Education
- Laurea Degree, 1987, Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
- Ph.D., 1993, Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Biographical Sketch
Carlo Combi was born in 1962. In 1987 he received the Laurea Degree in E.E. by the Politecnico of Milan. In 1993 he received the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering. He was in 1994 and 1995 Post-Doc fellow at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Politecnico of Milan. From 1987 to 1996 he worked within the research group in Medical Informatics at the Politecnico of Milan.
From April 1996 to October 2001, Carlo Combi was with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine as Assistant Professor.
Since November 2001, he is with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Verona. From November 2001 to February 2005, he was Associate Professor of Computer Science; since March 2005, he is Professor of Computer Science.
From October 2007 to September 2012, he was head of the Department.
From July 2009 to June 2013 he was chair of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Society (AIME).
He is author, with Elpida Keravnou (University of Cyprus) and Yuval Shahar (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) of the book Temporal Information Systems in Medicine, Springer, 2010.
Research Interests
Main research interests are related to the database field, with an emphasis on the management of clinical information. The two main topics are:
- temporal information systems
- temporal workflow and business process systems: modeling issues and architectures;
- temporal business processes: controllability;
- temporal constraint networks and controllability;
- temporal functional dependencies;
- temporal data warehouses and temporal data mining;
- XML, semistructured data and temporal information;
- multiple temporal dimensions in modeling and querying data;
- Event Calculus extended to deal with temporal granularity and indeterminacy;
- visualizing temporal data;
- uncertainty in temporal relationships by multiple-valued logics;
- WWW-based access to temporal information;
- granularity and indeterminacy in modeling and querying object-oriented temporal databases.
- multimedia databases
- modeling and querying multimedia data;
- temporal features of multimedia data;
- indexing structures;
- compression techniques applied on biomedical signals and images.
Professional Activities
Current and Graduated Ph.D. students
- Evelina Rakhmetova (-): "Modeling and Mining temporal (Log) Files"
- Beatrice Amico (2023): "Explainable temporal data mining techniques to
support the prediction task in Medicine"
- Matteo Mantovani (2020): "Approximate Data Mining Techniques on Clinical Data"
- Francesca Zerbato (2019): "Tackling different business process perspectives: Modeling data, time, and decisions in BPMN processes"
- Matteo Zavatteri (2018): "Business Process, temporal constraints, access control and security policies"
- Alberto Sabaini (2015): "Temporal Data Analysis and Mining - A Multidimensional Approach and its Application in a Medical Domain"
- Mauro Gambini (2012): "The Design of Graphical Process Modeling Languages: from Free Composition to Modular Construction"
- Gabriele Pozzani (2011): "Modeling and querying spatio-temporal clinical databases with multiple granularities"
- Rosalba Rossato (2006): "Temporal Functional Dependencies and Trends with multiple granularities"
- Barbara Oliboni (2003): "Blind queries and constraints: representing flexibility and time in semistructured data" (co-advisor)
Journal Activities
- Editor-in-Chief, journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (since 2017).
- Editorial Board Member, journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (1999-2016).
- < Editorial Board Member, journal International Journal of Computers in Healthcare.
- Guest editor (with Mor Peleg, University of Haifa), special issue on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AIME 2011 (selected papers), journal Artificial Intelligence (2013).
- Guest editor (with Yuval Shahar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), special issue on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AIME 2009 (selected papers), journal Artificial Intelligence (2011).
- Guest editor (with Niels Peek - University of Amsterdam, and Allan Tucker - Brunel University) of a special section of the journal Methods of Information in Medicine on biomedical data mining (2009).
- Member of the Scientific Committee, special issue on New Trends in Data Warehousing and Data Analysis (guest editors: Stanislaw Kozielski - Silesian University of Technology, Poland - and Robert Wrembel - Poznan University of Technology, Poland), journal Annals of Information Systems (2008).
- Guest editor (with Maroua Bouzid - University of Caen, Gerard Ligozat - University of Paris-SUD, and Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool), special issue on temporal representation and reasoning, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (2006).
- Guest editor (with Giuseppe Pozzi, Politecnico di Milano), special issue on temporal representation and reasoning in medicine, International Journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (2006).
- Member of the Scientific Committee, special issue on information visualization in medicine (guest editor: Luca Chittaro, University of Udine), journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (2001).
- Guest editor (with Yuval Shahar, Stanford University), special issue on intelligent temporal information systems in medicine, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (1999).
- Guest editor (with Yuval Shahar, Stanford University), special issue on time-oriented systems in medicine, journal Computers in Biology and Medicine (1997).
- Reviewer for national and international journals and magazines: IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Computers in Biology and Medicine, IEEE Concurrency, IEEE Internet Computing, Methods of Information in Medicine, Rivista di Informatica of AICA, the Computer Journal, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Logic and Computation, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems.
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February 26, 2024
