Publications

Refereed journal papers

• M.L. Damiani, C. Silvestri, E. Bertino. Fine-grained cloaking of sensitive positions in location sharing applications. IEEE Pervasive Computing, October-December 2011 (vol. 10 no. 4)
• M.L. Damiani. Third party geolocation services in LBS: privacy requirements and research issues. Transactions on Data Privacy, 4(2), 2011
• M.L. Damiani, E. Bertino, C. Silvestri. The PROBE framework for the personalized cloaking of private locations, Transactions on Data Privacy, August 2010 (pdf)
• M.L. Damiani, C. Silvestri, E. Bertino. Semantics-aware Obfuscation for Location Privacy. Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, Vol. 2, n.2, 2008
• C. Parent, S. Spaccapietra, C. Vangenot, M.L. Damiani, M. Machedo, F. Porto. Modélisation Conceptuelle de Trajectories. In: M. Schneider, M. Batton, H. T. Joliveau, S. Lardon, F. Pinet. (Org.). Reveu des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information (RNTI-E-13). Toulosse: CÉPADUÉS-ÉDITIONS, 2008, p. 151-176
• M.L. Damiani, E. Bertino, C. Silvestri. Spatial Domains for the Administration of Location-based Access Control Policies. Journal of Network and System Management, Springer, Sept 2008 (pdf)
• S. Spaccapietra, C. Parent, M.L. Damiani, M. Machedo, F. Porto and C. Vangenot. A Conceptual View On Trajectories. Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier,Volume 65, Issue 1, April 2008 (pdf)
• R. Bhatti, M.L. Damiani, D. Bettis and E. Bertino. Policy Mapper: A Simplified Approach for Administration of Location-based Access Control Policies. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 12, N. 2, 2008 (pdf)
• M.L. Damiani, E. Bertino, B.Catania, B. and P. Perlasca. GEO-RBAC: a spatially-aware RBAC. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Vol 10, No.1 Art. 1, February 2007 (pdf)
• M.L. Damiani, E. Bertino and P. Perlasca. Data Security in Location-aware Applications: an Approach Based on RBAC. International Journal of Information and Computer Security. Vol. 1, No 1/2, February 2007 (pdf)
• M.L. Damiani, G. Groppelli , G. Norini, E. Bertino, A. Gigliuto and A. Nucita. A Lava Flow Simulation Model for the Development of Volcanic Hazard Maps for Mount Etna. Computers and Geosciences, Elsevier, Vol 32/4, pp 512-526, May 2006
• M.L. Damiani. An Intelligent System for Complex Data Exploration. Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, Vol.33, N.2 May 1996
• E. Bertino, M.L. Damiani, A. Paganini. A View Mechanism for a Knowledge-Based Information System. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering , 1(5) 397-420, 1994, John Wiley & Sons

Chapters in books

• V. Verykios, M.L. Damiani and A. Gkoulalas-Divanis. Privacy and Security in Spatio-Temporal Data and Trajectories. In : Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy. Geographic Knowledge Discovery, F. Giannotti, D. Pedreschi, Eds, Springer, 2008
• N. Pelekis, A. Raffaeta, M.L. Damiani, C. Vangenot, G. Marketos, E. Frentzos, I.Ntoutsi, Y. Theodoridis. Towards Trajectory Data Warehouses. In: Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy Geographic Knowledge Discovery, F. Giannotti, D. Pedreschi, Eds, Springer, 2008
• M.L.Damiani and E. Bertino. Access Control Systems for Geo-spatial Data and Applications. In: Spatial Data on the Web: Modeling and Management . E. Ferrari, A. Belussi, B. Catania, E.Clementini, Eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, August 2007
• M.L. Damiani and S. Spaccapietra. Spatial Datawarehouse Modeling. In: Processing and Managing Complex Data for Decision Support, Eds: J. Dermont, O. Boussaid, Idea Group Publishing March 2006. The chapter has been selected for inclusion in the research compilation: Data Warehousing and Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (6 Volumes) Edited By: John Wang, Montclair State University, USA, Information Science Reference Publisher, May 2008,(pdf)
• M.L. Damiani. Modelling Data Integration in an Object Based Geographical Information System, In: Enterprise Information Systems III, Eds: Filipe J., Sharp B., Miranda P, Kluwer Academic Publishers, April 2002

Refereed papers in International conferences

• M. Kirkpatrick, M.L. Damiani, E. Bertino, Prox-RBAC: a Proximity-based Spatially Aware RBAC, ACM GIS 2011, Nov. 2011(pdf)
• M.L. Damiani, C. Silvestri, E. Bertino. Analyzing semantic location cloaking techniques in a probabilistic grid-based map, ACM GIS 2010 (Demo)
• M.L. Damiani, P. Perri. Privacy issues in location-aware browsing. 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workhop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, San Jose (US), 2010(pdf)
• G. Ghinita, M.L. Damiani, C. Silvestri, E. Bertino, Preventing Velocity-based Linkage Attacks in Location-Aware Applications, ACM GIS 2009, Seattle (US), Nov. 2009 (Best paper award (runner up)) (pdf)
• M.L. Damiani, E. Bertino, C. Silvestri. Protecting Location Privacy Against Spatial Inferences: the PROBE approach. 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workhop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, Seattle (US), Nov 2009(pdf)
• Y. Saygin, E. Bertino, M. Gertz, M. Mokbel, M.L. Damiani. Can an Inter-disciplinary Research Community on Location Privacy be Successful? 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workhop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, Seattle (US), Nov 2009. Panel
• M.L. Damiani, H. Martin, Y. Saygin, M.R. Spada, C. Ulmer. Spatio-temporal Access Control: Challenges and Applications, ACM SACMAT 2009, panel
• G. Ghinita, M.L. Damiani, E. Bertino, C. Silvestri, Interactive Location Cloaking with the PROBE Obfuscator, MDM, demo track, 2009(pdf)
• M.L. Damiani, C. Silvestri. Towards movement-aware access control. ACM Sigspatial Workhop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, Irvine (US), Nov 2008 (pdf)
• E. Bertino, M. Gertz, B. Thuraisingham, M. L. Damiani, Security and Privacy for Geospatial Data – Concepts and Research Directions, ACM SigSpatial Workhop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, Irvine (US), Nov 2008
• M.L. Damiani, E. Bertino, C. Silvestri. An Approach to Supporting Continuity of Usage in Location-based Access Control. 12th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems, Kunming, China, October 2008
• M. L. Damiani, E. Bertino, C. Silvestri. Protecting Location Privacy through Semantics-aware Obfuscation Techniques. Proc. IFIPTM 2008 Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, Trondheim, June 2008,(pdf)
• M. L. Damiani, C. Silvestri, E. Bertino. Hierarchical domains for the decentralized administration of a spatially-aware access control system. Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES2008), Barcellona, March 2008 (pdf)
• M. L. Damiani and E. Bertino. Access Control and Privacy in Location-aware Services for Mobile Organizations. In Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, May 10-12, Nara, Japan, 2006 (pdf)
• E. Bertino, M.L. Damiani, G. Groppelli, G. Norini, B. Aldighieri, S. Borgonovo, F. Comoglio, G. Pasquaré. Modelling Lava Flow to Assess Hazard on Mount Etna (Italy). From Geological Data to a Preliminary Hazard Map. International Environmental Modeling Symposyium, Burlington (USA), July 10-13, 2006
• M.L. Damiani, G.Groppelli, G. Norini and E. Bertino. A Geographical Information System for Volcanic Hazard Modelling. Urban Data Management Symposium, Aalborg, Denmark, May 15-17, 2006
• M.L. Damiani and E. Bertino. Architectural Issues for a Location-aware Role-based Access Control System. 21th Annual Symposium on Applied Computing, Dijon, April 2006.
• E. Bertino, B. Catania, M. L. Damiani, and P. Perlasca. GEO-RBAC: A Spatially Aware RBAC. Proc. of the 10th ACM Symp. on Access Control Models and Technologie s (SACMAT'05), ACM Press, pp. 29-37 , 2005 (Preliminary version of the above one)
• E. Bertino and M.L. Damiani. Spatial Knowledge-Based Applications and Technologies: Research Issues. International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES (4) , September 2005
• A. Belussi, E.Bertino, B. Catania, M.L. Damiani and A. Nucita. An Authorization Model for Geographical Maps. 12th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Washington D.C., November 2004
• E. Bertino, M.L. Damiani and D. Momini. An Access Control System for a Web Map Management Service. Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Workshop on ResearchIssues on Data Engineering: Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government Applications (RIDE-WS-ECEG 2004), Boston (US) , March 2004
• M.L. Damiani, E. Bertino, G. Gigliuto, G. Groppelli , M. Micheli, G. Norini , and A. Nucita. A GIS-based Approach to Lava Flow Simulation for Volcanic Hazard Assessment on Mount Etna (Italy). Proc. of GISRUK04 (Geographical Information Systems Research UK), Norwick (UK), April, 2004
• Cattivelli, M.L. Damiani, and A. Nucita. Reasoning about Lava effusion: from Geographical Information Systems to Answer Set Programming. Proc. of the First Latin American Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, Mexico City (Mexico), April, 2004
• M.L. Damiani. Environmental Decision Support Systems: issues and perspectives. Workshop onSpatial Data and Geographic Information Systems (SpaDaGIS), Milano, March, 2003
• Damiani M. Modelling Data Integration in an Object Based Geographical Information System. Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2001, Setubal (Portugal) , July 2001 (preliminar version of the paper above)
• Damiani M. Modeling spatial data integration for environmental data management. in the Proc. of the International Workshop on Geospatial Knowledge Processing for Natural Resource Management, Varese (Italy), June 2001
• Damiani M. IDA : an Intelligent Information System for Heterogeneous Data Exploration. Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Information Systems Development-ISD ‘94, Bled (Slovenia), September 1994 (preliminar version)
• Bertino E., Damiani M., Randi P., et al. An Advanced Information Management System. Proc. of the Thirst International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems (RIDE-IMS '93), Vienna, Austria, April 19-20, 1993. IEEE-CS 1993
• Damiani M. An Intelligent Information System for Heterogeneous Data Exploration. Proc. of the International Symposium on Object-Oriented Methodologies and Systems, ISOOMS ’94, Palermo, September 1994 , Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1994
• Bertino E., Bottarelli S, Damiani M, Marcadella M. Migliorati M., Randi P. The ADKMS Knowledge Acquisition System. Proc. of the Second Far-East Workshop on Future Database Systems (Future Databases '92), Kyoto, Japan, April 26-28, 1992. World Scientific, Singapore, 1992
• Bertino E., Damiani M., Randi P. Multimedia Data Handling in a Knowledge Representation System. Proc. of the Second Far-East Workshop on Future Database Systems (Future Databases '92), Kyoto, Japan, April 26-28, 1992. World Scientific, Singapore, 1992
• Bertino E., Damiani M., Randi P. An Approach to Integrate Multimedia Data in a Knowledge Representation System. Proc. of the International Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '92), Rome, Italy, World Scientific, World Scientific Series in Computer Science - Vol. 36, 1992
• Bertino E., Bottarelli S., Damiani M. et al. A Knowledge Based Information System. Proc. of the IFIP 12th World Computer Congress, Volume 1, Madrid, Spain, 7-11 September 1992. IFIP Transaction A-12, North-Holland, 1992
• Damiani M., Randi P., et al. The AIMS Project: an Information Server Architecture Integrating Data, Knowledge and Multimedia Information. Proc. of the First International Conference on Enterprise Integration Modeling. Mit Press, Scientific and Engineering Computation Series, Austin (US) 1992
• Bertino E, Damiani M., Paganini A. A View Mechanism for a Knowledge Representation System. Proc. of the First International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'92, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, November 8-11, 1992
• Damiani M., Bottarelli S. A Terminological Approach to Business Domain Modelling. Proc. of the International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 1990), Vienna, Austria, August 29-31, 1990, Springer 1990

Long abstracts in international conferences

• M.L. Damiani, P. Perri. Location privacy in Web-based LBS. W3C Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy 28/29 April 2011,
• G. Groppelli, G. Norini, B. Aldighieri, E. Bertino, F. Comoglio, M.L. Damiani & C. Silvestri. Lava flow invasion hazard map of the Southern Rift – Mount Etna (Italy), 2007 Joint Assembley, AGU Congress, EOS Trans. AGU, 88(23), Jt Assem. Suppl., Abstract V33C-04, Acapulco (Messico), (2007)
• G. Norini, B. Aldighieri, E. Bertino, F. Comoglio, M.L. Damiani & G. Groppelli, Preliminary hazard map of the Southern Rift - Mount Etna (Italy). Geophysical Research Abstracts. vol. 9, XXXXX, European Geosciences Union 2007, Vienna (2007)
• E. Bertino, M.L. Damiani, G. Gigliuto, G. Groppelli , M. Micheli, G. Norini and A. Nucita. Mt. Etna Lava Flow Hazard Map: a Geological Data-Base Approach. Proc. of the 3nd International Geological Congress , Firenze, August, 2004
• G. Groppelli, G. Norini , E. Bertino, M.L. Damiani, A. Gigliuto, A. Micheli, A. Nucita and G. Pasquaré. From geological map to volcanic hazard assessment on Mount Etna (Italy). Preliminary results based on geological data elaborations and software simulations”. IAVCEI 2004 Meeting, Pucon, Cile, 14-16 November, 2004
• E. Bertino, M.L. Damiani, A. Gigliuto, G. Groppelli, A. Micheli, G. Norini, A. Nucita and G. Pasquaré, “A GIS integrated approach to lava flows hazard evaluation: from geological and morphological data to risk map. The Mount Etna (Italy) case”. Regional Geomorphology Conference,Geomorphic Hazards: Towards the Prevention of Disasters, MexicoCity (Mexico), November, 2003

Proceedings, special issues and conference reports

• E. Bertino, M.L. Damiani, G. Ghinita. Proc. of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, SPRINGL 2011, USA, 2011
• M.L. Damiani, Y. Saygin. SPRINGL 2010 Workshop Report: The 3rd International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS (San Jose, CA - November 2, 2010), ACM SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter, Vol 3, 2011
• M.L. Damiani, Y. Saygin (eds), Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, Nov. 2010
• E. Bertino, M.L. Damiani, Special issue on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, Transactions on Data Privacy, 2(1), 2009
• M.L. Damiani, Y. Saygin. SPRINGL 2009 Workshop Report: The 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS (Seattle, Washington - November 3, 2009), ACM SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter, Vol 2, 2010
• M.L. Damiani, Y. Saygin (eds), Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, Nov. 2009
• E. Bertino, M.L. Damiani, P. Capolsini, P. El Khoury, H. Martin. SPRINGL 2008: Workshop Report. ACM SIGspatial Special, Newsletter, Vol. 1, N. 1, March 2009
• E. Bertino, M.L. Damiani, Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, Nov. 2008

Magazines and national conferences

• F. Comoglio, B. Aldighieri, E. Bertino, M.L. Damiani, G. Groppelli, G. Norini and C. Silvestri.Evaluation of lava flow hazard on Mount Etna (Italy). Methodology and preliminary results. Sesto Forum Italiano di Scienze della Terra, Rimini, Epitome, Vol. 2, pp. 119-120 (2007)
• B. Aldighieri, M.L. Damiani. Il SIT del progetto Valchiavenna, Inaugurazione del Centro Interdipartimentale : Ambiente Alpino: conoscenza, evoluzione, gestione, Nov. 2006
• G. Groppelli, B. Aldighieri, E. Bertino, F. Comoglio, M.L. Damiani, G. Norini and C. Silvestri. Methodological proposal to realise lava flow hazard map. The application to the Southern Rift, Mount Etna (Italy). IUGG XXIV General Assembly, Perugia, abstract n. 12097 (2007)
• M.L. Damiani, E. Bertino, G. Gigliuto, G. Groppelli, M. Micheli, G. Norini, and G. Pasquarè . Simulazione di colate laviche per la valutazione della pericolosità vulcanica dell'Etna. DALLA MAPPA AL MONITOR Valorizzazione e salvaguardia del territorio e del paesaggio: aspetti storici, tecnologici ed applicativi. Convegno organizzato nell’ambito del Festival della Scienza, Genova, Novembre 4-6, 2004
• M.L. Damiani, G. Sfondrini, B. Alighieri, B. Testa and D. Sangion. La realizzazione di un datawarehouse ambientale: studio di un caso. Terza Conferenza Nazionale su Informatica e Pianificazione Urbana e Territoriale: Costruzione e Gestione della Conoscenza, INPUT 2003, Pisa, Giugno 2003
• Damiani M. Gomarasca N., Agapito Ludovici A. Un Sistema Informativo Geografico per la gestione dei dati di censimento del fiume Po, MondoGis, n.32, Settembre/Ottobre 2002
• M. L. Damiani, M. Casari. La conoscenza dei beni culturali, ambientali e del paesaggio mediante l'uso dei GIS. Atti del XXVIII Congresso Geografico Italiano, Roma, 2000

Selected technical reports

• AA.VV. European Project IST FP6-014915 GeoPKDD, Final report of WP1, 2009
• Contributo in : Le Sfide Ambientali, Attivita' e Competenze dell' Universita' di Milano, 2009
• M.L. Damiani, E. Bertino, C. Silvestri. PROBE: An Obfuscation System for the Protection of Sensitive Location Information in LBS. CERIAS Technical Report CERIAS TR 2001-145, March 2008
• Co-author: Progetto Valchiavenna, Marzo 2005. Realizzazione di un bacino pilota per lo studio ed il controllo della qualità dell’ambiente nell’arco alpino, Project Coordinator: Prof. Sfondrini, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Milano.
• E. Bertino, M.L. Damiani, P. Perlasca. Data Security in Location-aware Applications: a GML specification. Project Spada@Web, Technical Report UNIMI.D.4, 2005
• M.L. Damiani, M. Carati. Controllo dell’accesso a dati spaziali basati su ruoli: un primo prototipo. Project Spada@Web, Technical Report UNIMI.D.5, 2005
• M.L. Damiani, S. Bottarelli, M. Migliorati, C. Peltason. Terminological Information Management in ADKMS. Technical Report: TUB-FB13-KIT-81, 1990