Main technical papers:

Butera, Scaruffi: "Computer-aided tuning in an expert system for software configuration" (Vienna, Third SPIE Symposium, 1986)

Logiudice, Scaruffi: "Knowledge Modules: a structure for representing the granularity of real-world knowledge" (Montreal, Sixth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1986)

Donalisio, Petrone, Scaruffi: "A framework to build expert systems for decision support" (Boston, Second Conference on Applications of A.I., 1987)

Scaruffi: "Expert Systems for Management" (Osaka, Japanese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1987)

Butera, Iacono, Scaruffi: "A model-based heuristic approach to board troubleshooting" (Detroit, Expert Systems in Manufacturing, 1988)

Scaruffi, Steccanella, Barbetti: (Madrid, Knowledge Engineering Workshop, 1988) "A model of knowledge communication for building intelligent tutoring systems"

Ronchi, Butera, Frascari, Scaruffi: "A dual-blackboard architecture for tele-diagnosis" (Artificial Intelligence in Design and Manufacturing [vol.1/2, Academic Press], 1988)

Scaruffi: "The new wave of personal distributed intelligence" (ACM Computational Intelligence, 1988)

Scaruffi, Barbetti: "A domain-independent framework for tutoring systems" (ACM/AIE IEA, 1989)

Chiantore, Perotto, Resta, Scaruffi "An expert system for product configuration" (World Congress on Expert Systems, 1991)

Qian, Russi, Scaruffi: "Generation of production rules from neural networks" (Intl Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, 1991)

Scaruffi: "Towards unification of cognitive and physical sciences: cognition as a property of matter" (Cognitive Society Conference:, 1996)

Scaruffi: "The Factory of Illusions: artificial and natural creativity" (Berliner Festspiele 2000, 1999)

Scaruffi: Consciousness as multi-track evolution (Conference on Consciousness, 2001)

Scaruffi: A reductionist explanation of the self (Conference on Consciousness, 2001)

Scaruffi: The experimental study of consciousness (Conference on Consciousness, 2001)

Scaruffi: Hostility and Identity (Mutamorphosis, 2007)

List of main lectures and seminars on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Theories of the Mind:

October 1999: U.C. Berkeley, Extensions, USA

September 1998: U.C. Berkeley, Extensions, USA

April 1998: California Institute for Integral Studies, USA

April 1997: U.C. Berkeley, Extensions, USA

• Talk #1 - Practical Applications of A.I. This talk will provide a survey of real-world applications of A.I.: so called "expert systems", neural networks, natural language processing systems. It will also bridge the history of artificial intelligence with the history of its applications, the history of A.I. in the academia with the history of A.I. in the industry. It will identify the areas of our society that have been affected and will be affected by artificial intelligence technique, briefly dealing with the economic and social impacts.
• Talk #2 - Theories of the Mind. This talk will provide an interdisciplinary survey of theories of the mind, consciousness and life that are emerging from a broad range of fields: neurophysiology, cognitive psychology, philosophy of the mind, non-standard logic, biology, artificial life and non-linear dynamics. The student will gain a basic understanding of the various research programs that deal with the mind, consciousness and life: how the brain works, how its structure relates to the mind, how conscious phenomena relate to the mind, how mind relates to life, how science can explain all of this. Included in this talk will be topics such as self-organizing systems (Kauffman), memes (Dawkins), the multimind (Ornstein), concepts (Rosch), mental models (Johnson-Laird), situated cognition (Gibson, Neisser, Barwise), autopoietics (Maturana), neural darwinism (Edelman), emotions (Aggleton), convergence zones (Damasio), time binding (Llinas), language (Chomsky, Austin, Searle, Grice), etc.

October 1990: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Department of Systems, Colombia

May 1989: University of Cagliari, Department of Philosophy, Italy

August 1988: Monterey Institute for International Studies, USA

May 1987: University of Bari, Department of Mathematics, Italy

List of theses supervised:

1982) Turin: "A keyed file system for optimized relational access"

1982) Turin: "A syntax-driven editor for a data management system"

1984) Turin: "A semantic network based architecture for document retrieval"

1985) Pisa: "Partitioning a knowledge base into knowledge modules"

1985) Pisa: "An expert system for quality assurance"

1986) Pisa: "An integrated parser for text understanding"

1987) Pisa: "An expert system for board troubleshooting"

1987) Pisa: "A dual-frame architecture for text understanding"

1987) Pisa: "A framework for building intelligent decision support systems"

1988-90) etc etc