WOA 2021
22nd Workshop "From Objects to Agents"

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 18 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 17 papers were accepted for this volume, 17 as regular papers and 0 as short papers.

Session 1: Language, tools & application

• Architectural Technical Debt of Multi-Agent Systems Development Platforms 1–13
  Ilaria Pigazzini, Daniela Briola, Francesca Arcelli Fontana
• Prototypes of Productivity Tools for the Jadescript Programming Language 14–28
  Giuseppe Petrosino, Eleonora Iotti, Stefania Monica, Federico Bergenti
• On the Design of PSyKE: A Platform for Symbolic Knowledge Extraction 29–48
  Federico Sabbatini, Giovanni Ciatto, Roberta Calegari, Andrea Omicini

Session 2: Trustworthy & explainable MAS

• Investigating Adjustable Social Autonomy in Human Robot Interaction 49–60
  Filippo Cantucci, Rino Falcone, Cristiano Castelfranchi
• A Trust Model to Form Teams of Agentified AGVs in Workshop Areas 61–71
  Giancarlo Fortino, Lidia Fotia, Fabrizio Messina, Domenico Rosaci, Giuseppe M.L. Sarné, Claudio Savaglio
• Predicting humans: a sensor-based architecture for real time Intent Recognition using Problog 72–82
  Gennaro Daniele Acciaro, Fabio Aurelio D'Asaro, Silvia Rossi

Session 3: MAS & subsymbolic AI

• Smart Balancing of E-scooter Sharing Systems via Deep Reinforcement Learning 83–97
  Gianvito Losapio, Federico Minutoli, Viviana Mascardi, Angelo Ferrando
• Graph Neural Networks as the Copula Mundi between Logic and Machine Learning: a Roadmap 98–115
  Andrea Agiollo, Giovanni Ciatto, Andrea Omicini
• Embedding a Neuro-Fuzzy Mode Choice Tool in Intelligent Agents 116–131
  Maria Nadia Postorino, Mario Versaci, Giuseppe M.L. Sarné
• User Assistance for Predicting the Availability of Bikes at Bike Stations 132–143
  Claudia Cavallaro, Emiliano Tramontana

Session 4: Logic in MAS

• Towards a Semantic Layer for Italian Emergency Plans 144–161
  Massimo Cossentino, Salvatore Lopes, Luca Sabatucci, Mario Tripiciano
• Towards cooperative argumentation for MAS: an Actor-based approach 162–177
  Giuseppe Pisano, Roberta Calegari, Andrea Omicini
• SW-CASPAR: Reactive-Cognitive Architecture based on Natural Language Processing for the task of Decision-Making in the Open-World Assumption 178–193
  Carmelo Fabio Longo, Corrado Santoro, Marianna Nicolosi-Asmundo, Daniele Francesco Santamaria, Domenico Cantone

Session 5: Agent-based modelling & simulation

• ActoDemic: A Distributed Framework for Fine-Grained Spreading Modeling and Simulation in Large Scale Scenarios 194–209
  Mattia Pellegrino, Gianfranco Lombardo, Monica Mordonini, Michele Tomaiuolo, Stefano Cagnoni, Agostino Poggi
• Risk sensitivity of production studios on the US movie market: an agent-based simulation 210–223
  Francesco Bertolotti, Sabin Roman
• A Curriculum–Based Reinforcement Learning Approach to Pedestrian Simulation 224–240
  Thomas Albericci, Thomas Cecconello, Alberto Gibertini, Giuseppe Vizzari
• Information Seeking Behavior at the Time of COVID-19 241–258
  Rino Falcone, Alessandro Sapienza