Amedeo Avogadro

Luigi Portinale

Full Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science Insitute DiSIT
University of Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro"
Viale T. Michel 11- 15121 - Alessandria - Italy
Room 184

Telephone:	+39 0131 360 184
Fax:	+39 0131 360 198
Email:	luigi.portinale@di.unipmn.it

 

"As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality". A. Einstein

"Altough this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man". B Russel

Biography

Born in Alba (Italy) in 1964.
Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from the University of Torino in 1988.
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Torino and Milano Consortium in 1994.
Awarded (with Luca Console and Daniele Thesieder Dupre') with the Sollac Prize at the Avignon '91 Conference on Expert Systems and their Applications in 1991.
Assitant Professor: 1993-1998, Computer Science Department, University of Torino.
Assistant Professor: 1998-2000, Associate Professor of Computer Science: 2000-2002, Department of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, U.P.O.
Associate Professor of Computer Science: 2002-2004, Department of Computer Science (Dipartimento di Informatica), U.P.O.
Full professor of Computer Science: 2004-now, Department of Computer Science, U.P.O.
Visiting Professor at UNISG (Bra) since 2012.
Chair of the Computer Science Department from 2007 to 2011.
Head of the Computer Science Institute since 2012.

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Research

The research area is Artificial Intelligence (AI). Main interests involve diagnostic reasoning, probabilistic inference and Bayesian networks, case-based reasoning and (formerly) the use of Petri nets in AI applications. More recent activities involve dependability/reliability analysis, medical informatics and web-based applications.
Program committe member of several international conferences and program co-chair of the First Italian Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (1998), the Workshop on Applications of Petri Nets to Intelligent System Development (1999) and the Fifth European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (2000) .
Invited speaker to MMR'04 and MMR'07 (session on Bayesian Networks and Reliability)
Editor for the volume Advances in Case-Based Reasoning (LNAI 1898).
Reviewer for French National Research Agency (ANR).
Member of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) and of the Association for the Advacement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) .
Member of GRIN , the Italian National Group of Computer Science Researchers.
Member of research units of CINI (Italian Consortium on Informatcs), CNIT (Italian Consortium on telecommunications) and InfoQ (Group on Quantitative Informatics).
Member of the technical and scientific committe of EComLab (center for e-commerce studies)

Main collaborations:

• Medical Informatics Laboratory (ref. Riccardo Bellazzi) of the Department of Computer and System Science, University of Pavia
  • adding CBR capabilities to medical informatics tools.
• Computer Science Department, University of Torino (ref. Pietro Torasso)
  • Case-Based Reasoning and diagnosis.
• Enea: Casaccia Research Center (ref. Michele Minichino)
  • dependability analysis of safety-critical systems with bayesian networks.
• Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering group, University of Murcia (Spain) (ref. Jose' Juarez)
  • CBR and medical applications
• Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, NTNU Trondheim (Norway) (ref. Helge Langseth)
  • Bayesian networks and reliability

Useful Links:

• Association for Uncertainty in AI (AUAI)
• Society for AI and Statistics (AISTAT)
• Petri Nets
• Qualitative Reasoning
• ACM SIGART
• AI-CBR
• AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
• AI*IA (Italian Association for AI)
• International AI Societies
• Web Intelligence Consortium

Pubblications

• A summary page
• Query the pubblication DB
• My h-index is 24 (2013)

Projects

• Current Projects
  • Clinical Guidelines Software Tools And Methodologies: Towards A Second Generation. (GINSENG)
  • MASP
  • TRAQUASwine
• Main Past projects
  • VERIFIM
  • Intelligent data analysis of hemodyalisis monitoring data for improving the quality of care flow processes: MIUR 2004-2006 co-funded project.
  • An intelligent system for supervising autonomous spatial robots: in collaboration with ASI (Italian Spatial Agency).
  • Mining Mart: Enabling End-user Datawarehouse Mining: EU funded IST project.
  • Models and Tools for Dependability, Safety and Performance Analysis of Highly-Critical Complex Programmable Electronic Systems: in collaboration with ENEA (Italian Agency for Energy and Environment).
  • ISIDE: Reliable Reactive Computing Systems for Industrial Applications: MIUR 2000-2002 co-funded project.
  • A Unified computational model for reasoning with mental models: MIUR 1999-2001 co-funded project.
  • Intelligent Agents: interaction, reasoning and knowledge acquisition: MIUR 1998-2000 co-funded project.
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Professional Services

Scientific Services

• Area Chair of the 25th IEEE Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2013), (Nov 4-6, 2013, Washington DC, USA).
• Program Committe Member of 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI'13 (3-9 Aug 2013, Bejing, China)
• Program Committe Member of 21st International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR'13), (8-11 July, 2013, Saratoga Springs, NY)
• Review Board Member of 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, MEDINFO 2013, (20-23 Aug 2013, Copenaghen)
• Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Quality, Statistics and Reliability
• Program Committe member of 5th International Conference on Adnvances in Satellite and Space Communications (SPACOMM 2013), (Apr 23-26, 2013, Venice, Italy)
• Review Board member of MIE 2012: XXIV Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, 26-29 Aug, Pisa (Italy).
• Program Committe member of the ICCBR Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences 2012.
• Program Committe member of 20th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2012); (3-6 Sept, 2012, Lyon, France).
• Program Committe member of 4th International Conference on Adnvances in Satellite and Space Communications (SPACOMM 2012), (Apr29-May 4, 2012, Chamonix, France)
• Member of the Technical and Scientific Committe of EComLab (Center for e-commerce studies) (2011-now)
• Area Chair for the 23th IEEE Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2011), (Nov 7-9, 2011, Boca Raton, USA).
• Program Committe member of the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Biomedicine (AI Health11), at the Conference of the Spanish Association for AI (CAEPIA 2011) (7-11 Nov, 2011,Tenerife, Spain)
• Program Committe member of the 19th Intern Conf. on Case-Based reasoning (ICCBR 2011) (12-15 Sep, 2011, Greenwich, UK)
• Program Committe member of the 7th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2011), (15-18 Sep, 2011, Corfu').
• Program Committe member of the "3rd Int. Conf. on Advances on Satellite and Space Communications (SPACOMM2011)", (17-22 Aug, 2011, Budapest).
• Reviewer for the French National Research Agency (ANR) 2010.
• Area Chair for the 22th IEEE Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2010), (October 27-29, 2010, Arras, France).
• Program Committe Member of the "18th Int. Conference on Case-Based Reasoning" (ICCBR10), (19-22 July, 2010, Alessandria, Italy)
• Program Committe member of the "19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence" (ECAI 2010), (16-20 August 2010, Lisbon, Portugal)
• Board of reviewers member of the "13th Int. Congress on Medical Informatics" (MEDINFO 2010), (12-15 Sept. 2010, Cape Town, South Africa).
• Program Committe Member of the "2nd Int. Conf. on Advances on Satellite and Space Communications" (SPACOMM2010), (13-19 June 2010, Athens, Greece).
• Special session organizer: "Trends in Case-Based Reasoning" at IEEE/ICTAI09 (November 2-4, 2009, Newark, NJ)
• Program Committe Member of the 8th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR09), (July 20-23, 2009, Seattle, WA).
• Program Committe Member of the 7th ICCBR Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences ( July 21, 2009, Seattle, WA).
• Area Chair for the 21th IEEE Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 09), (November 2-4, 2009, Newark, NJ).
• Program Committe Member of 1st International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications ( Spacomm 2009), (July 20-25 2009, Colmar, France).
• Program Committe Member for the 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR08) (September 1-4 2008, Trier, Germany)
• Area Chair for the 20th IEEE Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 08) (November 3-5, 2008, Dayton USA)
• Program Committe Member for the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008) (July 21-25 2008, Patras, Greece)
• Member of the Gnedenko Forum on Reliability.
• Program Committe Member of the 7th Intern. Conf. on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety (ICRMS '07), (22-26 Aug 2007, Bejing China).
• Invited speaker to the 5th Int. Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, MMR 07, session on Bayesian Belief Networks for Modelling Reliability of Systems.
• Program Committe member of the "Workshop on CBR in the Health Sciences", held in conjuction with ICCBR 2007, (August 15th, 2007, Belfast, Northern Ireland).
• Area Chair for 19th IEEE Int. Conf. on Tools for Artficial Intelligence (ICTAI07) (29-31 October, Patras, Greece).
• Program Committe member of 12th Conference of the Spanish Association for AI (CAEPIA07), (12-16 November, 2007, Salamanca, Spain).
• Program Committe member of 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 07), (13-16 August, 2007, Belfast, Northern Ireland).
• Guest editor of the "Special Issue on CBR in the Health Sciences, Applied Intelligence Journal", Springer, 2007.
• Review Board Member of "Applied Intelligence Journal", Springer.
• Program Committe member of the "Workshop on CBR in the Health Sciences", held in conjuction with ECCBR 2006, (September 5, 2006, Oludeniz/Fethiye, Turkey).
• Program Committe member of the 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR 06), (September 4-7, 2006, Oludeniz/Fethiye, Turkey).
• Program Committe member of the workshop on "18th Int. Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 06)" (Nov. 13-15, 2006, Washington, USA).
• Program Committe member of the "Bayesian Networks in Dependability", co-located with the First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) (April 20-22, 2006, Vienna, Austria).
• Program Committe member of the 11th Conference of the Spanish Association for AI (CAEPIA05)(November 23-25, 2005, Santiago de Compostela SPAIN).
• Program Committe member of the 17th Int. Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 05), (November 14-16, 2005, Hong Kong).
• Program Committe member of the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR05) (August 23-26, 2004, Chicago USA).
• Program Committe member of the 16th IEEE Int. Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2004),(November 15-17, 2004, Boca Raton USA).
• Invited Speaker to the 4th Intern. Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR'04) .
• Program Committe member of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'04).
• Program Committe member of the 7th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR'04)(Madrid, 2004).
• Program Committe member of the 15th IEEE Int. Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2003),(November 3-5, 2003, Sacramento USA).
• Program Committe member of the Workshop "From Structured Cases to Unstructured Problem Solving Episodes" within 5th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR03) ( Trondheim, Norway 23-26 June, 2003).
• Program Committe member of the 5th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR03) ( Trondheim, Norway 23-26 June, 2003).
• Member of the Data Modelling Working Group (DMWG), Knowledge and Workflow Modelling Working Group (KMWG) of the COST Action 282 (2002).
• Program Committe member of the 6th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR'02) (Aberdeen, 2002).
• Program Committe member of the  Fourth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning  (ICCBR'01) ; ( Vancouver, Canada 2001).
• Co-chair of the  5th European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning  (EWCBR2K) (Trento 2000) .
• Co-chair of the  Workshop on Applications of Petri Nets to Intelligent System Development  to be held within the  20th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets  (Williamsburg, VA 21-25 June 1999).
• Program Committe member of the  AAAI98 Workshop on CBR Integrations (Madison , WI 27 July 1998).
• Co-chair of the  First Italian Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning  (Trento 20-21 February 1998).

Academic Services

• Head of the Computer Science Istitute, U.P.O. (since 2012).
• Chair of the Computer Science Department, U.P.O. (2007-2011).
• Member of the PhD in Computer Science Board, University of Torino (XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII cycle)
• Deputy Chair of CS dept. (2005-2007).
• U.P.O. representative for the academic information system (CRUI working group) (2005-2012).
• U.P.O. representative in Wi-Pie Piedmont program (2007-2010).
• U.P.O. representative in the Technical Scientific Committe (CST) of the CSI-Piemonte (2007-2011).
• U.P.O. representative in the ICT Innovation Cluster (Polo Innovazione ICT) of Regione Piemonte (2009-now)
• Member of the Academic Senate, U.P.O. (2012-now).

Teaching

Students hours

• On appointment (luigi.portinale@di.unipmn.it)

Exams

• See moodle (on-line enrollment)

News

• on-line exam enrollment mandatory

Thesis Proposals

• Artificial Intelligence (Case-Based Reasonig, Bayesian Networks, Intelligent Web Applications)
• Info: luigi.portinale@di.unipmn.it

Lectures (2012-2013) (in Italian)

• Artificial Intelligence (I semester)
• Intelligent decision Support Systems - Laurea Magistrale (I semester)
• Methodologies for Web-Based Programming (II semester)
• PhD: Intelligent Decision Support Systems (May 2011, May 2012)
• University of Gastronomic Sciences (Bra) :
  • Foundations of Computer Science
  • Statistics