The AI System DLV: Ontologies, Reasoning, and more

Brief Bio
Nicola Leone is professor of Computer Science at University of Calabria, where he heads the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, chairs the PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science, and leads the AI Lab. He previously was professor of Database Systems at Vienna University of Technology until 2000. He is internationally renowned for his research on Knowledge Representation, Answer Set Programming (ASP), and Database Theory, and for the development of DLV, a state-of-the-art ASP system which is popular world-wide. He published more than 250 papers in prestigious conferences and journals, and has about 10,000 citations, with h-index 52. He is area editor of the TPLP journal (Cambridge Press) for "Knowledge Representation and Nonmonotonic Reasoning", and been Keynote Speaker and Program Chair of several international conferences, including, e.g., JELIA and LPNMR. He is a fellow of ECCAI (now EurAI), recipient of a Test-of-Time award from the ACM, and winner of many Best Paper Awards in top-level AI conferences.

 

 

Knowledge Graph for Public Safety: Construction, Reasoning and Case Studies

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Xindong Wu, PhD, Chief Scientist and Vice President of Mininglamp Software Systems (China), and Alfred and Helen Lamson Endowed Professor of the School of Computing and Informatics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is also a Yangtze River Scholar in the School of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the Hefei University of Technology (China), and a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from the Hefei University of Technology, China. Dr. Wu's research interests include data mining, Big Data analytics, knowledge engineering, and Web systems. He has published over 450 refereed papers in these areas in various journals and conferences, as well as 45 books and conference proceedings. His research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and the Ministry of Education of China, as well as industrial companies including Microsoft Research, U.S. West Advanced Technologies, and Empact Solutions.

 

 

Keynote Lecture

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Rita Cucchiara is Professor of Computer Architecture and Computer Vision at Engineering Department “Enzo Ferrari” of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

She heads the Imagelab research lab at UNIMORE. She is Director of the Inter-departmental Centre of Research in ICT Softech-ICTof Emilai rOmagna High Technology network, and Director of the Master in Visual Computing and Multimedia Technology.

She is working on computer vision, multimedia pattern recognition, machine learning and intelligent sensing. In 2016 she has been awarded by the Facebook Artificial intelligence Research and the Cineca Italian SuperComputing Resource Allocation grants. Rita Cucchiara is president of GIRPR the Italian Association of Pattern Recognition, Fellow of IAPR and she is in the Advisory Board of Computer Vision Foundation. She covers also the role of deputy-president of the Italian Groups of Computer Engineering Professors GII, for scientific research. In 2020 she will be General Chair of ICPR2020. She is currently AE of IEEE Trans. of Multimedia. She is author or more than 300 publications on International Journals and Proceedings.

 

 

Building a Self-Service IoT Analytics Toolbox: Basics, Models and Lessons Learned

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Rudi Studer has been Full Professor in Applied Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute AIFB until 2017. In addition, he has been director at the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) as well as at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology. His research interests include knowledge management, Semantic Web technologies and applications, data and text mining, Big Data and Service Science. He obtained a Diploma in Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart in 1975. In 1982 he was awarded a Doctor's degree in Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Stuttgart, and in 1985 he obtained his Habilitation in Informatics at the University of Stuttgart. From 1985 to 1989 he was project leader and manager at the Scientific Center of IBM Germany. Rudi Studer is former president of the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) and former Editor-in-chief of the Journal Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. He is an STI International Fellow.