Publications

Books

• R. Ferrario, V. Schiaffonati, Formal methods and empirical practices: conversation with Patrick Suppes, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, USA, 2012.

Edited Books

• R. Ferrario, A. Oltramari, Formal Ontologies Meet Industry, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Berlino, Tokyo, Washington DC, 2009.

Articles in International Journals

• R. Ferrario, N. Guarino, "Commitment-Based Modeling of Service Systems", in M. Snene (ed.), IESS 2012, International Conference on Exploring Services Science , Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 103, Berlin Heidelberg 2012, pp. 170-185.
• R. Ferrario, N. Guarino, "Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science", in D. Fensel, and P. Traverso (eds.), Proceedings of Future Internet Symposium 2008, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5468, Berlin Heidelberg 2009, pp. 152-169.
• V. Bryl, F. Dalpiaz, R. Ferrario, A. Mattioli, A. Villafiorita, "Evaluating Procedural Alternatives. A Case Study in e-Voting", in Electronic Government, an International Journal, Inderscience Publishers, 2009, pp. 213-231
• E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, "Preliminaries to a DOLCE Ontology of Organizations", to appear in C. Atkinson, E. Kendall, G. Wagner, G. Guizzardi, M. Spies (Eds.), International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, Special Issue on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Business Rules for Enterprise Modeling, 2008.
• C. Arrighi, R. Ferrario, "Abductive Reasoning, Interpretation and Collaborative Processes", in Foundations of Science, Special Issues on Tracking Irrational Sets: Science, Technology, Ethics, Springer Netherlands, 2008, pp. 75-87.
• S. Borgo, R. Ferrario, C. Masolo, A. Oltramari, "Mereogeometry and Pictorial Morphology", in Image - Journal of Interdisciplinary Image Science, vol. 5 , chapter 3 of the thematic part "Computational Visualistics and Pictorial Morphology", Herbert-von-Halem, Koln 2007, pp. 36-49.
• M. Bonifacio, P. Bouquet, R. Ferrario, D. Ponte, "Rationality, Autonomy and Coordination: the Sunk Costs Perspective". In P. Petta, R. Tolksdorf, F. Zambonelli (Eds.), Engineering Societies in the Agents World III. Proceedings of ESAWº02,Third International Workshop, September 16-17 2002, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spagna, Springer, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence vol. 2577, Berlin Heidelberg 2003, pp. 29-38.
• R. Ferrario, "Counterfactual Reasoning", in V. Akman, P. Bouquet, R. Thomason, R.A. Young (Eds.), Modeling and Using Context, Proceedings of the Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2001, Dundee, UK, July 2001, Springer, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence vol. 2116, Berlin Heidelberg 2001, pp. 170-183.

Book Chapters with International Publishers

• N. Guarino, R. Ferrario, E. Bottazzi, G. Sartor, "Ontology-Driven Sociotechnical Systems: Transparency as a Key for Business Resiliency", in M. De Marco, D. Te'eni, V. Albano, S. Za, Information Systems: Crossroads for Organization, Management, Accounting and Engineering, Springer Verlag 2012, pp. 535-542.
• R. Ferrario, N. Guarino, R. Trampus, K. Laskey, A. Hartman, G. R. Gangadharan, "Service System Approaches. Conceptual Modeling Approaches for Services Science", in D. Oberle, A. Barros, N. Weissenberg, B. Zarov (eds.), Handbook of Service Description, Springer Verlag., Berlin Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 75 - 109.
• R. Ferrario, N. Guarino, M. Fernández Barrera, "Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science: the Legal Perspective", to appear in G. Sartor, P. Casanovas, M. Biasiotti, M. Fernández Barrera (eds.), Approaches to Legal Ontologies, Springer Verlag, 2009.
• R. Cuel, R. Ferrario, "The Impact of Technology in Organizational Communication Processes: toward Constructivism", to appear in B. Staudinger, V. Hoess , and H. Ostermann (eds.), Nursing and Clinical Informatics: Socio-Technical Approaches, IGI Global, 2008, pp.198-217.
• C. Arrighi, R. Ferrario, "The Dynamic Nature of Meaning", in L. Magnani, R. Dossena (Eds.), Computing, Philosophy, And Cognition, College Publications, 2005, pp. 295-312.
• C. Masolo, G. Guizzardi, L. Vieu, E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, "Relational Roles and Qua-individuals", in G. Boella, J. Odell, L. van der Torre, H. Verhagen (Eds.), Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective, Arlington, Virginia USA, AAAI Press, 2005, pp. 103-112.
• R. Ferrario, A. Oltramari, "Towards a Computational Ontology of Mind", in A. C. Varzi, L. Vieu (Eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference FOIS 2004, IOS Press, pp. 287-297.
• C. Masolo, L. Vieu, E. Bottazzi, C. Catenacci, R. Ferrario, A. Gangemi, N. Guarino, "Social Roles and Their Descriptions", in D. Dubois, C. Welty, M.A. Williams (Eds.), Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference KR 2004, Whistler, Canada, 2-5 giugno, 2004, AAAI Press, pp. 267-277.

Full Papers in International Conferences and Workshops

• E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, C. Masolo, "The mysterious appearance of objects", Formal Ontology in Information Systems, FOIS 2012, Graz, Austria, July 24-27, 2012.
• R. Ferrario, C. Janiesch, N. Guarino, D. Oberle, F. Probst, "Towards an Ontological Foundation of Services Science. The General Service Model", in Wirtschaftsinformatik Proceedings, Zurich, Switzerland,February16-18, 2011.
• E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, "Facing the Inevitable? The Dynamics of Impasse in Collective Contexts,Collective Intentionality VII, Perspectives on Social Ontology, Basel, Switzerland, August 23-26, 2010.
• E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, "Arbitral Functions and Constitutive Rules", to appear in Proceedings of the Inaugural Meeting of the European Network on Social Ontology, Konstanz (Germany), October, 16-17 2009.
• R. Ferrario, N. Guarino, "A New Ontological Perspective for Social Services", in Corradini, F., and Polzonetti, A. (eds.), MeTTeG08, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools Enabling e-Government", Halley, pp.41-51.
• V. Bryl, F. Dalpiaz, R. Ferrario, A. Mattioli, A. Villafiorita, "Evaluating Procedural Alternatives. A Case Study in e-Voting", in Proceedings of MeTTeG 2007, 1st International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government, Camerino, September 27-28, 2007, pp. 125-138.
• E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, C. Masolo, R. Trypuz, "Designing Organizations: Towards a Model", in G. Boella, L. van der Torre, H. Verhagen, (Eds.), Normative Multi-agent Systems, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, IBFI, Dagstuhl, Germany, March 18-23 2007, pp. 237-244.
• E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, "A Path to an Ontology of Organizations", in G. Guizzardi, G. Wagner, (Eds.), EDOC International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2005), September 20 2005, Enschede, the Netherlands, pp. 9-16.

Extended Abstracts in International Conferences and Workshops

• R. Ferrario, N. Guarino, "Commitment-based Modeling of Service Systems in the light of the Service Dominant Logic", VMBO 2012 (6th International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business Ontology), University of Vienna, Austria, February 20-21, 2012.
• E. Bottazzi , R. Ferrario, "Critical situations from spontaneous to sophisticated social interactions", presented at New Trends in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain, September 28-29, 2011.
• R. Ferrario, N. Guarino, "Generic Commitments, Specific Contracts and Quality Criteria in Service Systems: an Ontological Analysis", presented at Understanding Complex Service Systems Through Different Lenses, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, September 21-23, 2011.
• E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, "How Sophisticated Our Interaction Can Get", presented at ENSO 2011, the Second Conference of the European Network of Social Ontology, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, September 21-23, 2011.
• E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, "Faulty Institutional Objects. A threat for the Infallibilist (and the Fallibilist as well)", presented at the Seventh European Conference for Analytic Philosophy, ECAP7, University of Milan and University Vita e Salute San Raffaele, Milan, September 1-6, 2011.
• E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, "Introducing Perspectiles in Organizations", in Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Science, EuroCog 2011, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, May 21-24, 2011.
E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, "The Role of Computational Ontologies and Failure- Based Systems in the Social", in Proceedings of EASST (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology) 2010, Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social, University of Trento, September 2-4, 2010.
• E. Bottazzi, C. Catenacci, R. Ferrario, R. Trypuz, "On Non Mediated Collective Intentions", in Proceedings of Narrative Alternatives to Theories of Mind, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Great Britain, July 12-15 2007.
• M. Bonifacio, P. Bouquet, R. Ferrario, D. Ponte, "Towards a Model of Goal Autonomous Agents", in P. Giorgini, Y. Lésperance, G. Wagner, E. S. K. Yu (Eds.), AOIS '02, Agent-Oriented Information Systems, Proceedings of the Fourth International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems, vol. 59, 2002.

Special Issues in International Journals

• R. Ferrario, L. Prévot (Eds.), "Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents", Applied Ontology, Nr. 3-4, 2007, editorial pp. 209-216.

Articles in Italian Journals

• R. Ferrario, N. Guarino, "Fondamenti ontologici per una scienza dei servizi", forthcoming in Rivista di Estetica. Atti del IV Convegno Italiano di Ontologia, 2012.
• E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, "Problemi filosofici emergenti dalla modellazione delle organizzazioni sociali", in Rivista di Estetica. Numero Speciale su Documentalità: l'ontologia degli oggetti sociali, vol. 36 Nr. 3, 2007, pp. 43-58.
• R. Ferrario, "Who Cares about Axiomatization? Representation, Invariance, and Formal Ontologies", in Epistemologia, Numero Speciale: Saggi in onore di Patrick Suppes, vol. 2, 2006, pp. 323-342.
• E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, "Primi ingredienti di una DOLCE ontologia delle organizzazioni", in Networks, Nr. 6, 2006, pp. 36-63.
• A. Oltramari, S. Borgo, C. Catenacci, R. Ferrario, A. Gangemi, N. Guarino, C. Masolo, D. Pisanelli, "Il ruolo dell'ontologia nella disambiguazione del significato", in Networks, Nr. 2, 2003, pp. 14-24.
• A. Oltramari, S. Borgo, C. Catenacci, R. Ferrario, A. Gangemi, N. Guarino, C. Masolo, D. Pisanelli, "Negoziati di significato", in Sistemi Intelligenti, Year XV, Nr.3, 2003, pp. 419-428.

Book Chapters with Italian Publishers

• R. Cuel, R. Ferrario, P.F. Camussone, "Gli effetti dei sistemi informativi sui processi di comunicazione: un caso di studio", in T.M. Fabbri, L.E. Golzio (Eds.), Relazioni di lavoro e forme organizzative. Nuovi modelli di progettazione, Carocci, Roma 2007, pp. 268-284.

Full Papers in Italian Conferences and Workshops

• R. Ferrario, A. Oltramari, "The COM Perspective on Intentional Agents", in Proceedings of the 1st Italian Semantic Web Workshop SWAP 2004 (Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives), December10 2004, Ancona.

Extended Abstracts in Italian Conferences and Workshops

• E. Bottazzi, R. Ferrario, "Oggetti sociali e prospettive", in G. Ferrari, P. Bouquet, M. Cruciani, F. Giardini (eds.), Pratiche della cognizione. Atti del 7 Convegno Nazionale dell'AISC (Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive), Trento, December 2-3 2010, pp. 166-170.
• E. Bottazzi, C. Catenacci, R. Ferrario, R. Trypuz, "Intenzioni collettive non mediate", in Scienze cognitive e robotica. Atti dell'AISC (Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive), in A. Greco, C. Penco, G. Sandini, R. Zaccaria (Eds.), Genoa, October 26-27, 2006, pp. 136-138.
• R. Ferrario, A. Oltramari, "COME (Computational Ontology of Mental Entities)", in Proceedings of the II Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences (AISC 2004), March 19-20 2004, Ivrea, pp. 48-50.

Special Issues in Italian Journals

• M. Benzi, R. Ferrario (Eds.), "Ontologia", Networks, Nr. 6, 2006, editorial pp. 1-4.
• P. Bouquet, R. Ferrario (Eds.), "Il Semantic Web", Networks, Nr. 2, 2003, editorial pp. 1-8.

Reviews in Italian Journals

• R. Ferrario, "Pensieri e Rappresentazioni di E. Sacchi", in 2R, vol. 2, 2006, pp. 95-105.

Technical Reports

• R. Ferrario, Il Ragionamento Controfattuale: un modello e la sua applicazione al ragionamento pratico, PhD Thesis, Technical Report Nr. DIT-02-101, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, Universit› degli Studi di Trento, 2002.