Description Logics for Conceptual Design, Information Access, and Ontology Integration

Description Logics for Conceptual Design, Information Access, and Ontology Integration: Research Trends

The Lecturer

lecturer:

: Enrico Franconi is Associate Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, Faculty of Computer Science. He is currently involved as Principal Investigator of the European IST project ``Semantic Webs and Agents in Integrated Economies'' (SEWASIE), as Principal Investigator of the British Research Council (EPSRC) project ``Knowledge Representation meets Databases'' (KRDB), and as co-investigator in the EPSRC project ``Flexible source integration in distributed knowledge-based query processing for bioinformatic information sources'' (TAMBIS-II). In the past he has been Principal Investigator in various projects on the foundations of information systems and ontologies: European ESPRIT-4 Long Term Research project ``Foundations of Data Warehouse Quality'' (DWQ); Italian National Research Council (CNR) projects ``Ontological tools for the Management and the Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge'', ``Ontological and Linguistic Tools for Conceptual Modelling', and ``Hybrid Knowledge Representation Systems''; Italian Space Agency (ASI) project ``Integration and Access to Heterogeneous Databases''.
Recently he chaired the 1998 International Description Logics Workshop (DL'98); the 6th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation meets Databases (KRDB'99); the PC of the 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'2000); the International Workshop on Foundations of Models for Information Integration (FMII-2001), which is the 10th workshop in the series Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects (FMLDO).

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