The Authors of the book

Riccardo Caponetto

STMicroelectronics
A graduate in Electronic Engineering at Catania University, where in 1994 he also received a Ph.D. degree in Engineering. Since then, he has been working with the Soft Computing group at STMicroelectronics, and from 1995 has held the post of Short Term Contract Professor in Industrial Robotics at the Messina University Engineering Faculty

Gianguido Rizzotto

STMicroelectronics Corporate Director
Soft Computing Operations
Academician International Informatization Academy
After graduating in Physics at Milan University, he completed his studies in 1976 at the University of Chicago. In the frame of the systematic research activity being carried out at STMicroelectronics, he has, since 1989, been leading the group investigating developments in the fields of Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computing.

Mario Lavorgna

STMicroelectronics
Soft Computing Lab Manager
Graduated in Theoretical Physics at Naples University, where he carried out research in Cosmology and Relativistic Fluorodynamics. In 1987, he became head of the Catania Soft Computing laboratory for VLSI Architecture design and the integrated solutions of systems based on Soft Computing methodologies.

Maria Gabriella Xibilia

University of Messina
A graduate in Electronic Engineering at Catania University, where she also received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering. Since 1998, she has held the post of Researcher in Automotive at the Messina University Engineering Faculty.

Luigi Fortuna

University of Catania
Graduated in Electronic Engineering at Catania University, where since 1995 he has been Full Professor of Adaptive Systems in the Engineering Faculty. In 1998 he was appointed as head of the degree course in Electronic Engineering

Giuseppe Nunnari

University of Catania
A graduate in Electronic Engineering at Catania University, he was then a researcher for the National Research Council (CNR) at the International Institute of Vulcanology in Catania. Since 1992, he has been Associate Professor of Systems Theory at the Faculty of Engineering.

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Francesco Zivillica

STMicroelectronics
Since 1985, he has worked as a consultant in software development, with a particular interest in Object Oriented programming, Software Patterns, network applications, and low-level programming. Since 1997, he has been working with the soft computing group of STMicroelectronics.

Special thanks are extended to Giovanni Di Bernardo who worked on developing the examples of Spiral and Auto waves.