Program

Program at glance

NODES Panel Discussion

Monday July 8th | 18:30 - 19:30
https://www.ecs-nodes.eu/

Intelligenza artificiale nei territori montani: sfide e opportunità per lo sviluppo e il benessere

Chair: Prof Cristina Baroglio

Speakers:

  • Ass. Luciano Caveri, Assessore agli affari europei, innovazione, PNRR e politiche nazionali per la montagna, Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta
  • Prof. Stefania Costantini, University of L’Aquila
  • Prof. Marco Alderighi, University of Valle d’Aosta
  • Prof. Massimo Angelo Zanetti, University of Valle d’Aosta

"Fabio Bellifemine" Keynote Speech

Tuesday July 9th | 11:30 - 13:00
Amit K. Chopra

Communication Meaning: Why Multiagent Abstractions Are Foundational to Software Systems Research

The multiagent software research program envisaged putting multiagent abstractions and methodologies at the heart of designing intelligent distributed applications. In particular, with the aim of enabling flexible interactions between agents, it emphasized modeling communication meaning. After three decades of work, the program can claim little broad impact. Has the program been a failure?

Actually, the program has seen some remarkable but underappreciated advances, the biggest being the paradigm of information-based protocols, which finally makes it possible to realize the promise of modeling meaning.  I discuss these advances and how they address thorny, longstanding problems in systems, including in fields such as networks, distributed systems, and programming languages. These advances put multiagent abstractions at the heart of systems research and raise deep and novel research questions.

Now is a great time to double down on multiagent software abstractions!

Detailed program

Monday July 8th
14:30 – 15:00 | Opening
  • Prof. Manuela Ceretta, Rector of the University of Valle d’Aosta
  • Ass. Luciano Caveri, Assessore agli affari europei, innovazione, PNRR e politiche nazionali per la montagna, Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta
  • Prof. Marco Alderighi, Head of the Department of Economic and Political Sciences, University of Valle d’Aosta, Research and Innovation Manager – NODES Spoke 4
  • Prof. Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino, General Chair of WOA 2024

15:00 – 16:30 | Research Session 1 | Chair: Viviana Mascardi
  • SimJade: a simulator of JADE multiagent systems [Dissemination Track]
    Daniela Briola, Giuseppe Vizzari and Mauro Montinaro
  • Simulating the law in a multi-agent system
    Matteo Cristani, Gabriele Buriola, Francesco Olivieri and Guido Governatori
  • Creating Virtual Reality Scenarios for Pedestrian Experiments Focusing on Social Interactions
    Daniela Briola, Francesca Tinti and Giuseppe Vizzari
  • How Risk Preferences Shape City-State Success: An Agent-Based Model of Resource Management
    Andrea Piras and Francesco Bertolotti
  • Symbolic Knowledge Comparison: Metrics and Methodologies for Multi-Agent Systems
    Federico Sabbatini, Christel Sirocchi and Roberta Calegari

16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:30 | Research Session 2 | Chair: Giovanni Ciatto
  • The Cognitive Hourglass: Agent Abstractions in the Large Models Era [Dissemination Track]
    Alessandro Ricci, Stefano Mariani, Franco Zambonelli, Cristiano Castelfranchi and Samuele Burattini
  • Integrating Procedural Ontologies in VEsNA: Study, Requirements, and Preliminary Design
    Diana Ivan, Angelo Ferrando, Andrea Gatti, Giovanna Guerrini and Viviana Mascardi 
  • Towards Transparent Computational Models of Theory of Mind in Collaborative Environments
    Carmine Grimaldi and Silvia Rossi
  • Improving Computational Efficiency of the TONS algorithm in Selecting Neighbor Mining Agents in Blockchain Trust-based IoT Environments
    Giancarlo Fortino, Fabrizio Messina, Domenico Rosaci and Giuseppe M.L. Sarne’
  • Exploring the Dynamics Learned, Pre-existing, and Partial Knowledge in Dependence Networks within Multi-Agent Systems [Online]
    Alessandro Sapienza and Rino Falcone

18:30 – 19:30 | NODES Panel Discussion
Tuesday July 9th
9:00 – 11:00 | Research Session 3 | Chair: Angelo Ferrando
  • Hermes: a Wireless Communication Interface for Edge Computing
    Davide Carnemolla, Fabrizio Messina, Corrado Santoro and Federico Fausto Santoro
  • Enhancing Robotic Systems in Healthcare: A Preliminary Analysis of Agent-Based Paradigms and Simulation Environments
    Valeria Seidita and Antonio Chella
  • Towards Intelligent Pulverised Systems: a Modern Approach for Edge-Cloud Services
    Davide Domini, Nicolas Farabegoli, Gianluca Aguzzi and Mirko Viroli
  • Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Cybersecurity: Approaches and Challenges
    Salvo Finistrella, Stefano Mariani and Franco Zambonelli
  • An Empirical Study on the Robustness of Knowledge Injection Techniques Against Data Degradation
    Andrea Rafanelli, Matteo Magnini, Andrea Agiollo, Giovanni Ciatto and Andrea Omicini
  • A Data-Driven Approach Supporting Location Decisions for Docking Stations in Bike-Sharing Systems [Dissemination Track]
    Blerina Spahiu, Daniela Briola, Riccardo Sartori and Giuseppe Vizzari
  • An Agent-Centric Perspective on Norm Enforcement and Sanctions [Dissemination Track]
    Elena Yan, Luis Gustavo Nardin, Jomi Fred Hubner and Olivier Boissier

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 | “Fabio Bellifemine” Keynote Speech

13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch (Menu)

14:00 – 15:30 | Research Session 4 | Chair: Valeria Seidita
  • SkRobot: a pseudo-realtime multiplatform framework for robotics agents development
    Giovanni De Gasperis, Daniele Di Ottavio and Patrizio Migliarini
  • A Multi-Agent System for a Robotic Table Soccer Game
    Marco Pometti, Corrado Santoro, Federico Fausto Santoro and Rosa Zuccara’
  • Enhancing Aggregation in Locomotor Multi-Agent Systems: a Theoretical Framework  [Online]
    Paolo Pagliuca and Alessandra Vitanza
  • Effects of Robot’s Adaptive Autonomy on Users Experience in a Museum Scenario [Online]
    Filippo Cantucci, Marco Marini and Rino Falcone

15:30 – 16:30 | Research Session 5 | Chair: Sara Montagna
  • Curriculum-Based RL for Pedestrian Simulation: Sensitivity Analysis and Hyperparameter Exploration [Dissemination Track]
    Giuseppe Vizzari, Daniela Briola and Federico Pisapia
  • Optimizing healthcare workforce for effective patient care: a cooperative game theory approach [Dissemination Track]
    Ji Wu, Liu Dan, Innab Nisreen, Shutaywi Meshal, Tiziana Ciano and Massimiliano Ferrara
  • Integrating Agent-Based and System Dynamics Models: Challenges and Benefits
    Beniamino Callegari and Christophe Feder

16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:00 | Meeting MASxAIxIA

18:00 – 19:00 | Guided Visit to the Forte di Bard

19:30 – 22:00 | Social Dinner @ Ristorante La Polveriera (Menu)
Wednesday July 10th
9:00 – 11:00 | Research Session 6 | Chair: Giuseppe Vizzari
  • Hybrid Personal Medical Assistant Agents
    Sara Montagna and Christel Sirocchi
  • An Agent-based Framework including Diachronic MaaS Represention
    Maria Nadia Postorino and Giuseppe M.L. Sarne’
  • From pure Prolog to logic Agent-Oriented Programming Languages
    Alina Vozna, Andrea Monaldini, Stefania Costantini and Rafael Bordini
  • Walking around with VITAMIN: A Compositional Tool for Model Checking of Multi-Agent Systems
    Angelo Ferrando and Vadim Malvone
  • On the external concurrency of current BDI frameworks for MAS [Dissemination Track]
    Martina Baiardi, Samuele Burattini, Giovanni Ciatto, Danilo Pianini, Alessandro Ricci and Andrea Omicini
  • Towards a Network of Co-working Spaces for Social Innovation in Mountain Areas [Dissemination Track]
    Marco Alderighi, Cristina Baroglio, Mario Chiesa, Tiziana Ciano, Christophe Feder, Valeria Figini, Elisa Marengo and Stefano Tedeschi
  • Accountability in multi-agent organizations: from conceptual design to agent programming [Dissemination Track]
    Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Roberto Micalizio and Stefano Tedeschi

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30 | Celebration for the 25 years of WOA

12:30 – 13:00 | Closing

13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch (Menù)