WP1 - Ontology and mapping development and maintenance

Deliverables:

  • WP1-1: Methodology for developing and maintaining an OBDM specification for open data management. PDF


Publications:

  • Gianluca Cima, Domenico Lembo, Lorenzo Marconi, Riccardo Rosati, and Domenico Fabio Savo. Controlled Query Evaluation in Ontology-based Data Access. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020), pages 128-146, 2020. PDF

  • Maurizio Lenzerini, Lorenzo Lepore, and Antonella Poggi. Metaquerying made practical for OWL 2 QL ontologies. In Information System 88, 2020, PDF

  • Marco Console and Maurizio Lenzerini. Epistemic Integrity Constraints for Ontology-Based Data Management. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), pages 2790–2797, 2020. PDF


Tools:

    • MONOLITH, an OBDM and Knowledge Graph Management Platform. See http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2456/paper45.pdf for details.

    • ACI Linked Open Data Portal. At http://lod.aci.it/, it is possible to inspect and navigate the ACI's ontology as well as to access and download, both in CSV and in RDF format, the various datasets published by ACI.

    • Eddy, an open source tool for the graphical editing of OWL 2 ontologies. Eddy is specifically designed for creating ontologies in GRAPHOL, a completely visual ontology language that is equivalent to OWL 2. See http://www.obdasystems.com/eddy for download and more details.

WP2 - Data privacy

Deliverables:

  • WP2-1: Languages for Privacy Requirements Specification. PDF

  • WP2-2: Extended Policy Model and Language for Privacy Requirements Specification. PDF


Publications:

  • Gianluca Cima, Domenico Lembo, Riccardo Rosati, and Domenico Fabio Savo. Controlled Query Evaluation over Prioritized Ontologies with Expressive Data Protection Policies. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021), pages 374-391, 2021. PDF

  • Mohanad Abukmeil, Stefano Ferrari, Angelo Genovese, Vincenzo Piuri, and Fabio Scotti. A Survey of Unsupervised Generative Models for Exploratory Data Analysis and Representation Learning. In ACM Computing Surveys 54(5), pages 99:1-99:40, 2021. PDF

  • Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Dario Facchinetti, Sara Foresti, Gianluca Oldani, Stefano Paraboschi, Matthew Rossi, and Pierangela Samarati. Artifact: Scalable Distributed Data Anonymization. In Proceedings of the PerCom Workshops 2021, pages 450-451, 2021. PDF

  • Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Dario Facchinetti, Sara Foresti, Gianluca Oldani, Stefano Paraboschi, Matthew Rossi, and Pierangela Samarati. Scalable Distributed Data Anonymization. In Proceedings of the PerCom Workshops 2021, pages 401-403, 2021. PDF

  • Ruggero Donida Labati, Angelo Genovese, Vincenzo Piuri, Fabio Scotti, and Sarvesh Vishwakarma. I-SOCIAL-DB: A labeled database of images collected from websites and social media for Iris recognition. In Image and Vision Computing 105, pages 104058, 2021. PDF

  • Gianluca Cima, Domenico Lembo, Riccardo Rosati, and Domenico Fabio Savo. Controlled Query Evaluation in Description Logics Through Instance Indistinguishability. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020), pages 1791-1797, 2020. PDF

  • Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Stefano Paraboschi, and Pierangela Samarati. Enforcing Corporate Governance's Internal Controls and Audit in the Cloud. In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2020), pages 453-361, 2020. PDF

  • Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Giovanni Livraga, and Pierangela Samarati. Towards Owners' Control in Digital Data Markets. In IEEE Systems Journal 15(1), pages 1299-1306, 2020. PDF

  • Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, and Pierangela Samarati. Specification and Enforcement of Access Policies in Emerging Scenarios. In Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Challenges, 2nd Edition, CRC Press, 2020. PDF

  • Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Giovanni Livraga, Vincenzo Piuri, and Pierangela Samarati. Security-Aware Data Allocation in Multicloud Scenarios. In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 18(5), pages 2456-2468, 2019. PDF

WP3 - Automatic Data Production

Deliverables:

  • WP3-1: Open data production methods: algorithms and complexity. PDF

  • WP3-2: Open data production methods: algorithms, formalisms and expressive power. PDF


Publications:

  • Gianluca Cima, Marco Console, Maurizio Lenzerini, and Antonella Poggi. Abstraction in Data Integration. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Six Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2021), pages 1-11, 2021. PDF

  • Diego Calvanese, Avigdor Gal, Naor Haba, Davide Lanti, Marco Montali, Alessandro Mosca, and Roee Shraga. ADaMaP: Automatic Alignment of Relational Data Sources Using Mapping Patterns. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2021), pages 193-209, 2021. PDF

  • Gianluca Cima, Maurizio Lenzerini, and Antonella Poggi. Non-Monotonic Ontology-based Abstractions of Data Services. In Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference (KR 2020), pages 243-252, 2020. PDF

  • Federico Croce, Gianluca Cima, Maurizio Lenzerini, and Tiziana Catarci. Ontology-based Explanation of Classifiers. In Proceedings of the Workshops of the EDBT/ICDT 2020 Joint Conference, 2020. PDF

  • Camille Bourgaux, Ana Ozaki, Rafael Penaloza and Livia Predoiu. Provenance for the Description Logic ELHr. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020), pages 1862-1869, 2020. PDF

  • Gianluca Cima, Maurizio Lenzerini, and Antonella Poggi. Semantic Characterization of Data Services through Ontologies. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019), pages 1647-1653, 2019. PDF

WP4 - Semantic Query Answering

Deliverables:

  • WP4-1: Access to NoSQL, Temporal Data, and Geospatial Data. PDF

  • WP4-2: Aggregates and Meta-level Information. PDF


Publications:

  • Marco Calautti, Marco Console, and Andreas Pieris. Benchmarking Approximate Consistent Query Answering. In Proceedings of the Forthy ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2021), pages 233-246, 2021. PDF

  • Marco Console, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Lenzerini, and Manuel Namici. Intensional and Extensional Views in DL-Lite Ontologies. In Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021), pages 1822-1828, 2021. PDF

  • Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Sushil Jajodia, Giovanni Livraga, Stefano Paraboschi, Pierangela Samarati. Distributed Query Evaluation over Encrypted Data. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2021), pages 96-114. PDF

  • Diego Calvanese, Davide Lanti, Tarcisio Mendes De Farias, Alessandro Mosca, and Guohui Xiao. Accessing Scientific Data through Knowledge Graphs with Ontop. In Patterns, 2021. PDF

  • Linfgang Ding, Guohui Xiao, Albulen Pano, Claus Stadler, and Diego Calvanese. Towards the Next Generation of the LinkedGeoData Project using Virtual Knowledge Graphs. In Journal of Web Semantics, 2021. PDF

  • Guohui Xiao and Julien Corman. Ontology-Mediated SPARQL Query Answering over Knowledge Graphs. In Big Data Research 23, pages 100177, 2021. PDF

  • Gianluca Cima, Maurizio Lenzerini, and Antonella Poggi. Answering Conjunctive Queries with Inequalities in DL-Liteℛ. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), pages 2782-2789, 2020. PDF

  • Linfang Ding, Guohui Xiao, Diego Calvanese, and Liqiu Meng. A Framework Uniting Ontology-Based Geodata Integration and Geovisual Analytics. In ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9(8), pages 474, 2020. PDF

  • Elem Güzel Kalaycı, Irlan Grangel Gonález, Felix Lösch, Guohui Xiao, Anees ul-Mehdi, Evgeny Kharlamov, and Diego Calvanese. Semantic Integration of Bosch Manufacturing Data Using Virtual Knowledge Graphs. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020), pages 464-481, 2020. PDF

  • Guohui Xiao, Davide Lanti, Roman Kontchakov, Sarah Komla-Ebri, Elem Güzel-Kalayci, Linfang Ding, Julien Corman, Benjamin Cogrel, Diego Calvanese, and Elena Botoeva. The Virtual Knowledge Graph System Ontop. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020), pages 259-277, 2020. PDF

  • Diego Calvanese, Julien Corman, Davide Lanti, and Simon Razniewski. Counting Query Answers over a DL-Lite Knowledge Base. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020), pages 1658-1666, 2020. PDF

  • Hai Wan, Guohui Xiao, Chenglin Wang, Xianqiao Liu, Junhong Chen, and Zhe Wang. Query Answering with Guarded Existential Rules under Stable Model Semantics. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), pages 3017-3024, 2020. PDF

  • Diego Calvanese, Julien Corman, Davide Lanti, and Simon Razniewski. Rewriting Count Queries over DL-Lite TBoxes with Number Restrictions. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2020), 2020. PDF

  • Julien Corman and Guohui Xiao. Certain Answers to a SPARQL Query over a Knowledge Base. In Semantic Technology: Ninth Joint International Conference (JIST 2019), pages 320-335, 2019. PDF


Tools:

WP5 - User Exploitation

Deliverables:

  • WP5-1: Algorithms for general Q/A and BEStQ. PDF

  • WP5-2: Algorithms for general Q/A and BestQ. PDF


Publications:

  • Diego Calvanese, Linfang Ding, Alessandro Mosca, and Guohui Xiao. Realizing Ontology-based Reusable Interfaces for Data Access via Virtual Knowledge Graphs. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly 2021), pages 35:1-35:5, 2021. PDF

  • Diego Marcia, Manuela Sanguinetti, and Maurizio Atzori. User-friendly Query Interfaces for the HOPE Project. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2021), 2021. PDF

  • Sandro Gabriele Tiddia, Diego Marcia, Manuela Sanguinetti, and Maurizio Atzori. SWLab @ Covid-19 MLIA Information Extraction Task. Technical Report at the Covid-19 MLIA Evaluation Challenge, 2021. PDF

  • Maurizio Atzori and Simone Balloccu. Fully-Unsupervised Embeddings-Based Hypernym Discovery. In Information 11(5), pages 268, 2020. PDF

  • Maurizio Atzori, Georgia Koutrika, Barbara Pes, and Letizia Tanca. Special issue on "Data Exploration in the Web 3.0 Age". In Future Generation Computer Systems 112, pages 1177-1179, 2020. PDF

  • Roberto Cocco, Maurizio Atzori, and Carlo Zaniolo. Machine Learning of SPARQL Templates for Question Answering Over LinkedSpending. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth IEEE Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2019), pages 156-161, 2021. PDF

  • Maurizio Atzori and Barbara Pes. Special Issue on Advanced Learning Methods for Complex Data. In Information 10(1), 2019. PDF

  • Maurizio Atzori, Simone Balloccu, Andrea Bellanti, Emanuele Mameli, and Stefano Raimondo Usai. OKgraph: Unsupervised Structured Data Extraction from Plain Text. In Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2019), pages 30-31, 2019. PDF

WP6 - Media and Social Grounding

Deliverables:

  • WP6-1: Methodology for linking open data to media and to a social network that reacts to media publishing. PDF


Publications:

  • Francesco Pierri. The Diffusion of Mainstream and Disinformation News on Twitter: The case of Italy and France. In Proceedings of Companion of The 2020 Web Conference 2020, pages 617-622, 2020. PDF

  • Francesco Pierri, Alessandro Artoni, and Stefano Ceri. HoaxItaly: a collection of Italian disinformation and fact-checking stories shared on Twitter in 2019. In CoRR abs/2001.10926, 2020. PDF

  • Francesco Pierri, Alessandro Artoni, and Stefano Ceri. Investigating Italian disinformation spreading on Twitter in the context of 2019 European elections. In PLoS ONE 15(1), 2020. PDF

  • Francesco Pierri, Carlo Piccardi, and Stefano Ceri. Topology comparison of Twitter diffusion networks effectively reveals misleading information. In Scientific Reports 10(1372), 2020. PDF

  • Francesco Pierri and Stefano Ceri. False News On Social Media: A Data-Driven Survey. In SIGMOD Record 48(2), pages 18-27, 2019. PDF

  • Giovanni Bonaccorsi, Francesco Pierri, Matteo Cinelli, Andrea Flori, Alessandro Galeazzi, Francesco Porcelli, Ana Lucia Schmidt, Carlo Michele Valensise, Antonio Scala, Walter Quattrociocchi, and Fabio Pammolli. Economic and social consequences of human mobility restrictions under COVID-19. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(27), pages 15530-15535, 2020. PDF

  • Emre Calisir and Marco Brambilla. The Long-Running Debate about Brexit on Social Media. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020), pages 848-852, 2020. PDF

  • Emre Calisir and Marco Brambilla. Wide-spectrum characterization of long-running political phenomena on social media: the brexit case. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2020), pages 1869-1876, 2020. PDF

WP7 - Coordination, deployment and use cases

Deliverables:

  • WP7-1: First year project report. PDF

  • WP7-2: Second year project report. PDF

Annual scientific reports

Deliverables:

  • First year. PDF

  • Second year. PDF