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RECENT TEACHING
- 198:431 Software Engineering
- 198:205 Discrete Structures
- 198:541 > Data and Information Management (graduate course)
- 198:336 Information and Data Management
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198:532 Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
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198:672 Conceptual Modeling and Ontologies
(Representing the meaning of life, the universe and everything.)
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xxx:275 Prolog(ue) to Artificial Intelligence Honors
Seminar for students not familiar with programming.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
General:
CONCEPTUAL MODELING Improved software and database/information
base development techniques. Since such systems maintain models of some
(users' beliefs about) reality, my approach is often based on the use of
knowledge representation and reasoning techniques. As a result, I sometime
contribute to KR&R research to achieve my goals.
Current: Description Logics: import/modularization;
similarity;
modeling actions, goals, relationships. Conceptual modeling.
Ontological foundations of Data Quality. Business Intelligence. Requirements Engineering Languages.
Most Recent Publications:
- "Reasoning with Optional and Preferred Requirements",
N. Ernst, J. Mylopoulos, A. Borgida, I. Jureta.
29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling,
Vancouver, BC, Canada, Nov. 2010.
- "Finding incremental solutions for evolving requirements",
Neil A. Ernst, Alexander Borgida, Ivan Jureta, John Mylopoulos:
Requirements Engineering 2011: 15-24
- "Techne: Towards a New Generation of Requirements Modeling Languages
with Goals, Preferences, and Inconsistency Handling", I. Jureta, A. Borgida, N. Ernst, J. Mylopoulos, Proc. 18th Int. Conf. Requirements Engineering, Oct. 2010, Sydney, Australia
- "Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications
(Essays in Honour of John Mylopoulos)" Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, Vol.5600, 2009; 505 pages. Editors:
Alexander
Borgida, Vinay Chaudhri, PaoloGiorgini, and Eric Yu. Table of
Contents
- "A Sophisticate's Guide to Information Modeling", Chapter 1 in
Metamodeling for Method Engineering,
M. A. Jeusfeld et al (eds),
pp. 1-41, MIT Press (2008). With John Mylopoulos.
Chapter
available here for downloading from MIT Press
- "Explanation in the DL-Lite Family of Description Logics", Proc.
of the 7th Int. Conf. on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of
Semantics (ODBASE 2008), , Vol. 5332 of Springer LNCS,
pp. 1440-1457 (2008). With D. Calvanese, and M. Rodriguez-Muro.
(
pdf)
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"Explanation in DL-Lite", Proc. 21st International Workshop on
Description Logics (DL2008). With D. Calvanese, M. Rodriguez-Muro.
- "How Knowledge Representation meets Software Engineering (and often
Databases)"
Journal of Automated Software Engineering, 14(4), pp.443-464 (2007)
(pdf
draft)
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Knowledge Representation meets Databases: a view of the symbiosis",
invited talk and paper at the
20th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2007), .
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Importing knowledge from DL ontologies and Knowledge Bases
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Data quality and database schema design
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"Towards a Compositional Semantic Account of Data Quality Attributes",
Proc. 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER
2008), With L. Jiang, J. Mylopoulos. pdf draft
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"Measuring and Comparing Effectiveness of Data Quality Techniques."
Proc. 21st Int. Conf. on Advanced Information Systems Engineering,
(CAiSE 2009) , pp. 171-185 (2009).
With L. Jiang, D. Barone, and J. Mylopoulos.
pdf draft
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Data semantics: finding mappings between ontologies and database
schemas
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"A Semantic Approach to Discovering Schema Mapping Expressions". Int.
Conf. Data Engineering (ICDE'07): pp.206-215 (2007). With Y.An,
R.Miller,
J.Mylopoulos. (pdf
draft)
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"Discovering the Semantics of Relational Tables Through Mappings". J.
Data Semantics VII: 1-32 (2006). With Y.An, J.Mylopoulos. (pdf
draft)
- (See more below)
My frequently cited publications.
(according to
Scholar
Google)
(note problems of searching for Alexander vs
Alex ;-))
Selected older papers grouped by
topics:
Goal-oriented database design
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"Goal-Oriented Conceptual Database Design" . Conf .on Requirements
Engineering (RE'07), with L.Jiang, T.Topaloglou, J. Mylopoulos. (pdf
draft)
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''Incorporating Goal Analysis in Database Design'', Requirements
Engineering
Conferencec, RE 2006, pp.196-204. With L. Jiang, T. Topaloglou,, J.
Mylopoulos.
Providing Semantics for Data, and Using It
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''Data Semantics Revisited'', Proc. of 2nd Int. Workshop on Semantic
Web and Databases (SWDB 2004), Revised Selected Papers, Springer Verlag
LNCS, pp.9-26. (With J. Mylopoulos)
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``Constructing Complex Semantic Mappings Between XML Data and Ontologies.'
International
Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2005, pp. 6-20 (With Yuan An, John
Mylopoulos)
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``Inferring Complex Semantic Mappings Between Relational Tables and
Ontologies
from Simple Correspondences.'' Int. Conf. on Ontologies, Databases
and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) 2005: 1152-1169. (With Yuan
An, John Mylopoulos)
Distributed Description Logics
- "Aspects of Distributed and Modular Ontology Reasoning"
In Proc. of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI'05),
pp.570-575 (2005). With L. Serafini, and A. Tamlin.
pdf
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"Distributed Description Logics: Assimilating Information from Peer
Sources"
Journal of Data Semantics (1).
2003, pp.153-184 (With L. Serafini)
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"Distributed Description Logics: Directed Domain Correspondences in Federated
Information
Sources". In R. Meersman and Z. Tari, editors, On The Move to
Meaningful
Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE, LNCS Volume 2519, pages 36--53.
Springer Verlag, 2002. With L. Serafini
Description Logics for Software Service Description
Exceptions in information systems and workflows
Description Logics in Data Management
Theory and Implementation of Description Logics
Conceptual Modeling Languages
Requirments Modeling and Specification
BRIEF
CV
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THE WAY HERE
(Memories)
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