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The 15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

THE ITALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

November 28th - December 1st 2016, Genova

AI*IA 2016Genova - Italy

Time What Where

8.15 - 14.30 Registration Lobby first-floor

9.00 - 10.30 Workshops:

AAL Aula A9

AIRO Aula A5

AI*CH Aula Cambiaso

MLDM.it Salone Nobile

RCRA Aula A8

URANIA Aula A6

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break Main Room Entrance

11.00 - 12.30 Workshops:

AAL Aula A9

AIRO Aula A5

AI*CH Aula Cambiaso


RCRA Aula A8

URANIA Aula A6

12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Main Room Entrance

14.30 - 16.00 Workshops:

AAL Aula A9

AIRO Aula A5

AI*CH Aula Cambiaso


RCRA Aula A8

URANIA Aula A6


16.30 - 18.00 Workshops:

AAL Aula A9

AIRO Aula A5

AI*CH Aula Cambiaso


RCRA Aula A8

URANIA Aula A6

AI*IA WorkshopsNovember 28th

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AAL - Second Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Ambient Assisted Living

Organizers: Stefania Bandini, Gabriella Cortellessa and Filippo Palumbo

The second edition of the AI*AAL.it workshop aims to establish a stable forum collecting knowledge, experiences and trends showing how Artificial Intelligence (AI) could add value to the promotion of a new generation of innovative support systems in Ambient Assisted Living domains.

AIRO - Third Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Organizers: Alberto Finzi, Alessandro Farinelli, and Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

The goal of AIRO 2016 is to foster the discussion about the use of Artificial Intelligence methods to design intelligent robots. AIRO 2016 is part of an on-going effort to consolidate the Italian community working on various aspects of the intersection

AI*CH - Tenth Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage

Organizers: Luciana Bordoni, Francesco Mele and Antonio Sorgente

The workshop wants to create opportunities to discussion and debate about AI and CH area for promoting increasingly active collaboration between them. It will be a multi-disciplinary meeting point where the aspects of AI will be analyzed to improve the valorisation, conservation and promotion of the cultural assets.

MLDM.it - Fifth Italian Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining

Organizers: Alessio Micheli, Claudio Gallicchio

The MLDM.it workshop aims at bringing together researchers actively involved in the fields of machine learning, data mining, deep learning, pattern recognition, and knowledge discovery.

RCRA - Twentythird RCRA International Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion

Organizers: Stefano Bistarelli Andrea Formisano, and Marco Maratea

Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion of the search space. RCRA fosters the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas to face such challenging problems by proposing benchmarks and comparing models, approaches and algorithms from an experimental viewpoint.

URANIA - First Italian Workshop on Deep Understanding and Reasoning: A challenge for Next-generation Intelligent Agents

Organizers: Paola Mello, Michela Milano, and Federico Chesani

The workshop aims to foster a discussion on the structure, design and implementation of intelligent, autonomous agents that starting from a (possibly multi-modal) problem description will deeply understand the problem, devise a suitable model and reasoning technique and find a solution without human intervention.

Time What Where


8.50 - 9.00Opening AI*IA 2016 Doctoral Consortium - Welcome

Salone Nobile

9.00 - 11.00 Doctoral Consortium Presentations Aula A9

9.30 - 11.00 MLDM.it Aula A6


11.30 - 12.45 MLDM.it Aula A6

11.30 - 12.30Doctoral Consortium Parallel Social Sessions

Aula A8, Aula A9, Aula Cambiaso

12.30 - 12.45 Doctoral Consortium Paper Award Aula A9


14.15 - 14.30Opening AI*IA 2016 International Conference

Salone Nobile

14.30 - 15.30 Invited Talk: Pietro Leo, IBM Salone Nobile

15.30 - 16.00Paper Short Presentations (Session 1)

Salone Nobile



Salone Nobile

17.00 - 18.30 Doctoral Consortium Posters Lobby first-floor

17.00 - 18.30 Paper Parallel Social Sessions (1-2)


Tuesday 29th

AI*IA Conference ProgramNovember 28th - December 1st

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Doctoral Consortium Presentation Program9.00 - 11.00 Aula A9

9.00 - 9.10Systems and Learning Algorithms for Probabilistic Logical Knowledge Bases

Giuseppe Cota

9.10 - 9.20A Study of Robustness in Abstract Argumentation Frameworks

Carlo Taticchi

9.20 - 9.30 Closed domain question answering for Cultural HeritageBernardo Cuteri

9.30 - 9.40 Designing an Ontology of Social PlaceAlessia Calafiore

9.40 - 9.50Semantic Enhancement of Volunteered Geographic Information

Laura Di Rocco

9.50 - 10.00 Semantic Wikis Versioning with BiFroSTKrzysztof Kutt

10.00 - 10.10Automatic Partitions Extraction to Distribute the Runtime Verification of a Global Specification

Angelo Ferrando

10.10 - 10.20 A Mechanism Design Approach for Energy AllocationPaolo Giuliodori

10.20 - 10.30Timeline-based Planning with Uncertainty: a Human-Robot Collaboration Case Study

Alessandro Umbrico

10.30 - 10.40Affective aspects as uncertain variables in decisional processes

Marco Poliranno

10.40 - 10.50Evaluation and Deployment of Models for Activity Recognition

Rita Pucci

10.50 - 11.00 Neural Abstractive Text SummarizationGaetano Rossiello

Tuesday 29th


Doctoral Consortium Parallel Social Sessions

11.30 - 12.30

Aula A9

Systems and Learning Algorithms for Probabilistic Logical Knowledge Bases

Giuseppe Cota

A Study of Robustness in Abstract Argumentation Frameworks

Carlo Taticchi

Closed domain question answering for Cultural HeritageBernardo Cuteri

Designing an Ontology of Social PlaceAlessia Calafiore

Semantic Enhancement of Volunteered Geographic Information

Laura Di Rocco

Semantic Wikis Versioning with BiFroSTKrzysztof Kutt

11.30 - 12.30

Aula A8

Affective aspects as uncertain variables in decisional processes

Marco Polignano

Evaluation and Deployment of Models for Activity Recognition

Rita Pucci

Neural Abstractive Text SummarizationGaetano Rossiello

11.30 - 12.30

Aula Cambiaso

Automatic Partitions Extraction to Distribute the Runtime Verification of a Global Specification

Angelo Ferrando

A Mechanism Design Approach for Energy AllocationPaolo Giuliodori

Timeline-based Planning with Uncertainty: a Human-Robot Collaboration Case Study

Alessandro Umbrico

12.30 - 12.45

Aula 9Paper Award - Sponsored by CAMLIN

Tuesday 29th


Paper Short Presentations (Session 1)15.30 - 16.00 Salone Nobile

Understanding Characteristics of Evolved Instances for State-of-The-Art Inexact TSP Solvers with Maximum Performance Difference

Jakob Bossek and Heike Trautmann

Optimized Word-Size Time Series Representation Method Using a Genetic Algorithm with a Flexible Encoding Scheme

Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad

A Subdivision Approach to the Solution of Polynomial Constraints over Finite Domains using the Modified Bernstein Form

Federico Bergenti, Stefania Monica and Gianfranco Rossi

Flat and Hierarchical Classifiers for Detecting Emotion in TwitterGiulio Angiani, Stefano Cagnoni, Natalia Chuzhikova, Paolo Fornacciari, Monica

Mordonini and Michele Tomaiuolo

Spam Filtering using Regularized Neural Networks with Rectified Linear UnitsAliaksandr Barushka and Petr Hajek

User Mood Tracking for Opinion Analysis on TwitterGiuseppe Castellucci, Danilo Croce, Diego De Cao and Roberto Basili

Using Random Forests for the Estimation of Multiple Users’ Visual Focus of Attention from Head Pose

Silvia Rossi, Enrico Leone and Mariacarla Staffa


A Comparative Study of Inductive and Transductive Learning with Feedforward Neural Networks

Anas Belahcen, Monica Bianchini and Franco Scarselli

Structural Knowledge Extraction from Mobility DataPietro Cottone, Salvatore Gaglio, Giuseppe Lo Re,

Marco Ortolani and Gabriele Pergola

Predicting Process Behavior in WoManStefano Ferilli, Floriana Esposito, Domenico Redavid and Sergio Angelastro

On-line Learning On Temporal ManifoldsMarco Maggini and Alessandro Rossi

Learning and Reasoning with Logic Tensor NetworksLuciano Serafini and Artur d’Avila Garcez

An Analytic Study of Opinion Dynamics in Multi-Agent Systems with Additive Random Noise

Stefania Monica and Federico Bergenti

Combining Avoidance and Imitation to Improve Multi-Agent Pedestrian Simulation

Luca Crociani, Giuseppe Vizzari and Stefania Bandini

Tuesday 29th


Paper Parallel Social Sessions (1-2)

17.00 - 18.30

Aula A9

Understanding Characteristics of Evolved Instances for State-of-The-Art Inexact TSP Solvers with Maximum Performance Difference

Jakob Bossek and Heike Trautmann

Optimized Word-Size Time Series Representation Method Using a Genetic Algorithm with a Flexible Encoding Scheme

Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad

A Subdivision Approach to the Solution of Polynomial Constraints over Finite Domains using the Modified Bernstein Form

Federico Bergenti, Stefania Monica and Gianfranco Rossi

Flat and Hierarchical Classifiers for Detecting Emotion in Twitter

Giulio Angiani, Stefano Cagnoni, Natalia Chuzhikova, Paolo Fornacciari, Monica Mordonini and Michele Tomaiuolo

Spam Filtering using Regularized Neural Networks with Rectified Linear Units

Aliaksandr Barushka and Petr Hajek

17.00 - 18.30

Aula A8

User Mood Tracking for Opinion Analysis on TwitterGiuseppe Castellucci, Danilo Croce, Diego De Cao and Roberto

Basili

Using Random Forests for the Estimation of Multiple Users’ Visual Focus of Attention from Head Pose

Silvia Rossi, Enrico Leone and Mariacarla Staffa

A Comparative Study of Inductive and Transductive Learning with Feedforward Neural Networks

Anas Belahcen, Monica Bianchini and Franco Scarselli

Structural Knowledge Extraction from Mobility DataPietro Cottone, Salvatore Gaglio, Giuseppe Lo Re,

Marco Ortolani and Gabriele Pergola

Predicting Process Behavior in WoManStefano Ferilli, Floriana Esposito, Domenico Redavid and Sergio

Angelastro

17.00 - 18.30

Aula Cambiaso

On-line Learning On Temporal ManifoldsMarco Maggini and Alessandro Rossi

Learning and Reasoning with Logic Tensor NetworksLuciano Serafini and Artur d’Avila Garcez

An Analytic Study of Opinion Dynamics in Multi-Agent Systems with Additive Random Noise

Stefania Monica and Federico Bergenti

Combining Avoidance and Imitation to Improve Multi-Agent Pedestrian Simulation

Luca Crociani, Giuseppe Vizzari and Stefania Bandini

Tuesday 29th


Wednesday 30th

Time What Where


9.00 - 10.00 Invited Talk:Giorgio Metta, IIT Salone Nobile



Salone Nobile




Salone Nobile


11.30 - 13.00 Paper Parallel Social Sessions (3 - 4)




14.30 - 16.00 AI*IA NLP-SIG Panel Salone Nobile


16.30 - 17.00 AI*IA and the stakeholders Salone Nobile

17.00 - 18.00KR&R Research Perspectives: A panel in memory of Marco Cadoli

Salone Nobile

18.00 - 19.15 AI*IA Assembly Salone Nobile

20.00 - 24.00 Conference DinnerI Tre MerliPorto Antico - Calata Cattaneo, 17



Educational Concept Maps for Personalized Learning Path GenerationGiovanni Adorni and Frosina Koceva

Abducing Compliance of Incomplete Event LogsFederico Chesani, Riccardo De Masellis, Chiara Di Francescomarino,

Chiara Ghidini, Paola Mello, Marco Montali and Sergio Tessaris

Relationships and Events: Towards a General Theory of Reification and Truthmaking

Nicola Guarino and Giancarlo Guizzardi

A Model+Solver Approach to Concept LearningFrancesca Alessandra Lisi

Learning for Verification in Embedded Systems: A Case StudyAli Khalili, Massimo Narizzano and Armando Tacchella

Learning in Physical Domains: Mating Safety Requirements and Costly Sampling

Francesco Leofante and Armando Tacchella


Answer Set Enumeration via Assumption LiteralsMario Alviano and Carmine Dodaro

On the Application of Answer Set Programming to the Conference Paper Assignment Problem

Giovanni Amendola, Carmine Dodaro, Nicola Leone and Francesco Ricca

Efficient Evolutionary Search of Relevant Structures in Complex Systems

Laura Sani, Michele Amoretti, Emilio Vicari, Monica Mordonini, Ric- cardo Pecori, Andrea Roli, Marco Villani, Stefano Cagnoni and Roberto Serra

I-DLV: the new Intelligent Grounder of DLVFrancesco Calimeri, Davide Fuscà, Simona Perri and Jessica Zangari

Boosting the Development of ASP-based Applications in Mobile and General Scenarios

Davide Fuscà, Stefano Germano, Jessica Zangari, Francesco Calimeri and Simona Perri

A Self-Adaptive Context-Aware Group Recommender System Reza Khoshkangini, Maria Silvia Pini and Francesca Rossi

Wednesday 30th


Paper Parallel Social Sessions (3 - 4)

11.30 - 13.00

Aula A9

Answer Set Enumeration via Assumption LiteralsMario Alviano and Carmine Dodaro

On the Application of Answer Set Programming to the Conference Paper Assignment Problem

Giovanni Amendola, Carmine Dodaro, Nicola Leone and Francesco Ricca

Efficient Evolutionary Search of Relevant Structures in Complex Systems

Laura Sani, Michele Amoretti, Emilio Vicari, Monica Mordonini, Ric- cardo Pecori, Andrea Roli, Marco Villani,

Stefano Cagnoni and Roberto Serra

I-DLV: the new Intelligent Grounder of DLVFrancesco Calimeri, Davide Fuscà, Simona Perri and

Jessica Zangari

11.30 - 13.00

Aula A8

Boosting the Development of ASP-based Applications in Mobile and General Scenarios

Davide Fuscà, Stefano Germano, Jessica Zangari, Francesco Calimeri and Simona Perri

A Self-Adaptive Context-Aware Group Recommender System

Reza Khoshkangini, Maria Silvia Pini and Francesca Rossi

Educational Concept Maps for Personalized Learning Path Generation

Giovanni Adorni and Frosina Koceva

Abducing Compliance of Incomplete Event LogsFederico Chesani, Riccardo De Masellis, Chiara Di

Francescomarino, Chiara Ghidini, Paola Mello, Marco Montali and Sergio Tessaris

11.30 - 13.00

Aula Cambiaso

Relationships and Events: Towards a General Theory of Reification and Truthmaking

Nicola Guarino and Giancarlo Guizzardi

A Model+Solver Approach to Concept LearningFrancesca Alessandra Lisi

Learning for Verification in Embedded Systems: A Case Study

Ali Khalili, Massimo Narizzano and Armando Tacchella

Learning in Physical Domains: Mating Safety Requirements and Costly Sampling

Francesco Leofante and Armando Tacchella

Wednesday 30th


AI*IA NLP - SIG PanelNovember 30th, 14.30 - 16.00, Sala Nobile

Natural Language Processing research plays a relevant role in current AI, as target of different scientific and industrial interests. Natural Language is at the cross-road of Learning, Knowledge Representation and Cognitive Modeling. Several recent AI achievements (such as the Deep Mind system by the Google team winning the AlphaGo challenge) have repeatedly shown their beneficial impact on complex inference tasks, with huge application perspectives in linguistic modelling, processing and inferences. However, Natural Language Understanding is still a rich research topic, whose cross-fertilization spans a number of independent areas such as Cognitive Robotics, Automated Planning as well as Human-Computer Interaction. For AI, Natural Languages are either the research focus of paradigms and applications but, at the same time, they act as cornerstones of automation, autonomy and learnability for most intelligent phenomena ranging from Vision, to Planning and Social Behaviors. A reflection about such diverse and promising interactions is an important target for current AI studies, fully in the core mission of AI*IA. The panel consists in a joint effort between AI*IA and the Italian Association on Computational Linguistics (AILC), promoted by the Special Interest Group on NLP of AI*IA.

PANEL SCHEDULE• 14.30 – 14.45 “Conversational agents and wandering principles: Landing in the dark side

of AI”, Marco Gori (Univ. di Siena)• 14.45 – 15.00 “Language Interaction in Robotic Systems: perception and grounded

language understanding” , Daniele Nardi (Univ. La Sapienza)• 15.00 – 15.15 “The Secret Life of Words: Predicting an Author’s Demographics from her

Writing”, Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)• 15.15 – 16.00 Open Discussion: “Natural Language and Artificial Agents: from Learning

Representations to Representations for Learning”

Panel Moderator: R. Basili

Discussants: the AI*IA Invited Speakers, the three panel speakers, all other attendants

KR&R Research Perspectives: A panel in memory of Marco Cadoli

November 30th, 17.00 - 18.00, Sala Nobile

• 17.00 – 17.10 Introduction: Amedeo Cesta

• 17.10 – 17.35 Maurizio Lenzerini, Marco Schaerf "Marco Cadoli and the Vienna group”

• 17.35 – 18.00 Georg Gottlob “ Marco Cadoli and the Vienna group"

Time What Where


8.45 - 9.45Invited Talk: Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Salone Nobile


Salone Nobile



Salone Nobile

11.15 - 12.30 Paper Parallel Social Sessions (5 - 6)


12.30 - 13.15

AI*IA Awards:

• Award for Best Thesis - in memory of Leo Lesmo

Salone Nobile• Award for Best PhD Thesis - in memory of Marco Cadoli

• Award for AI*IA Best Conference Paper - in memory of Giovanni Soda

13.15 - 13.30 Closing Salone Nobile


Thursday 1st



A Resource-Driven Approach for Anchoring Linguistic Resources to Conceptual Spaces

Antonio Lieto, Enrico Mensa and Daniele P. Radicioni

Analysis of the Impact of Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics for Semantic Textual Similarity

Simone Magnolini, Ngoc Phuoc An Vo and Octavian Popescu

QuASIt: a Cognitive Inspired Approach to Question Answering for the Italian Language

Arianna Pipitone, Giuseppe Tirone and Roberto Pirrone

Spoken Language Understanding for Service Robotics in ItalianAndrea Vanzo, Danilo Croce, Giuseppe Castellucci,

Roberto Basili and Daniele Nardi

DARDIS: Distributed And Randomized DIspatching and SchedulingThomas Bridi, Michele Lombardi, Andrea Bartolini,

Luca Benini and Michela Milano

Steps in Assessing a Timeline-based PlannerAlessandro Umbrico, Amedeo Cesta, Marta Cialdea Mayer and Andrea

Orlandini

On-Line Dynamic Station Redeployments in Bike-Sharing SystemsCarlo Manna


Probabilistic Logical Inference On the WebMarco Alberti, Giuseppe Cota, Fabrizio Riguzzi and Riccardo Zese

Probabilistic Hybrid Knowledge Bases under the Distribution SemanticsMarco Alberti, Evelina Lamma, Fabrizio Riguzzi and Riccardo Zese

Context-Awareness for Multi-Sensor Data Fusion in Smart EnvironmentsAlessandra De Paola, Pierluca Ferraro, Salvatore Gaglio and Giuseppe Lo Re

Reasoning about Multiple Aspects in Rational Closure for DLsValentina Ghiozzi

A Framework for Automatic Population of Ontology-Based Digital Libraries

Laura Pandolfo, Luca Pulina and Giovanni Adorni

Reasoning About Surprising Scenarios in Description Logics of Typicality

Gian Luca Pozzato

Thursday 1st


Paper Parallel Social Sessions (5 - 6)

11.15 - 12.30

Aula A9

Probabilistic Logical Inference On the WebMarco Alberti, Giuseppe Cota, Fabrizio Riguzzi and Riccardo

Zese

Probabilistic Hybrid Knowledge Bases under the Distribution SemanticsMarco Alberti, Evelina Lamma, Fabrizio Riguzzi and Riccardo

Zese

Context-Awareness for Multi-Sensor Data Fusion in Smart EnvironmentsAlessandra De Paola, Pierluca Ferraro, Salvatore Gaglio and

Giuseppe Lo Re

Reasoning about Multiple Aspects in Rational Closure for DLs

Valentina Ghiozzi

A Framework for Automatic Population of Ontology-Based Digital Libraries

Laura Pandolfo, Luca Pulina and Giovanni Adorni

11.15 - 12.30

Aula A8

Reasoning About Surprising Scenarios in Description Logics of Typicality

Gian Luca Pozzato

A Resource-Driven Approach for Anchoring Linguistic Resources to Conceptual Spaces

Antonio Lieto, Enrico Mensa and Daniele P. Radicioni

Analysis of the Impact of Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics for Semantic Textual SimilaritySimone Magnolini, Ngoc Phuoc An Vo and Octavian Popescu

QuASIt: a Cognitive Inspired Approach to Question Answering for the Italian Language

Arianna Pipitone, Giuseppe Tirone and Roberto Pirrone

11.15 - 12.30

Aula Cambiaso

Spoken Language Understanding for Service Robotics in Italian

Andrea Vanzo, Danilo Croce, Giuseppe Castellucci, Roberto Basili and Daniele Nardi

DARDIS: Distributed And Randomized DIspatching and Scheduling

Thomas Bridi, Michele Lombardi, Andrea Bartolini, Luca Benini and Michela Milano

Steps in Assessing a Timeline-based PlannerAlessandro Umbrico, Amedeo Cesta, Marta Cialdea Mayer

and Andrea Orlandini

On-Line Dynamic Station Redeployments in Bike-Sharing Systems

Carlo Manna

Thursday 1st


Pietro Leo IBM Italy CTO Big Data Analytics & Watson, IBM Academy of Technology Leadership

Tuesday 29th, 14.30 – 15.30, Salone Nobile

He is an IT solution MAKER that enjoyed to work for 22 years in the data analytics area. He currently works for IBM as

Executive Architect and acting as the IBM Italy CTO for Big Data Analytics and Watson. He enjoys to be the key technical

actor of the system of engagement IBM Italy is running in this area. Served as technical leader and data scientist in a

number of analytics projects whose overall effort size can be content on over 150 years/man, working both at the national

and international levels. At the same time he served also as scientific responsible in a number of applied research

initiatives funded from European Union as well as from Italian Government on innovative areas collaborating with tens of

research teams. Received more than a dozen of IBM special awards for high

technical achievements including also the mention into the IBM Corporate Technical Award Book 2010 and 2013 editions

that includes all top technical performers and scientists of IBM at worldwide level. Invited speaker in Industrial and

Scientific Conferences as well as member of Scientific Committees of Scientific and Technical Conferences.

He is author or co-author of about 70 scientific/technical publications for Journals and/or presented during National

and International Conferences, including two books edited by IBM Redbook organization.

KeynoteNovember 29th

Giorgio Metta Vice Scientific Director of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

Wednesday 30th, 09.00 – 10.00, Salone Nobile

Giorgio Metta is Vice Scientific Director at the Istituto Italiano

di Tecnologia (IIT) and Director of the iCub Facility Department at the same institute. He coordinates the

development of the iCub robotic project. He holds an MSc cum laude (1994) and PhD (2000) in electronic engineering

both from the University of Genova. From 2001 to 2002, he was postdoctoral associate at the MIT AI-Lab. He was

previously with the University of Genova and since 2012 Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of

Plymouth (UK). He is also deputy director of IIT delegate to the training of young researchers.

He is member of the board of directors of euRobotics aisbl, the European reference organization for robotics research.

Giorgio Metta research activities are in the fields of biologically motivated and humanoid robotics and, in

particular, in developing humanoid robots that can adapt and learn from experience.

Giorgio Metta is author of more than 250 scientific publications. He has been working as principal investigator

and research scientist in about a dozen international as well as national funded projects.

KeynoteNovember 30th

Dan RothProfessor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thursday 1st, 08:45 – 09:45, Salone Nobile

Dan Roth is the Founder Professor of Computer Science at

the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Professor in the Computer Science Department and the

Beckman Institute and holds positions also in Statistics, Linguistics, ECE, and the iSchool at Illinois. Roth is a Fellow

of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the Association of Computational Linguistics

(ACL), for his contributions to Machine Learning and to Natural Language Processing.

He has published broadly in machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge representation and

reasoning, and learning theory, and has developed advanced machine learning based tools for natural language

applications that are being used widely by the research community and commercially.

Roth is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). He was the program chair of

AAAI’11, ACL’03 and CoNLL’02. Prof. Roth received his B.A Summa cum laude in Mathematics from the Technion, Israel,

and his Ph.D in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1995.

KeynoteDecember 1st

Genova Tourism Information

Genova is the capital of Liguria and the sixth largest city in Italy. The urban area called Genova Metropolitan City has an official population of 862,885. Over 1.5 million people live in the Genova Metropolitan Area. Genova is one of Europe’s largest cities on the Mediterranean Sea and the largest seaport in Italy. Genova has been nicknamed la Superba (the Proud one) due to its glorious past and impressive landmarks. The city’s rich cultural history in notably its art, music and cuisine allowed it to become the 2004 European Capital of Culture. It is the birthplace of Christopher Columbus and Niccolò Paganini.

One of the Rolli palaces

De Ferrari Square

Acquario & Biosphere

Genova has a fascinating historic center said to be the largest medieval quarter in Europe, with a wealth of churches, palaces, and museums. The Renaissance and Baroque Rolli Palaces are about 80 palaces built in the 16th and early 17th centuries during the so-called Siglo de oro de los Genoveses, when Genova was one of the economical world power. In 2006, Genova’s Rolli Palaces were added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

The main features of central Genova include Piazza De Ferrari, around which are sited the Opera and the Palace of the Doges. There is also a house where Christopher Columbus is said to have been born. Other landmarks of the city include the Porto Antico, enriched by Genoese architect Renzo Piano with a large sphere made of metal and glass (Biosphere), installed in the port’s waters, and the famous cemetery of Staglieno, renowned for its monuments and statues, in which the mortal remains of several known personalities rest, among them Giuseppe Mazzini, Fabrizio De André and Oscar Wilde’s wife.

The Aquarium of Genova is the largest aquarium in Italy and the second largest in Europe. Built for Genova Expo ’92, it is an educational, scientific and cultural centre. Its mission is to educate and raise public awareness as regards conservat ion, management and responsible use of aquatic environments. It welcomes over 1.2 million visitors a year.

Enjoy Genova!

Programme Committee

Matteo Baldoni, University of TorinoStefania Bandini, University of Milano-BicoccaRoberto Basili, University of Roma Tor VergataNicola Basilico, University of MilanoFederico Bergenti, University of ParmaStefano Bistarelli, University of PerugiaLuciana Bordoni, ENEAFrancesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio CalabriaAmedeo Cappelli, ISTI-CNRLuigia Carlucci Aiello, Univ. of Roma La SapienzaAmedeo Cesta, CNR ItalyAntonio Chella, University of PalermoCarlo Combi, University of VeronaGabriella Cortellessa, CNR ItalyStefania Costantini, University of L’AquilaGiuseppe De Giacomo, Univ. of Roma La SapienzaNicola Di Mauro, University of BariFrancesco Donini, Tuscia UniversityAgostino Dovier, University of UdineFloriana Esposito, University of BariStefano Ferilli, University of BariSalvatore Gaglio, University of PalermoPatrick Gallinari, LIP6 – University of Paris 6Marco Gavanelli, University of FerraraGeorg Gottlob, Oxford UniversityNicola Guarino, ISTC-CNRLuca Iocchi, University of Roma La SapienzaEvelina Lamma, University of FerraraNicola Leone, University of CalabriaChendong Li, DellFrancesca Alessandra Lisi, University of BariSara Manzoni, University of Milano-Bicocca

Organizers

General ChairGiovanni Adorni, University of Genova

Program ChairsStefano Cagnoni, University of ParmaMarco Gori, University of SienaMarco Maratea, University of Genova

Workshop & Doctoral Consortium ChairsViviana Mascardi, University of GenovaIlaria Torre, University of Genova

Local Organization ChairsAlessio Merlo, University of GenovaSimone Torsani, University of Genova

Local Organizing CommitteeAngelo Ferrando, University of GenovaFrosina Koceva, University of GenovaLaura Pandolfo, University of Genova

Paola Mello, University of BolognaAlessio Micheli, University of PisaAlfredo Milani, University of PerugiaMichela Milano, University of BolognaStefania Montani, University of Piemonte OrientaleAlessandro Moschitti, University of TrentoAngelo Oddi, ISTC-CNRAndrea Omicini, University of BolognaMaria Teresa Pazienza, Univ. of Roma Tor VergataAlberto Pettorossi, Università di Roma Tor VergataRoberto Pirrone, University of PalermoPiero Poccianti, Consorzio Operativo MPSGian Luca Pozzato, University of TorinoLuca Pulina, University of SassariDaniele P. Radicioni, University of TorinoFrancesco Ricca, University of CalabriaFabrizio Riguzzi, University of FerraraAndrea Roli, University of BolognaSalvatore Ruggieri, University of PisaFabio Sartori, University of Milano BicoccaKen Satoh, Nat. Institute of Informatics, SokendaiAndrea Schaerf, University of UdineFloriano Scioscia, Politecnico of BariGiovanni Semeraro, University of BariRoberto Serra, Univ.of Modena and Reggio EmiliaGiovanni Squillero, Politecnico di TorinoPietro Torasso, University of TorinoLeonardo Vanneschi, Universidade Nova, LisbonaEloisa Vargiu, Barcelona Digital Technology CenterMarco Villani, Univ. of Modena and Reggio EmiliaGiuseppe Vizzari, University of Milano Bicocca

Arriving at Villa Cambiaso

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First floor:• Registration• Salone Nobile, Aula A8, Aula A9

Main entrance - ground floor:• Aula Cambiaso• Coffee break and lunch

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Outside - downstairs• Aula A5, Aula A6

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Documents

The 15 th F R E November 28 th - December 1 st Genovaaixia2016.unige.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Final2.pdf · Laura Di Rocco 9.50 - 10.00 ... Ali Khalili, Massimo Narizzano and