After the first successful 24 editions in Parma, Modena, Milano, Villasimius, Torino, Camerino, Catania, Genova, Palermo, Parma, Rimini, Rende, Milano, Torino, Catania, Napoli, Catania, Scilla, Palermo, Parma, Bologna (online) and Bologna, Genova, and Roma, the 25th edition of the Workshop “From Objects to Agents” (WOA) will be hosted by the University of Valle d’Aosta from July 7 to 10, 2024, at Bard (AO), in the beautiful location of Forte di Bard.

 

The main topic for WOA 2024 is

Smart and Agile Agent Technologies for a Sustainable Model of Distributed Working

 

The COVID-19 pandemic has acted as an accelerator in the digitalization process of small-medium enterprises and public administrations, promoting new forms of hybrid/remote work. These call for the deployment of new process organizations and adequate infrastructures for dealing with novel challenges, including but not limited to the the transformation of leadership and control, the shift towards a goal-oriented organization of work (due to a reduction of the difference between employed and self-employed workers), the reduction of informal in-person interaction, need of support to find an appropriate life/work balance, well-being, security, life-long learning.
Agent systems and technologies can provide valuable support in shaping a new and sustainable working model at multiple levels: economic, but also technological, environmental, and social.

WOA 2024 will bring together researchers in the intersection of Multi-Agent Systems, Human-Agent Interaction, (Distributed and Collaborative) Business Processes, and Process Mining to discuss these issues and to suggest solutions and future research questions that could help organizations and workers in this transformation process.

 

Topics of Interest:

• Multi-Agent Systems, agent theory and technology related to AI
• Human-Agent Interaction
• Software Engineering techniques for agents and Business Process
• Collaborative Business Processes, and Process Mining
• Socio-Technical Systems

The following topics are also more than welcome:

• Adaptive, animated, and personality-driven agents
• Agent-oriented software engineering
• Agent-based languages and platforms
• Agent-oriented methods and development tools
• Agents and objects
• Agents and sensor networks
• Agent-based modeling and simulation
• Business process management
• Compliance
• Coordination, cooperation and communication for agents
• Interaction protocols
• Commitments
• Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Formal models for agents and MAS
• Hardware and software infrastructures for agents and multi-agent systems
• Industrial applications of agents and MAS
• Learning, planning and reasoning for agents
• Monitoring
• Security, trust and responsibility in MAS
• Next generation socio-technical systems
• Software agents and the Web
• Standards and interoperability for agents and MAS
• Theoretical, conceptual and ontological basis of agents and MAS
• Agent-based enabling technologies
• Intelligent tools and devices for smart collaboration
• AI-supported models and tools for remote working
• Digital and Sustainable Mountain
• Multi-agent systems for remote working in mountainous territories

 

along with any other MAS-related topic.