Publications

@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-319-16354-3_93,

title = {A Formal Approach to Effectiveness Metrics for Information Access: Retrieval, Filtering, and Clustering},

author = {Enrique Amigó and Julio Gonzalo and Stefano Mizzaro},

editor = {Allan Hanbury and Gabriella Kazai and Andreas Rauber and Norbert Fuhr},

isbn = {978-3-319-16354-3},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

booktitle = {Advances in Information Retrieval},

pages = {817–821},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

abstract = {In this tutorial we present a formal account of evaluation metrics for three of the most salient information related tasks: Retrieval, Clustering, and Filtering. We focus on the most popular metrics and, by exploiting measurement theory, we show some constraints for suitable metrics in each of the three tasks. We also systematically compare metrics according to how they satisfy such constraints, we provide criteria to select the most adequate metric for each specific information access task, and we discuss how to combine and weight metrics.},

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@inproceedings{10.1145/2600428.2602296,

title = {A general account of effectiveness metrics for information tasks: retrieval, filtering, and clustering},

author = {Enrique Amigó and Julio Gonzalo and Stefano Mizzaro},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2600428.2602296},

doi = {10.1145/2600428.2602296},

isbn = {9781450322577},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval},

pages = {1289},

publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

address = {Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia},

series = {SIGIR '14},

abstract = {In this tutorial we will present, review, and compare the most popular evaluation metrics for some of the most salient information related tasks, covering: (i) Information Retrieval, (ii) Clustering, and (iii) Filtering. The tutorial will make a special emphasis on the specification of constraints for suitable metrics in each of the three tasks, and on the systematic comparison of metrics according to such constraints. The last part of the tutorial will investigate the challenge of combining and weighting metrics.},

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@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-642-04417-5_40,

title = {Evaluating Mobile Proactive Context-Aware Retrieval: An Incremental Benchmark},

author = {Davide Menegon and Stefano Mizzaro and Elena Nazzi and Luca Vassena},

editor = {Leif Azzopardi and Gabriella Kazai and Stephen Robertson and Stefan Rüger and Milad Shokouhi and Dawei Song and Emine Yilmaz},

isbn = {978-3-642-04417-5},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

booktitle = {Advances in Information Retrieval Theory},

pages = {362--365},

publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},

address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},

abstract = {We present the evaluation of a novel application for Web content perusal by means of context-aware mobile devices that proactively query an external search engine. To this aim, we develop a TREC-like benchmark and we use it to evaluate different strategies for automatic query construction on the basis of user's current context. We discuss both the methodology and the results.},

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@inproceedings{10.1145/1506250.1506260,

title = {Collaborative Annotation for Context-Aware Retrieval},

author = {Stefano Mizzaro and Elena Nazzi and Luca Vassena},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1506250.1506260},

doi = {10.1145/1506250.1506260},

isbn = {9781605584300},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the WSDM '09 Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval},

pages = {42–45},

publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

address = {Barcelona, Spain},

series = {ESAIR '09},

abstract = {We discuss how collaborative annotations can be exploited to simplify and improve the management of context and resources in the context-aware retrieval field. We apply this approach to our Context Aware Browser, a general purpose solution to Web content perusal by means of mobile devices, based on the user's context. Instead of relying on a pool of experts and on a rigid categorization, as it is usually done in the context-aware field, our solution allows the crowd of users to model, control and manage the contextual knowledge through collaboration and participation. We propose two models and we outline an example of application.},

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@inproceedings{mizzaro_et_al:DSP:2009:2151,

title = {Context Aware Browser},

author = {Stefano Mizzaro and Paolo Coppola and Vincenzo Della Mea and Luca Di Gaspero and Danny Mischis and Elena Nazzi and Ivan Scagnetto and Luca Vassena},

editor = {Nicholas J Belkin and Norbert Fuhr and Joemon Jose and Keith C J van Rijsbergen},

url = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2009/2151},

issn = {1862-4405},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

booktitle = {Interactive Information Retrieval},

number = {09101},

publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Germany},

address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},

series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings},

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@inproceedings{10.1145/1414694.1414710,

title = {Retrieval of Context-Aware Applications on Mobile Devices: How to Evaluate?},

author = {Stefano Mizzaro and Elena Nazzi and Luca Vassena},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1414694.1414710},

doi = {10.1145/1414694.1414710},

isbn = {9781605583105},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context},

pages = {65–71},

publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

address = {London, United Kingdom},

series = {IIiX '08},

abstract = {This paper discusses the issue of evaluation of context-aware retrieval applications. We begin by describing MoBe, a specific architecture that allows automatic download and execution of context-aware applications on mobile devices. In MoBe, the most relevant applications are selected by matching context and application descriptors. Since several alternatives for descriptors implementation exist, it is important to compare their effectiveness. To this aim, we develop a TREC-like benchmark, in which the collection is made up by a set of application descriptors and the topics are made up by context descriptors. We then use the benchmark to evaluate the effectiveness of different descriptors components, and of structured and unstructured (i.e., free text) data, finding results that are somehow useful for future MoBe development. We also discuss the issue of the evaluation methodology for highly interactive and novel applications like context-aware retrieval systems, and MoBe in particular.},

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@inproceedings{10.5555/1567281.1567426,

title = {AI on the Move: Exploiting AI Techniques for Context Inference on Mobile Devices},

author = {Adolfo Bulfoni and Paolo Coppola and Vincenzo Della Mea and Luca Di Gaspero and Danny Mischis and Stefano Mizzaro and Ivan Scagnetto and Luca Vassena},

isbn = {9781586038915},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence},

pages = {668–672},

publisher = {IOS Press},

address = {NLD},

abstract = {Context aware computing is a computational paradigm that has faced a rapid growth in the last few years, especially in the field of mobile devices. One of the promises of context-awareness in this field is the possibility of automatically adapting the functioning mode of mobile devices to the environment and the current situation the user is in, with the aim of improving both their efficiency (using the scarce resources in a more efficient way) and effectiveness (providing better services to the user). We propose a novel approach for providing a basic infrastructure for context-aware applications on mobile devices, in which AI techniques (namely a principled combination of rule-based systems, Bayesian networks, and ontologies) are applied to context inference. The aim is to devise a general inferential framework to easier the development of context-aware applications by integrating the information coming from physical and logical sensors (e.g., position, agenda) and reasoning about this information in order to infer new and more abstract contexts. In previous contextaware applications, most researches focused almost exclusively on time and/or location and other few data, while the same contexts inference was limited to preconceived values. Our approach differs from previous works since we do not focus on particular contextual values, but rather we have developed an architecture where managed contexts can be easily replaced by new contexts, depending on the different needs. Moreover, the inferential infrastructure we designed is able to work in a more general way and can be easily adapted to different models of applications distribution. We show some concrete examples of applications built upon the inferential infrastructure and we discuss its strengths and limitations.},

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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/bis/CoppolaLMNV08,

title = {Mobile Social Software for Cultural Heritage: A Reference Model},

author = {Paolo Coppola and Raffaella Lomuscio and Stefano Mizzaro and Elena Nazzi and Luca Vassena},

editor = {Dominik Flejter and Slawomir Grzonkowski and Tomasz Kaczmarek and Marek Kowalkiewicz and Tadhg Nagle and Jonny Parkes},

url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-333/saw6.pdf},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

booktitle = {BIS 2008 Workshops Proceedings: Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 

 2008), Advances in Accessing Deep Web (ADW 2008), E-Learning for 

 Business Needs, Innsbruck, Austria, 6-7 May 2008},

volume = {333},

pages = {69--80},

publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},

series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

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@inproceedings{CDDMSSVZ05b,

title = {Information Filtering and Retrieving of Context-Aware Applications Within the MoBe Framework},

author = {Paolo Coppola and Vincenzo Della Mea and Luca Di Gaspero and Stefano Mizzaro and Ivan Scagnetto and Andrea Selva and Luca Vassena and Paolo Zandegiacomo Riziò},

year  = {2005},

date = {2005-07-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings International Workshop on Context-Based Information Retrieval (CIR-2005)},

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@inproceedings{CDDMSSVZ05ab,

title = {MoBe: A Framework for Context-Aware Mobile Applications},

author = {Paolo Coppola and Vincenzo Della Mea and Luca Di Gaspero and Stefano Mizzaro and Ivan Scagnetto and Andrea Selva and Luca Vassena and Paolo Zandegiacomo Riziò},

editor = {Patrik Floréen and Greger Lindń and Tiina Niklander and Kimmo Raatikainen},

url = {http://satt.diegm.uniud.it/uploads/Papers/CDDMSSVZ05a.pdf},

year  = {2005},

date = {2005-06-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Context Awareness for Proactive Systems (CAPS 2005)},

pages = {55--66},

publisher = {Helsinki University Press},

address = {Helsinki, Finland},

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@inproceedings{CDDMSSVZ05c,

title = {Context-Aware Mobile Applications on Mobile Devices for Mobile Users},

author = {Paolo Coppola and Vincenzo Della Mea and Luca Di Gaspero and Stefano Mizzaro and Ivan Scagnetto and Andrea Selva and Luca Vassena and Paolo Zandegiacomo Riziò},

url = {http://satt.diegm.uniud.it/uploads/Papers/CDDMSSVZ05.pdf},

year  = {2005},

date = {2005-05-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Exploiting Context Histories in Smart Environments},

address = {Munich, Germany},

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@inproceedings{Mea_mobe:context-aware,

title = {MoBe: Context-Aware Mobile Applications on Mobile Devices for Mobile Users},

author = {Vincenzo Della Mea and Luca Di Gaspero and Stefano Mizzaro and Ivan Scagnetto and Andrea Selva and Luca Vassena and Paolo Z and Giacomo Riziò},

editor = {Helsinki University Press},

isbn = {952-10-2518},

year  = {2005},

date = {2005-01-01},

booktitle = {Workshop on Context Awareness for Proactive Systems},

organization = {CAPS},

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pubstate = {published},

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@inproceedings{DeDM04,

title = {Evaluating ADM on a four-level relevance scale document set from NTCIR},

author = {Vincenzo Della Mea and Luca Di Gaspero and Stefano Mizzaro},

year  = {2004},

date = {2004-06-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of NTCIR Workshop 4 Meeting - Supplement},

volume = {2},

number = {30--38},

publisher = {National Institute of Informatics (NII)},

address = {Tokyo, Japan},

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pubstate = {published},

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@inproceedings{DiMS04,

title = {A MultiAgent Architecture for Distributed Course Timetabling},

author = {Luca Di Gaspero and Stefano Mizzaro and Andrea Schaerf},

year  = {2004},

date = {2004-01-01},

booktitle = {Atti della Giornata di Lavoro del gruppo RCRA 2004: Agenti e Vincoli: Modelli e Tecnologie per Dominare la Complessità},

note = {Available as electronic proceedings},

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@inproceedings{CDDMR02,

title = {From E-Relevance to W-Relevance},

author = {Paolo Coppola and Vincenzo Della Mea and Luca Di Gaspero and Stefano Mizzaro and Roberto Ranon},

editor = {M -K Leong and G Loudon},

year  = {2002},

date = {2002-08-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},

pages = {64--72},

address = {Tampere, Finland},

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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/BrajnikMT96,

title = {Evaluating User Interfaces to Information Retrieval Systems: A Case 

 Study on User Support},

author = {Giorgio Brajnik and Stefano Mizzaro and Carlo Tasso},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/243199.243249},

doi = {10.1145/243199.243249},

year  = {1996},

date = {1996-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference 

 on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'96, August 

 18-22, 1996, Zurich, Switzerland (Special Issue of the SIGIR Forum)},

pages = {128--136},

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