Diego Calvanese http://www.inf.unibz.it/~calvanese/

Associate professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Member of the KRDB Research Center. Contact information Research, with list of publications, and curriculum vitae (dated June 2010) Teaching.

Contact information

Address:

Diego Calvanese
Faculty of Computer Science
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Piazza Domenicani, 3
I-39100 Bolzano, Italy.

Tel: +39-0471 016 160

Fax: +39-0471 016 009

E-mail:

www: http://www.inf.unibz.it/~calvanese/

Research

Interests

• Description Logics and logics for Knowledge Representation
• Ontologies - see also FET project Thinking Ontologies (TONES)
• Data and Information Integration
• Semistructured Data
• e-Services and Web Services
• Database Models

Research Links and Projects

• EU FP7 STREP Project on Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation (ACSI)
• I participate to the development of the QuOnto system on querying data through ontologies
• Description Logics home page
• The Description Logic Handbook, edited by Franz Baader, Diego Calvanese, Deborah McGuinness, Daniele Nardi, and Peter Patel-Schneider is available from Cambridge University Press
• Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) conference series.

Publications

• sorted by year (most of the publications are available as gzipped postscript or pdf files)
• sorted by topic, also with direct viewing of abstracts
• on DBLP
• Most cited papers according to CiteSeerX and Google Scholar

Number 1478 in the CiteSeerX (absolute) list of the most cited authors in computer science (as of March 29, 2010).

Organizational Activities

• Member of the Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) Steering Committee.
  See the 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010).
• Member of the editorial board of the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information, published by Springer as part of LNCS/LNAI.
• Member of the program committee of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010). Uppsala, Sweden, July 11-16, 2010.
• Member of the program committee of the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010). Lisbon, Portugal, Aug 16-20, 2010.
• Member of the program committee of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2010). Varna, Bulgaria, September 8-10, 2010.
• Local organizer of the 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010). Bressanone, Italy, September 22-24, 2010 - Colocated with SWAP 2010.
• Member of the program committee of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010). Shanghai, Cina, November 7-11, 2010.
• Member of the program committee of the 14th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2011). March 2011.
• Past organizational activities.

Recent Talks and Courses

• Course on Description Logics for Conceptual Data Modeling in UML, held at the 5th European Summer School in Logic Language and Information (ESSLLI 2003). Vienna, Austria, August 18-22, 2003.
• Course on View-based Query Processing, held as part of the PhD in Computer Engineering at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Sep.-Nov, 2005.
• Course on Query Processing in Data Integration, held as part of the Bolzano - Innsbruck - Trento (BIT) PhD Summer School. Bressanone. July 7-11, 2006.
• Tutorial on Ontology-based Data Access, held at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007). Busan, Korea, November 11-15, 2007.
• Tutorial on Reasoning for Ontology Engineering and Usage, held at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008). Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008.
• Tutorial on Ontology-based Data Integration, held at at the Semantic Days 2009 Conference. Stavanger, Norway, May 18-20, 2009.
• Tutorial on Ontologies and Databases, held at at the Reasoning Web 2009 Summer School. Bressanone, Italy, Aug. 31 - Sep. 4, 2009.