Research
Research interests
Current areas of academic work and methodological interest.
- Conceptual, ontological and semantic data modeling
- Formalization and evaluation of metamodel semantics
- Model transformations and semantic-preservation assessment
- Association-oriented database metamodels and complex relationship modeling
- Ontologies, OWL, semantic networks and semantic knowledge bases
- Graph-based structural modeling with generalized graphs and hypergraphs
- Knowledge engineering and semantic technologies
- Legal knowledge representation, deontic modality and norm reasoning
- Process, agent-based and dynamically updated environment modeling
- Computational analysis of group processes and verbal interaction
- Ontological foundations of information systems
- Signal, image and map processing for spatial matching and UAV navigation