Funded PhD: Modelling and Monitoring of Norms/Policies (USI Lugano, Switzerland)

Funded PhD: Modelling and Monitoring of Norms Concerning Digital Assets in the Web of Data
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Institute of Communication Technologies, Lugano, Switzerland

The project
The project is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) for 4 years.
The first goal of the research work will be to investigate how it is possible to extend the expressivity of ODRL (Open Digital Rights Language), a language for the specification of policies and licenses, which is formalized in RDF with an abstract model specified by an ontology. Secondly, given that ODRL has only an informal semantics, we plan to study the semantic aspects of the proposed extended normative language.
The third goal is to design, develop and evaluate a software framework able to exploit automatic reasoning on the semantics of norms for providing fundamental services like monitoring and simulation of norms evolution in time.

The detailed description of the official open position is available at this link
https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/press/press-call-com-phd-itc-snf2017.pdf


Best regards
Nicoletta Fornara
Docente-ricercatore (maître d’enseignement et de recherché)
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Università della Svizzera italiana
Faculty of Communication Science
Institute of Communication Technologies
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