ACM Fellow,
EurAI Fellow,
AAIA Fellow.
Full Professor in Computer Engineering (ING-INF/05) at the
Faculty of Engineering of the
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
Wallenberg Guest Professor in AI for Data Management at the
Department of Computing Science, Umeå University
(Sweden).
Coordinator of the Intelligent Integration and Access to Data
(In2Data) research group,
which is part of the Research Centre for Knowledge and Data
(KRDB).
Director of the Smart Data Factory
(SDF) technology transfer lab,
at NOI Techpark.
Originator and co-founder of Ontopic, the
first spin-off of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
Ontology-based data access and integration -
see Ontop framework and also
past IP project Optique
(Scalable End-User Access to Big Data) and
Verification and synthesis for data-aware processes - see also past STREP
project ACSI (Artifact-Centric
Service Interoperation)
Description logics and
logics for knowledge representation and reasoning
Ontologies and Semantic Web - see also past FET project
TONES
(Thinking Ontologies)
Graph data management
Integration and exchange of data and knowledge
Service modeling and synthesis
Conceptual data modeling
Projects (present and past)
Ontology-based data access at unibz: the
Ontop framework, supporting
SPARQL query answering over OWL 2 QL ontologies connected to
external data sources via R2RML mappings
See also the South Tyrol Open
Data Hub Knowledge Graph powered by Ontop.
EU H2020 INFRAEOSC Project: Intelligent Open Data Exploration
(INODE) -- 11/2019 - 10/2022
Italian Basic Research (PRIN) Project: High quality Open data
Publishing and Enrichment
(HOPE) -- 09/2019 - 08/2022
FESR Project: Data Integration for Energy Efficiency
(IDEE) --
10/2018 - 05/2022
EU CHIST ERA Project: Process-aware Analytics Support based on
Conceptual Models for Event Logs (PACMEL) -- 03/2019 - 02/2021
Euregio Project: Knowledge-Aware Operational Support
(KAOS) -- 06/2016 - 05/2019
See also the onprom framework for
event log extraction from legacy data by exploiting OBDA, developed within
KAOS.
EU FP7 IP Project: Scalable End-User Access to Big Data
(Optique)
-- 11/2012 - 10/2016
FUB Foundation Project: Automated Extraction and Verification of
Clinical Guidelines
(VeriCliG)
-- 02/2012 - 01/2014
EU FP7 STREP Project on Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation
(ACSI)
-- 06/2010 - 05/2013
EU FP6 FET project on Thinking Ontologies
(TONES)
-- 09/2005 - 12/2008
AIxIA, the Italian Association for
Artificial Intelligence is a non-profit organization that promotes study
and research in artificial intelligence.
The Description
Logic Handbook, edited by Franz Baader, Diego Calvanese, Deborah
McGuinness, Daniele Nardi, and Peter Patel-Schneider is available from
Cambridge University Press
Publications
Sorted by year
(most of the publications are available as pdf, and some of the older ones
as gzipped postscript)
Member of the program committee of the
Forum of the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information
Systems Engineering
(CAiSE 2022 Forum).
Leuven, Belgium, 6-10 June 2022.
Member of the program committee of the
Symposium on Open Data and Knowledge for a Post-Pandemic Era
(ODAK 2022).
Brighton, U.K., 30 June - 1 July 2022.
Member of the program committee of the
31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI 2022).
Vienna, Austria, 23-29 July 2022.
Area Chair of the
19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation
and Reasoning
(KR 2022).
Haifa, Israel, 31 July - 5 August 2022.
Member of the program committee of the
35th International Workshop on Description Logics
(DL 2022).
Haifa, Israel, 7-10 August 2022.
Program co-Chair of the
6th International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data
(APWeb-WAIM 2022).
Nanjing, China, 11-13 August 2022.
Member of the program committee of the
19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology,
Systems, Applications
(AIMSA 2022).
Varna, Bulgaria, 8-10 September 2022.
Invited Talk on
Designing Virtual
Knowledge Graphs,
held at the 4th Edition of The Academic Fringe Festival
(TAFF)
series, focusing on Human-Centered AI: Knowledge and Language, at
Delft University of Technology (Netherlands).
Online, 6 February 2023.
Invited Talk on
Engineering
Virtual Knowledge Graphs,
held at the Huawei Strategy and Technology Workshop 2022
(STW 2022). Shenzhen, China, and online, 27 September 2022.
Keynote on
Ontologies
for Data Integration
at the
IJCAI~2015 Workshop on Formal Ontologies for Artificial Intelligence
(FOfAI 2015).
Buenos-Aires, Argentina, 27 July 2015.
Keynote on
Scalable
End-User Access to Big Data
at the
16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology,
Systems, Applications
(AIMSA 2014).
Varna, Bulgaria, 11-13 September 2014.
Tutorial on Virtual Knowledge Graphs, held at the
9th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference
(JIST 2019),
Hangzhou, China, 25-27 November 2019.
Tutorial on Ontology-based Data Access: Relational Data and
Beyond, held at the
33rd Italian Conference on Computational Logic
(CILC 2018).
Bolzano, Italy, 20-22 September 2018.
Course on
Verification of
Data-aware Processes,
held together with Marco Montali at the
29th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information
(ESSLLI 2017).
Toulouse, France, 17-28 July 2017.
Course on Verification of Data-centric Systems,
held together with Marco Montali at the
RiSE & LogiCS Summer School on Logic, Artificial Intelligence and
Verification
(LAIVe Summer
School 2017). Vienna, Austria, 3-5 July 2017.
Tutorial on
Reasoning for
Ontology Engineering and Usage,
held together with Giuseppe De Giacomo, Matthew Horridge, Ralf Möller,
and Anni-Yasmin Turhan at the
7th International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC 2008).
Karlsruhe, Germany, 26-30 October 2008.
Tutorial on
Ontology-based Data
Access,
held together with Domenico Lembo at the
6th International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC 2007).
Busan, Korea, 11-15 November 2007.
Course on
Query Processing
in Data Integration,
held as part of the
Bolzano - Innsbruck - Trento (BIT) PhD Summer School.
Bressanone, Italy, 7-11 July 2006.
Course on View-based Query
Processing,
held together with Giuseppe De Giacomo, Georg Gottlob, Maurizio Lenzerini,
and Riccardo Rosati as part of the
PhD in Computer Engineering at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
Rome, Italy, September-November 2005.