Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group

Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES)

Computer Science Department - Brazil

Dr. Giancarlo Guizzardi Associate Professor (Professor Adjunto) Phone: (+5527)33352189 Fax: (+5527)33352850 Skype: guizzardi,g.

Research

My current main line of research is concerned with the application of foundational ontologies in the development of philosophically and cognitively well-justified methodological tools for conceptual modeling in computer science. Additionally, I am interested in the application of reference and lightweight ontologies in areas such as Software Engineering (in particular Domain Engineering, Semantic Interoperability of Tools and Applications, Semantic Software Environments, Software Reuse), Domain-specific visual languages Design and Organizational Modeling (including Intentional Analysis and Business Process Modeling). Finally, I am interested in the Formal Characterization of Ontological Theories with Non-Classical Logics.

To know more about my research one should check my Publications

Short Bio

From 2000 to 2005, I was a member of the ASNA (Architecture and Services of Network Applications) Research Group in University of Twente in The Netherlands. As a result of my work there, I have received a PhD (Cum Laude) from the same university. The results of my PhD research have been published in the book “Ontological Foundations for Structural Conceptual Models”. Since 2003, I have been a Visiting Scientist, Research Collaborator and Associate Researcher at the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), Institute for Cognitive Science in Technology (ISTC), in Trento, Italy. I am currently a member of the Computer Science Department at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, in Vitória, Brazil, where I am one of the coordinators of the Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO).

I have been working for more than a decade in the development of Domain and Foundational Ontologies and their application in computer science and, primarily, in the area of Conceptual Modeling. I have participated in a number of academic and industrial projects in domains such as Software Engineering, Oil and Gas, and Medical Informatics. I am one of the initiators of the workshop series VORTE (Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise), a satellite event of the IEEE EDOC (Enterprise Computing) Conference, WOMSDE (Workshop on Ontologies and Metamodels in Software and Data Engineering) and MOST (Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies and Semantic Technologies), a satellite event of the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2009). Moreover, I have been a program committee member and reviewer for a number of scientific events, journals and books in the area of ontologies and conceptual modeling. For the past five years, I have been promoting the discipline of Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling in different international scientific events and graduate programs as a panelist, guest lecturer and keynote speaker. A calendar of these talks is available here. Finally, I have been a guest editor of journals such as Applied Ontology (IOS Press), Information Systems (Elsevier), International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (InderScience), and I am currently a Editorial Board Member of the International Journal on Information Systems Modeling and Design (IJISMD).