GUEST EDITORIAL: PAPERS IN SENSING AND IN REASONING (MARCO SOMALVICO MEMORIAL ISSUE)

摘要

Five years ago, this journal published an obituary of Professor Marco Somalvico (1941-2002). This was in Vol. 34, No. 4-5, 2003, pp. 409-411. It appeared inside a special issue guest-edited by Ephraim Nissan and Antonio Martino, titled "Building Blocks for an Artificial Intelligence Framework in the Field of Legal Evidence (Part I)."rnFive years have elapsed, and memories of Marco are vivid in his disciples, collaborators, and colleagues who knew him. Some of these have undertaken the present initiative. The issue you have in your hands is the end result of a painstaking refereeing process; still, for every article in this issue, at least one of the authors at the very least knew Marco Somalvico. Marco was one of the first two scholars who introduced research in artificial intelligence (AI) into Italian academia, and from an early stage, he undertook research in robotics as well. His disciples have been contributing to several areas of scholarship within artificial intelligence or robotics, and this reflects his openness; provided the quality was there, he would encourage us to pursue a number of directions of research.