Carlo Combi

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.
Since October 2007, he is head of the Department.
Since July 2009 he is 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 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;
  • dealing with multiple temporal dimensions in modeling and querying data;
  • extending Event Calculus to deal with temporal granularity and indeterminacy;
  • visualizing temporal data;
  • managing uncertainty in temporal relationships by multiple-valued logics;
  • WWW-based access to temporal information;
  • dealing with 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.

Publications

• My publications listed (several downloadable) in Michael Ley's DBLP
• My publications downloadable from IEEExplore (some of another C. COMBI)
• My publications downloadable from Springer
• My publications (and some related papers) downloadable from ACM digital library
• My publications in PubMed

Professional Activities

Current and Graduated Ph.D. students

• Alberto Sabaini (-): "Temporal Data Warehouses"
• 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: representig flexibility and time in semistructured data" (co-advisor)

Journal Activities

• Editorial Board Member, journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
• 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 (2000).
• 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.

Conference Activities

2013

• Program co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2013ICHI 2013
• Member of the program committee of the 21st International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems - CoopIS 2013
• Member of the program committee and special-track chair of the 20th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME 2013.
• Member of the program committee of the 2nd International Conference on Health Information Science - HIS 2013.
• Member of the program committee of the 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in MEdicine - AIME'13.
• Member of the program committee of the Special track Processing and Managing Medical Data Streams - 26th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical System - PROMAMEDS 2013.

2012

• Workshop co-chair of the ACM International Workshop on Smart Health and Wellbeing - SHB 2012.
• Member of the program committee of the 19th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME 2012.
• Member of the program committee of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Health Informatics - HI-KDD 2012.
• Member of the program committee of the Sixth International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management - ECDM 2012.
• Member of the program committee of the IDAMAP 2012 Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology.
• Member of the program committee of the Special track Processing and Managing Medical Data Streams - 25th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical System - PROMAMEDS 2012 .
• Senior Member of the program committee of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium - IHI 2012.
• Member of the program committee of the 1st International Conference on Health Information Science - HIS 2012.
• Member of the program committee of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - Data Streams Track - SAC 2012.

2011

• General Chair of the 18th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME 2011.
• Member of the program committee of the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in MEdicine - AIME'11.
• Chair of the fourth Doctoral Consortium for the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) 2011.
• Member of the program committee of the workshop on Learning from Medical Data Streams - LEMEDS'11.
• Member of the program committee of the NETTAB 2011 workshop on Clinical Bioinformatics.

2010

• Member of the program committee of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM 2010.
• Member of the steering committee of the IDAMAP Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology.
• Member of the program committee of the Sixth International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management - ECDM 2010.

2009

• Member of the program committee of the 13th Conference of Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence - CAEPIA 2009.
• Scientific co-chair and local chair of the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe - AIME'09.
• Member of the program committee of the IDAMAP 2009 Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology.
• Member of the program committee of the 16th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME 2009.

2008

• Member of the program committee of the 15th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME 2008.
• Member of the program committee of the Fifth International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management - ECDM 2008.
• Member of the program committee of the Second International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Life Sceinces Applications - CMLSA 2008.
• Member of the program committee of the IDAMAP 2008 Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology.

2007

• Program co-chair of the IDAMAP 2007 Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine and Pharmacology.
• Member of the program committee of the 11th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems - ADBIS 2007.
• Member of the program committee of the 14th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME 2007.
• Member of the program committee of the 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe - AIME '07.
• Member of the program committee of the 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence - AITAmI'07.

2006

• Program co-chair of the IDAMAP 2006 Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine and Pharmacology.
• Member of the program committee of the 13th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME 2006.
• Member of the program committee of the 17th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2006.
• Member of the program committee of the Fourth International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management - ECDM 2006.
• Member of the program committee of the 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence - AITAmI'06.

2005

• Member of the program committee of the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe - AIME '05.
• Member of the program committee of the 16th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2005.

2004

• Program co-chair of the  11th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME 2004.
• Member of the program committee of the ECDM 2004 Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management.
• Member of the program committee of the IDAMAP 2004 Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology.
• Member of the program committee of the 15th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2004.

2003

• Member of the program committee of the 9th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe - AIME '03.
• Member of the program committee of the AIME '03 Workshop: Qualitative and Model-based Reasoning in Biomedicine.
• Member of the program committee - track 2:  Time Management in Databases - of the  10th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning and 4th International Conference on Temporal Logic - TIME-ICTL 2003.
• Member of the program committee of the 14th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2003.
• Member of the the program committee of the workshop Time for the Web, in conjunction with the Fifteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering SEKE 2003.

2002

• Member of the program committee of the 13th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2002.
• Member of the program committee - track 2:  Time Management in Databases - of the  9th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME-2002.

2001

• Member of the program committee of the 12th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2001.
• Member of the program committee of the Eighth Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe - AIME '01.
• Member of the program committee - track 2:  Time Management in Databases - of the  Eighth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME-01.
• Member of the program committee of the  Second International Conference on Web-Age Information Management  (WAIM2001).
• Local Organization Chair of the Eighth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME-01.

2000

• Member of the program committee of the 11th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2000.

1999

• Member of the program committee of the Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Decision Making - AIMDM'99.

1997

• Member of the program committee of the 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe - AIME '97.