Reasoning, Action and Interaction in AI Theories and Systems Ess
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Oliviero Stock Marco Schaerf (Eds.)
Reasoning, Action and Interaction in AI Theories and Systems Essays Dedicated to Luigia Carlucci Aiello
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Oliviero Stock ITC-irst Via Sommarive 18, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Marco Schaerf Università di Roma "La Sapienza" Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica "Antonio Ruberti" Via Salaria 113, 00198 Rome, Italy E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006931263
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.4, F.4.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-37901-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-37901-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Foreword
Often times, we celebrate people at the end of their scientific career, when we look back at their accomplishments. The occasion for this book is different. It is a pleasure, in this case, to celebrate someone who has pioneered scientific developments in artificial intelligence and has served the scientific community with great energy, and who will certainly remain active in research for many years to come. This book is dedicated to Luigia Carlucci Aiello, better known as Gigina. The Festschrift makes its appearance exactly 50 years after the “official” birth of artificial intelligence (at the historical Dartmouth Conference) at the same time as a similarly round birthday for Gigina. At Dartmouth College, the initial program for AI was set up by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Herbert Simon and a few others. Alan Turing had been dead only a few years and the brightness of the English mathematician’s ideas about computational intelligence was still lingering. The Dartmouth Conference set the scene for exciting research activity in this new field. Even though, at times, the results turned out remarkably different from the initial expectations, the field of AI expanded, adapting to the changing world and continues to flourish today. One of the most emblematic stories of A
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