Claudia d'Amato's Home Page Research interests: Machine Learning - Similarity and Dissimilarity Measures - Semantic Web - Semantic Web Services - Knowledge Representation - Approximate Reasoning - Uncertainty Reasoning - Symbolic Objects
Research Fellow Dipartimento di Informatica Università degli Studi di Bari Via Orabona,4 I-70125 Bari - Italy  phone: +39 080 5442246 fax: +39 080 5442031 email: claudia.damato@uniba.it Foaf: View my Foaf profile (edited with FOAF-a-Matic)

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General Info

Awards

• Best Paper award at IEEE ICSC 2012  
  N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.   Towards Numeric Prediction on OWL Knowledge Bases through Terminological Regression Trees.  
• Best Paper award at ACM SAC 2010 - SWA Track  
  F. Esposito, N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato.   Recovering Uncertain Mappings through Structural Validation and Aggregation with the MoTo System.  
• PhD Thesis "Similarity-based Learning Methods for the Semantic Web" nominated by the Italian Commission for the AI*IA award 2007 as
  one of the Best Italian PhD Thesis in Artificial Intelligence
• Best best student paper award at SEBD 2007 offered by Pearson Education 
  C. d'Amato Constraint Hardness for Modelling, Matching and Ranking Semantic Web services.

Professional Activities

• Editorial Board Member of:
  • Semantic Web Journal (SWJ)
  • Semantic Web Journal - Special Issue on "Semantic Social Media Dynamics"
  • Semantic Web Journal - Special Issue on "Cognitive Science and the Semantic Web"
  • International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems (IARIA Journals)
  • International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications (IJISA)
  • Transactions in GIS - Special Issue on Semantic Similarity Measurement and Geospatial Applications.


• Workshop and Tutorials Chair at
  • the 11th International Semantic Web Conference ( ISWC'12)
  • the 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW'12)
  • the 6th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC'12)


• Track Chair for
  • the "Machine Learning" track at the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'13)
  • the "Machine Learning" track at the 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'12)
  
  
• Vice-Chair of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'09)


• Organizing Commettee Member of
  • the International Workshop on Data Mining on Linked Data at ECML/PKDD (DMoLD'13)
  • the International Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction at ISWC (LD4IE'13)
  • the Int. Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop at ISCW (URSW'13, URSW'11, URSW'10, URSW'09, URSW'08, URSW'07)
  • the Int. Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning on the Semantic Web at ESCW (IRMLeS'11, IRMLeS'10, IRMLeS'09)


• Program Committee Member of
  • the International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM'14)
  • the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC'13, ICSC'12)
  • the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'13, ISWC'12, ISWC'11, ISWC'10, ISWC'09, ISWC'08)
  • the International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'13, WI'12, WI'10, WI'09)
  • the Int. Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy'13, NeSy'12, NeSy'11, NeSy'10, NeSy'09)
  • the International Web Rule Symposium: Research Based and Industry Focused (RuleML'13, RuleML'12, RuleML'11, RuleML'10, RuleML'09)
  • the International Conference on Man-Machine Interactions (ICMMI'13)
  • the IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings'13 - Intelligent Management Track)
  • the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'13, IJCAI'11)
  • the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'13 - AI and the Web: Special Track; Student Abstract and Poster Program, AAAI'12 - AI and the Web: Special Track, AAAI'10)
  • the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'13, WWW'12, WWW'11)
  • the K-CAP 2013 Workshops & Tutorials (K-CAP'13)
  • the ACM International Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC'13, SAC'12, SAC'11, SAC'10) - Semantic Web and Application track (SWA'13, SWA'12, SWA'11, SWA'10)
  • the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'13, ESWC'12, ESWC'11)
  • the International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR'13, RR'11, RR'10)
  • the International Conference on Semantic Systems and the Semantic Web (I-SEMANTICS'13, I-SEMANTICS'12)
  • the International Workshop on Semantic and Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2013, SMAP 2012, SMAP 2011)
  • the International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI'13)
  • the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'12, ECAI'10)
  • the European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS'12, STAIRS'10)
  • the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses (EKAW'12, EKAW'10)
  • the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Meets Linked Open Data (Know@LOD'12) Co-located with ESWC'12
  • the German Workshop on Artificial Intelligence on the Web (AIW'12) Co-located with KI'12
  • the International Conference on Business Intelligence and Technology (BUSTECH 2012, BUSTECH 2011)
  • the International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications (COLLA 2012, COLLA 2011)
  • the International Conference on Internet Technologies & Society (ITS 2012)
  • the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST'11)
  • the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'11) - Inductive and Probabilistic Approaches Track
  • the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'11) - Reasoning Track
  • the Doctoral consortium at the International Symposium on Rules (RuleML 2011 Doctoral Consortium)
  • the Reasoning Web Summer School 2011
  • the International RuleML Challenge (RuleML-2011 Challenge, RuleML-2010 Challenge)
  • the International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML@BRF-2011)
  • the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD'10, ECML/PKDD'09)
  • the 1st Int. Workshop on Knowledge Injection to and Extraction from Linked Data at EKAW 2010 (KIELD'10)
  • the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Intelligence (ICAI'10)
  • the International IEEE Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-based Systems (SITIS'10, SITIS'09)
  • the Int. Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation at SITIS IEEE conference, (KARE'10, KARE'09)
  • the 5th Int. Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives Workshop (SWAP'08)
  • the Int. IFIP Workshop on Semantic Web & Web Semantic (SWWS'08, SWWS'07)


• Member of the IEEE "Semantic Web" Task Force


• Invited Expert for the Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group

Reviewing

Journal

• ADAC: Advances in Data Analysis and Classification Journal
• JAIR: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
• JWS: Journal of Web Semantics
• DKE: Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering
• ACM Computing Surveys
• TNNLS: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
• JLC: Journal of Logic and Computation
• TIST: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
• KAIS: Knowledge and Information Systems International Journal
• INS: Journal of Information Sciences
• AAI: Advances in Artificial Intelligence Journal
• SNAM: Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal
• PAA: Pattern Analysis and Applications International Journal
• KNOSYS: Knowledge-Based Systems International Journal
• IJITDM: International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making
• IJWET: International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
• JKE: International Journal of Knowledge Engineering
• JAI: Journal of Applied Intelligence
• IC: IEEE Internet Computing (Magazine)

Conferences

• DaWaK 2013, 2012, 2011: International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
• IEA-AIE 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2005: International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
• AIA 2013: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications
• ICDM 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2005: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
• ICAART 2012: International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
• KES 2012, 2011, 2008, 2007: International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
• ILP 2011, 2008: International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming
• IJCNN 2011: International joint Conference on Neural Networks
• PAKDD 2011: 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
• ECML/PKDD 2011, 2008, 2006: European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
• KDD 2011, 2010, 2009: ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
• AI*IA 2011, 2007, 2005: Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
• SEBD 2011, 2007: Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
• KDIR 2010: International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
• ESWC 2009, 2008: European Semantic Web Conference
• IIS 2009: 17th International Conference Intelligent Information Systems
• ECDL 2009: 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries
• CIDM 2009: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining
• ADMA 2009: International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications
• SUM 2008: International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management
• PAIS 2008: Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems
• CIDM 2007: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining
• IRCDL 2007: Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems
• AAAI 2006: National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• WIAMIS 2006: International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
• SDM 2006, 2005: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
• SAC 2006: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
• ISMIS 2006: The 16th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems

Workshops

• MCD 2008 at ICDM: 4th Int. Workshop on Mining Complex Data
• SMR2 2008 at ISWC: 2nd Int. Workshop on Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web
• SWAP 2007: Italian Workshop on Semantic Web and Perspectives

Education

• February 1st 2004 - January 31st 2007 - She was Ph.D. Student at LACAM Lab - Computer Science Department - University of Bari, under the supervision of Prof. Floriana Esposito. She defended her Ph.D. Thesis on 4th of May 2007
• January - May 2006 - She was visiting student at ISWeb - University of Koblenz-Landau - Germany under the supervision of Prof. Steffen Staab
• July 2005 - She attended SSSW Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web held in Cercedilla (Spain).
• March 2005 - She attended BISS International Spring School for Graduate Studies in Computer Science held in Bertinoro (Forlì).
• August 2004 - She attended ESSLLI European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information held in Nancy (France).
• March 2003 - She received a Laurea Degree with full marks and honors in Computer Science at the University of Bari. Discussed thesis "Automatic Classification of Symbolic Objects by O-NN Algorithm with weighted distance"

Research Projects

• SEMANTIC-PA "Semantic Web Technologies for the Public Administration" - Apulia Region Strategic Project, 2009-2011
• ATENEO 2009 "Metodi e Tecniche di Semantic Web Mining" (Methods and Techniques for the Semantic Web Mining)
• DIPIS "Distributed Production as Innovative System" - Apulia Region Strategic Project, 2007-2009
• ATENEO 2007 "Metodi di scoperta della conoscenza nelle basi di dati: evoluzioni rispetto allo schema unimodale" (Knowledge Discovery in databases: extensions with respect to the unimodal schema)
• DDTA "Distretti Digitali del Tessile e Abbigliamento", Apulia Region, 2006-2008. Project supported by "Dipartimento per Innovazione e Tecnologie"(Department for Innovation and Technology).
• PRIN COFIN 2005 "Apprendimento induttivo per la annotazione automatica su base semantica di documenti" (Inductive Learning for semantic-based annotation documents). National Ministry of Education Research and University project.
• PRIN COFIN 2004 "Astrazione e Logica descrittiva in Apprendimento Automatico" (Abstraction and Description Logic in Machine Learning). National Ministry of Education Research and University project.
• PRIN COFIN 2003 "Metodi e Tecniche di apprendimento automatico per il Semantic Web" (Machine Learning methods and techniques for the Semantic Web). National Ministry of Education Research and University project.
• IST-1999-10536 project SPIN! "Spatial Mining on Data of Public Interest", 2000-2002.
• IST-2000-25161 project ASSO "Analysis System of Symbolic Official data", 2001-2003.

Work experiences, research and development activities

• May 2003 - January 2004 - Collaboration with Omar S.p.A Allaxia group as analyst and developer for Power project: system for registry management and associative marketing developed for Confartigianato, available on Windows and Unix-like platform; realized with J2EE (Servlet/JSP) technology and using IBM WebShpere Application Server and RDBMS, like SQLSERVER2000, DB2 e PostgreSQL.
• January - May 2003 - Scientific Collaboration with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bari in the sphere of ASSO (Analysis System of Symbolic Official data, IST-2000-25561) project. Tasks involved: development of a software module for the empiric study of properties of dissimilarity measures and matching measures between symbolic object; test of modules which realize matching and dissimilarity measure; definition of a user guide to support user in the choice and estimation of the best dissimilarity measure or the best matching measure. Person in charge of the project: Prof. Floriana Esposito.
• March - June 2001 - Collaboration with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bari in the sphere of SPIN! (SPatial mining on data of public INterest) project to plan and realize a package for the support of Nine Intersection Model to integrate into the G.I.S. system developed in the project. Person in charge of the project: Prof. Donato Malerba.

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Publications

• Edited Works
  • Fernando Bobillo, Paulo C. G. da Costa, Rommel Carvalho, Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Kathryn B. Laskey, Kenneth J. Laskey, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Trevor Martin, Matthias Nickles and Michael Pool (editors) Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2010), Shanghai, China, November 2010. CEUR Workshop Proceeding (will appear).
  • Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Marko Grobelnik, Agnieszka Lawrynowicz and Vojtech Svátek (editors)   Proceeding of the 2nd ESWC International Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning on the Semantic Web (IRMLes 2010), Heraklion, Greece, May 31, 2010. Volume 611 of CEUR Workshop Proceeding, CEUR-WS.org, 2010.
  • Fernando Bobillo, Paulo C. G. da Costa, Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Kathryn B. Laskey, Kenneth J. Laskey, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Trevor Martin, Matthias Nickles, Michael Pool, and Pavel Smrz (editors) Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2009), Washington DC, USA, October 2009. Volume 527 of CEUR Workshop Proceeding, CEUR-WS.org, 2009
  • Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Marko Grobelnik, Agnieszka Lawrynowicz and Vojtech Svátek (editors)   Proceeding of the 1st ESWC International Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning on the Semantic Web (IRMLes 2009), Heraklion, Greece, June 1, 2009. Volume 474 of CEUR Workshop Proceeding, CEUR-WS.org, 2009.
  • Paulo Cesar G. da Costa, Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Kathryn B. Laskey, Kenneth J. Laskey, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Matthias Nickles, and Michael Pool (editors)   Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I Volume 5327 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2008.
  • Fernando Bobillo, Paulo C. G. da Costa, Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Kathryn B. Laskey, Kenneth J. Laskey, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Trevor Martin, Matthias Nickles, Michael Pool, and Pavel Smrz (editors) Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2008), Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2008. Volume 423 of CEUR Workshop Proceeding, CEUR-WS.org, 2008.
  • Fernando Bobillo, Paulo C. G. da Costa, Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Francis Fung, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Trevor Martin, Matthias Nickles, Yun Peng, Michael Pool, Pavel Smrz, and Peter Vojtas (editors) Proceedings of the Third ISWC Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2007), Busan, Korea, November 2007 Volume 327 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org, 2008.
• International Journals
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.  Inductive Learning for the Semantic Web: What does it buy?   Semantic Web Journal. IOS-Press. (2010)
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Structural Validation and Aggregation for Recovering Uncertain Ontology Mappings.   Applied Computing Review. ACM. (2010) (will appear)
  • F. Esposito, C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi.   Fuzzy Clustering for Semantic Knowledge Bases.   Fundamenta Informaticae Vol. 99(2) pp. 187-205 (2010)
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Inductive Classification of Semantically Annotated Resources through Reduced Coulomb Energy Networks.   International Journal of Semantic Web and Information System vol.5(4) (2009) pp. 19-38
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Metric-based Stochastic Conceptual Clustering for Ontologies.   Information Systems International Journal Vol. 34(8) (December 2009) pp. 792-806. Elsevier Science.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Induction of Classifiers through Non-Parametric Methods for Approximate Classification and Retrieval with Ontologies.   International Journal of Semantic Computing vol.2(3) (2008) pp. 403 - 423
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Evolutionary Conceptual Clustering Based on Induced Pseudo-Metrics.   International Journal of Semantic Web and Information System vol.4(3) (2008) pp. 44-67
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.  Ontologies: An Introduction.   EMBnet.news vol.14(1) (2008) pp. 28-35 EMBnet Executive Board. ISSN 1023-4144
  • A. Appice C. d'Amato, F. Esposito, D. Malerba.  Classification of Symbolic Objects: A Lazy Learning Approach   Journal of Intelligent Data Analysis vol.10 (2006) pp. 301-324 IOS Press
• Book Chapters
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Machine Learning Methods for Ontology Mining.   In: Phillip Sheu, Heather Yu, C. V. Ramamoorthy, Arvind K. Joshi, Lotfi A. Zadeh. Semantic Computing.   Wiley/IEEE, ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-470-46495-3 (2010).
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.  Analogical Reasoning in Description Logics.   In Paulo Cesar G. da Costa et al. (Eds.)   Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I, ISWC International Workshops, URSW 2005-2007, Revised Selected and Invited Papers Springer, LNCS Series Vol. 5327 pp. 330-347, 2008
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Approximate Measures of Semantic Dissimilarity under Uncertainty.   In Paulo Cesar G. da Costa et al. (Eds.)   Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I, ISWC International Workshops, URSW 2005-2007, Revised Selected and Invited Papers Springer, LNCS Series Vol. 5327 pp. 348-365, 2008
  • F. Esposito, C. d'Amato.  An Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Improving Symbolic Object Retrieval.   In Brito, P.; Bertrand, P.; Cucumel, G.; De Carvalho, F. (Eds.)   Selected Contributions in Data Analysis and Classification. Springer, 2007. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. 45-54, 2007
• International Conferences
  • C. d'Amato, S. Staab, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.  Efficient Resource Retrieval from Semantic Knowledge Bases.   ICSC 2010, 4th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, September, 22 - 24, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Induction of Concepts in Web Ontologies through Terminological Decision Trees.   ECML/PKDD 2010, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, September, 20 - 24, 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, B. Fazzinga, G. Gottlob, T. Lukasiewicz.  Combining semantic web search with the power of inductive reasoning.   SUM 2010, 4th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, September, 27 - 29, 2010, Toulouse, France.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Learning to Rank Individuals in Description Logics Using Kernel Perceptrons.   RR 2010, 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, September, 22 - 24, 2010, Bressanone/Brixen, Italy.
  • A. Lawrynowicz, C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi.  A Refinement Operator Based Method for Semantic Grouping of Conjunctive Query Results.   KES 2010, 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, September, 8 - 10, 2010, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Towards Learning to Rank in Description Logics.   ECAI 2010, 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August, 16 - 20, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, A. Lawrynowicz.  Categorize By: Deductive Aggregation of Semantic Web Query Results.   ESWC 2010, 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference, May, 30 - June, 03, 2010, Heraklion, Greece.
  • F. Esposito, N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato.  Recovering Uncertain Mappings through Structural Validation and Aggregation with the MoTo System.   SAC 2010 - SWA Track, 25th ACM International Symposium On Applied Computing, March, 22 - 26, 2010, Sierre, Switzerland.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Towards the Induction of Terminological Decision Trees.   SAC 2010 - SWA Track, 25th ACM International Symposium On Applied Computing, March, 22 - 26, 2010, Sierre, Switzerland.
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito, T. Lukasiewicz.  Inductive Query Answering and Concept Retrieval Exploiting Local Models.   ISDA 2009, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, November, 30 - December, 2, 2009, Pisa, Italy.
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito, T. Lukasiewicz.  Approximate Classification of Semantically Annotated Web Resources Exploiting Pseudo-Metrics Induced by Local Models.   WI 2009, IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence, September, 15 - 18, 2009, Milan, Italy.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  ReduCE: A Reduced Coulomb Energy Network Method for Approximate Classification.   ESWC 2009, European Semantic Web Conference, May, 21 - June, 4, 2009, Heraklion, Greece.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Fuzzy Clustering for Categorical Spaces: An Application to Semantic Knowledge Bases.   ISMIS 2009, International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, September, 14-17, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Statistical Learning for Inductive Query Answering on OWL Ontologies.   ISWC 2008, International Semantic Web Conference, October, 26-30, 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, T. Lukasiewicz.  Tractable Reasoning with Bayesian Description Logics.   SUM 2008, International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, October, 1-3, 2008 - Naples, Italy.
  • C. d'Amato, S. Staab, N. Fanizzi.  On the Influence of Description Logics Ontologies on Conceptual Similarity.   EKAW 2008, International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Knowledge Patterns, 29th September-3rd October 2008 - Acitrezza, Catania, Italy.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Learning with Kernels in Description Logics.   ILP 2008, International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, September 10-12, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  DL-FOIL: Concept Learning in Description Logics.   ILP 2008, International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, September 10-12, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.  Non-parametric Statistical Learning Methods for Inductive Classifiers in Semantic Knowledge Bases.   ICSC 2008, IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, August 4-7, 2008, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Evolutionary Clustering in Description Logics: Controlling Concept Formation and Drift in Ontologies.   19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA'08, September 1-5, 2008, Turin, Italy
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.   Query Answering and Ontology Population: an Inductive Approach.   ESWC 2008, European Semantic Web Conference, 1-5 June 2008, Tenerife, Spain.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Conceptual Clustering and its Application to Concept Drift and Novelty Detection.   ESWC 2008, European Semantic Web Conference, 1-5 June 2008, Tenerife, Spain.
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.  Classification and Retrieval through Semantic Kernels.   KES 2008, International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems - SWEA Track, 3-5 September 2008, Zagreb, Croatia.
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.  Distance-based Classification in OWL Ontologies.   KES 2008, International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems - AKS Track, 3-5 September 2008, Zagreb, Croatia.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  A Multi-Relational Hierarchical Clustering Method for DATALOG Knowledge Bases.   ISMIS 2008, International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, May 20-23, 2008, Toronto, Canada.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Randomized Metric Induction and Evolutionary Conceptual Clustering for Semantic Knowledge Bases.   ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM'07, November 6-9, 2007, Lisboa, Portugal
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Evolutionary Conceptual Clustering of Semantically Annotated Resources.   ICSC 2007, First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California (USA)
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato.  Inductive Concept Retrieval and Query Answering with Semantic Knowledge Bases through Kernel Methods   KES 2007, the 11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 12-14 September 2007, Vietri sul Mare, Italy
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  A Hierarchical Clustering Method for Semantic Knowledge Bases  KES 2007, the 11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 12-14 September 2007, Vietri sul Mare, Italy
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.  Induction of Optimal Semantic Semi-distances for Clausal Knowledge Bases   ILP 2007, International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, 19-21 June 2007, Corvallis, Oregon (USA)
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Instance Based Retrieval by Analogy   SAC 2007 SDRC Track, 11-15 March 2007, Seul, Korea
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi.  Lazy Learning from Terminological Knowledge Bases   16th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, 27-29 September 2006, Bari, Italy
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato.  A Declarative Kernel for ALC Concept Descriptions   16th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, 27-29 September 2006, Bari, Italy
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.  A Dissimilarity Measure for ALC Concept Descriptions   SAC 2006 RDRC Track, 23-23 April 2006, Dijon, France.
• International Workshops
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.   Uncertainty Reasoning through Similarity in Context.   2nd Workshop on Automated Reasoning about Context and Ontology Evolution ARCOE 2010, August 16-17, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.   Structural Similarity in Expressive Description Logics: An Extended Family of Kernels for OWL.   Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning on the Semantic Web IRMLeS 2010, May 31, 2010, Heraklion, Crete (Greece).
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, B. Fazzinga, G. Gottlob, T. Lukasiewicz.   Combining Semantic Web Search with the Power of Inductive Reasoning  Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web URSW 2009, October 26, 2009, Washington D.C., USA.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.   Evidential Nearest-Neighbors Classification for Inductive ABox Reasoning.   Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web URSW 2009, October 26, 2009, Washington D.C., USA.
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.   A Note on the Evaluation of Inductive Concept Classification Procedures.   Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives SWAP 2008, December 15-17, 2008, Rome, Italy.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito, T. Lukasiewicz.   Representing Uncertain Concepts in Rough Description Logics via Contextual Indiscernibility Relations  Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web URSW 2008, October 26, 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • C. d'Amato, S. Staab, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.   Efficient Discovery of Services specified in Description Logics Languages.   Workshop on Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web at ISWC 2007, November 11, 2007, Busan, South Korea.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.   Approximate Measures of Semantic Dissimilarity under Uncertainty.   Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web at ISWC 2007, November 12, 2007, Busan, South Korea.
  • F. Esposito, N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato.  Conceptual Clustering Applied to Ontologies by means of Semantic Discernability  Workshop on Prior Conceptual Knowledge in Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery - PriCKL'07 at ECML/PKDD 2007, September 21, 2007, Warsaw, Poland.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Clustering Individuals in Ontologies: a Distance-based Evolutionary Approach   The Third International Workshop on Mining Complex Data - MCD'07 at ECML/PKDD 2007, September 17, 2007, Warsaw, Poland.
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.   Analogical Reasoning in Description Logics   2nd ISWC Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web. Athens, Georgia (USA), November, 5-9, 2006.
  • C. d'Amato, S. Staab   Modelling, Matching and Ranking Services Based on Constraint Hardness   Advances in Semantics for Web services Workshop (at BPM), 4 September 2006, Vienna, Austria.
• Posters
  • C. d'Amato, F. Esposito, N. Fanizzi, B. Fazzinga, G. Gottlob, T. Lukasiewicz.  Inductive Reasoning and Semantic Web Search.   SAC 2010 - SWA Track, 25th ACM International Symposium On Applied Computing, March, 22 - 26, 2010, Sierre, Switzerland.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.   Induction of Optimal Semi-distances for Individuals based on Feature Sets   DL 2007, 20th International Workshop on Description Logics. Brixen-Bressanone, Italy, June, 8-10, 2007.
  • B. Taush, C. d'Amato, S. Staab, N. Fanizzi   Efficient Service Matchmaking using Tree-Structured Clustering   5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Athens, Georgia (USA), November, 5-9, 2006.
• National Conferences
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  A Hierarchical Clustering Procedure for Semantically Annotated Resources   AI*IA 2007, 10th Congress of Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 10-13 September 2007, Italy.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Instance-based Query Answering with Semantic Knowledge Bases   AI*IA 2007, 10th Congress of Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 10-13 September 2007, Italy.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato.  A Similarity Measure for the ALN Description Logic.  
    CILC 2006, Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale 26-27 June 2006, Bari, Italy.
• National Workshops
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.   Semantic Nearest Neighbor Search in OWL Ontologies.   SWAP 2007, the 3rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, Bari, Italy, December 18-20, 2007.
  • C. d'Amato  Constraint hardness for modelling, matching and ranking Semantic Web services   SEBD 2007, the 15th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, Torre Canne di Fasano, Italy, June 17-20, 2007.
  • N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito.  Approximate query answering and ranking for semantic knowledge bases   SEBD 2007, the 15th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, Torre Canne di Fasano, Italy, June 17-20, 2007.
  • C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, F. Esposito.  Reasoning by Analogy in Description Logics through Instance-based Learning   SWAP 2006, the 3rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop, Pisa, Italy, December 18-20, 2006.

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Invited Talks

• 22 July 2011 - (Dis-)Similarity Measures for Description Logics Representation - Institute of Computing Science - Poznan University of Technology
• 21 July 2011 - (Conceptual) Clustering methods for the Semantic Web: issues and applications (Jointly with Nicola Fanizzi) - Institute of Computing Science - Poznan University of Technology
• 25 July 2010 - (Conceptual) Clustering for discovering Concept Drift and Concept Formation from Description Logics Knowledge Bases - Dagstuhl Seminar: " Learning Paradigms in Dynamic Environments" - Dagstuhl Schloss
• 22 April 2008 - Inductive Reasoning on Ontologies: Similarity-Based Approaches - Information Engineering Department - University of Modena e Reggio Emilia
• 15 October 2007 - "Similarity-based Learning Methods for the Semantic Web" - IRST - Istituto Trentino di Cultura - Trento
• May 2006 - "Similarity and Dissimilarity Measures for Concept Descriptions in Ontological Knowledge" - University of Milan - Department of Information Technology (Crema)

Tutorials

• 19 December 2007 - Inductive Reasoning on Ontologies and Rules for the Semantic Web (jointly with Nicola Fanizzi and Francesca Alessandra Lisi) - SWAP 2007
• 7 November 2007 - Ontology: An Introduction - EMBRACE Workshop "Applied Gene Ontology"
• October 2004 - UML Tutorial - Omar S.p.A - Allaxia Group
• July 2004 - UML Tutorial Planetek Italy S.r.l

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Software

• SONN: symbolic object K-NN classifier
  
• Ontology Mining Systems: KNN-DL, QHDDNN, DL-SVM, BAM Bisecting Around Medoids, Evo Custering DL, DL-Link
  

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