About me

Hi! My name is Matteo Francia.

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My bio

Matteo Francia is a fixed-term researcher in tenure track (RTT) at the University of Bologna, where he got his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering. His teaching subjects are big data, cloud platforms, and machine learning. His research focuses on advanced big data analytics and machine learning, with particular reference to databases, mobility data, and precision agriculture; in these fields, he has published more than 50 papers. He authored publications in international conferences and journals, including Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, IEEE TKDE, DOLAP, ADBIS, ER, and EDBT, where he was awarded the best demo paper in 2021. He served as program chair at DATAPLAT (2022-2024) and as guest editor for the "Future Generation Computer Systems", "Information System Frontiers", and "Journal of Big Data" international journals. He was a visiting scholar at The University of Queensland in 2019. He received the MSc and BSc with honors from the University of Bologna in 2017 and 2014, respectively. He was awarded by Rotary in 2018 and 2017 as the best graduate in the School of Engineering and Architecture and in Computer Science and Engineering, respectively. He collaborated with several companies in the fields of mobility data and precision agriculture.

Teaching activity

• AY2526 - 466769 - MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA MINING (evaluation)
• AY2526 - 95630 - BIG DATA AND CLOUD PLATFORMS (evaluation)
• AY2425 - 466769 - MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA MINING (evaluation)
• AY2425 - 95630 - BIG DATA AND CLOUD PLATFORMS (evaluation)
• AY2324 - 16692 - LABORATORIO DI INFORMATICA (evaluation)
• AY2324 - 95630 - BIG DATA AND CLOUD PLATFORMS (evaluation)
• AY2223 - 99740 - LABORATORIO DI INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATICS) (evaluation)
• AY2223 - 95630 - BIG DATA AND CLOUD PLATFORMS (evaluation)
• AY2122 - 09730 - PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATICS (evaluation)
• AY2021 - 81932 - BIG DATA (evaluation)

Publications sorted by time

1. Francia, M., Rizzi, S., Golfarelli, M., & Marcel, P. (2026). Predicting multidimensional cubes through intentional analytics. Information Systems, 136.
2. Baiardi, A., Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., Papadopoulos, A. V., & Pasini, M. (2026). Prescriptive watering: Data-driven optimization of water consumption in kiwifruit orchards. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 243.
3. Rizzi, S., Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2025). Conceptual design of multidimensional cubes with LLMs: An investigation. Data and Knowledge Engineering, 159.
4. Forresi, C., Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2025). ASSO: the Automated Schemaless Stream Overseer. Advances in Database Technology - EDBT, 1078–1081.
5. Forresi, C., Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2025). Self-adaptive analytical querying over schemaless data streams. Journal of Big Data, 12(1).
6. Baiardi, A., Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., & Pasini, M. (2025). Design of Cloud Data Platforms. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 217–228.
7. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2025). VOOL: A modular insight-based framework for vocalizing OLAP sessions. Information Systems, 129.
8. Bittelli, M., Francia, M., Giovanelli, J., Golfarelli, M., & Tomei, F. (2025). An auto-tuning process-based 3D model to forecast irrigation demand in kiwifruit. Ecological Informatics, 85.
9. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2025). Automating materiality assessment with a data-driven document-based approach. International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, 5(1).
10. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Pasini, M. (2025). Process-driven design of cloud data platforms. Information Systems, 131.
11. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2024). Colossal Trajectory Mining: A unifying approach to mine behavioral mobility patterns. Expert Systems with Applications, 238.
12. Francia, M., Rizzi, S., & Marcel, P. (2024). Explaining cube measures through Intentional Analytics. Information Systems, 121.
13. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Pasini, M. (2024). Towards a Process-Driven Design of Data Platforms. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 28–35.
14. Francia, M., Giovanelli, J., & Golfarelli, M. (2024). AutoClues: Exploring Clustering Pipelines via AutoML and Diversification. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 246–258.
15. Forresi, C., Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., & Pasini, M. (2024). Colossal Trajectory Mining Semantic Co-movement Pattern Mining. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 131–141.
16. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., Marcel, P., Rizzi, S., & Vassiliadis, P. (2023). Suggesting Assess Queries for Interactive Analysis of Multidimensional Data. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35(6), 6421–6434.
17. Jin, F., Hua, W., Francia, M., Chao, P., Orlowska, M. E., & Zhou, X. (2023). A Survey and Experimental Study on Privacy-Preserving Trajectory Data Publishing. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35(6), 5577–5596.
18. Forresi, C., Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2023). Cost-based Optimization of Multistore Query Plans. Information Systems Frontiers, 25(5), 1925–1951.
19. Francia, M., Giovanelli, J., & Pisano, G. (2023). HAMLET: A framework for Human-centered AutoML via Structured Argumentation. Future Generation Computer Systems, 142, 182–194.
20. Francia, M., Rizzi, S., & Marcel, P. (2023). The Whys and Wherefores of Cubes. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 43–50.
21. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Marcel, P., & Peralta, V. (2023). Data Platform Design, Management, and Optimization (DATAPLAT). CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
22. Emmi, L., Fernández, R., Gonzalez-de-Santos, P., Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., Vitali, G., Sandmann, H., Hustedt, M., & Wollweber, M. (2023). Exploiting the Internet Resources for Autonomous Robots in Agriculture. Agriculture (Switzerland), 13(5).
23. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2023). Describing and Assessing Cubes Through Intentional Analytics. Advances in Database Technology - EDBT, 803–806.
24. Forresi, C., Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2023). Streaming Approach to Schema Profiling. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 211–220.
25. Francia, M., Giovanelli, J., & Golfarelli, M. (2023). Fine-grained Soil Moisture Monitoring with PLUTO. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 545–554.
26. Francia, M., Rizzi, S., & Marcel, P. (2023). Using Regression to Explain Cube Measures. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 555–564.
27. Forresi, C., Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2023). On the Optimization of Query Plans in Multistores (Discussion Paper). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 391–400.
28. Jin, F., Hua, W., Zhou, T., Xu, J., Francia, M., Orlowska, M. E., & Zhou, X. (2022). Trajectory-Based Spatiotemporal Entity Linking. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 34(9), 4499–4513.
29. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2022). COOL: A framework for conversational OLAP. Information Systems, 104.
30. Francia, M., Marcel, P., Peralta, V., & Rizzi, S. (2022). Enhancing Cubes with Models to Describe Multidimensional Data. Information Systems Frontiers, 24(1), 31–48.
31. Francia, M., Giovanelli, J., & Golfarelli, M. (2022). Multi-sensor profiling for precision soil-moisture monitoring. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 197.
32. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., Marcel, P., Peralta, V., & Rizzi, S. (2022). Describing Multidimensional Data Through Highlights (Discussion Paper). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 36–43.
33. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2022). Insight-Based Vocalization of OLAP Sessions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 193–206.
34. Vitali, G., Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Canavari, M. (2021). Crop Management with the IoT: An Interdisciplinary Survey. Agronomy, 11(1).
35. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., Leoni, A. G., Rizzi, S., & Santolini, N. (2021). Making data platforms smarter with MOSES. Future Generation Computer Systems, 125, 299–313.
36. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., Marcel, P., Rizzi, S., & Vassiliadis, P. (2021). Assess queries for interactive analysis of data cubes. Advances in Database Technology - EDBT, 121–132.
37. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2021). Conversational OLAP in action. Advances in Database Technology - EDBT, 646–649.
38. Forresi, C., Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2021). Optimizing Execution Plans in a Multistore. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 136–151.
39. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2021). Conversational OLAP. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
40. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2020). Summarization and visualization of multi-level and multi-dimensional itemsets. Information Sciences, 520, 63–85.
41. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2020). A-BI+: A framework for Augmented Business Intelligence. Information Systems, 92.
42. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2020). Towards conversational OLAP. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 6–15.
43. Chédin, A., Francia, M., Marcel, P., Peralta, V., & Rizzi, S. (2020). The Tell-Tale Cube. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 204–218.
44. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2020). OLAP Querying of Document Stores in the Presence of Schema Variety. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 128–135.
45. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., Golfarelli, M., & Santolini, N. (2020). DART: De-Anonymization of personal gazetteers through social trajectories. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 55.
46. El Outa, F., Francia, M., Marcel, P., Peralta, V., & Vassiliadis, P. (2020). Supporting the generation of data narratives. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 168–172.
47. El Outa, F., Francia, M., Marcel, P., Peralta, V., & Vassiliadis, P. (2020). Towards a Conceptual Model for Data Narratives. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 261–270.
48. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2019). Augmented business intelligence. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
49. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Vitali, F. (2019). Map-matching on big data: A distributed and efficient algorithm with a hidden Markov model. 2019 42nd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics, MIPRO 2019 - Proceedings, 1238–1243.
50. Francia, M., Gallinucci, E., & Golfarelli, M. (2019). Social BI to understand the debate on vaccines on the Web and social media: unraveling the anti-, free, and pro-vax communities in Italy. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 9(1).
51. Francia, M., Golfarelli, M., & Rizzi, S. (2018). A Similarity Function for Multi-Level and Multi-Dimensional Itemsets. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
52. Francia, M., Pianini, D., Beal, J., & Viroli, M. (2017). Towards a foundational API for resilient distributed systems design. Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 2nd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems, FAS*W 2017, 27–32.