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Maurizio Atzori, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (GSD: 01/INFO-01, SSD: INFO-01/A)

Math/CS Department

email INFO-01/A p atzori@unica.it

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

Room Room 1018, Palazzo delle Scienze, 1st Floor

Phone (+39) 070 675 8529

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 University (Indiana, USA), working with Prof. Christopher W. Clifton and his research team. He has been visiting resercher working with Prof. Yucel Saygin at Sabanci University (Istanbul, Turkey) and at UCLA, collaborating with Prof. Carlo Zaniolo. Since December 2010 he is permanent faculty at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari (Italy), Associate Professor since November 2018. His major research interests regard databases, data mining, knowledge graphs and privacy-preserving algorithms for data management.

Highlights

Teaching

Computer Science @ Unica

I previously tought as Aggregate Professor at the University of Sassari and as Teaching assistant at the University of Pisa.

Other activities

Publications

An updated list of my publications can be found at DBLP, as reported in the Computer Science Bibliography maintained by Michael Ley.

  1. Is it fake or not? A comprehensive approach for multimodal fake news detection. Davide Antonio Mura, Marco Usai, Andrea Loddo, Manuela Sanguinetti, Luca Zedda, Cecilia Di Ruberto, Maurizio Atzori. Online Social Networks and Media Journal. Volume 47, July 2025
  2. Assessing Italian Large Language Models on Energy Feedback Generation: A Human Evaluation Study. Manuela Sanguinetti, Alessandro Pani, Alessandra Perniciano, Luca Zedda, Andrea Loddo, Maurizio Atzori. CLiC-it 2024 – Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, (CLiC-it 2024), December 2024, Pisa
  3. From User Preferences to Optimization Constraints Using Large Language Models. Manuela Sanguinetti, Alessandra Perniciano, Luca Zedda, Andrea Loddo, Cecilia Di Ruberto, Maurizio Atzori. The 3rd Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science (ITADATA 2024), Pisa, Italy (2024)
  4. A Comparative Analysis of Image Descriptors for Histopathological Classification of Gastric Cancer. Marco Usai, Andrea Loddo, Maurizio Atzori, Cecilia Di Ruberto. The 3rd Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science (ITADATA 2024), Pisa, Italy (2024)
  5. Evaluating Password Strength Based on Information Spread on Social Networks: A Combined Approach Relying on Data Reconstruction and Generative Models. Maurizio Atzori, Eleonora Calò, Loredana Caruccio, Stefano Cirillo, Giuseppe Polese, Giandomenico Solimando. Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM) Journal, Elsevier, 2024.
  6. Snarci at SemEval-2024 Task 4: Themis Model for Binary Classification of Memes. Luca Zedda, Alessandra Perniciano, Andrea Loddo, Cecilia Di Ruberto, Manuela Sanguinetti, Maurizio Atzori. SemEval 2024 (2024)
  7. Conversational Agents for Energy Awareness and Efficiency: A Survey. Manuela Sanguinetti, Maurizio Atzori. Special Issue on Towards a Sustainable Future: Addressing AI and Big Data, Energy, Climate, and Public Healthcare Challenges, Electronics Journal (2023, published in Jan 2024).
  8. Dataspaces: concepts, architectures and initiatives. Maurizio Atzori, Angelo Ciaramella, Claudia Diamantini, Beniamino Di Martino, Salvatore Distefano, Tullio Facchinetti, Fabrizio Montecchiani, Antonino Nocera, Giancarlo Ruffo, Roberto Trasarti. The 2nd Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science (ITADATA 2023) (2023)
  9. From Text to Data: Extracting Structured Information and Querying it via KGQA and BESt Queries. Maurizio Atzori. The 1st Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science 9rì(ITADATA 2022) (2022)
  10. rewordQALD9: A Bilingual Benchmark with Alternative Rewordings of QALD Questions. Manuela Sanguinetti, Maurizio Atzori and Nicoletta Puddu. _ Proceedings of the SEMANTiCS Conference 2022, poster session. (2022)
  11. δ-Presence. Mehmet Ercan Nergiz, Maurizio Atzori, Chris Clifton. In: Jajodia S., Samarati P., Yung M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. (2021)
  12. Improving Work Life Conditions via Portable Knowledge-Driven Recommender System. Maurizio Atzori, Alessandro Barenghi, Sara Comai, Mariagrazia Fugini, Diego Marcia, Gerardo Pelosi, Manuela Sanguinetti, Vincenzo Scotti. SEBD 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, Pizzo Calabro (2021)
  13. User-friendly Query Interfaces for the HOPE Project. Diego Marcia, Manuela Sanguinetti, Maurizio Atzori. Proceedings of the 11th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop 2021. Bari, Italy, September 13-15, 2021
  14. Unaddressed challenges in persuasive dieting chatbots. Simone Balloccu, Ehud Reiter, Matteo Gioele Collu, Federico Sanna, Manuela Sanguinetti and Maurizio Atzori. ACM UMAP 2021 Workshop on PICA: Towards a new generation of Personalized Intelligent Conversational Agents (2021).
  15. Report on SEBD 2020: the 28th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems. Maristella Agosti, Maurizio Atzori, Paolo Ciaccia, Letizia Tanca. ACM SIGIR Forum, Vol. 54 No. 2 December (2020).
  16. Special issue on “Data Exploration in the Web 3.0 Age. Maurizio Atzori, Georgia Koutrika, Barbara Pes, Letizia Tanca. Future Generation Computer System 112: 1177-1179 (2020)
  17. Decision Support Systems to Promote Health and Well-Being of People During Their Working Age: The Case of the WorkingAge EU Project. Rosa Maria Resende de Almeida, Adriana Grau Aberturas, Yolanda Bueno Aguado, Maurizio Atzori, Alessandro Barenghi, Gianluca Borghini, Carlos Alberto Catalina Ortega, Sara Comai, Raquel Losada Durán, Mariagrazia Fugini, Hatice Gunes, Basam Musleh Lancis, Gerardo Pelosi, Vincenzo Ronca, Licia Sbattella, Roberto Tedesco, Tian Xu. Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS 2020), part of International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12471 (2020)
  18. Fully-Unsupervised Embeddings-based Hypernym Discovery. Maurizio Atzori, Simone Balloccu. Information Journal, Special Issue Advances in Computational Linguistics (2020)
  19. AskCO: A Multi-language and Extensible Smart Virtual Assistant. Mattia Atzeni, Maurizio Atzori. IEEE AIKE 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Int. Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering (2018)
  20. Ontology Summarization: Graph-Based Methods and Beyond. Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Mehdi Allahyari, Qingxia Liu, Gong Cheng, Hamid Reza Arabnia, Maurizio Atzori, Farid Ghareh Mohammadi, Krys Kochut. International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC) 13(2): 259-283 (2019)
  21. OKgraph: Unsupervised Structured Data Extraction from Plain Text. Maurizio Atzori, Simone Balloccu, Andrea Bellanti, Emanuele Mameli and Stefano Raimondo Usai. Proceedings of the 10th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2019) (2019)
  22. Machine Learning of SPARQL Templates for Question Answering over LinkedSpending. Roberto Cocco, Maurizio Atzori, Carlo Zaniolo. Proceedings of Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati ([SEBD 2019]
  23. Machine Learning of SPARQL Templates for Question Answering over LinkedSpending. Roberto Cocco, Maurizio Atzori, Carlo Zaniolo. 28th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (IEEE WETICE 2019), DEW Track (DEW 2019) (2019)
  24. DEW 2019: Data Exploration in the Web 3.0 Age. Maurizio Atzori, Barbara Pes. 28th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (IEEE WETICE 2019), DEW Track (DEW 2019) (2019)
  25. Assistenti Virtuali per la Pubblica Amministrazione. Mattia Atzeni, Maurizio Atzori. 1st Ital-IA Conference, Workshop AI for the Public Administration (2019)
  26. Guest Editors’s Introduction (Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering). Maurizio Atzori, Adina M. Panchea, Lubomir Stanchev. International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC), World Scientific (2019).
  27. Special Issue on Advanced Learning Methods for Complex Data. Maurizio Atzori, Barbara Pes. Editorial, Information J. 2019, 10(1), 8; Artificial Intelligence section, doi: 10.3390/info10010008 (2019)
  28. R-LDA: Profiling RDF datasets using Knowledge-based Topic Modeling. Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Mehdi Allahyari, Gong Cheng, Hamid Reza Arabnia, Maurizio Atzori and Krys Kochut. ICSC 2019 - 11th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (2019)
  29. What is the cube root of 27? Question Answering over CodeOntology. Atzeni M., Atzori M. ISWC 2018 - Proceedings of the 17th International Semantic Web Conference, Research Track (2018)
  30. QA3: a Natural Language Approach to Question Answering over RDF Data Cubes. Maurizio Atzori, Giuseppe M. Mazzeo, Carlo Zaniolo. Semantic Web Journal, Vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 587-604, (2019) PDF
  31. User-Friendly Temporal Queries on Historical Knowledge Bases. Carlo Zaniolo, Shi Gao, Maurizio Atzori, Muhao Chen, Jiaqi Gu. Information and Computation, Time 2015 special issue, Elsevier (2018)
  32. Towards Semantic Approaches for General-Purpose End-User Development. Mattia Atzeni, Maurizio Atzori. IEEE IRC 2018 - Second International Workshop on Semantic Robots (WSR) (2018)
  33. Unsupervised Singleton Expansion from Free Text. Maurizio Atzori, Simone Balloccu and Andrea Bellanti. ICSC 2018 - 10th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (2018)
  34. Summary Report for the Data Exploration in the Web 3.0 Age (DEW) Track. Atzori M., Pes B. 27th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), DEW Track (DEW 2018) (2018)
  35. Querying RDF Data Cubes through Natural Language. Maurizio Atzori, Giuseppe M. Mazzeo, Carlo Zaniolo. SEBD 2018 - Proceedings of the 26th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (2018)
  36. Translating Natural Language to Code: An Unsupervised Ontology-Based Approach. Atzeni M., Atzori M. IEEE AIKE 2018 - Proceedings of the first IEEE Int. Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering, Best Paper (2018)
  37. Graph-Based Methods for Ontology Summarization: A Survey. Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Mehdi Allahyari, Qingxia Liu, Gong Cheng, Hamid Reza Arabnia, Maurizio Atzori, Krys Kochut. IEEE AIKE 2018 - Proceedings of the first IEEE Int. Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering (2018)
  38. CodeOntology: RDF-ization of Source Code. Atzeni M., Atzori M. ISWC 2017 - Proceedings of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference, Resource Track (2017)
  39. CodeOntology: Querying Source Code in a Semantic Framework. Atzeni M., Atzori M. ISWC 2017 - Proceedings of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference, Demo Paper (2017)
  40. Track Summary Report for the Data Exploration in the Web 3.0 Age (DEW) Track. Atzori M., Dessi N., Pes B. 26th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), DEW Track (DEW 2017) (2017)
  41. Is Wikipedia a Latent Gene Ontology?. Dessi N., Atzori M. 26th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), DEW Track (DEW 2017) (2017)
  42. The Need of Structured Data: Introducing the OKgraph Project. Maurizio Atzori. Proceedings of the 8th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2017) (2017)
  43. Towards Chatbots as Recommendation Interfaces. Atzori M., Boratto L., Spano D. 2nd Workshop on Engineering Computer-Human Interaction in Recommender Systems (EnCHIReS 2017) part of 9th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2017), 26-29 June, 2017 Lisbon, Portugal (2017)
  44. Answering End-User Questions, Queries and Searches on Wikipedia and its History. Atzori M., Gao S., Mazzeo G. M., Zaniolo C. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Volume 39 (2016)
  45. A Machine-Learning Approach to Ranking RDF Properties. Dessi A., Atzori M. Future Generation Computer Systems Journal, Special Issue on Semantic Technologies for Collaborative Web (2016; appeared online on May 2015).
  46. SPARQL Queries over Source Code. Setzu M., Atzori M. ICSC 2016 - 10th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (2016)
  47. Write-Once Run-Anywhere Custom SPARQL Functions. D. S. Ferru, Atzori M. ICSC 2016 - 10th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (2016)
  48. SPARQLT and its User-Friendly Interface for Managing and Querying the History of RDF Knowledge Bases. Gao S., Chen M., Atzori M., Gu J. and Zaniolo C. ISWC 2015 - Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference, Demo Track (2015)
  49. Expressivity and Accuracy of By-Example Structured Queries on Wikipedia. Atzori M., Zaniolo C. 24th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), Web2Touch Track (2015)
  50. Schema-Agnostic Ranking of RDF Properties. Dessi A., Atzori M. SEBD 2015 - Proceedings of the 23rd Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (2015)
  51. Introducing the Web of Functions: Interoperable Higher-Order Functions in Pure SPARQL. Atzori M. SEBD 2015 - Proceedings of the 23rd Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (2015)
  52. Beyond Text-based Web Search: Question Answering and By-Example Structured Queries compared on Wikipedia. Atzori M., Zaniolo C. SEBD 2015 - Proceedings of the 23rd Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (2015)
  53. Text-Mining, Structured Queries, and Knowledge Management on Web Document Corpora. Mousavi H., Atzori M., Gao S., Zaniolo C. SIGMOD Record Journal, Vol. 43(3), (2014)
  54. Expressivity and Accuracy of By-Example Structured Queries on Wikipedia. Atzori M., Zaniolo C. UCLA Computer Science Technical Report 140017 (2014)
  55. Toward the Web of Functions: Interoperable Higher-Order Functions in SPARQL. Atzori M. ISWC 2014 - Proceedings of the 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Research Track, doi (2014)
  56. call: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Functions. Atzori M. ISWC 2014 - Proceedings of the 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Demo Track (2014)
  57. Supporting Semantic Web Search and Structured Queries on Mobile Devices. Dessi A., Maxia A., Atzori M., Zaniolo C. SEBD 2014 - Proceedings of the 22nd Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (2014)
  58. Ranking DBpedia Properties. Atzori M., Dessi A. 23rd IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), Web2Touch Track (2014)
  59. Computing on-the-fly DBpedia Property Ranking. Dessi A., Atzori M. ICSC 2014 - 8th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (2014)
  60. Computing Recursive SPARQL Queries. Atzori M. ICSC 2014 - 8th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (2014)
  61. Improving Spatial Decision Making in Cloud Computing. Argiolas M., Atzori M., Dessi N., Pes B. In book Contemporary Advancements in Information Technology Development in Dynamic Environments, (2014)
  62. Supporting Semantic Web Search and Structured Queries on Mobile Devices. Dessi A., Maxia A., Atzori M., Zaniolo C. 3rd Intl. ACM Workshop Semantic Search over the Web (SSW 2013 / VLDB 2013) (2013)
  63. User-Friendly Structured Queries on Wikipedia: the SWiPE System. Atzori M., Zaniolo C. SEBD 2013 - Proceedings of the 21th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (2013)
  64. SWiPE: Searching wikipedia by example. Atzori M., Zaniolo C. WWW’12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion (2012)
  65. Dataspaces enhancing decision support systems in clouds. Argiolas M., Atzori M., Dessi N., Pes B. International Journal of Web Portals (2012)
  66. Dataspaces: Where structure and schema meet. Atzori M., Dessi N. Studies in Computational Intelligence (2011)
  67. Co-clustering numerical data under user-defined constraints. Pensa R.G., Boulicaut J.-F., Cordero F., Atzori M. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining (2010)
  68. Towards trajectory anonymization: A generalization-based approach. Nergiz M.E., Atzori M., Saygin Y., Baris G. Transactions on Data Privacy (2009)
  69. Towards trajectory anonymization: A generalization-based approach. Nergiz M.E., Atzori M., Saygin Y. Proceedings of the SIGSPATIAL ACM GIS 2008 International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, SPRINGL’08 (2008)
  70. Anonymity preserving pattern discovery. Atzori M., Bonchi F., Giannotti F., Pedreschi D. VLDB Journal (2008)
  71. Privacy-aware knowledge discovery from location data. Atzori M., Bonchi F., Giannotti F., Pedreschi D., Abul O. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (2007)
  72. Hiding sequences. Abul O., Atzori M., Bonchi F., Giannotti F. SEBD 2007 - Proceedings of the 15th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (2007)
  73. Hiding sequences. Abul O., Atzori M., Bonchi F., Giannotti F. Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering (2007)
  74. Hiding sensitive trajectory patterns. Abul O., Atzori M., Bonchi F., Giannotti F. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM (2007)
  75. Hiding the presence of individuals from shared databases. Nergiz M.E., Atzori M., Clifton C. Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (2007)
  76. Secure distributed k-anonymous pattern mining. Jiang W., Atzori M. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM (2006)
  77. Towards low-perturbation anonymity preserving pattern discovery. Atzori M., Bonchi F., Giannotti F., Pedreschi D. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (2006)
  78. Weak k-anonymity: A low-distortion model for protecting privacy. Atzori M. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (2006)
  79. Maurizio Atzori: An Effective Framework for Data Anonymity. Atzori M. SEBD 2006 - Proceedings of the 15th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (2006)
  80. Memory-Aware Frequent k-Itemset Mining. Atzori M., Mancarella P., Turini F. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (2005)
  81. Blocking anonymity threats raised by frequent itemset mining. Atzori M., Bonchi F., Giannotti F., Pedreschi D. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM (2005)
  82. k-Anonymous patterns. Atzori M., Bonchi F., Giannotti F., Pedreschi D. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (2005)
  83. Anonymity and data mining. Atzori M., Bonchi F., Giannotti F., Pedreschi D. Computer Systems Science and Engineering (2005)
  84. Abduction in classification tasks. Atzori M., Mancarella P., Turini F. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science) (2003)

Projects

Member of the following projects and research groups:

Attended PhD Courses

Software and Tools

"By making Wikipedia search simple, though, SWiPE has the potential to bring this benefit to a far greater audience. I, for one, can’t wait to try it out myself." (Lee Feigenbaum, W3C SPARQL WG co-Chair)

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

Member of the following Scientific Societies and Groups:

Journal Editor:

Other journal-related editorial activities:

Scientific Conference Organization:

PC Member for a number of International Conferences and Workshops, including:

Served as Session Chair for a number of conferences, recently at ICDM 2024. Served as Reviewer for a number of international conferences and workshops, including: ACL 2025, AI*IA03, SEBD04, ECML04 and PKDD04, IEA-AIE05, SIAM DM05, PAKDD05, AI*IA05, ECML05 and PKDD05, ICDM05, ADMA05, KDID05, ACM SAC06 DM Track, PAKDD06, ICDM06, PADM06, PKDD06, ECML-PKDD07, ACM SAC08-DM, SIAM SDM08, ACM PODS08, ACM SigMOD17, CIKM 2020, ACM SigCHI 2021.

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