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# WOA 2017
18th Workshop ``From Objects to Agents''

### Proceedings of the 18th Workshop ``From Objects to Agents''

### Scilla (RC), Italy, June 15-16, 2017.

Edited by

### Pasquale De Meo (a)
Maria Nadia Postorino (b)
Domenico Rosaci (c)
Giuseppe M.L. Sarné (b)

a University of Messina. Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations.
b Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. Department of Civil, Energy, Environment and Materials Engineering (DICEAM)
c Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. Department of Information Engineering, Infrastructures and Sustanaible Energy (DIIES)

## Table of Contents

### Session 1: Software Agent Engineering

- Towards an Approach for Engineering Complex Systems: Agents and Agility 1-6
  Massimo Cossentino, Luca Sabatucci, Valeria Seidita
- 3D Simulation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 7-12
  Massimiliano De Benedetti, Fabio D'Urso, Fabrizio Messina, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Corrado Santoro
- A Study to Promote Car-Sharing by Adopting a Reputation System in a Multi-Agent Context 13-18
  Emilio Picasso, Maria Nadia Postorino, Giuseppe M.L. Sarné

### Session 2: Social Interactions and Trust in Agent Societies

- How can Subjective Impulsivity play a role among Information Sources in Weather Scenarios? 19-24
  Rino Falcone, Alessandro Sapienza
- On the Impact of Trust Relationships on Social Network Group Formation 25-30
  Lidia Fotia Fabrizio Messina Domenico Rosaci Giuseppe M. L. Sarné
- An Agent-based System to Monitor an Energy Biomass Process 31-36
  Filippo Laganà Domenico De Carlo Salvatore Calcagno

### Session 3: Formation of Agent Groups and Communities

- Improving Agent Group Homogeneity Over Time 37-42
  Fabrizio Messina, Domenico Rosaci, Pasquale De Meo, Giuseppe M.L. Sarné
- An Analytic Model of the Impact of Skeptical Agents on the Dynamics of Compromise 43-48
  Stefania Monica, Federico Bergenti
- Generating Trust-Based Recommendations for Social Networks organized by Groups 49-54
  Lidia Fotia

### Session 4: Agent Architectures, Languages and Technologies

- Overview of a Formal Semantics for the JADEL Programming Language 55-60
  Federico Bergenti, Eleonora Iotti, Stefania Monica, Agostino Poggi
- Novel Opportunities for Tuple-based Coordination: XPath, the Blockchain, and Stream Processing 61-64
  Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini, Giovanni Ciatto
- An Optimization-Based Algorithm for Indoor Localization of JADE Agents 65-70
  Stefania Monica, Federico Bergenti

### Session 5: Multi-Agent Systems Applications

- Endowing Business Artifacts with a Normative Coordination Layer 71-77
  Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Federico Capuzzimati, Roberto Micalizio
- A Radial Basis Neural Network Based Agent Module Exploiting ECG Signals to Prevent Heart Diseases 78-83
  Salvatore Calcagno, Fabio La Foresta
- Software Actors for Continuous Social Media Analysis 84-89
  Paolo Fornacciari, Monica Mordonini, Agostino Poggi, Michele Tomaiuolo
- Modeling Opportunistic IoT Services in Open IoT Ecosystems 90-95
  Giancarlo Fortino, Wilma Russo, Claudio Savaglio, Mirko Viroli, MengChu Zhou

### Session 6: Industrial Applications of Agent Technology

- A Self-Adaptation Exemplar: the Shipboard Power System Reconfiguration Problem 96-101
  Luca Agnello, Massimo Cossentino, Giada De Simone, Luca Sabatucci
- An Agent-based Tsunami Alert System 102-107
  Giuseppe Barbaro, Maria Donatella Gangemi, Giandomenico Foti
- SMARTSAN: A P2P Social Agent Network for Generating Recommendations in a Smart City Environment 108-112
  Antonello Comi, Domenico Rosaci

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