2001–2014, with S. Ceri and D. Fensel.
My earliest research line, and the one the others grew out of. It covers the Web and Information Retrieval, Web Data, Semantic Search, Semantic Web Services and Games with a Purpose.
It spans the years at CEFRIEL, where I started and coordinated the Semantic Web Practice, and the first years at Politecnico di Milano. The through-line is making meaning machine-processable on a Web that was not designed for it — semantic search with Squiggle, semantic web services, and the teaching that became the Web Information Retrieval book. The line is closed: by 2014 my attention had moved to streams.
Selected works
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Linking Smart Cities Datasets with Human Computation – The Case of UrbanMatch
Irene Celino, Simone Contessa, Marta Corubolo, Daniele Dell’Aglio, Emanuele Della Valle, Stefano Fumeo, Thorsten Krüger
The Semantic Web – ISWC 2012 – 11th International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, MA, USA, November 11-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part II, 2012UrbanMatch, a game with a purpose that uses human computation to link and validate smart city datasets, e.g., matching points of interest with photos.
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Urbanopoly – A Social and Location-Based Game with a Purpose to Crowdsource Your Urban Data
Irene Celino, Dario Cerizza, Simone Contessa, Marta Corubolo, Daniele Dell’Aglio, Emanuele Della Valle, Stefano Fumeo
2012 International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, PASSAT 2012, and 2012 International Confernece on Social Computing, SocialCom 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 3-5, 2012, 2012Urbanopoly, a social and location-based game with a purpose that crowdsources geographic information while players have fun.
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Search Computing: Managing Complex Search Queries
Stefano Ceri, Adnan Abid, Mamoun Abu Helou, Davide Francesco Barbieri, Alessandro Bozzon, Daniele Braga, Marco Brambilla, Alessandro Campi, Francesco Corcoglioniti, Emanuele Della Valle, Davide Eynard, Piero Fraternali, Michael Grossniklaus, Davide Martinenghi, Stefania Ronchi, Marco Tagliasacchi, Salvatore Vadacca
IEEE Internet Comput., 2010Presents Search Computing, which answers complex queries that no single search engine can answer, such as planning an evening out, by orchestrating and joining the results of multiple search services.
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GLUE2: A Web Service Discovery Engine with Non-Functional Properties
Alessio Carenini, Dario Cerizza, Marco Comerio, Emanuele Della Valle, Flavio De Paoli, Andrea Maurino, Matteo Palmonari, Andrea Turati
ECOWS 2008, Sixth European Conference on Web Services, 12-14 November 2008, Dublin, Ireland, 2008Semantic discovery of Web services is general but often not flexible enough for specific domains. GLUE2 is a discovery engine with a flexible architecture whose components (functional matching, non-functional matching, data fetching, …) can be composed in different workflows as each domain requires.
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Enabling the European Patient Summary through Triplespaces — Best Paper Award, IEEE CBMS 2007
Reto Krummenacher, Elena Simperl, Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Dario Cerizza, Emanuele Della Valle
20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2007), 20-22 June 2007, Maribor, Slovenia, 2007Uses triple space computing, i.e., a shared space of semantic data, to make European patient summaries interoperable across national eHealth systems. Best Paper Award at IEEE CBMS 2007.
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Squiggle: An Experience in Model-Driven Development of Real-World Semantic Search Engines
Irene Celino, Emanuele Della Valle, Dario Cerizza, Andrea Turati
Web Engineering, 7th International Conference, ICWE 2007, Como, Italy, July 16-20, 2007, Proceedings, 2007Squiggle, a framework for semantic search engines, and the experience of building real-world semantic search applications with a model-driven development approach.
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Model-driven design and development of semantic Web service applications
Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Federico Michele Facca, Irene Celino, Dario Cerizza, Emanuele Della Valle
ACM Trans. Internet Techn., 2007A model-driven methodology to design and develop Semantic Web Service applications described with WSMO: business processes (BPMN) and Web engineering models (WebML) are transformed, step by step, from an abstract view of business needs into software components, making it more efficient to build service applications that span several enterprises. Related to the 2006 IBM Faculty Award.
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COCOON Glue: a prototype of WSMO Discovery engine for the healthcare field
Emanuele Della Valle, Dario Cerizza
Proceedings of the WIW 2005 Workshop on WSMO Implementations, Innsbruck, Austria, June 6-7, 2005, 2005COCOON Glue, an early prototype of a WSMO discovery engine for the healthcare field, which uses ontologies and mediators to match general practitioners’ needs with the medical advice services offered by specialists.