A Unifying Approach to Evaluating Block Accesses in Database Organizations. - Paolo Ciaccia; Dario Maio; Paolo Tiberio (Inf. Process. Lett., 1988)

A method for hierarchy processing in relational systems. - Paolo Ciaccia; Dario Maio; Paolo Tiberio (Inf. Syst., 1989)

Optimization Strategies for Relational Disjunctive Queries. - Paolo Ciaccia; Maria Rita Scalas (IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 1989)

An analytical short- and long-term memory model of presynaptic plasticity. - Paolo Ciaccia; Dario Maio; G. P. Vacca (Biol. Cybern., 1992)

On the complexity of finding bounds for projection cardinalities in relational databases. - Paolo Ciaccia; Dario Maio (Inf. Syst., 1992)

Hamming Filters: A Dynamic Signature File Organization for Parallel Stores. - Pavel Zezula; Paolo Ciaccia; Paolo Tiberio (VLDB, 1993)

Access Cost Estimation for Physical Database Design. - Paolo Ciaccia; Dario Maio (Data Knowl. Eng., 1993)

Block Access Estimation for Clustered Data. - Paolo Ciaccia (IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 1993)

Estimating Accesses in Partitioned Signature File Organizations. - Paolo Ciaccia; Pavel Zezula (ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 1993)

A Dynamic Schema for the Storage of Signature Files in Multiple-Disk Systems. - Paolo Ciaccia; Gino Melini (SEBD, 1994)

On the Optimal Ordering of Multiple-Field Tables. - Paolo Ciaccia; Dario Maio (Data Knowl. Eng., 1994)

From Formal Requirements to Formal Design. - Paolo Ciaccia; Paolo Ciancarini; Wilma Penzo (SEKE, 1995)

A Course on Formal Methods in Software Engineering: Matching Requirements with Design. - Paolo Ciaccia; Paolo Ciancarini (ZUM, 1995)

A Formal Approach to Software Design: The Clepsydra Methodology. - Paolo Ciaccia; Paolo Ciancarini; Wilma Penzo (ZUM, 1995)

Key-Based Partitioned Bit-Sliced Signature File. - Pavel Zezula; Paolo Ciaccia; Paolo Tiberio (SIGIR Forum, 1995)

Domains and Active Domains: What This Distinction Implies for the Estimation of Projection Sizes in Relational Databases. - Paolo Ciaccia; Dario Maio (IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 1995)

Dynamic Declustering Methods for Parallel Grid Files. - Paolo Ciaccia; Arianna Veronesi (ACPC, 1996)

Optimal Multi-Block Read Schedule for Partitioned Signature Files. - Paolo Ciaccia (EDBT, 1996)

Declustering of Key-Based Partitioned Signature Files. - Paolo Ciaccia; Paolo Tiberio; Pavel Zezula (ACM Trans. Database Syst., 1996)

Reusing Software Architectures: A Formal Basis. - Paolo Ciancarini; Paolo Ciaccia; Wilma Penzo (PDSE, 1997)

Indexing Metric Spaces with M-Tree. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella; Fausto Rabitti; Pavel Zezula (SEBD, 1997)

M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella; Pavel Zezula (VLDB, 1997)

Formal Requirements and Design Specifications: The Clepsydra Methodology. - Paolo Ciaccia; Paolo Ciancarini; Wilma Penzo (Int. J. Softw. Eng. Knowl. Eng., 1997)

Processing Complex Similarity Queries with Distance-Based Access Methods. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella; Pavel Zezula (EDBT, 1998)

A Cost Model for Similarity Queries in Metric Spaces. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella; Pavel Zezula (PODS, 1998)

Processing M-trees with Parallel Resources. - Pavel Zezula; Pasquale Savino; Fausto Rabitti; Giuseppe Amato 001; Paolo Ciaccia (RIDE, 1998)

A Query-sensitive Cost Model for Similarity Queries with M-tree. - Paolo Ciaccia; A. Nanni; Marco Patella (Australasian Database Conference, 1999)

Using the Distance Distribution for Approximate Similarity Queries in High-Dimensional Metric Spaces. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (DEXA Workshop, 1999)

On the Region Proximity in Metric Spaces. - Pavel Zezula; Pasquale Savino; Paolo Ciaccia; Fausto Rabitti (DEXA Workshop, 1999)

WaDer: A Middleware System for Modeling and Searching the Web. - Paolo Ciaccia; Wilma Penzo (HICSS, 1999)

PAC Nearest Neighbor Queries: Using the Distance Distribution for Searching in High-Dimensional Metric Spaces. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (SEBD, 1999)

Using the Wavelet Transform to Learn from User Feedback. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Florian Waas (DELOS, 2000)

The M2-tree: Processing Complex Multi-Feature Queries with Just One Index. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (DELOS, 2000)

A Sound Algorithm for Region-Based Image Retrieval Using an Index. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (DEXA Workshop, 2000)

Imprecision and User Preferences in Multimedia Queries: A Generic Algebraic Approach. - Paolo Ciaccia; Danilo Montesi; Wilma Penzo; Alberto Trombetta (FoIKS, 2000)

PAC Nearest Neighbor Queries: Approximate and Controlled Search in High-Dimensional and Metric Spaces. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (ICDE, 2000)

Optimization and evaluation of generalized top queries. - Paolo Ciaccia; Roberto Cornacchia; Andrea Ghidini (SEBD, 2000)

On Estimating the Cardinality of Aggregate Views. - Paolo Ciaccia; Matteo Golfarelli; Stefano Rizzi (DMDW, 2001)

Using Domain-Derived Constraints to Bound the Cardinality of Aggregate Views. - Paolo Ciaccia; Matteo Golfarelli; Stefano Rizzi (SEBD, 2001)

FeedbackBypass: A New Approach to Interactive Similarity Query Processing. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Florian Waas (VLDB, 2001)

Relevance Ranking Tuning for Similarity Queries on XML Data. - Paolo Ciaccia; Wilma Penzo (EEXTT, 2002)

Adding Flexibility to Structure Similarity Queries on XML Data. - Paolo Ciaccia; Wilma Penzo (FQAS, 2002)

Finding the Best when it's a Matter of Preference. - Riccardo Torlone; Paolo Ciaccia (SEBD, 2002)

String Matching with Metric Trees Using an Approximate Distance. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (SPIRE, 2002)

Searching in metric spaces with user-defined and approximate distances. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (ACM Trans. Database Syst., 2002)

PAtterns for Next-generation DAtabase systems: preliminary results of the PANDA project. - Ilaria Bartolini; Elisa Bertino; Barbara Catania; Paolo Ciaccia; Matteo Golfarelli; Marco Patella; Stefano Rizzi (SEBD, 2003)

MuSIQUE: A Multi-System Image Querying User Interface. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia (SEBD, 2003)

Management of User Preferences in Data Intensive Applications. - Riccardo Torlone; Paolo Ciaccia (SEBD, 2003)

The Collection Index to Support Complex Approximate Queries on XML Documents. - Paolo Ciaccia; Wilma Penzo (Xsym, 2003)

Bounding the cardinality of aggregate views through domain-derived constraints. - Paolo Ciaccia; Matteo Golfarelli; Stefano Rizzi (Data Knowl. Eng., 2003)

The PIBE Personalizable Image Browsing Engine. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (CVDB, 2004)

Integrating the Results of Multimedia Sub-Queries Using Qualitative Preferences. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Vincent Oria; M. Tamer Özsu (Multimedia Information Systems, 2004)

A Framework for the Comparison of Complex Patterns. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (PaRMa, 2004)

A Unified and Flexible Framework for Comparing Simple and Complex Patterns. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Irene Ntoutsi; Marco Patella; Yannis Theodoridis (PKDD, 2004)

Optimal Incremental Evaluation of Preference Queries Based on Ranked Sub-queries. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia (SEBD, 2005)

Efficiently and Accurately Comparing Real-valued Data Streams. - Paolo Capitani; Paolo Ciaccia (SEBD, 2005)

Speaking Words of WISDOM: Web Intelligent Search based on DOMain ontologies. - Sonia Bergamaschi; Paolo Bouquet; Paolo Ciaccia; Paolo Merialdo (SWAP, 2005)

WARP: Accurate Retrieval of Shapes Using Phase of Fourier Descriptors and Time Warping Distance. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 2005)

Processing Preference Queries in Standard Database Systems. - Paolo Ciaccia (ADVIS, 2006)

SaLSa: computing the skyline without scanning the whole sky. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (CIKM, 2006)

Distributed Aggregation Strategies for Preference Queries. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (SEBD, 2006)

Adaptively browsing image databases with PIBE. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (Multim. Tools Appl., 2006)

Imagination: Exploiting Link Analysis for Accurate Image Annotation. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia (Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, 2007)

PIBE: Manage Your Images the Way You Want! - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (ICDE, 2007)

Towards an Effective Semi-Automatic Technique for Image Annotation. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia (SEBD, 2007)

Conditional Preferences: A New Semantics for Database Queries. - Paolo Ciaccia (SEBD, 2007)

Warping the time on data streams. - Paolo Capitani; Paolo Ciaccia (Data Knowl. Eng., 2007)

Flexible integration of multimedia sub-queries with qualitative preferences. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Vincent Oria; M. Tamer Özsu (Multim. Tools Appl., 2007)

Scenique: a multimodal image retrieval interface. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia (AVI, 2008)

The many facets of approximate similarity search. - Marco Patella; Paolo Ciaccia (ICDE Workshops, 2008)

Efficient sort-based skyline evaluation. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (ACM Trans. Database Syst., 2008)

Integrating Semantic and Visual Facets for Browsing Digital Photo Collections. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia (SEBD, 2009)

Principles of Information Filtering in Metric Spaces. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (SISAP, 2009)

The Panda framework for Comparing Patterns. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Irene Ntoutsi; Marco Patella; Yannis Theodoridis (Data Knowl. Eng., 2009)

Approximate similarity search: A multi-faceted problem. - Marco Patella; Paolo Ciaccia (J. Discrete Algorithms, 2009)

Multimedia Data Indexing. - Paolo Ciaccia (Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2009)

Automatically Joining Pictures to Multiple Taxonomies (Extended Abstract). - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia (SEBD, 2010)

Efficiently Bounding Cardinality Ratios through Database Constraints. - Paolo Ciaccia; Matteo Golfarelli; Stefano Rizzi (SEBD, 2010)

Is Indeed Fish the Best Choice in Rimini? (Extended Abstract). - Paolo Ciaccia; Riccardo Torlone (SEBD, 2010)

Multi-dimensional keyword-based image annotation and search. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia (KEYS, 2010)

Query processing issues in region-based image databases. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (Knowl. Inf. Syst., 2010)

Approximate and probabilistic methods. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 2010)

Modeling the Propagation of User Preferences. - Paolo Ciaccia; Riccardo Torlone (ER, 2011)

Getting the Best from Uncertain Data. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (SEBD, 2011)

Metric information filtering. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (Inf. Syst., 2011)

Getting the Best from Uncertain Data: the Correlated Case. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (SEBD, 2012)

Editorial. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (J. Discrete Algorithms, 2012)

Efficient derivation of numerical dependencies. - Paolo Ciaccia; Matteo Golfarelli; Stefano Rizzi (Inf. Syst., 2013)

Skyline queries, front and back. - Jan Chomicki; Paolo Ciaccia; Niccolò Meneghetti (SIGMOD Rec., 2013)

The Skyline of a Probabilistic Relation. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2013)

Domination in the Probabilistic World: Computing Skylines for Arbitrary Correlations and Ranking Semantics. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (ACM Trans. Database Syst., 2014)

MOMIS Goes Multimedia: WINDSURF and the Case of Top-K Queries. - Ilaria Bartolini; Domenico Beneventano; Sonia Bergamaschi; Paolo Ciaccia; Alberto Corni; Mirko Orsini; Marco Patella; Marco Maria Santese (SEBD, 2015)

Output-sensitive Evaluation of Prioritized Skyline Queries. - Niccolò Meneghetti; Denis Mindolin; Paolo Ciaccia; Jan Chomicki (SIGMOD Conference, 2015)

Looking for Similar Patterns in Genomic Sequences. - Piero Montanari; Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella; Stefano Ceri; Marco Masseroli (SEBD, 2016)

Pattern Similarity Search in Genomic Sequences. - Piero Montanari; Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella; Stefano Ceri; Marco Masseroli (IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2016)

The Power of Distance Distributions: Cost Models and Scheduling Policies for Quality-Controlled Similarity Queries. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (SISAP, 2017)

Reconciling Skyline and Ranking Queries. - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2017)

Multimedia, Similarity, and Preferences: Adding Flexibility to Your Information Needs. - Ilaria Bartolini; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella (A Comprehensive Guide Through the Italian Database Research, 2018)

FA + TA <FSA: Flexible Score Aggregation. - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi (CIKM, 2018)

Beyond Skyline and Ranking Queries: Restricted Skylines (Extended Abstract). - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi (SEBD, 2018)

Ethics-aware Data Governance (Vision Paper). - Letizia Tanca; Paolo Atzeni; Davide Azzalini; Ilaria Bartolini; Luca Cabibbo; Luca Calderoni; Paolo Ciaccia; Valter Crescenzi; Juan Carlos De Martin; Selina Fenoglietto; Donatella Firmani; Sergio Greco; et al. (SEBD, 2018)

Multimedia Data Indexing. - Paolo Ciaccia (Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2nd ed.), 2018)

Finding Preferred Objects with Taxonomies. - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi; Riccardo Torlone (ER, 2019)

Flexible Score Aggregation (Extended Abstract). - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi (SEBD, 2019)

A k-Skyband Approach for Feature Selection. - Marcos V. N. Bedo; Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi; Daniel de Oliveira 001 (SISAP, 2019)

In Memoriam of Prof. Antonio Picariello ("Picus"). - Maristella Agosti; Maurizio Atzori; Paolo Ciaccia; Letizia Tanca (SEBD, 2020)

Where Porceddu is better than Pasta. - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi; Riccardo Torlone (SEBD, 2020)

Search and comparison of (epi)genomic feature patterns in multiple genome browser tracks. - Arnaud Céol; Piero Montanari; Ilaria Bartolini; Stefano Ceri; Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella; Marco Masseroli (BMC Bioinform., 2020)

Foundations of Context-aware Preference Propagation. - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi; Riccardo Torlone (J. ACM, 2020)

Report on SEBD 2020: the 28th Italian symposium on advanced database systems. - Maristella Agosti; Maurizio Atzori; Paolo Ciaccia; Letizia Tanca (SIGIR Forum, 2020)

Flexible Skylines: Dominance for Arbitrary Sets of Monotone Functions. - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi (ACM Trans. Database Syst., 2020)

The POOR-MAD approach: Preferred Objects Over Rich, Multi-Attribute Data (Discussion Paper). - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi; Riccardo Torlone (SEBD, 2021)

Preference Queries over Taxonomic Domains. - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi; Riccardo Torlone (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2021)

Conceptual Constraints for Data Quality in Data Lakes. - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi; Riccardo Torlone (itaDATA, 2022)

Helping Wine Lovers With Taxonomies. - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi; Riccardo Torlone (SEBD, 2022)

Injecting Conceptual Constraints into Data Fabrics. - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi; Riccardo Torlone (SEBD, 2023)

Tasting the Time: How M-Tree Broke the "27 Club" Curse. - Paolo Ciaccia; Marco Patella; Fausto Rabitti; Pavel Zezula (SEBD, 2024)

Directional Queries: Making Top-k Queries More Effective in Discovering Relevant Results. - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi (Proc. ACM Manag. Data, 2024)

Optimization strategies for parallel computation of skylines. - Paolo Ciaccia; Davide Martinenghi (Distributed Parallel Databases, 2025)