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.
• AIxIA, the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence is a non-profit organization that promotes study and reasearch in artificial intelligence. AIxIA offers each year prices for master and PhD theses in artificial intelligence, and provides support to its member for the participation to AI related events.

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).

Current 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 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010). Shanghai, China, November 7-11, 2010.
• Member of the program committee of the 14th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2011). Uppsala, Sweden, March 22-25, 2011.
• Member of the program committee of the 13th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2011). Beijing, China, April 18-20, 2011.
• Member of the program committee of the 5th Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW 2011). Santiago, Chile, May 9-11, 2011.
• Member of the program committee of the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011). Heraklion, Greece, May 29-June 4, 2011.
• Member of the program committee of the 24th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2011). Barcelona, Spain, July 13-16, 2011.
• Member of the senior program committee of the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011). Barcelona, Spain, July 16-22, 2011.
• Member of the program committee of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2011). San Francisco, CA, USA, August 7-11, 2011.

Tutorials and Courses

• Course on Description Logics for Conceptual Data Modeling in UML, held at the 15th 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.
• Course on Answering Queries in Description Logics: Theory and Applications to Data Management, held at the 22nd European Summer School in Logic Language and Information (ESSLLI 2010). Copenhagen, Denmark, August 9-20, 2010.