Presentations

Workshop presentations

• 13 December 2010: “A Taxonomy For the Analysis of Scientific Workflow Faults” at the 2nd International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC 2010), in conjunction with CSE 2010, Hong Kong, China;
• 5 May 2009: “A Service-Oriented Framework for Executing Data Mining Workflows on Grids” at the 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management (ICWM 2009), in conjunction with GPC 2009, Geneva, Switzerland;
• 15 December 2008: “Service Oriented KDD: A Framework for Grid Data Mining Workflows” at the 10th International Workshop on High Performance Data Mining (HPDM 2008), in conjunction with ICDM 2008, Pisa, Italy;

Invited presentations

• 17 May 2010: “Data Mining Workflows in Grid Computing Environments”, at the Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems of the University of Calabria, Italy.

Attended seminars

• 14 December 2007: “Measuring dirtiness in relational databases”, Eng. Andrea Pugliese, University of Calabria, Italy;
• 21 December 2007: “Coalitional games, infeasibility certificates and the Complexity of the Core”, Prof. Luigi Paolopoli, University of Calabria, Italy;
• 11 January 2008: “Sigma-Delta Coverters”, Prof. Domenico Grimaldi, University of Calabria, Italy;
• 25 January 2008: “A P2P-based Flocking Algorithm for Distributed Clustering using Small World Structure”, Prof. Giandomenico Spezzano, ICAR-CNR Research Institute, Italy;
• 29 February 2008: “The Impact of Quasi-equally Spaced Sensor Layouts on Field Reconstruction”, Prof. Emanuele Viterbo, University of Calabria, Italy;
• 28 March 2008: “A new applied approach for executing computations with infinite and infinitesimal quantities”, Prof. Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy;
• 23 May 2008: “Time-frequency analysis of measurement signals”, Prof. Remigiusz J. Rak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland;
• 29 settembre 2008: “Semantics and Evaluation of Top-K Queries in Probabilistic Databases”, Prof. V.S. Subrahmanian, Director of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, USA;
• 15 June 2009: “The origins of the Computational Theory”, Prof. Gabriele Lolli, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy;
• 10 July 2009: “A Gentle Introduction to Word Sense Disambiguation”, Dott. Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy;
• 14 July 2009: “Soft Computing techniques for the analysis of biomedical dynamic systems”, Prof. Mario Versaci, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy;
• 13 November 2009: “Internet of Things: Applicazioni, Tecnologie e Business Model”, Eng. Marco Sgroi, PhD So.Tel srl;
• 17 December 2009: “An Efficient Rigorous Approach for Identifying Statistically Significant Frequent Itemsets”, Prof. Andrea Pietracaprina, University of Padova;
• 23 February 2010: “Il paradigma del Cloud Computing: caratteristiche, potenzialità e tematiche di ricerca”, Eng. Raffale Giordanelli, ICAR-CNR, Italy;
• 9 March 2010: “Computational Models – A Concrete Help to Biology and Medicine”, Eng. Francesco Pappalardo, University of Catania;
• 17 May 2010: “GPU computing & DPD”, James Smaldon, PhD student, University of Nottingham, UK;
• 20 May 2010: “Image Processing”, Eng. Alessia Amelio, PhD student, University of Calabria, Italy;
• 8 June 2010 (at Cardiff University): “High Occupancy Resource Allocation for Grid and Cloud systems, a Study with DRIVE”, Dr Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand;
• 28 July 2010 (at Cardiff University): “Evolutionary Algorithms based on non-traditional theories of Evolution: The Peircian Perspective”, Prof. Mian Muhammad Awais, School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan
• 13 August 2010 (at Cardiff University): “Computer Animation in Science, Mathematics, and Art e-Science”, Prof Nelson Max, University of California, USA

Attended courses

• June 2009, 6 hours: “Advances in Answer Set Programming”, prof. Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology;
• October 2009, 12 hours: “Concepts of Linear Algebra”, Prof. Verita Marino, University of Calabria, Italy;
• April 2010, 12 hours: “Numerical Calculus”, Prof. Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy;
• April 2010, 12 hours: “Computational Complexity”, Prof. Domenico Saccà, University of Calabria, Italy.

To see all past and future seminars have a look at my calendar.