Paolo Petta is an

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and cognitive scientist who is the head of the Intelligent Software Agents and New Media Research Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence. His main research areas include cognitive modelling of

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, human aspects in interactions with artificial systems and coordination of situated cognitive systems.

Biography

Paolo Petta earned his

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(specialisation:

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) from the

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(Technische Universität Wien) in 1994. Since 1996, he is the head of the Intelligent Agents and New Media group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) in

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. Since 1989 he has been teaching at the

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, the

, and the

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on selected topics of Artificial Intelligence, Agent-based Technologies and Cognitive Science.

Publications

* 1997. ''Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors'', Heidelberg/New York: Springer. * 2003. ''Emotions in Humans and Artifacts'', Cambridge: MIT Press. * 2008. ''Intelligent Information Agents: The AgentLink Perspective'', Heidelberg/New York: Springer. * 2011. ''Emotion-Oriented Systems: The Humaine Handbook'', Springer, Heidelberg/Dordrecht/London/New York, 2011.

References

Italian cognitive scientists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Italian computer scientists TU Wien alumni {{Italy-scientist-stub