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2020

A. Céol, P. Montanari, I. Bartolini, S. Ceri, P. Ciaccia, M. Patella, and M. Masseroli. Search and Comparison of (Epi)genomic Feature Patterns in Multiple Genome Browser Tracks. In BMC Bioinformatics, 21(1), December 2020.
I. Bartolini and M. Patella. Rammed, or What RAM³S Taught Us. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS 2020), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 2020.

2019

I. Bartolini and M. Patella. Real-Time Stream Processing in Social Networks with RAM³S. In Future Internet, MDPI, 2019.
I. Bartolini, P. Pascarella, and M. Patella. Multiple Instance Classification in the Image Domain. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2019), Newark, NJ, September 2019. Slides of the talk.

2018

O. Andrisano, I. Bartolini, P. Bellavista, A. Boeri, L. Bononi, A. Borghetti, A. Brath, G.E. Corazza, A. Corradi, S. de Miranda, F. Fava, L. Foschini, G. Leoni, D. Longo, M. Milano, F. Napolitano, C.A. Nucci, G. Pasolini, M. Patella, T. Salmon Cinotti, D. Tarchi, F. Ubertini, and D. Vigo. The Need of Multidisciplinary Approaches and Engineering Tools for the Development and Implementation of the Smart City Paradigm. In Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE, 2018.
I. Bartolini and M. Patella. Windsurf: The Best Way to SURF (and SIFT/BRISK/ORB/FREAK, too). In Multimedia Systems, Springer, 2018.
I. Bartolini and M. Patella. A General Framework for Real-time Analysis of Massive Multimedia Streams. In Multimedia Systems, Springer, 2018.
I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. Multimedia, Similarity, and Preferences: Adding Flexibility to Your Information Needs. In A Comprehensive Guide Through the Italian Database Research Over the Last 25 Years, Springer, 2018.

2017

P. Ciaccia and M. Patella. The Power of Distance Distributions: Cost Models and Scheduling Policies for Quality-Controlled Similarity Queries. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2017), Munich, Germany, September 2017. Slides of the talk.
I. Bartolini and M. Patella. Comparing Performances of Big Data Stream Processing Platforms with RAM³S. In Proceedings of the 25th Italian National Conference on Advanced Data Base Systems (SEBD 2017), Squillace Lido, Catanzaro, Italy, June 2017.
R. Accorsi, R. Manzini, P. Pascarella, M. Patella, and S. Sassi. Data Mining and Machine Learning for Condition-Based Maintenance. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM2017), Modena, Italy, June 2017.

2016

P. Montanari, I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, M. Patella, S. Ceri, and M. Masseroli. Pattern Similarity Search in Genomic Sequences. In Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 28(11), November 2016.
P. Montanari, I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, M. Patella, S. Ceri, and M. Masseroli. Pattern Similarity Search in Multiple Genome Browser Tracks. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2016), Orlando, FL, July 2016.
P. Montanari, I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, M. Patella, S. Ceri, and M. Masseroli. Looking for Similar Patterns in Genomic Sequences. In Atti del Ventiquattresimo Convegno Nazionale SEBD (SEBD 2016), Ugento, Italy, June 2016.
P. Montanari, A. Ceol, I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, M. Patella, S. Ceri, and M. Masseroli. Discovering Similar (Epi)Genomics Feature Patterns in Multiple Genome Browser Tracks. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS 2016), Fisciano, Italy, June 2016.

2015

I. Bartolini and M. Patella. Multimedia Queries in Digital Libraries. In Data Management in Pervasive Systems, Springer, 2015.
I. Bartolini, D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, P. Ciaccia, A. Corni, M. Orsini, M. Patella, and M.M. Santese. MOMIS Goes Multimedia: WINDSURF and the Case of Top-K Queries. In Atti del Ventitreesimo Convegno Nazionale SEBD (SEBD 2015), Gaeta, Italy, June 2015.

2014

I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. Domination in the Probabilistic World: Computing Skylines for Arbitrary Correlations and Ranking Semantics. In ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 39(2), May 2014.

2013

I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. The Skyline of a Probabilistic Relation. In Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 25(7), July 2013.
I. Bartolini, M. Patella and C. Romani. SHIATSU: Tagging and Retrieving Videos without Worries. In Multimedia Tools and Applications, 63(2), March 2013.

2012

I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. Getting the Best from Uncertain Data: the Correlated Case. In Atti del Ventesimo Convegno Nazionale SEBD (SEBD 2012), Padova, Italy, June 2012.
P. Ciaccia and M. Patella. Editorial. In Journal of Discrete Algorithms, 13(12), May 2012.

2011

I. Bartolini, M. Patella, and G. Stromei. The Windsurf Library for the Efficient Retrieval of Multimedia Hierarchical Data. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2011), Seville, Spain, July 2011. Best paper award
I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. Getting the Best from Uncertain Data. In Atti del Diciannovesimo Convegno Nazionale SEBD (SEBD 2011), Maratea, Italy, June 2011.
P. Ciaccia and M. Patella. Metric Information Filtering (Or: How to Win the (Metric) Space War with Information Overload). In Information Systems, 36 (4), June 2011.

2010

I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. Query Processing Issues in Region-Based Image Databases. In Knowledge and Information Systems, 25(2), November 2010.
I. Bartolini, M. Patella, and C. Romani. SHIATSU: Semantic-Based Hierarchical Automatic Tagging of Videos by Segmentation using Cuts. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production (AIEMPro 10), Firenze, Italy, October 2010.
P. Ciaccia and M. Patella, editors. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on SImilarity Search and APplications, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2010.
P. Ciaccia and M. Patella. Approximate and probabilistic methods. In SIGSPATIAL Special, Letters on Similarity Search in Metric Spaces, 2(2), July 2010.

2009

P. Ciaccia and M. Patella. Principles of Information Filtering in Metric Spaces. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2009), Prague, Czech Republic, September 2009.
M. Patella and P. Ciaccia. Approximate Similarity Search: A Multi-Faceted Problem. In Journal of Discrete Algorithms, 7(1), March 2009.
I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, I. Ntoutsi, M. Patella, and Y. Theodoridis. The Panda Framework for Comparing Patterns. In Data and Knowledge Engineering, 68(2), February 2009.

2008

I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. Efficient Sort-based Skyline Evaluation. In ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 33(4), November 2008. Online appendix.
M. Patella and P. Ciaccia. The Many Facets of Approximate Similarity Search. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2008), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008. Slides of the talk. Invited paper

2007

A. Linari and M. Patella. Metric Overlay Networks: Processing Similarity Queries in P2P Databases. In 5th International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2007), Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. PIBE: Manage Your Images the Way You Want! (demo). In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007.

2006

I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. Adaptively browsing image databases with PIBE. In Multimedia Tools and Applications, 31(3), December 2006.
I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. SaLSa: Computing the Skyline without Scanning the Whole Sky. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006), Arlington, VA, November 2006.
C. De Castro, C. Donzelli, C. Fontana, M. Patella, A. Ravaioli, and P. Toppan. An LDAP/SQL-based Integrated Architecture for Broad-Band Services. In Sixth IASTED International Multi-Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications: Conference on Communication Systems and Applications (WOC 2006), Banff, AL, July 2006.
I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. Distributed Aggregation Strategies for Preferences Queries. In Atti del Quattordicesimo Convegno Nazionale SEBD (SEBD 2006), Portonovo, Italy, June 2006.

2005

I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. Warp: Accurate Retrieval of Shapes Using Phase and Time Warping Distance. In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 27(1), January 2005.

2004

I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, I. Ntoutsi, M. Patella, and Y. Theodoridis. A Unified and Flexible Framework for Comparing Simple and Complex Patterns. In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD 2004), Pisa, Italy, September 2004. Slides of the poster.
I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. The PIBE Personalizable Image Browsing Engine. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Computer Vision meets Databases (CVDB 2004), Paris, France, June 2004.
I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. A Framework for the Comparison of Complex Patterns. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Pattern Representation and Management (PaRMa'04), Heraklion, Greece, March 2004.

2003

I. Bartolini, E. Bertino, B. Catania, P. Ciaccia, M. Golfarelli, M. Patella, and S. Rizzi. PAtterns for Next-generation DAtabase systems: preliminary results of the PANDA project. In Atti dell'Undicesimo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD 2003), Cetraro, Italy, June 2003.

2002

P. Ciaccia and M. Patella. Searching in Metric Spaces with User-Defined and Approximate Distances. In ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 27(4), December 2002.
I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. String Matching with Metric Trees Using an Approximate Distance. In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2002), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2002. Slides of the talk.

2000

P. Ciaccia and M. Patella. The M²-tree: Processing Complex Multi-Feature Queries with Just One Index. In Proceedings of the 1st DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on Information Seeking, Searching and Querying in Digital Libraries, Zurich, Switzerland, December 2000.
I. Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. A Sound Algorithm for Region-Based Image Retrieval Using an Index. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Query Processing and Multimedia Issues in Distributed Systems (QPMIDS 2000), Greenwich, London, UK, September 2000.
I. Bartolini and M. Patella. Correct and Efficient Evaluation of Region-Based Image Search. In Atti dell'Ottavo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD 2000), L'Aquila, Italy, June 2000.
P. Ciaccia and M. Patella. PAC Nearest Neighbor Queries: Approximate and Controlled Search in High-Dimensional and Metric Spaces. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2000), San Diego, California, USA, March 2000. Slides of the talk.

1999

P. Ciaccia and M. Patella. Using the Distance Distribution for Approximate Similarity Queries in High-Dimensional Metric Spaces. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Similarity Search (IWOSS'99), Florence, Italy, September 1999.
S. Ardizzoni, I. Bartolini, and M. Patella. Windsurf: Region-Based Image Retrieval Using Wavelets. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Similarity Search (IWOSS'99), Florence, Italy, September 1999. Slides of the talk.
P. Ciaccia and M. Patella. PAC Nearest Neighbor Queries: Using the Distance Distribution for Searching in High-Dimensional Metric Spaces. In Atti del Settimo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD 1999), Como, Italy, June 1999.
P. Ciaccia, A. Nanni, and M. Patella. A Query-sensitive Cost Model for Similarity Queries with M-tree. In Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Database Conference (ADC'99), Auckland, New Zealand, January 1999. Slides of the talk.

1998

P. Ciaccia, M. Patella, and P. Zezula. A Cost Model for Similarity Queries in Metric Spaces. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS '98), Seattle, Washington, USA, 1-4 June, 1998. Slides of the talk.
P. Ciaccia, M. Patella, and P. Zezula. Processing complex similarity queries with distance-based access methods. In Proceedings of the 6th EDBT International Conference, Valencia, Spain, 23-27 March, 1998. Slides of the talk.
P. Ciaccia, and M. Patella. Bulk loading the M-tree. In Proceedings of th 9th Australasian Database Conference (ADC'98), Perth, Australia, February 1998. Slides of the talk.

1997

P. Ciaccia, M. Patella, and P. Zezula. M-tree: An efficient access method for similarity search in metric spaces. In Proceedings of the 23rd VLDB International Conference, Athens, Greece, September 1997.
P. Ciaccia, M. Patella, F. Rabitti, and P. Zezula. Indexing metric spaces with M-tree. In Atti del Quinto Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD 1997), Verona, Italy, June 1997.