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Head of the SemInt
project, studying the foundations of semantic interoperability and data integration.
Head of the ORMiE
project, studying and developing a reasoning plugin for
Microsoft Visual Studio.
Head of the Quelo
project, developing a tool for Semantics-driven Information
Access.
Head of the iCOM project,
developing a tool for Intelligent Conceptual Modelling.
Head of the coDBz
project, studying and developing a Peer Database Management
System.
Research Community Activities
Information on
the events I am currently organising can be found in the FranconiSpace
restricted access area.
2023
2021
2020
2019
- Member of the program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE AIKE 2019), to be held on June 3-5, 2019 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
- Member of the program committee of the 6th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2019), to be held in Bari, Italy, on 13-15 November 2019.
- Member of the senior program committee of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2019), to be held in August 10-16, 2019, Macao, China.
- Member of the program committee of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2019), to be held January 27 - February 1 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
- Member of the program committee of the 32nd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2019), to be held in Oslo, Norway on 18-21 June 2019.
2018
2017
2016
- In the program committee of the 2016 ACM Principles
of Database Systems (PODS-2016) Conference, to be
held in San Francisco, USA, on June 26th - July 1st, 2016.
2015
- Invited keynote speaker at the Brazilian
Ontology Research Seminar (ONTOBRAS), held on
September 8th to 11th, 2015 in São Paulo, Brazil.
- In the program committee of the 29th AAAI
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15),
held on January 2529, 2015, in Austin Texas, USA.
- In the program committee of the 14th
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2015),
to be held on October 11-15, 2015, in Betlehem PA, USA.
2014
- Co-chair the KRDB research school on Foundations
and Challenges of Change in Ontologies and Databases, held
on 29-31 January 2014, in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
- Co-chair of the International Workshop on Fact-Oriented
Modeling (ORM 2014), held in Bolzano, Italy, 22-23
September 2014.
- In the program committee of the 29th
Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale (CILC-2014),
held in Torino, Italy, 16-18 June 2014.
- In the program committee of the 27th
International Description Logics workshop (DL-2014),
held on 1720 July 2014, in Vienna.
- In the program committee of the 21st
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2014),
held in Prague, Czech Republic, 18-22 August 2014.
- In the program committee of the 13th
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2014),
to be held on October 19-23, 2015, in Riva del Garda, Italy.
2013
2012
- Keynote speaker at the 2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) Summer School,
held in Crete May 21st to May 26th 2012.
- In the program committee of the 11th
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2012),
held in Boston, USA, 11-15 November 2012.
- I co-chair the Dagstuhl Seminar on Foundations
and Challenges of Change and Evolution in Ontologies, to
be held in Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 28 September - 2 November
2012.
- In the program committee of the 25th International Description
Logics workshop (DL-2012), held in Rome, Italy, from June 7 to June 10, 2012.
- In the program committee of the 20th Italian
Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD-2012),
held in Venice, Italy, 24-27 June 2012.
2011
- In the program committee of the 10th International
Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2011), held in
Koblenz, Germany, 23-27 October 2011.
- Invited to give a lectio magistralis on Description
Logics at the AILA Summer
School, held in Gargnano del Garda, Italy, 22-27 August
2011.
- In the program committee of the 24th International Description
Logics workshop (DL-2011), held in Barcelona,
Spain, 13-16 July 2011.
- In the program committee of the 19th Italian
Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD-2011),
held in Maratea, Italy, 26-29 June 2011.
- In the program committee of the 2011 SIGMOD
conference on databases (SIGMOD-2011), held in
Athens, Greece, 12-16 June 2011.
- Giving five lectures on Description
Logics at the 3rd International ALP/GULP Spring School on
Computational Logic (ISCL-2011), held in Bertinoro,
Italy, 10-15 April 2011.
2010
- I chair the 3rd KRDB
school on Trends in the Web of Data (KRDBs-2010),
held in Brixen-Bressanone (near Bozen-Bolzano), Italy, 17-18
September 2010.
- In the program committee of the 9th International
Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2010), held in
Shangai, China, 7-11 November 2010.
- In the program committee of the 12th International
Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and
Reasoning (KR-2010), held in Toronto, Canada, 9-13
May 2010.
- In the program committee of the 23rd International Description
Logics workshop (DL-2010), held in Waterloo,
Canada, 4-7 May 2010.
2009
- In the program committee of the 32nd Annual
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2009),
held in Paderborn, Germany, 15-18 September 2009.
- In the program committee of the 21st International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2009),
held in Pasadena CA, USA, 11-17 July 2009.
- In the program committee of the 17th Italian
Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD-2009),
to be held in Camogli, Genova, Italy, 21-24 June 2009.
- In the program committee of the Workshop
on Controlled Natural Language (CNL-2009), to be
held in Marettimo Island, Italy, 8-10 June 2009.
- In the program committee of the Alberto
Mendelzon Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW-2009),
held in Arequipa, Peru, May 12--15, 2009.
- In the program committee of the 25th International
Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-2009), held in
Shanghai, China, March 29 - April 4, 2009.
2008
- In the program committee of the Logic
in Databases workshop (LID-2008), held in Rome,
Italy, 19-20 May 2008.
- In the program committee of the 5th European
Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-2008), held in
Tenerife, Spain, 1-5 June 2008.
- In the program committee of the 20th European
Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2008)
for the Logic and Computation area, held in Hamburg, Germany,
4-15 August 2008.
- Invited speaker on "Data access and integration with global
constraints: why is it hard?" at both the 4th Workshop on Ontologies-based
Techniques for DataBases in Information Systems and Knowledge
Systems (ODBIS-2008) and the International Workshop
on
New Trends in Information Integration (NTII-2008),
held in Auckland, New Zealand, 23 August 2008.
- Giving a tutorial on "Ontologies and Databases: myths and
challenges" at the 34th International Conference on
Very Large Data Bases (VLDB-2008), held in
Auckland, New Zealand, 23-28 August 2008; (slides).
- In the program committee of the 11th Intl. Conference on
Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR-2008),
held in Sydney, Australia, 16-19 September 2008.
- Invited speaker at the Knowledge
Representation Ontology Workshop (KROW-2008), held
in Sydney, Australia, 17 September 2008.
2007
- Invited speaker at the 3rd workshop on
Logic and MultiAgent Systems (LAMAS-2007), held at
the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, 15-16 February
2007.
- General chair of the 4th Annual European
Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-2007), held in
Innsbruck, Austria, June 2007.
- Co-chair of the 2007 International Description
Logics workshop (DL-2007), held in
Brixen-Bressanone BZ, Italy, June 2007.
- In the program committee of the 4th Semantic Web
and Databases Workshop (SWDB-2007), held in Vienna,
Austria, September 2007.
- Keynote speaker at the 26th
International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER-2007),
held in Auckland, New Zealand, 5-9 November 2007; slides.
2006
- In the program committee of the International Workshop on Inconsistency
and Incompleteness in Databases (IIDB-2006), held
in Munich, Germany, 26 March 2006.
- In the program committee of the 2006
International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'2006),
held in the Lake District, UK, 30 May-1 June 2006.
- In the program committee of the 10th International Conference
on Principles of Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning (KR-2006), held in the
Lake District, UK, 2-5 June 2006.
- Chair of the 2nd International Workshop on Exchange
and Integration of Data (EID-2006), held in
Brixen-Bressanone, Italy, 9-11 June 2006.
- In the program committee of the 3rd
European Semantic Web Conference (ESWS-2006) held
in Budva, Montenegro, on 11-14 June 2006.
- In the program committee of the 14th
Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD-2006)
held in Portonuovo AN, Italy, on 18-21 June 2006.
- Invited speaker at the 25th ACM Symposium on Principles
of Database Systems (PODS-2006) held in Chicago IL,
on 26-28 June 2006; slides.
- In the program committee of the 21st National (USA) Conference
on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2006), held in
Boston, USA, 16-20 July 2006.
- In the program committee of the 2nd Summer School on Reasoning
Web (Reasoning Web 2006), held in Lisbon, Portugal,
4-8 September 2006.
- In the program committee of the European Conference on Logics
in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA-2006), held in
Liverpool, UK, 13-15 September 2006.
- Co-chair of the program committee of the International
Conference on Rules and Rule
Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML-2006),
held in Athens GA, USA, 9-10 November 2006.
- In the program committee of the 7th ACM International Workshop
on Web
Information and Data Management (WIDM-2006), held
in Bremen, Germany, 10 November 2006.
- Treasurer of the European
Association for Semantic Web Education (EASE).
2005
- In the program committee of the 14th International World
Wide Web Conference (WWW-2005) for the Semantic Web
area; the conference will be held in Chiba, Japan, 10-14 May
2005.
- Chair of the organising committee of the 13th Italian
Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD-2005);
the conference will be held in Brixen-Bressanone, Italy, 20-22
June 2005.
- In the program committee of the 12th International Symposium
on Temporal
Representation and Reasoning (TIME-2005), held in
Burlington, Vermont, USA, 23-25 June 2005.
- In the program committee of the International Workshop on Principles
and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning (PPSWR'05),
held in Dagstuhl, Germany, 11-16 September 2005.
- In the program committee of the International Conference on Ontologies,
Databases and Applications of SEmantics (ODBASE'05),
held in Cyprus, 31 October - 4 November 2005.
- In the program committee of the 3rd International Workshop on
Regulatory Ontologies (WORM'05), held in Cyprus, 31
October - 4 November 2005.
- In the program committee of the International Workshop on OWL:
Experiences and Directions, held in Galway, Ireland, 11-12
November 2005.
- In the program committee of the International Workshop on Methods
for Modalities (M4M'05), held in Berlin, Germany,
1-2 December 2005.
- In the program committee and giving a tutorial at the 2nd
Italian Semantic Web Workshop Semantic
Web Workshop (SWAP'05), held in Trento, Italy,
15-16 December 2005.
- Becomes member of the editorial board of the AAAI
Press, which co-publishes books with MIT Press.
- Becomes member of the editorial board of the Repository
of the European Association for Semantic Web Education (REASE).
2004
- Co-chair of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Logic
Based Information Agents held in Schloss Dagstuhl,
Germany, on 18-24 April 2004.
- In the program committee of the 1st
European Semantic Web Symposium (ESWS-2004) held in
Heraklion, Greece, on 10-12 May 2004.
- In the program committee of the 13th International
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004) for the
Semantic Web area; the conference will be held in New York (US)
May 17-22, 2004.
- In the program committee of the 2004
International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'2004),
held in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, June 6-8, 2004.
- In the program committee of the 11th International Symposium
on Temporal
Representation and Reasoning (TIME-2004), held in
Caen, France in July 2004.
- Becomes member of the editorial board of the Journal
of Applied Logic (JAL),
published by Elsevier.
- In the program committee of the
2nd Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web
Reasoning (PPSWR-2004),
held in St. Malo, France, 6-10 September 2004.
- In the program committee of the Workshop on
The Model-Driven Semantic Web: Enabling Knowledge
Representation and MDA; Technologies to Work Together (MDSW-2004),
held in Monterey CA, USA, 20-24 September 2004.
2003
- In the program committee of the Italian
National Database Conference (SEBD-2003), held in
Cosenza, Italy, 24-27 June 2003.
- In the program committee of the joint 10th
international symposium on "Temporal Representation and
Reasoning" and 4th International Conference on Temporal Logic
(TIME-ICTL-2003), held in Cairns, Queensland, Australia
on July 8-10, 2003.
- Invited speaker at the Workshop
on Logic-based Methods for Information Integration held in
Vienna, Austria, on 23 August 2003.
- Co-chair the 2003
International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'2003),
held on September 5-7, 2003 in Rome, Italy.
- In the program committee of the
5th International Workshop on Design and Management of Data
Warehouses (DMDW'2003), held on September 8, 2003,
in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Very
Large Databases (VLDB 2003), in Berlin, Germany.
- In the program committee of the 10th
International Workshop on Knowledge Representation meets
Databases (KRDB'2003), held in Hamburg, Germany ,
September 15-18, 2003.
- In the program committee of the
3rd workshop on Methods for Modalities (M4M-3),
held on September 22-23, 2003, in Nancy, France.
- In the program committee of the Int.
Conf. on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and
Reasoning (LPAR'2003), held on September 22-26,
2003, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- In the program committee of the
XXIII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science
Society (SCCC'2003) held in Chillan, Chile, on 3-8
November 2003.
- In the program committee of the 2nd CoLogNET-ElsNET Symposium
on
Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
held in Amsterdam, NL, on 18 December 2003.
2002
- In the program committee of the workshop on Formal
Ontology, Knowledge Representation and Intelligent Systems for
the World Wide Web (SemWeb@KR02), held in Tolouse
(France), 19-20 April 2002, colocated with KR-2002.
- In the program committee of the 9th
International Workshop on Knowledge Representation meets
Databases (KRDB-2002), held in Toulouse (France),
21 April 2002, colocated with KR-2002.
- Giving a tutorial on Description
Logics for Conceptual Design, Information Access, and Ontology
Integration: Research Trends at the 1st International
Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2002), held in Chia,
Sardinia (Italy), 9-12th June 2002.
- Co-chair of the organising committee of the 9th
International Symposium on Temporal Representation and
Reasoning (TIME-2002), held in Manchester (UK), 4-6
July 2002.
- In the program committee of the British
National Conference on Databases (BNCOD-2002), held
in Sheffield (UK), 17-19 July 2002.
- In the program committee of the
18th American National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI-2002), held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 28 July -
1 August 2002.
- In the program committee of the
Workshop on Foundations for the Semantic Web, held at the
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2002),
August 5-16, 2002, Trento Italy.
- In the program committee of the Workshop
on Ontologies for multi-agent systems, held at the 13th
International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge
Management (EKAW-2002), Siguenza (Spain), 1-4 October
2002.
- In the program committee of the
Second International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data
Management (ECDM-2002), held in Tampere, Finland,
11 October 2002, in conjunction with the 21st International
Conference on Conceptual Modelling - ER 2002.
- Invited speaker at Fifth International Conference on Flexible
Query Answering Systems (FQAS-2002), held in
Copenhagen, Denmark, October 27 - 29, 2002.
2001
- Chair of the International Workshop on "Foundations
of Models for Information Integration" (FMII-2001),
the 10th workshop in the series
Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects (FMLDO),
held in Viterbo, near Rome (Italy), 16-18 September 2001, in
conjunction with VLDB
2001.
- In the program committee of the
8th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation meets
Databases (KRDB-2001), held in Rome (Italy),
September 15, 2001, in conjunction with VLDB
2001.
- Invited speaker at the 2nd Methods
for Modalities Workshop (M4M-2), Amsterdam, 29-30
November 2001, on Description Logics for Information
Modelling and Access.
2000
- Co-editor of the special issue on
Methods for Modalities of the Logic Journal of the IGPL,
vol. 8, no. 3, May 2000, Oxford University Press.
- Chair of the programme committee of the 12th European
Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2000),
held in Birmingham (UK), August 6-18, 2000, organized in
co-operation with the European Network of Excellence in
Computational Logic (COMPULOG-NET).
- In the program committee of the European
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2000),
held in Berlin, August 20-25, 2000.
- In the program committee of the
7th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation meets
Databases (KRDB-2000), held in Berlin (Germany),
August 21-22, 2000, in conjunction with ECAI-2000
and DL-2000. In
1999, co-chair (together with M.
Kifer) of the 6th
International Workshop on Knowledge Representation meets
Databases (KRDB'99).
- Invited speaker at the
8th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS-2000)
on "Conceptual Modelling with Description Logic".
- Invited speaker at the
Information Integration Workshop at CERN on
"Ontology-driven Information Integration" (June 19th, 2000); you
may see the video
webcast of the talk.