Assistant Professor

Take a look at the [[http://datascience.di.uniba.it|Vocational Master on DATA SCIENCE]]

*'''Generating Natural Language Explanations for Recommender Systems''', Keynote at the Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation on User Modeling and Recommender Systems]], Haifa, Israel, July 18, 2017.

*'''IUI 2016''' (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Senior Program Committee);

*'''UMAP 2015, 2014''' (International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization);

*'''RecSys 2016, 2015, 2014''' (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Senior Program Committee);

*'''SAC 2014''' (ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Senior PC for the Track on Recommender Systems: Theory and Applications);

*'''Generating Natural Language Explanations for Recommender Systems''', Keynote at [[|Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation on User Modeling and Recommender Systems]], Haifa, Israel, July 18, 2017.

*Late-Breaking Results and Demos co-chair at 26th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2018), Singapore, June 2018;

*'''Beyond TFIDF''', Coursera Interview for the Introduction to Recommender Systems: Non-Personalized and Content-Based specialization, Recommender Systems course, January 2017. ([[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29928171/Talk%40Coursera.mp4|Download interview]]).

*'''Beyond TFIDF''', Coursera Interview for the Introduction to Recommender Systems: Non-Personalized and Content-Based specialization, Recommender Systems course, January 2017.

*'''Beyond TFIDF''', Coursera Interview for the specialization Introduction to Recommender Systems: Non-Personalized and Content-Based, of the online course Recommender Systems, January 2017.

\item \textbf{Coursera Interview} su ``Beyond TFIDF'', nell'ambito della specializzazione ``Introduction to Recommender Systems: Non-Personalized and Content-Based'' del corso online su Recommender Systems, Gennaio 2017.

*Program co-chair of [[https://blinksworkshop.wordpress.com/|BLINKS 2015: 1st Workshop on Big, LINKed and Social data for User Modeling and Personalized Intelligent Systems]], at the ACM Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2016), Halifax, Canada, 13-17 July, 2016;

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[[https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=1MHRACkAAAAJ&hl=it|Google Scholar]] | [[https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6602373827|Scopus]] | [[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/l/Lops:Pasquale|DBLP]]

[[https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=1MHRACkAAAAJ&hl=it|Google Scholar]]

[[#ShortCV|Short CV]] | [[#Research|Research Interests]] | [[#Activities|Activities]] | [[#Pubblicazioni|Publications]] | [[Corsi.TeachingLops|Teaching]]

*'''Semantics-Aware Techniques for Social Media Analysis, User Modeling, and Recommender Systems''', Tutorial at [[http://www.um.org/umap2016/|24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP)]], 13-17 July 2016 - Halifax, Canada. (More info [[http://www.um.org/umap2016/program/tutorials|here]]).

*'''Semantics-Aware Techniques for Social Media Analysis, User Modeling, and Recommender Systems''', Tutorial at [[http://www.um.org/umap2016/|24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP)]], 13-17 July 2016 - Halifax, Canada. (More info [[http://www.um.org/umap2016/program/tutorials|here).

'''[++Invited Talks++]'''

*'''RecSys 2015, 2014''' (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Senior Program Committee);

*Track Chair on User Modelling for Recommender Systems at [[http://www.um.org/umap2016/|UMAP 2016]], International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (Halifax, Canada, July 13-17, 2016);

*'''IUI 2016''' (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Senior Program Committee);

'''e-mail:''' lops___AT___di.uniba.it

*'''FinRec 2015''' (International Workshop on Personalization and Recommender Systems in Financial Services);

*'''SNOW@WWW2014''' (Social News on the Web)

*'''RecSys 2014''' (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Senior Program Committee);

*'''HRSUNE@IUI2015''' (International Workshop on Human Aspects of Making Recommendations in Social Ubiquitous Networking Environments);

*'''HT 2014''' (ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media);

*'''ESWC 2014''' Challenge on Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems;

*Program co-chair of the [[http://decatws.wordpress.com/|DeCAT 2015: 1st International Workshop on Deep Content Analytics Techniques for Personalized and Intelligent Services ]], at the 23rd Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, June 30, 2015;

*'''Semantics-aware Content-based Recommender Systems: the Big Picture''', Keynote at the [[http://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/index.php/crievents/2015/419-social-and-semantic-aspects-of-recommender-systems-%E2%80%93-recsoc-2015|RecSoc 2015: Social and Semantic aspects of recommender systems - A workshop on advances in recommender systems]], Haifa, Israel, June 16-17, 2015.

*Publicity co-chair of the [[http://recsys.acm.org/recsys15/|9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2015)]], Vienna, Austria, September 16-20, 2015;

* '''My publications on''' %newwin% [[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/l/Lops:Pasquale.html|DBLP]] | [[http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/pasquale%20lops|Bibsonomy]]

*'''HRSUNE@IUI2015''' (International Workshop on Human Aspects of Making Recommendations in Social Ubiquitous Networking Environments

*'''FinRec 2015''' (International Workshop on Personalization and Recommender Systems in Financial Services);

*'''IIR 2014, 2013, 2012''' (Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);

*'''UMAP 2014''' (International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization);

*'''IUI 2014''' (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces);

*'''EMPIRE@UMAP2014''' (Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services)

*'''RecSys 2014 (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Senior Program Committee);

*'''CaRR 2012, 2011''' (International Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation) nell'ambito della conferenza internazionale Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI);

* '''Complete list of publications''' %newwin% [[http://publicationslist.org/pasquale.lops|VIEW]]

*ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems [[http://tiis.acm.org/|(ACM TiiS)]]. Guest editor, special issue on [[http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html#si-call-hdmrs|Human Decision Making and Recommender Systems]] (to appear at the end of 2012).
*ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology [[http://tist.acm.org/|(ACM TIST)]]. Guest editor, special issue on [[http://tist.acm.org/CFPs/TIST-SI-SASWeb.html|Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb)]] (to appear in 2012).

*'''IIR 2013, 2012''' (Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);

*'''Artificial Intelligence''', Elsevier (2012)

*'''WSDM 2013''' (International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining);

*'''UMAP 2010''' (International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization);

*'''Journal of Intelligent Information Systems''', Springer (2012)

*'''RecSys 2012, 2011, 2010''' (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems);

*'''IIR 2013, 2012''' (Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);
*'''SPIM 2013, 2012''' (International Worksop on Semantic Personalized Information Management at WSDM 2013, ICWE 2012);

*'''ISMIS 2012''' (20th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems);
*'''Personalized Knowledge Modeling with Big (Usage \& Context) Data 2012''' (at User Modeling, Adaptiation and Personalization UMAP 2012);
*'''CaRR 2012, 2011''' (International workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation at IUI 2012, 2011);
*'''ISMIS 2011''' (19th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems);
*'''DART 2011''' (5th International Workshop on New Challenges in Distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval);
*'''HetRec 2011''' (International workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems at RecSys 2011;
*'''CAMRa 2011''' Challenge on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation (CAMRa 2011) at RecSys 2011;
*'''SaSWeb 2010''' (International Workshop on Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web at 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptiation and Personalization UMAP 2010);
*'''HSI 2010''' Session: Accessing, Structuring, Analyzing and Adapting Information in Web 2.0 (3rd IEEE International Conference on Human System Interaction);
*'''PICom 2009''' (8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing);
*'''ISDA 2009''' Session S1: Computational Intelligence for Personalization in Web Content and Service Delivery (9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications);
*'''EC-Web 2009''' (10th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, Linz, Austria, 31 August-4 September, 2009)
*'''ICADIWT 2009''' (2nd International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies);

*'''KES 2008''' (12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems);
*'''(TUMAS-A) 2008''' Towards User Modelling and Adaptive Systems for All: Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology in eLearning, nell'ambito della conferenza internazionale IEEE/WIC/ACM 2008 (Joint International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008);
*'''Web X.0 and Web mining workshop (WWM)''', nell'ambito della First International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2009), Allahabad, India, January 19, 2009;
*'''Wikis, Blogs, Bookmarking Tools - Mining theWeb 2.0''', nell'ambito della conferenza internazionale ECML/PKDD 2008 (19th European Conference on Machine Learning & 12th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Antwerp, Belgium, September 15, 2008);
*'''Recommender Systems and Personalized Retrieval (RSPR 2008)''', nell'ambito della conferenza internazionale ICADIWT 2008 (1st IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information andWeb Technologies, Ostrava, Czech Republic. August 4-6, 2008);
*'''Engineered Applications of Semantic Web (SWEA)''', invited session at the International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2008);
*'''ECML-PKDD 2007''' - 18th European Conference on Machine Learning and 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases);
*Workshop on '''Web Mining 2.0 2007''', in congiunzione con 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and Principles and 11th European Conference on Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) 2007;
*'''SWAP 2007''' (4th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives);

*'''Engineered Applications of Semantic Web (SWEA)''', invited session at the International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2007);
*Workshop on '''Web Mining 2006 (WebMine)''', in congiunzione con 17th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and 10th Principles and Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) 2006.

*'''IIR 2013''' (4th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);
*'''Semantic Personalized Information Management 2013''' (at International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining WSDM 2013);
*'''RecSys 2012''' (6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems);

*'''IIR 2012''' (3rd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);

*''' Semantic Personalized Information Management: Linking Social and Semantic Web 2012''' (at International Conference on Web Engineering ICWE 2012);
*'''CaRR 2012''' (International workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation at Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2012);
*'''RecSys 2011''' (5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems);

*'''CaRR 2011''' (International workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation at Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2011);
*'''RecSys 2010''' (4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems);

*'''HIS 2008''' (8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, September 10-12, 2008);

*'''HIS 2007''' (7th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems and the 5th Conference on Neuro-Computing and Evolving Intelligence);

*'''AC 2007''' (IADIS International Conference Applied Computing);

*'''AC 2006''' (IADIS International Conference Applied Computing);

*'''HIS 2006''' (6th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems and the 4th Conference on Neuro-Computing and Evolving Intelligence);

*''' Semantic Personalized Information Management 2013''' (at International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining WSDM 2013);

*'''ECIR 2011''' (European Conference on Information Retrieval);

*'''ECML-PKDD 2010''' (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases);
*'''LREC 2010''' (International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation);
*'''ECIR 2010''' (European Conference on Information Retrieval);

*'''SWAP 2010''' (Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives);
*'''RecSys 2009''' (ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems);
*'''ECIR 2009''' (European Conference on Information Retrieval)
*'''ECAI 2008''' (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
*'''ECML-PKDD 2008''' (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases)

*'''RecSys 2008''' (ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems)

*'''SIGIR 2007''' (Poster and Demonstration Session alla International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval)
*'''ECIR 2007''' (European Conference on Information Retrieval)

*'''ECML-PKDD 2006''' (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases)))
*'''ADMA 2006''' (Advanced Data Mining and Applications)
*'''ISMIS 2006''' (International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems)
*'''ECML-PKDD 2005''' (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases)

*'''SWAP 2005''' (Sematic Web Application and Perspectives)
*'''ADMA 2005''' (Advanced Data Mining and Applications)
*'''ECAI 2004''' (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
*'''ECML-PKDD 2004''' (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases)
*'''ISMIS 2003''' (International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems)

*'''Tecnologie del linguaggio e tecnologie della semantica''', Forum per il Trattamento Automatico della Lingua (TAL 2010), Rome, October 29, 2010.

*'''Personalized Knowledge Modeling with Big (Usage \& Context) Data 2012''' (at User Modeling, Adaptiation and Personalization UMAP 2012)

*[[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1MHRACkAAAAJ|'''Google Scholar profile (citations and H-Index''']] %newwin%

*[[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1MHRACkAAAAJ|'''Google Scholar profile''']] %newwin%

* '''My publications on''' %newwin% [[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/l/Lops:Pasquale.html|DBLP]] | [[http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/pasquale%20lops|Bibsonomy]] | [[http://scholar.google.it/scholar?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Ricerca+Google+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors="P*+lops"&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&hl=it|Google Scholar]]

* '''Citation Indexes (November 11, 2011 by Publish or Perish 3.3.4291, query ''p lops'')'''
**H-Index = 11
**G-Index=18
**Citations=488

*Program chair of the [[http://www.dexa.org/ecweb2012|13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2012)]], Wien, Austria, September 3-7, 2012;
*Co-organizer of the [[http://www.dai-labor.de/spim2011/|International Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation]], at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011;
*Co-organizer of the [[http://semantic-adaptive-social-web.uniud.it/events/2011/sasweb/|International Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb)]], at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
*Co-organizer of the [[http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/DM/index.html|International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendations Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems (DEMRA)]], at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
*Co-organizer of the [[http://www.configworks.com/dexa2011/CFP_DEXA_RecSysmeetDB2011.htm|International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Databases]], at the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), Toulouse, France, August 29-September 2, 2011;

*Co-organizer of the [[http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~rosta/EICK/|International Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web]] at the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2009), Turin, Italy, June 29-July 1, 2009;
*Co-organizer of the [[http://www.dirf.org/diwt2008/workshop2.asp|International Workshop on Recommender Systems and Personalized Retrieval (RSPR 2008)]] at the First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008), Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 4-6, 2008;

*Program chair [[http://www.dexa.org/ecweb2012|EC-Web 2012]] 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Wien, Austria, September 3-7, 2012);

*Program chair [[http://www.dexa.org/ecweb2012]], 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Wien, Austria, September 3-7, 2012);

* '''Citation Indexes (April 11, 2011 by Publish or Perish 3.1.3926, query ''p lops'')'''
**H-Index = 10
**G-Index=16
**Citations=408

http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html#si-call-hdmrs

**H-Index = 11
**G-Index=18
**Citations=490

*Francesco Ricci, Giovanni Semeraro, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Judith Masthoff, Floriana Grasso, Jaap Ham, editors. [[http://ceur-ws.org/#Vol-740|Joint Proceedings of the Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendation Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems (DEMRA 2011) and the 2nd Workshop on User Models for Motivational Systems: The affective and the rational routes to persuasion (UMMS 2011)]], Girona, Spain, July 11, 2011. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011. ISSN 1613-0073.
*Federica Cena, Antonina Dattolo, Ernesto William De Luca, Pasquale Lops, Till Plumbaum, Julita Vassileva, editors. [[http://ceur-ws.org/#Vol-730|Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web 2011 (SASWeb-2011)]], Girona, Spain, July 15, 2011. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011. ISSN 1613-0073.

*[[http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-467/|Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web]], CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2009. Online at [[http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-467]]. ISSN 1613-0073.

*[[http://ceur-ws.org/#Vol-730|Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb)]], CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011. Online at [[http://ceur-ws.org/#Vol-730]]. ISSN 1613-0073.

*ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology [[http://tist.acm.org/|(ACM TIST)]]. Guest editor, special issue on [[http://tist.acm.org/CFPs/TIST-SI-SASWeb.html|Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb)]]. January 2011.

*[[http://iasc2.diee.unica.it/iia2008/|Intelligent Information Access (IIA) 2008]]. Cagliari, December 9-11, 2008. Role: local organizer;
*[[http://www.swapconf.it/2007/|4th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2007]]. Bari, December 18-20, 2007. Role: local organizer;
*[[http://cilc2006.di.uniba.it/|Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale (CILC) 2006]]. Bari, June 26-27, 2006. Role: local organizer;
*Co-chair of the parallel session Future Directions in Personalization and Context-Aware Access, at UAHCI 2005, 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Las Vegas, USA, July 22-27, 2005;
*Workshop on [[http://www.di.uniba.it/avi2004/e4pia/|Environments for Personalized Information Access (EPIA)]] at Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004. Gallipoli, May 25-28, 2004. Role: Local organizer.

*Program Co-chair of the [[http://www.dai-labor.de/spim2011/|International Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation]], at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011;
*Program Co-chair of the [[http://semantic-adaptive-social-web.uniud.it/events/2011/sasweb/|International Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb)]], at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
*Program Co-chair of the [[http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/DM/index.html|International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendations Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems (DEMRA)]], at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
*Program Co-chair of the [[http://www.configworks.com/dexa2011/CFP_DEXA_RecSysmeetDB2011.htm|International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Databases]], at the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), Toulouse, France, August 29-September 2, 2011;

*Program Co-chair of the [[http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~rosta/EICK/|International Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web]] at the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2009), Turin, Italy, June 29-July 1, 2009;
*Program Co-chair of the [[http://www.dirf.org/diwt2008/workshop2.asp|International Workshop on Recommender Systems and Personalized Retrieval (RSPR 2008)]] at the First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008), Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 4-6, 2008;

*[[http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-467/|Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web]].

* '''Citation Indexes (December 16, 2010 by Publish or Perish 3.1.3926, query ''p lops'')'''
**H-Index = 10
**G-Index=16
**Citations=366

*'''ACM TOIT ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies''', Special Issue on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization;

*'''RecSys 2010''' (18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems);

*Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb), at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
*Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendations Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems, at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
*Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Databases, at the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), Toulouse, France, August 29-September 2, 2011;
*Track Chair on Recommender and Business Intelligence at EC-Web 2011, 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Toulouse, France, 29 August-2 September, 2011);

'''[++Referee++]'''

'''[++Organizing Committee++]'''

'''[++Member of the Program Committee++]'''

'''[++Events Co-organizer++]'''

*Track Chair on Recommender and Business Intelligence at EC-Web 2011, 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Tolouse, France, 29 August-2 September, 2011);

*IEEE Internet Computing (2010), Special issue on Information Overload;
*International Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier (2009)
*Recommender Systems Handbook: A Complete Guide for Research Scientists & Practitioners, edited by Paul Kantor, Francesco Ricci, Lior Rokach, Bracha Shapira (2009)
*International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier (2009)
*Encyclopaedia of Digital Libraries, Edited by Yin-Leng Theng, Schubert Foo, Dion Goh Hoe Lian, and Jin-Cheon Na, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
*IJMSO International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
*DKE Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal

*ACM TOIT ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies, Special Issue on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization;
* IJEC International Journal of Electronic Commerce, special issue on Recommender Systems

*Track Chair on Recommender Systems at EC-Web 2011, 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Tolouse, France, 29 August-2 September, 2011);

'''[++Member of the Program Committee++]'''

[[#EventsOrg]]

'''[+++Events Co-organizer+++]'''

*Track Chair on Recommender Systems at EC-Web 2011, 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Tolouse, France, 29 August-2 September, 2011);
*Track Chair on Recommender Systems at [[http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/ec-web|EC-Web 2010]], 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Bilbao, Spain, 30 August-3 September, 2010);
*Program Co-chair of the [[http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~rosta/EICK/|International Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web]] at the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2009), Turin, Italy, June 29-July 1, 2009;
*Program Co-chair of the [[http://www.dirf.org/diwt2008/workshop2.asp|International Workshop on Recommender Systems and Personalized Retrieval (RSPR 2008)]] at the First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008), Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 4-6, 2008;
*[[http://iasc2.diee.unica.it/iia2008/|Intelligent Information Access (IIA) 2008]]. Cagliari, December 9-11, 2008. Role: local organizer;
*[[http://www.swapconf.it/2007/|4th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2007]]. Bari, December 18-20, 2007. Role: local organizer;
*[[http://cilc2006.di.uniba.it/|Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale (CILC) 2006]]. Bari, June 26-27, 2006. Role: local organizer;
*Co-chair of the parallel session Future Directions in Personalization and Context-Aware Access, at UAHCI 2005, 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Las Vegas, USA, July 22-27, 2005;
*Workshop on [[http://www.di.uniba.it/avi2004/e4pia/|Environments for Personalized Information Access (EPIA)]] at Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004. Gallipoli, May 25-28, 2004. Role: Local organizer.
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* '''Citation Indexes (October 18, 2010 by Publish or Perish 3.1.3926, query ''p lops'')'''

**G-Index=15
**Citations=360

[[#ShortCV|Short CV]] | [[#Research|Research Interests]] | [[#Activities|Activities]] | [[#Pubblicazioni|Publications]] | [[Corsi.TeachingLops|Courses]]

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'''PhD thesis'''

* '''P. Lops'''. Hybrid recommendation techniques based on user profiles. Ph.d. thesis, University of Bari, Department of Computer Science, 2005.

'''Patents'''

*'''LOPS P'''., MARCO DEGEMMIS, GIOVANNI SEMERARO. (2006). Metodo per l'interazione con una interfaccia utente grafica provvista di oggetti interattivi, in particolare di una pagina Web, tramite l'utilizzo di dispositivi che non richiedono l'uso delle mani (dispositivi handless). RM2006A000188. Pasquale Lops, Marco Degemmis, Giovanni Semeraro.

'''International Journals'''

*P. Basile, A. Caputo, M. de Gemmis, A. Gentile, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Improving ranked keyword search with SENSE: SEmantic N-levels Search Engine. Communications of SIWN (formerly: System and Information Sciences Notes), 5:39-45, August 2008. ISSN 1757-4439 (Print) 1757-4447 (CD-ROM).
*F. Buccafurri, P. De Meo, M. Fugini, R. Furnari, A. Goy, G. Lax, '''P. Lops''', S. Modafferi, B. Pernici, D. Redavid, G. Semeraro, and D. Ursino. QoS in Web-Service based Multimedia Contents Delivery. IEEE Multimedia, 16(1): 26-35, 2009.
*F. Buccafurri, P. De Meo, M. Fugini, R. Furnari, A. Goy, G. Lax, '''P. Lops''', S. Modafferi, B. Pernici, D. Redavid, G. Semeraro, and D. Ursino. Analysis of QoS in Cooperative Services for Real Time Applications. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 67(3):463-484, 2008. ISSN 0169-023X. Elsevier Science BV.
*G. Semeraro, V. Andersen, H. Andersen, M. Degemmis, and '''P. Lops'''. User Profiling and Virtual Agents: a Case Study on E-commerce Services. Universal Access in the Information Society, 7(3):179-194, 2008. ISSN 1615-5289 (Print) 1615-5297 (Online). Springer, Berlin.
*P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, A. Gentile, L. Iaquinta, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. An Electronic Performance Support System Based on a Hybrid Content-Collaborative Recommender System. Neural Network World: International Journal on Neural and Mass-Parallel Computing and Information Systems, 17(6):529-541, 2007. ISSN 1210-0552.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. A Content-collaborative Recommender that Exploits WordNet-based User Profiles for Neighborhood Formation. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI), 17(3):217-255, 2007. ISSN 0924-1868 (Print) 1573-1391 (Online). Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
*G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and P. Basile. Mining Semantically Indexed Documents for Intelligent User Profiling. Kuenstliche Intelligenz, 21(3):9-15, 2007. ISSN 0933-1875.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', S. Ferilli, N. Di Mauro, T. Basile, and G. Semeraro. Text Learning for User Profiling in e-Commerce. International Journal of Systems Science, 37(13):905{918, 2006. ISSN 0020-7721 (Print) 1464-5319 (Online). Taylor & Francis.
*V. Andersen, H. Andersen, M. Degemmis, O. Licchelli, '''P. Lops''', and F. Zambetta. A methodological approach for designing and evaluating intelligent applications for digital collections. Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal, 17(7):745-771, 2003. ISSN 0883-9514.
*G. Semeraro, '''P. Lops''', and M. Degemmis. Learning Customer Profiles Using Unlabelled Data. Informatica: An International Journal of Computing and Informatics, 27(4):385-389, 2003. ISSN 0350-5596. Informatika Society.
*G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, and '''P. Lops'''. User Profiling to Support Internet Customers: What do you Want to Buy Today? Informatica: An International Journal of Computing and Informatics, 26(4):407{418, 2002. ISSN 0350-5596. Informatika Society.

'''National Journals'''

*'''P. Lops''' and M. Degemmis. L'undicesima conferenza internazionale di human-computer interaction (hci 2005). Intelligenza Artificiale, 2(3):71-72, 2005.
*'''P. Lops''' and M. Degemmis. DELOS: la rete europea di eccellenza sulle digital libraries. Intelligenza Artificiale, 1(3):61-63, 2004.
*G. Semeraro, M. F. Costabile, V. Candela, N. Fanizzi, and '''P. Lops'''. Artificial intelligence techniques in corporate digital libraries. AIIA Notizie, XII(4):16-22, 1999.

'''Chapters in International Volumes'''

*'''P. Lops''', M. de Gemmis, G. Semeraro, C. Musto, F. Narducci, and M. Bux. Semantic Content-based Recommender System Integrating Folksonomies for Personalized Access. In Web Personalization in Intelligent Environment. Springer, 2009. To appear.
*G. Semeraro, P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, and '''P. Lops'''. User Profiles for Personalizing Digital Libraries. In Y.-L. Theng, S. Foo, D. G. H. Lian, and J.-C. Na, editors, Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development and Impact, pages 149-158. IGI Global, 2009. ISBN 978-159904879-6.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, M. Costabile, S. Guida, and O. Licchelli. Improving Collaborative Recommender Systems by means of User Profiles. In C.-M. Karat, J. Blom, and J. Karat, editors, Designing Personalized User Experiences in eCommerce, Chapter 14 , pages 253-274. Kluwer Academic, 2004. ISBN 978-1-4020-2147-3.
*G. Semeraro, F. Abbattista, M. Degemmis, O. Licchelli, '''P. Lops''', and F. Zambetta. Agents, Personalisation, and Intelligent Applications. In R. Corchuelo, A. R. Cortes, and R. Wrembel, editors, Technology Supporting Business Solutions. Part IV: Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, Chapter 7, pages 163-186. Nova Sciences Publishers, 2003. ISBN 1-59033-802-2.
*U. Thiel, M. L'Abbate, A. Paradiso, A. Stein, G. Semeraro, F. Abbattista, and '''P. Lops'''. Intelligent E-Commerce with Guiding Agents Based on Personalized Interaction Tools. In J. Gasos and K.-D. Thoben, editors, E-Business Applications: Technologies for Tomorrow's Solutions, Part II: Advanced E-Commerce Applications, Chapter 5, pages 61-76. Springer, 2003. ISBN 978-3-540-43663-8.

'''International Collections'''

*P. Basile, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Combining Knowledge-based Methods and Supervised Learning for E®ective ItalianWord Sense Disambiguation. In J. Bos and R. Delmonte, editors, Semantics in Text Processing - STEP 2008 Conference Proceedings, volume 1 of Research in Computational Semantics, pages 5-16. College Publications, 2008. ISBN 978-1-904987-93-2.
*P. Basile, M. Degemmis, A. L. Gentile, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. The JIGSAW Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation and Semantic Indexing of Documents. In R. Basili and M. T. Pazienza, editors, AI*IA 2007: Artificial Intelligence and Human-Oriented Computing, 10th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Rome, Italy, September 10-13, 2007, Proceedings, volume 4733 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 314-325. Springer, 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-74781-9.
*'''P. Lops''', M. Degemmis, and G. Semeraro. Improving Social Filtering Techniques Through WordNet-Based User Profiles. In C. Conati, K. F. McCoy, and G. Paliouras, editors, User Modeling 2007, 11th International Conference, UM 2007, Corfu, Greece, June 25-29, 2007, Proceedings, volume 4511 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 268-277. Springer, 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-73077-4.
*G. Semeraro, P. Basile, M. Degemmis, and '''P. Lops'''. Content-Based Recommendation Services for Personalized Digital Libraries. In C. Thanos, F. Borri, and L. Candela, editors, Digital Libraries: Research and Development, First International DELOS Conference, Pisa, Italy, February 13-14, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, volume 4877 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 77-86. Springer, 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-77087-9. ISSN 1818-8044.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and P. Basile. An intelligent personalized service for conference participants. In F. Esposito, Z. W. Ras, D. Malerba, and G. Semeraro, editors, Foundations of Intelligent Systems, 16th International Symposium, ISMIS 2006, Bari, Italy, September 27-29, 2006, Proceedings, volume 4203 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 707-712. Springer, 2006. ISBN 3-540-45764-X.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Learning Semantic User Profiles from Text. In X. Li, O. R. Zaiane, and Z. Li, editors, Advanced Data Mining and Applications, Second International Conference, ADMA 2006, Xi'an, China, August 14-16, 2006, Proceedings, volume 4093 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 661-672. Springer, 2006. ISBN 3-540-37025-0.
*I. Palmisano, D. Redavid, L. Iannone, G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and O. Licchelli. A RDF-Based Framework for User Profile Creation and Management. In B. Gabrys, R. J. Howlett, and L. C. Jain, editors, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 10th International Conference, KES 2006, Bournemouth, UK, October 9-11, 2006, Proceedings, Part III , volume 4253 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 606-613. Springer, 2006. ISBN 3-540-46542-1.
*G. Semeraro, P. Basile, M. Degemmis, and '''P. Lops'''. Discovering User Profiles from Semantically Indexed Scientific Papers. In B. Berendt, A. Hotho, D. Mladenic, and G. Semeraro, editors, From Web to Social Web: Discovering and Deploying User and Content Profiles, Workshop on Web Mining, WebMine 2006, Berlin, Germany, eptember 18, 2006. Revised Selected and Invited Papers, volume 4737 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 61-81. Springer, 2006. ISBN 978-3-540-74950-9.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', S. Ferilli, N. D. Mauro, T. M. A. Basile, and G. Semeraro. Learning User Profiles from Text in e-Commerce. In X. Li, S. Wang, and Z. Y. Dong, editors, Advanced Data Mining and Applications, First International Conference, ADMA 2005, Wuhan, China, July 22-24, 2005, Proceedings, volume 3584 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 370-381. Springer, 2005. ISBN 3-540-27894-X.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Intelligent Information Access by Learning WordNet-Based User Profiles. In S. Bandini and S. Manzoni, editors, AI*IA 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, volume 3673 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 78-81. Springer, 2005.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. WordNet-Based Word Sense Disambiguation for Learning User Profiles. In M. Ackermann, B. Berendt, M. Grobelnik, A. Hotho, D. Mladenic, G. Semeraro, M. Spiliopoulou, G. Stumme, V. Svatek, and M. van Someren, editors, Semantics, Web and Mining, Joint International Workshops, EWMF 2005 and KDO 2005, Porto, Portugal, October 3 and 7, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, volume 4289 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 18-33. Springer, 2005. ISBN 3-540-47697-0.
*B. Mehta, C. Niederee, A. Stewart, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Ontologically-Enriched Unified User Modeling for Cross-System Personalization. In L. Ardissono, P. Brna, and A. Mitrovic, editors, User Modeling 2005, 10th International Conference, UM 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 24-29, 2005, Proceedings, volume 3538 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 119-123. Springer, 2005. ISBN 3-540-27885-0.
*G. Semeraro, '''P. Lops''', and M. Degemmis. Personalization for the Web: Learning User Preferences from Text. In M. Hemmje, C. Niederee, and T. Risse, editors, From Integrated Publication and Information Systems to Virtual Information and Knowledge Environments, Essays Dedicated to Erich J. Neuhold on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, volume 3379 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 162-172. Springer, 2005. ISBN 3-540-24551-0.
*G. Semeraro, '''P. Lops''', M. Degemmis, C. Niederee, and A. Stewart. Exploiting Lexical Knowledge in Learning User Profiles for Intelligent Information Access to Digital Collections. In E. A. Fox, E. J. Neuhold, P. Premsmit, and V. Wuwongse, editors, Digital Libraries: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences, 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-15, 2005, Proceedings, volume 3815 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 253-262. Springer, 2005. ISBN 3-540-30850-4.
*M. Degemmis, O. Licchelli, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Learning Usage Patterns for Personalized Information Access in e-Commerce. In C. Stary and C. Stephanidis, editors, User-Centered Interaction Paradigms for Universal Access in the Information Society, 8th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Vienna, Austria, June 28-29, 2004, Revised Selected Papers, volume 3196 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 133-148. Springer, 2004. ISBN 3-540-23375-X.
*F. Abbattista, G. Catucci, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, and F. Zambetta. A Framework for the Development of Personalized Agents. In V. Palade, R. J. Howlett, and L. C. Jain, editors, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 7th International Conference, KES 2003, Oxford, UK, September 3-5, 2003, Proceedings, Part I , volume 2773 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 959-966. Springer, 2003. ISBN 3-540-40803-7.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, and F. Abbattista. Extraction of User Profiles by Discovering Preferences through Machine Learning. In M. A. Klopotek, S. T. Wierzchon, and K. Trojanowski, editors, Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining, Proceedings of the International IIS: IIPWM'03 Conference held in Zakopane, Poland, June 2-5, 2003 , Advances in Soft Computing, pages 69-78. Springer, 2003. ISBN 3-540-00843-8.
*F. Esposito, G. Semeraro, S. Ferilli, M. Degemmis, N. D. Mauro, T. M. A. Basile, and '''P. Lops'''. Evaluation and Validation of Two Approaches to User Profiling. In B. Berendt, A. Hotho, D. Mladenic, M. van Someren, M. Spiliopoulou, and G. Stumme, editors, Web Mining: From Web to Semantic Web, First European Web Mining Forum, EWMF 2003, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 22, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, volume 3209 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 130-147. Springer, 2003. ISBN 3-540-23258-3.
*G. Semeraro, H. H. K. Andersen, V. Andersen, '''P. Lops''', and F. Abbattista. Evaluation and Validation of a Conversational Agent Embodied in a Bookstore. In N. Carbonell and C. Stephanidis, editors, Universal Access: Theoretical Perspectives, Practice, and Experience, 7th ERCIM International Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Paris, France, October 24-25, 2002, Revised Papers, volume 2615 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 360-374. Springer, 2003. ISBN 3-540-00855-1.
*G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', U. Thiel, and M. L'Abbate. A Personalized Information Search Process Based on Dialoguing Agents and User Profiling. In F. Sebastiani, editor, Advances in Information Retrieval, 25th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2003, Pisa, Italy, April 14-16, 2003 , volume 2633 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 613-621. Springer, 2003. ISBN 3-540-01274-5.
*F. Abbattista, N. Fanizzi, S. Ferilli, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. User Profiling in an Application of Electronic Commerce. In F. Esposito, editor, AI*IA 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 7th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Bari, Italy, September 25-28, 2001, Proceedings, volume 2175 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 87-98. Springer, 2001. ISBN 3-540-42601-9.
*G. Semeraro, F. Esposito, D. Malerba, N. Fanizzi, S. Ferilli, and '''P. Lops'''. IDL: A Prototypical Intelligent Digital Library Service. In M. Lenzerini, editor, AI*IA 97: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 5th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Rome, Italy, September 17-19, 1997, Proceedings, volume 1321 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 447-450. Springer, 1997. ISBN 3-540-63576-9.

'''International Conferences'''

*P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, A. Gentile, L. Iaquinta, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. META - MultilanguagE Text Analyzer. In Proceedings of the Language and Speech Technnology Conference - LangTech 2008, February 28-29, 2008, Rome, Italy, pages 137-140. 2008.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, and P. Basile. Integrating tags in a semantic content-based recommender. In P. Pu, D. G. Bridge, B. Mobasher, and F. Ricci, editors, Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 23-25, 2008 , pages 163-170. ACM, 2008. ISBN 978-1-60558-093-7.
*L. Iaquinta, M. de Gemmis, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, M. Filannino, and P. Molino. Introducing Serendipity in a Content-based Recommender System. In F. Xhafa, F. Herrera, A. Abraham, M. Koppen, and J. M. Benitez, editors, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems HIS-2008 , pages 168-173. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7695-3326-1.
*L. Iaquinta, A. Gentile, '''P. Lops''', M. de Gemmis, and G. Semeraro. A Hybrid Content-Collaborative Recommender System Integrated into an Electronic Performance Support System. In A. Koenig, M. Koppen, A. Abraham, and N. Kasabov, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems HIS-2007 , pages 47-52. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, 2007. ISBN 0-7695-2946-1.
*G. Semeraro, P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, and '''P. Lops'''. Intelligent Services for Personalized Digital Libraries. In DELOS Conference 2007 - Working Notes, Tirrenia, Pisa, pages 91-98. 2007. ISBN 2-912335-30-2.
*G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and P. Basile. Combining Learning and Word Sense Disambiguation for Intelligent User Profiling. In M. M. Veloso, editor, IJCAI 2007, Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, January 6-12, 2007 , pages 2856-2861. Morgan Kaufmann, 2007.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Semantically Enhanced Personalization for the Web. In Universal Access in HCI: Exploring New Interaction Environments, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, pages 426-429. Mira Digital Publishing, St. Louis, Montana, 2005. CD-ROM.
*G. Semeraro, '''P. Lops''', and M. Degemmis. WordNet-based User Profiles for Neighborhood Formation in Hybrid Recommender Systems. In N. Nedjah, L. de Macedo Mourelle, A. Abraham, and M. KÄoppen, editors, Hybrid Intelligent Systems, pages 291-296. IEEE Computer Society, 2005. ISBN 0-7695-2457-5.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, M. F. Costabile, O. Licchelli, and S. Guida. A Hybrid Collaborative Recommender System Based on User Profiles. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2004, Volume 4: Software Agents and Internet Computing, pages 162-169. 2004.
*F. Esposito, O. Licchelli, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Personalizing digital libraries for education. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2004, Volume 5: Human-Computer Interaction, pages 279-284. 2004. ISBN 972-8865-00-7.
*O. Licchelli, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, L. Bordoni, and F. Poggi. Learning Preferences of Users Accessing Digital Libraries. In J. Cha, R. Jardim-Goncalves, and A. Steiger-Garcao, editors, Concurrent Engineering - The Vision for the Future Generation in Research and Applications, Advanced Design, Production and Management Systems, Proceedings of the 10th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications. Madeira Island, Portugal, pages 457-465. A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2003. ISBN 90-5809-622-X.
*G. Semeraro, '''P. Lops''', and M. Degemmis. Exploiting Supervised Learning Techniques to Model User Preferences: Personalized e-Salespersons for Personalized e-Stores. In Universal Access in HCI: Inclusive Design in the Information Society. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, pages 617-621. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., Mahwah, New Jersey, 2003. ISBN 0-8058-4933-5.
*G. Semeraro, '''P. Lops''', and M. Degemmis. Learning Probabilistic User Profiles from Labelled and Unlabelled Data. In M. Bohanec, B. Filipic, M. Gams, D. Trcec, and B. Lincar, editors, Intelligent and Computer Systems, Complex Systems in e-Business, Proceedings of the 6th International Multi-Conference Information Society, Ljubljana, Slovenia, pages 127-131. 2003. ISBN 961-6303-51-1.
*G. Semeraro, '''P. Lops''', and M. Degemmis. People I Know. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Management I-KNOW 2003 , pages 463-471. Springer, Berlin, 2003. ISSN 0948-695X.
*G. Semeraro, '''P. Lops''', M. Degemmis, and O. Licchelli. Learning User Profiles for Intelligent Search. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, pages 426-429. 2003.
*F. Abbattista, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, V. Andersen, and H. Andersen. An Empirical Evaluation of E-Salespersons for E-Commerce. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, pages 340{344. 2002. ISBN 953-6114-52-6.
*F. Abbattista, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, and F. Zambetta. SAMIR: An Intelligent Web Agent. In E. Damiani, R. Howlett, L. Jain, and N. Ichalkaranje, editors, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems and Allied Technologies, Proceedings of KES'2002, Sixth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, pages 1103-1109. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2002. ISSN 0922-6389.
*G. Semeraro and '''P. Lops'''. Learning User Profiles in Intelligent Systems. In I. M. Bohanec, M. Gams, M. Grobelnik, and D. Mladeni^c, editors, Intelligent Systems, Data Mining and Warehouses, Proceedings A of the Fifth International Multi-Conference Information Society IS'2002, Ljubljana, Slovenia, pages 12-16. 2002. ISBN 961-6303-41-4. Invited Paper.

'''National Conferences'''

*P. Basile, M. Degemmis, A. L. Gentile, L. Iaquinta, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Semantic indexing of documents for semantic digital libraries. In M. Agosti, F. Esposito, and C. Thanos, editors, Post-proceedings of the Forth Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems, IRCDL 2008, Padova, Italy, 24-25 January 2008, pages 41-50. DELOS: an Association for Digital Libraries, 2008.
*F. Buccafurri, L. Console, P. D. Meo, M. Fugini, A. Goy, G. Lax, '''P. Lops''', S. Modafferi, B. Pernici, C. Picardi, D. Redavid, G. Semeraro, and D. Ursino. Modellazione della QoS in Ambienti Web-Service con Applicazioni di Video Streaming. In M. Ceci, D. Malerba, and L. Tanca, editors, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems SEBD2007, pages 298-307. Torre Canne (Fasano), Italy, June 17-20, 2007. ISBN 978-88-902981-0-3.
*G. Semeraro, '''P. Lops''', M. de Gemmis, P. Basile, and A. L. Gentile. Personalization in Digital Libraries: An Intelligent Service based on Semantic User Profiles. In M. Agosti, F. Esposito, and C. Thanos, editors, Post-proceedings of the Third Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems, IRCDL 2007, Padova, 29-30 January 2007 , pages 27-37. DELOS: a Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, 2007.
*G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and P. Basile. Intelligent Information Access by Exploiting Lexical Knowledge and Machine Learning. In M. Agosti and C. Thanos, editors, Post-proceedings of the Second Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Management Systems (IRCDL 2006), Padova, 27th January 2006 , pages 37-44. DELOS: a Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, 2006. ISBN 2-912335-26-4.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Personalization for the Web: Learning User Preferences from Text. In Proceedings of the 1st Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Management Systems, pages 42-50. 2005.
*F. Abbattista, G. Catucci, M. Degemmis, P. Lops, G. Semeraro, and F. Zambetta. Un Framework per la Realizzazione di Agenti Personalizzati. In Proceedings of the XLII AICA Annual Conference, pages 665{673. Benevento, Italy, September 28-30, 2004.
*M. Degemmis, S. Guida, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, and M. Costabile. Improving Recommendations by Integrating Collaborative Filtering and Supervised Learning Techniques. In L. Ardissono and A. Goy, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction HCITALY 2003 , pages 60-66. 2003.
*F. Abbattista, M. Degemmis, O. Licchelli, '''P. Lops''', A. Paradiso, G. Semeraro, and F. Zambetta. The Cogito Project: an Intelligent Personalized Agent to Support Users of a B-to-C Web Site. In Proceedings of the AICA Annual Conference, pages 471-480. Conversano (Bari), Italy, September 25-27, 2002.
*F. Abbattista, F. D. Florio, N. Fanizzi, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Enhancing Consumer-Supplier Relationship through Personalized Interaction Tools for E-Commerce. In Proceedings of the AICA Annual Conference, pages 401-412. Cernobbio (Como), Italy, September 19-22, 2001.
*G. Semeraro, F. Abbattista, L. D. Candia, N. Fanizzi, V. Candela, '''P. Lops''', A. Valente, U. Thiel, and A. Stein. COGITO - E-Commerce with Guiding Agents based on Personalized Interaction Tools. In Proceedings of the AICA Annual Conference, pages 485-493. Taormina, Italy, September 27-30, 2000.
*U. Thiel, A. Stein, G. Semeraro, F. Abbattista, L. D. Candia, N. Fanizzi, V. Candela, '''P. Lops''', and A. Valente. Improving Customer Relationship Management through Machine Learning Techniques in B2C E-commerce interfaces. In A. Bonarini, M. Colombetti, and P. Lanzi, editors, Atti del Settimo Convegno della Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale (AI*IA 2000), pages 71-74. Milano, Italy, September 13-15, 2000.

'''National and International Workshops'''

*P. Basile, F. Calefato, M. de Gemmis, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, M. Bux, C. Musto, and F. Narducci. Augmenting a Content-based Recommender System with Tags for Cultural Heritage Personalization. In L. Aroyo, T. Kuflik, O. Stock, and M. Zancanaro, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2008) at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2008), Hannover, Germany, pages 25-34. July 29, 2008.
*P. Basile, F. Calefato, M. de Gemmis, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, M. Bux, C. Musto, and F. Narducci. Cultural Heritage Personalization using a Content-based Recommender System and Folksonomies. In G. Armano, M. Schaerf, and G. Semeraro, editors, Proceedings of the AI*IA 2008 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for the Cultural Heritage, Cagliari, Italy, pages 46-54. September 11, 2008.
*P. Basile, A. Caputo, A. Gentile, M. de Gemmis, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Enhancing Semantic Search using N-Levels Document Representation. In S. Bloehdorn, M. Grobelnik, P. Mika, and T. Tran Duc, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Search (SemSearch 2008) at the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), Tenerife, Spain, volume 334 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 29-43. June 2, 2008. ISSN 1613-0073. Online http://sunsite.informatik.rwthaachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-334/paper-03.pdf.
*P. Basile, A. Caputo, A. Gentile, M. de Gemmis, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Improving retrieval experience exploiting semantic representation of documents. In SWAP 2008 - Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, Proceedings of the 5th Italian Semantic Web Workshop, FAO-UN, Rome, Italy, 15-17 December, 2008 , CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2008. To appear.
*P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, M. Bux, C. Musto, and F. Narducci. First: a content-based recommender system integrating tags for cultural heritage personalization. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Automated Solutions for Cross Media Content and Multi-channel Distribution (AXMEDIS 2008) - Workshop on Cultural heritage and Artificial Intelligence, Florence, Italy, 17-19 November, 2008.
*M. de Gemmis, G. Semeraro, '''P. Lops''', and P. Basile. A Retrieval Model for Personalized Searching Relying on Content-based User Profiles. In B. Mobasher, S. Anand, A. Kobsa, and D. Jannach, editors, Proceedings of the 6th AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (ITWP 2008), pages 1-9. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, USA, July 13-17, 2008. ISBN 978-1-57735-374-4.
*P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, L. Iaquinta, A. Gentile, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Intelligent Digital Libraries: From Retrieval to Recommendation. In L. Bordoni, editor, Proceedings of the AI*IA 2007 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for the Cultural Heritage, Roma, Italy. September 10, 2007.
*P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, L. Iaquinta, A. L. Gentile, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Intelligent Digital Libraries: From Retrieval to Recommendation. In L. Aroyo, E. Hyvonen, and J. van Ossenbruggen, editors, Proceedings of the ISWC 2007 Workshop 9 on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web, Busan, Korea, pages 113-114. November 12, 2007.
*P. Basile, M. Degemmis, A. Gentile, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. UNIBA: JIGSAW algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 4th ACL 2007 International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007), Prague, Czech Republic, pages 398-401. Association for Computational Linguistics, June 23-24, 2007.
*P. Basile, M. d. Gemmis, A. Gentile, L. Iaquinta, and '''P. Lops'''. The jump project: domain ontologies and linguistic knowledge @ work. In SWAP 2007 - Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, Proceedings of the 4th Italian Semantic Web Workshop, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universitµa degli Studi, Bari, Italy, 18-20 December, 2007, CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2007.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, and P. Basile. A Semantic Recommendation Service for Conference Participants. In V. Honavar, T. Finin, D. Caragea, D. Mladenic, and Y. Sure, editors, Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007 Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKA 2007), Hyderabad, India, pages 13-21. January 6-12, 2007.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', P. Basile, and G. Semeraro. The Conference Participant Advisor Service in a Virtual Information and Knowledge Environment Framework. In P. Bouquet, R. Brunelli, J.-P. Chanod, C. Niederee, and H. Stoermer, editors, Proceedings of the ESWC 2006 Workshop on Mastering the Gap: From Information Extraction to Semantic Representation, Budva, Montenegro, volume 187 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. June 12, 2006. ISSN 1613-0073. Online http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-187/19.pdf.
*'''P. Lops''', M. Degemmis, and G. Semeraro. Surfing the Web Using a Head-Controlled Web Browser. In Proceedings of the ISMIS 2006 Workshop on Methods and Experiences of Ambient Intelligence, Bari, Italy. September 26, 2006.
*G. Semeraro, P. Basile, M. Degemmis, and '''P. Lops'''. Discovering User Profiles from Papers by Using Word Sense Disambiguation. In B. Berendt, A. Hotho, D. Mladeni^c, and G. Semeraro, editors, Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD 2006 Workshop on Web Mining, Berlin, Germany, pages 68-79. September 18, 2006.
*G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', P. Basile, A. Gentile, and G. Fraccalvieri. Semantic Web Personalization in a Scientific Congress Scenario. In G. Tummarello, P. Bouquet, and O. Signore, editors, Proceedings of SWAP 2006, the 3rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop: Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, Pisa, Italy, volume 201 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. December 18-20, 2006. ISSN 1613-0073. Online http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-201/13.pdf.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. WordNet-based Word Sense Disambiguation for Learning User Profiles. In B. Berendt, A. Hotho, D. Mladenic, G. Semeraro, M. Spiliopoulou, G. Stumme, and M. van Someren, editors, Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD 2005 Workshop W4 2nd European Web Mining Forum EWMF 2005, Porto, Portugal, pages 16-27. October 3, 2005.
*I. Palmisano, D. Redavid, L. Iannone, G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and O. Licchelli. A RDF-based Framework for User Profile Creation and Management. In P. Bouquet and G. Tummarello, editors, Proceedings of SWAP 2005, the 2nd Italian Semantic Web Workshop: Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, Trento, Italy, volume 166 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. December 14-16, 2005. ISSN 1613-0073. Online http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-166/38.pdf.
*I. Palmisano, D. Redavid, G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and O. Licchelli. A Framework for RDF User Pro¯le Management. In L. Aroyo, V. Dimitrova, and J. Kay, editors, Proceedings of the UM 2005 Workshop on Personalization on the Semantic Web PersWeb 2005, held in conjunction with 10th International Conference on User Modeling (UM'05), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, pages 92-101. July 24-25, 2005.
*G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', and I. Palmisano. WordNet-based User Profiles for Semantic Personalization. In P. Brusilovsky, C. Callaway, and A. NÄurnberger, editors, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on New Technologies for Personalized Information Access PIA 2005, held in conjunction with 10th International Conference on User Modeling (UM'05), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, pages 74-83. July 24-30, 2005.
*G. Semeraro, '''P. Lops''', and M. Degemmis. Intelligent Access to Digital Collections. In L. Bordoni, editor, Proceedings of the AI*IA 2005 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for the Cultural Heritage, Milano, Italy. September 23, 2005.
*M. Degemmis, '''P. Lops''', S. Ferilli, N. Di Mauro, T. Basile, and G. Semeraro. A Relevance Feedback Method for Discovering User Profiles from Text. In Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD 2004 Workshop W1 on Statistical Approaches for Web Mining SAWM 2004, Pisa, Italy, pages 111-122. September 20, 2004.
*P. Buono, M. Costabile, M. Degemmis, S. Guida, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, and D. Grilli. Integrating Machine Learning and Filtering Techniques to Improve Recommendations. In C.-M. Karat, J. Blom, and J. Karat, editors, Proceedings of the CHI 2003 Workshop on Designing Personalized User Experiences for eCommerce: Theory, Methods, and Research, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. April 6-7, 2003.
*F. Esposito, G. Semeraro, S. Ferilli, M. Degemmis, T. B. N. Di Mauro, and '''P. Lops'''. Evaluation and Validation of Two Approaches to User Profiling. In B. Berendt, A. Hotho, M. S. D. Mladenic, M. van Someren, and G. Stumme, editors, Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD-2003 First European Web Mining Forum, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia,, pages 51-63. September 22, 2003.
*F. Abbattista, V. Andersen, H. Andersen, '''P. Lops''', and G. Semeraro. Evaluating Virtual Agents for E-Commerce. In A. Marriott, C. Pelachaud, T. Rist, Z. Ruttkay, and H. Vilhjalmsson, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Embodied conversational agents - let's specify and evaluate them!, First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, Italy. July 16, 2002.
*F. Abbattista, M. Degemmis, N. Fanizzi, O. Licchelli, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, and F. Zambetta. Learning User Profiles for Content-Based Filtering in e-Commerce. In Atti del Workshop AI*IA su Apprendimento Automatico: Metodi e Applicazioni. Siena, Settembre 11, 2002.
*F. Abbattista, M. Degemmis, O. Licchelli, '''P. Lops''', G. Semeraro, and F. Zambetta. Improving the Usability of an e-Commerce Web Site through Personalization. In F. Ricci and B. Smyth, editors, Recommendation and Personalization in eCommerce, Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommendation and Personalization in Electronic Commerce, 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web Based Systems, Malaga, Spain, pages 20-29. May 28, 2002.
*'''P. Lops''', V. Andersen, H. Andersen, F. Abbattista, and G. Semeraro. Virtual Agents for a Bookstore: an Empirical Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Fourth DELOS/NSF Workshop on Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Testbeds, Measurements, and Metrics, MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary. June 6-7, 2002.
*G. Semeraro, H. Andersen, V. Andersen, '''P. Lops''', and F. Abbattista. Evaluation and Validation of a Conversational Agent Embodied in a Bookstore. In N. Carbonell and C. Stephanidis, editors, Proceedings of the 7th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, INRIA Research Report, Paris (Chantilly), France,, pages 277-288. October 24-25, 2002.
*F. Esposito, G. Semeraro, L. Abbrescia, N. Fanizzi, S. Ferilli, and '''P. Lops'''. Un Learning Server per l'Induzione di Regole di Classificazione degli Utenti di un Sistema di Biblioteche Elettroniche su Internet. In Atti del Workshop AI*IA su Apprendimento Automatico e Linguaggio Naturale, pages 118-121. Torino, Italia, 1997.

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