Autor: Viola Schiaffonati

Francesco Amigoni (in 1999 a visiting scholar at the Computer Science Department of the Stanford University (USA), is an associate professor at the Department of Elettronics and Information of the Politecnico di Milano. His main research interests include: agents and multiagent systems, mobile robotics, and the philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence. Viola Schiaffonati (a visiting scholar at the Department of Philosophy of the University of California at Berkeley in 2000 and visiting researcher at the Suppes Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology of the Stanford University in 2005), is a temporary researcher at the Department of Elettronics and Information of the Politecnico di Milano and contract professor in the Faculty of Information Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. Her main research interests include: foundational issues of artificial intelligence, formal approaches to the philosophy of science, and epistemological issues of computational science.