Libera Università di Bolzano

Graduate Degrees/Programs

• PhD Programme in Computer Science (Research area: Knowledge Representation and Data Management ²⁾)

Seminars & Workshops

• 2020: KRDB Summer Online Seminars
• 2006-2012: KRDB Seminar Series (Knowledge Representation and Databases)
  Oct 2012: Time dimensions in linked open data: current approaches and empirical evidences
  Jul 2012: Towards More Expressive Ontology Languages: The Query Answering Problem
  Mar 2012: Information Extraction from large amounts of semi-structured and unstructured texts
  Feb 2012: Knowledge management activities in the FBK e-Health Unit
  Jan 2012: Top-k Search in Social Bookmarking Applications

  Dec 2011: A Toolbox for Ontology Reasoning; Logic-based and Scalable Ontology Matching; Complete Reasoning with Incomplete Ontology Reasoners
  Jan 2011: Supporting Natural Language Processing with Background Knowledge: Coreference Resolution Case

  Dec 2010: Hyperontologies at Work; Interlinking and Understanding Datasets in the Linked Open Data Cloud; Interactive Reasoning in Large and Uncertain RDF Knowledge Bases (DIS + KRDB Joint Seminar)
  Nov 2010: From geographic data toward ontology-driven GISs (Seminar series)

  Oct 2008: Ontologies as a Conceptual Model over Relational Databases; Ontology-driven Geographic Information Integration
  Sep 2008: OntoMinD: Tailoring a DBMS to support Ontological Knowledge; A Survey on Reasoning with Distributed Ontologies and Distributed Reasoning
  Jan 2008: A featuring ontology for semantic similarity reasoning: preliminary ideas and results

  Feb 2006: Introduction to Ontologies; Temporal Knowledge and Ontologies

• KRDB school
  2010 (#3): Trends in the Web of Data
  2009 (#2): Reasoning Web – Semantic technologies for information systems (Summer School)
  2008 (#1): Knowledge Representation and Description Logics (Spring Scool)

Legend: Levels of lectures: basic (B) – Bachelor; intermediate (I) – Bachelor and Master; advanced (A) – Master; seminars (S) – Master

Undergraduate Degrees/Programs

• Bachelor in Applied Computer Science (Stream: Information and Knowledge Management)**
  Courses:
  Formal Methods (B)
  Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (B)
  Computational Linguistics (I)
  Computational Logic (I)
  Digital Libraries (I)
  Knowledge Representation (I)
  Distributed Databases (I)
  XML and Semistructured Databases (I)
  Advanced (A) master courses and seminars (S) upon request³⁾
• Bachelor in Applied Computer Science (Stream: Web Technologies)**
  Courses:
  Computational Linguistics (B)
  Internet Technologies 2 (B)
  Knowledge Representation (B)
  Software Architectures (B)
  Distributed Databases (I)
  Component-based Development (I)
  Software Engineering 2 (I)
  Advanced (A) master courses and seminars (S) upon request³⁾

Graduate Degrees/Programs

• MSc in Computer Science (Stream: Data and Knowledge Management/Engineering (DKM))**
  1st year
  Advanced Database Management Technologies
  Data Mining
  Theory of Computing
  Statistical Methods
  Seminars in Human Machine Interaction
  Advanced Internet Technologies
  Data and Process Modeling
  Information Search and Retrieval
  Technical and Scientific Communication

  2nd year
  Semantic Technologies
  Seminars in Data and Knowledge Engineering
  Research Methods
  Compulsory Optional Course
  Free Choice*
  Thesis

• MSc in Computer Science (Stream: Information and Knowledge Management)**
  Courses:
  Computational Linguistics (I)
  Non-classical Logics (A)
  Computational Logic (I)
  Digital Libraries (I)
  Foundations of Databases (A)
  Knowledge Representation (I)
  System Security (A)
  Distributed Databases (I)
  Knowledge Bases and Databases (A)
  Semantic Web Technologies (A)
  XML and Semistructured Databases (I)
  Temporal and Spatial Databases (A)

  BSc courses: (upon request)³⁾
  Formal Methods (B)
  Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (B)

  Language and Communication Technologies Masters courses:
  Automatic Speech Recognition (A)
  Cross-Language Information Technologies (A)
  Intelligent Interfaces (A)
  Text Processing (A)

• MSc in Computer Science (Stream: Semantic Web)**
  1st Semester
  Theory of Computing
  Semantic Web Technologies
  Advanced Internet Technologies
  Technical and Scientific Communication
  Research Methods

  2nd Semester
  Knowledge Representation and Ontologies
  Computational Logic
  Information Search and Retrieval
  Optional Courses*

  3rd Semester
  XML Data Management
  Computational Linguistics
  Laboratory in Statistics
  Seminar in Human-Machine Interaction
  Optional Courses (stream courses)
  Free choice (any two courses)

  4th Semester
  Thesis

• MSc in Computer Science (Stream: Semantic Technologies)**
  Courses:
  Distributed Databases (I)
  Component-based Development (I)
  Software Engineering 2 (I)
  XML and Semistructured Databases (I)
  Intelligent Agents (A)
  Mobile Services (A)
  Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems (A)
  System Security (A)
  Temporal and Spatial Databases (A)
  Readings in Databases (S)
  Readings in Knowledge Representation (S)
  Readings in Software Engineering (S)

Seminars

Computer Science Seminar Series

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• May 2006: Research challenges for the Semantic Web from a database perspective
• Sep 2005: Information Integration
• Jul 2005: On the Semantics of Anonymous Identity and Reification
• Jun 2005: From Semantic Data Models to the Semantic Web
• Nov 2004: Ontology modelling: an overview of ontoclean
• Oct 2004: Seminars in Data Information and Knowledge Management
• Jun 2004: Online reputation systems for virtual communities; Half-a-century of computer chess: The longest running experiment in knowledge engineering
• Jul 2003: The UMLS Semantic Network meets DAML+OIL
• Jun 2003: Semantic Web Enabled Web Services