Francesco Ricci

Francesco Ricci is associate professor in the Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, since October 2006. He was previously senior researcher and the technical director of eCommerce and Tourism Research Lab at ITC-irst. He participated to several international research projects such as: etPackaging (funded by ECCA), European Tourist Destination Portal (funded by European Travel Commission), Harmoten (funded by IST), DieToRecs (Intelligent Recommendation for Tourist Destination Decision Making, funded by IST), Harmonise (funded by, IST), CARICA (Cases Acquisition and Reply In fire Campaigns Ambience, funded by IST), CHARADE (Combining Human Assessment and Reasoning Aids for Decision-making in environmental Emergencies, funded by IST). Francesco Ricci is the major designer of Trip@dvice, a recommendation technology that has been licensed to a spin-off company for industrial exploitation in 2006. Trip@dvice has been integrated in several tourism web portals, such as www.visit.europe.com, ww.visitfinland.com, www.veneto.to, www.atl.biella.it, His current research interests include information retrieval, recommender systems, human-computer interaction, mobile services, constraint satisfaction problems, machine learning, case-based reasoning.