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Welcome to FAUSTO RABITTI's Home Page

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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 (NeMIS)

· CNR representative in the Executive Committee of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)

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Interests:

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

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Main Past 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)
• 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

Technology Transfer:

• Co-founder of the Visual Engines s.r.l. CNR spin-off (pending request)

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Other Activities:

• 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 
  

· DEXA (up to 2013)

· SEBD (up to 2013)

· IRCDL (up to 2013)

· 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

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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.

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My Address:

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

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

Phone: +39.050.315-3065
Fax +39 050 3152810

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