The project called Minerva,
started
in 1995 by Marco Somalvico at
the Artificial
Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory, has the ambitious goal
to extend the range
of activities that computers can play in cultural heritage.
Minerva is a
software system that is able to automatically organize
virtual museums,
starting from the collections of works of art and the
environments in which
they must be displayed. By organization we mean two distinct
processes: the preparation
process, which is the arrangement of works of art in
conceptually relevant
ordered groups, and the allocation process, which is
the placement of
these groups within a given geometrical space trying to
preserve their
arrangement.
Minerva can be used both as
a support for
museum curators, to help them in finding appropriate
allocation of the works of
art, and as an advanced tool for museum visitors, to enhance
their personalized
fruition of virtual museums.
We have developed several
versions of
Minerva for addressing different problems in different
museums. All these
versions basically share the same architecture that blends
together the
classical inferential techniques of Artificial Intelligence
and the more recent
paradigm and technology of multiagent systems.
This research has been
partially funded by
Politecnico di Milano, CNR (National Research Council), and
INTERREG III-A.
Francesco
Amigoni
Viola Schiaffonati
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