In our Knowledge Society, the vast amount of information that drives organizations' and communities' activities imposes drastic changes on markets. The restructure of businesses towards capturing, exploiting and disseminating information coming from different sources, being in different grain size and in different modalities, in ways that are seamless to the performance of everyday activities in complex, unpredictable and dynamic settings, is emerging.

In this setting, the objectives of the AI-Lab include

• Empowering humans to perform collaborative activities in complex and dynamic settings
  
• Exploiting and integrating information coming from different (and possibly heterogeneous) information sources
  
• Capturing and Mining Capturing and Mining knowledge from data
  
• Designing and implementing distributed cognitive systems for information exploitation and collaboration.