Publications

Scientific Books

  1. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Data Warehouse Design: Modern Principles and Methodologies. McGraw-Hill, 2009. (Chinese version available since 2010)

  2. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Data Warehouse: Teoria e Pratica della Progettazione - II Edizione. McGraw-Hill, 2005.

  3. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Data Warehouse: Teoria e Pratica della Progettazione. McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Information Systems

  1. A. Battaglia, M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. QBX: A CASE Tool for Data Mart Design. In Proceedings 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2011) Brussels, Belgium, pp. 358-363, 2011.

  2. M. Golfarelli, F. Mandreoli, W. Penzo, S. Rizzi, E. Turricchia. OLAP Query Reformulation in Peer-to-Peer Data Warehousing. In Information Systems, 37(2012), pp. 393-411, 2012.

  3. J. Aligon, M. Golfarelli, P. Marcel, S. Rizzi, E. Turricchia. Mining Preferences from OLAP Query Logs for Proactive Personalization. In Proceedings 15th International Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2011), Vienna, Austria, pp. 84-97, 2011.(Slides of the presentation).

  4. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi, E. Turricchia. Modern Software Engineering Methodologies Meet Data Warehouse Design: 4WD. In 13th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2011), pp. 66-79, Touluse, France, 2011 (Slides of the presentation).

  5. M. Golfarelli, F. Mandreoli, W. Penzo, S. Rizzi, E. Turricchia. BIN: Business Intelligence Networks. In Business Intelligence Applications and the Web: Models, Systems and Technologies, pp. 244-265, IGI Group, 2011.

  6. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Data Warehouse Testing: A Prototype-Based Methodology. On: Information and Software Technology Journal, vol. 53, pp. 1183-1198, 2011.

  7. P. Biondi, M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. myOLAP: An Approach to Express and Evaluate OLAP Preferences. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 23, n. 7, pp. 1050-1064, 2011. (see a presentation of the approach presented at EDA 2010)

  8. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Temporal Data Warehousing: Approaches and Techniques, Invited paper. In Integrations of Data Warehousing, Data Mining and Database Technologies: Innovative Approaches, David Taniar (Ed.), IGI Global, pp. 1-18, 2011.

  9. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. What-If Application Design Using UML, Invited paper. In Integrations of Data Warehousing, Data Mining and Database Technologies: Innovative Approaches, David Taniar (Ed.), IGI Global, pp. 287-306, 2011.

  10. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Data warehouse testing. International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining, vol. 7, n. 2, pp. 25-42, 2011.

  11. P. Biondi, M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Preference-Based Datacube Analysis with MYOLAP. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011), pp. 1328-1331, Hannover, Germany, 2011.

  12. M. Golfarelli, F. Mandreoli, W. Penzo, S. Rizzi, E. Turricchia. Towards OLAP Query Reformulation in Peer-to-Peer Data Warehousing. In Proceedings 13th International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2010), Toronto, Canada, 2010.
    13. (Slides of the presentation)

  13. P. Ciaccia, M. Golfarelli, and S. Rizzi. Efficiently Bounding Cardinality Ratios through Database Constraints. In Proceedings Diciottesimo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti Per Basi Di Dati, pp. 370-380, Rimini, Italy, 2010.

  14. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. A Comprehensive Approach to Data Warehouse Testing. In Proceedings 12th International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2009), pp. 17-24, Hong Kong, 2009.(Slides of the presentation)

  15. M. Golfarelli. Open Source BI Platforms: a Functional and Architectural Comparison. In 11th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2009), Lintz, Austria, pp. 287-297, 2009. (Slides of the presentation)

  16. J. Pardillo, M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi, J. Truillo. Visual Modelling of Data Warehousing Flows with UML Profiles. In 11th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2009), Lintz, Austria, pp. 36-47, 2009. (Slides of the presentation)

  17. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Expressing OLAP Preferences. 21st Int. Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2009), New Orleans, USA, pp. 83-91, 2009.

  18. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. What-if simulation modeling in business intelligence. International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining, vol. 5, n. 4, pp. 24-43, 2009.

  19. M. Golfarelli. From User Requirements to Conceptual Design in Data Warehouse Design - a Survey. Invited paper. In Data Warehousing Design and Advanced Engineering Applications: Methods for Complex Construction. L. Bellatreche (Ed.), IGI Global, 2009.

  20. M. Golfarelli. Data warehouse life-cycle and design. In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, L. Liu, T. Özsuzsu (Eds.), Springer, 2009.

  21. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. A Survey on Temporal Data Warehousing. International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM) vol. 5, n. 1, pp. 1-17, 2009.

  22. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. UML-Based Modeling or What-If Analysis. Proceedings 10th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2008), Turin, Italy, pp. 1-12, 2008.

  23. M. Golfarelli. The DFM: A Conceptual Model for Data Warehouse. Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining (Second Edition), John Wang (Ed.), IGI Global, 2008.

  24. M. Golfarelli, A. Proli, S. Rizzi. M-FIRE: A Metaphor-based Framework for Information Representation and Exploration. In Web Information Systems and Technologies, J. Filipe, J. Cordeiro e V. Pedrosa (Eds.), Springer, pp. 214-227, 2007.

  25. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Managing late measurements in Data Warehouses. International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM), vol. 3, n. 4, pp. 51-67, 2007. (Also as a chapter in Data Warehousing and Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. J. Wang (Ed.), IGI Global, 2008).

  26. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. X-Time: Schema Versioning and Cross-Version Querying in Data Warehouses. Proceedings 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1471-1472, 2007.

  27. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi, A. Proli. Designing What-if Analysis: Towards a Methodology. In Proceedings 9th International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2006), Washington DC, pp. 51-58, 2006.

  28. M. Golfarelli and S. Rizzi. What time is it in the Data Warehouse? In Proceedings 8th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2006), Krakow, Poland 2006.

  29. M. Golfarelli, A. Proli, S. Rizzi. Rappresentazione personalizzata dell'informazione nel Web Semantico. Proceedings Quattordicesimo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti Per Basi Di Dati, Portonovo, Italy, pp. 159-166, 2006.

  30. M. Golfarelli, A. Proli, S. Rizzi. Metaphor-based Semantic Browsing in M-FIRE. Demos and Posters of the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro, pp. 5-6, 2006.

  31. M. Golfarelli, A. Proli, S. Rizzi. M-FIRE: A Metaphor-based Framework for Information Representation and Exploration. Proceedings International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2006), Setubal, Portugal, pp. 332-340, 2006.

  32. M. Golfarelli, J. Lechtenboerger, S. Rizzi, G. Vossen. Schema Versioning in Data Warehouses: Enabling Cross-Version Querying via Schema Augmentation. In Data and Knowledge Engineering, vol. 59, n. 2, pp. 435-459, 2006.

  33. M. Golfarelli. New Trends in Business Intelligence. Invited paper. In Proceedings 1st International Symposium on Business Intelligent Systems (BIS'05), Opatija, Croatia, pp. 15-26, 2005.

  34. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi, I. Cella. Beyond data warehousing: What's next in business intelligence? In Proceedings 7th International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2004), Washington DC, 2004.

  35. M. Golfarelli, J. Lechtenboerger, S. Rizzi and G. Vossen. Schema Versioning in Data Warehouses. In Proc. Third International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management, ECDM 2004 (in ER2004) , Shanghai, China, 2004.

  36. M. Golfarelli, V. Maniezzo and S. Rizzi. Materialization of Fragmented Views in Multidimensional Databases. Data and Knowledge Engineering, vol. 49, n. 3, pp. 325-351, 2004.

  37. M. Golfarelli and E. Saltarelli. The Workload You Have, the Workload You Would Like. In Proceedings 6th ACM International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2003), New Orleans USA, pp. 79-85, 2003.

  38. S. Rizzi, E. Bertino, B. Catania, M. Golfarelli, M. Halkidi, M. Terrovitis, P. Vassiliadis, M. Vazirgiannis, E. Vrachnos. Towards a logical model for patterns. In Proceedings 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2003), Chicago, 2003.

  39. M. Golfarelli. Handling large workloads by profiling and clustering. In Proceedings 5th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2003), Prague, pp. 212-223, 2003.

  40. I. Bartolini, E. Bertino, B. Catania, P. Ciaccia, M. Golfarelli, M. Patella, S. Rizzi. PAtterns for Next-generation DAtabase systems: preliminary results of the PANDA project. In Proceedings Undicesimo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti Per Basi Di Dati, Cetraro, Italy, 2003.

  41. P. Ciaccia, M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Bounding the cardinality of aggregate views through domain-derived constraints. Data and Knowledge Engineering, vol. 45, n. 2, pp. 131-153, 2003.

  42. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi, E. Saltarelli. WAND: A CASE Tool for Workload-Based Design of a Data Mart. Proceedings Decimo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti Per Basi Di Dati, Portoferraio, Italy, pp. 422-426, 2002.

  43. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi, E. Saltarelli. Index selection for data warehousing. Proceedings 4th International Workshop on Design and Management of Data Warehouses (DMDW'2002), Toronto, Canada, pp. 33-42, 2002.

  44. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi, B. Vrdoljak. Data warehouse design from XML sources. Proceedings ACM Third International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP'01), Atlanta, 2001.

  45. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi, B. Vrdoljak. Integrating xml sources into a data warehouse environment. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2001), Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 49-56, 2001.

  46. P. Ciaccia, M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Using domain-derived constraints to bound the cardinality of aggregate views. Proceedings Nono Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti Per Basi Di Dati, Venice, Italy, pp. 249-256, 2001.

  47. V. Maniezzo, A. Carbonaro, M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. ANTS for Data Warehouse Logical Design. Proceedings 4th Metaheuristics International Conference, Porto, pp. 249-254, 2001.

  48. P. Ciaccia, M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. On Estimating the Cardinality of Aggregate Views. Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Design and Management of Data Warehouses (DMDW'2001), Interlaken, Switzerland, 2001.

  49. V. Maniezzo, A. Carbonaro, M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. An ANTS Algorithm for Optimizing the Materialization of Fragmented Views in Data Warehouses: Preliminary Results. First European Workshop On Evolutionary Computation In Combinatorial Optimization, Como, Italy, pp. 80-89, 2001.

  50. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. WanD: A CASE Tool for Data Warehouse Design. Demo Proceedings 17th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2001), Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 7-9, 2001.

  51. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Comparing Nested GPSJ Queries in Multidimensional Databases. ACM Third International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP'00), Washington, pp. 65-71, 2000.

  52. M. Golfarelli, D. Maio, S. Rizzi. Applying Vertical Fragmentation Techniques in Logical Design of Multidimensional Databases. Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2000), Greenwich, UK, pp. 11-23, 2000. (Slides of the presentation)

  53. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. View Materialization for Nested GPSJ Queries. Proceedings 2nd International Workshop on Design and Management of Data Warehouses (DMDW'2000), Stockholm, Sweden, 2000.

  54. M. Golfarelli, D. Maio, S. Rizzi. Vertical Fragmentation of Views in Relational Data Warehouses. Proceedings of Settimo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti Per Basi Di Dati, Como, Italy, pp. 19-33, 1999.

  55. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Designing the data warehouse: key steps and crucial issues. Journal of Computer Science and Information Management, vol. 2, n. 3, 1999.

  56. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Progettazione concettuale di Data Warehouse da schemi logici relazionali. In Proceedings of Sesto Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti Per Basi Di Dati, vol. I, Ancona, Italy, pp. 141-154, 1998.

  57. M. Golfarelli, D. Maio, S. Rizzi. The Dimensional Fact Model: a Conceptual Model for Data Warehouses. Invited paper. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, vol. 7, n. 2&3, 1998.

  58. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. A Methodological Framework for Data Warehouse Design. In Proceedings ACM First International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP), Washington, 1998.

  59. M. Golfarelli, D. Maio, S. Rizzi. Conceptual Design of Data Warehouses from E/R Schemes. In Proceedings of the 31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kona, Hawaii, 1998.

Bioinformatics

  1. L. Baldacci, M. Golfarelli, A. Lumini, S. Rizzi. A Template-Matching Approach for Protein Surface Clustering. In Proceedings ICPR'06, Korea, 2006.

  2. L. Baldacci, M. Golfarelli, A. Lumini, S. Rizzi. Clustering techniques for protein surfaces. Pattern Recognition, vol. 39, n. 12, pp. 2370-2382, 2006.

  3. L. Baldacci, F. Capozzi, M. Golfarelli, A. Lumini, S. Rizzi, M. Turano. Pattern recognition and data mining on protein surfaces. In Proceedings 1st European Conference on Chemistry for Life Sciences, Rimini, Italy, 2005.

  4. L. Baldacci, M. Golfarelli. Mining Complex Pattern from Molecular Surfaces. In Proceedings 3th International Workshop on Biological Data Management (BIDM'05), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005.

  5. L. Baldacci, F. Capozzi, M. Golfarelli, Lumini A., S. Rizzi and M. Turano. Protein classification by surface analysis. In Proceedings Bioinformatics Italian Society conference (BITS 2005), Milano, Italy, 2005.

  6. L. Baldacci, M. Golfarelli and S. Rizzi. Mining di pattern complessi di superficie da strutture molecolari. Proceedings Tredicesimo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti Per Basi Di Dati, Cagliari, Italy, 2004.

Autonomous Agents

  1. M. Golfarelli, D. Maio, S. Rizzi. Correction of Dead-Reckoning Errors in Map Building for Mobile Robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 17, n. 1, 2001.

  2. M. Golfarelli, N. Meuleau. A Model of Partially Observable State Game and its Optimality. Journal of Applied Intelligence, vol. 14, n. 3, 2001.

  3. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Spatio-temporal clustering of tasks for swap-based negotiation protocols in multi-agent systems. Proceedings 6th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Venice, Italy, pp. 172-179, 2000.

  4. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. A Role-Based Architecture For A Mobile Robot. In Proceedings 6th Symposium on Intelligent Robotics Systems, Coimbra, Portugal, 1999.

  5. M. Golfarelli, S. Rizzi. Solving Open Polygonals in Elastic Correction of Dead-Reckoning Errors. Proceedings 3rd IEEE International Multiconference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers, Athens, Greece, 1999.

  6. M. Golfarelli, D. Maio, S. Rizzi. A Hierarchical Approach to Sonar-Based Landmark Detection in Mobile Robots. Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Intelligent Robotics Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 77-84, 1997.

  7. M. Golfarelli, D. Maio, S. Rizzi. Swap-Based Negotiation Applied to Multi-Agent Path Planning. Poster presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97), Nagoya, Japan, 1997.

  8. M. Golfarelli, D. Maio, S. Rizzi. Multi-Agent Path Planning Based on Task-Swap Negotiation. Proceedings 16th UK Planning and Scheduling SIG Workshop, Durham, England, 1997.

  9. M. Golfarelli. A Game Theory Approach to Coordination in MAS. In Proceedings 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'98), Brighton, UK, 1998.

  10. M. Golfarelli. N. Meuleau. Multi Agent Coordination in Partially Observable Environments. In Proceedings of the workshop: Decision theory meets artificial intelligence - qualitative and quantitative approaches (in ECAI'98) , Brighton, UK, 1998.

  11. M. Golfarelli, D. Maio, S. Rizzi. Elastic Correction of Dead-Reckoning Errors in Map Building. Proceedings IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS'98), Victoria, Canada, pp. 905-911, 1998.

Biometric Systems

  1. M. Golfarelli, D. Maio, D. Maltoni, "On The Error-Reject tradeoff in Biometric Verification Systems", IEEE PAMI, v. 19, no. 7, 1997.

Textbooks

  1. M. Golfarelli, D. Maio, S. Rizzi. Ingegneria dei Sistemi Informativi, Lezioni ed esercizi di Modellazione dei Requisiti, Progetto Leonardo, Bologna, 2000.

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