- Before coming to Twente, I was a Full Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, in the Italian Alps, where I lead the Conceptual and Cognitive Modelling Research Group (CORE). Before that, I have co-founded and co-directed the Ontology and Conceptual Modelling Research Group (NEMO) in Brazil for 10 years.
- I am very active in the communities of Formal and Applied Ontology, Conceptual Modelling, Information Systems Engineering, and Enterprise Computing/Business Informatics. My research follows a multidisciplinary program that combines results from Philosophy, Logics, Linguistics and Cognitive Science to address a number of problems in the aforementioned areas.
- I have published circa 400 papers in these areas, and have played many key roles in the main conferences in these fields (e.g. ER, FOIS, IEEE CBI and EDOC) including Program Committee Chair, General Chair, Steering Committee Member, and Keynote Speaker (e.g., ER, BPM, CAiSE, IEEE ICSC). I am currently an Associate Editor for the journals Applied Ontology, Data & Knowledge Engineering, and Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures. I am also a member of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Ontologies and its Applications (IAOA).
- I have conducted many technology transfer projects in areas such as Telecommunications, Risk Management, Tourist, e-Government, Digital Journalism, Complex Media Management, Distributed Software Development, Energy, among others.
- I am currently also a Guest Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. There I collaborate on scientific research in the areas of Value-Based Modelling, Formal and Applied Ontology in CyberSocial Systems, and Ethical Requirements for Information Systems.
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Ancillary activities
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Publications
2025
The Dual Nature of Organizational Policies (2025)In The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 17th IFIP Working Conference, PoEM 2024, Stockholm, Sweden, December 3-5, 2024. Proceedings (pp. 279-294) (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 538). Springer (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Weigand, H., Johannesson, P. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77908-4_17
2024
Dodge: Ontology-Aware Risk Assessment via Object-Oriented Disruption Graphs (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Nicoletti, S. M., Hahn, E. M., Fumagalli, M., Guizzardi, G. & Stoelinga, M.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.13964Core-O: A Competence Reference Ontology for Professional and Learning Ecosystems (2024)In Formal Ontology in Information Systems (pp. 16-30) (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 394). Calhau, R. F., Almeida, J. P. A., Sales, T. P., Barcelos, P. P. F. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA241289Dataset for a requirements modeling language and the Desiree framework (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Li, F.-L., Horkoff, J., Mylopoulos, J., Borgida, A., Guizzardi, R., Guizzardi, G., Liu, L. & Peng, Y.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14330484An Analysis of the Semantic Foundation of KerML and SysML v2 (2024)In Conceptual Modeling - 43rd International Conference, ER 2024, Proceedings (pp. 133-151) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 15238 LNCS). Springer. Almeida, J. P. A., Ferreira Pires, L., Guizzardi, G. & Wagner, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75872-0_8Ontological Foundations of Resilience (2024)In Conceptual Modeling: 43rd International Conference, ER 2024, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 28–31, 2024, Proceedings (pp. 396-416) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 15238). Springer. Barcelos, P. P. F., Calhau, R. F., Oliveira, Í., Prince Sales, T., Gailly, F., Poels, G. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75872-0_21Understanding the Variety of Domain Models: Views, Programs, Animations, and Other Models (2024)SN Computer Science, 5(7). Article 861. Proper, H. A. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-024-03163-yEvaluating quality of ontology-driven conceptual models abstractions (2024)Data & knowledge engineering, 153. Article 102342. Romanenko, E., Calvanese, D. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2024.102342Explanation, semantics, and ontology (2024)Data & knowledge engineering, 153. Article 102325. Guizzardi, G. & Guarino, N.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2024.102325Ontology-based security modeling in ArchiMate (2024)Software and systems modeling, 23(4), 925-952. Oliveira, Í., Sales, T. P., Almeida, J. P. A., Baratella, R., Fumagalli, M. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-024-01149-1
Research profiles
Courses academic year 2024/2025
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
- 192199508 - Research Topics CS
- 192199968 - Internship CS
- 192199978 - Final Project CS
- 192399979 - Final Project BIT
- 201300058 - Research Topics BIT
- 201300059 - Internship BIT
- 201300086 - Research Topics 2 CS
- 201400171 - Capita Selecta ST
- 201500371 - Capita Selecta BIT
- 201800524 - Research Topics EIT
- 202001486 - Capita Selecta EngD (tailored assignm.)
- 202001521 - Capita Selecta EngD (external course)
- 202001522 - Capita Selecta EngD (in-company tr.)
- 202001613 - MSc Final Project BIT + CS
- 202200251 - Capita Selecta DST
- 202300363 - Internship BIT - CS
- 202400608 - Internship TCS
Courses academic year 2023/2024
- 192199508 - Research Topics CS
- 192199968 - Internship CS
- 192199978 - Final Project CS
- 192399979 - Final Project BIT
- 201300058 - Research Topics BIT
- 201300059 - Internship BIT
- 201300086 - Research Topics 2 CS
- 201400171 - Capita Selecta Software Technology
- 201500371 - Capita Selecta BIT
- 201700342 - Internship TCS
- 201800524 - Research Topics EIT
- 202000028 - Smart Industry Systems
- 202001521 - Capita Selecta EngD (external course)
- 202001522 - Capita Selecta EngD (in-company tr.)
- 202001613 - MSc Final Project BIT + CS
- 202001614 - MSc Final Project CS + I-Tech
- 202001616 - Research Topics CS + I-TECH
- 202100291 - Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling
- 202200251 - Capita Selecta DST
- 202300363 - Internship BIT - CS
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