WOA 2015
From Objects to Agents

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
  

Agents and Services

• MUSA: a Middleware for User-driven Service Adaptation 1-10
  Massimo Cossentino, Carmelo Lodato, Salvatore Lopes, Luca Sabatucci
• An Application of Learning Agents to Smart Energy Domains 11-18
  Alba Amato, Marco Scialdone, Salvatore Venticinque
• Recent Possibilities of Intelligent Agents in Distributed Systems 19-23
  Marcin Wozniak
• An AO System for OO-GPU Programming 24-31
  Andrea Fornaia, Christian Napoli, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Emiliano Tramontana

Social Systems

• Comparing a Social Robot and a Mobile Application for Movie Recommendation: A Pilot Study 32-38
  Francesco Cervone, Valentina Sica, Mariacarla Staffa, Anna Tamburro, Silvia Rossi
• The Positive Power of Prejudice: A Computational Model for MAS 39-45
  Alessandro Sapienza, Rino Falcone, Cristiano Castelfranchi
• Using AOP Neural Networks to Infer User Behaviours and Interests 46-52
  Andrea Fornaia, Christian Napoli, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Emiliano Tramontana
• A Case-Study for Sentiment Analysis on Twitter 53-58
  Paolo Fornacciari, Monica Mordonini, Michele Tomaiuolo
• Rule-based Location Extraction from Italian Unstructured Text 59-64
  Daniele Caruso, Rosario Giunta, Dario Messina, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Emiliano Tramontana

Coordination and Protocols

• Protocols with Exceptions, Timeouts, and Handlers: A Uniform Framework for Monitoring Fail-Uncontrolled and Ambient Intelligence Systems 65-75
  Davide Ancona, Daniela Briola, Viviana Mascardi
• Coordination of Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems: Challenges and Research Directions 76-79
  Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli

Modeling and Simulation

• A Hybrid Agent Architecture for Endowing Floor Field Pedestrian Models with Tactical Level Decisions 80-84
  Luca Crociani, Alberto Invernizzi, Giuseppe Vizzari
• Composing Cognitive Agents from Behavioural Models in PRESTO 85-90
  Paolo Busetta, Mauro Dragoni
• Agent Based Modeling and Simulation with ActoMoS 91-96
  Agostino Poggi
• Simulations of Opinion Formation in Multi-Agent Systems Using Kinetic Theory 97-102
  Stefania Monica, Federico Bergenti

Agent Oriented Architectures

• Location-aware JADE Agents in Indoor Scenarios 103-108
  Stefania Monica, Federico Bergenti
• Mobile Agents with Recurrent Neural Networks-based Computing Model for Echo Cancellation Problem 109-114
  Giacomo Capizzi, Francesco Bonanno, Grazia Lo Sciuto
• Adaptive Hybrid Agents for Tactical Decisions in Pedestrian Environments 115-122
  Luca Crociani, Andrea Piazzoni, Giuseppe Vizzari
• Outline of a Formalization of JADE Multi-Agent Systems 123-128
  Federico Bergenti, Eleonora Iotti, Agostino Poggi

Agents and Robots

• A Market Mechanism for QoS-aware Multi-Robot Task Allocation 129-134
  Francesco Barile, Alessandra Rossi, Mariacarla Staffa, Claudia Di Napoli, Silvia Rossi
• Self-Organising UAVs for Wide Area Fault-tolerant Aerial Monitoring 135-141
  Massimiliano De Benedetti, Fabio D'Urso, Fabrizio Messina, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Corrado Santoro
• A Case Study on Goal Oriented Obstacle Avoidance 142-145
  Pasquale Caianiello, Domenico Presutti
• A Game-based Model for Human-robots Interaction 146-150
  Aniello Murano, Loredana Sorrentino