Matteo Golfarelli is Full Professor at DISI - University of
Bologna. In 1998, he received his PhD in Computer Science and
Engineering from DISI, University of Bologna, with the research
theme “Autonomous Agents” and he completed his education at Brown
University (Providence - USA) were he joined the artificial
intelligence group. He currently teaches “Information Systems”,
“Database laboratory” and "Data Mining" at the Computer Science and
Information Technology degree course. He is also in charge of the
laboraory board of the same degree course.
He has devoted his research activity to various aspects of Computer
Science, including biometric systems, autonomous agents, business
intelligence and bioinformatics. He has published over 80 research
papers, a didactic book and a scientific one titled "Data
Warehouse Design- Modern Principles and Methodologies", published
world-wide by McGrawHill in 2009 (translated in Chinese too) and
his activity is the result of an extensive cooperation with several
research institutions and industries. He extensively served as
referee for a number of international conferences and journals and
he is currently in the editorial board of the International Journal
of Data Mining, Modeling and Management (IJDMMM), he is also
co-chair of the miproBIS and DOLAP conferences. He participated to
research projects funded by C.N.R. (National Research Council),
MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research) and European
Community.
Within his main research issue - business intelligence - he studied
the main issues related to data warehouse design and proposed a
complete methodology that his centred on Dimensional Fact Model
(DFM). DFM is successfully adopted in several real-world projects.
He gave several courses and seminars. In particular in 2001 he gave
a tutorial on data warehouse design at the 17th International
Conference on Database Engineering (ICDE), in 1998 and 2002 he
organized 2 workshops on the same theme at the University of
Bologna. Currently
his main research topics are related to BI 2.0, in particular he is
working on Social BI and Big Data, NO-SQL DBMS and Open Data
Warehouse.
His applied works consist of a long list of various consultancy
projects, within contracts between University of Bologna and public
and private corporations supporting the governance quality assurance teams in
complex projects. He coordinated several technology transfer and
innovation projects in the BI and Data mining fields.
