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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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2026

ONTrust: A Reference Ontology of Trust (2026)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Amaral, G., Sales, T. P., Baratella, R., Porello, D., Guizzardi, R. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.07662Mapping the Pain: How Modelers Experience and Respond to Common Domain Modeling Frustrations (2026)In Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing: 29th International Conference, EDOC 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, September 9–12, 2025, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 193-209) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 16213). Springer. Valle, I., Sales, T. P., Guerra, E., Daneva, M., da Silva Santos, L. O. B., Proper, H. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15140-7_11A core ontology of organizational policies (2026)Software and systems modeling (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Weigand, H., Johannesson, P. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-025-01356-4Abstracting Conceptual Models as a Weakening Process (2026)In Logic, Language, Information, and Computation: 31st International Workshop, WoLLIC 2025, Porto, Portugal, July 14–17, 2025, Proceedings (pp. 141-157) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 15942). Springer. Romanenko, E., Kutz, O., Calvanese, D. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99536-1_9Creon: A Capability Reference Ontology for the Analysis and Design of Systems Capabilities (2026)In Conceptual Modeling: 44th International Conference, ER 2025, Proceedings (pp. 85-105) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 16189 LNCS). Springer. Calhau, R. F., Almeida, J. P. A., Hoffmann, R. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08623-5_5Group Modelling as Discourse: Games, Play, Ontologies and the Emergence of Shared Understandings: Games, Play, Ontologies and the Emergence of Shared Understandings (2026)In Conceptual Modeling: 44th International Conference, ER 2025, Proceedings (pp. 65-84) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 16189 LNCS). Springer. Willis, M., Adamo, G. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08623-5_4

2025

Time and Relations into Focus: Ontological Foundations of Object-Centric Event Data (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Hooshyar, H., Fumagalli, M., Montali, M. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.14425Combining Neural Empathy-Aware Behavior Trees with Knowledge Graphs for Affective Human-AI Teaming (2025)IEEE transactions on affective computing. Amaral, G., Costantini, S., De Gasperis, G., De Lauretis, L., Dell'Acqua, P., Guizzardi, G., Gullo, F. & Rafanelli, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2025.3641641The 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. Weigand, H., Johannesson, P. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77908-4_17GenSIaC: Toward Security-Aware Infrastructure-as-Code Generation with Large Language Models (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Li, Y., Grella, M., Nahmias, D., Engelberg, G., Klein, D., Guizzardi, G., van Ede, T. & Continella, A.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.12385

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