Rodolfo Ferrini

Research Interests

[Access Control and Identity Management] [9] [2] [18] [21] [5]

[Security for Web Services and Business Processes] [9] [21] [17]

[Privacy] [17] [2] [8]

[Ontology Design, Ontology Matching and Description Logic Reasoning] [1] [3] [10] [4] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [2] [6] [7]

[Recommender Systems] [1] [3] [13] [14]

Education

[January 2006 - Present] PhD student at the graduate program in Computer Science organized by the consortium between the University of Bologna and the University of Padova. Advisors: Prof. Antonella Carbonaro, CS Department, University of Bologna (Italy); Prof. Elisa Bertino, CS and ECE Departments, Purdue University (USA). Thesis defence: February - March 2009.

[October 1999 - October 2005] Laura Degree with honors in Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy. Graduation Mark: 110/110 cum laude. Degree Thesis title: Study and Realization of Tools for the Integration of Semantic Information in Knowledge Management Systems [in Italian]. Supervisor: Prof. Antonella Carbonaro.

Employment

[September 2008 - January 2009] Temporary Research Assistant, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. Under the supervision of Professor Elisa Bertino, I am working on topics related to access control for business processes and interoperability issues in digital identity management [12] and access control models.

[January 2008 - April 2008] Visiting Scholar, Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, USA. Under the supervision of Professor Elisa Bertino I worked on topics related to interoperability in access control models [13] and security in business processes [5].

Participation to Research projects

[VeryIDX: September 2008 - January 2009] I work as temporary research assistant on the VeryIDX project. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation under the Grant No. 0428554 The Design and Use of Digital Identities, and upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Grant Award Number 2006-CS-001-000001, under the auspices of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) research program. The project addresses a wide variety of digital identity needs by developing flexible technologies based on a sound underlying set of definitions and principles. My role in the project concerns interoperability issues arising during data exchange.

[LHDL: January 2006 - December 2008] I have a Research Fellowship on the Living Human Digital Library (LHDL) project. LHDL is a STREP Project under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. The overall objective of LHDL is to develop interactive digital library services to access collections of complex biomedical data on the musculoskeletal apparatus. My role in the project is to investigate state of the art technologies concerning Semantic Web services and ontology design.

Teaching Activity

[Tutor: 2007 - 2008] In the Computer Science degree course of Programming, Cesena, University of Bologna.

[Tutor: 2007 - 2008] In the Computer Science degree course of Semantic Web and Web services, Cesena, University of Bologna.

Co-supervisoring Activity

[2007]

--- Denis Carlini. Design and Implementation of a Tourist Data Management Application [in Italian]. Supervisor prof. Antonella Carbonaro. Laurea Degree Thesis in Computer Science, Cesena, University of Bologna.
--- Massimo Fantini. Design and Implementation of a Tourist Data Management Application: Ontological Issues [in Italian]. Supervisor prof. Antonella Carbonaro. Laurea Degree Thesis in Computer Science, Cesena, University of Bologna.
--- Gabriele Gori. Design and Implementation of a Semi-Automatic Ontology Matcher [in Italian]. Supervisor prof. Antonella Carbonaro. Laurea Degree Thesis in Computer Science, Cesena, University of Bologna.

Publications

Papers in Books

[1]

A. Carbonaro, R. Ferrini. Personalized Information Retrieval in a Semantic-based Approach. Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively. Editors: Dion H. Goh and Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University. Singapore, Idea Group Inc. PA, USA, pp. 270 - 289, 2007.

Journal Publications

[2]

F. Paci, R. Ferrini, A. Musci, K. J. Steuer, E. Bertino. An Interoperable Approach to Multi-Factor Authentication. IEEE Computer Special Issue on Identity Management. To appear, 2009.

[3]

A. Carbonaro, R. Ferrini. The use of concepts to improve content analysis in a distance learning system. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning 2007. Vol. 17, No.4/5, pp. 369 - 380, 2007.

[4]

A. Carbonaro, R. Ferrini. Managing Concepts Inside e-Learning System. JELKS Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2006.

Conference and Workshop Proceedings

[5]

R. Ferrini, E. Bertino. Supporting RBAC with XACML+OWL. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM symposium on access control models and technologies 2009 (SACMAT), 2009. To appear.

[6]

E. Bertino, F. Paci, R. Ferrini, N. Shang. Privacy-preserving Digital Identity Management for Cloud Computing. February 2009, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, (invited paper), 2009. To appear.

[7]

R. Ferrini, E. Bertino. A Comprehensive Approach for Solving Policy Heterogeneity. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems 2009 (ICEIS), 2009. To appear.

[8]

E. Bertino, R. Ferrini, A. Musci, F. Paci, and K. J. Steuer. A federated digital identity management approach for business processes. In Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Work sharing (CollaborateCom 2008), (invited paper), 2008.

[9]

F. Paci, R. Ferrini, Y. Sun, E. Bertino. Authorization and User Failure Resiliency for WS-BPEL business processes. In Proceedings of International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2008), December 2008.

[10]

A. Carbonaro, R. Ferrini. Semantic Technologies in e-Learning Framework. In Proceedings 4th International Conference in Education IADAT-e2007. July 2007.

[11]

A. Carbonaro, R. Ferrini. Ontology-based Video Annotation in Multimedia Entertainment. In Proceedings 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment (NIME'07). 2007 4th IEEE Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2007), USA, Las Vegas, IEEE Communications Society, January 2007.

[12]

A. Carbonaro, R. Ferrini. Semantic Video Annotation in e-Learning Framework. Didamatica 2007, Cesena, 2007.

[13]

A. Carbonaro, R. Ferrini. Ontology-based Video Annotation and Recommendation in a Semantic Education Framework. In Proceedings of The Semantic Web - ASWC 2006 Workshop, G. Li, Y. Liang and M. Ronchetti eds., Jilin University Press, Changchun, China, pp. 95-102, 2006.

[14]

A. Carbonaro, R. Ferrini. Concepts-based Content Analysis for Semantic Recommendations. In Proceedings ECAI 2006 Workshop on Recommender Systems. 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Italy, Riva del Garda, 2006.

[15]

A. Carbonaro, R. Ferrini. Semantic e-Learning: Current Researches and Proposals. Congresso AICA Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica ed il Calcolo Automatico 2006, Cesena, 2006.

[16]

A. Carbonaro, R. Ferrini. Considering semantic abilities to improve a Web-Based Distance Learning System. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Combining Intelligent and Adaptive Hypermedia Methods/Techniques in Web-Based Education Systems. 16th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT05), Austria, Salzburg, 2005.

Submitted Papers

[17]

F. Paci, R. Ferrini, E. Bertino. A Privacy-preserving Digital Identity Management Approach for WS-BPEL processes. January 2009. Submitted to a conference.

[18]

P. Rao, D. Lin, R. Ferrini, E. Bertino and J. Lobo. A Similarity Measure for Comparing Access Control Policies. February 2008. Submitted to a journal.

Technical Papers

[19]

R. Ferrini. EXAM-S: a Tool for the Analysis of Multi Domain Policy Sets. PhD Thesis, 2009.

[20]

R. Ferrini, E. Bertino. A Comprehensive Approach for Solving Policy Heterogeneity. Cerias Technical Report, 2009.

[21]

F. Paci, R. Ferrini, Y. Sun, E. Bertino. Authorization and User Failure Resiliency for WS-BPEL business processes. Cerias Technical Report, 2008.

Review Activities