Publications by Stefano Mizzaro

My papers are grouped by type and listed in chronological order within each type. Many papers can be downloaded, in various formats: Adobe PDF (pdf), gzipped postscript (ps.gz), (g)zipped powerpoint, and so on. Just ask me for other formats/papers.

Papers in international journals and books

[IJ1]
S. Mizzaro. Towards recursive models - A computational tool for the semantics of temporal presuppositions and counterfactuals in natural language. Informatica - An International Journal of Computing and Informatics, 21(1):59-77, March 1997. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[IJ2]
S. Mizzaro. Relevance: The whole history. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(9):810-832, September 1997. [Text-only abstract]
[IJ3]
S. Mizzaro. How many relevances in information retrieval? Interacting With Computers, 10(3):305-322, 1998. ISSN: 0953-5438. Paper awarded with the Informer (British Computer Society IR Group newsletter) "Best Student Paper in IR", a prize for the best paper published by an European student in the period 1st November 1996 - 1st November 1997. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[IJ4]
S. Mizzaro. Relevance: The whole history. In T. Bellardo Hahn and M. Buckland, editors, Historical Studies in Information Science, pages 221-244. 1998. ISBN:1-57387-062-5. Paper [IJ2] republished with a short addendum.
[IJ5]
E. Berenci, C. Carpineto, V. Giannini, S. Mizzaro. Effectiveness of keyword-based display and selection of retrieval results for interactive searches. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 3(3):249-260, October 2000. ISSN: 1432-5012.
[IJ6]
S. Mizzaro and P. Zandegiacomo Rizio. An automatically refereed scholarly electronic journal: Formal specifications. Informatica - An International Journal of Computing and Informatics (ISSN 0359-5596), 24(4):431-438, December 2000. The Slovene Society Informatika, Ljubljana, Slovenia. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[IJ7]
S. Mizzaro. Towards a theory of epistemic information. Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XII, pages 1-20, 2001, IOS Press, Amsterdam, (ISSN 0922-6389). [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[IJ8]
G. Brajnik, S. Mizzaro, C. Tasso, F. Venuti. Strategic help in user interfaces for information retrieval, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(5):343-358, 2002. [Text-only abstract]
[IJ9]
S. Mizzaro. Quality Control in Scholarly Publishing: A New Proposal, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(11):989-1005, 2003. [Text-only abstract] [PDF of the final draft] [Slides of a presentation at a workshop on peer review in Trieste, Italy]
[IJ10]
V. Della Mea and S. Mizzaro. Measuring retrieval effectiveness: A new proposal and a first experimental validation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(6):530-543, 2004. [Text-only abstract]
[IJ11]
M. Cignini, S. Mizzaro, C. Tasso, A. Virgili. E-mail on the move: Categorization, filtering, and alerting on mobile devices with the ifMail prototype. In F. Crestani, M. Dunlop, and S. Mizzaro (editors), Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access, volume 2954 of LNCS, pp. 107-123. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. [Text-only abstract]
[IJ12]
P. Coppola, V. Della Mea, L. Di Gaspero, S. Mizzaro. The concept of relevance in mobile and ubiquitous information access. In F. Crestani, M. Dunlop, and S. Mizzaro (editors), Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access, volume 2954 of LNCS, pp. 1-10. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. [Text-only abstract]
[IJ13]
Vincenzo Della Mea, Gianluca Demartini, Luca Di Gaspero, Stefano Mizzaro. Measuring Retrieval Effectiveness with Average Distance Measure (ADM). Information Wissenschaft und Praxis, 57(8):405-416, 2006.
[IJ14]
P. Coppola, V. Della Mea, L. Di Gaspero, R. Lomuscio, D. Mischis, S. Mizzaro, E. Nazzi, I. Scagnetto and L. Vassena. AI Techniques in a Context-Aware Ubiquitous Environment. In: A. Hassanien, J. Abawajy, A. Abraham, and H. Hagras (Editors), Advances in Intelligent Multimedia and Pervasive Computing. Series in Computer Communications and Networks, Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84882-598-7.
[IJ15]
C. Carpineto, S. Mizzaro, G. Romano, M. Snidero. Mobile information retrieval with search results clustering: Prototypes and evaluations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(5):877-895, 2009. DOI: 10.1002/asi
[IJ16]
J. Guiver, S. Mizzaro, S. Robertson. A few good topics: Experiments in topic set reduction for retrieval evaluation. ACM TOIS (Transactions on Information Systems), 27(4), Article 21, pages 1-26, November 2009.
[IJ17]
Paolo Coppola, Vincenzo Della Mea, Luca Di Gaspero, Davide Menegon, Danny Mischis, Stefano Mizzaro, Ivan Scagnetto, Luca Vassena. The Context-Aware Browser. IEEE Intelligent Systems 25(1):38-47, Jan./Feb. 2010.
[IJ18]
Davide Menegon, S. Mizzaro, Elena Nazzi, Luca Vassena. Evaluating the Context Aware Browser: A Benchmark for Proactive, Mobile, and Contextual Web Search. In: Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Fernando Moreira (eds), Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing: Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts. p. 1-15, IGI Global, ISBN/ISSN: 1609600428, doi: 10.4018/978-1-60960-042-6.ch001, 2011 http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/chapter.aspx?titleid=50576.
[IJ19]
S. Mizzaro. Teaching Web Information Retrieval to Computer Science Students: A Concrete Approach and its Analysis. In E. N. Efthimiadis, J. M. Fernandez Luna, J. Huete, A. MacFarlane (editors) Approaches to Teaching and Learning Information Retrieval, to appear.
[IJ20]
Stefano Mizzaro, Luca Vassena. A social approach to context-aware retrieval, World Wide Web Journal, 14(4): 377-405 (2011) (special Issue on Mobile Services for the Web). ISSN: 1386-145X (print version) ISSN: 1573-1413 (electronic version).
[IJ21]
Omar Alonso, Stefano Mizzaro. Using crowdsourcing for TREC relevance assessment, Information Processing and Management, 48(6): 1053-1066, November, 2012. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2012.01.004.
[IJ22]
Stefano Mizzaro. Readersourcing --- A Manifesto, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(8):1666-1672, 2012. DOI: DOI: 10.1002/asi.22668. [Official version on publisher's website][PDF of the final draft]

Papers in international refereed conferences and workshops proceedings

[IC1]
S. Mizzaro. TOBI - An Ontological Based Interpreter for Temporal Presuppositions and Counterfactuals. In R. Trappl, editor, Cybernetics and Systems '94, volume 2, pages 1879-1886, Singapore, 1994. World Scientific. Proceedings of the "Twelfth European Meeting on Cybernetics and System Research", organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetics Studies, held at the University of Vienna, Austria, 5-8 April 1994. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[IC2]
G. Brajnik, S. Mizzaro, C. Tasso. Evaluating user interfaces to information retrieval systems: A case study on user support. In "SIGIR96, 19th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval", pages 128-136, Zurich, Switzerland, 18-22 August 1996. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[IC3]
S. Mizzaro. How many relevances in IR? In Proceedings of the Workshop `Information Retrieval and Human Computer Interaction', GIST Technical Report GR96-2, Glasgow University, pages 57-60, Glasgow, UK, 17 September 1996. The British Computer Society. [ps.gz] [pdf] [HTML]
[IC4]
S. Mizzaro. A cognitive analisys of information retrieval. In P. Ingwersen and N. O. Pors, editors, Information Science: Integration in Perspective -- Proceedings of CoLIS2, pages 233-250, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1996. The Royal School of Librarianship. Paper awarded with the "CoLIS2 Young Scientist Award", a prize for the best paper presented in this conference by a young researcher". [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[IC5]
S. Mizzaro. How many kinds of relevance in IR? In M. D. Dunlop, editor, Proceedings of the Second Mira Workshop, Monselice, Italy, 14-15 November 1996. University of Glasgow Computing Science Research Report TR-1997-2.
[IC6]
S. Gabrielli and S. Mizzaro. Negotiating a multidimensional framework for relevance space. In S. W. Draper, M. D. Dunlop, I. Ruthven, and C. J. van Rijsbergen, editors, Mira 99: Evaluating interactive information retrieval - Proceedings of MIRA 1999 Conference, eWiC - electronic Workshops in Computing, pages 1-15, Glasgow, UK, 1999. The British Computer Society. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[IC7]
S. Mizzaro. Measuring the agreement among relevance judges. In S. W. Draper, M. D. Dunlop, I. Ruthven, C. J. van Rijsbergen, editors, Mira 99: Evaluating interactive information retrieval - Proceedings of MIRA 1999 Conference, eWiC - electronic Workshops in Computing, pages 105-115, Glasgow, UK, 1999. The British Computer Society. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[IC8]
E. Berenci, C. Carpineto, V. Giannini, S. Mizzaro. Effectiveness of keyword-based display and selection of retrieval results for interactive searches. In S. Abiteboul and A. M. Vercoustre, editors, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Proceedings of the third European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL'99, volume 1696 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 106-125, Paris, 22-24 September 1999. INRIA, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.
[IC9]
S. Mizzaro. Towards a theory of epistemic information. In E. Kawaguchi and H. Kangassalo, editors, Proceedings of the Tenth European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, pages 1-20, 8-11 May 2000. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf] Republished in [IJ7].
[IC10]
S. Mizzaro. An automatically refereed scholarly electronic journal. In C. Bavec, M. Gams, V. Rajkovic, I. Rozman, J. Gyorkos, editors, Information Society 2000 - Proceedings of the Third International Conference, pages 121-126, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 17-19 October 2000. ISBN: 961 6303-26-0. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[IC11]
S. Mizzaro. A new measure of retrieval effectiveness (Or: What's wrong with precision and recall) In T. Ojala editor, International Workshop on Information Retrieval (IR'2001), pages 43-52. Infotech Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 19-21 September 2001. ISBN: 951-42-6489-4. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[IC12]
S. Mizzaro and C. Tasso. Ephemeral and Persistent Personalization in Adaptive Information Access to Scholarly Publications on the Web. In Paul De Bra, Peter Brusilovsky, Ricardo Conejo editors, Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, Second International Conference AH 2002, LNCS 2347, pages 306-316, Malaga, 29-31 May 2002. ISBN 3-540-43737-1 [Text-only abstract][Gzipped Powerpoint slides]
[IC13]
S. Mizzaro and C. Tasso. Personalization techniques in the TIPS Project: The Cognitive Filtering Module and the Information Retrieval Assistant. In S. Mizzaro and C. Tasso (eds.), Personalization Techniques in Electronic Publishing on the Web: Trends and Perspectives - Proceedings of the AH2002 Workshop, pages 89-93. Universidad de Màlaga, Spain, May 2002. ISBN 699-8193-5.
[IC14]
P. Coppola, V. Della Mea, L. Di Gaspero, S. Mizzaro. From E-Relevance to W-Relevance. In M.-K. Leong and G. Loudon (eds.), Mobile Personal Information Retrieval, Proceedings of the SIGIR2002 Workshop, Tampere (Finland), 15 Aug 2002, pages 64-72. [Text-only abstract][pdf][Slides (in pdf)]
[IC15]
J. Karlgren, G. Eriksson, K. Franzén, P. Clough, P. Hansen, S. Mizzaro, and M. Sanderson. Reading between the lines: Attitudinal expressions in text. In Proceedings of AAAI-EAAT 2004, AAAI Spring Symposium on Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text: Theories and Applications, Stanford University, 22-24 March 2004.
[IC16]
V. Della Mea, L. Di Gaspero, S. Mizzaro. Evaluating ADM on a four-level relevance scale document set from NTCIR. In Proceedings of NTCIR Workshop 4 Meeting - Supplement Vol. 2, Tokyo, 2-4 giugno 2004. National Institute of Informatics (NII), pages 30-38.
[IC17]
L. Di Gaspero, S. Mizzaro, and A. Schaerf. A MultiAgent System for Distributed Course Timetabling. In Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT-2004), pp. 471-474, 2004.
[IC18]
F. Brunello, V. Della Mea, S. Mizzaro, J. Pavoni, M. Pittaro. A comparison of TabletPC and PDA devices for use in ambulance. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Telemedicine and Multimedia Communication, Kajetany, Poland, October 2004.
[IC19]
V. Della Mea, M. Pittaro, J. Pavoni, F. Brunello, S. Mizzaro. Java 2 Micro Edition as Development Tool for Mobile Telemedicine Applications: a case study, capabilities, and limits. In Proceedings of 9th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, Buenos Aires, dec 2004, Technology and Health Care 2004; 12:397-398.
[IC20]
P.Coppola, V.Della Mea, L. Di Gaspero, S. Mizzaro, I. Scagnetto, A. Selva, L. Vassena, P. Zandegiacomo Riziò. MoBe: a framework for context-aware mobile applications. In: Proc. of Workshop on Context Awareness for Proactive Systems (CAPS2005), Helsinki University Press, 2005; ISBN: 952-10-2518-2.
[IC21]
P.Coppola, V.Della Mea, L. Di Gaspero, S. Mizzaro, I. Scagnetto, A. Selva, L. Vassena, P. Zandegiacomo Riziò. MoBe: Context-Aware Mobile Applications on Mobile Devices for Mobile Users. In: Proc. of 1st Int. Workshop on Exploiting Context Histories in Smart Environments (ECHISE2005), Munich, 2005.
[IC22]
P.Coppola, V.Della Mea, L. Di Gaspero, S. Mizzaro, I. Scagnetto, A. Selva, L. Vassena, P. Zandegiacomo Riziò. Information Filtering and Retrieving of Context-Aware Applications within the MoBe Framework. In: International Workshop on Context-Based Information Retrieval (CIR-05), Paris, France, July 2005, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN: 1613-0073.
[IC23]
Claudio Carpineto, Andrea Della Pietra, Stefano Mizzaro, and Giovanni Romano. Mobile Clustering Engine. In: Advances in Information Retrieval, 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, London, UK, April 2006. LNCS 3936, pp. 155-166.
[IC24]
Gianluca Demartini and Stefano Mizzaro. A Classification of IR Effectiveness Metrics. In: Advances in Information Retrieval, 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, London, UK, April 2006. LNCS 3936, pp. 488-491.
[IC25]
Vincenzo Della Mea, Gianluca Demartini, Luca Di Gaspero, and Stefano Mizzaro. Experiments on Average Distance Measure. In: Advances in Information Retrieval, 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, London, UK, April 2006. LNCS 3936, pp. 492-495.
[IC26]
Stefano Mizzaro. Teaching of Web Information Retrieval: Web first or IR first? In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval (TLIR 2007), London, UK. 10 January 2007. eWiC proceedings online.
[IC27]
Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson. HITS hits TREC: Exploring IR evaluation results with network analysis. In SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 479-486.
[IC28]
Paolo Coppola, Raffaella Lomuscio, Stefano Mizzaro, Elena Nazzi. m-Dvara 2.0: Mobile & Web 2.0 Services Integration for Cultural Heritage. In Peter Dolog, Markus Krotzsch, Sebastian Schaffert, Denny Vrandecic (editors), SWKM, volume 356 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2008.
[IC29]
Paolo Coppola, Raffaella Lomuscio, Stefano Mizzaro, Elena Nazzi, Luca Vassena. Mobile social software for cultural heritage: A reference model. In Dominik Flejter, Slawomir Grzonkowski, Tomasz Kaczmarek, Marek Kowalkiewicz, Tadhg Nagle, Jonny Parkes (editors), BIS (Workshops), volume 333 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 69–80. CEUR-WS.org, 2008.
[IC30]
Stefano Mizzaro. The Good, the Bad, the Difficult, and the Easy: Something Wrong with Information Retrieval Evaluation? In ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, pp. 642-646. [PDF of the poster]
[IC31]
Adolfo Bulfoni, Paolo Coppola, Vincenzo Della Mea, Luca Di Gaspero, Danny Mischis, Stefano Mizzaro, Ivan Scagnetto, Luca Vassena. AI on the Move: Exploiting AI Techniques for Context Inference on Mobile Devices. In M. Ghallab, C.D. Spyropoulos, N. Fakotakis, N. Avouris (editors), Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008), pp. 668–672. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2008, July 2008.
[IC32]
S. Mizzaro, E. Nazzi, L. Vassena. Retrieval of context-aware applications on mobile devices: How to evaluate? In Proceedings of 2nd Information Interaction in Context (IIiX 2008), pp. 65-71, New York: ACM (United States), October 2008.
[IC33]
Stefano De Sabbata, Stefano Mizzaro, Luca Vassena. SpaceRank: Using PageRank to estimate location importance. In A. Nanopoulos e G. Tsoumakas (editors), Proceedings of the Workshop on Mining Social Data (MSoDa), pp. 1-5. University of Patras, Greece, July 2008.
[IC34]
U. Castellani, G. Cortelazzo, M. Cristani, E. Delponte, A. Fusiello, A. Giachetti, S. Mizzaro, F. Odone, E. Puppo, R. Scateni, P. Zanuttigh. 3-SHIRT: Three-Dimensional Shape Indexing and Retrieval Techniques. In Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference (2008), Salerno, Italy, July 2008.
[IC35]
S. De Sabbata, S. Mizzaro, L. Vassena. Where do you roll today? Trajectory prediction by SpaceRank and Physics Models. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Location-Based Systems & TeleCartography, pp. 63-78, Salzburg, Austria, November 2008.
[IC36]
Mizzaro S., E. Nazzi, L. Vassena. Collaborative Annotation for Context-Aware Retrieval. In ESAIR 2009: Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval, ACM Workshop held in conjunction with WSDM 2009.
[IC37]
Davide Menegon, Stefano Mizzaro, Elena Nazzi, Luca Vassena. Benchmark evaluation of context-aware Web search. In CIRSE 2009: ECIR 2009 Workshop on Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation.
[IC38]
Alberto Cusinato, Vincenzo Della Mea, Francesco Di Salvatore, Stefano Mizzaro. QuWi: Quality Control in Wikipedia. In WICOW 2009: 3rd Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web in conjunction with 18th World Wide Web Conference., pp. 27-34
[IC39]
Omar Alonso, Stefano Mizzaro. Relevance Criteria for E-Commerce: A Crowdsourcing-based Experimental Analysis. In SIGIR 2009., pp. 760-761.
[IC40]
Omar Alonso, Stefano Mizzaro. Can we get rid of TREC assessors? Using Mechanical Turk for relevance assessment. In SIGIR 2009 Workshop on The Future of IR Evaluation. 23 July 2009.
[IC41]
D. Menegon, S. Mizzaro, E. Nazzi and L. Vassena. Evaluating mobile proactive context-aware retrieval: an incremental benchmark. In 2nd international conference on the theory of information retrieval (ICTIR), Cambridge, pp. 362-365, UK, September 2009.
[IC42]
M. Cattelan, S. Mizzaro. IR evaluation without a common set of topics. In 2nd international conference on the theory of information retrieval (ICTIR), pp. 342-345, Cambridge, UK, September 2009.
[IC43]
Mizzaro S., Paolo Coppola, Vincenzo Della Mea, Luca Di Gaspero, Danny Mischis, Elena Nazzi, Ivan Scagnetto, Luca Vassena. Context aware browser. In Interactive Information Retrieval, number 09101 in Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2009.

Edited international books and Journal special issues

[EIB1]
S. Mizzaro and C. Tasso (eds.). Personalization Techniques in Electronic Publishing on the Web: Trends and Perspectives - Proceedings of the AH2002 Workshop. Universidad de Màlaga, Spain, May 2002. ISBN 699-8193-5.
[EIB2]
F. Crestani, M. Dunlop, S. Mizzaro (eds.) Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access, volume 2954 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. ISBN: 3-540-21003-2, ISSN: 0302-9743.
[EIB3]
F. Crestani, M. Dunlop, M. Jones, S. Jones, S. Mizzaro (eds.), Interactive Mobile Information Access, Special issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 10(4), 2006, ISSN: 1617-4909. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-005-0042-7

National books

[NB1]
S. Mizzaro. Introduzione alla programmazione con il linguaggio Java. Franco Angeli, Milan, Italy, 3rd edition, March 2003. ISBN 88-464-1696-1. In Italian. Translation of the title: "Introduction to programming with Java language". The site of the book (in Italian)
[NB2]
P. Coppola e S. Mizzaro. Laboratorio di programmazione in Java. Apogeo, Milan, Italy, 2004. ISBN: 88-503-2145-7. In Italian. Translation of the title: "Java programming laboratory". The site of the book (in Italian)
[NB3]
Massimo Melucci, Stefano Mizzaro, Gabriella Pasi (eds.). IIR 2010 -- Proceedings of the First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, Padua, Italy, January 27-28, 2010. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-560, ISSN: 1613-0073, urn:nbn:de:0074-560-7.
[NB4]
Massimo Melucci, Stefano Mizzaro, Gabriella Pasi (eds.). IIR 2011 -- Proceedings of the 2nd Italian Information Retrieval (IIR) Workshop, Milan, Italy, January 27-28, 2011. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-704, ISSN: 1613-0073, urn:nbn:de:0074-704-7.

Papers in national journals and books

[NJ1]
G. Brajnik, S. Mizzaro, C. Tasso. Interfacce intelligenti a banche di dati bibliografici. In D. Saccà, editor, Sistemi evoluti per basi di dati, pages 95-128. Franco Angeli, Milan, Italy, 1995. In Italian. Translation of the title: "Intelligent interfaces for bibliographic databases". [ps.gz] [pdf]
[NJ2]
G. Brajnik, S. Mizzaro, C. Tasso. La valutazione di interfacce intelligenti per il reperimento di informazioni. AI*IA Notizie (Supplement `Interfacce Intelligenti'), Year IX, number 3:36-37, September 1996. In italian. Translation of the title: "The evaluation of intelligent interfaces for information retrieval". [ps.gz] [pdf] [Text-only]

Papers in national conferences and workshops proceedings

[NC1]
S. Mizzaro. Le differenti relevance in information retrieval: una classificazione. In Proceedings of the annual conference AICA'95, volume I, pages 361-368, 1995. In Italian. Translation of the title: "The various relevances in information retrieval: a classification". [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[NC2]
S. Mizzaro. La conoscenza in intelligenza artificiale. In Proceedings of the annual conference AICA'95, volume II, pages 1066-1073, 1995. In Italian. Translation of the title: "The Knowledge in artificial intelligence". [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[NC3]
G. Brajnik, S. Mizzaro, C. Tasso. The evaluation of intelligent user interfaces to information retrieval systems. In II'96 - Raccolta dei Sommari, 1996. Presented at the "II 96" workshop, Second Italian Workshop on Intelligent Interfaces, Rome, 18-19 April 1996. [ps.gz] [pdf]
[NC4]
S. Mizzaro. Recursive models: A computational tool for the semantics of temporal presuppositions in natural language. In Proceedings of the fifth meeting of the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence), Workshop `Natural Language Processing', pages 43-46, Naples, Italy, 26-28 September 1996. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[NC5]
S. Mizzaro. On the foundations of information retrieval. In Proceedings of the annual Conference AICA'96, pages 363-386, Rome, Italy, 24-27 September 1996. Servizio Italiano Pubblicazioni Internazionali, S.r.l. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[NC6]
S. Mizzaro and C. Tasso. Ephemeral and Persistent Personalization in Adaptive Information Access to Scholarly Publications on the Web. In Proceedings of the 8th AI*IA Workshop, page 47, Siena, Italy, 10-13 September 2002.
[NC7]
M. Cignini, S. Mizzaro, C. Tasso. E-mail Categorization, Filtering, and Alerting on Mobile Devices: The ifMail Prototype and its Experimental Evaluation. In A. Cappelli and F. Turini (editors), AI*IA 2003, volume 2829 of LNAI, pp. 523-535. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2003.
[NC8]
L. Di Gaspero, S. Mizzaro, and A. Schaerf. A MultiAgent Architecture for Distributed Course Timetabling. Accepted at AI*IA Workshop on Agenti e Vincoli: Modelli e Tecnologie per Dominare la Complessità, Perugia, Italy, 17 September 2004.
[NC9]
Giulio Leso, Stefano Mizzaro. IR models based on network science: A research agenda. In IIR 2011, Milano, Italy, 27-28 January 2011. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-704, ISSN: 1613-0073, urn:nbn:de:0074-704-7
[NC10]
Andrea Berto, Stefano Mizzaro. Sull'Uso di Meno Topics nelle Iniziative di Valutazione per l'Information Retrieval. In IIR 2012, Bari, Italy, January 26-27, 2012, pp. 53-64. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-835, ISSN: 1613-0073, urn:nbn:de:0074-835-4
[NC11]
Stefano De Sabbata, Omar Alonso, Stefano Mizzaro. Classical vs. Crowdsourcing Surveys for Eliciting Geographic Relevance Criteria. In IIR 2012, Bari, Italy, January 26-27, 2012, pp. 65-72. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-835, ISSN: 1613-0073, urn:nbn:de:0074-835-4
[NC12]
Stefano Mizzaro, Luca Sartori, Giacomo Strangolino: Tag Clouds and Retrieved Results: The CloudCredo Mobile Clustering Engine and its Evaluation. In IIR 2012, Bari, Italy, January 26-27, 2012, pp. 191-198. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-835, ISSN: 1613-0073, urn:nbn:de:0074-835-4

Dissertations

[T1]
S. Mizzaro. Elaborazione del linguaggio naturale: analisi e inferenze a livello pragmatico. Masters thesis in Computer Science, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, December 1992. In Italian. Translation of the title: "Natural Language Processing: Analysis and Inferences at a Pragmatic Level".
[T2]
S. Mizzaro. Il Reperimento delle informazioni: analisi teorica e sperimentazione. Phd thesis in Engineering of Information, University of Trieste (Italy), February 1997. In Italian. The translation of the title is "Information retrieval: theoretical analysis and experimentation". [ps.gz (1.1 MBytes)] [pdf (1.9 MB)]

Selected research reports

[RR1]
S. Mizzaro. La componente esperta del sistema FIRE. Technical Report R/5/137, CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) - Progetto finalizzato Sistemi Informatici e Calcolo Parallelo, Sottoprogetto 5: Sistemi evoluti per Basi di Dati, December 1994. Available also as a research report of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, report number UDMI/1/95/RR. In Italian. Translation of the title: "The expert component of the FIRE system". [English text-only abstract] [Italian text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[RR2]
S. Mizzaro. Recursive models: A computational tool for the semantics of temporal presuppositions and counterfactuals in natural language. Technical Report UDMI/11/96/RR, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, 1996.
[RR3]
S. Mizzaro. Sviluppi futuri di FIRE. Technical Report UDMI/13/96/RR, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, 1996. In Italian. Translation of the title: "Future developments of FIRE". [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[RR4]
S. Mizzaro. Intelligent interfaces for information retrieval: A review. Technical Report UDMI/18/96/RR, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, 1996. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[RR5]
S. Mizzaro. A concrete proposal for an automatically refereed scholarly electronic journal. Research Report UDMI/07/99, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze, 206 - Loc. Rizzi - Udine, Italy, April 1999. Presented at a Workshop at ECDL'99 Conference, Paris. [Text-only abstract] [ps.gz] [pdf]
[RR6]
C. Carpineto and S. Mizzaro. L'evoluzione dei metodi per la valutazione dei sistemi di information retrieval. Technical Report 5B09497, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy, 1997. In Italian. Translation of the title: "The evolution of the evaluation methods for information retrieval systems". [ps.gz]

Teaching material

[TM1]
S. Mizzaro. Appunti di ingegneria del software. Lecture notes for the "Fundamentals of computer science" course, A.A. 97/98, May 1998. Draft. In Italian. Translation of the title: "Notes about software engineering".
[TM2]
V. Della Mea and S. Mizzaro. L'algoritmo. Lecture notes, October 1999. Draft. In Italian. Translation of the title: "Algorithm". [pdf]

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