Re: Introductions

"Principal", "Regrets for F2F"

My research interests are in Description Logics, Knowledge  
Representation, Foundations of Databases, Ontologies and Conceptual  
Modelling, Temporal Logics and Temporal Databases, Multi-dimensional  
Data Models, Information Access and Integration, Peer-to-Peer  
Database Systems, Computational Logics, Natural Language Semantics.  
Currently, my main research focus is on the application of KR  
technologies to databases, from both the foundational and the  
application point of view. You can learn more about myself by  
browsing my home page at <http://www.inf.unibz.it/~franconi/>.
My interest on ontologies and rules dates back to a period when the  
semantic web was still a non existing buzzword :-)
I've been recently active in the DAWG for the formalisation of the  
semantics of SPARQL.
My main goal in this WG is to offer my experience in the  
formalisation of the semantics of languages, and their computational  
characterisation. I'd like to see a rule language with well founded  
semantics, fully interoperating with the W3C semantic web standards  
(RDF(S) and OWL) and with DB technologies, with effective and  
scalable computational properties, amenable to optimsations.

Enrico Franconi                  - franconi@inf.unibz.it
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - http://www.inf.unibz.it/~franconi/
Faculty of Computer Science      - Phone: (+39) 0471-016-120
I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy  - Fax:   (+39) 0471-016-129

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