Giancarlo Guizzardi

Giancarlo Guizzardi (born 1975 in Vitoria, Brazil) is a Brazilian–Italian computer scientist specializing in conceptual modeling, enterprise modeling, applied ontology and ontology-driven information systems. He is a professor in the computer science department of the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen in Italy and a senior researcher and founding member of the Ontology & Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO)[1] in Vitoria, Brazil.

Giancarlo Guizzardi
Born1975
NationalityBrazilian-Italian
Alma materUniversity of Twente
Known forConcept Modeling, OntoUML
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsFree University of Bolzano-Bozen
Ontology & Conceptual Modeling Research Group

Work

He is known for his approach towards Conceptual Modeling, which advocates that, if Conceptual Modeling is about representing conceptualizations of reality to support human understanding communication and problem solving, it must rely on foundations that take formal ontology in philosophy, cognitive science and linguistic seriously.[2]

He has been, for the past two decades, an active promoter of the so-called field of “Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling”, in general, and of the role of philosophy for Information Systems Engineering, in particular. He frequently gives keynote addresses[3][4][5] as well as interviews[6][7][8] on these topics.

He defended his PhD thesis in 2005 in the University of Twente. His thesis, entitled Ontological Foundations for Structural Conceptual Models, lays the foundation of what came to be known as the Unified Foundational Ontology and the OntoUML language.[2]

Collaborations

He has an active history of collaboration with Nicola Guarino. In fact, an initial fragment of OntoUML was considered to be an evolution of the OntoClean methodology, the first methodology for ontological analysis in computer science, proposed by Guarino and Chris Welty.[9]

References
  1. "Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO)".
  2. Guizzardi, Giancarlo (2005). Ontological Foundations for Structural Conceptual Models (Thesis).
  3. "Formal Ontology, Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Next-Generation Conceptual Modeling". 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2015). 12 November 2015.
  4. "Formal Ontology, Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Next-Generation Conceptual Modeling". NoMagic World Symposium 2016.
  5. ""Carving Reality at its Digital Joints: The Role of Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling in Next-Generation Information Systems Engineering"". 13th International Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017). 14 January 2018.
  6. "Connecting computer science to philosophy". Academia. 18 December 2017.
  7. "On the Importance of Ontology and Conceptual Modeling". No Magic World Symposium 2016. 8 October 2016.
  8. "Interview with Prof. Giancarlo Guizzardi". TI - Polskie Towarzystwo Informatyczne.
  9. Guarino, Nicola; Welty, Christopher (February 2002). "Evaluating Ontological Decisions with OntoClean". Commun. ACM. 45 (2): 61–65. doi:10.1145/503124.503150.
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