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Dr Flavio Ferrarotti

Postdoctoral Fellow,
School of Information Management

Phone: 04 463 6857
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Dr Flavio Ferrarotti

Introduction

Flavio is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Database Research at SIM. He worked in the general area of database theory and finite model theory, specialising in expressibility of formal languages as query languages for databases, while working on his PhD at Massey. Before joining Victoria, Flavio was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Yahoo! Research Latin America in Chile, where he broadened his research interests working in the area of information retrieval and semantic web. Before starting his academic career Flavio worked for twelve years in industry, gaining professional experience as software developer, systems administrator, DBA, and project manager, working for a city council in Argentina.

Qualifications

BIS, Buenos Aires; PhD (InfoSys), Massey University

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Database Research

Research

Since February 2010, Flavio has been researching on the Marsden-funded research project "Cardinality Constraints for XML - Challenging the Tradeoff between Expressiveness and Tractability" of Associate Professor Sebastian Link and Professor Sven Hartmann.

Selected Publications

Ferrarotti, F., Hartmann, S., Kohler, H., Link, S. & Vincent, M. (2011).The Boyce-Codd-Heath normal form for SQL. In Lev D Beklemishev and Ruy de Queiroz (Eds), Logic, language, information and computation (pp. 110-122). Berlin: Springer.

Ferrarotti, F., Hartmann, S., Le Tran, B. V. & Link, S. (2011). Codd table representations under weak possible world semantics. In A. Hameurlain, et al. (Eds), Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications ( pp. 125-139). Berlin: Springer.

Ferrarotti, F., Hartmann, S. & Link, S. (2011). A precious class of cardinality constraints for flexible XML data processing. In M. Jeusfeld, L. Delcambre & T. W. Ling (Eds), Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (pp. 175-188). Berlin: Springer.

Mendoza, M., Marin, M., Ferrarotti, F., Poblete, B. (Forthcoming). Learning to distribute queries onto Web search nodes. To appear in Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010), Milton Keynes, UK, March 2010.

Ferrarotti, F., Paoletti, A. & Turull Torres, J. M. (2009). First-order types and redundant relations in relational databases. In C. A. Heuser and G. Pernu (Eds.), ER 2009 Workshops: First International Workshop in Evolving Theories of Conceptual Modelling (pp.65-74).

Marin, M., Ferrarotti, F., Mendoza, M., Gomez, C. & Gil-Costa, V. (2009). Location cache for Web queries. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), Hong Kong, China (pp. 1995-1998).

Ferrarotti, F., Marin, M. & Mendoza, M. (2009). A last-resort semantic cache for Web queries. In Proceedings of the 16th String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium (SPIRE 2009) (pp. 310-321).

Ferrarotti, F. & Turull Torres, J. M. (2009). The complexity of AUTOSAT(\Sigma1m). In Walter Carnielli, Marcelo Coniglio and Itala D'Ottaviano (Eds.), The Many Sides of Logic. London: College Publications.

Ferrarotti, F. & Turull Torres, J. M. (2008). The relational polynomial-time hierarchy and second-order logic. In K. Schewe and B. Thalheim (Eds.), Proceedings of Semantics in Data and Knowledge Bases: Third international Workshop (SDKB 2008) (pp. 48-76).

Ferrarotti, F. & Turull Torres, J. M. (2007). Arity and alternation: A proper hierarchy in higher order logics. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 50(1/2), 111-141.