Fernando Ferri received the degree in Electronic Engineering in 1990 and the Ph.D. in Medical Informatics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1993. He is senior researcher of the National Research Council of Italy since 2001. He was researcher from 1990 to 2001. He was contract professor from 1993 to 2000 of “Sistemi di Elaborazione” at the University of Macerata. He is author of more than 160 papers on international journals, books and conferences. He has coordinated and participated in several national and international research projects. He has organized several international events (Scientific conferences and workshops). His main research areas of interest are: Social Informatics, social computing, Data and Knowledge Bases, Human-Machine Interaction, User-machine natural interaction, User Modelling, Visual Interaction, Sketch based interfaces, Geographic Information Systems, Risk Management and Medical Informatics.

Arianna D'Ulizia, Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni: Moving GeoPQL: a pictorial language towards spatio-temporal queries. GeoInformatica 16(2): 357-389 (2012)

Arianna D'Ulizia, Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni: A Learning Algorithm for Multimodal Grammar Inference. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B 41(6): 1495-1510 (2011)

Arianna D'Ulizia, Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni: Generating Multimodal Grammars for Multimodal Dialogue Processing. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A 40(6): 1130-1145 (2010)

Arianna D'Ulizia, Fernando Ferri, Anna Formica, Patrizia Grifoni: Approximating Geographical Queries. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 24(6): 1109-1124 (2009)

Paolo Bottoni, Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni, Andrea Marcante, Piero Mussio, Marco Padula, Amanda Reggiori: e-Document management in situated interactivity: the WIL approach. Universal Access in the Information Society 8(3): 137-153 (2009)

- CSTST 2008 Conference

- MONET from 2006 to 2011 Wokshops

- M2AS 2008 Workshop