De Giacomo

Giuseppe De Giacomo

Position: 
Full Professor
phone: 
+39 06 77274010
Personal site: 
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~degiacomo

Short Biography: 

Professor Giuseppe De Giacomo joined the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti (DIAG), SAPIENZA Univ. Roma, in 1998, as a Full Professor in 2006. His interests concern both theory and applications in several areas of Computer Science, including service composition, information integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, reasoning about actions, cognitive robotics, and object-oriented methodologies. He is has been and is currently involved in national and international research projects on information integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, and service modeling and composition. He was the principal investigator of the SAPIENZA unit of the EU Project EU-FP6-FET TONES (http://www.tonesproject.org) ended in Dec 2008, and he is the principal investigator of the SAPIENZA unit of the EU Project EU-FP7-STREP ACSI (Artifact Centric Service Interoperation), started in June 2010. He is the scientific coordinator of the Open Collaboration - Open Source Agreement W0954341 between SAPIENZA and IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, on the investigation of “data aware business processes and operation, through an artifact-centric approach”. The scientific coordinator for IBM is Rick Hull, well-known researcher in databases, now in IBM Research. He is the author of more than 200 publications in international conferences and journals, including the most prestigious ones in the above mentioned areas, such as Journal of Computer and System Science, Information and Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, Theoretical Computer Science, ACM-PODS, ACM-SIGMOD, LICS, IEEE-ICDE, VLDB, ICDT, IJCAI, AAAI, KR, ECAI (for a detailed list of publications, please see http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/g/Giacomo:Gius... or http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~degiacomo/publications). His h-index is 56 according to Harzing's Publish or Perish, which computes bibliometric indexes by making use of data collected through Google Scholar (note that such a h-index is one of the highest in Italy in the area of computer science and engineering). He regularly serves as a member of the Program Committee of many international conferences and workshops in the above areas, including PODS, ICDT, IJCAI, ICAPS, KR, AAAI. He served as the chair of the organizing committee of the 13th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'12) that took place in Rome, Italy in June 2012. He is program chair of the 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'14) that will take place in Vienna in July 2014. He is associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), and he is a member of the Editorial Board of Artificial Intelligence journal. He has delivered numerous invited talks and tutorials in the areas of knowledge representation, data integration and service composition. He got a 2009 IBM Faculty Award for the work on "Radical Simplification of Artifact-Centric Business Process Modeling". He also got a 2010 IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award for "Artifact-centric Business process modeling". In September 2012 was nominated ECCAI fellow. Since November 2011, he is the coordinator of the PhD board (Collegio dei Docenti) in "Ingegneria Informatica" of Sapienza, he has been the advisor of several PhD students. From March 2003 to October 2008 he has been the ERASMUS Scientific Coordinator of the Faculty of Engineering of Sapienza.

Projects list: 
  • He has been involved in several National and European projects, including EU Esprit Project 22469 DWQ - Data Warehouse Quality (1997-1999), EU FP5 IST-2001-34825 SEWASIE - SEmantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies (2001-2004), EU FP5 IST-2001-33570 INFOMIX - Boosting Information Integration (2001-2004), Italian MIUR-funded FIRB 2005 project TOCAI.IT - Tecnologie Orientate alla Conoscenza per Aggregazioni di Imprese in Internet [Knowledge-based Technologies for Internet-based Enterprises] (2006-2009). He has been or is the principal investigator of the Università di Roma La Sapienza unit of the following projects: EU FP6-7603 TONES - Thinking ONtologiES (2005-2008); EU FP7-ICT-257593 ACSI Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation (2010-2013); Open Collaboration Research Agreement W0954341 with Rick Hull of IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY, on "data aware business processes and operation, through an artifact-centric approach" (2009-2012); UK Royal Society International Joint Project 2009/R2 on "web services automatic synthesis through ATL symbolic model checking", joint with Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London; UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Project EP/I00520X/1 “Trusted Autonomous Systems” again with Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London (2010-2015); Australian Research Council (ARC) Competitive Research Grant - Discovery Project DP120100332 “Optimisation of embedded virtual complex systems by re-using a library of available component” with Sebastian Sardina of RMIT and Maurice Pagnucco of Univ. of Sidney (2012-2014).

Achievements and Awards: 
  • IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award, 2009
  • IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award, 2010
  • University of Melbourne Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, 2011
  • ECCAI Fellow, 2012