Giancarlo Guizzardi (born 1975 in Vitoria, Brazil) is a Brazilian–Italian

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

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) in Vitoria, Brazil.

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. 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 as well as interviews on these topics. He defended his PhD thesis in 2005 in the

University of Twente The University of Twente (Dutch: ''Universiteit Twente''; , abbr. ) is a public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands. The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. ...

. 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 OntoUML is an ontologically well-founded language for Ontology-driven Conceptual Modeling. OntoUML is built as a UML extension based on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO). The foundations of UFO and OntoUML can be traced back to Giancarlo ...

language.

Collaborations

He has an active history of collaboration with

Nicola Guarino Nicola Guarino (born 1954, in Messina) is an Italian computer scientist and researcher in the area of Formal Ontology for Information Systems, and the head of the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), part of the Italian National Research Council ...

. In fact, an initial fragment of

was considered to be an evolution of the

OntoClean OntoClean is a methodology for analyzing ontologies based on formal, domain-independent properties of classes (the metaproperties) developed by Nicola Guarino and Chris Welty. Overview and History OntoClean was the first attempt to formalize not ...

methodology, the first methodology for ontological analysis in computer science, proposed by Guarino and

Chris Welty Christopher A. Welty is an American computer scientist, who works at Google Research in New York. He is best known for his work on ontologies, in the Semantic Web, and on IBM's Watson. While on sabbatical from Vassar College from 1999 to 200 ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guizzardi, Giancarlo Brazilian computer scientists Italian computer scientists 1975 births People from Vitória, Espírito Santo University of Twente alumni Living people