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Damiano Azzolini

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Assistant Professor (RTDa)
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente e della Prevenzione c/o Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università di Ferrara,

Laboratorio 331
Blocco A, Polo Scientifico Tecnologico
University of Ferrara
Via Saragat 1, 44122, Ferrara, Italy
E-Mail: damiano.azzolini@unife.it
Ricevimento: su appuntamento richiesto via email.

Publications

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2024

[1] Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Learning the parameters of probabilistic answer set programs. In Stephen H. Muggleton and Alireza Tamaddoni-Nezhad, editors, Inductive Logic Programming - ILP 2022, volume 14363 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1--14, Cham, 2024. Springer Nature Switzerland. [ bib | DOI | http ]

2023

[11] Elisabetta Gentili, Alice Bizzarri, Damiano Azzolini, Riccardo Zese, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Regularization in probabilistic inductive logic programming. In Elena Bellodi, Francesca Alessandra Lisi, and Riccardo Zese, editors, Inductive Logic Programming - ILP 2023, volume 14363 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 16--29, Cham, 2023. Springer Nature Switzerland. [ bib | DOI | http ]
[10] Damiano Azzolini. A constrained optimization approach to set the parameters of probabilistic answer set programs. In Elena Bellodi, Francesca Alessandra Lisi, and Riccardo Zese, editors, Inductive Logic Programming, pages 1--15, Cham, 2023. Springer Nature Switzerland. [ bib | DOI | http ]
[9] Damiano Azzolini. On the development of PASTA: Inference in probabilistic answer set programming under the credal semantics. volume 385, pages 314 -- 315, 2023. [ bib | DOI | http ]
[8] Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Summary of statistical statements in probabilistic logic programming. volume 385, pages 384 -- 385, 2023. [ bib | DOI | http ]
[7] Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Towards a representation of decision theory problems with probabilistic answer set programs. volume 385, pages 190 -- 191, 2023. [ bib | DOI | http ]
[6] Damiano Azzolini and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Inference in probabilistic answer set programming under the credal semantics. In Roberto Basili, Domenico Lembo, Carla Limongelli, and Andrea Orlandini, editors, AIxIA 2023 - Advances in Artificial Intelligence, volume 14318 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 367--380, Heidelberg, Germany, 2023. Springer. [ bib | DOI | http ]
[5] Damiano Azzolini and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Lifted inference for statistical statements in probabilistic answer set programming. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 163:109040, 2023. [ bib | DOI | http ]
[4] Damiano Azzolini, Elisabetta Gentili, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Link prediction in knowledge graphs with probabilistic logic programming: Work in progress. In Joaquín Arias, Sotiris Batsakis, Wolfgang Faber, Gopal Gupta, Francesco Pacenza, Emmanuel Papadakis, Livio Robaldo, Kilian Ruckschloss, Elmer Salazar, Zeynep G. Saribatur, Ilias Tachmazidis, Felix Weitkamper, and Adam Wyner, editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming 2023 Workshops co-located with the 39th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2023), volume 3437 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 1--4. CEUR-WS.org, 2023. [ bib | .pdf ]
[3] Damiano Azzolini. A brief discussion about the credal semantics for probabilistic answer set programs. In Joaquín Arias, Sotiris Batsakis, Wolfgang Faber, Gopal Gupta, Francesco Pacenza, Emmanuel Papadakis, Livio Robaldo, Kilian Ruckschloss, Elmer Salazar, Zeynep G. Saribatur, Ilias Tachmazidis, Felix Weitkamper, and Adam Wyner, editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming 2023 Workshops co-located with the 39th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2023), volume 3437 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 1--13. CEUR-WS.org, 2023. [ bib | .pdf ]
[2] Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. MAP inference in probabilistic answer set programs. In Agostino Dovier, Angelo Montanari, and Andrea Orlandini, editors, AIxIA 2022 -- Advances in Artificial Intelligence, pages 413--426, Cham, 2023. Springer International Publishing. [ bib | DOI | http ]
[1] Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Approximate inference in probabilistic answer set programming for statistical probabilities. In Agostino Dovier, Angelo Montanari, and Andrea Orlandini, editors, AIxIA 2022 -- Advances in Artificial Intelligence, pages 33--46, Cham, 2023. Springer International Publishing. [ bib | DOI | http ]

2022

[7] Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Abduction in (probabilistic) answer set programming. In Roberta Calegari, Giovanni Ciatto, and Andrea Omicini, editors, Proceedings of the 36th Italian Conference on Computational Logic, volume 3204 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 90--103, Aachen, Germany, 2022. Sun SITE Central Europe. [ bib | .pdf ]
[6] Damiano Azzolini, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Evelina Lamma. Semantics for hybrid probabilistic logic programs with function symbols: Technical summary. In Joaquín Arias, Roberta Calegari, Luke Dickens, Wolfgang Faber, Jorge Fandinno, Gopal Gupta, Markus Hecher, Daniela Inclezan, Emily LeBlanc, Michael Morak, Elmer Salazar, and Jessica Zangari, editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming 2022 Workshops co-located with the 38th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2022), volume 3193 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 1--5, Aachen, Germany, 2022. Sun SITE Central Europe. [ bib | .pdf ]
[5] Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Statistical statements in probabilistic logic programming. In Georg Gottlob, Daniela Inclezan, and Marco Maratea, editors, Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, pages 43--55, Cham, 2022. Springer International Publishing. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf ]
[4] Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, Stefano Ferilli, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Riccardo Zese. Abduction in probabilistic logic programs. In Yuliya Lierler, Jose F. Morales, Carmine Dodaro, Veronica Dahl, Martin Gebser, and Tuncay Tekle, editors, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Logic Programming (Technical Communications), Recently Published Research track, volume 364 of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, pages 174--176, Waterloo, Australia, 2022. Open Publishing Association. [ bib | DOI | http ]
[3] Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, Stefano Ferilli, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Riccardo Zese. Abduction with probabilistic logic programming under the distribution semantics. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 142:41--63, 2022. [ bib | DOI | http ]
[2] Damiano Azzolini, Fabrizio Riguzzi, Elena Bellodi, and Evelina Lamma. A probabilistic logic model of lightning network. In Witold Abramowicz, Sören Auer, and Milena Stróżyna, editors, Business Information Systems Workshops, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), pages 321--333, Cham, Switzerland, 2022. Springer International Publishing. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf ]
[1] Damiano Azzolini and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Probabilistic logic models for the lightning network. Cryptography, 6(2), 2022. [ bib | DOI | http | http ]

2021

[5] Damiano Azzolini and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Syntactic requirements for well-defined hybrid probabilistic logic programs. In Andrea Formisano, Yanhong Annie Liu, Bart Bogaerts, Alex Brik, Veronica Dahl, Carmine Dodaro, Paul Fodor, Gian Luca Pozzato, Joost Vennekens, and Neng-Fa Zhou, editors, Proceedings 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (Technical Communications), pages 14--26, Waterloo, Australia, 2021. © by the authors, Open Publishing Association. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf ]
[4] Damiano Azzolini, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Evelina Lamma. Summary of semantics for hybrid probabilistic logic programs with function symbols. In Andrea Formisano, Yanhong Annie Liu, Bart Bogaerts, Alex Brik, Veronica Dahl, Carmine Dodaro, Paul Fodor, Gian Luca Pozzato, Joost Vennekens, and Neng-Fa Zhou, editors, Proceedings 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (Technical Communications), pages 234--235, Waterloo, Australia, 2021. © by the authors, Open Publishing Association. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf ]
[3] Damiano Azzolini and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Optimizing probabilities in probabilistic logic programs. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 21(5):543--556, © Cambridge University Press, 2021. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf ]
[2] Damiano Azzolini and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Reducing probabilistic logic programs. In Ahmet Soylu, Alireza Tamaddoni Nezhad, Nikolay Nikolov, Ioan Toma, Anna Fensel, and Joost Vennekens, editors, Proceedings of the 15th International Rule Challenge, 7th Industry Track, and 5th Doctoral Consortium at RuleML+RR 2021 co-located with 17th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2021) and 13th DecisionCAMP 2021 as part of Declarative AI 2021, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 1--13, Aachen, Germany, 2021. © By the authors, Sun SITE Central Europe. [ bib | .pdf | .pdf ]
[1] Damiano Azzolini, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Evelina Lamma. A semantics for hybrid probabilistic logic programs with function symbols. Artificial Intelligence, 294:103452, © Elsevier, 2021. The final publication is available at Elsevier via https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2021.103452. [ bib | DOI | .pdf ]

2020

[3] Damiano Azzolini, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Evelina Lamma. An analysis of Gibbs sampling for probabilistic logic programs. In Carmine Dodaro, George Aristidis Elder, Wolfgang Faber, Jorge Fandinno, Martin Gebser, Markus Hecher, Emily LeBlanc, Michael Morak, and Jessica Zangari, editors, Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP 2020), volume 2678 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 1--13, Aachen, Germany, 2020. © by the authors, Sun SITE Central Europe. [ bib | .pdf ]
[2] Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, Alessandro Brancaleoni, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Evelina Lamma. Modeling bitcoin lightning network by logic programming. In Francesco Ricca, Alessandra Russo, Sergio Greco, Nicola Leone, Alexander Artikis, Gerhard Friedrich, Paul Fodor, Angelika Kimmig, Francesca Lisi, Marco Maratea, Alessandra Mileo, and Fabrizio Riguzzi, editors, Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Logic Programming (Technical Communications), pages 258--260, Waterloo, Australia, 2020. © by the authors, Open Publishing Association. [ bib | DOI | http | http ]
[1] Damiano Azzolini, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Evelina Lamma. Modeling smart contracts with probabilistic logic programming. In Witold Abramowicz and Gary Klein, editors, Business Information Systems Workshops, volume 394 of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, pages 86--98, Cham, 2020. © Springer, Springer International Publishing. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61146-0_7. [ bib | DOI | .pdf ]

2019

[3] Damiano Azzolini, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Evelina Lamma. Analyzing transaction fees with probabilistic logic programming. In Witold Abramowicz and Rafael Corchuelo, editors, Business Information Systems Workshops BIS 2019, volume 373 of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, pages 243--254, Cham, 2019. © Springer, Springer International Publishing. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36691-9_21. [ bib | DOI | .pdf ]
[2] Damiano Azzolini, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Evelina Lamma. Studying transaction fees in the bitcoin blockchain with probabilistic logic programming. Information, 10(11):335, © CCBY, 2019. [ bib | DOI | http ]
[1] Damiano Azzolini, Fabrizio Riguzzi, Evelina Lamma, and Franco Masotti. A comparison of MCMC sampling for probabilistic logic programming. In Mario Alviano, Gianluigi Greco, and Francesco Scarcello, editors, Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA2019), Rende, Italy 19-22 November 2019, volume 11946 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 18--29, Heidelberg, Germany, 2019. © Springer, Springer. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35166-3_2. [ bib | DOI | .pdf ]

2018

[1] Damiano Azzolini, Fabrizio Riguzzi, Evelina Lamma, Elena Bellodi, and Riccardo Zese. Modeling bitcoin protocols with probabilistic logic programming. In Elena Bellodi and Tom Schrijvers, editors, Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP 2018), volume 2219 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 49--61, Aachen, Germany, 2018. © by the authors, Sun SITE Central Europe. [ bib | .pdf ]

Awards

  • 2023: co-author of the best student paper ”Regularization in Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming” by Elisabetta Gentili, Alice Bizzarri, Damiano Azzolini, Riccardo Zese and Fabrizio Riguzzi at ILP2023
  • 2023: member of the winning team of the LP/CP Programming Contest 2023 at ICLP2023
  • 2022: winner of the Technological Contest at CILC2022 with the software PASTA
  • 2022: special mention at CILC2022 for my PhD thesis: “Extensions and Applications of Probabilistic Logic Programming
  • 2021: recipient of “Prima Edizione Premio Nazionale Ricerca Big Data e AI” from International Foundation Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Human Development (IFAB)

Teaching and Seminars

At University of Ferrara:

 

Others:

  • “Linguaggio C” for the regional course IFTS for the years 2019 (28 h), 2020 (28 h), 2021 (20 h), 2022 (16 h), 2023 (16h)

 

Fundings

 

Activities

 

Supplementary Material

  • Optimizing Probabilities in Probabilistic Logic Programs (2021): Bitbucket link
  • Reducing Probabilistic Logic Programs (2021): Bitbucket link
  • Github with random projects
  • My page on Stack Overflow where sometimes I answer questions related to Prolog and Answer Set Programming