivalence Preserving transformation for XML Documents. DISI-TR-03-05-S.

2002

Barbara Catania e Anna Maddalena. A Clustering Approach for XML Linked Documents. In proceedings of DEXA Workshops 2002: 121-128. Aix en Provence, September 2002.Electronic Edition

Conferences, Seminars, Short Visits

Abstraction Networks for Controlled Terminologies. Speaker: Prof. Michael Halper - Department of Mathematics & Computer Science , Kean University Union, USA. DISI, Università di Genova, Italy, March, 21 2006.
Programma 101, il primo personal computer. Speaker: Pierpaolo Perotto. DISI, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy, December, 22 2005.
Il Sistema Liguria per l'ICT è competitivo! .... ma è oggi meno attrattivo?" Convegno organizzato dalla Sezione Informatica di Assoindustria Genova in conjunzione con la II edizione del Premio Perotto. Genova, Italy, December, 21 2005.
Subsequence Matching for Time Series Forecasting. Speaker: Dott.Maurizio Filippone, DISI, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy, December, 2005.
31th International Conference on Very Large Data Base (VLDB 2005), Trondheim, Norway, August 30 - September 2, 2005.
Standard per Sistemi Informativi Geografici: un'Introduzione. Speaker: Dott.Marco Bozzo, DISI, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy, December, 21 2004.
Security Views: Providing both Security and Schema for XML. Speaker: Prof. Gabriel Kuper, Università degli Studi di Trento, Genova, Italy, October 26, 2004.
15th European Conference on Machine Learning and 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD'04), Pisa, Italy, September 20-24, 2004.
Seventh EDBT Summer School on XML and Databases, Santa Margherita di Pula (CG), Italy, September 5-10, 2004.
9th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2004), Heraklion - Crete, Greece, March 14-18, 2004.
Denotational semantics for View-based Database Mappings. Speaker: Dr. Zoran Majkic, Affiliation Università di Roma, Genova, Italy, December 12, 2003.
Web information Extraction with Lixto: Visual Logic and Expressive Power. Speaker: Georg Gottlob, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Genova, Italy, November 25, 2003.
First PANDA Workshop on Pattern-Base Management Systems. Como, Italy, April 10-11, 2003.
Scuola Internazionale dei Dottorandi di Informatica, Bertinoro (BO), Italy. March 2-14, 2003.
DEXA 2002 - First International Workshop on Web Semantics – WebS 2002. Aix en Provence, France, 2-6 September 2002.

Annual Reports

2003

During my first PHD period, I investigated the following research issues in the database research field: XML indexing and query processing; Webhousing and Web personalization; and pattern management.

Concerning XML indexing, I put my effort in studing indexing techniques supporting semi-structured data query processing. In particular, I studied some indexing techniques supporting XML documents processing.

During 2002 and 2003, I participated to the CLICKWORLD project, an industrial research project aimed at building a Web proactive
personalization system capable to tailor Web pages on user preferences. In the context of this project, I designed and implemented the webhouse, supporting the management of knowledge extracted from users navigation observations, on ORACLE platform.

Pattern management is the topic of my PhD thesis. Patterns are concise, but rich in semantic, representation of data (data mining results, multimedia features,Web structural information,etc.). Concerning this issue, I partecipated to the PANDA (Patterns for Next-generation DAtabase systems) project. PANDA is an European Project, laying the foundations of pattern modeling and investigating the main issues in pattern querying and management in order to state the basic requirements of a Pattern-Based Management System. In the context of PANDA, I contributed to formalize the proposal of a unified logical model for representing heterogeneous patterns. Furthermore, I worked on languages for pattern manipulation and querying. Finally, I investigated the potentiality of using a pattern based management system to manage knowledge concerning user navigation observations, as that considered in the context of the CLICKWORLD project.

Presently, I am a member of the program committee of the "IADIS International Conference" WWW/Internet 2004, and of the scientific committee of the "International Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML information on the Web" (DataX'04).

Furthermore, I reviewed papers for the "Int’l Workshop on Pattern Representation and Management (PaRMa’04)"

PhD thesis proposal (PDF)
Thesis proposal presentation (slide)

2004

During this year I was mainly devoted to study pattern management issue, which is the topic of my PhD thesis. Essentially, I worked on logical and theoretical aspects. Expecially, I worked on the formalization of the logical model for representing heterogeneous patterns and I have extended such a model with temporal management characteristics. Furthermore, I worked on languages for patterns. I have proposed the pattern manipulation language and an algebraic approach for the pattern query language. Both of them have been extended with the possibility to deal with temporal information associate with patterns according to the temporal model proposed. Actually, I am working on the definition of a calculus for the pattern querying. As a background work, the literature has been analyzed in order to study other proposals dealing with pattern management issue.

Presently, I am a member of the program committee of the "IADIS International Conference" WWW/Internet 2004, and "1st International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies " WEBIST 2005.

Furthermore, I reviewed papers for the "International Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML information on the Web (DataX'04)", "Int. Workshop on Clustering Information over the Web (ClustWeb'04)", "Sixth International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (IIWAS 2004)", and " Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFA 2005)".

Moreover, I attended the Seventh EDBT Summer School on XML and Databases, Santa Margherita di Pula (CG), Italy.

PhD thesis progress report (PDF)

2005

During this year I complete the study of several formal aspects concerning pattern management. Especially, I worked on query languages for patterns. I have proposed an algebra and a calculus for pattern querying and I have analysed some theoretical issues concerning their expressive power and computational complexity. Moreover, during this last year I have devoted many efforts in designing a prototype system implementing a pattern based management system according to the logical model and to languages for patterns I have proposed. Such a prototype system has been demonstrated at the "31th International Conference on Very Large Data Base (VLDB 2005)".

Presently, I am a member of the program committee of the "IADIS International Conferences WWW/Internet 2005 and Applied Computing 2006", "International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies " WEBIST 2006, and "International Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML information on the Web (DataX'06)" - in conjunction with EDBT'2006.

Furthermore, I reviewed papers for the "10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006)", "9th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2005)", "International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)", "International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS)", and "Processing and Managing Complex Data for Decision Support", J.Darmont and O.Boussaid, editors, Idea Group, Inc.

2006

On May, 31 2006, I defended my PhD thesis "A Unified Framework for Heterogeneous Pattern Management" and I got my PhD in Computer Science.

Presently, I am a member of the program committee of the "IADIS International Conferences WWW/Internet 2006 and Applied Computing 2006-2007", "International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies " WEBIST 2007, and "Information Resources Management Association International Conference" IRMA 2007,

Furthermore, I reviewed papers for the following international conferences: DEXA 06 and ADBIS2006; and for the following International Journal: Data & Knowledge Engineering, Information Sciences, and International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET)