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<TITLE>Lorenza Saitta's home page</TITLE>
<H1>Lorenza Saitta</H1>
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e-mail: <A HREF="mailto:saitta@di.unito.it">saitta@di.unito.it</A>
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Lorenza Saitta is Full Professor of Computer Science at the University
of Torino (Italy).  She started her research activity in Pattern
Recognition, moving soon to AI, specifically in the area of Fuzzy Logic
for Expert Systems. In 1984 she started working in Machine Learning,
thus initiating the reaserch in the field in Italy. Her first interests
have been in inductive symbolic approaches. In this period, she and her
research group developed the systems ML-SMART and RIGEL, which learn
first-order logic concept descriptions, and have been applied to
real-world industrial problems. Later, she worked on the integration of
different learning strategies, involving more complex reasoning
schemes, such as deduction and abduction Of this period is the
implementation of the system WHY, which exploits examples and a causal
model of the domain to acquire and revise first-order logic based
diagnostic knowledge. More recently, she became interested in Genetic
Algorithms (system REGAL) and in Cognitive Sciences. <P>

She is an Action Editor for the Machine Learning Journal, the Convener
of the Research Technical Committee of the CEE founded Network
Excellence for Machine Learning and Co-Director of the European Science
Foundation project on Learning in Humans and Machines. She has also
been responsible of, or participated to, several European Research
projects.<P>

She gave an invited survey on Machine Learning at ECAI-92, and has been
Invited Speaker to the Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-93), the European Conf.  on Machine Learning (ECML-94), the Int.
Workshop in Inductive Logic Programming (ILP-94) and the Int. Workshop
on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (1994) and will give
an invited talk at the 3rd Multistrategy Learning Workshop (1996).<P>
She authored (or edited) three books and more than 100 papers in
journals, books and international conferences. She is (or has been)
member of various journals Editorial Board and of many International
Conferences Program Committees, as, for instance, the Machine Learning
Conference 1992, 1993, 1994, the European Machine Learning Conference
1991, 1993, 1994, and ECAI-92. She has been Co-Chairperson of the Int.
Conf. on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty (IPMU-88)
and of the Int. Symposium of Methodologies for Intelligent Systems
(ISMIS-88).<P>

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