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<div><b>Funded PhD: Modelling and Monitoring of Norms Concerning Digital Assets in the Web of Data </b></div>
<div><b>Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Institute of Communication Technologies, Lugano, Switzerland</b></div>
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<div><b>The project </b></div>
<div>The project is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) for 4 years. </div>
<div>The first goal of the research work will be to investigate how it is possible to extend the expressivity of ODRL (Open Digital Rights Language), a language for the specification of policies and licenses, which is formalized in RDF with an abstract model
specified by an ontology. Secondly, given that ODRL has only an informal semantics, we plan to study the semantic aspects of the proposed extended normative language. The third goal is to design, develop and evaluate a software framework able to exploit automatic
reasoning on the semantics of norms for providing fundamental services like monitoring and simulation of norms evolution in time.</div>
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<div>The detailed description of the official open position is available at this link</div>
<div><a href="https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/press/press-call-com-phd-itc-snf2017.pdf"><font color="blue"><u>https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/press/press-call-com-phd-itc-snf2017.pdf</u></font></a></div>
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<div>Best regards</div>
<div>Nicoletta Fornara</div>
<div>Docente-ricercatore (maître d’enseignement et de recherché)</div>
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<div>Università della Svizzera italiana</div>
<div>Faculty of Communication Science</div>
<div>Institute of Communication Technologies</div>
<div>Office 216, Via Buffi 13 6900 Lugano, Switzerland</div>
<div>+41 58 666 4513</div>
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