From Observations and Experiments to Modelling Styles

10 Nov 2007 - 00:00

An event to foster interaction and collaboration between the muldisciplinary researchers at the ISTC.

Theoreticians, modellers and experimentalists have each presented and discussed their reciprocal tools to do scientific inquiry.

The event was organized by Luca Tummolini

Thursday, October 11 

Session chair: Raffaele Calabretta

9.00-9.30

From observations and experiments to modelling styles: an overview

Luca Tummolini

9.30-10.10

Theoretical models and empirical data in the cognitive and social sciences

Domenico Parisi

10.10-10.50

Simulation, generation and theory of social phenomena

Rosaria Conte

 

10.50-11.15 Coffee break

 

Session chair: Mario Paolucci

11.15-11.55

Designing for emergence

Stefano Nolfi

11.55-12.35

Towards a comparative natural and artificial behavioral science

Orazio Miglino

12.35-13.15

Embodied models are badly needed by cognitive psychology

Anna Borghi

 

13.15-14.30 Pranzo

Issues from the Natural Behavioral Sciences I

Session chair: Elsa Addessi

14.30-14.55

Neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular diseases

Marco Pagani

14.55-15.20 

Sensorimotor feedback efficiency in the primary cortical regions devoted to the hand control

Franca Tecchio

15.20-15.45

The complex interplay between computational modeling, brain imaging and behavioral data:

The case of the word age-of-acquisition effect
Cristina Burani

15.45-16.10

Towards understanding the proximate mechanisms of primate reciprocation:

existing data and potential models

Gabriele Schino

 

16.10-16.40 Coffee break

Bio-inspired Modelling Styles

Session chair: Onofrio Gigliotta

16.40-17.05 

Neural networks modelling

Marco Mirolli

17.05-17.30

Evolutionary agent-based modelling

Marco Mirolli

17.30-17.55

Embodied agent-based modelling

Vito Trianni

17.55-18.20

Biomimetic models

Gianluca Baldassarre

Friday, october 12 2007

Issues from the Natural Behavioral Sciences II

Session chair: Giovanna Mazzapioda

9.30-9.55

From action to language through gesture

Olga Capirci

9.55-10.20

Modeling signed, spoken/written languages, and gestures: data selection and written representation issues

Elena Pizzuto

10.20-10.45

Consciousness raising for a mental health service

Raffaella Pocobello

 

10.45-11.15 Coffee break

Mathematical Modelling Styles

Session chair: Giovanni Pezzulo

11.15-11.40

Analytical modelling

Stefano Zappacosta

11.40-12.15

Numerical solutions to differential equations

 Federico Cecconi

12.15-12.40

Evolutionary game theory

Federico Cecconi

12.40-13.05

Markov modelling

Walter Quattrociocchi

 

13.05-14.30 Pranzo

Conceptual and Computational Modelling Styles

Session chair: Angelo Oddi

14.30-14.55

Ontology design and modelling

Aldo Gangemi

14.55-15.20

Constraint-based modelling

Amedeo Cesta

15.20-15.45

Agent-based BDI modelling

Michele Piunti

15.45-16.10

Cognitive modelling

Giovanni Pezzulo

16.10-16.35

Agent-based social simulation

Mario Paolucci

 

16.35-17.05 Coffee break

Using Natural and Artificial Data

Session chair: Luca Tummolini

17.05-17.30

Conceptual abstraction in pigeons, primates and neural networks

Francesco Natale, Matteo Macellari

17.30-17.55

A computational approach to choose between competing theories

Andrea di Ferdinando

17.55-18.30

Designing laboratory and artificial experiments

Francesca Giardini

18.30-18.40

Closing remarks