Guido Sciavicco holds a Laurea Degree in Computer Science from the University of Udine, obtained in 2000, and a PhD in Computer Science from the same university obtained in 2004. During the PhD period he has focused his research on temporal granularity, first, and on interval temporal logics, then. His first journal publication, in collaboration with prof. Angelo Montanari (University of Udine) and prof. Valentin Goranko (at that time, Rand Afrikaans University), which contains a state of the art on interval temporal logic at that time, received over 110 citations in 10 years. After completing his PhD studies, Guido Sciavicco moved to the University of Murcia (Spain) under a young research European program called ‘Juan de la Cierva’, for a three-years contract financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education. During this period he continued to publish on high-level international journals his work, primarily focused on the interval temporal logic HS and its fragments, but also on constraint solving and spatio-temporal reasoning. One of the most important fragments of HS that Guido Sciavicco contributed to find and study is Propositional Interval Neighborhood Logic, known as PNL, which is not only decidable, but also expressively complete for the 2-variable fragment of first-order logic over linear orders. Three of his journal publications, from 2003 to 2009, centered on different aspects of PNL, received, jointly, around 200 citations. During the first period spent in Spain, Guido Sciavicco also started the study of the expressive power of fragments of HS, which resulted into two international conference publications (IJCAI and ECAI) with, jointly, received over 40 citations, and two international journal publications on very high-level journals (Acta Informatica and Theoretical Computer Science). In 2008 and 2009 Guido Sciavicco won two positions as assistant professor, the first one at the University for Information Science and Technology in the former Yugoslavia (Macedonia) and the Middle East Technical University in Cyprus. He started to work on the problem of establishing the mutual expressive power of fragments of first order logic enriched with interval relations, resulting in a complex picture, justified by several theoretical results, that establish when and under which conditions a certain set of interval relations may first-order define another relation, and when this is not possible. This has been done also with the collaboration of prof. Salih Durhan (Middle East Technical University) and prof. Willem Conradie (University of Johannesburg). In 2010 Guido Sciavicco won a public competition for a senior post-doc position under the so-called ‘Ramon y Cajal’ program, again at the University of Murcia in Spain, for five years. There, he had the chance of completing the studies on fragments of HS, presenting several publications that delineate the decidability/undecidability frontier among fragments, and in which every known decidable fragment is classified by its complexity. These recent publications received, jointly, over 30 citations. Collaborating with prof. Isabel Navarrete (University of Murcia) he published a throughout analysis of spatial reasoning algorithms both at the logical level and at the algebraic level (both on the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence). In collaboration with prof. Emilio Muñoz-Velasco (University of Malaga), on the other hand, he also enterprised the analysis of sub-propositional interval temporal logics (such as the Horn or the Krom fragments of HS), and, parallely, they proposed a set of interesting fragments of HS based on coarser relations. HS with coarser relations, one fragment of which turned out to be, unexpectedly, decidable and computationally affordable, has been presented at the last European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence. More recently, Guido Sciavicco started a new, but not unrelated, line of research in Evolutionary Algorithms for data mining and knowledge discovery. This has been possible thanks to a close collaboration with prof. Fernando Jiménez and prof. Gracia Sánchez (University of Murcia). In this context, they presented new algorithms and methodologies specialized in feature selections for supervised and unsupervised classifications, and these have been applied to two case studies. In particular, they proposed a wrapper-based methodology for feature selection for supervised classification of the outcome of communications in the context of a call center, and a wrapper-based technique for unsupervised classification of subjects that undergone a certain psychological test. In both cases, new classification and clustering techniques had to be devised. Guido Sciavicco is now Associate Professor at the University of Ferrara, where he teaches Algorithms and Data Structures.
As of 2015, Guido Sciavicco is (co)-authors of 83 international publications and one book chapter indexed in Google Scholar in 2015; of these, 19 are international journals, 17 of which indexed by Scopus and ISI Web Of Knowledge with an impact factor. His publications received almost 1000 citations in 11 years, with an average of 74 citations per year. His Google Scholar H-index is 18, and is contemporary H-index is 16. He published in high level journals, well recognized by the scientific community, such as Theoretical Computer Science, Acta Informatica, Annals of Pure and Applied Logics, and Software and System Modeling, and he has presented his work in the most prestigious conferences, such as IJCAI, ECAI, and LPAR. Moreover, hs has been the co-advisor of two PhD students (dr. Dario Della Monica and dr. Antonio Morales). Guido Sciavicco participated in 14 research project, and he has been project leader of two of them: the Ramon y Cajal fellowship project “Temporal and Spatial Logics: New Methods and Practical Applications” (RYC-2011-07821), financed by the the Spanish Ministry of Education with 15000 euros, and “Metric Temporal Logics: Theory and Applications“ (HS2008-0006), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education with 9000 euros in collaboration with the University of Johannesburg. Both projects have been completed and all targets have been reached within the time and financial constraints as initially set. Finally, between 2010 and 2012, Guido Sciavicco was responsible for the temporal logic group within the project "AI-SENIOR" (TIN2009-14372-C03-01), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education with 150000 euros, and proposed and developed by the University of Murcia, the University of Santiago de Compostela, and the University of Cartagena.
As of 2015, Guido Sciavicco is (co)-authors of 83 international publications and one book chapter indexed in Google Scholar in 2015; of these, 19 are international journals, 17 of which indexed by Scopus and ISI Web Of Knowledge with an impact factor. His publications received almost 1000 citations in 11 years, with an average of 74 citations per year. His Google Scholar H-index is 18, and is contemporary H-index is 16. He published in high level journals, well recognized by the scientific community, such as Theoretical Computer Science, Acta Informatica, Annals of Pure and Applied Logics, and Software and System Modeling, and he has presented his work in the most prestigious conferences, such as IJCAI, ECAI, and LPAR. Moreover, hs has been the co-advisor of two PhD students (dr. Dario Della Monica and dr. Antonio Morales). Guido Sciavicco participated in 14 research project, and he has been project leader of two of them: the Ramon y Cajal fellowship project “Temporal and Spatial Logics: New Methods and Practical Applications” (RYC-2011-07821), financed by the the Spanish Ministry of Education with 15000 euros, and “Metric Temporal Logics: Theory and Applications“ (HS2008-0006), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education with 9000 euros in collaboration with the University of Johannesburg. Both projects have been completed and all targets have been reached within the time and financial constraints as initially set. Finally, between 2010 and 2012, Guido Sciavicco was responsible for the temporal logic group within the project "AI-SENIOR" (TIN2009-14372-C03-01), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education with 150000 euros, and proposed and developed by the University of Murcia, the University of Santiago de Compostela, and the University of Cartagena.
