Henri AVANCINI - Resume

CONTACT INFORMATION

Work Address:

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI)
Via G.Moruzzi 1 - (56124) - Pisa - Italy
Office: +39 (050) 315 2901
Fax.: +39 (050) 315 3464
E-mail: avancini @ isti . cnr . it

PROFILE SUMMARY

Master in Software Engineering. BSc in Computer Science. Cross disciplines in software engineering, multi-agent systems and object-oriented frameworks. Specialization in software reuse techniques and object-oriented design. Research on machine learning techniques, Case-based Reasoning (CBR). Ongoing research in information retrieval and text categorization, with particular regard to hierarchical text categorization. Programing experience in Java, Perl, C/C++ on Unix and Windows operating systems.

EDUCATION

Master in Software Engineering, June 2000
Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Tandil, Argentina)
Thesis: "FraMaS: a Java Framework for Multi-agent System based on Composition"
Advisor: Prof. Analia Amandi

BSc. in Computer Science, September 1997
Universidad Nacional el Sur (Bahia Blanca, Argentine)
Thesis: "Emulador Visual del Administrador de Disco"
Advisor: Prof. Jorge Ardenghi

LANGUAGES AND CITIZENSHIPS

Spanish: Mother tongue.

English: Good spoken and written.

Italian: Good spoken and basic written.

Both Argentinian and Italian citizenships.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, and Text Categorization with particular regard to Hierarchical Text Categorization. Multi-agent systems. Object Oriented Frameworks, software reuse. Digital Libraries. Grid technologies.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione -- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), 09/2007 -- present
CASPAR project. Research on digital preservation, in particular on Finding Aids tools. Working with ESA (European Space Agency) ENVISAT data. Developing prototype modules using Java, Web services, and the Semantic Web.

Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione -- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), 08/2004 - 08/2007
DILIGENT and OpenDLib projects. Covering task like requirements description, design using advanced UML tools, implementations on the gLite Grid middleware, and research. DILIGENT test-bed will integrate Grid and Digital Library (DL) technologies, this test-bed will be demonstrated and validated by two complementary real-life application scenarios: one from the environmental e-science domain and one from the cultural heritage domain. OpenDLib is a software toolkit that can be used to create a digital library easily, it consists of a federation of services that implement the digital library functionality making few assumptions about the nature of the documents to be stored and disseminated.

Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione -- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), 06/2002 - 08/2004
Work on the CYCLADES project. Developed advanced Internet accessible mediator services to support scholars both individually and as members of networked communities when interacting with large interdisciplinary electronic (e-print) archives. Retrieving information from diverse sources, and to communicate and collaborate across traditional community boundaries.

Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione -- CNR, 2001-2002
Work in the Information Retrieval group. Design and programming of both Machine Learning and Information Retrieval techniques. Investigated the use of a variant of the Rocchio method for text categorization, which uses the quasi-positive examples in order to improve the concept characterization underlying a category. Modeled and prototyped the design of general information retrieval software. Term categorization experiments from Reuters Corpus Volume 1.

Instituto de Sistemas de Tandil, 1998-2001
Work in the Software Agents laboratory. Software reuse, oriented to Multi-agent Systems that employ Machine Learning techniques as Instance-Based Learning, Decision Tree Learning, Artificial Neural Networks and Planning. Joint research with the Brainstorm project, whose purpose is to build Multi-agent Systems through software architectures supporting the usage of both the object-oriented and logic paradigms.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

June 13-14 2002. ``Principles of Automatic Text Categorization'' in 3rd.Workshop on Data Analysis, 2nd Euro-International Symposium on Computational Intelligence. Kosice, Slovac Republic.

07/2000--07/2001. C.Sc.: Software Engineering. Assistant professor in Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Neuquen, Argentina.

08/1995--06/2001. C.Sc.: Operating Systems and Networks. Teaching aide in Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Neuquen, Argentina

Spring 2001. ``Multi-agent systems course'' in Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Neuquen, Argentina.

Spring 1999. ``Java language concepts and programming course'' in Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Neuquen, Argentina.

Autumn 1998. ``Software Agents seminar'' in Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Neuquen, Argentina.

09/1996--02/1998. ``Operating Systems and Networks'' course in Technician National School. Neuquen, Argentina.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES

Committee Member of JAIIO, Argentinian Conference on Computer Science and Operational Research. 1999.

Reviewer of CACIC, Argentinian International Conference on Computer Science. 1998.

Transportes Aereos Neuquen (TAN-VASP), Neuquen-Argentine, 1994-1996.
Software Developer: Programmed on PC Windows platform an air technical on-board register system (RTA). Implemented optimization algorithms for estimating potential savings costs to airplanes maintenance.

PUBLICATIONS

DILIGENT: Integrating Digital Library and Grid Technologies for a new Earth Observation Research Infrastructure
Leonardo Candela, Fuat Akal, Henri Avancini, Donatella Castelli, Luigi Fusco, Veronica Guidetti, Christoph Langguth, Andrea Manzi, Pasquale Pagano, Heiko Schuldt, Manuele Simi, Michael Springmann and Laura Voicu.
IJDL Special Issue on Digital Libraries and eScience, 2007

Recommenders in a Personalized, Collaborative Digital Library Environment
H. Avancini, L. Candela, and U. Straccia.
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 2005

Automatic Expansion of Domain-Specific Lexicons by Term Categorization.
Henri Avancini and Alberto Lavelli and Fabrizio Sebastiani and Roberto Zanoli.
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing. 2005

User Recommendation for Collaborative and Personalized Digital Archives.
Henri Avancini and Umberto Straccia.
International Journal of Web Based Communities, Vol.1, No.2, pp.163-175. 2005.

Organizing Digital Libraries by Automated Text Categorization.
Henri Avancini, Andreas Rauber and Fabrizio Sebastiani.
International Conference on Digital Libraries - ICDL-2004. New Delhi, 24-27 February 2004.

Personalization, Collaboration, and Recommendation in the Digital Library Environment CYCLADES.
Henri Avancini and Umberto Straccia.
Applied Computing 2004 a IADIS International Conference. Lisbon, Portugal. March 2004.

User Awareness in CYCLADES: a Collaborative and Personalized Environment for Open Digital Archives.
Henri Avancini and Umberto Straccia.
Web-Based Communities a IADIS International Conference. Lisbon, Portugal. March 2004.

Expanding Domain-Specific Lexicons by Term Categorization.
Henri Avancini, Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, and Roberto Zanoli.
18th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. Melbourne, Florida, US. 9-12 March, 2003.

A Java framework for Multi-agent Systems.
Henri Avancini--Analia Amandi.
SADIO Electronic Journal of Informatics and Operations Research. ISSN 1514 - 6774. Vol 3, No. 1. October 2000.

POST GRADUATE COURSES

Science Methodology and Epistemology", Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Tandil, 2001. Prof. Dr. Alejandro Clause.

"Retrieval, filtering and categorization of text documents", Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Tandil, September, 1999. 45 hours, Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Sebastiani.

"Data Mining", Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquen, June, 1999. 60 hours, Prof.Dr. Eduardo Perez-Perez.

"Software Architectures for Mobile Intelligent Agents", Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, November, 1998. 45 hours, Prof. Dra. Analia Amandi.

"Distributed Systems Programming", II Escuela Internacional de Informatica, Neuquen, October, 1998. 45 hours, Prof. Dr. Remo Suppi.

"Multi Agent-Systems", Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Tandil, September / October, 1998. 45 hours, Prof. Dr. Jaime Sichman.

"Case-Based Reasoning", Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Tandil, September, 1998. 45 hours, Prof. Dra. Analia Amandi

"Logic Programming Tools for Internet Programming and Content Generation", Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, July, 1998. 45 hours, Prof. Dr. Paul Tarau.

"Natural Language & Logic Programming", Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, July, 1998. 45 hours, Prof. Dra. Veronica Dahl.

"Formalizing Practical Argumentation", Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, June, 1998. 45 hours, Prof. Dr. Henry Prakken.

"Software Architectures", Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, May, 1998. 45 hours, Prof. Dr. Marcelo Campo.

"Topics in Distributed Intelligence", Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Tandil, April / May, 1998. 45 hours, Prof. Dra. Analia Amandi.

"Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering", Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquen, March, 1998. 45 hours, Prof. Dr. Richard Moore.

COMPUTER BACKGROUND

Operating systems: Mac (OS X), UNIX (Linux), Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP, DOS.

Languages: Java, Perl, Fortran~77, GPSS, C/C++, Pascal, BASIC, Modula.

Data Bases: MySQL, BerkeleyDB

Object-Oriented: Design, UML, Rational Rose.

Networks/Web: Novell Netware, TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, Ethernet, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Protocols (HTTP, SMTP, POP).

Applications: XEmacs, LaTeX, Word, Excel, Corel-DRAW.

January, 2009

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