Selected publications

Various related papers, articles and documents, grouped according to their topic and year of publication. A link to each paper's online content is also provided.

Lightweight Ontologies

2007 Giunchiglia, Fausto and Marchese, Maurizio and Zaihrayeu, Ilya. Encoding Classifications into Lightweight Ontologies. Technical Report DIT-05-080, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. In Journal of Data Semantics(JoDS), VIII: Special Issue on Extended Papers from 2005 Conferences.

@article{DBLP:journals/jods/GiunchigliaMZ07,      author = {Fausto Giunchiglia and      Maurizio Marchese and      Ilya Zaihrayeu},      title = {Encoding Classifications into Lightweight Ontologies},      journal = {J. Data Semantics},      volume = {8},      year = {2007},      pages = {57-81},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70664-9_3},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }

2009 Giunchiglia, Fausto and Zaihrayeu, Ilya. Lightweight Ontologies. Technical Report DIT-07-071, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. The Encyclopedia of Database Systems.

@incollection{DBLP:reference/db/GiunchigliaZ09,      author = {Fausto Giunchiglia and      Ilya Zaihrayeu},      title = {Lightweight Ontologies},      booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Database Systems},      year = {2009},      pages = {1613-1619},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1314},      crossref = {DBLP:reference/db/2009},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } @book{DBLP:reference/db/2009,      editor = {Ling Liu and      M. Tamer {\"O}zsu},      title = {Encyclopedia of Database Systems},      booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Database Systems},      publisher = {Springer US},      year = {2009},      isbn = {978-0-387-35544-3, 978-0-387-39940-9},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }

2009 Giunchiglia, Fausto and Dutta, Biswanath and Maltese, Vincenzo. Faceted lightweight ontologies. Technical Report DISI-09-022, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. In: "Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications", Alex Borgida, Vinay Chaudhri, Paolo Giorgini, Eric Yu (Eds.) LNCS 5600 Springer

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/birthday/GiunchigliaDM09,      author = {Fausto Giunchiglia and      Biswanath Dutta and      Vincenzo Maltese},      title = {Faceted Lightweight Ontologies},      booktitle = {Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications},      year = {2009},      pages = {36-51},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02463-4_3},      crossref = {DBLP:conf/birthday/2009mylopoulos},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } @proceedings{DBLP:conf/birthday/2009mylopoulos,      editor = {Alexander Borgida and      Vinay K. Chaudhri and      Paolo Giorgini and      Eric S. K. Yu},      title = {Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications - Essays      in Honor of John Mylopoulos},      booktitle = {Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications},      publisher = {Springer},      series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},      volume = {5600},      year = {2009},      isbn = {978-3-642-02462-7},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02463-4},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }

Semantic Matching

2003 Harmelen, Frank van and Serafini, Luciano and Bouquet, Paolo and Giunchiglia, Fausto and Stuckenschmidt, Heiner. C-OWL: Contextualizing Ontologies. Technical Report DIT-03-038, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. In International Semantic Web Conference, pages 164—179, 2003.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/semweb/BouquetGHSS03,      author = {Paolo Bouquet and      Fausto Giunchiglia and      Frank van Harmelen and      Luciano Serafini and      Heiner Stuckenschmidt},      title = {C-OWL: Contextualizing Ontologies},      booktitle = {International Semantic Web Conference},      year = {2003},      pages = {164-179},      ee = {http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article{\&}issn=0302-9743{\&}volume=2870{\&}spage=164},      crossref = {DBLP:conf/semweb/2003},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } @proceedings{DBLP:conf/semweb/2003,      editor = {Dieter Fensel and      Katia P. Sycara and      John Mylopoulos},      title = {The Semantic Web - ISWC 2003, Second International Semantic      Web Conference, Sanibel Island, FL, USA, October 20-23,      2003, Proceedings},      booktitle = {International Semantic Web Conference},      publisher = {Springer},      series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},      volume = {2870},      year = {2003},      isbn = {3-540-20362-1},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }

2003 Giunchiglia, Fausto and Shvaiko, Pavel. Semantic Matching. Technical Report DIT-03-013, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. The Knowledge Engineering Review Journal (KER), 2003.

@techreport{giunchiglia03sm,     author = {Fausto Giunchiglia and Pavel Shvaiko},     title = {Semantic Matching},     url = {http://eprints.biblio.unitn.it/archive/00000381/},     year = {2003},     institution = {{DISI}, University of Trento} }

2004 Giunchiglia, Fausto and Shvaiko, Pavel and Yatskevich, Mikalai. S-Match: an algorithm and an implementation of semantic matching. Technical Report DIT-04-015, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. Proc. of the first European Semantic Web Symposium (ESWS), 2004.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/esws/GiunchigliaSY04,      author = {Fausto Giunchiglia and      Pavel Shvaiko and      Mikalai Yatskevich},      title = {S-Match: an Algorithm and an Implementation of Semantic      Matching},      booktitle = {ESWS},      year = {2004},      pages = {61-75},      ee = {http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article{\&}issn=0302-9743{\&}volume=3053{\&}spage=61},      crossref = {DBLP:conf/esws/2004},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } @proceedings{DBLP:conf/esws/2004,      editor = {Christoph Bussler and      John Davies and      Dieter Fensel and      Rudi Studer},      title = {The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, First European      Semantic Web Symposium, ESWS 2004, Heraklion, Crete, Greece,      May 10-12, 2004, Proceedings},      booktitle = {ESWS},      publisher = {Springer},      series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},      volume = {3053},      year = {2004},      isbn = {3-540-21999-4},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }

2007 Giunchiglia, Fausto and Shvaiko, Pavel and Yatskevich, Mikalai. Semantic Matching: Algorithms and Implementation. Technical Report DIT-07-001, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. In Journal of Data Semantics (JoDS), IX, 2007.

@article{DBLP:journals/jods/GiunchigliaYS07,      author = {Fausto Giunchiglia and      Mikalai Yatskevich and      Pavel Shvaiko},      title = {Semantic Matching: Algorithms and Implementation},      journal = {J. Data Semantics},      volume = {9},      year = {2007},      pages = {1-38},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74987-5_1},      crossref = {DBLP:journals/jods/2007-9},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } @proceedings{DBLP:journals/jods/2007-9,      editor = {Stefano Spaccapietra and      Paolo Atzeni and      Fran\c{c}ois Fages and      Mohand-Said Hacid and      Michael Kifer and      John Mylopoulos and      Barbara Pernici and      Pavel Shvaiko and      Juan Trujillo and      Ilya Zaihrayeu},      title = {Journal on Data Semantics IX},      booktitle = {J. Data Semantics},      publisher = {Springer},      series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},      volume = {4601},      year = {2007},      isbn = {978-3-540-74982-0},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }

Minimal Mappings

2008 Giunchiglia, Fausto and Maltese, Vincenzo and Autayeu, Aliaksandr. Computing minimal mappings. Technical Report DISI-08-078, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. Proc. of the Fourth Ontology Matching Workshop at ISWC 2009.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/semweb/GiunchigliaMA08,      author = {Fausto Giunchiglia and      Vincenzo Maltese and      Aliaksandr Autayeu},      title = {Computing Minimal Mappings},      booktitle = {OM},      year = {2009},      ee = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-551/om2009_Tpaper4.pdf},      crossref = {DBLP:conf/semweb/2009om},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } @proceedings{DBLP:conf/semweb/2009om,      editor = {Pavel Shvaiko and      J{\'e}r{\^o}me Euzenat and      Fausto Giunchiglia and      Heiner Stuckenschmidt and      Natalya Fridman Noy and      Arnon Rosenthal},      title = {Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Ontology      Matching (OM-2009) collocated with the 8th International      Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2009) Chantilly, USA, October      25, 2009},      booktitle = {OM},      publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},      series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},      volume = {551},      year = {2009},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }

2010 Maltese, Vincenzo and Giunchiglia, Fausto and Autayeu, Aliaksandr. Save up to 99% of your time in mapping validation. Technical Report DISI-10-046, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2010).

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/otm/MalteseGA10,      author = {Vincenzo Maltese and      Fausto Giunchiglia and      Aliaksandr Autayeu},      title = {Save Up to 99\% of Your Time in Mapping Validation},      booktitle = {OTM Conferences (2)},      year = {2010},      pages = {1044-1060},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16949-6_28},      crossref = {DBLP:conf/otm/2010-2},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}     }     @proceedings{DBLP:conf/otm/2010-2,      editor = {Robert Meersman and      Tharam S. Dillon and      Pilar Herrero},      title = {On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2010 - Confederated      International Conferences: CoopIS, IS, DOA and ODBASE, Hersonissos,      Crete, Greece, October 25-29, 2010, Proceedings, Part II},      booktitle = {OTM Conferences (2)},      publisher = {Springer},      series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},      volume = {6427},      year = {2010},      isbn = {978-3-642-16948-9},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16949-6},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}     }

Structure Preserving Semantic Matching (SPSM)

1992 Giunchiglia, Fausto and Walsh, Toby. A theory of abstraction. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. Artificial Intelligence, 57(2-3): 323-389.

@techreport{giunchiglia1992,     author = {Fausto Giunchiglia and Toby Walsh},     title = {A theory of abstraction},     year = {1992},     institution = {{DISI}, University of Trento} }

2008 Giunchiglia, Fausto and McNeill, Fiona and Yatskevich, Mikalai and Pane, Juan and Besana, Paolo and Shvaiko, Pavel. Approximate structure-preserving semantic matching. Technical Report DISI-08-039, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. Proc. of ODBASE 2008.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/otm/GiunchigliaMYPBS08,      author = {Fausto Giunchiglia and      Fiona McNeill and      Mikalai Yatskevich and      Juan Pane and      Paolo Besana and      Pavel Shvaiko},      title = {Approximate Structure-Preserving Semantic Matching},      booktitle = {OTM Conferences (2)},      year = {2008},      pages = {1217-1234},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88873-4_22},      crossref = {DBLP:conf/otm/2008-2},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } @proceedings{DBLP:conf/otm/2008-2,      editor = {Robert Meersman and      Zahir Tari},      title = {On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008, OTM      2008 Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA,      GADA, IS, and ODBASE 2008, Monterrey, Mexico, November 9-14,      2008, Proceedings, Part II},      booktitle = {OTM Conferences (2)},      publisher = {Springer},      series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},      volume = {5332},      year = {2008},      isbn = {978-3-540-88872-7},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }

Evaluation Datasets

2006 Yatskevich, Mikalai and Giunchiglia, Fausto and Avesani, Paolo. A Large Scale Dataset for the Evaluation of Matching Systems. Technical Report DIT-06-035, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. Poster at the fourth European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2007.

@techreport{yatskevich06,     author = {Mikalai Yatskevich and Fausto Giunchiglia and Paolo Avesani},     title = {A Large Scale Dataset for the Evaluation of Matching Systems},     url = {http://eprints.biblio.unitn.it/archive/00001015/},     year = {2006},     institution = {{DISI}, University of Trento} }

2009 Giunchiglia, Fausto and Yatskevich, Mikalai and Avesani, Paolo and Shvaiko, Pavel. A Large Scale Dataset for the Evaluation of Ontology Matching Systems. Technical Report DISI-08-001, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. The Knowledge Engineering Review Journal, 2009. Also In Proceedings of the Meaning Coordination and Negotiation Workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008).

@article{DBLP:journals/ker/GiunchigliaYAS09,      author = {Fausto Giunchiglia and      Mikalai Yatskevich and      Paolo Avesani and      Pavel Shvaiko},      title = {A large dataset for the evaluation of ontology matching},      journal = {Knowledge Eng. Review},      volume = {24},      number = {2},      year = {2009},      pages = {137-157},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S026988890900023X},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }

2009 Giunchiglia, Fausto and Soergel, Dagobert and Maltese, Vincenzo and Bertacco, Alessandro. Mapping large-scale Knowledge Organization Systems. Technical Report DISI-09-029, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on the Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICSD), 2009.

@techreport{giunchiglia09mapkos,     author = {Fausto Giunchiglia and Dagobert Soergel and Vincenzo Maltese and Alessandro Bertacco},     title = {Mapping large-scale Knowledge Organization Systems},     url = {http://eprints.biblio.unitn.it/archive/00001616/},     year = {2009},     institution = {{DISI}, University of Trento} }

2009 Autayeu, Aliaksandr and Maltese, Vincenzo and Andrews, Pierre. Best Practices for Ontology Matching Tools Evaluation. Technical Report DISI-09-046, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. Proc. of the Fourth Ontology Matching Workshop at ISWC 2009.

@techreport{autayeu09,     author = {Aliaksandr Autayeu and Vincenzo Maltese and Pierre Andrews},     title = {Best Practices for Ontology Matching Tools Evaluation},     url = {http://eprints.biblio.unitn.it/archive/00001655/},     year = {2009},     institution = {{DISI}, University of Trento} }

2009 Vaccari, Lorenzino and Pane, Juan. Ontology matching evaluation using GIS web services. Technical Report DISI-08-084, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. Workshop on Matching and Meaning: automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies at the 2009 Conference on Adaptive & Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems (AISB), 2009.

@Inproceedings{Vaccari2009b,     author = {Lorenzino Vaccari and Juan Pane},     title = {Ontology matching evaluation using GIS web services},     booktitle = {Workshop on Matching and Meaning: automated development,     evolution and interpretation of ontologies at the 2009 Conference on     Adaptive & Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems ({AISB})},     year = {2009} }

Background Knowledge Datasets

2009 Giunchiglia, Fausto and Maltese, Vincenzo and Farazi, Feroz and Dutta, Biswanath. GeoWordNet: a resource for geo-spatial applications. Technical Report DISI-09-071, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. Proc. of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2010.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/esws/GiunchigliaMFD10,      author = {Fausto Giunchiglia and      Vincenzo Maltese and      Feroz Farazi and      Biswanath Dutta},      title = {GeoWordNet: A Resource for Geo-spatial Applications},      booktitle = {ESWC (1)},      year = {2010},      pages = {121-136},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13486-9_9},      crossref = {DBLP:conf/esws/2010-1},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } @proceedings{DBLP:conf/esws/2010-1,      editor = {Lora Aroyo and      Grigoris Antoniou and      Eero Hyv{\"o}nen and      Annette ten Teije and      Heiner Stuckenschmidt and      Liliana Cabral and      Tania Tudorache},      title = {The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 7th Extended      Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece,      May 30 - June 3, 2010, Proceedings, Part I},      booktitle = {ESWC (1)},      publisher = {Springer},      series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},      volume = {6088},      year = {2010},      isbn = {978-3-642-13485-2},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13486-9},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }

2011 Dutta, Biswanath and Giunchiglia, Fausto and Maltese, Vincenzo. A facet-based methodology for geo-spatial modelling. Technical Report DISI-10-062, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. In the proceedings of the GEOS 2011.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/geos/DuttaGM11,      author = {Biswanath Dutta and      Fausto Giunchiglia and      Vincenzo Maltese},      title = {A Facet-Based Methodology for Geo-Spatial Modeling},      booktitle = {GeoS},      year = {2011},      pages = {133-150},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20630-6_9},      crossref = {DBLP:conf/geos/2011},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}     } @proceedings{DBLP:conf/geos/2011,      editor = {Christophe Claramunt and      Sergei Levashkin and      Michela Bertolotto},      title = {GeoSpatial Semantics - 4th International Conference, GeoS      2011, Brest, France, May 12-13, 2011. Proceedings},      booktitle = {GeoS},      publisher = {Springer},      series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},      volume = {6631},      year = {2011},      isbn = {978-3-642-20629-0},      ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20630-6},      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}     }

Applications

2010 Shvaiko, Pavel and Ivanyukovich, Alexander and Vaccari, Lorenzo and Maltese, Vincenzo and Farazi, Feroz. A semantic geo-catalogue implementation for a regional SDI. Technical Report DISI-10-033, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. In the proceedings of the INSPIRE conference 2010.

@inproceedings{ShvaikoIV10,      author = {Pavel Shvaiko and      Alexander Ivanyukovich and      Lorenzo Vaccari and      Vincenzo Maltese and      Feroz Farazi},      title = {A semantic geo-catalogue implementation for a regional SDI},      booktitle = {INSPIRE},      year = {2010}     }

2011 Farazi, Feroz and Maltese, Vincenzo and Giunchiglia, Fausto and Ivanyukovich, Alexander. A faceted ontology for a semantic geo-catalogue. Technical Report DISI-10-061, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. In the proceedings of the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2011.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/eswc/FaraziMG11,      author = {Feroz Farazi and      Vincenzo Maltese and      Fausto Giunchiglia and      Alexander Ivanyukovich},      title = {A faceted ontology for a semantic geo-catalogue},      booktitle = {ESWC},      year = {2011}     }

2011 Farazi, Feroz and Maltese, Vincenzo and Dutta, Biswanath and Ivanyukovich, Alexander. Extending a geo-catalogue with matching capabilities. At the IJCAI Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large Heterogeneous Data 2011 (LHD).

@inproceedings{FaraziMD11,      author = {Feroz Farazi and      Vincenzo Maltese and      Biswanath Dutta and      Alexander Ivanyukovich},      title = {Extending a geo-catalogue with matching capabilities},      booktitle = {LHD at IJCAI},      year = {2011}     }

2011 Autayeu, Aliaksandr. Large Scale Semantic Matching: Agrovoc vs CABI. At the IJCAI Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large Heterogeneous Data 2011 (LHD).

@inproceedings{Autayeu11,      author = {Aliaksandr Autayeu},      title = {Large Scale Semantic Matching: Agrovoc vs CABI},      booktitle = {LHD at IJCAI},      year = {2011}     }