Mirko Orsini - PhD

I'm a co-founder and CEO of DataRiver, a Spin-Off of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia founded on June 2009 to deliver the Open Source version of the MOMIS Data Integration System. I'm a member of the DBGroup research group at the "Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia" led by Prof. Sonia Bergamaschi.

I obtained the PhD degree at the Doctorate School in "ICT - Computer Engineering and Science" , "Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia", in 2009. My PhD advisors were Prof. Domenico Beneventano and Prof. Isabel F. Cruz
My PhD thesis: "Query Management in Data Integration Systems: the MOMIS approach"

During 2008, I was a visiting researcher at the ADVIS Research Laboratory – Department of Computer Science – University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) , led by Prof. Isabel F. Cruz. The research period was funded by the scholarship “Gruppo Giovani Imprenditori” – Confindustria Modena.

I obtained the "Laurea" Degree in Computer Engineering at the "Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia", Faculty of Engineering, in 2004.
My Degree dissertation: "Interoperabilità tra ontologie eterogenee: i traduttori OWL - ODLI3"

My research activities are in the context of Data Integration Systems, Global Query Management and Semantic Web and are devoted to integration, mapping and querying of ontologies.
The goal of my current research activity is to investigate about the problem of "object fusion" in query processing over heterogeneous sources in a distributed framework (such, as an information integration system, a peer-to-peer network) taking into account the object identification problem and the problem of inconsistent information among different sources. The aim of my research is to study a general framework for distributed query processing which takes into account the object fusion problem both in query formulation (by user preferences) and in query rewriting and execution.

Main research topics:

• Information Integration
• Object Fusion
• Distributed Query processing
• Semantic Web
• Access Control in Data Integration Systems

I'm involved in several research projects:

• MOMIS (Mediator envirOnment for Multiple Information Sources) Intelligent System for the Integration of Semistructured and Structured Data
• RELEVANT (RELEvant VAlues geNeraTor) system

Past projects:

• NeP4B (Networked Peers for Business) project
• SEWASIE (SEmantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies) project
• STIL (Strumenti Telematici per l’Interoperabilità delle reti di imprese: Logistica digitale integrata per l’Emilia-Romagna) project
• WISDOM (Web Intelligent Search based on DOMain ontologies) project

• I.Bartolini, D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, P. Ciaccia, A. Corni, M. Orsini, M. Patella, M.M. Santese, "MOMIS Goes Multimedia: WINDSURF and the Case of Top-K Queries", 23rd Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2015), Gaeta, Italy, June 14-17, 2015
   
• S. Bergamaschi, D. Beneventano, A. Corni, E. Kazazi, M. Orsini, L. Po, S. Sorrentino, "The Open Source release of the MOMIS Data Integration System", 19th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2011), Maratea, Italy, June 26-29, 2011
   
• S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, C. Sartori, M. Vincini "A semantic approach to ETL technologies", Data & Knowledge Engineering, Volume 70, Issue 8, August 2011, Pages 717-731, Pushing Artificial Intelligence in Database and Data Warehouse Systems. doi:10.1016/j.datak.2011.03.003
   
• S. Bergamaschi, D. Beneventano, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, "Data Integration", In Handbook of Conceptual Modeling - Theory, Practice, and Research Challenges. David W. Embley and B. Thalheim, Eds. Springer, 1st Edition., 2011, XX, 587 p., ISBN: 978-3-642-15864-3. Book
   
• F. Guerra, R. Trillo, Y. Velegrakis, E. Domnori, S. Bergamaschi, M. Orsini, "Keymantic: Semantic Keyword-based Searching in Data Integration Systems (Demo Paper)", 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2010), Singapore, September 13-17, 2010 Paper (pdf)
   
• D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, M. Orsini, M. Vincini, "MOMIS: Getting through the THALIA benchmark (Demo Paper)", Eighteenth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2010), Rimini, Italy, June 20-23, 2010
   
• S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, C. Sartori, M. Vincini, "An ETL Tool based on Semantic Analysis of Schemata and Instances", Advanced Knowledge-based Systems, Invited Session of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge-based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2009), Santiago, Chile, September 28-30, 2009
   
• D. Beneventano, M. Orsini, L. Po, A. Sala, S. Sorrentino, "An Ontology-Based Data Integration system for data and multimedia sources", The 2009 International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Multimedia Systems IEEE-SCMS 2009, Held in conjunction with the Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2009) Berkeley, CA, USA, September 14-16, 2009
   
• F. Guerra, S. Bergamaschi, M. Orsini, C. Sartori, M. Vincini "Improving Extraction and Transformation in ETL by Semantic Analysis", 10th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2009), Vicenza, Italy, September 3-4 , 2009
   
• D. Beneventano, S. Sorrentino, M. Orsini, L. Po, "The MOMIS-STASIS approach for Ontology-based Data Integration", 1st International Workshop on Interoperability through Semantic Data and Service Integration (ISDSI 2009), Camogli (Genova), Italy, June 25th, 2009
   
• S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, C. Sartori, M. Vincini, "Semantic Analysis for an Advanced ETL framework", 1st International Workshop on Interoperability through Semantic Data and Service Integration (ISDSI 2009), Camogli (Genova), Italy, June 25th, 2009
   
• F. Guerra, S. Bergamaschi, M. Orsini, A. Sala, C. Sartori, "Keymantic: A keyword Based Search Engine using Structural Knowledge", 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2009), Milano, Italy, May 6-10, 2009
   
• I. F. Cruz, P. Lin, M. Orsini, R. Gjomemo, "A Constraint and Attribute Based Security Framework for Dynamic Role Assignment in Collaborative Environments", 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2008), Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008 Paper (pdf)
   
• I. F. Cruz, P. Lin, M. Orsini, R. Gjomemo, "A Location Aware Role and Attribute Based Access Control System" (Demo), 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), Irvine, CA, USA, November 5-7, 2008 Paper (pdf)
   
• I. F. Cruz, R. Gjomemo, M. Orsini, "A Secure Mediator for Integrating Multiple Level Access Control Policies", 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2008), Zagreb, Croatia, September 3-5, 2008 Paper (pdf)
   
• S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, C. Sartori, M. Vincini, "RELEVANT News: a semantic news feed aggregator", 4th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2007), Bari, Italy, December 18-20, 2007 Paper (pdf)
   
• D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, M. Vincini, M. Orsini, R.C. Nana Mbinkeu, "Getting Through the THALIA Benchmark with MOMIS", VLDB 2007 - Third International Workshop on Database Interoperability (InterDB 2007), Vienna, Austria, September 24, 2007 Paper (pdf)
   
• S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, C. Sartori, "Extracting Relevant Attribute Values for Improved Search", IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 26-35, Sept/Oct, 2007 (special issue on Semantic-Web-Based Knowledge Management)
   
• S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, C. Sartori, "Relevant Values: new Metadata to provide insight on attribute values at schema level", 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007), Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, June 12-16, 2007 Paper (pdf)
   
• S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, C. Sartori, "A new type of metadata for querying data integration systems", 15th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2007), Torre Canne-Bari, Italy, June 17-20, 2007 Paper (pdf)
   
• D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, S. Bruschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, M. Vincini, "Instances Navigation for Querying Integrated Data from Web-Sites", Web Information Systems and Technologies, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2007, Volume 1, Part I, 125-137, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74063-6_10
   
• D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, S. Bruschi, F. Guerra, M. Orsini, M. Vincini, "Instances Navigation for querying integrated data from web-sites", International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2006), Setùbal, Portugal, April 11-13, 2006 Paper (pdf)
   

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