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= Nicola Guarino  =
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Nicola Guarino is a retired research associate at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR), and former director of the ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) based in Trento. He has been playing a leading role in the ontology field, developing a strongly interdisciplinary approach that combines together Computer Science, Philosophy, and Linguistics. Among the most well known results of his lab, the OntoClean methodology and the DOLCE foundational ontology. He has been founder and co-editor-in-chief of the ''Applied Ontology'' journal, founder and former president of the ''International Association for Ontology and its Applications'' (IAOA). He is also an ''ER'' fellow and a fellow of the ''European Association for Artificial Intelligence'' (EurAI). Recently he received the ''Peter P. Chen'' award for outstanding contributions to the field of conceptual modeling.<br/>On the theoretical side,  his current research interests are focusing on the ontological foundations of knowledge representation and conceptual modeling and specifically the ontology of events, processes, and relationships, while on the application side he has been focusing on enterprise modeling, ontology of economics, and manufacturing. He is also interested in leveraging ontological analysis and semantic technologies to improve cognitive transparency, social accountability, and participatory governance of artificial intelligence artifacts.<br/>His publications got 32,000+ citations, with H-index=56 according to Google Scholar<br/>He has given many invited talks at the Ontology Summit as well as chairing summits, including:
 
* [[ConferenceCall_2006_02_02|Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experience]]
Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR)
* General Co-Chair of [[OntologySummit2011|Ontology Summit 2011: Making the Case for Ontology]]
Polo Tecnologico, Via Solteri 38, 38100 Trento, ITALY
* General Co-Chair of [[OntologySummit2012|Ontology Summit 2012: Ontology for Big Systems]]
 
* Ontology Summit 2025 Keynote Address: [[ConferenceCall_2025_01_22|Ontologies as specifications of conceptualizations: correctness, precision, and accuracy]]
 
* [[ConferenceCall_2026_04_15|Ontological Analysis as a Search for Truthmakers]]
'''Nicola Guarino''' (1954) is research director at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR), where he leads the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), a section of the Institute located in Trento. A graduate in Electronic Engineering at Padua University in 1978, he was first in charge of the data acquisition and monitoring system of a large nuclear fusion experiment in Padua. He then moved to the area of knowledge representation, joining the CNR Institute of Systems Theory and Biomedical Engineering (LADSEB-CNR) to work initially on medical expert systems. He joined ISTC-CNR in 2003, moving to Trento to found the new lab. Since 1991 he has been playing a leading role in the ontology field, developing a strongly interdisciplinary approach that combines together Computer Science, Philosophy, and Linguistics, and relies on logic as a unifying paradigm. In 1993 he organized in Padua the first International Workshop on Formal Ontology in Conceptual Analysis and Knowledge Representation, and since then he has gained a well-known international leadership concerning the ontological foundations of conceptual modeling and knowledge engineering, and more in general the role of semantic technologies in information systems, multi-agent systems, and natural language processing. His impact is testified by a long list of widely cited research papers, and many keynote talks and invited tutorials in major conferences involving different communities. Among the best known results of his lab, the [[OntoClean]] methodology (http://www.loa-cnr.it/Ontoclean) and the DOLCE foundational ontology (http://www.loa-cnr.it/DOLCE).
 
Current research interests include service science, socio-technical systems, and e-government applications. He is founder and editor-in-chief (with Mark Musen from Stanford University) of the international journal Applied Ontology, as well as founder and president of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (www.iaoa.org). He is also editorial board member of the International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems, the Journal of Data Semantics, and editor of the IOS Press book series Frontiers in AI and Applications.  
 
See: http://www.loa-cnr.it
 
See also: Dr. Guarino's invited talk to the Ontolog community at the session page: [[ConferenceCall_2006_02_02]]  
 


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Nicola Guarino

Nicola Guarino is a retired research associate at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR), and former director of the ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) based in Trento. He has been playing a leading role in the ontology field, developing a strongly interdisciplinary approach that combines together Computer Science, Philosophy, and Linguistics. Among the most well known results of his lab, the OntoClean methodology and the DOLCE foundational ontology. He has been founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Applied Ontology journal, founder and former president of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). He is also an ER fellow and a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). Recently he received the Peter P. Chen award for outstanding contributions to the field of conceptual modeling.
On the theoretical side, his current research interests are focusing on the ontological foundations of knowledge representation and conceptual modeling and specifically the ontology of events, processes, and relationships, while on the application side he has been focusing on enterprise modeling, ontology of economics, and manufacturing. He is also interested in leveraging ontological analysis and semantic technologies to improve cognitive transparency, social accountability, and participatory governance of artificial intelligence artifacts.
His publications got 32,000+ citations, with H-index=56 according to Google Scholar
He has given many invited talks at the Ontology Summit as well as chairing summits, including:

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