Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experiences

  • From March, the 1st 2015 she is Full Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.
  • From March 2005 to February 2015 she has been Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.
  • From April 1985 to February 2005 she has been working as a researcher at the National Council of Research in Milano, Italy, first within the Institute for Research in Cosmic Physics and Related Technologies.
  • From 1994 to 2003 she has been working within the Institute for Multimedia Technologies (Istituto per le Tecnologie Informatiche Multimediali). From 2003 the Institute of Multimedia Technology has become a section of the “Istituto per le Tecnologie della Costruzione”.
  • In June 1998 she had a contract of “maître de conférence” at the University of Rennes.
  • In November 1995 she was visiting researcher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Sciences Appliquées – Lannion (Université de Rennes I), France.

Education

  • She graduated in Computer Science at the University of Milano (Summa cum Laude).
  • She took her PhD degree at the University of Rennes (mention Très Honorable) with a thesis titled “Application de la Théorie des Ensembles Flous pour la Définition de Systèmes Flexibles de Recherche d’Information”.

Conference Organization (Chair)

  • International Workshop on Social Impact through Network Science (SINS 2014), Varenna, Italy 14-17 October 2014 (general co-chair with Alessandro Panconesi, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Flavio Chierichetti,
    Universittà di Roma La Sapienza, and Prabhakar Raghavan, Google).
  • International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic, Genova, Italy 19-22 November 2013 (general co-chair with Francesco Masulli, Università di Genova and RR Yager, Iona College, New York).
  • Conference of the European Association of Fuzzy Logic (EUSFLAT 2013), 11-13 September 2013, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy (general co-chair with Javier Montero).
  • International Conference on Active Media Technologies (AMT 2012), 4th – 7th December 2012, Macau (general co-chair with Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan).
  • Second Italian Workshop on Information Retrieval (IIR 2011), 18-20 January 2011, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy (general chair).
  • IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology 2009 (general chair)
  • IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology 2008 (workshop co-chair)
  • PhD School on Web Information Retrieval, WebBar 2007 (with Alessandro Panconesi) Varenna, Italy, 26th August-1st September 2007.
  • General co-chair (with F. Masulli and S. Mitra) of the International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, Hotel Portofino Kulm, Portofino Vetta – Ruta di Camogli, Genova (Italy) – July 7-10, 2007.
  • PC Vice-Chair for the Imprecision, Uncertainty and Fuzziness in Databases area at the 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering. Istanbul, Turkey; April 17-20, 2007.
  • General co-chair (with Henrik Larsen, University of Aalborg) of the Seventh International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2006), which took place in Milano, 2-10 June 2006.
  • With Radko Mesiar (University of Bratislava) she has organized at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI-Lugano) the “3rd International Summer School on Aggregation Operators”, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, 10-15 July 2005.
  • Since 2002, she organizes every year the “Special Track on Information Access and Retrieval Systems”, within the “ACM Symposium on Applied Computing”:
    • Fortaleza, Brasil, 16-20 March 2008;
    • Seul. South Korea, 11-15 March 2007;
    • Dijon France March 2006;
    • Santa Fe – New Mexico 13-17 March 2005;
    • Cyprus 14-17 March 2004;
    • Melbourne – Florida 9-12 March 2003;
    • Madrid Spain 10-14 March 2002) (from 2002 to 2007 with Fabio Crestani, from 2008 with Gloria Bordogna).

Editorial Activity

Editorial Board Member of the following international journals:

  • Information Processing & Management, Elsevier (since 2014)
  • Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (IOS Press), (since2008)
  • Information – Interaction – Intelligence, An International Journal”, Cépaduès Editions, (since 2008).
  • Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IJCIS), Atlantis Press (since 2007).
  • Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Elsevier, (since 2006).
  • ACM Applied Computing Review (since 2001).
  • Mathware and Soft Computing (since 2001).

Edited Books/Proceedings:

  • F. Masulli, G. Pasi, R. R. Yager, Fuzzy Logic and Applications – 10th International Workshop, WILF 2013, Genoa, Italy, November 19-22, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8256, Springer 2013.
  • J. Montero, G. Pasi, D. Ciucci, Proceedings of the 8th conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, EUSFLAT-13, Milano, Italy, September 11-13, 2013. Atlantis Press 2013.
  • G. Pasi, G. Bordogna, L. Jain, Quality Issues in the Management of Web Information, Intelligent Systems Reference Library 50, Springer 2013.
  • A. Holzinger, G. Pasi. Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery in Complex, Unstructured, Big Data, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop, HCI-KDD 2013, Held at SouthCHI 2013, Maribor, Slovenia, July 1-3, 2013, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7947, Springer 2013.
  • R. Huang, A. A. Ghorbani, G. Pasi, T. Yamaguchi, N. Y. Yen, B. Jin. Proceedings of the Active Media Technology – 8th International Conference, AMT 2012, Macau, China, December 4-7, 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7669, Springer 2012, isbn 978-3-642-35235-5
  • G. Pasi, P. Bellot, Proceedings of the 8th French Information Retrieval Conference (COnférence en Recherche d’Infomations et Applications – CORIA 2011), Avignon, France, March 16-18, 2011, Éditions Universitaires d’Avignon 2011, ISBN 978-2-35768-024-1.
  • M. Melucci, S. Mizzaro, G. Pasi. Proceedings of the Second Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2011), Milano, Italy, January 27-28, 2011 CEUR-WS.org 2011.
  • M. Melucci, S. Mizzaro, G. Pasi. Proceedings of the First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2010), Padua, Italy, January 27-28, 2010 CEUR-WS.org 2010.
  • P. Boldi, G. Vizzari, R. Baeza-Yates, G. Pasi, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, WI-IAT Workshops, Milano, Italy , September 15-September 18, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3801-3.
  • R. Baeza-Yates, B. Berendt, E. Bertino, Ee-Peng Lim, G. Pasi, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Milano, Italy , September 15-September 18, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3801-3.
  • R. Baeza-Yates, J. Lang, S. Mitra, S. Parsons, G. Pasi, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Milano, Italy , September 15-September 18, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3801-3.
  • F. Masulli, S. Mitra and G. Pasi: “Applications if Fuzzy Sets Theory”, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, Ruta di Camogli, Italy, July 2007, Springer Verlag, LNAI 4578.
  • G. Pasi: “Flexible Query Answering Systems”, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference FQAS 2006, Milan, Italy, June 2006, Springer Verlag, LNAI 4027.
  • E. Herrera-Viedma, F. Crestani and G. Pasi: “Soft Computing for Web Information Retrieval”, edited by Physica Verlag, series Studies in Fuzziness 2006.
  • A. Bonarini, F. Masulli and G. Pasi: “Applications of Soft Computing”, edited by Physica Verlag, 2003.
  • B. De Baets, J. Fodor and G. Pasi: Proceedings of the “EUROFUSE Workshop on Information Systems”, 2002
  • F. Masulli, F. Parenti and G. Pasi: “Advances in Fuzzy Systems and Intelligent Technologies”, Shaker Publishing, Maastricht, 2001.
  • M. Agosti, F. Crestani and G. Pasi: “Lectures in Information Retrieval”, series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 2001.
  • G. Bordogna and G. Pasi: “Recent research issues on the management of fuzziness in databases” edited by Physica Verlag, of the series Studies in Fuzziness, August 2000.
  • F. Crestani and G. Pasi: “Soft Computing in Information Retrieval: Techniques and Applications” edited by Physica Verlag, of the series Studies in Fuzziness, May 2000.

Special Issues:

  • Web Mining for Search. Information Retrieval, Springer, Volume 14, Number 3, 2011, (with Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research).
  • Soft approaches to information processing: from theory to applications, Control and Cybernetics, 39 (2010): 895-897 (with Zadrozny, Slawomir, Guy De Tré, Enrique Herrera-Viedma).
  • Aggregation Operators for Information Systems, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Volume 23, Issue 8, 2008 (with Enrique Herrera-Viedma).
  • Flexible Queries in Information Systems, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 33(3), 2009 (with Allel-Adjali and Patrick Bosc).
  • Soft Approaches to Information Retrieval and Information Access on the Web, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 57, n. 4, 2006 (with Enrique Herrera-Viedma).
  • Management of uncertainty and imprecision in multimedia information retrieval systems, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 11, n. 1, 2003 (with Mohand Boughanem and Fabio Crestani).
  • Modelling Vagueness and Subjectivity in Information Access, Information Processing and Management, Vol. 39, n. 2, 2002 (with Fabio Crestani).
  • Management of Imprecision and Uncertainty in Information Retrieval and Database Management Systems, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Volume 49, n. 3, 1998, (with Gloria Bordogna).
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