Paolo Bouquet
Sport with Special Mandate for the 2026 Winter Olympics
University of Trento
Associate professor
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science
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Academic career and teaching activities |
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Positions June 2000 - 2003: Assistant Professor in computer science, University of Trento. 2002: Consultant of the Division on Automated Reasoning Systems at IRST 2003 - present: Associate Professor in Computer Science, University of Trento 2006- present: Pro-Rector for the Development of Sport Activities ( http://www.unitrentosport.tn.it/ ), University of Trento 2008 - 2010: Coordinator of the FP7 project "OKKAM - Enabling the Web of Entities" 2010-2015: Governing Board member of the Semantic Valley consortium 2010 - present: President and co-founder of the spin-off company OKKAM srl ( http://www.okkam.biz/ ) 2012 - 2014: Vice President and Head of the Academic Liaison Department of the Organising Committee of the Winter Universiade Trentino 2013 2014 - 2015: Representative of the Italian Government in the EU Expert Group on the Economic Impact of Sport 2018 - present: President of UNISPORT ITALIA, the network of Italian universities for sport development 2019 – present: main promoter of the inter-departmental Institute for Sport Technology and Research (iSTAR) at the University of Trento (https://projects.unitn.it/istar/it/). 2021 – present: member of the regional Coordination Committee for the Winter Olympic Games Milano – Cortina 2026 (delegate of the University of Trento) 2023 - present: Governing Board member of CERISM (http://www.cerism.it/) Teaching 2001 - 2003: course on Informatics for Humanities, School of Humanities, University of Trento 2004-2006: Laboratory of Computer Science at the School of Economics and Management, University of Trento 2007- 2108: Laboratory of Knowledge Management, School of Economics and Management, University of Trento 2004 - present: Models for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning on the Web, School of Economics and Management, University of Trento 2014 - present: Introduction to Programming, course on Interfaces and Communication Technologies, School of Cognitive Science, University of Trento 2017 - present: Information Systems, Department of Engineering and Information Science 2020 - present: Technologies for Innovation in Sport (module on information science) 2021 - present: Data Bases, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science |
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Research interests |
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Philosophical foundations of AI. Knowledge Representation & reasoning. Distributed Knowledge Management. Semantic Web. Ontology-based data integration. Semantic big data analytics. Explainable AI. Sport tech. |
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Research work |
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2020: Scientific Advisor of the project Oblivion – A solution to the GDPR right to be forgotten, co-funded by EIT Digital • 2019: Scientific Advisor of the project Live Well Work Well (L3W), co-funded by EIT Digital • 2015 – 2017: Principal investator of the project Sport Satellite Account for Trentino, funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento • February 2013 – January 2016: local unit scientific leader of the project “TAG CLOUD Technologies lead to Adaptability & lifelong enGagement”, co-funded by the European Commission under Grant agreement No. 600924 • June 2013 – December 2015: Scientific Advisor of the project SICRaS (“Sistema Integrato di Conoscenza e Rappresentazione Semantica”), co-funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento under the Legge6/99 scheme • November 2012 – October 2014: Scientific advisor of the project “FitCity”, co-funded under the FESR 2011 programme • April 2012 – March 2014: local unit scientific leader of the project on “Data Supply Chains for Pools, Services and Analytics in Economics and Finance” (DOPA) (http://www.dopa-project.eu/ ), co-funded by the European Commission under Project No. 296448 • January 2008 – June 2010: European Coordinator of the FP7 EU co-funded large-scale integrating project “OKKAM – Enabling the Web of Entities” • January 2005 – December 2006: Italian coordinator of the DAAD-Vigoni project titled “ALT INFO: Strumenti algebrici per l’ontologia formale” (ALgebraic Tools IN Formal Ontology) • January 2005 – 2011: co-director of the French-Italian Associated Joint Laboratory named Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Interacting Knowledge Systems (ILIKS). • December 2004 – November 2006: local unit leader of the University of Trento team of the Italian project PRIN 2004 –Web Intelligent Search based on DOMain ONtologies (WISDOM). • April 2004 – March 2007: local unit leader of the University of Trento team of the Integrated Project Virtual Information and Knowledge Environment Framework (VIKEF), European Commission, VI Framework Programme (IST) • January 2002 - 2006: coordinator of the research program on Knowledge Management & Distributed Information Systems at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Trento. • 2001-2003: coordinator for the University of Trento of the project Enabling Distributed and Autonomous Management of Knowledge (EDAMOK) (1,8 million Euros in 3 years). • January 2000 - 2002: researcher in the project on MultiAgent Systems for Modeling Consensus Dynamics (funded by: Dept. of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento). • March 1999 - March 2000: scientific referent of the sub-project Intelligent Agents within the project on Analysing Professional Communities as Distributed Intelligence Systems (Wisdom and Intelligence Laboratory, Center for Studies on Technologies in Distributed Intelligence Systems (TEDIS), Venice International University, Italy). • January 1997 - January 1998: researcher in the project on Sistemi Autonomi Ragionanti e Intelligenti (SARI) (funded by: CNR, Italian National Council of Research). • January 1996 - present: researcher in the three-year project Mente, linguaggio, comprensione - Mind, Language and Understanding (funded by: CNR, Italian National Council of Research). |
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Memberships in societies and scientific committees |
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Conference General Chair of the first IEEE workshop on Sport Technology and Research (IEEE STAR 2022). Cavalese (TN), Italy. 13-15 July 2022. Proposal approval pending • Programme Committee member of the 2021 Future Data, Information and Knowledge Research and Applications Conference (DIKW-RA 2021) • Programme Committee member of the International Semantic Web Conference 2021 (ISWC2021). 24-28 October 2021 • Technical Committee member of the “Semantics and Knowledge Management" Track of the 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2020 - http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2020/). Antalya, Turkey. 2-5 November 2020 • Programme Committee member of the International Semantic Web Conference 2014 (ISWC2020). 2-6 October 2020 • Programme Committee member of the conference Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2020), co-located with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020), Santiago de Compostela (Spain), August 29-September 2, 2020 • Technical Committee Member of the "Semantics and Knowledge Management" Track of the 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2020). Antalya (Turkey), November 2-5, 2020 • Conference Chair of the 11th International Interdisciplinary Conference on Context (CONTEXT 2019), November 19-22, 2019, Trento, Italy (http://context19.disi.unitn.it/) • Conference Co-Chair of the conference Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2016), co-located with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016), 2016, The Hague, The Netherlands • Programme Committee member of the 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2015). Portoroz (Slovenia), 2015 • Programme Committee member of the 4th Joint International Semantic Technology (JIST2014). Chiang Mai (Thailand), 9-11 November 2014 • Programme Committee member of the International Semantic Web Conference 2014 (ISWC2014). Riva del Garda (TN, Italy), 19-23 October 2014 • Programme Committee member of the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2014). Anissaras (Crete, Greece), 25-29 May 2014 • Conference Chair of the International Conference on University Sport: inspiring innovation”. Rovereto (TN, Italy), 9-11 December 2013 • Programme Committee Member of the International conference on Terminology & Ontology: Theories and applications (TOTh 2014). Chambery (France), 12-13 June 2014 • Programme Committee member of the International conference on Terminology & Ontology: Theories and applications (TOTh 2013). Chambery (France), 6-7 June 2013 • Programme Committee Member of the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2013). Montpellier (France), 26-30 May 2013 • Programme Committee Member of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. Aachen (Germany), 8-10 May 2013 • Programme Committee member (subcommittee on "Ontologies and Terminologies") of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012). Mumbai (india), 8-15 December 2012 • Programme Committee member of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2012). Boston (MA, USA), 11-15 November 2012 • Programme Committee member of the 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012), Galway (Ireland), 8-12 October 2012 • Programme Committee member of the International Symposium on Agricoltural Ontology Service 2012 (AOS2012). Sarawak (Malaysia), 3-4 September 2012 • Programme Committee Member of the ECAI2012 workshop on Artificial Intelligence meets the Web of Data (AImWD-2012). Montpellier (France), 27-28 August 2012 • Programme Committee member of the 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2013). Heraklion (Crete, Greece), 27-31 May 2012 • Programme Committee member of the Future Internet Symposium 2012: Towards a Smart and Sustainable Future Internet (FIS2012). Vilnius (Lithuania), 21-13 May 2012 • Programme Committee Member of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. Porto (Portugal), 18-21 April 2012 • Programme Committee Member (Semantic Web track) of the 21st World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012). Lyon (France), 16-20 April 2012 • Programme Committee Member of the 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2011). Graz (Austria), 7-9 September 2011 • Programme Committee Member of the IJCAI-11 Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large Heterogeneous Data 2011 (LHD-11). Barcelona (Spain), 16 July 2011 • Programme Committee Member of the workshop on Human-Centered Processes (HCP 2011). Genoa (Italy), 10-11 February 2011 • Programme Committee Member (tracks on "In use", "Linked Data" and "Reasoning") of the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2011). Heraklion (Crete, Greece), 29 May - 2 June 2011 • Programme Committee Member of the ACM* international conference on Intelligent Semantic Web - Services and Applications (ISWSA 2010), Amman (Jordan)14-16 June 2010 • Programme Committee Member of Linked AI: AAAI Spring Symposium "Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence", Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA), 22-24 March 2010 • Programme Committee Member of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010). Shanghai (China), 7-11 November 2012 • Programme Committee Member (track on "Web of Data") of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2011). Heraklion (Crete, Greece), 30 May - 3 June 2011 • Programme Committee Member of the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2010). Lisbon (Portugal), 11-15 October 2010 • Programme Committee Member of the 8th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2009). Vilamoura (Portugal), 1-6 November 2009 • Organizing Committee member of the IJCAI-09 workshop on Identity and Reference in web-based Knowledge Representation (IR-KR2009). Pasadena (CA, USA), 11 July 2009 • Conference Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Librairies (ICSD2009). Trento (Italy), September 2009 • Programme Committee Member of the th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009), Shanghai( China), 8-11 December 2009 • Co-chair of the ESWC2008 workshop on Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web (IRSW 2008), Tenerife (Spagna), 2nd June 2008 • Steering Committee Member of the Italian Workshops on the Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP). 2007-2010 • Program Committee Co-chair of the DEXA'07 1st Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises (SWAE 2007). Regensburg (Germany), 3-7 September 2007 • Program Committee co-chair of the CONTEXT'07 3rd International Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Representation and Reasoning (C&O:RR-2007). Roskilde University (Danimarca), 20-24 August 2007. • Program Chair of the Doctoral Consortium, Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT’07). Roskilde University (Denmark), 20 August 2007 • Program Committee Co-chair of the WWW2007 workshop I3: Identity, Identifiers, Identifications – Entity-centric Approaches to Information and Knowledge Management on the Web in congiunzione. Banff (Canada), 8 May 2007 • Program Committee Co-chair of the ECAI2006 2nd International Workshop on Context Representation and Reasoning (CRR 2006). Riva del Garda (TN, Italia), 29 August 2006. • Program Committee Co-chair of the ESWC2006 workshop on Mastering the Gap: From Information Extraction to Semantic Representation. Budva (Montenegro), 12 June 2006 • Steering Committee Chair of the conference series on “Using and modeling context” (CONTEXT) (Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context), August 20-24, 2007, Denmark. • Programme Committee Member of the 9th International Pragmatics Conference, 10-15 July 2005 Riva del Garda (TN), Italy • Steering Committee Member della Fifth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, 5-8 July 2005 Paris (France). • Programme Committee Member of the workshop on Agent-mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM 2005). Utrecht (Nederland), 25 July 2005 • Programme Committee Member of the AAAI’05 workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications 9-10 July 2005, Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) • Programme Committee Member of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2005). Galway (Ireland), 6-10 November 2005. • Programme Committee Member of the 2nd International Workshop on Modeling and Retrieval of Context (MRC 2005). In conjunction with the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005), Edinburgh (Scotland). • Programme Committee Member of WOA 2005 (Simulazione e Analisi Formale di Sistemi Complessi). Camerino (Italia), 14-16 November 2005. • Programme Committee Member of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006). Boston, Massachusetts, 16-20 Jul 2006. • Programme Committee Member of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2006). Varna (Bulgaria), 13-15 September 2006. • Programme Committee Member of the ECAI-06 workshop on Agent-mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM 2005). Riva del Garda (Italy), 29 agosto 2006. • Programme Committee Member of the 15th international conference on knowledge engineering and knowledge management (EKAW 2006). Podebrady (Czech Republic), 2-6 October 2006. • Programme Committee Member of the 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2006). Budva (Montenegro), 11-14 June 2006. • Programme Committee Member of the workshop on Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents (FOCA) in conjunction with the 18th European Summer School in Logic Language and Information (ESSLLI 2006). Malaga (Spain), 31 July - 4 August 2006. • Programme Committee Member of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006). Athens (GA, USA), 5-9 November 2006. • Programme Committee Member of the session on Engineered Applications of Semantic Web at the 10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2006). Bournemouth (UK), 9-11 October 2006. • Programme Committee Member of the AAAI-06 workshop on Modelling and Retrieval of Context (MRC 2006). Boston (MA, USA), 16-17 July 2006. • Programme Committee Member of the Second workshop on Ontologies based techniques for Databases and Information Systems (ODBIS 2006) in conjunction with VLDB’06. Seoul (Korea), 11 September 2006. • Programme Committee Member of the 1st International Workshop on Ontology content and evaluation in enterprise (OnToCOntent’06) in conjunction with OTM’06. Montpellier (France), 31 October 2006. • Program Committee co-Chair of the 3rd Italian Workshop on the Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP-06). Pisa (Italy), 18-20 December 2006. • Programme Committee Co-chair of the workshop on Mastering the Gap: From Information Extraction to Semantic Representation. In conjunction with ESWC 2006. Budva (Montenegro), 12 June 2006. • Program Committee Co-Chair del 2nd International Workshop on Context Representation and Reasoning (CRR 2006) in conjunction with the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006). Riva del Garda (Italia), 29 August 2006. • Conference chair and Local Organizer of the 2nd Italian Workshop on the Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP-05). Trento (Italy), 15-16 December 2005. • Local Site Committee Member of the 9th International Pragmatics Conference. Riva del Garda (Italy), 10-15 July 2005 • Steering Committee Member of the Fifth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context, 5-8 July 2005, Paris (France) • Programme Committee Chair of the second workshop on Meaning coordination and Negotiation, 3nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), November 2004, Hiroshima (Japan) • Program Committee Member of the first workshop on Semantic web technology for mobile and ubiquitous applications, 3nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), November 2004, Hiroshima (Japan) • Programme Committee Member of the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), November 2004, Hiroshima (Japan) • Programme Committee Member of the First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (Mobiquitous-2004) 22-25 August 2004, Boston (MA, USA) • Programme Committee Member of the ECAI-04 workshop on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM-04), Valencia (Spain), August 2004. • Programme Committee Member of Starting AI Researchers 2004 (STAIRS-04), Valencia (Spain), August 2004. • Programme Committee Member of the II International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-03), Sanibel Island, Florida, October 2003. • Programme Committee Member of the workshop on Ontologies, IJCAI-03, Acapulco (Mexico), October 2003. • Steering Committee Chair of the conference series on “Using and Modelling context” (CONTEXT) (Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context), June 18-20, 2003, CSLI, Stanford University, Palo Alto (California, USA). • Programme Committee Member of the AAAI-03 Spring Symposium on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM-03), Stanford, CA, March 2003. • Local Program co-Chair of the XIV European Summer School on Logic Language and Information (ESSLLI'2002), 5-16 August 2002, Trento (Italy). • Workshop Chair of the workshop on Meaning Negotiation (MeaN-02) at the XVIII National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-02). Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 28 July 2002. • Programme Committee Member of the workshop on Formal Ontology, Knowledge Representation and Intelligent Systems for the World Wide Web (SEMWEB@KR2002), VIII International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2002), Toulouse, France. 19-20 April 2002. • 1999-2002: member of the Board of the Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Sciences - Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia delle Scienze (SILFS). • Program Committee Member of AIRS'2001 (II National Conference of the Italian Association for System Research), 9-10 November 2001, Trento (Italy). • Program Committee Member of CoopIS'2001 (VI International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems), 5-7 September 2001, Trento (Italy). • Conference Chair of CONTEXT'2001 (Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context), Scotland (UK). • Programme Committee Member of the 14th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'99), 18-20 October 1999, Izmir (Turkey). • Review Committee Member of the AAAI'99 Workshop on Reasoning in Context for AI Applications (Orlando, Florida, July 19, 1999). • Programme Committee Member of the 13th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'98), 26-28 October 1998, Antalya (Turkey). • Publicity Chair of 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA'98), Sozopol (Bulgaria), September 18-20, 1998. • Organizing Committee member (with C. Castelfranchi, F. Giunchiglia and B. Kokinov) of the workshop on Context at the second European Conference on Cognitive Science (ECCS'97), Manchester, U.K., 9-11 April, 1997). |
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Awards and honours |
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