Dr Alessandro Adamou

PhD

 
researcher
 

Biography

Alessandro Adamou is a Research fellow at the Data Science institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, funded by the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics. He conducts research and technology development in Linked Data infrastructures, data integration and Digital Humanities. Previously, Alessandro worked as a Research Associate at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University, United Kingdom.

Alessandro obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science at University of Bologna in 2013, with a thesis titled "An architecture for scaling ontology networks" During his Ph.D work he also worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies at the National Research Council (ISTC-CNR) in Rome, Italy Alessandro is a founding PPMC member of the Apache Stanbol software project.

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2020) 'Understanding the phenomenology of reading through modelling'
Alessio Antonini; Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa; Alessandro Adamou; Francesca Benatti; François Vignale; Guillaume Gravier; and Lucia Lupi (2020) 'Understanding the phenomenology of reading through modelling'. Semantic Web Journal, [Details]
(2018) 'Crowdsourcing Linked Data on listening experiences through reuse and enhancement of library data'
Alessandro Adamou; Simon Brown; Helen Barlow; Carlo Allocca; and Mathieu d'Aquin (2018) 'Crowdsourcing Linked Data on listening experiences through reuse and enhancement of library data'. International Journal On Digital Libraries, 20 (1):61-79 [DOI] [Details]
(2016) 'The Open University Linked Data - data.open.ac.uk'
Enrico Daga; Mathieu d'Aquin; Alessandro Adamou; and Stuart Brown (2016) 'The Open University Linked Data - data.open.ac.uk'. Semantic Web Journal, 7 (2):183-191 [DOI] [Details]
(2015) 'The Listening Experience Database project: Collating the responses of the Ordinary listener to prompt new insights into musical experience'
Simon Brown; Helen Barlow; Alessandro Adamou; and Mathieu d'Aquin (2015) 'The Listening Experience Database project: Collating the responses of the Ordinary listener to prompt new insights into musical experience'. The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, 13 :17-32 [DOI] [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2020) 'Linked Data Principles for Data Lakes'
Alessandro Adamou and Mathieu d'Aquin (2020) 'Linked Data Principles for Data Lakes' In: Data Lakes. London: ISTE Wiley. [Details]
(2012) 'The NeOn ontology models'
Alessandro Adamou; Raúl Palma; Peter Haase; Elena Montiel-Ponsoda; Guadalupe Aguado de Cea; Asunción Gómez-Pérez; Wim Peters; and Aldo Gangemi (2012) 'The NeOn ontology models' In: Ontology Engineering in a Networked World. Berlin: Springer. [DOI] [Details]
(2012) 'Customizing your interaction with Kali-ma'
Alessandro Adamou and Valentina Presutti (2012) 'Customizing your interaction with Kali-ma' In: Ontology Engineering in a Networked World. Berlin: Springer. [DOI] [Details]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2020) Third Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WHiSe 2020)
Mattia Egloff; Alessandro Adamou; and Davide Picca (2020) Enabling Ontology-Based Data Access to Project Gutenberg . In: Alessandro Adamou; Enrico Daga; and Albert Meroño-Peñuela eds. Third Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WHiSe 2020) online, , 02-JUN-20 - 02-JUN-20 , pp.21-32 [Details]
(2020) Proceedings of The International Workshop on Semantic Big Data, SBD@SIGMOD 2020
Alessandro Adamou and Mathieu d'Aquin (2020) Relaxing global-as-view in mediated data integration from linked data . In: Sven Groppe, Le Gruenwald, and Valentina Presutti eds. Proceedings of The International Workshop on Semantic Big Data, SBD@SIGMOD 2020 Portland, Oregon, USA, , 19-JUN-20 - 19-JUN-20 , pp.1-6 [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019)
Adamou, Alessandro and Allocca, Carlo and d'Aquin, Mathieu and Motta, Enrico (2019) SPARQL Query Recommendation by Example: Assessing the Impact of Structural Analysis on Star-Shaped Queries 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019) [Details]
(2019) 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2019)
Mattia Egloff, Davide Picca and Alessandro Adamou (2019) Extraction of character profiles from the Gutenberg archive . In: Emmanouel Garoufallou and Ernesto William De Luca eds. 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2019) Rome, Italy, , 28-OCT-19 - 31-OCT-19 [Details]
(2017) Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning (ARTEL at EC-TEL 2017)
d'Aquin, Mathieu and Adamou, Alessandro and Dietze, Stefan and Fetahu, Besnik and Gadiraju, Ujwal and Hasani-Mavriqi, Ilire and Holtz, Peter and Kimmerle, Joachim and Kowald, Dominik and Lex, Elisabeth and others (2017) AFEL: Towards measuring online activities contributions to self-directed learning Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning (ARTEL at EC-TEL 2017) Estonia, [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2017) Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTICS 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 11-14, 2017
Alessandro Adamou and Mathieu d'Aquin and Carlo Allocca and Enrico Motta (2017) Supporting virtual integration of Linked Data with just-in-time query recompilation Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTICS 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 11-14, 2017 , pp.112-119 [Details]
(2016) IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, ISC2 2016, Trento, Italy, September 12-15, 2016
Enrico Daga and Mathieu d'Aquin and Alessandro Adamou and Enrico Motta (2016) Addressing exploitability of Smart City data IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, ISC2 2016, Trento, Italy, September 12-15, 2016 , pp.1-6 [Details]
(2016) The Semantic Web - ESWC 2016 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 - June 2, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Carlo Allocca and Alessandro Adamou and Mathieu d'Aquin and Enrico Motta (2016) SPARQL Query Recommendations by Example The Semantic Web - ESWC 2016 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 - June 2, 2016, Revised Selected Papers , pp.128-133 [Details]
(2015) Joint Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Using the Web in the Age of Data (USEWOD '15) and the 2nd International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Linked Data (PROFILES '15) co-located with the 12th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015), Portoro\vz
Alessandro Adamou and Mathieu d'Aquin (2015) On Requirements for Federated Data Integration as a Compilation Process Joint Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Using the Web in the Age of Data (USEWOD '15) and the 2nd International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Linked Data (PROFILES '15) co-located with the 12th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015), Portoro\vz , pp.75-80 [Details]
(2014) Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Digital Libraries for Musicology
Brown, Simon and Adamou, Alessandro and Barlow, Helen and d'Aquin, Mathieu (2014) Building listening experience linked data through crowd-sourcing and reuse of library data Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Digital Libraries for Musicology , pp.1-8 [Details]
(2014) Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling & fEderated Search for Linked Data, PROFILES@ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 26, 2014
Sergej Zerr; Mathieu d'Aquin; Ivana Marenzi; Davide Taibi; Alessandro Adamou; and Stefan Dietze (2014) Towards analytics and collaborative exploration of social and linked media for technology-enchanced learning scenarios . In: Elena Demidova; Stefan Dietze; Julian Szymanski; and John Breslin eds. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling & fEderated Search for Linked Data, PROFILES@ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 26, 2014 [Details]
(2014) Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities a Workshop at the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19, 2014
Mathieu d'Aquin and Alessandro Adamou and Enrico Daga and Shuangyan Liu and Keerthi Thomas and Enrico Motta (2014) Dealing with Diversity in a Smart-City Datahub Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities a Workshop at the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19, 2014 , pp.68-82 [Details]
(2014) Proceedings of the ISWC 2014 Posters \& Demonstrations Track a track within the 13th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 21, 2014
Alessandro Adamou and Mathieu d'Aquin and Helen Barlow and Simon Brown (2014) LED: curated and crowdsourced Linked Data on Music Listening Experiences Proceedings of the ISWC 2014 Posters \& Demonstrations Track a track within the 13th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 21, 2014 , pp.93-96 [Details]
(2013) I-SEMANTICS 2013 - 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems, ISEM '13, Graz, Austria, September 4-6, 2013
Alessandro Adamou and Paolo Ciancarini and Aldo Gangemi and Valentina Presutti (2013) The foundations of virtual ontology networks I-SEMANTICS 2013 - 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems, ISEM '13, Graz, Austria, September 4-6, 2013 , pp.49-56 [Details]
(2013) Web Science 2013 (co-located with ECRC), WebSci '13, Paris, France, May 2-4, 2013
Mathieu d'Aquin and Alessandro Adamou and Stefan Dietze (2013) Assessing the educational linked data landscape Web Science 2013 (co-located with ECRC), WebSci '13, Paris, France, May 2-4, 2013 , pp.43-46 [Details]
(2012) The Semantic Web: Research and Applications - 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2012, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 27-31, 2012. Proceedings
Alessandro Adamou (2012) Software Architectures for Scalable Ontology Networks The Semantic Web: Research and Applications - 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2012, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 27-31, 2012. Proceedings , pp.844-848 [Details]
(2011) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2011), June 26-29, 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Valentina Presutti and Lora Aroyo and Aldo Gangemi and Alessandro Adamou and Balthasar A. C. Schopman and Guus Schreiber (2011) A knowledge pattern-based method for linked data analysis Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2011), June 26-29, 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada , pp.173-174 [Details]
(2011) Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2011), Bonn, Germany, October 23, 2011
Valentina Presutti and Lora Aroyo and Alessandro Adamou and Balthasar A. C. Schopman and Aldo Gangemi and Guus Schreiber (2011) Extracting Core Knowledge from Linked Data Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2011), Bonn, Germany, October 23, 2011 [Details]
(2011) Proceedings of the second Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation 2011, Bonn, Germany, October 24, 2011
Alessandro Adamou and Paolo Ciancarini and Aldo Gangemi and Valentina Presutti (2011) User-sensitive Explanations under a Knowledge Pattern Lens Proceedings of the second Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation 2011, Bonn, Germany, October 24, 2011 , pp.14-21 [Details]
(2010) Knowledge Engineering and Management by the Masses - 17th International Conference, EKAW 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, October 11-15, 2010. Proceedings
Alessandro Adamou and Valentina Presutti and Aldo Gangemi (2010) Kali-ma: A Semantic Guide to Browsing and Accessing Functionalities in Plugin-Based Tools Knowledge Engineering and Management by the Masses - 17th International Conference, EKAW 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, October 11-15, 2010. Proceedings , pp.483-492 [Details]
(2009) The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 6th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2009, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 31-June 4, 2009, Proceedings
Alessandro Adamou (2009) SAscha: Supporting the Italian Public Cooperation System with a Rich Internet Application for Semantic Web Services The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 6th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2009, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 31-June 4, 2009, Proceedings , pp.796-800 [Details]
(2008) Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP2008), Rome, Italy, December 15-17, 2008
Alessandro Adamou (2008) SAscha: A RIA Approach for Supporting Semantic Web Services in the Italian Interoperability Framework Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP2008), Rome, Italy, December 15-17, 2008 [Details]

Edited Books

  Year Publication
(2020)
Alessandro Adamou; Enrico Daga; and Albert Meroño-Peñuela (Ed.). (2020) Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WHiSe 2020) online: CEUR-ws.org. [Details]
(2016)
Alessandro Adamou; Enrico Daga; and Leif Isaksen (Ed.). (2016) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WHiSe) online: CEUR-ws.og. [Details]
(2017)
Alessandro Adamou; Enrico Daga; and Leif Isaksen (Ed.). (2017) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WHiSe II) online: CEUR-ws.org. [Details]

Thesis

  Year Publication
(2013) An architecture for scaling ontology networks.
Alessandro Adamou (2013) An architecture for scaling ontology networks. Thesis [DOI] [Details]

Technical Publication

  Year Publication
(2014) Extracting URI patterns from SPARQL endpoints.
Mathieu d'Aquin and Alessandro Adamou and Enrico Daga and Nicolas Jay (2014) Extracting URI patterns from SPARQL endpoints. Technical Publication [Details]

Professional Associations

  Association Function From / To
The Apache Software Foundation Podling Project Management Committee member 01-JAN-11 /

Languages

  Language
English
Italian
French
Greek

Teaching Interests

Object-Oriented programming
Semantic Web
  • Linked Data technologies
  • Ontology Engineering

Modules Taught

  Term/Year Module Title Module Code Subject / Desc
2018-20 Object Oriented Software Design & Development CT548 Principles of OO programming; UML design; Design patterns; Application to the Java language