Paolo Bouquet

Delegato per lo sport

Università degli Studi di Trento

Professore associato

Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione

Area CUN: Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione (09)
Settore scientifico disciplinare: SISTEMI DI ELABORAZIONE DELLE INFORMAZIONI (ING-INF/05)
Via Sommarive, 9 - 38123 Povo
tel. 0461 282088
paolo.bouquet[at]unitn [dot] it | http://disi.unitn.it/~bouquet/
Formazione

Diploma di Maturità Classica, July 1985, Liceo-Ginnasio F. Petrarca, Trieste, final vote 60/60.

Diploma di Laurea in Filosofia, July 10, 1992, University of Milan. Master thesis on ``Il ragionamento del senso comune nelle ricerche di Intelligenza Artificiale. Il problema della qualificazione''. Advisors: Prof. E. Ballo (Philosophy Department, University of Milan), Prof. F. Giunchiglia (University of Trento). Final vote: 110/110 e Lode.

Ph.D in Philosophy of Science at the Philosophy Department of the University of Genoa.
Carriera accademica ed attività didattica

Position

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.unisport.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

Teaching

2001 - 2003: course on Informatics for Humanities, School of Humanities, University of Trento

2004-present: Laboratory of Computer Science at the School of Economics and Management, University of Trento

2007- present: 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
Interessi di ricerca
Knowledge Representation.
Contextual representation and reasoning.
Philosophical foundations of AI.
Distributed Knowledge Management.
Semantic Web.
Semantic interoperability.
Entity-centric knowledge bases.
Attività di ricerca

2001-2003: local coordinator for the University of Trento of the project Enabling Distributed and Autonomous Management of Knowledge (EDAMOK)

2002 - 2008: coordinator of the research program on Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Trento.

2004 - 2007: local coordinator for the University of Trento of the Integrated Project called VIKEF (VI Framework Program, IST).

2004-2007: local coordinator for the University of Trento of the PRIN national project WISDOM (Web Intelligent Search based on DOMain ontologies).

2008 - 2010: general coordinator of the FP7 large-scale integrating project "OKKAM - Enabling the Web of Entities"
Appartenenza a società e comitati scientifici

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

Technical 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

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.

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 2'-24, 2007, Denmark.

International Conference 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).

General Chair of the ISWC-04 workshop on Meaning coordination and Negotiation, 3nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), November 2004, Hiroshima (Japan).

Program Committee Member of the ISWC-04 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 (Spagna), agosto 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 modeling context (CONTEXT) (Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling 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).

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 Modeling 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.

April 1997: 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).
Premi e riconoscimenti
1997-1999 PostDoctorate Fellowship at the Department of Computer and Management Sciences of the University of Trento.

Visiting Research Fellowship of the Caledonian Research Foundation - Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland) to carry research at the University of Dundee, Department of Philosophy during 1998.

Best paper Award at the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA'98), Sozopol (Bulgaria), 21-23 September 1998. Title of the paper: M. Benerecetti, P. Bouquet, C. Ghidini, Formalizing Belief Reports. The approach and a Case Study.

Best paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA'98), Varna (Bulgaria), 2-4 September 2004. Title of the paper: P. Bouquet, L. Serafini, S. Zanobini, Coordinating Semantic Peers.
Convegni e conferenze
uly 3rd, 1995: talk on ``Reasoning about theory formulation and reformulation. A new solution to the qualification problem''. II World Conference on the Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (WOCFAI-95), Paris.
4 January 1996: talk on ``The problem of context from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence'' at Congress of the Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Scince (SILFS) - Rome, 3-5 January 1996
22-28 July 1996: co-instructor of the course on Introduction to Contextual Reasoning. An Artificial Intelligence Perspective at the Second Internation School in Cognitive Science (CogSci'96), Sofia (July-August 1996).
30 October 1996: presentation at the workshop ``Normatività logica e ragionamento di senso comune'' (Trento, 28-30 October 1996).
13 Dicember 1996: seminar on Ragionamento e Contesto at the Philosophy Department at the University of Genoa.
7 April 1997: presentation of the paper ``Formalizing Opacity and Transparency in Belief Contexts'' at the Second AISB Workshop on Practical Reasoning and Rationality (Manchester, 7-8 April 1997).
April 11, 1997: talk on ``Semantic vs. Cognitive Contexts'' al Workshop dal titolo Contexts organizzato nell'ambito della seconda European Conference on Cognitive Science (ECCS'97), Manchester (inghilterra), 9-11 aprile 1997.
8 November 1997: presentation of the paper ``A multi-context approach to belief report'' at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Context in Knowledge Representation (KR) and Natural Language (NL), MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
October 1997 - January 1997: co-instructor (with Francesca Castellani) of a course on Formalizing belief contexts at the University of Trento.
March 1998: talk on ``Ragionamento in Contesti di Credenza'' at the Symposium on Teorie della Mente e Rappresentazione, Trento (Italy), 21-23 March 1998.
14 May 1998: invited seminar on ``Tra Località e Globalità: Fodor, il "frame problem" e un approccio contestuale alla rappresentazione della conoscenza'', University of Salerno.
3 August 1998: presentation of the paper on A Context-Based Framework for Mental Representation at the XX Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin (USA), August 1-4, 1998.
21 August 1998: presentation of the paper on A contextual framework for distributed mental representation at the 9th Irish Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science (AICS '98), University College, Dublin (Ireland), 19-21 August 1998.
3 November 1998: talk on ``A Logic of Contextual Reasoning''. Department of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews (Scotland, UK).
25 November 1998: relazione dal titolo ``The role of context in a theory of knowledge representation''. Department of Philosophy, University of Dundee (Scotland, UK).
30 November 1998: talk on ``A Logic of Contextual Reasoning''. Department of Computer Science, University of Birmingham (England, UK).
3 December 1998: talk on ``Contextual Reasoning and Linguistic Communication''. Psycho-linguistics Research Seminar series, Department of Psychology, University of Dundee (Scotland, UK).
18 February 1999: talk on ``Verso una logica del ragionamento su credenze. Contesti di Credenza come Spazi Cognitivi''. Triennial meeting of the Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Sciences (Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia delle Scienze, SILFS), Urbino (Italy), 15-20 February 1999.
15 September 1999: talk on ``The role of multi-agent systems in representing, using, and integrating knowledge in a distributed environment'' at TEDIS (Center for Studies on Technologies in Distributed Intelligence Systems), Venice International University, Venice (Italy).
22 October 1999: invited talk on ``The WIL project''. Conference on Knowledge management: professional communities as distributed intelligent systems at TEDIS (Center for Studies on Technologies in Distributed Intelligence Systems), Venice International University, Venice (Italy).
3 February 2000: invited talk at the University of Salerno on ``Logic, common sense, and contextual reasoning''.
30 May 2000: talk on ``Foundations of contextual reasoning'' at the 1st Workshop on Context (WOC'2000). University of Genoa.
21 March 2000: talk on A Distributed Intelligence Paradigm for Knowledge Management at the AAAI-00 Spring Symposium on ``Bringing Knowledge to Business Processes''. Stanford, CA (USA), 20-22 March 2000.
27 July 2001: talk on On the dimensions of context dependence: partiality, approximation, and perspective at the Third International Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'2001). Dundee (Scotland), 27-29 July 2001.
10 November 2001: talk on A Distributed System for Knowledge Management at the National Conference of the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sui Sistemi (AIRS). Castel Ivano, Trento (Italy), 9-10 November 2001.
29 November 2001: talk on Un approccio distribuito al Knowledge Management at the conference on ``Knowledge Management: ruoli, contributi e prospettive dell'Intelligenza Artificiale'' Milano, 29-30 November 2001.
28 July 2002: talk on Contextualized local ontologies specification via CTXML at the AAAI-02 Workshop on ``Meaning Negotiation''. Edmonton (Canada), 28 July - 3 August 2002.
20 September 2002: poster presentation on Counterfactual reasoning at the First Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC). Rovereto, Trento (Italy), 20-21 September 2002.
20 September 2002: talk on Autonomous agents and sunk costs effect at the First Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC). Rovereto, Trento (Italy), 20-21 September 2002.
22 May 2003: invited talk on Distributed Knowledge Management: a new paradigm for Knowledge Management in complex organizations at Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica (University of Milan, Italy).
28 July 2002: talk on Contextualized local ontologies specification via CTXML at the AAAI-02 Workshop on ``Meaning Negotiation''. Edmonton (Canada).
October 2003: talk on Semantic Coordination at the the II International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-03), Sanibel Island, Florida, October 2003.