Riccardo Torlone

Biography

"Riccardo Torlone is a full professor in the area of Information Systems at Università Roma Tre, where he is the head of the database research group. He received his Dr. Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from Università di Roma ""La Sapienza"". Before joining Università Roma Tre, he was member of the research staff at IASI-CNR in Rome. He also had a visiting research appointment at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). His research has considered various topics in the database field, including the following: relational database theory, active and deductive databases, database design, object-oriented databases, data warehouse and OLAP, Web-based information systems, data and metadata exchange, adaptive information systems, semantic data, query relaxation, graph databases, data analytics, and NoSQL systems. Currently, his interests focus on the management of big data. He has published his research results in the major journals of the field, including ACM Transactions of Database Systems, VLDB Journal, Information Systems, SIAM Journal of Computing, IEEE Transaction on Data and Knowledge Engineering, Distributed and Parallel Databases, SIGMOD Record and in the refereed proceedings of all the major conferences (ACM-SIGMOD, VLDB, EDBT, ACM-PODS, IEEE-ICDE, ICDT, ER, CIKM). He has authored the most spread book on databases in Italy, published also in an international edition and in several versions. He has also authored two other books."

Research Interest

Data integration,data exchange, model management, Semantic Web, context awareness, user preferences, query relaxation, data analysis, NoSQL databases, social networks.