
Organization / Workplace
University of LiverpoolLocation
Liverpool, United Kingdom United KingdomOccupation
Researcher in Ontology Engineering. Director of UG Sandwich Programmes, Computer Science, Liverpool UniversityIndustry
Education
Website
www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~valli/About
My research expertise lies in the area of ontology engineering, where I am addressing the following research areas: - The role ontologies play in open, dynamic environments, i.e. open multi-agent systms and semantic aware services. In particular, I am looking at the problem of identifying the requirements for grounding communication on one or more ontologies in cases where assumptions and constraints on the content and formalisation of knowledge are not known in advance and cannot be anticipated. - Ontology development and management, and especially the problem of aligning ontologies dynamically, where the semantic correspondences between the axiomatic definitions of entities in the ontol...