Academic activities

Research

Research Interests

• Entity-centric Information and Knowledge Management
  
• Theory of Context in Knowledge Representation
• Distributed Information Systems
• Logic-based Systems
• The Semantic Web

See also my Talks and Seminars folder and my publications.

Projects

• 2008 - 2010: OKKAM FP7 European Integrated Project, Technical Director.
  
• 2004 - 2007: VIKEF FP6 European Integrated Project. Member of the Project Competence Area "Semantic Representation and Interoperability in large-scale knowledge bases"

Talks & Conferences

Invited Talks

• 2007
  
• NETTAB2007: RDF Standard and Technologies (Tutorial).
  
• ONTOSE2007: Identity and Reference for Information Integration.
  

Conference and Workshop Organization

I have participated/will participate in the organization of the following conferences and workshops:

• 2009
• International Conference on Semantic Digital Libraries (ICSD 2009) - Local Organizer
• 2008
• ESWC2008 Workshop IRSW
• SWAP2008 - Program Co-Char
  
• 2007
• WWW2007 Workshop I³ - Co-Organizer
• SWAP2007 - Program Co-Chair
  
• 2005
  
• SWAP2005 - Local Organization

Program/Review Committees

I have been/will be member of the PC for the following workshops/conferences/journals:

• 2009
• ESWC2009 (6th European Semantic Web Conference)
• ENQUIR2009 (International Workshop on Aspects in Evaluating Holistic Quality of Ontology-driven Information Retrieval)
• 2008
• IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Applications
• Knowledge Engineering Review, Special Issue on Ontology, Conceptualization and Epistemology for Software and System Engineering
• ESWC2008 (5th European Semantic Web Conference)
  
• KES2008 (12th International Conference on Knowledge-based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems)
  
• 2007
• First Internation Workshop on Web-scale Infrastructures for Semantic Mashup, Search and Retrieval, held in conjunction with  IEEE-ICSC 2007
  
• Workshop on Collective Intelligence on Semantic Web (CISW2007)
• CAISE'DC 07
• KES-2007 Invited Session on ENGINEERED APPLICATIONS OF SEMANTIC WEB (SWEA)
• 2006
• SWAP 2006: 3rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop
• ESWC06 Workshop: Mastering the Gap: From Information Extraction to Semantic Representation

External Peer Reviews

I have acted as an external reviewer for the following conferences and workshops:

• 2007
• ISWC2007
• Applied Computing AC2007
• WEBIST'2007
• 2006
• ISWC 2006
• EKAW 2006
• AAAI 2006
• ESWC 2006
• AIMSA 2006
• OM 2006
• 2005
• European Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2005
• Agent Mediated Knowledge Management AMKM 2005
• 2nd Italian Semantic Web Workshop SWAP 2005

Teaching & Supervision

Supervised Thesis

• 2007
• Stefano Bortoli. Master's Thesis. The Problem of Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web: the Case of Identifiers in FOAF
  Profiles. Scored 110/110, with Honors.
  

Courses

During my studies and industry career I've done quite a bit of teaching and coaching on various topics, from self management to project management, programming and software-development, to operating systems and networking.
In Academia I've been involved in the following teaching activities:

• Guest Lecturer: Theoretical background for the development of web applications. Master's Degree in Net Economy, University of Trento, 2008.
• Tutor: Models and Techniques of Knowledge Representation. Course for the Master's Degree in Net Economy, University of Trento (2008)
• Teaching Assistant: Models and Techniques of Knowledge Representation. Course for the Master's Degree in Net Economy, University of Trento (2006)