IL SEMEION

Semeion was founded in 1985 and is a Research Center of Science of Communication with legal status recognized by the Ministry of University, Education and Scientific Research (MIUR). It carries out its activity of basic, experimental and applied research in the field of the Science of artificial and of the theories of the mind.
In particular, it is specialised in creating Adaptive Artificial Systems. It has invented designed and built models that simulate the work of complex systems and has developed original theories about the functioning of the brain.
The activity of Semeion is articulated in the following points:

• Basic research oriented to conceiving and designing of Artificial Organisms constituted by adaptive systems based on Artificial Neural Networks and Evolutive Algorithms for the simulation, the prediction and control of processes and phenomena;
• Applied Research mainly aimed to the construction of intelligent computer science models in the bio-medical, financial and social fields;
• Education of researchers about the methodologies and the techniques of application of the Artificial Adaptive Systems to different research fields;
• The spreading of research models, of projects and of scientific testing invented inside Semeio;
• Publication of scientific discoveries, of the results of research work and experimentation carried out by Semeion’s researchers, nationally and internationally.

From 1993 to the 1999 the Semeion Research Center has been responsible of a scientific series by the Armando Editore in Rome dedicated to the subject of Neural Networks applied to different fields among which the health and the social field.
This series is subdivided into two types of publication : theorical and methodological books about the Artificial Neural Networks and scientific research notes about applications and experimentations with the Artificial Neural Networks.
From 1999 the new Semeion books are published in a scientific series devoted to Semeion by the publisher Franco Angeli (Milan). Furthermore, Semeion’s researchers publish articles and collaborate with the following scientific journals :

• Quality & Quantity, International Journal of Methodology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Olanda;
• Substance Use & Misuse, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, Basel, Hong Kong;
• Alcologia, Giornale Europeo di Studi sull’Alcool, Editrice Compositori Bologna;
• Adicciones, Edita Socidrogalcohol, Palma de Mallorca, Spagna;
• Bifurcation and Chaos in applied sciences and engineering, International Journal, Berkeley, CA, USA.
• Noumen, Rivista trimestrale di informazione e ricerca psico-sociale, Castelfranco Veneto (TV), Italia
• Keiron, Farmindustria, Roma.
• Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma.
• Personalità/Dipendenze, Erit–Italia e SDP, Mucchi Editore, Modena.
• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Elsevier Ed. Neurological Science, Springer–Verlag Ed.