Laboratory for Applied Ontology



		Roberta Ferrario Trento +39 0461 314841
Roberta graduated in 1998 in Philosophy of Science at the University of Milan, then she moved to Trento in order to work with the research group led by Fausto Giunchiglia. In 2003, she received a PhD in Philosophy both at the University of Milan and at the University Marc Bloch of Strasbourg (Italy-France co-tutelle program), with a dissertation on counterfactual reasoning. In 2001-2002 she has been assistant at the course on "computer science for the humanities" at the University of Trento, and in 2002-2003 she taught the same course. Currently, she cooperates with LOA and she's mainly working on the ontology of mental attitudes and intentional agents in general.
Publications PhD Dissertation R. Ferrario, Il Ragionamento Controfattuale: un modello e la sua applicazione al ragionamento pratico Papers R. Cuel, R. Ferrario,The impact of technology in organizational communication processes: toward constructivism, to appear in Proceedings of EGOS 2006, Bergen, Norway, July 6-8, 2006. R. Ferrario,Who Cares about Axiomatization? Representation, Invariance, and Formal Ontologies, to appear in Epistemologia, Special Issue on the Philosophy of Patrick Suppes, vol. 2, 2006. E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, Preliminaries to a DOLCE Ontology of Organizations, to appear in International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 2006. C. Arrighi, R. Ferrario, Abductive Reasoning, Interpretation and Collaborative Processes, to appear in Foundations of Science, Special Issues on Tracking Irrational Sets: Science, Technology, Ethics. 2006. E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, A Path to an Ontology of Organizations, in in Guizzardi, G., Wagner, G., Proceedings of International EDOC Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2005), Center for Telematics and Information Technology, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2005, pp 9-16. C. Masolo, G. Guizzardi, L. Vieu, E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario: Relational Roles and Qua-individuals, in Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective, Arlington, Virginia USA. C. Arrighi, R. Ferrario, The Dynamic Nature of Meaning, in L. Magnani, R. Dossena (a cura di), Computing, Philosophy, And Cognition, College Publications, 2005. R. Ferrario, A. Oltramari, Towards a Computational Ontology of Mind, in A. C. Varzi, L. Vieu, Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference FOIS 2004, IOS Press. C. Masolo, L. Vieu, E. Bottazzi, C. Catenacci, R. Ferrario, A. Gangemi, N. Guarino, Social Roles and their Descriptions, Proceedings of KR 2004. A. Oltramari, S. Borgo, C. Catenacci, R. Ferrario, A. Gangemi, N. Guarino, C. Masolo, D. Pisanelli, Il ruolo dell'ontologia nella disambiguazione del significato, Networks, Nr. 2, 2003. P. Bouquet, R. Ferrario, Il Semantic Web. Introduzione, Networks, Nr. 2, 2003. A. Oltramari, S. Borgo, C. Catenacci, R. Ferrario, A. Gangemi, N. Guarino, C. Masolo, D. Pisanelli, Negoziati di significato, Sistemi Intelligenti, Anno XV, Nr.3, 2003. M. Bonifacio, P. Bouquet, R. Ferrario, D. Ponte, Rationality, Autonomy and Coordination: the Sunk Costs Pespective. In Proceedings of ESAW¼02, Engeneering Societies in the Agents World, Third International Workshop, 16-17 September 2002, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, Springer, LNAI vol. 2577, Berlin Heidelberg 2003. M. Bonifacio, P. Bouquet, R. Ferrario, D. Ponte, Towards a model of goal autonomous agents, in P. Giorgini, Y. LespÈrance, G. Wagner, E. S. K. Yu, AOIS '02, Agent-Oriented Information Systems, Proceedings of the Fourth International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems, vol. 59, 2002. R. Ferrario, Counterfactual Reasoning, in V. Akman, P. Bouquet, R. Thomason, R.A. Young, Modeling and Using Context, Proceedings of the Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2001, Dundee, UK, July 2001, Springer, LNAI vol. 2116, Berlin Heidelberg 2001.

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