Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum
Education
- December, 16th 2005 - He received the second best thesis award from "Taranto, ieri, oggi e domani" association, Ed. 2005.
- October 2003 - He received a degree with full marks in Computer Science
from the University of Bari. He discussed a thesis on "Extension and optimisation
of a machine learning system to build recursive theories from examples". Following
graduation, he kept on making research in machine learning and data mining
in the Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning Laboratory (LACAM).
- November 2003 - He started the Ph.D. Course in Computer Science at
the Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari (Italy),
under the supervision of Prof. Malerba
Donato. The topic of his thesis concerns the applications of machine learning
techniques for environmental modeling.
Teaching and Tutoring
- Academic year 2005/2006 - Teaching in the Supplementary course on Programming Languages + Lab., Degree in Computer Science and Digital Communication.
- Academic year 2005/2006 - Tutoring in the Advanced Data Bases course
(lab.), Degree in Computer Science.
- Academic year 2005/2006 - Tutor of the Degree in Computer Science and
Digital Communication.
- Academic year 2005/2006 - Tutoring in the Computer Architecture course
(lab.), Degree in Computer Science and Digital Communication.
- Academic year 2005/2006 - Tutoring in the Programming course (lab.),
Degree in Computer Science and Digital Communication.
- Academic year 2004/2005 - Tutor of the Degree in Computer Science and
Digital Communication.
- Academic year 2004/2005 - Tutoring in the Database course (laboratory),
Degree in Computer Science.
- Academic year 2004/2005 - Tutoring in the Database course (laboratory),
Degree in Computer Science and Digital Communication.
- Academic year 2004/2005 - Tutoring in the Software Engineering course
(laboratory), Degree in Computer Science and Digital Communication.
- Academic year 2003/2004 - Tutor of the Degree in Computer Science and
Digital Communication.
- Academic year 2003/2004 - Tutoring in the Programming Languages course
(laboratory), Degree in Computer Science and Digital Communication.
Research Projects
He is currently/has been involved in the following projects:
- Ateneo-2005 project on "Unstructured information management: models, methods
and architectures".
- Ateneo-2004 project on "Methods of multi-relational data mining for knowledge
discovery in databases".
His main research activity is in environmental modeling, i.e., in the investigation
of data mining and machine learning techniques to support the building of mathematical
models describing environmental phenomena. In particular, he focuses his studies
in the spatial clustering, a data mining task that aims at detecting clusters
of homogeneous spatial objects. He has been working to the application of machine
learning to recursive theories induction. He is interested in applications of
data mining and machine learning techniques to modeling.
Affiliations
- 2004-present: member of the Italian Association for Artificial
Intelligence
List of Publications
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Phd Thesis
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International Journals
- Oronzo Altamura, Margherita Berardi, Michelangelo Ceci, Donato Malerba
& Antonio Varlaro.
Using colour information to understand censorship cards of film archives.
In: International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (in press).
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International Conferences
- Donato Malerba, Annalisa Appice, Antonio Varlaro & Antonietta Lanza.
Spatial Clustering of Structured Objects.
In S. Kramer & B. Pfahringer (Eds.), Inductive Logic Programming ILP 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3625, 227-245, Springer, Berlin, Germany. Bonn, Germany, August 10-13, 2005.
- Margherita Berardi, Antonio Varlaro & Donato Malerba. On the effect of caching in recursive theory learning. In R. Camacho, R.D. King, & A. Srinivasan (Eds.), Inductive Logic Programming ILP 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3194, 44-62, Springer, Berlin, Germany. Porto, Portugal, September 6-8, 2004.
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International Workshops
- Annalisa Appice, Antonietta Lanza, Donato Malerba & Antonio Varlaro.
Homogeneity Evaluation and Seed Selection in Clustering Graph-Connected Spatial Data. To appear in P. Frasconi, K. Kersting & K. Tsuda (Eds.), Proceedings of the MLG Workshop on "Mining and Learning with Graphs", Firenze, Italy, August 1-3, 2007.
- Annalisa Appice, Antonietta Lanza & Antonio Varlaro.
Spatial Clustering of Related Structured Objects for Topographic Map
Interpretation. In G. Andrienko, D. Malerba, M. May & M. Teisseire (Eds.), Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD 2005 Workshop on "Mining Spatio-Temporal Data (MSTD)", 9-21, Porto, Portugal, October 3, 2005.
- Antonio Varlaro, Margherita Berardi & Donato Malerba. Learning
recursive theories with the separate-and-parallel conquer strategy.
In J. Fuernkranz (Ed.): Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD 04 workshop on "Advances in Inductive Rule Learning", 179-193, Pisa, Italy, September 20-24, 2004.
- Antonietta Lanza, Donato Malerba, Annalisa Appice & Antonio Varlaro.
Knowledge Discovery from Maps for Environmental Protection.
In H. Voss & M. Wachowicz (Eds.), Notes of the KDNet Workshop on "Knowledge Discovery for Environmental Management", Bonn, Germany, June 3-4, 2004.
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National Conferences
- Antonio Varlaro, Annalisa Appice, Antonietta Lanza & Antonio Fittipaldi. On Homogeneity Evaluation and Seed Selection in Clustering Relational Data. In M. Ceci, D. Malerba & L. Tanca (Eds.), Proceedings of SEBD 2007 - 15th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, 471-478, Torre Canne di Fasano (Brindisi), Italy, June 17-20, 2007.
- Antonio Varlaro, Annalisa Appice, Antonietta Lanza
& Donato Malerba. An ILP Approach to Spatial Clustering.
In Proceedings of CILC 2005 - Italian Conference on Computational Logic, Roma, Italy, June 21-22, 2005.
- Antonio Varlaro, Annalisa Appice, Antonietta Lanza,
Donato Malerba & Giuseppe Guarnieri. Relational Clustering with
Discrete Spatial Structure. In A. Calì, D. Calvanese, E. Franconi, M. Lenzerini & L.Tanca (Eds.), Proceedings of SEBD 2005 - 13th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, 149-160, Bressanone (Bolzano), Italy, June 20-22, 2005.
- Antonio Varlaro, Margherita Berardi & Donato Malerba. Improving
efficiency of recursive theory learning. In E. Panegai & G. Rossi (Eds.), Proceedings of CILC'04 - Italian Conference on Computational Logic, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Matematica - Università degli Studi di Parma, 220-234. Parma, Italy, June 16-17, 2004.
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