Research | Sergio Greco

SERGIO GRECO is a Full Professor with the DIMES Department, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy. His research interests include database theory, data integration and exchange, inconsistent data, incomplete data, data mining, knowledge representation, logic programming, computational logic and argumentation theory. He has written over 220 papers, including more than 60 journal papers in prestigious conferences and journals.

Current positions
• [2000-] Full professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria,
• [2020-] Coordinator of the Computer Engineering Degree at the University of Calabria,
• [2020-] Vice-president, Computer Engineering national Group (GII),
• [2020-] Member of the GEV09 (Group of Experts for the Evaluation of Research Quality 2015-2019, Area 09 – Industrial and Information Engineering)

Previous positions
• [2012-2018] Member of the Academic Senate of University of Calabria.
• [2012-2018] Chair of the Department of Computer, Modeling, Electronics and System Engineering (DIMES), University of Calabria.
• [2002-2012] Chair of the Department of Electronics, Computer and System Engineering (DEIS), University of Calabria.
• [2012-2015] Director of the PhD school in Information and Communication Technologies.
• [1998-2000] Associate Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria.
• [1989-1998] Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria.
• [1986-1989] Researcher at CRAI (Consorzio per la Ricerca e le Applicazioni di Informatica).
• [1984-1986] Fellowship at CRAI.
• [aug-sep 1998] Visiting scientist at the Computer Science Deparment of UCLA
• [aug-sep 1996] Visiting scientist at the Computer Science Deparment of UCLA
• [aug-sep 1994] Visiting scientist at the Computer Science Deparment of UCLA;
• [aug-sep 1992] Visiting scientist at the Computer Science Deparment of UCLA
• [july 1990- July 1991] Visiting scientist at MCC (Microelectronics and Computer Corporation), Texas.

Awards
• (2020) Best paper award at the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) for the paper “On the Semantics of Abstract Argumentation Frameworks: A Logic Programming Approach”, 2020;
• (2014) Best paper award at the International Symposyum RuleML for the paper “Checking Termination of Logic Programs with Function Symbols through Linear Constraints”, 2014

Grants
• (1983) Three years fellowship financed by FORMEZ (organization of the Italian Ministry for the Civil Service),
• (1990) One year fellowship financed by the National Research Council (CNR),
• (1996) Two months senior fellowship financed by NATO,
• (2000) Two months senior fellowship financed by NATO.

Spin-offs
• Co-founders of Exeura, Ithea, and OKT, spin-off companies of the University della Calabria operating in the area of Knowledge Management.

Projects
• (2017-2018) NextShop: Next generation e-commerce platform based on social CRM. Financed by European Community and Italian Ministry of Economic Development, budget:199.600 euros, principal investigator.
• (2013-2016) CYBERSECURITY P1 – Final User Protection (Cyber Security District). Financed by European Community and Italian Ministry of University and Research, budget:1.180.500 euros, principal investigator.
• (2013-2016) CYBERSECURITY P3 – Safe Dematerialization (Cyber Security District). Financed by European Community and Italian Ministry of University and Research, budget: 1.180.000 euros, principal investigator.
• (2013-2016) BA2KNOW: Business Analytics to Know (Service Innovation District). Financed by European Community and Italian Ministry of University and Research, budget: 310.000 euros, principal investigator.
• (2012-2015) CARDIOTECH – Advanced technologies for the innovation and optimization of therapeutic research and training processes dedicated to clinical, interventional and rehabilitative management of patients with coronary syndromes. Financed by European Community and Italian Ministry of University and Research, budget: 279.000 euros, principal investigator.
• (2012-2015) Staywell: Monitoring of lifestyle in support of well-being and prevention as well as for the improvement of the interaction between citizen and health facilities and between health facilities themselves, with planned experimentation in Calabria. Financed by European Community and Italian Ministry of University and Research, Budget: 61.912 euros, principal investigator.
• (2010-2014) Polinice+: an ERP platform oriented to the fashion industry. Financed by Ministry of
• Economic Development. Budget: 146.000 euros.
• (2012-2015) LOG.IN: Integrated Logistics. Financed by Ministry of Economic Development. Budget, 339.000, principal investigator.
• (2010-2012) EASE: Entity Aware Search Engines – Querying of probabilistic data extracted from the Web. Financed by Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN Programme). Budget: 30.000, principal investigator
• (2010-2011) Eureka! An idea for Energy Management Financed by ENEL (National company for energy management), Budget: 47.000, principal investigator
• (2007-2008) Open source software for knowledge discoveries, Financed by SOGEI (Societ Generale d’Informatica S.p.A.), budget: 200.000 euros, principal investigator.
• (2006-2009) Promis – Logistics Process Management and Intelligence Systems, Financed by Italian Ministry of University and Research and European Community, budget: 800.000 euros, principal investigator.
• (2007-2010) InLoco – Information Systems for Logistics, Financed by EC and Italian Ministry of University and Research and European Community, budget: 200.000 euros, principal-investigator.
• (2006-2008) KinF – Knowledge in Farm, Financed by Almaviva srl, budget:25,000 euros, principal investigator.
• (2005-2007) LogiCa – Logistics systems, Financed by the government of Calabria, budget: 1,970,000 euros, principal investigator.
• (2004-2006) Pilot – Software systems for the interoperability of logistics and transportation, Financed by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, budget: 430,000 euros, principal investigator.
• (2004-2006) Trame – E-learning methodologies applied to SME, Financed by the Italian Ministry of Labour, budget: 52.000 euros, principal investigator.
• (2003-2004) Reengineering of bank information systems, Financed by ICAR-CNR (Institute for High Performance Computing of CNR), budget 60.000 euros, principal investigator.
• (2001-2002) Datawarehousing tecniques for bank intelligence, financed by ICAR-CNR, budget 80.000 euros, principal investigator.
• (2004-2006) Mente – Management of Integrated ENTerprisE, Financed by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, budget 360.000 euros, principal-instigator.
• (2000-2001) Contact – Cooperative Network for Technology Transfer Actions and Training, Financed by EC (Adapt programme), budget: 340.000 euros, principal investigator.

Program Committee Chairmanships
• Program co-chair European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA), September, 2002, Rende (Italy).
• Program co-chair International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS),
September 16-18, 2009, Cetraro (Italy).
• Program co-chair International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM), October
1-3, 2008, Naples (Italy).
• Program chair Italian Database Conference (SEBD), 2003, Cetraro (Italy).
• Program chair Italian Database Conference (SEBD), 2011, Maratea (Italy).
• Program chair Italian Database Conference (SEBD), 2014, Sorrento (Italy).

Editorial Boards (selected)
• IEEE Transaction on Data and Knowledge Engineering 2008 – 2012.

Conference committees (selected)
• VLDB, ICDT, EDBT, AAAI, IJCAI, KR, ECAI, CIKM,

Alumni
• Sergio Flesca, full professor, University of Calabria;
• Ester Zumpano, associate professor, University of Calabria;
• Filippo Furfaro, associate professor, University of Calabria, abilitated for the position of full professor;
• Andrea Pugliese, associate professor, University of Calabria, abilitated for the position of full professor;
• Andrea Tagarelli, associate professor, University of Calabria, abilitated for the position of full professor;
• Francesco Parisi, associate professor, University of Calabria;
• Cristian Molinaro, assistant professor, University of Calabria, abilitated for the positions of associate and full professor;
• Irina Trubitsyna, assistant professor, University of Calabria, abilitated for the position of associate and full professor;
• Francesco Gullo, Research Scientist at UniCredit, R&D Dept.;
• Giovanni Ponti, Research Scientist at ENEA, Napoli;
• Nicola Barbieri, Research Scientist at Tumblr, New York, USA;
• Francesca Spezzano, associate professor, Boise State University, Boice, Idaho, USA;
• Chiara Pulice, postdoc at the University of Dartmouth, College Park, Maryland, USA;
• Marco Calautti, assistant professor at the University of Trento;
• Gianvincenzo Alfano, postdoc at the University of Calabria.

Current PhD students
• Lucio Lacava, first year PhD program in Information and Communication Technologies.