2026 Diego Calvanese: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	81	992	961	10	10	472	40999

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2019 - ACM Fellow For contributions to description logics and their applications in data management and software engineering

Overview

Diego Calvanese is affiliated with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, contributing extensively to the field of Computer Science with a focus on areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, and Information Systems.

Their research spans several subfields and topics including:

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems
Management Information Systems
Information Systems and Management

Main topics of their work cover:

Semantic Web and Ontologies
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Data Management and Algorithms
Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
Business Process Modeling and Analysis
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Diego Calvanese has collaborated frequently with a number of scholars, including:

Marco Montali
Guohui Xiao
Davide Lanti
Alessandro Mosca
Giancarlo Guizzardi

Their recent papers include:

The biggest business process management problems to solve before we die, 2023, Computers in Industry
AI-augmented Business Process Management Systems: A Research Manifesto, 2023, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems
Towards the next generation of the LinkedGeoData project using virtual knowledge graphs, 2021, Journal of Web Semantics
SMT-based verification of data-aware processes: a model-theoretic approach, 2020, Mathematical Structures in Computer Science
Dynamic Query Optimization under Access Limitations and Dependencies, 2020, BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London)

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Semantic Web
Journal of Automated Reasoning
Frontiers in Big Data

Diego Calvanese has also published books with Springer Science+Business Media, notably the title Web and Big Data published in 2023.

In terms of recognition, Diego Calvanese was named an ACM Fellow in 2019 for contributions to description logics and their applications in data management and software engineering.

Best Publications

The Description Logic Handbook: Theory, Implementation and Applications

Franz Baader;Diego Calvanese;Deborah L. McGuinness;Daniele Nardi

13138
Citations
The Description Logic Handbook

Franz Baader;Diego Calvanese;Deborah L. McGuinness;Daniele Nardi

3173
Citations
Tractable Reasoning and Efficient Query Answering in Description Logics: The DL-Lite Family

Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe Giacomo;Domenico Lembo;Maurizio Lenzerini

1731
Citations
Linking data to ontologies

Antonella Poggi;Domenico Lembo;Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo

1050
Citations
Reasoning on UML class diagrams

Daniela Berardi;Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo

772
Citations
The DL-lite family and relations

Alessandro Artale;Diego Calvanese;Roman Kontchakov;Michael Zakharyaschev

705
Citations
Ontop: Answering SPARQL queries over relational databases

Diego Calvanese;Benjamin Cogrel;Sarah Komla-Ebri;Roman Kontchakov

595
Citations
Automatic Composition of E-services That Export Their Behavior

Daniela Berardi;Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo;Maurizio Lenzerini

574
Citations
Data complexity of query answering in description logics

Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo;Domenico Lembo;Maurizio Lenzerini

570
Citations
DL-Lite: tractable description logics for ontologies

Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo;Domenico Lemho;Maurizio Lenzerini

510
Citations
On the decidability of query containment under constraints

Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo;Maurizio Lenzerini

480
Citations
Data complexity of query answering in description logics

Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo;Domenico Lembo;Maurizio Lenzerini

410
Citations
Data integration under integrity constraints

Andrea Calì;Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo;Maurizio Lenzerini

407
Citations
Automatic composition of transition-based semantic web services with messaging

Daniela Berardi;Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo;Richard Hull

381
Citations
The MASTRO system for ontology-based data access

Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo;Domenico Lembo;Maurizio Lenzerini

376
Citations
Description logics for conceptual data modeling

Diego Calvanese;Maurizio Lenzerini;Daniele Nardi

368
Citations
Description logic framework for information integration

Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo;Maurizio Lenzerini;Daniele Nardi

363
Citations
A framework for ontology integration

Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo;Maurizio Lenzerini

353
Citations
Data Integration under Integrity Constraints.

Andrea Calì;Diego Calvanese;Maurizio Lenzerini

344
Citations
Ontology-based data access: a survey

Guohui Xiao;Diego Calvanese;Roman Kontchakov;Domenico Lembo

335
Citations
The Description Logic Handbook: Preface

Franz Baader;Diego Calvanese;Deborah L. McGuinness;Daniele Nardi

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe De Giacomo Sapienza University of Rome

Maurizio Lenzerini Sapienza University of Rome

Marco Montali Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Riccardo Rosati Sapienza University of Rome

Domenico Lembo Sapienza University of Rome

Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University

Evgeny Kharlamov University of Oslo

Daniele Nardi Sapienza University of Rome

Massimo Mecella Sapienza University of Rome

Roman Kontchakov Birkbeck, University of London

External Links

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