Publications

2024

  1. ACM TIST
    FedCMD: A Federated Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Drivers Emotion Recognition
    Saira Bano, Nicola Tonellotto, Pietro Cassarà, and 1 more author
    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2024
  2. ACM TWEB
    Caching Historical Embeddings in Conversational Search
    Ophir Frieder, Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, and 3 more authors
    ACM Transactions on Web, 2024
  3. Turning on a DIME: Estimating Dimension Importance for Dense Information Retrieval
    Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Raffaele Perego, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 14th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2024), 2024
  4. Rethinking Relevance: How Noise and Distractors Impact Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Florin Cuconasu, Giovanni Trappolini, Federico Siciliano, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 14th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2024), 2024
  5. ACM RECSYS
    Efficient Inference of Sub-Item Id-based Sequential Recommendation Models with Millions of Items
    Aleksandr V. Petrov, Craig Macdonald, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RECSYS 2024), 2024
  6. ACM ICTIR
    Learning to Rank for Non Independent and Identically Distributed Datasets
    Jacopo Cecchetti, Nicola Tonellotto, and Raffaele Perego
    2024
  7. ACM SIGIR
    Generating Query Recommendations via LLMs
    Andrea Bacciu, Enrico Palumbo, Andreas Damianou, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Workshop on Information Retrieval’s Role in RAG Systems (IR-RAG 2024), 2024
  8. ACM SIGIR
    A Reproducibility Study of PLAID
    Sean MacAvaney, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), 2024
  9. ACM SIGIR
    Dimension Importance Estimation for Dense Information Retrieval
    Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Raffaele Perego, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), 2024
  10. ACM SIGIR
    The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems
    Florin Cuconasu, Giovanni Trappolini, Federico Siciliano, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), 2024
  11. ACM SIGIR
    Faster Learned Sparse Retrieval with Block-Max Pruning
    Antonio Mallia, Torsten Suel, and Antonio Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), 2024
  12. Energy-Efficient Resource Management for Real-Time Applications in FaaS Edge Computing Platforms
    Shahrokh Vahabi, Francesca Righetti, Carlo Vallati, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2023), 2024
  13. ECIR
    Two-Step SPLADE: Simple, Efficient and Effective Approximation of SPLADE
    Carlos Lassance, Hervé Dejean, Stéphane Clinchant, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024), 2024
  14. ECIR
    indxr: A Python Library for Indexing File Lines
    Elias Bassani, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024), 2024
  15. ECIR
    DESIRE-ME: Domain-Enhanced Supervised Information Retrieval Using Mixture-of-Experts
    Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi, Raffaele Perego, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024), 2024

2023

  1. ComCom
    Artificial intelligence of things at the edge: Scalable and efficient distributed learning for massive scenarios
    Saira Bano, Nicola Tonellotto, Pietro Cassarà, and 1 more author
    Computer Communications, 2023
  2. ACM TOIS
    Personalized Query Expansion with Contextual Word Embeddings
    Elias Bassani, Nicola Tonellotto, and Gabriella Pasi
    ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2023
  3. ACM TWEB
    ColBERT-PRF: Semantic Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Dense Passage and Document Retrieval
    Xiao Wang, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and 1 more author
    ACM Transactions on Web, 2023
  4. A Spatial Approach to Predict Performance of Conversational Search Systems
    Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Cristina Muntean, and 2 more authors
    2023
  5. A Federated Channel Modeling System using Generative Neural Networks
    Saira Bano, Pietro Cassarà, Nicola Tonellotto, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2023), 2023
  6. RRAML: Reinforced Retrieval Augmented Machine Learning
    Andrea Bacciu, Florin Cuconasu, Federico Siciliano, and 3 more authors
    2023
  7. ACM RECSYS
    Integrating Item Relevance in Training Loss for Sequential Recommender Systems
    Andrea Bacciu, Federico Siciliano, Nicola Tonellotto, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RECSYS 2023), 2023
  8. A Systematic Mapping Study of Italian Research on Workflows
    Marco Aldinucci, Elena Maria Baralis, Valeria Cardellini, and 16 more authors
    In Proceedings of the SC ’23 Workshops of The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis, 2023
  9. ACM SIGIR
    A Static Pruning Study on Sparse Neural Retrievers
    Carlos Lassance, Simon Lupart, Hervé Déjean, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023), 2023
  10. ACM SIGIR
    A Geometric Framework for Query Performance Prediction in Conversational Search
    Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Cristina Ioana Muntean, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023), 2023
  11. ACM SIGIR
    Reproducibility, Replicability, and Insights into Dense Multi-Representation Retrieval Models: from ColBERT to Col*
    Xiao Wang, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023), 2023
  12. ACM DOCENG
    Static Pruning for Multi-Representation Dense Retrieval
    Antonio Acquavia, Craig Macdonald, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2023 (DocEng 2023), 2023

2022

  1. Performance Evaluation of Federated Learning for Residential Energy Forecasting
    Eugenia Petrangeli, Nicola Tonellotto, and Carlo Vallati
    IoT, 2022
  2. An Intelligent System for the Categorization of Question Time Official Documents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
    Alice Cavalieri, Pietro Ducange, Silvio Fabi, and 2 more authors
    Journal of Information Technologies, 2022
  3. Design of Fault Tolerant Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems for Smart Environments
    Luca Cassano, Antonio Miele, Francesco Mione, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, 2022
  4. ACM CIKM
    Adaptive Re-Ranking with a Corpus Graph
    Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto, and Craig Macdonald
    In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM 2022), 2022
  5. Improving Conversational Evaluation via a Dependency-Aware Permutation Strategy
    Guglielmo Faggioli, Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 30th Symposium on Advanced Database System (SEBD 2022), 2022
  6. ACM SIGIR
    The Istella22 Dataset: Bridging Traditional and Neural Learning to Rank Evaluation
    Domenico Dato, Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022), 2022
  7. ACM SIGIR
    Faster Learned Sparse Retrieval with Guided Traversal
    Antonio Mallia, Joel Mackenzie, Torsten Suel, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022), 2022
  8. ACM SIGIR
    On the Role of Relevance in Natural Language Processing Tasks
    Artsiom Sauchuk, James Thorne, Alon Halevy, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022), 2022
  9. ECIR
    A Dependency-Aware Utterances Permutation Strategy to Improve Conversational Evaluation
    Guglielmo Faggioli, Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Apr 2022
  10. Adaptive Re-Ranking as an Information-Seeking Agent
    Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto, and Craig Macdonald
    In Proceedings of the PASIR Workshop, Apr 2022
  11. Latency-Energy Tradeoffs in Federated Learning on Resource Constrained Edge Computing Systems
    Simone Pampaloni, Nicola Tonellotto, and Carlo Vallati
    In Proceedings of the AI6G Workshop, Apr 2022
  12. FedTCS: Federated Learning with Time-based Client Selection to Optimize Edge Resources
    Saira Bano, Nicola Tonellotto, Pietro Cassara, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the AI6G Workshop, Apr 2022
  13. KAFKAFED: Two-Tier Federated Learning Communication Architecture for Internet of Vehicles
    Saira Bano, Nicola Tonellotto, Pietro Cassara, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the PerConAI Workshop, Apr 2022

2021

  1. IPM
    Adaptive utterance rewriting for conversational search
    Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, and 3 more authors
    Information Processing & Management, Apr 2021
  2. InfSci
    Neural network quantization in federated learning at the edge
    Nicola Tonellotto, Alberto Gotta, Franco Maria Nardini, and 2 more authors
    Information Sciences, Apr 2021
  3. On Single and Multiple Representations in Dense Passage Retrieval
    Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis
    In Proceedings of the 11th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2021), Apr 2021
  4. ACM CIKM
    On Approximate Nearest Neighbour Selection for Multi-Stage Dense Retrieval
    Craig Macdonald, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference of Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021), Apr 2021
  5. ACM CIKM
    Query Embedding Pruning for Dense Retrieval
    Nicola Tonellotto, and Craig Macdonald
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference of Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021), Apr 2021
  6. ACM CIKM
    PyTerrier: Declarative Experimentation in Python from BM25 to Dense Retrieval
    Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, Sean MacAvaney, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference of Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021), Apr 2021
  7. ACM CIKM
    IR From Bag-of-words to BERT and Beyond through Practical Experiments
    Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and Sean MacAvaney
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference of Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021), Apr 2021
  8. ECIR
    IR From Bag-of-words to BERT and Beyond through Practical Experiments: An ECIR 2021 Tutorial with PyTerrier And OpenNIR
    Sean Macavaney, Craig Macdonald, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021), Apr 2021
  9. ACM ICTIR
    Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Multiple Representation Dense Retrieval
    Xiao Wang, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGIR on International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2021), Apr 2021
  10. ACM SIGIR
    Learning Passage Impacts for Inverted Indexes
    Antonio Mallia, Omar Khattab, Torsten Suel, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021), Apr 2021
  11. ACM SIGIR
    Hierarchical Dependence-aware Evaluation Measures for Conversational Search
    Guglielmo Faggioli, Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021), Apr 2021
  12. Finding Context through Utterance Dependencies in Search Conversations
    Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2021), Apr 2021

2020

  1. ACM TOIS
    Weighting Passages Enhances Accuracy
    Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, and 2 more authors
    ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Apr 2020
  2. ACM TOIS
    Using an Inverted Index Synopsis for Query Latency and Performance Prediction
    Nicola Tonellotto, and Craig Macdonald
    ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Apr 2020
  3. IPM
    Topical result caching in web search engines
    Ida Mele, Nicola Tonellotto, Ophir Frieder, and 1 more author
    Information Processing & Management, Apr 2020
  4. Leveraging Cloud Infrastructures for Teaching Advanced Computer Engineering Classes
    Antonio Cisternino, Pietro Ducange, Nicola Tonellotto, and 1 more author
    In Bridges and Mediation in Higher Distance Education - Second International Workshop (HELMeTO 2020), Apr 2020
  5. ACM SIGIR
    Training Curricula for Open Domain Answer Re-Ranking
    Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Apr 2020
  6. ACM SIGIR
    Topic Propagation in Conversational Search
    Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Apr 2020
  7. ACM SIGIR
    Efficient Document Re-Ranking for Transformers by Precomputing Term Representations
    Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Apr 2020
  8. ACM SIGIR
    Expansion via Prediction of Importance with Contextualization
    Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Apr 2020
  9. ACM ICTIR
    Declarative Experimentation in Information Retrieval Using PyTerrier
    Craig Macdonald, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGIR on International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2020), Apr 2020
  10. Topical Enrichment of Conversational Search Utterances
    Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2020), Apr 2020
  11. A Cloud-Based Approach for Teaching Cloud Computing and Distributed Databases
    Antonio Cisternino, Pietro Ducange, Nicola Tonellotto, and 1 more author
    In HELMeTO - International Workshop on Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online, Apr 2020

2019

  1. ACM SIGIR
    Enhanced News Retrieval: Passages Lead the Way!
    Matteo Catena, Ophir Frieder, Cristina Ioana Muntean, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019), Jul 2019
  2. ACM SIGIR
    Multiple Query Processing via Logic Function Factoring
    Matteo Catena, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019), Jul 2019

2018

  1. IEEE TPDS
    Parallel Traversal of Large Ensembles of Decision Trees
    Francesco Lettich, Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Jul 2018
  2. JoGC
    Dataset Popularity Prediction for Caching of CMS Big Data
    Marco Meoni, Raffaele Perego, and Nicola Tonellotto
    Journal of Grid Computing, Jul 2018
  3. FNTIR
    Efficient Query Processing for Scalable Web Search
    Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis
    Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, Jul 2018
  4. Performance Analysis of WebRTC-based Video Streaming over Power Constrained Platforms
    Manlio Bacco, Matteo Catena, Tomaso Cola, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2018), Dec 2018
  5. ACM CIKM
    Efficient Energy Management in Distributed Web Search
    Nicola Tonellotto Matteo Catena
    In Proceedings of the 27^th ACM Conference of Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), Oct 2018
  6. ACM SIGIR
    Efficient Query Processing Infrastructures
    Nicola Tonellotto, and Craig Macdonald
    In Proceedings of the 41^th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), Jul 2018
  7. Popularity-Based Caching of CMS Datasets
    Marco Meoni, Raffaele Perego, and Nicola Tonellotto
    Advances in Parallel Computing, Jul 2018
  8. Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Information Retrieval Systems
    Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 1^st International Workshop on Energy Efficient Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (in conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases 2018), Dublin, Ireland, Jul 2018

2017

  1. IEEE TKDE
    Energy-efficient Query Processing in Web Search Engines
    Matteo Catena, and Nicola Tonellotto
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Jul 2017
  2. ECIR
    Efficient Query Processing Infrastructures
    Nicola Tonellotto, and Craig Macdonald
    In Proceedings of the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017), Apr 2017
  3. Multicore/manycore parallel traversal of large forests of regression trees
    Francesco Lettich, Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 15^th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS 2017), Jul 2017
  4. QuickScorer: Efficient Traversal of Large Ensembles of Decision Trees
    Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2017), Sep 2017
  5. ACM ICTIR
    Upper Bound Approximation for BlockMaxWand
    Craig Macdonald, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 3^rd ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2017), Oct 2017
  6. ACM SIGIR
    Faster BlockMax WAND with Variable-sized Blocks
    Antonio Mallia, Giuseppe Ottaviano, Elia Porciani, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 40^th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017), Aug 2017
  7. ACM SIGIR
    Efficient & Effective Selective Query Rewriting with Efficiency Predictions
    Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and Iadh Ounis
    In Proceedings of the 40^th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017), Aug 2017

2016

  1. ACM TOIS
    Fast Ranking with Additive Ensembles of Oblivious and Non-Oblivious Regression Trees
    Domenico Dato, Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, and 4 more authors
    ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Aug 2016
  2. IPM
    Quality versus efficiency in document scoring with learning-to-rank models
    Gabriele Capannini, Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, and 3 more authors
    Information Processing & Management, Aug 2016
  3. ACM WWW
    Exploiting Green Energy to Reduce the Operational Costs of Multi-Center Web Search Engines
    Nicola Tonellotto Roi Blanco
    In Proceedings of the 25^th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2016), Apr 2016
  4. ACM SIGIR
    Exploiting CPU SIMD Extensions to Speed-up Document Scoring with Tree Ensembles
    Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 39^th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016), Jul 2016
  5. Speed-up Document Scoring with Tree Ensembles using CPU SIMD Extensions
    Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 7^th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2016), May 2016

2015

  1. Queuing Theory-based Latency/Power Tradeoff Models for Replicated Search Engines
    Ana Freire, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and 2 more authors
    Journal of Universal Computer Science, May 2015
  2. MIDAS: A Cloud Platform for SOA Testing as a Service
    Alberto De Francesco, Claudia Di Napoli, Maurizio Giordano, and 3 more authors
    International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, May 2015
  3. ACM SIGIR
    QuickScorer: A Fast Algorithm to Rank Documents with Additive Ensembles of Regression Trees
    Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 38^th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2015), Aug 2015
  4. ACM SIGIR
    Speeding Up Document Ranking with Rank-based Features
    Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 38^th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2015), Aug 2015
  5. ACM SIGIR
    Load-sensitive CPU Power Management for Web Search Engines
    Matteo Catena, Craig Macdonald, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 38^th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2015), Aug 2015
  6. The MIDAS Cloud Platform for Testing SOA Applications
    Steffen Herbold, Alberto De Francesco, Jens Grabowski, and 11 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 8^th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2015), Apr 2015
  7. ACM WSDM
    Optimal Space-Time Tradeoffs for Inverted Indexes
    Giuseppe Ottaviano, Nicola Tonellotto, and Rossano Venturini
    In Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM 2015), Feb 2015
  8. QuickRank: a C++ Suite of Learning to Rank Algorithms
    Gabriele Capannini, Domenico Dato, Claudio Lucchese, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 6^th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2015), May 2015
  9. Entity Linking on Philosophical Documents
    Diego Ceccarelli, Alberto De Francesco, Raffaele Perego, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 6^th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2015), May 2015
  10. A Study on Query Energy Consumption in Web Search Engines
    Matteo Catena, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 6^th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2015), May 2015

2014

  1. A SOA Testing platform on the Cloud: the MIDAS experience
    Alberto De Francesco, Claudia Di Napoli, Maurizio Giordano, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS 2014), Sep 2014
  2. Towards Green Information Retrieval: Studying the Suitability of Queueing Theory in Reducing Power Consumption
    Ana Freire, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 3^rd Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI 2014), Apr 2014
  3. ACM WSDM
    A Self-Adapting Latency/Power Tradeoff Model for Replicated Search Engines
    Ana Freire, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM 2014), Feb 2014
  4. A SOA Testing platform on the Cloud: the MIDAS experience
    Alberto De Francesco, Claudia Di Napoli, Maurizio Giordano, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Cloud Computing Project and Initiatives Workshop, Ischia, Italy, Feb 2014

2013

  1. ACM CIKM
    Load-Sensitive Selective Pruning for Distributed Search
    Daniele Broccolo, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 22^nd ACM Conference of Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), Oct 2013
  2. Query Processing in Highly-Loaded Search Engines
    Daniele Broccolo, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 20^th String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium (SPIRE 2013), Oct 2013
  3. Performance evaluation of SPDY over high latency satellite channels
    Alberto Gotta, Nicola Tonellotto, Andrea Cardaci, and 1 more author
    In Personal Satellite Services. Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 123, Oct 2013
  4. On cloud based multisource reliable multicast transport in broadband multimedia satellite networks
    Alberto Gotta, Nicola Tonellotto, and Emnet Tsadiku Abdo
    In Proceedings of the 4^th International ICST Conference on Personal Satellite Services (PSATS 2012), Mar 2013
  5. ECIR
    Hybrid Query Scheduling for a Replicated Search Engine
    Ana Freire, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 35^th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013), Mar 2013
  6. ACM WSDM
    Efficient and effective retrieval using selective pruning
    Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis
    In Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM 2013), Feb 2013

2012

  1. Resource Management in Grid/Clouds (invited)
    Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 4^th International ICST Conference on Personal Satellite Services (PSATS 2012), Mar 2012
  2. ACM SIGIR
    Learning to Predict Response Times for Online Query Scheduling
    Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and Iadh Ounis
    In Proceedings of the 35^th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), Aug 2012
  3. ACM SIGIR
    Effect of Dynamic Pruning Safety on Learning to Rank Effectiveness
    Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and Iadh Ounis
    In Proceedings of the 35^th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), Aug 2012
  4. ACM SIGIR
    Scheduling Queries Across Replicas
    Ana Freire, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 35^th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), Aug 2012

2011

  1. ACM TOIS
    Upper-bound Approximations for Dynamic Pruning
    Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, and Nicola Tonellotto
    ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Aug 2011
  2. Adaptive instantiation of service workflows using a chemical approach
    Claudia Di Napoli, Maurizio Giordano, Zsolt Németh, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Parallel processing (EUROPAR 2010), Sep 2011
  3. ACM SIGIR
    Effect of Different Docid Orderings on Dynamic Pruning Retrieval Strategies
    Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis
    In Proceedings of the 34^th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011), Jul 2011
  4. ACM ICTIR
    On Upper Bounds for Dynamic Pruning
    Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, and Iadh Ounis
    In Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2011), Sep 2011
  5. ECIR
    Representing Document Lengths with Identifiers
    Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 33^rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011), Apr 2011
  6. Query efficiency prediction for dynamic pruning (best paper)
    Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis
    In Proceedings of the 9^th Workshop on Large-Scale and Distributed Informational Retrieval (in conjunction with the 20^th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Apr 2011

2010

  1. Modeling Stream Communications in Component-based Applications
    Marco Danelutto, Domenico Laforenza, Nicola Tonellotto, and 2 more authors
    Scalable Computing Practice and Experience, Apr 2010
  2. Efficient Dynamic Pruning with Proximity Support
    Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis
    In Post-proceedings of the 8^th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (in conjunction with ACM SIGIR 2010), Jul 2010
  3. Using Chemical Reactions to Model Service Composition
    Claudia Di Napoli, Maurizio Giordano, Zsolt Németh, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of 2^nd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Architectures (in conjunction with 7^th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications), Jun 2010

2009

  1. A Chemical Metaphor to Model Service Selection for Compositions of Services
    Claudia Di Napoli, Maurizio Giordano, Zsolt Németh, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 2^nd Workshop on Parallel Architectures and Bioinspired Algorithms (in conjunction with the 18^th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques), Sep 2009

2008

  1. JoGC
    A Launch-time Scheduling Heuristics for Parallel Applications on Wide Area Grids
    Ranieri Baraglia, Renato Ferrini, Nicola Tonellotto, and 2 more authors
    Journal of Grid Computing, Sep 2008
  2. QoS-constrained List Scheduling Heuristics for Parallel Applications on Grids
    Ranieri Baraglia, Renato Ferrini, Laura Ricci, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 16^th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2008), Feb 2008
  3. Behavioral skeletons in GCM: automatic management of grid components,
    Marco Aldinucci, Sonia Campa, Marco Danelutto, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 16^th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2008), Feb 2008
  4. Behavioural skeletons for component autonomic management on grids
    Marco Aldinucci, Sonia Campa, Marco Danelutto, and 4 more authors
    In Making Grids Work, Post-proceedings of the CoreGRID Workshop on Programming Models Grid and P2P System Architecture Grid Systems, Tools and Environments, Jun 2008
  5. Managing user expectations with component performance contracts
    Massimo Coppola, Marco Danelutto, Domenico Laforenza, and 3 more authors
    In Grid Middleware and Services, Post-proceedings of the CoreGRID Workshop on Usage of Service Level Agreements in Grids (in conjunction with the 8^th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing), Sep 2008

2007

  1. A Performance Model for Stream-based Computations
    Marco Danelutto, Domenico Laforenza, Nicola Tonellotto, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 15^th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2007), Feb 2007
  2. A Proposal for a Generic Grid Scheduling Architecture
    Nicola Tonellotto, Philipp Wieder, and Ramin Yahyapour
    In Integrated Research in GRID Computing, Post-proceedings of the 1^st CoreGRID Integration Workshop, Nov 2007
  3. Towards a common deployment model for Grid systems
    Massimo Coppola, Marco Danelutto, Sèbastien Lacour, and 4 more authors
    In Integrated Research in GRID Computing, Post-proceedings of the 1^st CoreGRID Integration Workshop, Nov 2007

2006

  1. High Level Grid Programming with ASSIST
    Marco Aldinucci, Massimo Coppola, Marco Danelutto, and 3 more authors
    Computational Methods in Science and Technology, Nov 2006
  2. Execution Support for High Performance Heterogenous Component-based Applications on the Grid
    Massimo Coppola, Marco Danelutto, Nicola Tonellotto, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Parallel processing (EUROPAR 2006), Aug 2006
  3. Design and Implementation of a Grid Network-Aware Resource Broker
    Davide Adami, Stefano Giordano, Matteo Repeti, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 24^th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2006), Feb 2006
  4. HPC Application Execution on Grids
    Ranieri Baraglia, Marco Danelutto, Tiziano Fagni, and 6 more authors
    In Future Generation Grids, Nov 2006
  5. A Study on Network Resources Management
    Ranieri Baraglia, Renato Ferrini, Nicola Tonellotto, and 3 more authors
    In Integrated Research in GRID Computing, Post-proceedings of the 2^nd CoreGRID Integration Workshop, Oct 2006
  6. Execution Support for High Performance Heterogeneous Component-based Applications on the Grid
    Massimo Coppola, Marco Danelutto, Nicola Tonellotto, and 2 more authors
    In Integrated Research in GRID Computing, Post-proceedings of the 2^nd CoreGRID Integration Workshop, Oct 2006

2005

  1. A Grid Information Service based on Peer-to-Peer
    Diego Puppin, Stefano Moncelli, Ranieri Baraglia, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Parallel processing (EUROPAR 2005), Sep 2005
  2. How to Run Scientific Applications Over Web Services
    Diego Puppin, Nicola Tonellotto, and Domenico Laforenza
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2005), Jun 2005

2004

  1. Using Web Services to Run Distributed Numerical Applications
    Diego Puppin, Nicola Tonellotto, and Domenico Laforenza
    In Proceedings of the 11^th EuroPVM/MPI User’s Group Meeting, Sep 2004
  2. A peer-to-peer information service for Grid
    Diego Puppin, Stefano Moncelli, Ranieri Baraglia, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 1^st International Workshop on Networks for Grid Applications (in conjunction with the 1^st International Conference on Broadband Networks), Oct 2004

2003

  1. A Tool to Execute ASSIST Programs on Globus-based Grids
    Domenico Laforenza, Ranieri Baraglia, and Nicola Tonellotto
    In Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2003), Sep 2003