Ignazio Licata, born 1958, is an

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and scientific director of the ''Institute for Scientific Methodology'', Italy.

Education and work

Licata has studied with

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, Jean-Pierre Vigier,

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and Giuseppe Arcidiacono. Licata is

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of the ''

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'' (EJTP) and scientific director of the interdisciplinary ''Institute for Scientific Methodology'' (ISEM),Ignazio Licata
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, Italy. He has worked on

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, and recently

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. His further topics of research include the foundation of quantum mechanics, space-time at Planck scale, the group approach in

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, as well as computation in

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and

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systems (logical openness, sub and super Turing systems). Licata has developed a new approach to quantum cosmology ("Archaic Universe") based on

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Awards

* "Le Veneri per la Scienza" prize (

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, 2008)Premio "Le Veneri per la Scienza 2008" a Ignazio Licata
Codice Edizioni, 15 September 2008 (downloaded 12 March 2012) for "the high merit in research and cultural diffusion" * "Targa Pirandello" (

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, 2010) * "International Prize Conference on Time" (

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, 2012)

Publications

;Books (as author): * Ignazio Licata, Davide Fiscaletti: ''Quantum potential: Physics, Geometry and Algebra'', AMC, Springer, 2013, (print) / (online) * Ignazio Licata: ''Complessità. Un'introduzione semplice'', :Duepunti, 2011, * Ignazio Licata: ''La Logica Aperta della Mente'', Codice Edizioni, Torino, 2008, * Ignazio Licata: ''Osservando la Sfinge. La realtà virtuale della fisica quantistica'', Di Renzo, Roma, 2003, ;Books (other): * Ignazio Licata, Ammar Sakaji (eds.): ''Vision of Oneness'',

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(2011), * Ignazio Licata, Sara Felloni, Ammar J. Sakaji, Jatinder Singh (eds.): ''New Trends in Quantum Information'',

, 2010, * Ignazio Licata, Ammar Sakaji (eds.): ''Crossing in Complexity: Interdisciplinary Application of Physics in Biological and Social Systems'',

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, 2010, * Ammar Sakaji, Ignazio Licata (eds.): ''Lev Davidovich Landau and His Impact on Contemporary Theoretical Physics (Horizons in World Physics)'',

, 2009, * ''Unexpected Connections: Art–Science Crossing'', Politi Publ., Milan, 2009 * Ignazio Licata, Ammar Sakaji (eds.): ''Physics of Emergence and Organization'', EJTP and

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, 2008, * Ignazio Licata: ''Majorana Legacy in Contemporary Physics'', EJTP and Di Renzo, Roma 2006, * ''Informazione & Complessità'', Edizioni Andromeda, Bologna, 1998 ;Articles (selection): * Articles by Ignazio Licat
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* Ignazio Licata: ''Vision as Adaptive Epistemology'', in G. Minati Ed., ''Methods, models, simulations and approaches. Towards a general theory of change'', World Scientific, 2012 * Ignazio Licata, Gianfranco Minati: ''Meta-structural properties in collective behaviours'', International Journal of General Systems, vol. 41, nr. 3, pp. 289–311 (2012) * Ignazio Licata, Leonardo Chiatti: ''Archaic universe and cosmological model: "

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" as nucleation by vacuum'',

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, vol. 49, nr. 10, pp. 2379–2402 (2010), DOI: 10.1007/s10773-010-0424-0
abstract
* Ignazio Licata: ''Almost-anywhere theories: reductionism and universality of emergence'', Complexity, vol. 15, n. 6, pp. 11–19 (2010) * Ignazio Licata, Leonardo Chiatti: ''The archaic universe: big bang, cosmological term and the quantum origin of time in projective cosmology'', International Journal of Theoretical Physics, vol. 48, nr. 4 (2009), pp. 1003–1018, DOI: 10.1007/s10773-008-9874-z
abstract
* Ignazio Licata: ''A dynamical model for information retrieval and emergence of scale-free clusters in a long term memory network, in Complexity: Emergence and Organization (E:CO), vol. 11, nr. 1, 2009, pp. 48-57
arXiv:0801.0887
(submitted 6 January 2008) * Ignazio Licata: ''Logical openness in cognitive models'', Epistemologia XXXVI (2008), pp. 177–192
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* Ignazio Licata, Luigi Lella: ''A new model for the organizational knowledge life cycle'' in G. Minati, E. Pessa (eds.): ''Processes of emergence of systems and systemic properties. Towards a general theory of emergence'', World Scientific, 2008 * Ignazio Licata, Luigi Lella: ''Evolutionary

neural gas Neural gas is an artificial neural network, inspired by the self-organizing map and introduced in 1991 by Thomas Martinetz and Klaus Schulten. The neural gas is a simple algorithm for finding optimal data representations based on feature vect ...

(ENG): A model of self rrganizing network from input categorization'' (2007) EJTP, vol. 4, nr. 14 * Ignazio Licata: ''Universe without singularities. A group approach to de Sitter cosmology'', EJTP, vol. 3 nr. 10 (2006), pp. 211-224

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Ignazio Licata
curriculum

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