Dr.  Giancarlo Guizzardi

Giancarlo Guizzardi is a Professor of Computer Science at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, where he leads the Conceptual and Cognitive Modeling Research Group (CORE). He has been active for more than two decades in the areas of Conceptual Modeling, Knowledge Representation and Information Systems Engineering, working with a multi-disciplinary approach that combines results from Formal Ontology, Cognitive Science, Logics and Linguistics. He has authored circa 290 peer-reviewed publications, which received more than a dozen international awards (e.g., CAISE 2004; ER 2015, 2018, 2019; IEEE EDOC 2011, 2013, and the two paper awards of EDOC 2017). Moreover, he has been a keynote speaker in more than two-dozen international events (e.g., ER 2014, BPM 2016). He is currently an associate editor for the Applied Ontology journal and for Data & Knowledge Engineering, and a member of a number of international journal editorial boards. Finally, he is a member of the ER Steering Committee and of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA).

• A Relational View on Services, Contracts, Trust, Value, and Risk
  The Relationship construct is one of the most fundamental constructs in the conceptual modeling/knowledge engineering toolbox.

   

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• A World of Objects and Events
  Different disciplines have been established to deal with the representation of entities of different ontological natures: the business process modeling discipline focuses mostly on...
• Carving Reality at its Digital Joints: The Role of Philosophical Ontology in Designing Future Sociotechnical Systems
  We live much of our lives immersed in the world of made up structures that we call Social Reality.  In other words, much of our lives are governed by socially constructed (and, hence,...
• It's Patterns all the Way Down: Ontological Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Pattern Languages for Next-Generation Conceptual Modeling
  In his ACM Turing Award Lecture entitled “The Humble Programmer”, E. W. Dijkstra discusses the sheer complexity one has to deal with when programming large computer systems. His...
• Ontology, Interoperability and the "I" of FAIR
  According to the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) guiding principles for Data Management, one of the central attributes for maximizing the added value of information...
• What's in a (Conceptual) Model?: A Philosophical Account
  This talk discusses the philosophical foundations of conceptual modeling by addressing a number of foundational questions such as: What is a conceptual model? Among models used in computer...