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Position:

 

·         Research Director at ISTI (Information Science and Technology Institute) of CNR (National Research Council of Italy).

·         Managing the Networked Multimedia Information Systems Lab (NMIS)

·         Leading the Multimedia Content Management Systems Project (MILOS)

 

Interests:

  • Database Systems
  • Information Retrieval
  • Interoperability of Distributed Heterogeneous Databases
  • Multimedia Databases
  • XML Databases
  • Similarity Search Techniques
  • Image and Audio/Video Digital Libraries
  • Multimedia Content Management Systems

 

Current Projects:

  • Virtual Communities for Education (National Project) - VICE
  • Network Peers for Business - NeP4B (FIRB National Project)
  • SAPIR - Search In Audio Visual Content Using Peer-to-peer IR (EU IST FP6)

 

Main Past Projects:

  • Formally Integrated Data Environment - (ESPRIT Basic Research Action 6309): FIDE and FIDE2
  • Persistent Application Systems, Technologies, Environments and Languages (ESPRIT Working Group): PASTEL
  • Foundations of High Performance Multimedia Information Management Systems (ESPRIT Long Term Programme 9141): HERMES
  • Enhanced Content Delivery (National Project) - ECD

 

Other Activities:

 

·         Member of the Editorial Board of Information Processing and Management (IP&M), published by Elsevier Science

 

  • General Chairman and Program Committee Chairman of SIGIR’86
  • General Chairman and Program Committee Chairman of IWOSS'99
  • General Co-Chairman for Europe of the Second International Human.Society@Internet Conference 2003
  • Program Committee Member of

·         SIGIR’87, SIGIR’88, SIGIR’89, SIGIR’90, SIGIR’91, SIGIR’92

·         VLDB’90, VLDB’93, VLDB’95, VLDB'97

·         SIGMOD'96

·         EDBT'90, EDBT'98

·         POS-2000

·         WISE-2000

·         MIS-2001 (Multimedia Information Systems)

·         MIR-2002 (Multimedia Information Retrieval)

·         EWSA 2005

·         Workshop on Multimedia Semantics WMS-2005, WMS-2006

·         P2PIR06 - Workshop on Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks at CIKM 2006

·         Second international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT 2007)

·         SIGIR-07 Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, New Challenges in Audio Visual Search

·         The First ACM Workshop on the Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics (MS'07) at ACM Multimedia 2007

 

Publications:

  • Click here for Fausto Rabitti's list of publications.

·         Fausto Rabitti's entry in Bibliography Server on Database Systems & Logic Programming

 

Curriculum: Click here for Fausto Rabitti's CV.

My Address:

Dr. Fausto Rabitti
ISTI- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Pisa Research Area
Via Moruzzi 1, S. Cataldo, 56100 Pisa (ITALY)

E-mail:  Fausto.Rabittiimgatisti.cnr.it
WWW: http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/F.Rabitti/


Phone: +39.050.315-3065
Fax +39 050 3152810