Maurizio Lenzerini
Maurizio Lenzerini researches knowledge representation, description logics, and systems that use ontologies to access data. Lenzerini, Francesco M. Donini, Daniele Nardi, and Werner Nutt co-authored Tractable Concept Languages. The work received an IJCAI best paper award in 1991. Lenzerini co-authored DL-Lite: Tractable Description Logics for Ontologies with Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lembo, and Riccardo Rosati. The paper appeared at AAAI in 2005 and later received its 2021 Classic Paper Award.
- Works
- 554
- Citations
- 20,287
- h-index
- 65
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1991
Tractable concept languages
Lenzerini, Francesco M. Donini, Daniele Nardi, and Werner Nutt co-authored Tractable Concept Languages. The work received an IJCAI best paper award in 1991.
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2005
DL-Lite research
Lenzerini co-authored DL-Lite: Tractable Description Logics for Ontologies with Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lembo, and Riccardo Rosati. The paper appeared at AAAI in 2005 and later received its 2021 Classic Paper Award.
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2009
Mastro ontology reasoning
Lenzerini’s Mastro research program, on methods and systems for tractable reasoning over ontologies, received a Sapienza research award in 2009.
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2017
Research recognition
AAAI elected Maurizio Lenzerini as a Fellow in 2017.
Sources and credits
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