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Quantum planning for swarm robotics
2023
Computational resources of quantum computing can enhance robotic motion, decision making, and path planning. While the quantum paradigm is being applied to individual robots, its approach to swarms of simple and interacting robots remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we attempt to bridge the gap between swarm robotics and quantum computing, in the framework of a search and rescue mission. We focus on a decision-making and path-planning collective task. Thus, we present a quantum-based path-planning algorithm for a swarm of robots. Quantization enters position and reward information (measured as a robot’s proximity to the target) and path-planning decisions. Pairwise information-exchan…
Sampling of pairwise comparisons in decision-making
2019
Various decision-making techniques rely on pairwise comparisons (PCs) between the involved elements. Traditionally, PCs are provided by experts or relevant actors, and compiled into pairwise comparison matrices (PCMs). In highly complex problems, the number of elements to be compared may be very large. One of the issues limiting PC applicability to large-scale decision problems is the so-called curse of dimensionality, that is, many PCs need to be elicited from an actor, or built from a body of information. In general, when applied to a set of n elements to be compared, the number of PCs that have to be made is n(n−1)/2. When the information in the comparison matrix is complete, the priorit…
Keyword Based Keyframe Extraction in Online Video Collections
2015
Keyframe extraction methods aim to find in a video sequence the most significant frames, according to specific criteria. In this paper we propose a new method to search, in a video database, for frames that are related to a given keyword, and to extract the best ones, according to a proposed quality factor. We first exploit a speech to text algorithm to extract automatic captions from all the video in a specific domain database. Then we select only those sequences (clips), whose captions include a given keyword, thus discarding a lot of information that is useless for our purposes. Each retrieved clip is then divided into shots, using a video segmentation method, that is based on the SURF d…
Imputazione e responsabilità delle decisioni automatizzate
2020
The paper deals with the problem of the imputation of the automated decision making of the public administration, with consequent liability. The idea is to use the theory of bodies of the public administration, and the principle of responsability (art. 97 Cost.), and the responsible for the procedure, who has to verify, among other things, the reasonableness of the solution that is reached through the automated procedure, in order to assume responsibility for the final decision.
Pena negoziata e arbitrium iudicis: le transazioni criminali nel Regnum Siciliae (secc. XIII-XV)
2020
Contesti politico-istituzionali come il Regnum Siciliae sono tradizionalmente considerati esenti o, quanto meno, poco inclini a cessioni di potere e autonomia in favore dei soggetti privati in materia criminale. Se, però, il potere absolutus non ammette la delega ai privati nella gestione e risoluzione delle controversie, specialmente criminali, che tipo di funzione e natura giuridica hanno le composizioni meridionali? Se la natura dello strumento transattivo non fosse iuris privatorum a quali esigenze e scopi poteva rispondere la pratica compositiva? E ancora, se nel contesto comunale la scientia iuris si concentrò prevalentemente sul pregiudizio che una pace privata poteva avere sull’inqu…
Il diritto all’educazione nelle costituzioni europee: una panoramica critica e una proposta per il Cile
2022
Il saggio di colloca all’interno di un numero speciale della rivista cilena “Estudios Constitutionales” nato con l’obiettivo di offrire spunti di riflessione alla convenzione costituente che ha avviato i suoi lavori nel luglio 2021. L’assemblea aveva il compito di redigere la carta costituzionale che avrebbe dovuto soppiantare la Costituzione del 1980 approvata durante il regime militare di Pinochet. I curatori della rivista hanno raccolto una serie di contributi – che traendo spunto da diverse tradizioni costituzionali sia Latinoamericane che del Vecchio continente – avrebbero potuto offrire un quadro articolato dei più discussi diritti. L’articolo di Clelia Bartoli propone una disamina cr…
Genealogia della normatività. La normatività come controllo
2018
In this paper I draw the outline of a psychological genealogy of normativity: an account of normativity as a complex neuro-psychological fact, entirely analysable in non-normative terms. As a first step, I introduce two of the main problems faced by the genealogical approach. I call the first one “Gibbard problem”: what kind of neuro-psychological state is normative judgment? I call the second one “irreducibility of normativity problem”: normative dynamics seem to be irreducible to causal dynamics. As a second step, I examine the “dual model” of the psychology of normative judgment developed by J. Haidt and J. Greene. I argue that the dual model is not able to solve the aforementioned probl…
Agamennone βουληφόρος? La sovranità alla prova del processo deliberativo
2022
Starting with the Iliad, Agamemnon is mostly depicted at the centre of dramatic deliberative situations. This feature is also present in fifth-century literature, particularly in some plays in which Agamemnon’s decision-making ability in uncertainty comes into tension with other characters in order to determine the ‘right’ decision and adequate leadership features. In this paper, I will focus on the Euripides’ play Iphigenia in Aulis (405 a.C.). In this tragedy the behaviour of the Achaean king draws our attention, as he is not equipped to handle his role and responsibilities. In the same years, also historiography is interested in the nature and risks of the deliberative process, as Thucyd…
Spiegare o mentire? Due vie della comunicazione politica in Tucidide
2021
Chosen as word of the year in 2016 by the Oxford Dictionaries, post-truth is a very recent neologism, spread on the wave of recent political events (particularly Brexit and Trump's election in 2016). What I would like to emphasise here is that post-truth, along with fake-news, refers to issues that are by no means new nor exclusively linked to modernity. I am referring in particular to the debate in ancient Greece on the relationship between truth and lies in political action and the relationship between 'fact' and the discourse that represents it (i.e. between ergon and logos).
Al cuore del fantastico. Ibridi da pensare nel Paleolitico
2022
Our narrative abilities go back before Chauvet. Already the ivory figure of the so-called Hohlenstein-Stadel Lion-Man, dated to about 40,000 years ago, must be regarded as the most advanced product of a hundred if not a thousand years of figurative and narrative experimentation. In order to create this hybrid figure, as well the more or less theriomorphic figures which populate caves all over the world, the human mind must have possessed developed narrative skills. All the imaginary animals found in prehistoric art and all the teratologies found in caves, presuppose a narrative, more precisely the story of a metamorphosis. In this contribution I propose an interpretation that investigates t…