Research
Interests: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Multi-relational Data Mining, Multi-type clustering and classification and Structured Output Prediction
PhD in Computer Science from University of Bari, Italy, April 2017 (supervisor: Prof. Michelangelo Ceci).
Master degree (Laurea Magistrale) with full marks and honors in Computer Science from University of Bari, Italy, 15 October 2013 (supervisors of laurea thesis: Prof. Michelangelo Ceci - Prof. Donato Malerba). He discussed a thesis on "Multi-type Classification through Predictive Clustering".
First level degree (Laurea Triennale) in Computer Science and Software Production Technologies from the University of Bari, Italy, 24 February 2011. He discussed a thesis on "Federated Databases Monitoring".
Academic career
March 2017 Temporary Lecturer at University of Bari
January 2014 - April 2017 PhD student in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari (supervisor: Prof. Michelangelo Ceci).
Activities
Conference Reviewing
International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA 2014)
International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM 2014, MLDM 2015, MLDM 2016)
International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2014)
International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2014, WI 2015, WI 2016)
International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2014)
International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2014, DS 2016)
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2014, ICDM 2015, ICDM 2016, ICDM 2018)
F. Serafino, Structured Output Prediction in Network Data, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 2017
International Journals
F. Serafino, G. Pio, M. Ceci, Ensemble Learning for Multi-type Classification in Heterogeneous Networks, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2018.2822307, 2018
G. Pio, F. Serafino, D. Malerba, M. Ceci, Multi-type clustering and classification from heterogeneous networks, Information Sciences (2017), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2017.10.021
Proceedings of International Conferences
F. Serafino, G. Pio, M. Ceci, D. Malerba, Hierarchical Multidimensional Classification of Web Documents with MultiWebClass. Discovery Science 2015, LNCS 9356, pp. 236-250, 2015
Proceedings of National Conferences
F. Serafino, G. Pio, M. Ceci, Ensemble Learning for Multi-type Classification in Heterogeneous Networks (Discussion Paper), Italian Symposium on Advanced Datbase Systems (SEBD), 2018
F. Serafino, G. Pio, D. Malerba, M. Ceci, Multi-Type Classification from Heterogeneous Networks (Discussion Paper), Italian Symposium on Advanced Datbase Systems (SEBD), 2016