Paola Rizzo
Department of Computer Science
Via Salaria 113
00198 Rome
Italy
phone +39- 06 - 49
91 83 58
fax:
+39 - 06 - 88 41 96 4
+39
- 06 - 85 41 84 2
e-mail: rizzo@dsi.uniroma1.it
Current
position:
Post-doctoral
research fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University of Rome "La
Sapienza" (Rome, Italy), where I collaborate with Stefano Levialdi and Paolo Bottoni.
Past positions:
Research fellow at
the Institute of Psychology of the National Research Council (Rome, Italy),
where I collaborated with Amedeo Cesta and Maria Miceli.
Education:
·
1999: Ph.D. in
Cognitive Science - Center for Cognitive Science, University of Turin (Turin,
Italy)
·
1991: M.S. in
General and Experimental Psychology - Department of Psychology, University of
Rome “La Sapienza”
Visits to foreign
laboratories:
·
June - August
2001: Information
Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California (Marina
del Rey, CA, USA), where I started an ongoing collaboration with Lewis
Johnson, head of the Center
for Advanced Research on Technology for Education (CARTE), and Erin Shaw
·
January -
November 1997: Department
of Computer Science of Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA,
USA), where I collaborated with Manuela Veloso, head of the Prodigy Group.
Research interests and selected publications:
·
Digital
annotation of multimedia documents for e-learning
o
Bonifazi F., Levialdi S., Rizzo P.,
Trinchese R., “A web-based annotation tool supporting e-learning”. In M. De
Marsico, S. Levialdi, E. Panizzi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Working
Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces: AVI 2002. ACM Press, New York
(NY), 2002, pp. 123-128.
o
Bottoni
P., Garbay C., Lecca F., Mussio P., Rizzo P., “Collaborative indexing and
retrieval by annotation: The case of artistic artifacts”. International
Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI'01). DEA, Brescia
(Italy), 2001, 315-322.
·
Pedagogical
agents for web-based e-learning
o
Rizzo
P., Shaw E., Johnson W. L., “An agent-based learning environment for authoring
rhetorically-structured presentations”. In S. A. Cerri, G. Gouardères, F.
Paraguaçu (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 6th International
Conference, ITS 2002. Springer (Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2363), Berlin (Germany), 2002, pp. 903-912.
·
Believable
agents realized with AI planning techniques
o
Rizzo
P., “Realizing believable agents: An integration of the ‘author-based’ and the
‘model-based’ approaches”. AI Communications, 13, 2000, 145-168.
o
Rizzo
P., Veloso M.V., Miceli M., Cesta A., “Goal-based personalities and
social behaviors in believable agents”. Applied Artificial Intelligence,
13, 1999, 239-271.
o
Rizzo
P., Veloso M.V., Miceli M., Cesta A., “Personality-Driven Social Behaviors in
Believable Agents”. AAAI 1997 Fall Symposium on "Socially Intelligent
Agents", AAAI Press Technical Report FS-97-02, AAAI Press, Menlo Park
(CA, USA), 1997, 109-114.
·
Collaborative
behaviors in Multi-Agent Systems
o
Cesta
A., Miceli M., Rizzo P., “Co-existing agents: experiments on basic interaction
attitudes”. Journal of Intelligent Systems, 11, 1, 2001, 1-42.
o
Cesta A., Miceli M., Rizzo P., “Help
Under Risky Conditions: Robustness of the Social Attitude and System
Performance”. Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems
(ICMAS'96), AAAI Press, Menlo Park (CA, USA), 1996, 18-25.
o
Miceli
M., Cesta A., Rizzo P., “Distributed Artificial Intelligence from a
Socio-Cognitive Standpoint: Looking at Reasons for Interaction”. Artificial
Intelligence and Society , 9, 1995, 287-320.
If you are interested in receiving any of these or
other papers not listed above, in electronic or hardcopy form, please write to rizzo@dsi.uniroma1.it