Amedeo Cesta

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence; Active and Assisted Living; Human-Robot Interaction; Automated and Interactive Problem Solving; Cognitive Systems; Constraint Reasoning; Mixed-Initiative Planning and Scheduling;

Short profile:

[MSc Electronic Engineering, 1983, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1992: University of Rome 'La Sapienza']

Amedeo is a research scientist in Artificial Intelligence at CNR and Group Leader at ISTC. He has founded and currently coordinates activities of the Laboratory on Planning and Scheduling Technologies (PST Lab). He has conducted research in several AI areas like Multi-Agent Systems, Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction, Planning & Scheduling and always pursued the synthesis of innovative Decision Support Systems. His work focuses on the integration of planning and scheduling in software architectures, the use of constraint programming for specialized tasks such as temporal and resource reasoning, the synthesis of planning and scheduling heuristics, the interactive solution of complex planning problems. His work in Artificial Intelligence also emphasizes the real-world aspects of automated reasoning, in particular focusing in research research are like planning for space domain, technology-based support to older people, integration of AI techniques in Robotics.

More recently he has been exploring the integration of planning and scheduling techniques in new applicative areas (like for example the crisis managers training) and the synthesis of new cognitive aids for older people by integrating ICTs and robotics.

From 12/2013 to 12/2017 Amedeo has been President of AI*IA, the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is currently Vicepresident of AI*IA.  Since June 2014 he is member of the Board of Directors of ForItAAL (the Italian Association for Ambient Assisted Living). He is currently serving his second term as member of the Scientific Council of ISTC-CNR.

For an updated list of publications please consult also the new CNR portal here (http://www.cnr.it/people/amedeo.cesta).