Home page of Riccardo Rosati

Welcome to the home page of Riccardo Rosati, professore ordinario (full professor) at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica, automatica e gestionale (DIAG), Sapienza Università di Roma

Address:
Riccardo Rosati
Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica, automatica e gestionale
Via Ariosto 25
00185 Roma ITALY

Research interests

I belong to the Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation research group and to the Data Management and Service-Oriented Computing research group at DIAG.

• Artificial intelligence
• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• Description Logics
• Ontologies
• Data management
• Inconsistency-tolerance in databases and knowledge bases
• Nonmonotonic reasoning
• Computational complexity

Publications

• List of publications according to DBLP
• Citation page on Google Scholar
• Here you can find a list of my publications until 2011.

Awards

• EurAI Fellow (https://www.eurai.org/awards_and_grants/fellows), 2016.
• Coauthor of the article "DL-Lite: Tractable Description Logics for Ontologies" (authors: Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lembo, Maurizio Lenzerini, Riccardo Rosati), winner of the AAAI 2021 Classic Paper Award as the most influential paper presented at the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 2005 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. ("The AAAI Classic Paper award honors the author(s) of paper(s) deemed most influential, chosen from a specific conference year." link)
• Coauthor of the article "Enhancing Controlled Query Evaluation through Epistemic Policies" (authors: Gianluca Cima, Domenico Lembo, Lorenzo Marconi, Riccardo Rosati, Domenico Fabio Savo), winner of the Distinguished Paper Award at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 2024 in Jeju, South Korea.
• Coauthor of the article "Data complexity of query answering in Description Logics" (authors: Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lembo, Maurizio Lenzerini, Riccardo Rosati), presented at the KR 2006 International Confernce on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2006), and winner of the KR 2025 Test of Time Award. ("The aim of the KR Test of Time Award is to recognize papers published at the KR conference whose contributions have made a significant and lasting impact on the KRR academic discipline and/or the application or adoption of KRR techniques in industry and/or for the betterment of society." link)

Current research projects

• dAIbetes - Prediction of treatment outcome in type 2 diabetes

Didattica (Teaching)

Ricevimento studenti (Office hours)

Il ricevimento studenti si svolge su appuntamento. Lo/la studente/studentessa interessato/a deve scrivere una email al prof. Rosati spiegando i motivi della richiesta di ricevimento. Il prof. Rosati risponderà per email e organizzerà un incontro (in presenza o online) con lo/la studente/studentessa.
Office hours are held by appointment. The interested student must write an email to prof. Rosati explaining her/his questions or reasons that need to be discussed. Prof. Rosati will answer by email and will organize a (face-to-face or online) meeting with the student.

Insegnamenti per l'a.a. 2025/2026

• Knowledge Representation and Semantic Technologies per il corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria informatica, Sapienza Università di Roma (6 crediti)
• Tirocinio II per il corso di laurea in Filosofia e intelligenza artificiale, Sapienza Università di Roma (6 crediti)

• Basi di dati e rappresentazione della conoscenza per il corso di laurea in Filosofia e intelligenza artificiale, Sapienza Università di Roma (6 crediti)
• Scienza ed etica dei dati per il corso di laurea in Filosofia e intelligenza artificiale, Sapienza Università di Roma (6 crediti) (in codocenza con il prof. Massimo Mecella)
• Data Management for Data Science per il corso di laurea magistrale in Data Science, Sapienza Università di Roma (6 crediti) (in codocenza con il prof. Domenico Lembo)

Proposte di tesi di laurea