Umberto Straccia is Director of Research at ISTI – CNR (the Istituto di Scienza e di Tecnologie dell’Informazione -ISTI, an Institute of the National Research Council of Italy -CNR). He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Dortmund, Germany.

Research interests: His research interests include logics for knowledge representation and reasoning (description logics, logic programming, answer set programming), semantic web Languages (OWL, RDFS, RuleML), uncertainty and fuzzy logic, machine learning (statistical relational learning, ontology-based machine learning), their combination and application.

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