Roberto Battiti (born 1961) is an Italian computer scientist, Professor of computer science at the

University of Trento The University of Trento (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Trento'') is an Italian university located in Trento and nearby Rovereto. It has been able to achieve considerable results in didactics, research, and international relations accor ...

, director of the LIONlab (Learning and Intelligent Optimization), and deputy director of the DISI Department (Information Engineering and Computer Science) and delegate for technology transfer.

Biography

Battiti received the Laurea degree in Physics from the

in 1985, and the Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the

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in 1990 under supervision of

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. His main research interests are heuristic algorithms for problem-solving, in particular

Reactive Search Optimization LIONsolver is an integrated software for data mining, business intelligence, analytics, and modeling and reactive business intelligence approach. A non-profit version is also available as LIONoso. LIONsolver is used to build models, visualize th ...

, which aims at embodying solvers with internal machine learning techniques, data mining and visualization. Battiti was elected

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of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2009, in recognition of his "contributions to machine learning techniques for intelligent optimization and neural networks", is author of highly cited publications. He wrote the books ''The LION way. Machine Learning plus Intelligent Optimization.'' and ''

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. From Data to Models to Insight.''Roberto Battiti and Mauro Brunato,
Reactive Business Intelligence. From Data to Models to Insight
', Reactive Search Srl, Italy, February 2011. . (with Mauro Brunato), about integrating data mining, modeling, optimization and interactive visualization, into an end-to-end discovery and continuous innovation process powered by human and automated learning. His ideas form the basis of the Grapheur and

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software.

Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Battiti, Roberto Fellow Members of the IEEE Living people Academic staff of the University of Trento 1961 births

Biography

See also

Selected publications

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