# News

February 08, 2024
Enrico Gallinucci is now Researcher in Tenure Track at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

October 18, 2023
We have patented a Method and System for Monitoring Soil Moisture (METODO E SISTEMA PER IL MONITORAGGIO DELL’UMIDITÀ DEL SUOLO).

October 01, 2023
DataPlat has been renewed for a 3rd edition, with Matteo Francia and Enrico Gallinucci as Program Chairs; it will be co-located with ICDE 2024, May 13, 2024, Utrecht (Netherlands).

July 17, 2023
Enrico Gallinucci is Program Chair of DOLAP 2024, co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2024, March 25, 2024, Paestum (Italy).

July 01, 2023
A warm welcome to Manuele Pasini, who joined the BIG team as research fellow and will begin his Ph.D. journey this November!

February 10, 2023
Matteo Francia, Enrico Gallinucci, Patrick Marcel, Veronika Peralta, and Carlos Garcia Alvarado are Guest Editors of the Special Issue Data Platform Design, Management, and Optimization for the Information System Frontiers journal (Springer), I.F. 5.261.

February 10, 2023
Matteo Francia, Enrico Gallinucci, and Sandro Bimonte are Topic Editors of the Research Topic Big Data and Decision Support Systems for Precision Agriculture for the Frontiers in Big data journal.

October 07, 2022
DataPlat has been renewed for a 2nd edition, with Matteo Francia and Enrico Gallinucci as Program Chairs; it will be co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2023, March 28, 2023, Ioannina (Greece).

July 22, 2022
eBISS 2022 is over; a lot of students, exciting talks, and fun social events! Check some pics over here

June 23, 2022
Enrico Gallinucci is Program Chair of DOLAP 2023, co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2023, March 28, 2023, Ioannina (Greece).

June 10, 2022
Enrico Gallinucci is Associate Editor for the Data and Knowledge Engineering journal

May 1, 2022
Post-poned by Covid-19, the 10th European Business Intelligence & Big Data Summer School will take place from July 3 to July 8 in Cesena!

March 29, 2022
DataPlat 2022 took place online and it was exciting! In case you missed it, you can watch it on YouTube.

January 1, 2022
Matteo Francia, Enrico Gallinucci, and Stefano Rizzi are Guest Editors of the Special Issue Advances in Data Platform Design, Management, and Optimization for the Future Generation Computer Systems journal (Elsevier), I.F. 7.187.

December 21, 2021
Enrico Gallinucci will present the PhD Course From Big Data to Data Platform - Research and Challenges in late January

December 1, 2021
Matteo Francia, Enrico Gallinucci, and Stefano Rizzi are Program Chairs of the 1st International Workshop on Data Platform Design, Management, and Optimization (DataPlat 2022), co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2022, March 29, 2022, Edinburgh (UK).

August 26, 2021
Chiara Forresi presented Optimizing Execution Plans in a Multistore at ADBIS 2021.

August 01, 2021
The VLDB Journal has published our paper A dataspace-based framework for OLAP analyses in a high-variety multistore.

July 20, 2021
Matteo Golfarelli will discuss Digital Transformation Management at the 13° National Congress of the Italian Association of Leadership and Medical Management on the 24-25th of September

July 01, 2021
Wishing good luck to Anna Giulia and Nicola for their new job opportunity at Onit!

June 15, 2021
Enrico Gallinucci is now Junior Assistant Professor

May 27, 2021
Congratulations to Matteo Francia for successfully defending his PhD thesis Augmenting the Knowledge Pyramid with Unconventional Data and Advanced Analytics!

April 06, 2021
Matteo Golfarelli and Enrico Gallinucci are Guest Editors of MDPI Electronics's Special Issue on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Industry 4.0; the call-for-paper closes on January 31, 2022

March 23, 2021
Matteo Golfarelli is Chair at DAWAK 2021

March 22, 2021
Happy to announce the Best Demo Award@EDBT 2021 with the paper 'Conversational OLAP in Action'

March 22, 2021
Happy to announce Joseph's Best Paper Award@DOLAP 2021 with the paper 'Effective data pre-processing for AutoML'

February 5, 2021
New paper on Information Systems: Data variety, come as you are in multi-model data warehouses

February 3, 2021
We will be @ EDBT/ICDT 2021 to present a demo on COOL, our approach to conversational OLAP

October 19, 2020
A warm welcome to our new PhD students, Chiara and Joseph! #weareBIGger

September 15, 2020
Our paper DART: De-Anonymization of Personal Gazetteers through Social Trajectories has been accepted for publication @ Special Issue on Privacy and Security for Location-based Services and Devices

August 28, 2020
Here are the slides from 'The Tell-Tale Cube' presented @ ADBIS2020

August 18, 2020
Did you know we will host the 10th European Business Intelligence & Big Data Summer School in 2021?

August 04, 2020
The new website is online!

September 30, 2019
Lecture by Enrico Gallinucci on An introduction to Big Data at the SKA Data Challenges workshop, Istituto di Radioastronomia Bologna, Italy

September 24-28, 2018
Lectures on 'Boosting the Data Warehouse Life-Cycle Through Conceptual Design' at the BDMA Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (Bruxelles, Belgium)

October 4, 2018
Invited talk on 'Variety-aware explanation and analysis of document-oriented database' at EDA 2018 (Tanger, Morocco)

September 24, 2017
Co-chair of the PhD Consortium at ADBIS 2017 (Nicosia, Greece)

March 2016
Lecture by Stefano Rizzi on Agility meets Data Warehouse design at the Spring School Models, Systems, and Algorithms for Role-Based BI (Dagstuhl, Germany)

June 2015
Lecture by Matteo Golfarelli on Social Business Intelligence: Architectures, Data Structures, and Methodologies at the 5th European Business Intelligence Summer School (Barcelona, Spain)

June 2015
Half-day seminar by Stefano Rizzi on Boosting the Data Warehouse Life-Cycle Through Conceptual Design at the 2015 TDWI Conference (Munich, Germany), organized by The Data Warehouse Institute – Europe

August 2014
Keynote talk by Matteo Golfarelli on Social Business Intelligence - OLAP Applied to User Generated Contentsat DATA 2014

March 2014
Keynote talk by Stefano Rizzi on Data Warehouse and Beyond: Designing the BI Pyramid at the EUNIS BITF Conference (Paris, France), organized by the Business Intelligence Task Force of the European University Information Systems Organization

February 2014
Keynote talk by Matteo Golfarelli on Business Intelligence beyondData Warehouse at the computer science research meets business (Bozen, Italy), organized by Free University of Bozen

September 2013
First International Workshop on Social Business Intelligence (Genoa, Italy)

February 2012
Lecture by Matteo Golfarelli on Data Warehouse Design at the University of Tours (France)

September 2011
Dagstuhl perspective seminar on Data Warehousing: from Occasional OLAP to Real-time Business Intelligence (Dagstuhl, Germany)

July 2011
Lecture by Stefano Rizzi on Collaborative Business Intelligence at the First European Business Intelligence Summer School (Paris)

March 2011
Seminar by Stefano Rizzi on Conceptual and Logical Design of Data Warehouses at Business Intelligence Consultants (Zurich)

September 2010
Tutorial by Matteo Golfarelli on Methodological issues and specificities in Medical Data Warehousing at MEDAN - Competence Center for Medical Data Warehousing and Analysis (Bozen, Italy)

September 2010
Invited talk by Stefano Rizzi on New Frontiers in Business Intelligence: Distribution and Personalization at ADBIS 2010 (Novi Sad, Serbia)

June 2010
Keynote address by Matteo Golfarelli on OLAP query personalization at EDA 2010 (Djerba, Tunisia)

May 2009
New book Data Warehouse design: Modern principles and methodologies by Matteo Golfarelli and Stefano Rizzi published by McGraw-Hill

November 2007
Panel by Stefano Rizzi on Research Challenges for DW and OLAP Seen From Industry and Academia at DOLAP '07 (Lisbon, Portugal)

January 2006
Second edition of the book Data Warehouse: Teoria e Pratica della Progettazione, McGraw-Hill

August 2004
Dagstuhl perspective seminar on Data Warehousing at the Crossroads (Dagstuhl, Germany)

September 2003
Keynote address by Stefano Rizzi on Open problems in data warehousing: Eight years later at DMDW 2003 (Berlin, Germany)

November 2002
Invited lecture by Stefano Rizzi on Main issues in data warehouse design at FER, University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia)

October2001
Invited lecture by Stefano Rizzi on Main issues in data warehouse design at FER, University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia)

April 2001
Tutorial on Data Warehouse Design at ICDE 2001 (Heidelberg, Germany)