Project Units and People

Unit 1 – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

  • Marco Montali: Full Professor in Computer Engineering (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Process and Data Management, and Process Mining. He studies the foundations and applications of artificial intelligence, formal methods, and data science to create intelligent agents and information systems that combine processes and data. 
    • Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator

  • Alessandro Gianola: Researcher in Computer Science (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy). His scientific interests involve computational logic and Business Process Management (BPM): specifically, his research activity focuses on theoretical and methodological aspects of mathematical logic and formal methods for verification of complex (business) processes with data.
    • Workpackage Leader (WP1): since November 01, 2022
  • Paolo Felli: Assistant Professor (Free University of Boozen-Bolzano, Italy). His research interests include but are not limited to business process analysis, synthesis of controllers for behavior and service compositions, reasoning about actions, verification and model checking, multi-agent systems.
    • Research Unit member: until October 15, 2022

Unit 2 – Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’

  • Claudio Di Ciccio: Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the Institute for Information Business at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU Vienna), Austria. His research interests include process mining, declarative process modelling, blockchains, and service-oriented computing.
    • Research Unit Leader
  • Paolo Bottoni: Full Professor (Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’). His research interests are mainly in the area of interactive computing and include: formal models for defining pictorial and visual languages and interactive computing, multimedia applications for creative processes and cultural heritage. He has had over 120 papers on these subjects published in international journals, in edited collections, in the proceedings of International Conferences.
    • Research Unit member

Unit 3 – Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca

  • Rafael Peñaloza: Associate Professor at the IKR3 Lab of the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. His main interests are in Knowledge Representation. He devises techniques for solving non-standard reasoning problems, and extends knowledge representation formalisms (in particular Description Logics) to handle meta-knowledge. He likes to explore new challenges, and has worked in many different topics.
    • Research Unit Leader and Substitute Principal Investigator
  • Davide Ciucci: Full Professor (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca), he received a PhD in 2004 in computer science from the University of Milan and the HdR (habilitation) from the University of Toulouse III in 2013. His research activity is about uncertainty management, with particular reference to rough sets and non-classical logics.
  • Research Unit member

Unit 4 – ICAR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

  • Luigi Pontieri: Senior Researcher (ICAR, CNR). His current research interests mainly focus on the areas of Knowledge Discovery (with a special focus on the analysis of complex data), Process Mining and Business Intelligence. In particular, he has been pursuing the general goal of developing methods for understanding, analysing and predicting a process’ behaviour, and supporting the automation and optimisation of related business/decisional activities, by mainly leveraging temporally-marked event data (eg., stored in process/system/transaction/message logs, or exchanged within IoT/social networks).
    • Research Unit Leader
  • Francesco Folino: Researcher (ICAR, CNR). Researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the academic research. Skilled in Data and Process Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Java, C++, Matlab and Python. Research professional with a Ph.D. degree focused in Data Mining from Università degli Studi della Calabria.
    • Research Unit member

Unit 5 – Università della Calabria

  • Francesco Ricca: Full Professor (Università della Calabria). He’s interested in computer science in general, but he had the opportunity to focus his attention on (i) Answer Set Programming, (ii) Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, (iii) Ontologies, Deductive Databases, Data Integration, (iv) Software Engineering, (v) E-Toursim and E-Learning. Currently, he’s interested in declarative logic-based languages, including the issues concerning their practical applications: system design and implementation, integration and development tools.
    • Research Unit Leader
  • Carmine Dodaro: Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Università della Calabria. His research interests are in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Answer Set Programming, Optimization problems, SAT and MaxSAT. He worked on several open-source and research tools.
    • Research Unit member
  • Nicola Leone: Full Professor in Computer Science and currently the rector of the Università della Calabria. Previously, he was a professor of Database Systems at the TU Wien. He works in the areas of artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, and database theory
    • Research Unit member