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Giancarlo Guizzardi

Giancarlo Guizzardi

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Computer Science
Netherlands
2025
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Computer Science
Italy
2023

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Computer Science

D-Index
54
Citations
12075
World Ranking
4548
National Ranking
63

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Giancarlo Guizzardi is primarily affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science, with a significant focus on conceptual modeling and ontology engineering.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Within these fields, their work covers several subfields such as:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Systems
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Management Information Systems
  • Molecular Biology

Guizzardi's research topics include:

  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Business Process Modeling and Analysis
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques

The scholar has co-authored extensively with colleagues such as:

  • Tiago Prince Sales
  • João Paulo A. Almeida
  • Mattia Fumagalli
  • Glenda Amaral
  • Claudenir M. Fonseca

They have published frequently in various venues, including:

  • Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Software & Systems Modeling
  • Applied Ontology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Giancarlo Guizzardi are:

  • "UFO: Unified Foundational Ontology," 2021, Applied Ontology
  • "Types and Taxonomic Structures in Conceptual Modeling: A Novel Ontological Theory and Engineering Support," 2021, Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • "Foundation Ontologies Meet Ontology Matching: A Survey," 2021, Semantic Web
  • "Explanation, Semantics, and Ontology," 2024, Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • "FAIR Digital Twins for Data-Intensive Research," 2022, Frontiers in Big Data

Additionally, Guizzardi has contributed to book publications, primarily with Springer Science+Business Media, including:

  • Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, 2022
  • Advances in Enterprise Engineering XIV, 2021
  • Conceptual Modeling, 2023
  • Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2022 Workshops, 2023

Best Publications

  • Ontological foundations for structural conceptual models

    Giancarlo Guizzardi

  • On Ontology, ontologies, Conceptualizations, Modeling Languages, and (Meta)Models

    Giancarlo Guizzardi

  • FAIR principles : interpretations and implementation considerations

    Annika Jacobsen;Ricardo de Miranda Azevedo;Nick S. Juty;Dominique Batista

  • An ontological approach to domain engineering

    Ricardo de Almeida Falbo;Giancarlo Guizzardi;Katia Cristina Duarte

  • Grounding Software Domain Ontologies in the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO): The case of the ODE Software Process Ontology.

    Giancarlo Guizzardi;Ricardo de Almeida Falbo;Renata S. S. Guizzardi

  • Towards ontological foundations for conceptual modeling: The unified foundational ontology (UFO) story

    Giancarlo Guizzardi;Gerd Wagner;João Paulo Andrade Almeida;Renata S. S. Guizzardi

  • Towards Ontological Foundations for the Conceptual Modeling of Events

    Giancarlo Guizzardi;Gerd Wagner;Ricardo Almeida Falbo;Renata S. Guizzardi

  • An ontologically well-founded profile for UML conceptual models

    Giancarlo Guizzardi;Gerd Wagner;Nicola Guarino;Marten van Sinderen

  • On the General Ontological foundations of conceptual modeling

    Giancarlo Guizzardi;Heinrich Herre;Gerd Wagner

  • UFO: Unified Foundational Ontology

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  • Using the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) as a Foundation for General Conceptual Modeling Languages

    Giancarlo Guizzardi;Gerd Wagner

  • A Unified Foundational Ontology and some Applications of it in Business Modeling.

    Giancarlo Guizzardi;Gerd Wagner

  • Modeling resources and capabilities in enterprise architecture

    Carlos L.B. Azevedo;Maria-Eugenia Iacob;João Paulo A. Almeida;Marten van Sinderen

  • Towards ontological foundations for agent modelling concepts using the unified fundational ontology (UFO)

    Giancarlo Guizzardi;Gerd Wagner

  • A commitment-based reference ontology for services

    Julio Cesar Nardi;Ricardo de Almeida Falbo;João Paulo A. Almeida;Giancarlo Guizzardi

  • Towards Ontological Foundations for UML Conceptual Models

    Giancarlo Guizzardi;Heinrich Herre;Gerd Wagner

  • Relational roles and qua-individuals

    Claudio Masolo;Giancarlo Guizzardi;Laure Vieu;Emanuele Botazzi

  • The Common Ontology of Value and Risk

    Tiago Prince Sales;Fernanda Araujo Baião;Giancarlo Guizzardi;João Paulo A. Almeida

  • An ontology-based approach for evaluating the domain appropriateness and comprehensibility appropriateness of modeling languages

    Giancarlo Guizzardi;Luís Ferreira Pires;Marten van Sinderen

  • Organizing Ontology Design Patterns as Ontology Pattern Languages

    Ricardo de Almeida Falbo;Monalessa Perini Barcellos;Julio Cesar Nardi;Giancarlo Guizzardi

  • A Model-Based Tool for Conceptual Modeling and Domain Ontology Engineering in OntoUML

    Alessander Botti Benevides;Giancarlo Guizzardi

  • Formal Ontology and Information Systems

    Maureen Donnelly;Giancarlo Guizzardi

  • Business Process Management

    Stefanie Rinderle-Ma;Farouk Toumani;Karsten Wolf

Frequent Co-Authors

João Paulo A. Almeida
João Paulo A. Almeida Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Nicola Guarino
Nicola Guarino National Research Council (CNR)
Gerd Wagner
Gerd Wagner Brandenburg University of Technology
John Mylopoulos
John Mylopoulos University of Ottawa
Marten van Sinderen
Marten van Sinderen University of Twente
Alexander Borgida
Alexander Borgida Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Oscar Pastor
Oscar Pastor Universitat Politècnica de València
Lin Liu
Lin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Roel Wieringa
Roel Wieringa University of Twente
Henderik A. Proper
Henderik A. Proper Association for Computing Machinery

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