About me

Hi! My name is Matteo Francia.

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My bio

Matteo Francia is an assistant professor (junior) at the University of Bologna, where he got his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering. His teaching subjects are big data, cloud platforms, and principles of informatics. His research focuses on advanced big data analytics, with particular reference to databases, mobility data, and precision agriculture. He authored publications in international conferences and journals, including Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, IEEE TKDE, DOLAP, ADBIS, ER, and EDBT, where he was awarded the best demo paper in 2021. He served as program chair at DATAPLAT (2022-2024) and as guest editor for the Future Generation Computer Systems and Information System Frontiers international journals. He was a visiting scholar at The University of Queensland in 2019. He received the MSc and BSc with honors from the University of Bologna in 2017 and 2014, respectively. He was awarded by Rotary in 2018 and 2017 as the best graduate in the School of Engineering and Architecture and in Computer Science and Engineering, respectively. He collaborated with several companies in the fields of mobility data and precision agriculture.

Teaching activity

• AY2324 - 16692 - LABORATORIO DI INFORMATICA (teaching evaluation)
• AY2324 - 95630 - BIG DATA AND CLOUD PLATFORMS (teaching evaluation)
• AY2223 - 99740 - LABORATORIO DI INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATICS) (teaching evaluation)
• AY2223 - 95630 - BIG DATA AND CLOUD PLATFORMS (teaching evaluation)
• AY2122 - 09730 - PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATICS (teaching evaluation)
• AY2021 - 81932 - BIG DATA (teaching evaluation)

Publications sorted by time

1. Francia, M., Giovanelli, J., & Pisano, G. (2023). HAMLET: A framework for Human-centered AutoML via Structured Argumentation. Future Generation Computer Systems, 142, 182–194.
2. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., Marcel, P., Rizzi, S., & Vassiliadis, P. (2022). Suggesting assess queries for interactive analysis of multidimensional data. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
3. Francia, M., Marcel, P., Peralta, V., & Rizzi, S. (2022). Enhancing Cubes with Models to Describe Multidimensional Data. Information Systems Frontiers, 24(1), 31–48.
4. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2022). Insight-Based Vocalization of\xc2\xa0OLAP Sessions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13389 LNCS, 193–206.
5. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., Marcel, P., Peralta, V., & Rizzi, S. (2022). Describing Multidimensional Data Through Highlights (Discussion Paper). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3194, 36–43.
6. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2022). COOL: A framework for conversational OLAP. Information Systems, 104.
7. Jin, F., Hua, W., Zhou, T., Xu, J., Francia, M., Orlowska, M. E., & Zhou, X. (2022). Trajectory-Based Spatiotemporal Entity Linking. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 34(9), 4499–4513.
8. Jin, F., Hua, W., Francia, M., Chao, P., Orowska, M., & Zhou, X. (2022). A Survey and Experimental Study on Privacy-Preserving Trajectory Data Publishing. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1–1.
9. Francia, M., Giovanelli, J., & Golfarelli, M. (2022). Multi-sensor profiling for precision soil-moisture monitoring. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 197.
10. Forresi, C., Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2022). Cost-based Optimization of Multistore Query Plans. Information Systems Frontiers.
11. Forresi, C., Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2021). Optimizing Execution Plans in a Multistore. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12843 LNCS, 136–151.
12. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2021). Conversational OLAP in action. Advances in Database Technology - EDBT, 2021-March, 646–649.
13. Vitali, G., Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Canavari, M. (2021). Crop Management with the IoT: An Interdisciplinary Survey. Agronomy, 11(1).
14. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2021). Conversational OLAP. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2994.
15. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., Leoni, A. G., Rizzi, S., & Santolini, N. (2021). Making data platforms smarter with MOSES. Future Generation Computer Systems, 125, 299–313.
16. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., Marcel, P., Rizzi, S., & Vassiliadis, P. (2021). Assess queries for interactive analysis of data cubes. Advances in Database Technology - EDBT, 2021-March, 121–132.
17. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., & Santolini, N. (2020). DART: De-Anonymization of personal gazetteers through social trajectories. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 55.
18. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2020). Towards conversational OLAP. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2572, 6–15.
19. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2020). A-BI+: A framework for Augmented Business Intelligence. Information Systems, 92.
20. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2020). Summarization and visualization of multi-level and multi-dimensional itemsets. Information Sciences, 520, 63–85.
21. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2020). OLAP Querying of Document Stores in the Presence of Schema Variety. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2646, 128–135.
22. El Outa, F., Francia, M., Marcel, P., Peralta, V., & Vassiliadis, P. (2020). Towards a Conceptual Model for Data Narratives. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12400 LNCS, 261–270.
23. El Outa, F., Francia, M., Marcel, P., Peralta, V., & Vassiliadis, P. (2020). Supporting the generation of data narratives. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2716, 168–172.
24. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Vitali, F. (2019). Map-matching on big data: A distributed and efficient algorithm with a hidden Markov model. 2019 42nd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics, MIPRO 2019 - Proceedings, 1238–1243.
25. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2019). Augmented business intelligence. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2324.
26. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2019). Social BI to understand the debate on vaccines on the Web and social media: unraveling the anti-, free, and pro-vax communities in Italy. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 9(1).
27. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2018). A Similarity Function for Multi-Level and Multi-Dimensional Itemsets. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2161.
28. Francia, M., Pianini, D., Beal, J., & Viroli, M. (2017). Towards a foundational API for resilient distributed systems design. Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 2nd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems, FAS*W 2017, 27–32.