Scholars
Michael DeBellis
Based in
United States
North America
I’m technically retired but more active than ever. In 2023-24 I published approximately 10 articles/chapters in journals, conferences and books. My focus is on AI and Cognitive Science. One of my goals is to make the social sciences more scientific by utilizing tools such as the Web Ontology Language, Agent-Based Modeling, and Gintis’ extension of game theory to include beliefs and uncertainty. I do paid consulting for both large companies and startups as well as unpaid research of my own. Much of my work recently has been with a startup called Common Action that is dedicated to using technology to help scientists and citizens collaborate in developing climate change solutions. So far we have developed collaboration technology for the Helioweb group at NASA.
Country(ies) of Specialty
India United StatesFocus areas of expertise
Communications research Scientific assessments Behavioral action Social movementsPublications
Articles
DeBellis, Michael. “A Universal Moral Grammar (UMG) Ontology.” SEMANTiCS 2018 – 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2018.
DeBellis, Michael and Biswanath Dutta. “From ontology to knowledge graph with agile methods: the case of COVID-19 CODO knowledge graph.” International Journal of Web Information Systems 18.5/6 (2022).
DeBellis, Michael and Biswanath Dutta. “Semantic Data Science in the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Data Science with Semantic Technologies: Theory, Practice, and Applications. Ed. Archana Patel, Narayan Debnath and Bharat Bhusan. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, 2022. 393-427.
DeBellis, Michael and Christine Haapala. “User-Centric Software Engineering.” IEEE Expert 10.1 (February 1995).
DeBellis, Michael and Jans Aasman. “Semantic Technology Pillars: The Story So Far.” Data Science with Semantic Technologies: Theory, Practice, and Applications. Ed. A. Patel, Narayan Debnath and Bharat Bhusan. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, 2022. 247-277.
DeBellis, Michael and Robert Neches. “Knowledge Representation and The Semantic Web: An HistoricalOverview of Influences on Emerging Tools.” Recent Advances in Computer Science and Communications 16.6 (2023). <https://www.michaeldebellis.com/post/semanticwebhistory>.
DeBellis, Michael. github.com. 17 April 2024. <https://github.com/mdebellis/>.
—. “Modeling Cognitive Modules with the Web Ontology Language: A Functional Architecture of the Mind.” CAOS 2023 Part of the 9th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2023). Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, 2023.
—. New Protégé Pizza Tutorial. 30 September 2021. michaeldebellis.com. 11 3 2024. <https://www.michaeldebellis.com/post/new-protege-pizza-tutorial>.
—. Refactoring Names w SPARQL. 9 September 2021. michaeldebellis.com. 25 July 2023. <https://www.michaeldebellis.com/post/refactoring-names-w-sparql>.
DeBellis, Michael. “Semantic Web Technologies: Latest Industrial Applications.” Semantic Web Technologies: Research and Applications. Ed. Archana Patel, Narayan C. Debnath and Bharat Bhushan. Boca Raton: CRC Press Taylor and Francis Group, 2023. 43-72.
—. Semtech 2021 Workshop. 26 April 2021. michaeldebellis.com. 20 2 2024. <https://www.michaeldebellis.com/post/semtech-2021-workshop>.
—. UN Sustainable Development Goals Ontology. 2022. 27 April 2023. <https://www.michaeldebellis.com/post/unsdg-ontology>.
—. Using SPARQL to Refactor User Names to UUIDs. 1 2021 December. michaeldebellis.com. 25 July 2023. <https://www.michaeldebellis.com/post/refactor_iri_names_to_uuids>.
DeBellis, Michael, et al. “DaanKG: An Ontology Model of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to Facilitate and Improve Corporate Social Responsibility.” Workshop on Ontologies and Social Responsibility FOIS 2023. Sherbrook, Quebec Ontario, 2023.
—. “Integrating Ontologies and LLMs to Implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).” Applied Ontology (2024).
—. KBSA Concept Demo Final Report. Final Technical Report. Accenture Center for Strategic Technology Research (CSTaR).
Rome, NY: US Air Force, 1993. <https://www.academia.edu/67101488/KBSA_Concept_Demo>.
DeBellis, Michael, Livia Pinera and Christopher Connor. “Interoperability Frameworks: Data Fabric and Data Mesh Architectures.” Data Science with Semantic Technologies. Ed. Dr. Narayan C. Debnath and Dr. Archana Patel. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2023.