
Researcher at Politecnico di Milano
Milan Area, Italy

Researcher at Politecnico di Milano
Milan Area, Italy
Emanuele Della Valle is a Researcher at the Department of Electronics and Information of the Politecnico di Milano. He started CEFRIEL’s Semantic Web Activities in 2001 and he is coordinating the Semantic Web group since 2004. He is Service Coordinator for Testbeds and Challenges of Semantic Technology Institute - International. His activities include research, education and industrial projects.
His major research interest is in semantic technologies and in particular in translating them into business opportunities by performing research that is justified and guided by business needs. Following this strategy, he is Project and Scientific Manager of the European project Service-Finder. He is Technical Manager of the European Project SEEMP. He participates to the research activities of the research projects LarKC, NeP4B and TripCom.
His education activities include lecturing: Software Project Management at Politecnico di Milano; Knowledge Engineering at Università dell’Insubria; a tutorial about Realizing Semantic Web Applications at BIS 2008 and ISWC 2008; and several industrial short courses for CEFRIEL centered on future evolution of the Web. In 2008 he was author of the first Italian Semantic Web book.
His industrial projects are focused on bring innovation in enterprises and public bodies. Since 2006 he is working on a business opportunity for starting up a company centered on Squiggle (CEFRIEL’s Semantic Search Engine). The business idea of Squiggle was evaluated among the best 10 submitted to Obiettivo ICT in 2006, it received the second prize at StartCup Milano Lombardia in 2008 and it was nominated for Premio Nazionale Innovazione 2008. His consultancy activities include feasibility studies for Web portals, search engines and document management systems; support in developing portals and search engines that combines Semantic Technologies and Web 2.0; and support in information systems integration using SOA, Web 2.0 and Semantic Technologies.
Semantics, Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, SOA, Service Computing, Web Service Discovery, Triple Space Computing, Business Process Modeling, eChallenges, eBusiness, eHealth, eGov, eGovernment
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
July 2008 — Present (2 months)
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2008 — Present (3 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (8 months)
(Higher Education industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years)
(Research industry)
January 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Coordination, from a technical and scientific, point of view of the European project SEEMP (13 partners, 2.7M€)
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 6 months)
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
September 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 2 months)
(Research industry)
January 2004 — June 2007 (3 years 6 months)
(Research industry)
January 2005 — December 2006 (2 years)
Laurea, Computer science, 1995 — 2000
Maturità, 1990 — 1995
Semantics, Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, SOA, Service Computing, eChallenges, eBusiness, eHealth, eGov, eGovernment
WSMO, WSMX, OASIS, SEE TC
His work on Semantic Web Service was evaluated “the most complete solution presented at Phase-II of Semantic Web Service Challenge” and received the IBM Faculty Award in 2006.
His business idea of Squiggle (CEFRIEL's Semantic Search Engine) was evaluated among the best 10 submitted to Obiettivo ICT in 2006, it received the second prize at StartCup Milano Lombardia in 2008 and it was nominated for Premio Nazionale Innovazione 2008.