An overview of AI research in Italy

Abstract

This chapter aims to provide an overview of the main Italian research areas and activities. We first analyze the collaboration structure of Italian research, which involves more than eight hundred scholars and researchers from both universities and industry. From a network perspective it appears to be scale-free. Next, we briefly illustrate the main subjects of investigation and applications. AI research in Italy goes back to the 1970s with an increase in the last twenty years and spans the main research AI areas, from automated reasoning and ontologies to machine learning, robotics and evolutionary computation. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.