1. Academic and Research Curriculum Vitae
Maurizio Longari
Education
January 2008 - Ph.D. degree at the University of Milan, Department of Computer
Science and Communication (LIM-DICO, www.lim.dico.unimi.it), thesis titled:
“FORMAL AND SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR A COMMONLY ACCEPTABLE
MUSICAL APPLICATION USING THE XML LANGUAGE”
March 1998 - Master degree in Computer Science at the University of Milan, thesis
subject: integration of different symbolic music representation codes such as MIDI, NIFF
and SMDL/HyTime environment [1][2][3].
Research
- Feature extraction from audio signals for musical instrument timbre classification [5]
[6];
- Multimedia systems for the storage and retrieval of musical information [7][10].
- Symbolic music representation [4]
- Participation in start-up and core development of international standard IEEE 1599-
2008 [8][9][11].
Research projects
- September 2001, member of the IEEE SA Working Group on Music Application of
XML (MAX-WG), devoted to developing an XML application that defines a standard
language for symbolic music representation, which has been issued by IEEE on Sept.
26, 2008 as: 1599-2008, “IEEE Recommended Practice for Defining a Commonly
Acceptable Musical Application Using XML.”
- March 2003 participation in an Italian national research project (FIRB) called
WEBMIND, aimed at the development of a prototype-environment for multimedia
information processing with XML.
Administration
- Supervision of 10 Master Degree students for their thesis on music information
representation and processing.
- Organization of the IEEE international conference on music representation with XML
MAX2002, Milan, September 2002.
Courses Attended
- Digital Signal Processing and Architectures (utilization of Matlab);
- Databases and Multimedia Databases;
- Pattern Classification;
- Information retrieval: international summer school ESSIR 2000 (September 200,
Varenna, Italy);
- Knowledge Mining;
- Basics of Logic theory;

2. - New architectures for Internet environment;
- Quantum Information Theory;
- Microsoft Crash Course for Ph.D. and Faculty (March 2003, Cambrige U.K.).
Technical Skills
- OS administration: Windows, UNIX (LINUX), Macintosh
- Networks administration.
- Programming languages: C, C++, Java, C#.
- Languages for representation: XML, HTML, GML, HyTime e SMDL
- Database programming and administration: Oracle, Informix, MySql, SqlServer,
Postgres
- Web programming: Javascript, php, perl, ASP.NET, Flex, HTML, Jquery, REST
- Scientific development: Matlab. R
- development for embedded environments
Teaching
- Lectures on Music Data transmission over Internet, MIDI, XML & Music, Score
Segmentation in Prof. G. Haus's university course "Music applied to Computer
Science", for 3 years
- Lectures on “Audio and music information management with software tools” in
European Commission funded course, for 100 hours
- Small courses on XML and Websites
- Lectures in a post graduate course about sound & multimedia, for 33 hours
- Contract professor for university course in “Scienze e Tecnologie della
Comunicazione Musicale” titled: “Programmazione MIDI”, 96 hours held on
academic year 2006/2007
Publications
[1] M. Longari, "Introduzione allo Standard Music Description Language (ANSI
SMDL)" (Introduction to Standard Music Description Language SMDL), Technical
Report CNR-PFBC-MUS-TR4, January 1998
[2] M. Longari, "Integrazione di diverse informazioni musicali in ambito ANSI SMDL",
(Integration of musical information in ANSI SMDL environment) Technical Report CNR-
PFBC-MUS-TR5, March 1998
[3] G. Haus, M. Longari, "Coding Music Information within a Multimedia Database by
an integrated description environment", XII Colloquio di Informatica Musicale, Gorizia,
September1998
[4] G. Haus, M. Longari, “Music Information Description by Mark-up Languages within
DB-Web Applications” IEEE Proc. of WEDELMUSIC2001, pp. 71-78, 23-24 November
2001 Florence, Italy.
[5] G. Agostini, M. Longari, E. Pollastri, “Content-based classification of musical
instrument timbres”, in Proc. of Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, IEEE Multimedia
Signal Processing TC, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy, pp.159-166, 19-21
September 2001.

3. [6] G. Agostini, M. Longari, E. Pollastri "MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TIMBRES
CLASSIFICATION WITH SPECTRAL FEATURES" IEEE Fourth Workshop on
Multimedia Signal Processing, Cannes, France, pp. 97-102, 3-5 Oct. 2001.
and extended version published on Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing
EURASIP JASP 2003:1 (2003) 5-14.
[7] G. Haus, M. Longari, E. Pollastri, "A Score-driven Approach to Music Information
Retrieval", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
Special Issue: Perspectives on Music Information Retrieval . Issue Edited by Lois F.
Lunin, J. Stephen Downie, pp. 1045 – 1052, October 2004.
[8] G. Haus, M. Longari, “Towards a Symbolic/Time-Based Music language based on
XML” IEEE Proc. of MAX2002 19-20 September 2002, Milan, Italy
[9] M. Longari, “A case study: Prepared-Piano Notation in XML” IEEE Proc. of
MAX2002 19-20 September 2002, Milan, Italy
[10] L. Diana, G. Haus, M. Longari, “Towards a General Architecture for Musical
Archive Information Systems” Proc. of 1st International Symposium on Computer Music
Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR2003), Montpellier, France, May 26-27, 2003, published
on post symposium proceedings, Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series (LNCS 2771).
[11] G. Haus, M. Longari, “A Multi-Layered Time-Based Music Description Approach
based on XML” published in Computer Music Journal, Vol. 29-1 (February 2005),
pp.70–85, ISSN:0148-9267, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.