Giancarlo Guizzardi (born 22 April 1975 in Vitoria, Brazil) is a Brazilian–Italian

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

specializing in conceptual modeling, enterprise modeling, applied ontology and ontology-driven information systems. He is a professor at the University of Twente, in The Netherlands, and a senior researcher and founding member of the Ontology & Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) in Vitoria, Brazil.

Work

He is a strong advocate of an approach to Conceptual Modeling known as Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling (ODCM). ODCM proposes that, since Conceptual Modeling is about representing conceptualizations of reality to support human understanding communication and problem-solving, it must rely on foundations that take formal ontology in philosophy, cognitive science, philosophical logics and linguistic seriously. He defended his PhD thesis in 2005 in the

University of Twente The University of Twente ( ; Abbreviation, abbr. ) is a Public university, public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands. The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. ...

(with the highest distinction). His thesis, entitled
Ontological Foundations for Structural Conceptual Models
', lays the foundation of what came to be known as the

Unified Foundational Ontology The Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO). is an ontological framework developed in the early 2000s with the objective of providing foundational support for conceptual modeling. It synthesizes elements from formal ontology, cognitive science, lingui ...

and the OntoUML language.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guizzardi, Giancarlo Brazilian computer scientists Italian computer scientists 1975 births People from Vitória, Espírito Santo University of Twente alumni Living people