Daniele Porello
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Daniele Porello is a leading researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence, logic, and cognitive science, with a primary focus on formal ontology, multi-agent systems, and the cognitive foundations of agency. His work bridges high-level logical formalisms with insights from developmental psychology, aiming to create computationally tractable models of how humans—and artificial agents—conceptualize action, objects, and causality. In his highly cited paper "The mouse and the ball: Towards a cognitively-based and ontologically-grounded logic of agency" (2018), Porello and his co-authors take a foundational step toward formalizing an "agentive naïve proto-physics"—a logical framework that captures the pre-linguistic, elementary notions of agency that emerge in early human cognitive development. This work is notable for its interdisciplinary ambition, grounding abstract logical principles in empirical findings about how infants understand goal-directed action. While still a developing area, Porello’s contributions are shaping how researchers model common-sense reasoning and agency in AI, offering a rigorous yet cognitively plausible alternative to purely symbolic or purely statistical approaches. His research continues to influence fields from knowledge representation to cognitive robotics.
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