Claudio Silvestri

Assistant professor

E-mail:
silvestri@dais.unive.it
Phone:
(+39) 041.234.8423
Room: Nr. 21 Map
(upstair, 1^st door on the right)

Research Interests

• Privacy Preserving Location Data Disclosure
• Spatio-Temporal Data Warehouses
• Data Mining Algorithms
• Location Based Access Control
• GPGPU: General-Purpose (parallel) computing on Graphics Processing Units

Short Bio

• From 12/2010   Assistant professor at the University Ca'Foscari Venice.
• 11-12/2010   Visitor at Université Libre de Bruxelles.
• 02-07/2010   Research Fellow ISTI CNR Pisa.
• 01/2010   Research Fellow at University of Milan.
• 2009   Research Fellow at University Ca'Foscari Venice.
• 2006-2008   Research Fellow at University of Milan.
• 2005 - 2006   Research Fellow at University Ca'Foscari Venice.
• 2006.   PhD in Computer Science at the University Ca'Foscari Venice.
• Oct 2002.   Graduated summa cum laude in Computer Science at the University Ca'Foscari Venice.

Publications

[R07] Fine-grained cloaking of sensitive positions in location sharing applications (with M.L.Damiani and E.Bertino) IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 10, Number 4 / 2011. ISSN: 1536-1268. . 2011 [Impact Factor: 3 years: 3.079 (2009) - 5 years: 4.395 (2009)] [DOI]

[R06] The Probe framework for the personalized cloaking of private locations (with M.L.Damiani and E.Bertino) Transactions on data Privacy, Volume 3, Number 2 / 2010. ISSN: 1888-5063. 2010 [link]

[R05] Visual Mobility Analysis using T-Warehouse (with A. Raffaeta, L. Leonardi, G. Marketos, G. Andrienko, N. Andrienko, E. Frentzos, N. Giatrakos, S. Orlando, N. Pelekis, A. Roncato) International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining. ISSN: 1548-3924. Volume 7, Number 1. 2011 [link]

[R04] Spatial Domains for the Administration of Location-based Access Control Policies (with M.L.Damiani and E.Bertino) Journal of Network and Systems Management, September 19th 2008 - Springer - ISSN: 1064-7570. 2008 [Impact Factor: 1.356 (2009)] [DOI]

[R03] Semantics-aware Obfuscation for Location Privacy (with M.L.Damiani and E.Bertino) Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, Volume 2, Number 2 / 2008 - KIISE Publ. - ISSN: 1976-4677. 2008 [link]

[R02] Trajectory Data Warehouses: Design and Implementation Issues (with S.Orlando, R.Orsini, A.Raffaetà, A.Roncato) Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, Volume 1, Number 2 / 2007 - KIISE Publ. - ISSN: 1976-4677. 2007 [link]

[R01] Approximate Mining of Frequent Patterns on Streams (with S. Orlando) Intelligent Data Analysis, Volume 11, Number 1 / 2007 - IOS Press - ISSN: 1088-467X . 2007 [Impact Factor: 0.929 (2009)] [DOI]

[L02] Data Warehousing and Mining Streams of Mobile Object Observations (with S.Orlando, R.Orsini, A.Raffaetà, A.Roncato) Intelligent Techniques for Warehousing and Mining Data Streams - Information Science Reference - ISBN: 978-1-60566-328-9, 2009 [link]

[L01] Mining Frequent Closed Itemsets from Distributed Repositories (with C.Lucchese, S.Orlando, R.Perego) Knowledge and Data Management in Grids. vol. 3 of CoreGrid Series - Springer - ISBN-10: 0-387-37830-8, 2007 [link]

[C22] Exploiting GPUs in Frequent Itemset Mining (with Salvatore Orlando) 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, Accepted - 2012 [link]

[C21] Analyzing semantic locations cloaking techniques in a probabilistic grid-based map (with Maria Luisa Damiani , Elisa Bertino) Proceedings of 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010), 2010 [link][DOI]

[C20] T-Warehouse: Visual OLAP Analysis on Trajectory Data (with Luca Leonardi, Gerasimos Marketos, Elias Frentzos, Nikos Giatrakos, Salvatore Orlando, Nikos Pelekis, Alessandra Raffaetà, Alessandro Roncato, Yannis Theodoridis) Proceedings of ICDE 2010, Demo, 2010 [link][DOI]

[C19] Protecting location privacy against spatial inferences: the PROBE approach (with Maria Luisa Damiani , Elisa Bertino) Proceedings of the 2nd ACM GIS Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS (SPRINGL), 2009 [DOI]

2^nd Best
Paper Award

[C18] Preventing Velocity-based Linkage Attacks in Location-Aware Applications (with Gabriel Ghinita , Maria Luisa Damiani , Elisa Bertino) Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009), 2009 [DOI]

[C17] Interactive Location Cloaking with the PROBE Obfuscator (with Gabriel Ghinita , Maria Luisa Damiani , Elisa Bertino) Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Demo, 2009 [DOI]

[C16] Frequent Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Trajectory Data Warehouses (with L. Leonardi, S. Orlando, A. Raffaetà, A. Roncato, C. Silvestri) Proceedings of 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2009 [DOI]

[C15] From spatially-aware towards mobility-aware access control. (with M.L.Damiani) Proceedings of the 1st ACM GIS Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS (SPRINGL), 2008 [DOI]

[C14] An Approach to Supporting Continuity of Usage in Location-based Access Control (with M.L.Damiani, E.Bertino) Proceedings of 12th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems, 2008 [DOI]

[C13bis] Privacy Preserving Techniques for Location-Based Services (with E.Bertino, M.L. Damiani) Proceedings of the Sixteenth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, 2008

[C13] Trajectory Data Warehouses: Storing and Aggregating Frequent ST Patterns (with S.Orlando, R.Orsini, A.Raffaetà, A.Roncato) Proceedings of the Sixteenth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, 2008

[C12] Protecting Location Privacy through Semantic-aware Obfuscation Techniques (with M.L.Damiani, E.Bertino) Proceedings of the IFIPTM 2008 Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security (published by Springer), 2008 [DOI]

[C11] Hierarchical Domains for Decentralized Administration of Spatially-Aware RBAC Systems (with M.L.Damiani, E.Bertino) Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES2008) (published by IEEE) , 2008 [DOI]

[C10] Spatio-Temporal Aggregations in Trajectory Data Warehouses (with S.Orlando, R.Orsini, A.Raffaetà, A.Roncato) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2007) (published by Springer), 2007 [DOI]

[C09] Trajectory Data Warehouses: Design Issues and Use Cases (with S.Orlando, R.Orsini, A.Raffaetà, A.Roncato) Proceedings of the 15th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems - ISBN 978-88-902981-0-3, 2007

[C08] Lava flow invasion hazard map of the Southern Rift - Mount Etna (Italy) (with G. Groppelli, G. Norini, B. Aldighieri, E. Bertino, F. Comoglio, M.L. Damiani) 2007 Joint Assembley, AGU Congress, EOS Trans. AGU, 88(23), Jt Assem. Suppl. Abstract V33C-04, 2007

[C07] Methodological proposal to realise lava flow hazard map. The application to the Southern Rift Mount Etna (Italy) (with Barbara Alidighieri, Elisa Bertino, Federica Comoglio, Maria Luisa Damiani, Gianluca Groppelli, Gianluca Norini) XXIV General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. Session VS008: Volcanic hazard evaluation: methodologies and applications 2-13 Luglio 2007, Perugia, Italia, 2007

[C06bis] Designing a Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Data Warehouse (with F.Braz, S.Orlando, R.Orsini, A.Raffaetà, A.Roncato) Simpòsio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados.(SBBD 2007) (published by SBC), 2007

[C06] Approximate Aggregations in Trajectories Data Warehouses (with F.Braz, S.Orlando, R.Orsini, A.Raffaetà, A.Roncato) Proceedings of the Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (STDM 2007) in conjunction with 23rd Intenational conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'07) (published by IEEE), 2007 [DOI]

[C05] Approximate Mining of Frequent Patterns on Streams (with S. Orlando) Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Data Streams in conjunction with 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD), 2005

[C04] Distributed Approximate Mining of Frequent Patterns (with S. Orlando) Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Symposim on Applied Computing (SAC'05) - (published by ACM, ISBN 1-58113-964-0), 2005 [DOI]

[C03] Distributed association mining: an approximate method (with S. Orlando) Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Data Mining, in conjunction with Third International SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 2004

[C02] A new algorithm for gap constrained sequence mining (with S. Orlando, R. Perego) Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Symposim on Applied Computing (SAC'04) - (published by ACM, ISBN 1-58113-812-1), 2004 [DOI]

[C01] CCSM: an Efficient Algorithm for Constrained Sequence Mining (with S. Orlando, R. Perego) Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on High Performance Data Mining: Pervasive and Data Stream Mining, in conjunction with Third International SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 2003

[T05] Semantic-aware Obfuscation for Location Privacy (with M.L.Damiani ed E.Bertino) Tech.Rep. LBD-REPORT-2007-003, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. 2007

[T04] Algorithms and frameworks for stream mining and knowledge discovery on Grids (with S.Orlando, R.Perego, A.Congiusta, D.Talia, P.Trunfio) Tech.Rep. Rapporto di ricerca TR-0046,Institute on Knowledge and Data Management, CoreGRID - Network of Excellence. 2006

[T03] Systems and techniques for distributed and stream data mining (with D.Talia, P.Trunfio, S.Orlando, R.Perego) Tech.Rep. TR-0045, Institute on Knowledge and Data Management, CoreGRID - Network of Excellence. 2006

[T02] Towards a Trajectory Data Warehouse (with F. Braz, S. Orlando, R. Orsini, A. Raffaetà, A. Roncato) Tech.Rep. CS-2006-4, Università di Venezia Ca' Foscari, Dip. Informatica. 2006

[T01] Distributed and Stream Data Mining Algorithms for Frequent Pattern Discovery PhD Thesis, TD-2006-4, Università di Venezia Ca' Foscari, Dip. Informatica. 2006

Professional Activities

PC member of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009) - Data Mining Track.

PC member of the 2008 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008) - Data Mining Track.

PC member of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2007) - Data Mining Track.

PC member of the 2006 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2006) - Special Track on Data Mining.

Teaching

2011-2012 Strumenti per l'Information Management

2011-2012 Sistemi Informativi e Tecnologie Web per il Turismo

2011-2012 Univ. Ca' Foscari di Venezia - Reti di calcolatori Materiale didattico e programma

2010-2011 Univ. Ca' Foscari di Venezia - Reti di calcolatori Materiale didattico e programma

2010-2011 Univ. Ca' Foscari di Venezia - Sistemi informativi per l'impresa

2009-2010 Univ. Ca' Foscari di Venezia - Protocolli di rete

2009-2010 Univ. Ca' Foscari di Venezia - Sistemi informativi per l'impresa

2008-2009 Univ. Ca' Foscari di Venezia - Informatica Applicata A

2007-2008 Univ. degli Studi di Milano - Fondamenti di Informatica per le Scienze Umanistiche. (Co-teacher)

2007-2008 Univ. degli Studi di Milano - Sistemi Informativi Geografici (GIS) (Co-teacher)

2006-2007 Univ. degli Studi di Milano - Fondamenti di Informatica per le Scienze Umanistiche. (Examination committee member)

2006 Univ. Ca' Foscari di Venezia - Precorso di Informatica (Teacher)

2006 CEREF Milano - Installazione ed uso di Linux (Teacher)

2005-2006 Univ. Ca' Foscari di Venezia - Tutor for part-time students