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Nicola Guarino

Email:

nicola.guarino@cnr.it

Telephone:

+ 39 0461 314871

Fax:

+ 39 0461 314875

Address:

Via alla Cascata 56C - 38123 Povo (TN) - Italy

Resume:

guarinoenglishcv.pdf

Group membership:

Laboratory for Applied Ontology

Additional details

Profile

Position:

Senior Researcher

I am retired research associate at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the
Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR), and former director of the ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) based in Trento. Since 1991 I have been playing a leading role in the ontology field, developing a strongly interdisciplinary approach that combines together Computer Science, Philosophy, and Linguistics. The impact of such approach is testified by a long list of widely cited papers and many keynote talks and tutorials in major conferences involving different communities. Among the most well known results of my lab, the OntoClean methodology and the DOLCE foundational ontology. I have been founder and editor-in-chief (with Mark Musen, Stanford University) of the Applied Ontology journal, founder and former president of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), and editorial board member of Int. Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems and Journal of Data Semantics. I am also founding member of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence and fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI).
On the theoretical side, my current research interests are focusing on the ontological foundations of knowlege representation and conceptual modeling and specifically the ontology of events and relationships (collaborating with Giancarlo Guizzardi to the new version of the UFO ontology), while on the application side my research is focusing on enterprise modeling and the ontology of economics. I am also interested in leveraging on ontological analysis and semantic technologies to improve the cognitive transparency, the social accountability and the participatory governance of artificial intelligence artifacts.

Tags:

ontology

conceptual modeling

knowledge representation

events

relationships

service science

artificial Intelligence

ontology of economics

Publications

2019

Capability agreements and risk

Amaral, Glenda C.M., Guizzardi, Giancarlo, Guarino, Nicola, Porello, Daniele, Sales, Tiago Prince

Source: The 13th International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business Ontology (VMBO 2019), Stockholm, 2019, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Amaral, Glenda C.M.; Guizzardi, Giancarlo; Guarino, Nicola; Porello, Daniele; Sales, Tiago Prince/congresso_nome:The 13th International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business Ontology (VMBO 2019)/congresso_luogo:Stockholm/congr

On Weak Truthmaking

Nicola Guarino, Daniele Porello, Giancarlo Guizzardi

Source: Joint Ontology Workshops 2019 Episode {V:} The Styrian Autumn of Ontology, Graz, Austria, September 23-25, 2019, Graz, Austria,, September 23-25, 2019, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Nicola Guarino, Daniele Porello, Giancarlo Guizzardi/congresso_nome:Joint Ontology Workshops 2019 Episode {V:} The Styrian Autumn of Ontology, Graz, Austria, September 23-25, 2019/congresso_luogo:Graz, Austria,/congresso_data:Se

Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2019 Episode {V:} The Styrian Autumn of Ontology, Graz, Austria, September 23-25, 2019

Daniele Porello, Adrien Barton, Selja Seppala

Source: Aachen: CEUR-WS.org, 2019, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Daniele Porello, Adrien Barton, Selja Seppala/titolo:Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2019 Episode {V:} The Styrian Autumn of Ontology, Graz, Austria, September 23-25, 2019/editore:

Relations in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling

Claudenir M. Fonseca and Daniele Porello and Giancarlo Guizzardi and Joao Paulo A. Almeida and Nicola Guarino

Source: Conceptual Modeling - 38th International Conference, ER 2019, Salvador, Brazil, November 4-7, 2019, pp. 28–42, Salvador, Brazil,, November 4-7, 2019, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Claudenir M. Fonseca and Daniele Porello and Giancarlo Guizzardi and Joao Paulo A. Almeida and Nicola Guarino/congresso_nome:Conceptual Modeling - 38th International Conference, ER 2019, Salvador, Brazil, November 4-7, 2019/co

2018

Modeling manufacturing resources: An ontological approach

Sanfilippo E.M., Benavent S., Borgo S., Guarino N., Troquard N., Romero F., Rosado P., Solano L., Belkadi F., Bernard A.

Source: , pp. 304–313, 2018, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Sanfilippo E.M.; Benavent S.; Borgo S.; Guarino N.; Troquard N.; Romero F.; Rosado P.; Solano L.; Belkadi F.; Bernard A./titolo:Modeling manufacturing resources: An ontological approach/titolo_volume:/curatori_volume:/editore:/a

Ontological foundations of competition

Sales T.P., Porello D., Guarino N., Guizzardi G., Mylopoulos J.

Source: Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference, {FOIS} 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, 19-21 September 2018}, pp. 96–109, Cape Town, South Africa, 19-21 September 2018, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Sales T.P.; Porello D.; Guarino N.; Guizzardi G.; Mylopoulos J./congresso_nome:Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference, {FOIS} 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, 19-21 September 201

2017

An Ontological Analysis of Value Propositions

Sales, Tiago Prince, Guarino, Nicola, Guizzardi, Giancarlo, Mylopoulos, John

Source: IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2017), pp. 184–193, Quebec City, Canada, 10-13/10/2017, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Sales, Tiago Prince; Guarino, Nicola; Guizzardi, Giancarlo; Mylopoulos, John/congresso_nome:IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2017)/congresso_luogo:Quebec City, Canada/congresso_dat

Business Processes and Their Participants: An Ontological Perspective

Adamo, Greta, Borgo, Stefano, Di Francescomarino, Chiara, Ghidini, Chiara, Guarino, Nicola, Sanfilippo, Emilio M.

Source: Conference of Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2017., pp. 215–228, Bari, 14-17/11/2017, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Adamo, Greta; Borgo, Stefano; Di Francescomarino, Chiara; Ghidini, Chiara; Guarino, Nicola; Sanfilippo, Emilio M./congresso_nome:Conference of Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2017./congresso_luogo:Bari/con

Urban artefacts and their social roles: Towards an ontology of social practices

Calafiore, Alessia, Boella, Guido, Borgo, Stefano, Guarino, Nicola

Source: , 2017, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Calafiore, Alessia; Calafiore, Alessia; Boella, Guido; Borgo, Stefano; Guarino, Nicola/titolo:Urban artefacts and their social roles: Towards an ontology of social practices/titolo_volume:/curatori_volume:/editore:/anno:2017