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Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology - C.N.R.
Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Trento and Rome, Italy (ISTC-CNR) | ||
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Description: The Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies is a new institute coming from the recent restructuring of the Italian National Research Council, the major Italian network of public research. It is a highly interdisciplinary institute, with research activities on areas as diverse as natural language, cognitive development, mental models, education, cognitive simulation, emotions, knowledge engineering. The institute has three locations: Rome, Padova, and Trento. The Laboratory for Applied Ontology has been recently established in Trento (with a branch in Rome), and results from the merging of two previous groups working on ontologies in different CNR institutes: the former LADSEB-CNR and the former ITBM-CNR. The two groups have been working together in the ontology fields for more than ten years, with a strongly interdisciplinary approach that combines together Computer Science, Philosophy, and Linguistics, and relies on Logic as a unifying paradigm. They have played a leading role in promoting a well-founded ontological approach within the Computer Science community, as testified by the successful series of conferences on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), a number of special issues on international journals, and a series of invited talks and tutorials in different communities. LOA is currently involved in various ontology-related projects, such as WonderWeb (development of a library of foundational ontologies), OntoWeb (harmonization of content standards, legal ontologies), a large EUREKA project on ontology-driven Information and Knowledge Fusion (IKF), an Italian project on the Ontology of Social Interaction (TICCA), and a FAO project on semantic interoperability of legacy systems and terminologies for food and agriculture (FOS - Fishery Ontology Service). Strong cooperation relationships exist with various research institutes, in particular with IRIT-CNRS, the University of Trento and with ITC-IRST in Trento. | ||
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Nicola Guarino
(1954) is a senior research scientist at ISTC-CNR, where he leads the Laboratory for Applied Ontology. He graduated in Electrical Engineering at the University of Padova in 1978. In 1979-1984 he was responsible of the data acquisition and monitoring system of a large nuclear fusion experiment. He then joined LADSEB-CNR to work on knowledge representation issues, and recently moved to ISTC-CNR. He has been active in the ontology field since 1991, and has played a leading role in the AI community in promoting the study of ontological foundations of knowledge engineering and conceptual modelling. His current research activities regard ontology design and ontology-driven conceptual modelling. He is general chair of the conference series on ³Formal Ontology in Information Systems² (FOIS), and associate editor of the Journal of Data Semantics, the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and the Semantic Web area of the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. He has published about 80 research papers, and has been guest editor of several special issues on international journals related to formal ontology and information systems.
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