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ACM Fellow,EurAI Fellow,AAIA Fellow.
Full Professor in Computer Engineering (IINF-05/A) at theFaculty of Engineering of theFree University of Bozen-Bolzano.
Spokesperson of the Institute of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Coordinator of the Intelligent Integration and Access to Data(In2Data) research group, which is part of the Research Centre for Knowledge and Data(KRDB).
Director of the Smart Data Factory(SDF) technology transfer lab, at NOI Techpark.
Originator and co-founder of Ontopic, the first spin-off of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

Contact information
Research, with list ofpublications
Curriculum vitae (updated February 2025):full,short,short bio
Teaching

Contact information

Address:

Diego Calvanese
Faculty of Engineering
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
NOI Techpark, Via Bruno Buozzi, 1
I-39100 Bolzano, Italy.

Office: 5th floor, Room B1.5.04

Tel: +39-0471 016 160

Fax: +39-0471 016 009

E-mail:

Web: https://www.inf.unibz.it/~calvanese/

DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/c/DiegoCalvanese

ORCID: 0000-0001-5174-9693

Google Scholar: We0kRfEAAAAJ

Elsevier Scopus: 7004220724

Web of Science: L-4126-2015

ResearchGate: Diego-Calvanese

Semantic Scholar: 1733846

LinkedIn: diego-calvanese-86149013

Research

Interests

Virtual Knowledge Graphs (a.k.a. Ontology-based data access and integration) - see Ontop framework
Verification and synthesis for data-aware processes
Description logics and logics for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Ontologies and Semantic Web
Graph data management
Integration and exchange of data and knowledge
Service modeling and synthesis
Conceptual data modeling

Projects (present and past)

Virtual Knowledge Graphs: theOntop framework, supporting SPARQL query answering over OWL 2 QL ontologies connected to external data sources via R2RML mappings
See also the South Tyrol Open Data Hub Knowledge Graph powered by Ontop.
EU H2020 INFRAEOSC Project: Intelligent Open Data Exploration (INODE) -- 11/2019 - 10/2022
Italian Basic Research (PRIN) Project: High quality Open data Publishing and Enrichment (HOPE) -- 09/2019 - 08/2022
FESR Project: Data Integration for Energy Efficiency (IDEE) -- 10/2018 - 05/2022
EU CHIST ERA Project: Process-aware Analytics Support based on Conceptual Models for Event Logs (PACMEL) -- 03/2019 - 02/2021
Euregio Project: Knowledge-Aware Operational Support (KAOS) -- 06/2016 - 05/2019
See also the onprom framework for event log extraction from legacy data by exploiting OBDA, developed within KAOS.
EU FP7 IP Project: Scalable End-User Access to Big Data (Optique) -- 11/2012 - 10/2016
FUB Foundation Project: Automated Extraction and Verification of Clinical Guidelines (VeriCliG) -- 02/2012 - 01/2014
EU FP7 STREP Project on Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation (ACSI) -- 06/2010 - 05/2013
EU FP6 FET project on Thinking Ontologies (TONES) -- 09/2005 - 12/2008

Research Links

Principles of Data Management and Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) pages
Description Logics (DL) home page
Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Association (RRA).
AIxIA, the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence is a non-profit organization that promotes study and research in artificial intelligence.
The Description Logic Handbook, edited by Franz Baader, Diego Calvanese, Deborah McGuinness, Daniele Nardi, and Peter Patel-Schneider is available from Cambridge University Press

Publications

Sorted by year (most of the publications are available as pdf, and some of the older ones as gzipped postscript)
Sorted by topic, also withdirect viewing of abstracts
On DBLP
Bibliometric data according toGoogle Scholar
Bibliometric data according toMicrosoft Academic Search

Current Organizational Activities

President of the Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Association (RRA).
Member of thePrinciples of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) Advisory Committee.
Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ).
Member of the Advisory Team of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series.
Member of the program committee of theForum of the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2022 Forum). Leuven, Belgium, 6-10 June 2022.
Member of the program committee of theSymposium on Open Data and Knowledge for a Post-Pandemic Era (ODAK 2022). Brighton, U.K., 30 June - 1 July 2022.
Member of the program committee of the31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022). Vienna, Austria, 23-29 July 2022.
Area Chair of the19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2022). Haifa, Israel, 31 July - 5 August 2022.
Member of the program committee of the35th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2022). Haifa, Israel, 7-10 August 2022.
Program co-Chair of the6th International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM 2022). Nanjing, China, 11-13 August 2022.
Member of the program committee of the19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2022). Varna, Bulgaria, 8-10 September 2022. Past organizational activities.

Keynotes and Invited Talks

Invited Talk onDesigning Virtual Knowledge Graphs, held at the 4th Edition of The Academic Fringe Festival (TAFF) series, focusing on Human-Centered AI: Knowledge and Language, at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). Online, 6 February 2023.
Invited Talk onEngineering Virtual Knowledge Graphs, held at the Huawei Strategy and Technology Workshop 2022 (STW 2022). Shenzhen, China, and online, 27 September 2022.
Invited Talk onKnowledge Representation and Information Systems, held at the_Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop~22282 on Current and Future Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning_. Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 11-15 July 2022.
Invited Talk onOntology-based Data Access and Integration - Relational Data and Beyond at the_SAP Inspiration Sessions_. Online, 15 December 2021.
Invited Talk onAccessing and Integrating Data through Ontologies at the_Huawei European Autonomous Network Forum 2021_ (EANF 2021). Online, 15 October 2021.
Keynote onMapping Patterns for Virtual Knowledge Graphs at the_27th International Conference on Conceptual Structures_ (ICCS 2021). Online, 22 September 2021.
Keynote onVirtual Knowledge Graphs for Data Access and Integration at the_26th International Computer Conference, Computer Society of Iran_ (CSICC 2021), Tehran, Iran. Online, 3 March 2021.
Keynote onMapping Patterns for Virtual Knowledge Graphs at the_2020 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering_ (AIKE 2020). Online, 9 December 2020.
Keynote onOntology-based Data Access and Integration: Relational Data and Beyond at the_44th Latin American Computing Conference_ and the_13th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies_ (CLEI-LACLO 2018). Sau Paulo, Brasil, 1 October 2018.
Keynote onReasoning over Evolving Graph-structured Data Under Constraints at the_10th Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management_ (AMW 2016). Panama City, Panama, 22 June 2016.
Keynote onManaging Change in Graph-structured Data Using Description Logics at the_29th International Workshop on Description Logics_ (DL 2016). Cape Town, South Africa, 22 April 2016.
Keynote onOntologies for Data Integration at the_IJCAI~2015 Workshop on Formal Ontologies for Artificial Intelligence_ (FOfAI 2015). Buenos-Aires, Argentina, 27 July 2015.
Keynote onQuery Answering over Description Logic Ontologies at the_14th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence_ (JELIA 2014). Madeira, Portugal, 24-26 September 2014.
Keynote onScalable End-User Access to Big Data at the_16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications_ (AIMSA 2014). Varna, Bulgaria, 11-13 September 2014.
Keynote onFoundations of Data-Aware Process Analysis: A Database Theory Perspective at the_32nd ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems_ (PODS 2013). New York (NY), USA, 22-27 June 2013.
Keynote onOntology-Based Data Access: From Theory to Practice at the 28th French Conference on Advanced Databases (BDA 2012). Clermont-Ferrand, France, 24-26 October 2013.

Tutorials and Courses

Tutorial onDesigning Virtual Knowledge Graphs with Ontop and Ontopic Studio, held together with Benjamin Cogrel and Davide Lanti at the_15th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil_ (OntoBras 2022). Online, 25 November 2022.
Tutorial onOntology-based Data Access Made Practical, held at the_EDBT-INTENDED Summer School 2022 on Data and Knowledge_ (EDBT-INTENDED 2022). Bordeaux, France, 4-9 July 2022.
Tutorial onIntegrating Data through Virtual Knowledge Graphs with Ontop, held together with Benjamin Cogrel and Guohui Xiao at the_Knowledge Graph Conference 2021_ (KGC 2021). Online, 3 May 2021.
Tutorial onComposite Event Recognition in Logic and Artificial Intelligence, held at the_Dagstuhl Seminar~20071 on Foundations of Composite Event Recognition_. Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 9-14 February 2020.
Tutorial on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, as part of the Course on Digital Transformation offered by lvh.apa. Bolzano, Italy, 9 January 2020.
Course on Virtual Knowledge Graphs for Data Integration, held at the_6th International Winter School on Big Data_ (BigDat 2020). Ancona, Italy, 13-17 January 2020.
Tutorial on Virtual Knowledge Graphs, held at the_9th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference_ (JIST 2019), Hangzhou, China, 25-27 November 2019.
Webinar onOntology-based Access to Temporal Data, held at the_Monthly RuleML Teleconference_. Skype, 22 February 2019.
Tutorial onNovel Developments in Ontology-Based Data Access and Integration, held together with Guohui Xiao at the_17th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence_ (AI*IA 2018). Trento, Italy, 20-23 November 2018.
Full-day tutorial onSemantic Technologies for Data Access and Integration, held together with Guohui Xiao at the_27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management_ (CIKM 2018). Torino, Italy, 22-26 October 2018.
Tutorial onQuery Reformulation and Optimization in Ontology-based Data Access, held at the_2018 Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil_ (Ontobras 2018). Sao Paulo, Brasil, 1-3 October 2018.
Tutorial on Ontology-based Data Access: Relational Data and Beyond, held at the_33rd Italian Conference on Computational Logic_ (CILC 2018). Bolzano, Italy, 20-22 September 2018.
Tutorial onIntegrated Modeling and Verification of Processes and Data, held together with Marco Montali at the_15th International Conference on Business Process Management_ (BPM 2017). Barcelona, Spain, 10-15 September 2017.
Course onVerification of Data-aware Processes, held together with Marco Montali at the_29th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information_ (ESSLLI 2017). Toulouse, France, 17-28 July 2017.
Course on Verification of Data-centric Systems, held together with Marco Montali at the_RiSE & LogiCS Summer School on Logic, Artificial Intelligence and Verification_ (LAIVe Summer School 2017). Vienna, Austria, 3-5 July 2017.
Course on Data-aware Processes: Modeling, Mining, and Verification, held at the_3rd International Winter School on Big Data_ (BigDat 2017). Bari, Italy, 13-17 February 2017.
Tutorial onMapping Management and Expressive Ontologies in Ontology-Based Data Access, held together with Benjamin Cogrel and Guohui Xiao at the_20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management_ (EKAW 2016). Bologna, Italy, 19-23 November 2016.
Course on End-User Access to Big Data Using Ontologies, held at the_1st International Winter School on Big Data_ (BigDat 2015). Terragona, Spain, 26-30 January 2015.
Course on Answering Queries in Description Logics: Theory and Applications to Data Management, held together with Michael Zakharyaschev2 at the_22nd European Summer School in Logic Language and Information_ (ESSLLI 2010). Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-20 August 2010.
Tutorial onOntologies and Databases, held at at the_2009 Reasoning Web 2009 Summer School_ (RW 2009). Bressanone, Italy, 31 August - 4 September 2009.
Tutorial onOntology-based Data Integration, held together with Giuseppe De Giacomo at the_Semantic Days 2009 Conference_. Stavanger, Norway, 18-20 May 2009.
Tutorial onReasoning for Ontology Engineering and Usage, held together with Giuseppe De Giacomo, Matthew Horridge, Ralf Möller, and Anni-Yasmin Turhan at the_7th International Semantic Web Conference_ (ISWC 2008). Karlsruhe, Germany, 26-30 October 2008.
Tutorial onOntology-based Data Access, held together with Domenico Lembo at the_6th International Semantic Web Conference_ (ISWC 2007). Busan, Korea, 11-15 November 2007.
Course onQuery Processing in Data Integration, held as part of the_Bolzano - Innsbruck - Trento (BIT) PhD Summer School_. Bressanone, Italy, 7-11 July 2006.
Course on View-based Query Processing, held together with Giuseppe De Giacomo, Georg Gottlob, Maurizio Lenzerini, and Riccardo Rosati as part of the_PhD in Computer Engineering at the University of Rome "La Sapienza"_. Rome, Italy, September-November 2005.
Course on Description Logics for Conceptual Data Modeling in UML, held together with Giuseppe De Giacomo at the_15th European Summer School in Logic Language and Information_ (ESSLLI 2003). Vienna, Austria, 18-22 August 2003.

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