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Maurizio Atzori, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor (Ricercatore Universitario)

Math/CS Department

email atzori@unica.it

Dept. Address: Via Ospedale 72, 09124 Cagliari, Italy

Room Palazzo delle Scienze, 1st Floor

Phone (+39) 070 675 8530

Short CV

Maurizio Atzori was born in 1978 in Italy. He graduated in Computer Science (Informatica) summa cum laude in 2002, from the University of Pisa. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the School for Graduate Studies "Galileo Galilei", University of Pisa, obtained in 2006. He has been member of the ISTI-CNR, holding a research fellowship from CNR of Pisa, and a member of Knowledge Discovery and Delivery Laboratory. He has been visiting scholar at Purdue Univesity (Indiana, USA), working with Prof. Christopher W. Clifton and his research team. He has been visiting Prof. Yucel Saygin at Sabanci University (Istanbul, Turkey). Since December 2010 he is Assistant Professor (Ricercatore Universitario, Professore Aggregato) at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari (Italy). His major research interests regard database and dataspaces, data mining and privacy-preserving algorithms for data management.

News

Teaching

University of Cagliari

Students can join the PR2 course at the course page in Moodle

Publications

DBLP

The list of my publications as reported in the Computer Science Bibliography maintained by Michael Ley.


In the following the list of my last publications as reported in the Research Catalog of the University of Cagliari:

Dataspaces: Where Structure And Schema Meet

Maurizio Atzori, Nicoletta Dessě. Learning Structure And Schemas From Documents

Co-clustering Numerical Data Under User-defined Constraints

Ruggero G. Pensa, Jean-francois Boulicaut, Francesca Cordero, Maurizio Atzori. Statistical Analysis And Data Mining

Towards Trajectory Anonymization: A Generalization-based Approach

Mehmet Ercan Nergiz, Maurizio Atzori, Yucel Saygin, Baris Guc. Transactions On Data Privacy - Foundations And Technologies

Anonymity Preserving Pattern Discovery

Maurizio Atzori, Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti, Dino Pedreschi. Vldb Journal

Privacy In Spatiotemporal Data Mining

Francesco Bonchi, Yucel Saygin, Vassilios S. Verykios, Maurizio Atzori, Aris Gkoulalas-divanis, Selim Volkan Kaya, Erkay Savas. Mobility, Data Mining And Privacy

Privacy Protection: Regulations And Technologies, Opportunities And Threats

Dino Pedreschi, Francesco Bonchi, Franco Turini, Vassilios S. Verykios, Maurizio Atzori, Bradley Malin, Bart Moelans, Yucel Saygin. Mobility, Data Mining And Privacy

Towards Trajectory Anonymization: A Generalization-based Approach

Mehmet Ercan Nergiz, Maurizio Atzori, Yucel Saygin. Proceedings Of The Sigspatial Acm Gis 2008 International Workshop On Security And Privacy In Gis And Lbs (springl 2008)

Hiding Sensitive Trajectory Patterns

Osman Abul, Maurizio Atzori, Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti. Workshops Proceedings Of The 7th Ieee International Conference On Data Mining (icdm 2007)

Hiding Sequences

Osman Abul, Maurizio Atzori, Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti. Proceedings Of The Fifteenth Italian Symposium On Advanced Database Systems (sebd 2007)

Hiding Sequences

Osman Abul, Maurizio Atzori, Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti. Proceedings Of The 23rd International Conference On Data Engineering Workshops (icde 2007)

Hiding The Presence Of Individuals From Shared Databases

Mehmet Ercan Nergiz, Maurizio Atzori, Chris Clifton. Proceedings Of The Acm Sigmod International Conference On Management Of Data (sigmod07)

Privacy-aware Knowledge Discovery From Location Data

Maurizio Atzori, Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti, Dino Pedreschi, Osman Abul. 8th International Conference On Mobile Data Management (mdm 2007)

An Effective Framework For Data Anonymity

Maurizio Atzori. Proceedings Of The Fourteenth Italian Symposium On Advanced Database Systems (sebd 2006)

Secure Distributed K-anonymous Pattern Mining

Wei Jiang, Maurizio Atzori. Proceedings Of The 6th Ieee International Conference On Data Mining (icdm 2006)

Towards Low-perturbation Anonymity Preserving Pattern Discovery

Maurizio Atzori, Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti, Dino Pedreschi. Proceedings Of The 2006 Acm Symposium On Applied Computing (sac06)

Weak K-anonymity: A Low-distortion Model For Protecting Privacy

Maurizio Atzori. Information Security, 9th International Conference (isc 2006)

Anonymity And Data Mining

Maurizio Atzori, Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti, Dino Pedreschi. Computer Systems Science And Engineering

Blocking Anonymity Threats Raised By Frequent Itemset Mining

Maurizio Atzori, Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti, Dino Pedreschi. 5th Ieee International Conference On Data Mining (icdm 2005)

K-anonymous Patterns

Maurizio Atzori, Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti, Dino Pedreschi. 9th European Conference On Principles And Practice Of Knowledge Discovery In Databases (pkdd 2005)

Memory-aware Frequent K-itemset Mining

Maurizio Atzori, Paolo Mancarella, Franco Turini. Knowledge Discovery In Inductive Databases, 4th International Workshop, Kdid 2005

Talks

Information about Talks are not up-to-date.

pdf Is Data Mining Dangerous?

Poster at the 7th Annual CERIAS Information Security Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (March 2006)

pdf Anonymity-Preserving Data Mining

Database Seminar at the Indiana Center for Database Systems of Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (February 2006)

pdf Anonymity Aware Data Mining

GeoPKDD.it Project meeting in Venice (October 2005)

pdf Blocking Anonymity Threats Raised by Frequent Itemset Mining

Presentation of the short paper at ICDM05 in Houston, TX, USA (November 2005)

pdf k-Anonymous Patterns

Presentation of the regular paper at PKDD05 in Porto, Portugal (October 2005)

pdf Computing Frequent k-Itemsets Directly in Sparse Datasets

Presentation of the paper at KDID05 in Porto, Portugal (October 2005)

pdf Privacy in Mobile Networks

one of the seminars on Mobile Networks, organized by Prof. M. Bonuccelli, University of Pisa (June 2005)

pdf Managing Personal Data - A Tutorial on Laws and Technologies on Privacy Protection

A lecture on Privacy Preserving Data Mining, University of Pisa (May 2005)

pdf Tutorial on Privacy Preserving Data Mining

P3D days, ISTI-CNR, Pisa (Jan 2005)

pdf Handling Private Information in Data Mining

A lecture on Privacy Preserving Data Mining, University of Pisa (May 2004)

pdf On the Value of Private Information

KDD-Lab, University of Pisa (Nov 2003)

pdf Abduction in Classification Tasks

AI*IA 2003 Conference, Pisa (Sep 2003)

pdf Discovery of frequent episodes in event sequences using WINEPI

one of the seminars on Algorithms for pattern discovery and searching in sequences, organized by Prof. R. Grossi, University of Pisa (May 2003)

pdf A foundation for Representing and Querying Moving Objects

Galileo Galilei PhD School, University of Pisa (April 2003)

pdf Maintaining Knowledge about Temporal Intervals

Galileo Galilei PhD School, University of Pisa (April 2003)

Projects

U-DID

PI of project Unstructured Data Integration for Dataspaces (Math/CS Dept., University of Cagliari)

DIVA

A predictive system aimed at fighting against tax evasion in VAT domain

KDubiq

Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery (WG5: Privacy and Security)

GeoPKDD

Geographic Privacy-aware Knowledge Discovery and Delivery (European FET Project IST-014915)

GeoPKDD.it

Italian Project on Geographic Privacy-aware Knowledge Discovery and Delivery (MIUR COFIN2004)

P3D - Privacy Preserving Pattern Discovery

A "Curiosity Driven and Independent Research" ISTI Internal Project

KDDML-MQL

Knowledge Discovery in Databases Markup Language

ClickWorld

Data analysis of Click Streams

Attended PhD Courses

Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks

Prof. J.P. Hubaux, EPFL, Switzerland.

Privacy in Wireless Networks

Prof. G. Tsudik, University California Irvine, CA, U.S.A.

Search Engines and Question Answering

Prof. G. Attardi, University of Pisa, Italy.

Economic and Game-Theoretic Aspects of Information Systems

Prof. C. Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.

Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment

Prof. P. Raghavan, Verity and Stanford University.

Search and Data Mining in the Internet Age

Prof. A. Broder, IBM Research.

From Data Mining to Relational Data Mining

Prof. S. Dzeroski, Department of Intelligent Systems, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia.

Some Computational Aspects of Geoinformatics

Prof. M. Worboys, Department of Spatial Information Engineering, University of Maine, U.S.A.

Data Compression of Massive Datasets

Prof. P. Ferragina, University of Pisa, Italy.

Advisor

Simone Loru's Bachelor Degree "AndroidLogin: an Android-based login system" (Apr 2011)

Michela Piotti's Master Degree "Abductive Techniques for Classification" (University of Pisa, July 2005)

Davide Carfi's Bachelor Degree "Tools for Privacy Preserving Data Mining" (CNR, July 2005)

Romeo Zitarosa's Bachelor Degree "Development of an Online Data Mining Algorithm for Association Rules Extraction" (University of Pisa, Feb 2005)

Daniele Sgandurra's Bachelor Degree "Development of Tools for Privacy Preserving Distributed Data Mining" (CNR, July 2004)

Software

Java Privacy-Preserving Pattern Discovery Package (jp3d)

A pure java package for privacy-preserving pattern discovery. MathCollection, an extension for the Java Collection Framework by Dietmar Lippold, is required. See CNR description for further details.

k-Privacy

A pure java application for table anonymization through k-anonymity generalization and suppression. It has both console and graphical user interface. Joint work with Davide Carfi. See CNR description for further details.

Privacy-Preserving Distributed Data Mining Library (PPDDM-Lib)

An open source ANSI C/C++ library of functions and protocols useful to exchange sensible information while computing Data Mining Models from several servers, as described in Clifton et al., 2003. The OpenSSL Toolkit is required. Joint work with Daniele Sgandurra, developed at ISTI-CNR, Pisa.


I am also developing a number of other applications in the fields of abduction, data privacy, and data mining. I planned to publish them here as soon as the documentation is ready. If you need details on experiments on my papers or software published here, please feel free to email me.

Scientific Activities

Resources

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