Massimo Melucci Associate Professor University of Padua Department of Information Engineering Information Management Systems research group Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'informazione Via Gradenigo n. 6a, 35131 Padova, Italy Telephone: +39-049-827-7927 Fax: +39-049-827-7799
Research Interests	Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries. His research activity has been carried out in Information Retrieval (IR), both at the theoretical and experimental level. The emphasis of the research activity has been on three main issues: the context in which IR presents itself, the intrinsic uncertainty of IR and the effectiveness of IR systems. Because the thread of context, uncertainty and effectiveness of an IR system is very complex, it has been his belief that the research activity needs to focus on the investigation of statistical and probabilistic models which allow these complexities to be addressed within a theoretical framework and independently of the definite application domain.
Recent Publications	A basis for information retrieval in context, ACM Transactions on Information Systems 26(3), ACM Press, June 2008. [PDF] Towards modeling implicit feedback with quantum entanglement, Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Quantum Interaction (QI) Oxford, UK, 2008. Publisher site Utilizing event spaces for distributed information retrieval, Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), Budapest, Hungary, 2007. With E. Di Buccio. Utilizing a geometry of context for enhanced implicit feedback, Proceedings of the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) , Lisbon, Portugal, November, 2007. With R.W. White. [PDF] On rank correlation in information retrieval evaluation, ACM SIGIR Forum, 41(1), ACM Press, 2007. [PDF] Vectors, planes and context, Proceedings of the 10th DELOS Thematic Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries (PersDL) , Corfu, Greece, June, 2007. Invited Keynote Paper. [PDF] PageRank: when order changes, Proceedings of the European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR), Rome, Italy, April, 2007. With L. Pretto. [PDF] A study of a weighting scheme for information retrieval in hierarchical peer-to-peer networks. Proceedings of the European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR) , Rome, Italy, April, 2007. With A. Poggiani. [PDF] Exploring a mechanics for context aware information retrieval, Proceedings of the First AAAI Symposium on Quantum Interaction (QI), Stanford, CA, USA, March, 2007.
Publications	Complete list [PDF]
Recent Projects	SAPIR: EU FP6 IST STREP in Search on Audio-visual content using Peer-to-peer Information Retrieval TELplus: EU FP7 ECP project to strengthen, expand and improve The European Library ECD: Italian Ministry of University and National Research Council funded project on Enhanced Content Delivery
Appointments	Editorial Board of the Journal of Information Retrieval Steering Committee of Discovery Science Steering Committee of the String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium Senior 2008 ACM SIGIR Conference Programme Committee
Chairmanships and Editorships	ACM SIGIR Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Evaluation (with M. Agosti, Berkeley, CA, USA, 1999) Proceedings of the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (with A. Apostolico, Springer, 2004) Programme Committee of the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (with A. Apostolico, Padua, Italy, 2004) Organization of Dialogues federated conferences (with A. Apostolico, Padua, Italy, 2004) Workshop on Context-based Information Retrieval (with B-L. Doan and J. Jose, Roskilde, Denmark, 2007) Special Issue of Information Systems on the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (with A. Apostolico and R. Baeza-Yates, Elsevier, 2006) Special Issue of Information Systems on Web Information Retrieval (with D. Hawking, Elsevier, 2006) Special Issue of the Journal on Discrete Algorithms on the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (with A. Apostolico and R. Baeza-Yates, Elsevier, 2007) Proceedings of the Context-based Information Retrieval Workshop (with B-L. Doan and J. Jose, CEUR, 2007) European Summer School in Information Retrieval (with R. Baeza-Yates, Padua, Italy, 2009)

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