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Laboratory for Applied Ontology

The Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) performs basic and applied research on the ontological foundations of conceptual modeling, exploring the role of ontologies and ontology management in different fields. 

Coordinator: 
Nicola Guarino.

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The Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) performs basic and applied research on the ontological foundations of conceptual modeling, exploring the role of ontologies and ontology management in different fields, such as: knowledge representation, knowledge engineering, database design, information retrieval, natural language processing, and the semantic web. The group is characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach that combines Computer Science, Philosophy and Linguistics, and relies on logic as a unifying paradigm. On the application side, special emphasis is given to the use of ontologies for e-government, enterprise modeling and integration, natural language processing, and the Semantic Web.

Research

Foundational issues

  • Basic ontological categories and relations 
  • Formal comparison and evaluation of ontologies 

 

Ontology, language, cognition

  • Ontology and natural-language semantics 
  • Formal semantics of discourse and dialogue relations 
  • Ontology and lexical resources 
  • Ontology, visual perception and multimedia 

 

Ontology-driven information systems

  • Methodologies for ontology development 
  • Ontology-driven conceptual modeling 
  • Ontology-driven information integration & retrieval 

 

Application domains

  • Organizations, social reality, law
  • Business services and e-government
  • Industrial artifacts, manufacturing, engineering design
  • Formal models of interaction and cooperation

People

Coordinator

Nicola Guarino
Nicola
Guarino
Researcher

Administrative Staff

Monica Cagol
Monica
Cagol
Sira Greco
Sira
Greco

Researchers

Stefano
Borgo
Researcher
Roberta
Ferrario
Researcher
Claudio
Masolo
Researcher

Post-Docs

Emanuele
Bottazzi
Post-Doc

Associate Researchers

Laure
Vieu
Associate Researcher

Publications

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Books/Monographs
   2012
Ferrario R., Schiaffonati V. Formal Methods and Empirical Practices. Conversations with Patrick Suppes. 120 p. Stanford, CA, USA: CSLI Publications, 2012.

Proceedings
   2012
Ferrario R., Guarino N. Commitment-based Modeling of Service Systems. In: IESS 1.2 - International Conference on Exploring Service Science (Geneva, Switzerland, 15-17/02 2012). Proceedings, pp. ? - ?. Springer Verlag, 2012.  image

Projects

VISCOSO - Detection of crisis in socio-material systems via visual-cognitive-social processes
Fri, 01/06/2012 - Sun, 31/05/2015
SINTELNET: European Network for Social Intelligence
Wed, 01/06/2011 - Sat, 31/05/2014
LASTS: Logical Analysis of Socio-Technical Systems
Mon, 16/05/2011 - Thu, 15/05/2014
ICT4LAW
Tue, 01/12/2009 - Mon, 19/03/2012
European Japanese Ontology Interaction
Mon, 15/03/2010 - Wed, 14/03/2012
Ontologie e tecnologie semantiche per l'organizzazione aziendale
Wed, 01/09/2010 - Thu, 30/06/2011
Analisi e definizione di una metodologia operativa per migliorare la gestione dei dati relativi al conferimento di campioni all'Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie, con particolare riferimento alla sicurezza alimentare
Fri, 15/05/2009 - Sat, 14/05/2011
Ontological Foundations of Service Science
Mon, 01/02/2010 - Sat, 31/07/2010
A Foundational ontology for Sematic Interoperability in e-Government
Mon, 16/07/2007 - Thu, 15/07/2010
TOCAI -Tecnologie orientate alla conoscenza per aggregazione di imprese in internet (Knowledge oriented technologies for enterprise integration in Internet)
Tue, 25/07/2006 - Fri, 24/07/2009
Ontologia applicata alle organizzazioni sociali (Ontology Applied to Social Organisations)
Thu, 01/03/2007 - Sat, 28/02/2009
Attività di Formazione (ONTOLOGIA)
Fri, 04/07/2008 - Thu, 30/10/2008
MOSTRO: Methodology and Tools Infrastructure for the Creation of Knowledge Units
Fri, 01/10/2004 - Sun, 30/09/2007
Semantica per l'introduzione e l'abilitazione al lavoro per processi (Semantics for introducing and enabling process-oriented work)
Sun, 15/01/2006 - Sat, 31/03/2007
ONTOLOG: Strumenti logici per l'analisi di ontologie
Wed, 10/03/2004 - Fri, 09/03/2007
FOFIS: Formal Ontological Foundation for Information System
Tue, 01/02/2005 - Tue, 31/01/2006
ONTOINT: Verso una ontologia dell'interazione. La prospettiva linguistica
Thu, 01/01/2004 - Thu, 30/06/2005
WONDERWEB - Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web
Mon, 01/01/2001 - Wed, 30/06/2004
ONTOWEB: Ontology based information exchange for knowledge management and electronic commerce
Fri, 01/06/2001 - Mon, 31/05/2004
Realizzazione di un'ontologia per il dominio socio-assistenziale