Nicola Guarino (9HB)
Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR) Polo Tecnologico, Via Solteri 38, 38100 Trento, ITALY (9HC)
Nicola Guarino (1954) is a senior research scientist at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR), where he leads the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) in Trento. He graduated in Electrical Engineering at the University of Padova in 1978, with a thesis on biomedical engineering. In 1979–1984 he was in charge of the data acquisition and monitoring system of a large nuclear fusion experiment in Padova. 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 moved to ISTC-CNR in 2003. He has been working on the foundations of knowledge representation and conceptual modeling for more than twenty years, playing a leading role in developing a strongly interdisciplinary approach that combines together Computer Science, Philosophy, and Linguistics, and relies on Logic as a unifying paradigm. (JMU)
He is editor-in-chief (with MarkMusen) of the Journal of Applied Ontology, associate editor of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and the Journal of Data Semantics, and general chair of the FOIS (Formal Ontology in Information Systems) conference series. (JMV)
See: http://www.loa-cnr.it (9HD)
See also: Dr. Guarino's invited talk to the Ontolog community at the session page: ConferenceCall_2006_02_02 (JMW)