Measuring and Improving Data Quality and Description of an Integrated Proposal (2009)
Monica Scannapieco, Massimo Mecella, Tiziana Catarci, Barbara Pernici, Francesca Mazzoleni, Fabio Stella, ...
This deliverable describes a methodology for quality measurement and improvement in Cooperative Information Systems. The methodology derives from the integration of approaches to data quality...
Eclipse Plug-in to Manage User Centered Design (2009)
Yael Dubinsky, Shah Rukh Humayoun, Tiziana Catarci
User-centered design (UCD) approach guides the design of user interface (UI) and its evaluation by integrating user experience as part of the software development process. Involving users during the...
Emergent Semantics and Cooperation in Open Systems [Keynote Abstract] (2009)
Information systems of every organization (ranging from large companies to individual entities) have to handle a variety of information sources, from proprietary ones to information publicly...
The WORKPAD P2P Service-Oriented Infrastructure for Emergency Management (2009)
Tiziana Catarci, Massimiliano De Leoni, Fabio De Rosa, Massimo Mecella, Antonella Poggi, Schahram Dustdar, ...
In this paper, we present the architecture of the research project WORKPAD 1. This project aims at designing and developing an innovative service-oriented software infrastructure for supporting...
LAURIN: A Distributed Digital Library of Newspaper Clippings (2008)
Diego Calvanese, Tiziana Catarci
Among the wide range of digital libraries, an interesting, yet quite negltcted, subclass is constituted by those exclusively dealing with newspaper clippings. Compared with book-oriented digital...
Catalogue-based Interaction and Access to Library Resources * (2008)
Yael Dubinsky, Stephen Kimani, Enrico Bertini, Tiziana Catarci
Abstract: The role of libraries in supporting learning is virtually unquestionable. Research indicates that much learning in life is often in informal settings. It is interesting to note that mobile...
Comparative Ease of Use of a Diagrammatic Vs. an Iconic Query Language (2008)
Jessie Kennedy, Peter Barclay (eds, Albert N. Badre, Tiziana Catarci, Antonio Massari, Albert N. Badre, ...
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The Catalogue Browsing Access Paradigm (2008)
Yael Dubinsky, Tiziana Catarci, Stephen Kimani
Catalogue browsing is a well known activity in the library world. We are all familiar with the box of cards that is used by the librarian who browsed it over in order to find the card for the book we...
From Information to Interaction: in Pursuit of Task-centred Information Management (2008)
Alan Dix, Akrivi Katifori, Antonella Poggi, Tiziana Catarci, Yannis Ioannidis, Giorgios Lepouras, ...
In this paper we describe two automatic inference mechanisms constructed around a personal ontology with the aim of providing human like assistance for form-filling. This is part of the wider vision...
SmartDate: User Adaptation in Location-Based (2008)
Mobile Matchmaking, Matteo Berghella, Andrea Calì, Andrea Capata, Tiziana Catarci, Paolo Cerrocchi, ...
Abstract. The problem of matching user profiles arises in several applications where demand and supply profiles need to be matched, e.g., in information systems for recruitment, real estate, or...
Peer-to-Peer Data Quality Improvement in the (2008)
Daquincis System, Diego Milano, Monica Scannapieco, Tiziana Catarci
Abstract. Data quality improvement is becoming an increasingly important issue. In contexts where data are replicated among different sources, data quality improvement is possible through extensive...
An Interactive Visual Exploration of Medical Data for Evaluating Health Centres (2008)
Tiziana Catarci, Sonia Fern, Es Silva
It is well known that visualisation techniques are suitable for an effective exploration of large data sets. However, not much research has been carried out on applying visualisation techniques in...
Viewpoints on Emergent Semantics Philippe Cudré-Mauroux 1, ⋆,KarlAberer 1 (editors), (2008)
Alia I. Abdelmoty, Tiziana Catarci, Arantxa Illaramendi, Mustafa Jarrar, Robert Meersman, Erich J. Neuhold, ...
Abstract. We introduce a novel view on how to deal with the problems of semantic interoperability in distributed systems. This view is based on the concept of emergent semantics, which sees both the...
VidaMine: User-Centred Development of a Visual Mining Environment (2008)
Stephen Kimani, Stefano Lodi, Tiziana Catarci, Claudio Sartori
Tremendous technological breakthroughs have virtually revolutionized the world. One major consequence is that humans are confronted with ever-increasing already massive amounts of data at virtually...
ABSTRACT The Multilingual Thesaurus ofLAURIN (2008)
Diego Calvanese, Tiziana Catarci, Maurizio Lenzerini
Among the wide range of digital libraries, an interesting, yet quite neglected, subclass is constituted by those exclusively dealing with newspaper clippings. Compared with bookoriented digital...
Structure-Aware XML Object Identification (2008)
Diego Milano, Monica Scannapieco, Tiziana Catarci
The object identification problem is particularly difficult for XML data, due to its structural flexibility. Tree edit distances have been used to perform approximate comparisons among XML trees....
Tiziana Catarci, Tania Di Mascio, Enrico Franconi, Sergio Tessaris
ontology based visual tool
A \Graphical Notebook " as Interaction Metaphor for Querying Databases (2008)
Sonia Fernandes Silva, E Pb, Tiziana Catarci, Ulrich Schiel
Recent database applications are typically oriented towards a large set of nonexpert users, and therefore, they need tobeequipped with suitable interfaces facilitating the interaction with the...
An Ontology-Based Query Manager: Usability Evaluation (2008)
Tiziana Catarci, Tania Di Mascio, Paolo Dongilli, Enrico Franconi, Sergio Tessaris
Abstract. In this paper, we describe the usability evaluation experiments of an ontology-based Query manager, which is part of the SEWASIE system (SEmantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies)....
Mary Czerwinski (facilitator, Doug Gage (facilitator, Jim Gemmell (facilitator, Tiziana Catarci, Catherine C. Marshall, Manuel Perez-quinones, ...
Gordon returns from his business trip and the photos taken automatically from his hat-mounted camera (Figure 1- left) begin to appear on the screen saver of his fridge (Figure 1- right). One picture...
A "Graphical Notebook" as Interaction Metaphor for Querying Databases (2007)
Sonia Fernandes Silva, Tiziana Catarci, Ulrich Schiel, E Pb, ...
Recent database applications are typically oriented towards a large set of nonexpert users, and therefore, they need to be equipped with suitable interfaces facilitating the interaction with the...
Comparative Ease of Use of a Diagrammatic Vs. an Iconic Query Language (2007)
Albert N. Badre, Antonio Massari, Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci, Tiziana Catarci
The importance of designing query systems which are effective and easy to use has been widely recognized in the database area. Also, it is well known that the adequacy of a system should be tested...
Semantic Query Processing in a Heterogeneous Database Environment (2007)
John Cardiff, Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci
Semantic query optimization is the process of transforming a query issued by a user into a different query which, because of the semantics of the application, is guaranteed to yield the correct...
QBD * : a Graphical Query Language with Recursion (2007)
Ieee Transactions On, Michele Angelaccio, Tiziana Catarci
One of the main problems in the database area is to define query languages characterized by both high expressive power and ease of use. In this paper, we propose a system to query databases, using...
A Museum-Oriented Authoring Tool (2007)
Alessandro Grimaldi, Ro Grimaldi, Tiziana CATARCI
The multimedial capacities of the last generation computers meet the needs of the recent, new impulse to catalogue, restore and preserve the archaeological patrimony. In this paper we propose an...
A Visual Approach to Multilinear Recursion (2007)
Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci
. The problem of expressing complex queries in a friendly way is particularly relevant due to the growing diffusion of databases. However, the most significant proposals for extending the expressive...
Semantic Schema Integration in a Heterogeneous Database Environment (2007)
Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci, Semanticschemaintegrationina Heterogeneousdatabase, Dipartimentodiinformaticae Sistemistica, Rtc Tallaght
One of the most common approaches for accessing heterogeneous information systems is based on constructing a global schema describing the information in the individual databases. In order to...
Exploitation of Interschema Knowledge in a Multidatabase System (2007)
Multidatabase System, John Cardiff, Giuseppe Santucci, Tiziana Catarci
We describe a logic language to formally express interdependencies between classes belonging to different schemas, the socalled interschema knowledge. These interdependencies allow a designer of a...
Monica Scannapieco, Massimo Mecella, Massimo Mecella, Tiziana Catarci, Antonino Virgillito, ...
Universitd di Roma "La Sapienza"
Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" (2007)
Angela Antonicelli, Giovanni Sciscio, Renato Rosicarelli, Giorgio Ausiello, Massimo Ferrarini, Cm Sistemi Via, ...
Enlarging and improving the fruition of national cultural heritage is becoming a crucial goal for many nations, obviously including Italy, which owns the larger set of ancient findings of the world....
Visual Data Mining System Architecture (2007)
Tiziana Catarci, Paolo Ciaccia, Vincenzo Curci, Stephen Kimani, Stefano Lodi, Luigi Palopoli, ...
(Architettura del sistema integrato di data mining e visualizzazione)
Visual Rank Analysis for Search Engine Benchmarking and Efficient Navigation (2007)
Catarci, Tiziana, Keim, Daniel A., Santucci, Giuseppe, Schreck, Tobias, Iervella, Gloria, Iannarelli, Stefano, ...
In many important applications, the search for non-standard data types is essential. E.g., digital libraries and multimedia database systems offer content-based search functionality for images and 3D...
Viewpoints on Emergent Semantics (2006)
Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe, Aberer, Karl, Abdelmoty, Alia I., Catarci, Tiziana, Damiani, Ernesto, Illarramendi, Arantxa, ...
Tré,"Viewpoints on Emergent Semantics (2006)
Karl Aberer (editors, Alia I. Abdelmoty, Tiziana Catarci, Arantxa Illaramendi, Mustafa Jarrar, Robert Meersman, ...
Abstract. We introduce a novel view on how to deal with the problems of semantic interoperability in distributed systems. This view is based on the concept of emergent semantics, which sees both the...
ESTEEM Emergent Semantics and cooperaTion in multi-knowledgE EnvironMents (2006)
Carola Aiello, Roberto Baldoni, Silvia Bonomi, Tiziana Catarci, Diego Milano, Leonardo Querzoni, ...
Questo documento, che costituisce il deliverable D1.1 del progetto ESTEEM, ha lo scopo di fornire lo stato dell’arte nelle principali aree di ricerca legate agli obiettivi del progetto: (i)...
Tiziana Catarci, Tania Di Mascio, Paolo Dongilli, Enrico Franconi, Giuseppe Santucci, Sergio Tessaris
In this paper we describe the usability evaluation experiments of the Query tool system done in the context of the SEWASIE (SEmantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies) project. The usability...
OntoPIM: How to Rely on a Personal Ontology for Personal Information Management (2005)
Vivi Katifori, Antonella Poggi, Monica Scannapieco, Tiziana Catarci, Yannis Ioannidis
Nowadays, our personal computer contains a huge amount of information, that is stored in several different formats, including emails, pictures, text documents, media file, address books, etc. When we...
Emergent Semantics Principles and Issues (2004)
Aberer, Karl, Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe, Ouksel, Aris M., Catarci, Tiziana, Hacid, Mohand-Said, Illarramendi, Arantxa, ...
Emergent Semantics Systems (2004)
Aberer, Karl, Catarci, Tiziana, Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe, Dillon, Tharam S., Grimm, Stephan, Hacid, Mohand-Said, ...
Emergent semantics principles and issues (2004)
Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Said Hacid, Arantza Illarramendi, Massimo Mecella, ...
Abstract. Information and communication infrastructures underwent a rapid and extreme decentralization process over the past decade: From a world of statically and partially connected central servers...
Emergent Semantics Systems (2004)
Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Tharam Dillon, Stephan Grimm, Said Hacid, Arantza Illarramendi, ...
Abstract. With new standards like RDF or OWL paving the way for the much anticipated Semantic Web, a new breed of very large scale semantic systems is about to appear. Traditional semantic...
An Ontology Based Visual Tool for Query Formulation Support (2004)
Tiziana Catarci, Paolo Dongilli, Tania Di Mascio, Enrico Franconi, Giuseppe Santucci, Sergio Tessaris
In this paper we describe the principles of the design and development of an intelligent query interface, done in the context of the SEWASIE (SEmantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies)...
Emergent Semantics Systems (2004)
Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Tharam Dillon, Stephan Grimm, Mohand-Said Hacid, ...
With new standards like RDF or OWL paving the way for the much anticipated Semantic Web, a new breed of very large scale semantic systems is about to appear. Traditional semantic reconciliation...
Emergent Semantics Systems (2004)
Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Tharam Dillon, Stephan Grimm, Said Hacid, Arantza Illarramendi, ...
Abstract. With “peer production ” becoming commonplace and new standards like RDF or OWL paving the way for the much anticipated semantic web, a new breed of very large scale semantic systems is...
Emergent Semantics Principles and Issues (2004)
Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Aris M. Ouksel, Tiziana Catarci, Mohand-Said Hacid, ...
Information and communication infrastructures underwent a rapid and extreme decentralization process over the past decade: From a world of statically and partially connected central servers rose an...
The DaQuinCIS Broker: Querying Data and Their Quality in Cooperative Information Systems (2003)
Massimo Mecella, Monica Scannapieco, Antonino Virgillito, Roberto Baldoni, Tiziana Catarci, Carlo Batini, ...
Abstract. In cooperative information systems, the quality of data exchanged and provided by different data sources is extremely important. A lack of attention to data quality can imply data of low...
Managing data quality in cooperative information systems (2002)
Massimo Mecella, Monica Scannapieco, Antonino Virgillito, Roberto Baldoni, Tiziana Catarci, Carlo Batini, ...
Abstract. Current approaches to the development of cooperative information systems are based on services to be offered by cooperating organizations, and on the opportunity of building coordinators...
Managing data quality in cooperative information systems (2002)
Massimo Mecella, Monica Scannapieco, Antonino Virgillito, Baldoni I, Tiziana Catarci, Carlo Batini, ...
Abstract. Current approaches to the development of cooperative information systems are based on services to be offered by cooperating organizations, and on the opportunity of building coordinators...
Building a Digital Library of Newspaper Clippings: The LAURIN Project (2000)
Diego Calvanese, Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci
The field of digital libraries has been attracting a lot of research efforts during the last years. Many interesting projects have been started, dealing with the various open issues arising in the...
What Happened When Database Researchers Met Usability (2000)
This paper is about database researchers building interactive information systems. It tells the reader of their initial enthusiasm and user-induced frustration, the consequent discovery of both...
Analysis and Comparison of Methods and Algorithms for Data Mining (2000)
Tiziana Catarci, Paolo Ciaccia, Giovambattista Ianni, Stefano Lodi, Luigi Palopoli, ...
In this report we review and compare data mining methods and algorithms. After a short introduction on the general concepts of data mining we focus on four speci c topics, metaquerying, data...
Analysis and Comparison of Methods and Algorithms for Data Mining (2000)
Tiziana Catarci, Valeria Cesari, Paolo Ciaccia, Marianna De Scalzi, Giovambattista Ianni, Stefano Lodi, ...
In this report we review and compare data mining methods and algorithms. After a short introduction on the general concepts of data mining we focus on four speci c topics, metaquerying, data...
Web-based Information Access (1999)
The need of friendly environments for effective information access is further enforced by the growth of the global Internet, which is causing a dramatic change in both the kind of people who access...
Mattia De Rosa, Tiziana Catarci, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi
In this paper we present a novel approach to accessing the Web, that enables for automatically acquiring data from Web sites and making them accessible to the user through a database query paradigm....
Visual Modeling of Temporal Data in Usability Experiments (1998)
Sonia Fernandes Silva, S^onia Fernandes Silva, E Pb, Tiziana Catarci
In most recent Visual Query Systems #VQSs#, there is the attempt to address the di#erent needs of various classes of users by developing adaptiveinterfaces having a fundamental componentintheuser...
Tiziana Catarci, Shi-kuo Chang, Maurizio Lenzerini, Daniele Nardi, Giuseppe Santucci
The Internet revolution has made an enormous quantity of information available to a disparate variety of people. The amount of information, the typical access modality (i.e. browsing), and the open...
Mattia De Rosa, Tiziana Catarci, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi
In this paper we present a novel approach to accessing the Web, that enables for automatically acquiring data from Web sites and making them accessible to the user through a database query paradigm....
Visual Modeling of Temporal Data in Usability Experiments (1998)
Sonia Fernandes Silva, E Pb, Tiziana Catarci
In most recent Visual Query Systems (VQSs), there is the attempt to address the different needs of various classes of users by developing adaptive interfaces having a fundamental component in the...
Mattia De Rosa, Tiziana Catarci, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi
In this paper we present a novel approach to accessing the Web, that enables for automatically acquiring data from Web sites and making them accessible to the user through a database query paradigm....
Visual query systems for databases: A survey (1997)
Tiziana Catarci, Maria F. Costabile, Stefano Levialdi, Carlo Batini
Visual query systems (VQSs) are query systems for databases that use visual representations to depict the domain of interest and express related requests. VQSs can be seen as an evolution of query...
Conceptual views over the Web (1997)
Tiziana Catarci, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi
The Internet has made available an enormous quantity of information to a disparate variety of people. The amount of information, the typical access modality (i.e. browsing), and the open growth of...
Interacting with Databases in the Global Information Infrastructure (1997)
The growth of the global Internet is causing a dramatic change in both the kind of people who access the information and the types of information itself, which range from unstructured multimedia data...
Conceptual Views over the Web (1997)
Tiziana Catarci, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi
The Internet has made available an enormous quantity of information to a disparate variety of people. The amount of information, the typical access modality (i.e. browsing), and the open growth of...
Conceptual views over the Web (1997)
Tiziana Catarci, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi
The Internet has made available an enormous quantity of information to a disparate variety of people. The amount of information, the typical access modality (i.e. browsing), and the open growth of...
A Graph-based Framework for Multiparadigmatic Visual Access to Databases (1996)
Tiziana Catarci, Shi-kuo Chang, Maria F. Costabile, Stefano Levialdi, Giuseppe Santucci
We describe an approach for multiparadigmatic visual access to databases, which is proposed to achieve seamless integration of different interaction paradigms. The user is provided with an adaptive...
A Hypergraph-based Framework for Visual Interaction with Databases (1995)
Laura Tarantino, Tiziana Catarci, Tiziana Catarci
The advent of graphical workstations lead to a new generation of interaction tools in database systems, where the use of graphics greatly enhances the quality of the interaction. Yet, Visual Query...
Which Metaphor for Which Database? (1995)
Tiziana Catarci, Maria F. Costabile, Maristella Matera, T Catarci, M F Costabile, M Matera
The role of the users and their needs are now recognized in the database community. Many efforts are devoted to improve the quality of the interaction between the user and the database. For designing...
Conceptual Language for Statistical Data Modeling (1995)
Tiziana Catarci, Giovanna D'Angiolini, Maurizio Lenzerini
We describe a new language for statistical data modeling. The language offers a general framework for the representation of elementary and summary data, and have three main characteristics: i) the...
Are Visual Query Languages Easier to Use than Traditional Ones? An Experimental Proof (1995)
Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci, Tiziana Catarci
This paper describes an experiment aiming at estimating the advantages (or disadvantages) of using a visual query language instead of a traditional one. In order to do this we compared QBD*, a visual...
Diagrammatic Vs Textual Query Languages: A Comparative Experiment (1995)
Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci
The significance of usability as one of the most important system characteristics is widely recognized in all the application fields, including databases. This also implies the involvement of the...
Distributed Semantic Query Processing in a Cooperative Information System (1995)
John Cardiff, Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci
Visual Query System (VQS) is a suitable interface to a cooperative information system, as its users often have no knowledge of the structure or location of the data. However queries issued through a...
Visual Query Systems for Databases: A Survey (1995)
Tiziana Catarci, Maria F. Costabile, Stefano Levialdi, Carlo Batini
this paper we first identify precisely the VQSs we are interested in. They are the VQSs used for querying traditional databases, and, as such, they deal with alphanumeric data only. This is still the...
On Expressing Stratified Datalog (1994)
Tiziana Catarci, Isabel F. Cruz
1 Introduction Tiziana Catarci Isabel F. Cruz On Expressing Stratified Datalog catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it ifc@cs.brown.edu ongate x; y; z in x ; in y ; gate x; y; z : ongate x; y; z ongate a; b;...
Query By Diagram: A Graphical Environment For Querying Databases (1994)
Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci
em mainly with a mouse-like device, using the keyboard only when necessary. To increase the friendliness of the system a set of helping facilities has been devised. Among them, the most important...
Query Representation and Management in a Multiparadigmatic Visual Query Environment (1994)
Tiziana Catarci, Shi Kuo Chang, Giuseppe Santucci
We propose a framework for database querying providing the user with several interaction paradigms based on different (i.e., form-based, diagrammatic, iconic, and hybrid) visual representations of...
On Expressing Stratified Datalog (1994)
Tiziana Catarci, Isabel F. Cruz
We consider the broad class of stratified Datalog queries (which includes both linear and non-linear queries) and propose an extended closure operator that expresses such queries when added to the...
Fundamental Graphical Primitives for Visual Query Languages (1993)
Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci, Michele Angelaccio
The need of a friendly man-machine interaction is becoming crucial for a large variety of applications. In order to reach such a friendliness a new class of languages has been proposed (Visual...
Inter schema knowledge in cooperative information systems (Extended Abstract) (1993)
Tiziana Catarci, Maurizio Lenzerini, Tizianacatarci Mauriziolenzerini, Dipartimentodiinformaticae Sistemistica, Understandingthesemanticsofdatastoredindifierentdatabasesisan Essentialtask
Managing inter schema knowledge is an essential task when dealing with cooperative information systems. We propose a logical approach to the problem of both expressing inter schema knowledge, and...
Representing and Using Interschema Knowledge in Cooperative Information Systems (1993)
Tiziana Catarci, Maurizio Lenzerini
Managing interschema knowledge is an essential task when dealing with cooperative information systems. We propose a logical approach to the problem of both expressing interschema knowledge, and...
QBD*: a Graphical Query Language with Recursion (1990)
Michele Angelaccio, Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci
One of the main problems in the database area is to define query languages characterized by both high expressive power and ease of use. In this paper, we propose a system to query databases, using...
The Assignment Heuristic for Crossing Reduction (1988)
Several applications use algorithms for drawing k-layered networks and, in particular, 2-layered networks (i.e. bipartite graphs). Bipartite graphs are commonly drawn in the plane so that all...
Accessing the Web: Exploiting the Data Base Paradigm
Tiziana Catarci, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi, Giuseppe Santucci
The open growth of the Internet, the amount of available information, and the typical access modality (i.e., browsing) cause the puzzled user to search for the information of interest in a labyrinth...
QBD * : A Fully Visual Query System
Michele Angelaccio, Tiziana Catarci
The need of a friendly man-machine interaction is becoming crucial for a large variety of applications, in particular, those requiring frequent extraction of information from the database. Experience...
QBD*: A Fully Visual Query System
Michele Angelaccio, Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci
The need of a friendly man-machine interaction is becoming crucial for a large variety of applications, in particular, those requiring frequent extraction of information from the database. Experience...