Mauro Brunato

Informazioni in breve / Quick information

Didattica / Teaching (2011-2012)

• Reti di Calcolatori: Applicazioni
  Laurea triennale in Informatica / CS Bachelor degree
  info Materiale per il corso / Course material
• Advanced Business Intelligence Techniques
  Laurea Magistrale in Informatica / CS Master program
  info Materiale per il corso / Course material

Pubblicazioni / Publications

Libri / Books

• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato
  Reactive Business Intelligence. From Data to Models to Insight.
  Reactive Search Srl, February 2011.
  ISBN: 978-88-905795-0-9 (hardback), 978-88-905795-1-6 (Epub, PDF)
  Book's web site Sample chapters and cool stuff Amazon page Epub version PDF version
• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Franco Mascia
  Reactive Search and Intelligent Optimization
  Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, Vol. 45, Springer, November 2008.
  ISBN: 978-0-387-09623-0 (hardback), 978-1-441-93499-4 (paperback),
  Springer book page Web samples Amazon page

Articoli su rivista / Journal papers

• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti.
  R-EVO: a Reactive Evolutionary Algorithm for the Maximum Clique Problem.
  IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 15, no. 6, 770-782, December 2011.
  IEEEXplore page
• Wayne Pullan, Franco Mascia, Mauro Brunato.
  Cooperating Local Search for the Maximum Clique Problem.
  Journal of Heuristics, Vol.17, no. 2, 181-199, Springer, April 2011.
  SpringerLink page
• Csaba Kiss Kalló, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Sewook Jung, Mauro Brunato, Mario Gerla.
  Hop Count Based Optimization of Bluetooth Scatternets.
  Ad Hoc Networks Journal, 5 (3), 340-359, Elsevier, April 2007.
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• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti.
  Statistical Learning Theory for Location Fingerprinting in Wireless LANs.
  Computer Networks 47 (6), 825-845, Elsevier 2005.
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• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti, Elio Salvadori.
  Dynamic Load Balancing in WDM Networks.
  Optical Networks Magazine 4, 7-20, Kluwer 2003.
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• Roberto Battiti, Alan A. Bertossi, Mauro Brunato.
  Cellular Channel Assignment: a New Localized and Distributed Strategy.
  Mobile Networks and Applications 6, 493-500, Kluwer 2001.
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Capitoli di libri / Book chapters

• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato.
  Reactive Search Optimization: Learning while Optimizing.
  In: Michel Gendreau, Jean-Yves Potvin (Eds.),
  Handbook of Metaheuristics, 2nd Edition.
  International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, Vol. 146, Springer, 2010.
  ISBN: 978-1-4419-1663-1
  Springer book page
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti.
  RASH: A Self-adaptive Random Search Method.
  In: Carlos Cotta, Marc Sevaux, and Kenneth Sörensen (Eds.),
  Adaptive and Multilevel Metaheuristics.
  Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 136, Springer, 2008.
  ISBN: 978-3-540-79437-0
  Springer book page
• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato.
  Reactive Search: Machine Learning for Memory-Based Heuristics.
  In: Teofilo F. Gonzalez (Ed.)
  Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics Handbook.
  Computer and Information Science Series, Chapman&Hall / CRC, 2007.
  ISBN: 978-1-584-88550-4
  CRC book page

Atti di convegni / Conference proceedings

• Franco Mascia, Elisa Cilia, Mauro Brunato, Andrea Passerini.
  Predicting Structural and Functional Sites in Proteins by Searching for Maximum-Weight Cliques.
  Proc. AAAI 2010. Atlanta, GA, USA, July 2010. AAAI press, 2010.
  ISBN: 978-1-57735-463-5 (book), 978-1-57735-462-8 (CD-ROM)
  AAAI2010 Proceedings page
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti.
  Grapheur: a Software Architecture for Reactive and Interactive Optimization.
  Blum (Ed.), Proc. 4th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Workshop (LION 4, Venice, Italy, January 2010). LNCS 6073 - Springer, 2010.
  ISBN: 978-3-642-13799-0
  Springer book page
• Franco Mascia, Mauro Brunato.
  Techniques and Tools for Local Search Landscape Visualization and Analysis.
  Stützle, Birattari, Hoos (eds.), Proc. Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms. Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics (SLS 2009, Brussels, Belgium, September 2009). LNCS 5752 - Springer, August 2009.
  Springer book page
• Antonio Masegosa, Franco Mascia, David Pelta, Mauro Brunato.
  Control Rules in Cooperative Strategies.
  Stützle (Ed.), Proc. 3rd Learning and Intelligent Optimization Workshop (LION 3, Trento, Italy, January 2009). LNCS 5851 - Springer, 2009.
  ISBN: 978-3-642-11168-6
  Springer book page
• Marco Biazzini, Mauro Brunato, Alberto Montresor.
  Towards a Decentralized Architecture for Optimization.
  In: Proceedings 22nd International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS2008), Miami, FL, USA, April 2008.
  PDF
• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Paolo Campigotto.
  Learning while Optimizing an Unknown Fitness Surface.
  Proc. 2nd Learning and Intelligent Optimization Workshop (LION2007 II, Trento, Italy, December 2007). LNCS 5313 - Springer, December 2008.
  Springer book page PDF
• Mauro Brunato, Holger H. Hoos, Roberto Battiti.
  On Effectively Finding Maximal Quasi-Cliques in Graphs.
  Proc. 2nd Learning and Intelligent Optimization Workshop (LION2007 II, Trento, Italy, December 2007). LNCS 5313 - Springer, December 2008.
  Springer book page PDF
• Danilo Severina, Mauro Brunato, Alessandro Ordine, Luca Veltri.
  UniWireless: a Distributed Open Access Network.
  In: Proc. ACM WMASH 2006, Los Angeles, CA, USA, September 2006.
  PDF
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti, Srinivas Pasupuleti.
  A Memory-Based RASH Optimizer.
  In: Proceedings of the AAAI-06 workshop on Heuristic Search, Memory Based Heuristics and Their applications, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 17, 2006.
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• Mauro Brunato, Danilo Severina.
  WilmaGate: a New Open Access Gateway for Hotspot Management.
  In: Proc. ACM WMASH 2005, Cologne, Germany, September 2, 2005.
  PDF
• Sewook Jung, Csaba Kiss Kalló, Mario Gerla, Mauro Brunato.
  Decentralized Optimization of Bluetooth Scatternets.
  In: Proc. IEEE Mobiquitous 2005, San Diego, USA, July 17-21, 2005.
  PDF
• Csaba Kiss Kalló, Sewook Jung, Ling-Jyh Chen, Mauro Brunato, Mario Gerla.
  Throughput, Energy and Path Length Tradeoffs in Bluetooth Scatternets.
  In: Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'05), Seoul, Korea, 16-20 May 2005, IEEE 2005.
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• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Renato Lo Cigno, Alessandro Villani, Roberto Flor, Gianni Lazzari.
  WILMA: An Open Lab for 802.11 Hotspots (Extended Abstract).
  In: M. Conti, S. Giordano, E. Gregori, S. Olariu (Eds.), Proc. Personal Wireless Communications 2003 (Venice, september 2003). LNCS 2775, 163--168, Springer 2003.
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti.
  PILGRIM: A Location Broker and Mobility-Aware Recommendation System.
  In: IEEE PerCom2003 Proceedings, Fort Worth (TX), USA, March 2003, 265-272, IEEE 2003.
  PDF
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti.
  A Multistart Randomized Greedy Algorithm for Traffic Grooming on Mesh Logical Topologies.
  In: A. Bianco, F. Neri (Eds.), Next Generation Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM 2002) Proceedings, Torino, february 2002, IFIP 114, 417-432, Kluwer 2003.
  PDF
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti, Elio Salvadori.
  Load Balancing in WDM Networks through Adaptive Routing Table Changes.
  In: E. Gregori, M. Conti, A.T. Cambell, G. Omidyar, M. Zukerman (Eds.), Proc. IFIP NETWORKING 2002 (Pisa, May 2002), LNCS 2345, 289--300, Springer 2002.
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• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato.
  Reactive Search for Traffic Grooming in WDM Networks.
  In: Sergio Palazzo (Ed.), Evolutionary Trends of the Internet, IWDC 2001 Proceedings, LNCS 2170, 56-66, Springer 2002.
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• Roberto Battiti, Alan A. Bertossi, Mauro Brunato.
  Distributed Code Assignment in Multihop Radio Networks: Object-Oriented Software Simulations.
  In: IEEE International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM2000) Proceedings, Vol. I, 157--165, FESB-Split (Croatia), 2000.
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Altre presentazioni a convegni / Other conference talks

• Elisa Cilia, Andrea Passerini, Mauro Brunato.
  Predicting Catalytic Residues from Sequence and Structural Information.
  Accepted at Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB 2008), Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, 3-4 October 2008.
  Abstract
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti.
  Self-Preservation and Reactive Search.
  Tutorial at Tutorial and Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Component-ware (TACC 2008), Budapest, 7-9 July 2008.
  Abstract
• Elisa Cilia, Mauro Brunato.
  Graph Isomorphism for Protein Active Site Detection.
  22nd European conference on operations research (EURO XXII), Prague, Czech Republic, July 2007.
  Abstract
• Elisa Cilia, Mauro Brunato.
  A Metaheuristic Approach to Protein Active Site Detection.
  7th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2007), Montréal, Canada, June 2007.
  Abstract
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti, Alberto Montresor.
  GOSH! Gossiping Optimization Search Heuristics.
  Learning and Intelligent Optimization Workshop (LION2007), Andalo (TN), Italy, February 2007.
  PDF
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti.
  RASH: A Self-adaptive Random Search Method.
  7th EU/MEeting on Adaptive, Self-Adaptive, and Multi-Level Metaheuristics, Malaga, Spain, November 2006.
  PDF
• Mauro Brunato, Renato Lo Cigno, Danilo Severina.
  Managing Wireless HotSpots: the Uni-Fy Approach.
  MedHocNet 2006, Lipari (Italy), June 14-17, 2006.
  PDF
• Grzegorz Karwasz, T. Wróblewski, Anna Niedzicka, W. Niedzicki, Mauro Brunato.
  Physics in Funnels.
  Proceedings of the Third International GIREP Seminar ``Informal Learning and Public Understanding of Physics'', Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 5-9, 2005.
  Abstract
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti.
  A Location-Dependent Recommender System for the Web.
  MobEA Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, May 2003.
  PDF
• Mauro Brunato, Csaba Kiss Kalló.
  Transparent Location Fingerprinting for Wireless Services.
  Med-Hoc-Net 2002, Baia Chia (CA), Italy, September 2002.
  PDF
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti, Elio Salvadori.
  Load Balancing in WDM Networks through Adaptive Routing Table Changes.
  Planet-IP & Nebula Joint Workshop, Courmayeur, Italy, January 2002.
• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato.
  Local Search Heuristics for Cost Reduction in WDM Bidirectional Rings.
  Workshop su Sistemi Distribuiti: Algoritmi, Architetture e Linguaggi (WSDAAL2001), Como, Italy, September 2001.
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• Roberto Battiti, Alan A. Bertossi, Mauro Brunato.
  Distributed Saturation Degree Methods For Code Assignment In Multihop Radio Networks.
  Workshop su Sistemi Distribuiti: Algoritmi, Architetture e Linguaggi (WSDAAL2000) Ischia (Napoli), Italy, 18-20 September 2000.
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• Roberto Battiti, Alan A. Bertossi, Mauro Brunato.
  Heuristic Algorithms for Wireless Networks.
  Computer Science and Operations Research: Recent Advances in the Interface, Monterey, CA (USA), January 1998.
• Roberto Battiti, Alan A. Bertossi, Mauro Brunato.
  Cellular Channel Assignment: Comparing and Simplifying Heuristics.
  Presentato in IEEE/ACM Workshop Dial M for Mobility, (Discrete algorithms and methods for mobile computing and communications), Budapest, Hungary, October 1, 1997.
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• Roberto Battiti, Alan A. Bertossi, Mauro Brunato.
  Cellular Channel Assignment Heuristics.
  Workshop su Sistemi Distribuiti: Algoritmi, Architetture e Linguaggi (WSDAAL1997), Bertinoro (FO), Italy, September 1997.

Rapporti tecnici / Technical reports

• Mauro Brunato.
  Machine Learning for Intelligent Optimization.
  In: Altman, Dini, Miorandi, Schreckling (Eds.), Paradigms for Biologically-Inspired Autonomic Networks and Services. BIONETS Project eBook, 2010.
  eBook's PDF
• Konstantin Avrachenkov, Danil Nemirovsky, Son Kim Pham, Roberto G. Cascella, Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato.
  Eigenvector based Reputation Measures.
  In: Altman, Dini, Miorandi, Schreckling (Eds.), Paradigms for Biologically-Inspired Autonomic Networks and Services. BIONETS Project eBook, 2010.
  eBook's PDF
• Elisa Cilia, Andrea Passerini, Mauro Brunato.
  Automatic Prediction of Functional Residues from Sequence and Structural Information.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DISI-08-036, 2007.
  PDF techrep page
• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Franco Mascia.
  Reactive Search and Intelligent Optimization.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-07-049, 2007.
  PDF techrep page
• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato.
  R-Evo: a Reactive Evolutionary Algorithm for the Maximum Clique Problem.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-07-034, 2007.
  PDF techrep page
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti, Srinivas Pasupuleti.
  A Memory-Based RASH Optimizer.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-06-023, 2006.
  PDF techrep page
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti.
  The Reactive Affine Shaker: a Building Block for Minimizing Functions of Continuous Variables.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-06-012, 2006.
  PDF techrep page
• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato.
  Reactive Search: Machine Learning for Memory-Based Heuristics.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-05-058, 2005.
  PDF techrep page
• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Srinivas Pasupuleti.
  Do not Be Afraid of Local Minima: Affine Shaker and Particle Swarm.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-05-049, 2005.
  PDF techrep page
• Csaba Kiss Kalló, Mauro Brunato, Sewook Jung, Ling-Jyh Chen, Mario Gerla.
  Throughput, Energy and Path Length Tradeoffs in Bluetooth Scatternets.
  UCLA Technical Report 040031, UCLA 2004.
  PDF techrep page
• Mauro Brunato, Csaba Kiss Kalló.
  Scheduled Message Delivery in Delay-Tolerant Networks.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-04-014, 2004.
  PDF techrep page
• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Andrea Delai.
  Optimal Wireless Access Point Placement for Location-Dependent Services.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-03-052, 2003.
  PDF techrep page
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti, Alessandro Villani, Andrea Delai.
  A Location-Dependent Recommender System for the Web.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-02-093, 2002.
  PDF techrep page
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti.
  PILGRIM: A Location Broker and Mobility-Aware Recommendation System.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-02-092, 2002.
  PDF techrep page
• Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Alessandro Villani.
  Statistical Learning Theory for Location Fingerprinting in Wireless LANs.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-02-086, 2002.
  PDF techrep page
• Mauro Brunato, Csaba Kiss Kalló.
  Transparent Location Fingerprinting for Wireless Services.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-02-071, 2002.
  PDF techrep page
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti, Elio Salvadori.
  Dynamic Load Balancing in WDM Networks.
  Technical Report Università di Trento DIT-02-011, 2002.
  PDF techrep page
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti.
  A Multistart Randomized Greedy Algorithm for Traffic Grooming on Mesh Logical Topologies.
  Preprint Università di Trento, UTM609, 2002.
  PDF
• Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti, Elio Salvadori.
  Load Balancing in WDM Networks through Adaptive Routing Table Changes.
  Preprint Università di Trento, UTM608, 2002.
  PDF
   
• Roberto Battiti, Alan A. Bertossi, Mauro Brunato.
  Cellular Channel Assignment: a New Localized and Distributed Strategy.
  Preprint Università di Trento, UTM524, 1998.
  PDF

Varie / Others

• Mauro Brunato, Renato Lo Cigno, Danilo Severina.
  Uni-Fy: Code Overview and Product Manual.
  TWELVE Project Technical Report, TN-9, 2006.
  PDF techrep page
• Albino Scalet, Renato Lo Cigno, Danilo Severina, Mauro Brunato.
  Implementation and performance evaluation of DHCP Relay Agent module for Uni-Fy authentication system.
  TWELVE Technical Report TN-7, 2006.
  PDF techrep page
• Mauro Brunato.
  Context-enhanced Service Provisioning in Wireless Networks.
  TWELVE Project Technical Report TN-4, 2006.
  PDF techrep page
• Mauro Brunato, Renato Lo Cigno, Danilo Severina.
  Uni-Fy: an Overview.
  TWELVE Project memo, July 2006.
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• Lo Cigno, Ammirata, Brunato, Di Sorte, Femminella, Garroppo, Giustiniano, Ordine, Reali, Salsano, Severina, Tinnirello, Veltri.
  TWELVE Test Bed and Demonstration Planning.
  TWELVE Project technical report TN-3, 2005.
  PDF techrep page
• Mauro Brunato.
  Channel Assignment Algorithms in Cellular Networks.
  Tesi di Dottorato, supervisore prof. Alan A. Bertossi, preprint Università di Trento UTM PhDTS 23, novembre 1999.
  PDF
• Mauro Brunato.
  Ottimizzazione a Posteriori della Soluzione Numerica di Problemi ai Limiti.
  Tesi di Laurea, relatore prof. Alberto Bressan, Padova, novembre 1994.
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Hobby / Hobbies

• A Hands-free Controlled robot - The dream of my youth: controlling a robot with gestures.
• You got mail - See how screwed-up your life is with an Arduino-based email inbox VU-meter.
• Building a south-pointing chariot - An amazing and ancient application of the differential gear.

• Grapheur - Visualizzazione interattiva di dataset complessi / Interactive display of complex datasets.
• LIONsolver 2.0 - software di ottimizzazione intelligente per costruire, visualizzare e ottimizzare processi aziendali e di ingegnerizzazione / Learning and Intelligent Optimization software to build, visualize and optimize business and engineering processes.
  April 2013: LIONsolver wins the first prize in Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) Kaggle machine learning challenge!
• Alpidia - Niente luoghi comuni / No common places.

Copyright 2009 Mauro Brunato