With a background as a Lawyer, Law Teacher, and Researcher in the Philosophy of Law, I became fascinated by mathematical logic, which I first encountered through my philosophy studies in law school, I decided to pursue a career in Computer Science, believing information technology is taking over every aspect of society and every research field.
I obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, researching ontology-driven conceptual modeling applied to the security domain, under the supervision of Giancarlo Guizzardi, Enrico Franconi, and Tiago Prince Sales.
I am interested in developing ontologically well-founded and logically rigorous technology solutions for risk management, particularly in cybersecurity.
Expertise
Computer Science
- Ontology
- Risk Management
- modeling language
- Phishing Attack
- Conceptual Model
- Conceptual Modeling
- Security Engineering
- Enterprise Architecture
Organisations
My research employs an ontology-driven approach to security modeling. In particular, I propose a general theory of prevention based on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) to ground an ontology of security--termed the "Reference Ontology for Security Engineering" (ROSE). These two ontological theories have been applied to analyze and redesign artifacts (D3FEND ontology and ArchiMate language).
Currently, I am working on improving those theories and developing novel applications. I am interested in developing well-founded semantic solutions that are understandable, interpretable, and interoperable by both humans and machines.
Publications
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2025
An Ontological Conceptual Model for Structuring Multimodal User Behavior in Virtual Reality (2025)In ER-Companion 2025 Industrial Track, ER Forum, 8th SCME, Doctoral Consortium, Tutorials, Project Exhibitions, Posters and Demos 2025: Companion Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (pp. 191-203) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 4099). CEUR. Oliveira, Í., Javdani Rikhtehgar, D. & Wang, S.https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4099/forum_paper8.pdfAn Ontological Lens on Attack Trees: Toward Adequacy and Interoperability (2025)In Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference, FOIS 2025 (pp. 151-165) (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 409). IOS. Oliveira, Í., Nicoletti, S. M., Engelberg, G., Fumagalli, M., Klein, D. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA250491An ontological lens on attack trees: Toward adequacy and interoperability (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Oliveira, Í., Nicoletti, S. M., Engelberg, G., Fumagalli, M., Klein, D. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.23841An Ontological Model of the Phishing Attack Process (2025)In Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling: 26th International Conference, BPMDS 2025, and 30th International Conference, EMMSAD 2025, Vienna, Austria, June 16-17, 2025, Proceedings (pp. 274-289). Article 17 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 558). Springer Spektrum. Oliveira, Í., Wagner, G., Amaral, G., Sales, T. P., Bullée, J.-W., Junger, M., Sarmah, D. K., Daneva, M. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95397-2_17Friend, Foe, or Target? Domain Models as Risk Deterrents, Risk Sources, and Assets at Risk (2025)In Research Challenges in Information Science: 19th International Conference, RCIS 2025, Seville, Spain, May 20–23, 2025, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 103-118) (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 547 LNBIP). Springer. Valle, I., Sales, T. P., Guerra, E., Oliveira, Í., Guizzardi, R., Bonino da Silva Santos, L. O., Proper, H. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92474-3_7Toward an ontology-based modeling for risk management (2025)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 18th International Workshop on Value Modelling and Business Ontologies, VMBO 2025. Oliveira, Í., Nicoletti, S. M., Fumagalli, M., Engelberg, G. & Guizzardi, G.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389385170_Toward_an_ontology-based_modeling_for_risk_managementPOWERs Perspectival Ontology Workshop on Entities that can be Realized (2025)CEUR workshop proceedings, 4176. Rodrigues, F. H., Barton, A., Almeida, J. P., Beverley, J., Borgo, S., Calhau, R., Jansen, L., Kistler, M., Oliveira, Í., Smith, B. & Toyoshima, F.Shields 2 2nd International Workshop on Modeling for Cybersecurity (2025)CEUR workshop proceedings, 4176. Oliveira, Í., Santamaria, D. F., Engelberg, G., Castiglione, G., Bella, G., Corvalan, V., Jeusfeld, M., Smart, P., Scarpato, N., Guizzardi, G. & Maunero, N.Toward an ontology-based modeling for risk management (2025)CEUR workshop proceedings, 4129. Oliveira, Í., Nicoletti, S. M., Fumagalli, M., Engelberg, G. & Guizzardi, G.
2024
Ontological 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_21Ontology-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
2023
Boosting D3FEND: Ontological Analysis and Recommendations (2023)In Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference, FOIS 2023 (pp. 334-348) (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 377). IOS. Oliveira, Í., Engelberg, G., Barcelos, P. P. F., Sales, T. P., Fumagalli, M., Baratella, R., Klein, D. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA231138Toward a phishing attack ontology (2023)In ER-Companion 2023: Companion Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: ER Forum, 7th SCME, Project Exhibitions, Posters and Demos, and Doctoral Consortium co-located with ER 2023 Lisbon, Portugal, November 06-09, 2023 (CEUR workshop proceedings; Vol. 3618). CEUR. Oliveira, Í., Calhau, R. F. & Guizzardi, G.https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3618/A System Core Ontology for Capability Emergence Modeling (2023)In Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing: 27th International Conference, EDOC 2023, Groningen, The Netherlands, October 30 - November 3, 2023, Proceedings (pp. 3-20) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 14367). Springer (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Calhau, R. F., Sales, T. P., Oliveira, I., Kokkula, S., Ferreira Pires, L., Cameron, D., Guizzardi, G. & Almeida, J. P. A.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46587-1_1unibz-core/security-archimate: v1.0.0 (2023)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Da Silva Oliveira, Í. J.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10005209italojsoliveira/data_analysis_chess_gm: Test (2023)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Da Silva Oliveira, Í. J.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo/zenodo.8391737italojsoliveira/data_analysis_consumer_law: Test (2023)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Da Silva Oliveira, Í. J.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8383451On the Semantics of Risk Propagation (2023)In Research Challenges in Information Science: Information Science and the Connected World: 17th International Conference, RCIS 2023, Corfu, Greece, May 23–26, 2023, Proceedings (pp. 69-86) (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 476). Fumagalli, M., Engelberg, G., Prince Sales, T., Da Silva Oliveira, Í. J., Klein, D., Soffer, P., Baratella, R. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33080-3_5
2022
Ontological analysis and redesign of security modeling in ArchiMate (2022)In The Practice of Enterprise Modelling: 15th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, PoEM 2022, London, UK, November 23–25, 2022, Proceedings (pp. 82-98) (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 456). Springer. Da Silva Oliveira, Í. J., Prince Sales, T., Almeida, J. P. A., Baratella, R., Fumagalli, M. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21488-2_6An Ontology of Security from a Risk Treatment Perspective (2022)In Conceptual Modeling: 41st International Conference, ER 2022, Hyderabad, India, October 17-20, 2022, Proceedings (pp. 365-379) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13607). Springer. Oliveira, Í., Sales, T. P., Baratella, R., Fumagalli, M. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17995-2_26
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