Publications and Technical Reports:

  1. C. De Castro, P. Toppan, Organising Documentation in Knowledge Evolution and Communication (extended varsion), to appear in Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI), first published in Proc. of 1st Int. Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences (KCC 2006, in conjunction with 10th World Multiconference on Systemistics, Cybernetics and Informatics WMSCI 2006), Orlando, USA, July 16th-19th 2006.

  2. C. De Castro, P. Toppan, Tailored e-learning paths for the audience of a conference, Proc. of International Conference on Technology, Education and Development INTED 2007, Valencia, Spain, March, 7th-9th 2007.

  3. C. De Castro, P. Toppan, Restoring High-Priority Applications via Selective Release of Broadband Services, Proc. of All India Seminar - 2007, "Achievements and Challenges in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering", Ranchi, India, January 20th-21st 2007.

  4. C. Donzelli, C. Fontana, A. Ravaioli, P. Toppan, M. Patella, C. De Castro, An LDAP/SQL-based Architecture for Broadband Services, to appear in Proc. of IASTED Int. Conference on Communication Systems and Applications (CSA 2006), Banff, Canada, July 3rd-5th 2006.

  5. C. De Castro, C. Donzelli, C. Fontana, M. Patella, A. Ravaioli, P. Toppan, Progetto InSeBaLa per le scrivanie distribuite: un’architettura integrata di servizi su banda larga per il lavoro cooperativo, Sistemi di Telecomunicazioni, April 2006, also available as tr IEIIT-01-06, in Italian.

  6. C. De Castro, Automi Cellulari e Reti Neurali nella Simulazione Urbanistica, tr IEIIT-BO-02-04, from a lecture at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, January 2004, in Italian. 

  7. C. De Castro, Architettura e Frattali, tr IEIIT-BO-03-03, from a lecture at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, December 2003, in Italian. 

  8. C. De Castro, A Temporal Layered Knowledge Architecture for an Evolving Structured Environment, Proc. of 27th Int. Conference SOFSEM 2000, Milovy (Brno), Czech Republic, December 2000. 

  9. C. De Castro, Interoperability and Query Optimization in Temporal Relational Databases, International Journal of Computers and their Applications, Vol. 6, No. 3, September 1999. 

  10. C. De Castro, S. Rizzi, Spatio-Temporal Approaches for the Fruition of the Cultural Heritage, tr CSITE-CNR, CSITE-006-98, June 1998.

  11. C. De Castro, On Concurrency Management in Temporal Relational Databases, Proc. of Sesta Conferenza Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD '96), Ancona (Italy), June 1998.

  12. C. De Castro, Semantic Inference in a Multitemporal Database Environment, Proc. of ISCA International Conference on Intelligent Systems , Boston, USA, 1997.

  13. C. De Castro, A First Approach to Temporal Predicate Locking for Concurrency Detection in Temporal Relational Databases supporting Schema Versioning, Proc. of 24th Seminar on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics (SOFSEM '97 Conference), Brno Milovy, Czech Republic, November 1997.

  14. C. De Castro, F. Grandi, M.R. Scalas, Schema Versioning for Multitemporal Relational Databases, Information Systems , Vol. 22, N. 5, pp. 249-290, July 1997.

  15. C. De Castro, tutor: Maria Rita Scalas, Basi di Dati Temporali: Interoperabilità e Gestione di Versioni dello Schema, PhD Thesis, in Italian, 1996.

  16. C. De Castro, F. Grandi, M.R. Scalas, Correttezza e Ottimizzazione delle Interrogazioni nelle Basi di dati Relazionali Multitemporali, Proc. of Quarta Conferenza Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD '96), pp. 53-71, San Miniato (Pisa) Italy, 1996, in Italian.

  17. C. De Castro, On the Concept of Transaction Atomicity in Distributed Temporal Relational Databases. Proc. of 9th ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS '96), Dijon, France, 1996 (also available as Technical Report CSITE-004-96).

  18. C. De Castro, Temporal Conversion Functions for Multitemporal Relational Databases, Proc. of 23rd Seminar on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics (SOFSEM '96 Conference), Brno Milovy, Czech Republic, 1996.

  19. C. De Castro, Levels of Concurrency Control in Temporal Relational Databases supporting Schema Versioning, Technical Report CSITE , December 1996.

  20. C. De Castro, M.R. Scalas, Inferred Validity of Transaction-Time Data, Proc. of International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning TIME '95, (in VIII FLAIRS '95) , Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA, 1995.

  21. C. De Castro, F. Grandi, M.R. Scalas, Extensional Data Management in Multitemporal Relational Databases Supporting Schema Versioning, Proc. of Terzo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD '95), Ravello-Costiera Amalfitana, Italy, 1995.

  22. C. De Castro, F. Grandi, M.R. Scalas, Meaning of Relational Operations in a Temporal Environment, Proc. of Basque International Workshop on Information Technology (BIWIT '95), San Sebastian, Spain, 1995.

  23. C. De Castro, Temporal Aspects in Distributed Relational Databases, Workshop Proc. of International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA '95), London, pp 55-62, 1995.

  24. C. De Castro, F. Grandi, M.R. Scalas, On Schema Versioning in Temporal Databases, in Recent Advances in Temporal Databases (J. Clifford, A. Tuzhilin eds.), Workshops in Computing, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 272-291, 1995.

  25. A. Cappelli, C. De Castro, M.R. Scalas, A Modular History-Oriented Access Structure for Bitemporal Data, Proc. of 22nd Seminar on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics (SOFSEM '95), Brno Milovy, Czech Republic, pp. 369-374, 1995.

  26. C. De Castro, F. Grandi, M.R. Scalas, Semantic Interoperability of Multitemporal Relational Data, Proc. of Entity-Relationship Approach - ER '93 (R.A. Elmasri, V. Kuramajian, B. Thalheim, eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 823, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 463–474, 1994.

  27. C. De Castro C., F. Grandi F., M.R. Scalas, Gestione di versioni dello schema in basi di dati relazionali multitemporali, Proc. of Seconda Conferenza Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD '94), Rimini, Italy, 1994, in Italian.

  28. M.R. Scalas, A. Cappelli, C. De Castro, A Model for Schema Evolution in Temporal Relational Databases, Proc. of the 7th Conference Computers in Design, Manufacturing and Production (IEEE COMPEURO '93), Paris Evry, France,1993.