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Marco Botta Dipartimento di Informatica Università di Torino Corso Svizzera 185 - 10149 Torino Tel: +39 011 6706721 Fax: +39 011 751603 E-mail: botta@di.unito.it and Centro Interdipartimentale Sistemi Complessi in Biologia e Medicina Molecolare Center for Complex Systems in Molecular Biology & Medicine

Biography

Marco Botta received his degree in Computer Science from the University of Torino in 1987, and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Torino in 1993. From 1992 till Sept. 2001, he was Research Associate in Computer Science at the Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino. Since Oct. 2001, he is Associate Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, Università di Torino.

Research Interests: Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation

• First Order Concept Learning using Inductive+Deductive Techniques
• Knowledge Bases Construction and Refinement using Deep Models of the Domain
• Integration of Symbolic-Subsymbolic Learning Techniques
• Applications of Machine Learning Algorithms to Real World Problems (e.g., Robotics)
• Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining
• Member of the Editorial Board of Informatica Journal

Research Projects

• Consortium on INductive Queries
  • Our contribution to the project
• G-net: a distributed genetic algorithm
• MiningMart: A project starting on December 1999, aimed at developing new tools for Data Mining Applications
• Phase transition and machine learning
• Data Mining Web Server (in italian)

Teaching Duties (in italian)

• Attività didattica

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