Search results for "Filosofia della Scienza"

Un'analisi preliminare della rete dei ringraziamenti su Wikipedia

2015

Cybernetics, Fuzziness and Scientific Revolutions

2015

Settimo Termini ​pioneered along with Aldo de Luca the concept of fuzziness measures in the sixties. Today he is a Full Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Palermo and an affiliated researcher at the European Center for Soft Computing, Mieres (Asturias), Spain. He has directed from 2002 to 2009 the Istituto di Cibernetica "Eduardo Caianiello" of CNR (National Research Council) in Italy. Among his scientific interests, the introduction and formal development of the theory of (entropy) measures of fuzziness; an analysis in innovative terms of the notion of vague predicate as it appears and is used in Information Sciences, Cybernetics and AI. Recently he has been int…

APHSC, a forum for the debate on philosophical and historical aspects of Soft Computing.

2013

Teoria dei Concetti e Teoria degli Insiemi Fuzzy

Nel presente articolo, redatto in forma di position paper, si intende sottoli- neare una serie di possibili sviluppi futuri di questa relazione, ed evidenziare come alcuni degli ostacoli alla definizione di una ToC che rifletta la ricchez- za e la creatività dell‘uso dei concetti nella comunicazione umana possano essere affrontati con l‘aiuto della FST.

Salvi ed al sicuro: Singolarità di Vinge, crescita tecnologica, limiti di processo

2013

Nella suo saggio breve “Technological Singularity” (Vinge 2003), la rie- dizione in versione riveduta e corretta dell’originale (Vinge 1993), Vernon Vinge prospetta ai suoi lettori l’esistenza di un momento nella storia dell’umanità nel quale l’intelligenza delle macchine supererà quella degli umani, e ne descrive le possibili conseguenze; questa catarsi delle macchine dovrebbe verificarsi nell’arco dei prossimi venticinque anni, ed avere come più eclatante conseguenza la fine dell’era umana.

AIM: minds, morals, medicine

2011

Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh’s Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine does (among many other things) a wonderful job of introducing to the reader the idea of engaging soft computing theoretical foundations and techniques in dealing with clinical reasoning, diagnosis and representation in medical expert systems. Though massive and encyclopedic may it be, a good handbook must eschew the nitty-gritty details and the finest subtleties of implementation in order to give a cohesive and clear general view of the topic at hand. As an added bonus, this puts the interested reader in the right mindset: looking forward for a more technical analysis of what has just been hinted. Apart from revering Sadegh-Za…

Reflections on Technology and Human Sciences: rediscovering a common thread through the analysis of a few epistemological features of fuzziness

2013

A number of reasons, both historical and philosophical, has caused Technology and Human Sciences to be perceived as disjoint domains. In opposi- tion, we claim that there exists a strong methodological affinity between these apparently disconnected fields of knowledge. Our view is further corroborated by new hints from Information Sciences, in which new scientific concepts and tools such as fuzziness have emerged. Comparing the ways in which both Technology and Literature offer a model of reality we shall see that their approaches preserve a strong connection with the “description” of the pieces of reality they aim to model, against the Galileian hard sciences’ approach of making bold hypot…

Can you feel it will you tell me. Encouraging sentiment expression on the web

2015

In a recent trend in web communication, news outlets and blog platforms allow readers to express opinions about what they have read by choosing an associated feeling, or sentiment ex- pression. This emerging trend, fitting between liking and full text comments, has not still found the popularity it should. The thesis of this paper is that this is also due to the way the sen- timent choice is presented to the user. In order to test this hy- pothesis we have devised a pilot experiment; results confirm that a simpler way of choice increases sentiment expression and yields result that are more aligned with ground truth.

Acting on Conceptual Spaces in Cognitive Agents

2013

Conceptual spaces were originally introduced by G ardenfors as a bridge between symbolic and connectionist models of information representation. In our opinion, a cognitive agent, besides being able to work within his (current) conceptual space, must also be able to `produce a new space' by means of `global' operations. These are operations which, acting on a conceptual space taken as a whole, generate other conceptual spaces.

On Representing Concepts in High-dimensional Linear Spaces

2017

Producing a mathematical model of concepts is a very important issue in artificial intelligence, because if such a model were found this, besides being a very interesting result in its own right, would also contribute to the emergence of what we could call the ‘mathematics of thought.’ One of the most interesting attempts made in this direction is P. Gardenfors’ theory of conceptual spaces, a ¨ theory which is mostly presented by its author in an informal way. The main aim of the present article is contributing to Gardenfors’ theory of conceptual spaces ¨ by discussing some of the advantages which derive from the possibility of representing concepts in high-dimensional linear spaces.