2026 Paola Mello: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	36	11090	10776	353	351	274	7169

Overview

Paola Mello is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of computer science and business, management, and accounting, with a focused interest in artificial intelligence and management information systems.

The main areas of study for this scientist include:

Artificial Intelligence
Management Information Systems
Information Systems
Computer Networks and Communications
Control and Systems Engineering

Paola Mello's research topics cover a range of subjects intertwined with business and technology. These include:

Business Process Modeling and Analysis
Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

Recently published papers by Paola Mello include:

"Declarative and Mathematical Programming approaches to Decision Support Systems for food recycling," 2020, published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
"Process Discovery on Deviant Traces and Other Stranger Things," 2022, published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
"A Prolog application for reasoning on maths puzzles with diagrams," 2022, published in Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
"Artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology: How to solve mathematical problems," 2020, published in Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
"Process discovery on deviant traces and other stranger things," 2021, published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Paola Mello are:

Federico Chesani
Daniela Loreti
Chiara Di Francescomarino
Chiara Ghidini
Fabrizio Maria Maggi

Paola Mello's publications appear across a variety of scholarly venues, including:

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

Process Mining Manifesto

Wil van der Aalst;Wil van der Aalst;Arya Adriansyah;Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros;Franco Arcieri

1683
Citations
Image analysis and rule-based reasoning for a traffic monitoring system

R. Cucchiara;M. Piccardi;P. Mello

625
Citations
Image analysis and rule-based reasoning for a traffic monitoring system

R. Cucchiara;M. Piccardi;P. Mello

497
Citations
Declarative specification and verification of service choreographiess

Marco Montali;Maja Pesic;Wil M. P. van der Aalst;Federico Chesani

295
Citations
Verifiable agent interaction in abductive logic programming: The SCIFF framework

Marco Alberti;Federico Chesani;Marco Gavanelli;Evelina Lamma

210
Citations
Modularity in Logic Programming

Michele Bugliesi;Evelina Lamma;Paola Mello

196
Citations
Monitoring business constraints with the event calculus

Marco Montali;Fabrizio M. Maggi;Federico Chesani;Paola Mello

144
Citations
COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION OF AGENT INTERACTION: A LOGIC-BASED SOFTWARE TOOL

Marco Alberti;Marco Gavanelli;Evelina Lamma;Federico Chesani

129
Citations
Exploiting Inductive Logic Programming Techniques for Declarative Process Mining

Federico Chesani;Evelina Lamma;Paola Mello;Marco Montali

126
Citations
Specification and verification of agent interaction protocols in a logic-based system

Marco Alberti;Davide Daolio;Paolo Torroni;Marco Gavanelli

99
Citations
Representing and monitoring social commitments using the event calculus

Federico Chesani;Paola Mello;Marco Montali;Paolo Torroni

99
Citations
HABITAT: An IoT Solution for Independent Elderly

Elena Borelli;Giacomo Paolini;Francesco Antoniazzi;Marina Barbiroli

95
Citations
Expressing and Verifying Business Contracts with Abductive Logic Programming

Marco Alberti;Federico Chesani;Marco Gavanelli;Evelina Lamma

94
Citations
Applying inductive logic programming to process mining

Evelina Lamma;Paola Mello;Fabrizio Riguzzi;Sergio Storari

91
Citations
Inducing declarative logic-based models from labeled traces

Evelina Lamma;Paola Mello;Marco Montali;Fabrizio Riguzzi

82
Citations
Integrating constraint logic programming and operations research techniques for the crew rostering problem

A. Caprara;F. Focacci;E. Lamma;P. Mello

79
Citations
Constraint Propagation and Value Acquisition: Why we should do it Interactively

Evelina Lamma;Paola Mello;Michela Milano;Rita Cucchiara

79
Citations
Commitment tracking via the reactive event calculus

Federico Chesani;Paola Mello;Marco Montali;Paolo Torroni

77
Citations
Towards data-aware constraints in declare

Marco Montali;Federico Chesani;Paola Mello;Fabrizio M. Maggi

76
Citations
Specification and Verification of Agent Interaction using Social Integrity Constraints

Marco Alberti;Marco Gavanelli;Evelina Lamma;Paola Mello

75
Citations
A Configurable Rete-OO Engine for Reasoning with Different Types of Imperfect Information

Davide Sottara;Paola Mello;Mark Proctor

75
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Montali Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Paolo Torroni University of Bologna

Michela Milano University of Bologna

Rita Cucchiara University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Massimo Piccardi University of Technology Sydney

Fabrizio Maria Maggi Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Wil M. P. van der Aalst RWTH Aachen University

Stefania Montani University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro

Alessandra Costanzo University of Bologna

Nicola Zannone Eindhoven University of Technology

External Links

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