CORE: Conceptual and Cognitive Modelling Research Group
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Mission
The objective of this group is to develop theoretical foundations and engineering tools for advancing a discipline that supports the representation of conceptualizations of reality (i.e., conceptual models) that are both:
- ontologically and cognitively adequate and truthful to the phenomena being represented and
- pragmatic and efficient for supporting human as well as artificial agents in tasks such as domain learning and understanding, semantic interoperability, problem-solving and meaning negotiation.
Relevance
The group and its activities are relevant for:
- From a Research perspective, the group aims at developing cutting-edge research in the intersection between Conceptual Modelling, Cognitive Science and Applied Ontology.
- From an education point of view, the areas of concern and competence of the group are fundamental for many educational activities not only in computer science but also in areas such as Bioinformatics, Education and Modern Economics.
- From a technology transfer point of view, the type of research that is central to this group is fundamental to address semantic interoperability problems in areas ranging from Software Engineering to Robotics, from Finance to Manufacturing, from Life Sciences to Design.
Topics
- Conceptual modeling
- Computational logic
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Applied ontology
- Cognitive modeling
Key technologies
- Description logics and other ontology representation languages
- Enterprise architecture approaches (e.g., Archimate, DEMO)
- Conceptual modeling languages (OntoUML, ORM)
- Foundational ontologies (e.g., UFO, DOLCE)
Key technologies
- Description logics and other ontology representation languages
- Enterprise architecture approaches (e.g., Archimate, DEMO)
- Conceptual modeling languages (OntoUML, ORM)
- Foundational ontologies (e.g., UFO, DOLCE)
Applications
- Semantic interoperability
- Computational creativity
- Language engineering
- Enterprise modeling (including service engineering and management)
- Social and economic modeling (including the modeling of norms, risk, trust, value)
- Bioinformatics
- Robotics
Contact
Giancarlo Guizzardi (
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, web site)Giancarlo Guizzardi is an associate professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Find out more about him checking out his website.
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