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# WOA 2006
From Objects to Agents
(Dagli Oggetti Agli Agenti)

### Proceedings of the 7th WOA 2006 Workshop From Objects to Agents
Catania, Italy, Sept. 26-27, 2006.

Edited by

### Flavio De Paoli *
Antonella Di Stefano #
Andrea Omicini +
Corrado Santoro #

* University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
# University of Catania, Italy
+ University of Bologna-Cesena, Italy

Proceedings in a single PDF file

## Table of Contents

### Demo Session

1. simpA-WS: An Agent-Oriented Computing Technology for WS-based SOA Applications
   Alessandro Ricci, Claudio Buda, Nicola Zaghini, Antonio Natali, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini
2. PRACTIONIST: a Framework for developing BDI agent systems
   PRACTIONIST team (Vito Morreale, Susanna Bonura, Giuseppe Francaviglia,Michele Puccio, Fabio Centineo, Giuseppe Cammarata), Massimo Cossentino, Salvatore Gaglio
3. Simulation of Minority Game in TuCSoN
   Enrico Oliva, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini
4. Software Agents for Learning Nash Equilibria in Non-Cooperative Games
   Alfredo Garro, Marco Iusi
5. A multidimensional flocking algorithm for clustering spatial data
   Antonio Augimeri, Gianluigi Folino, Agostino Forestiero, Giandomenico Spezzano
6. MetaMeth: a Tool For Process Definition And Execution
   Roberto Caico, Massimo Cossentino,Luca Sabatucci, Valeria Seidita, Salvatore Gaglio
7. Model driven design and implementation of activity-based applications in Hermes
   Ezio Bartocci, Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli, Leonardo Vito

### Self-* Systems, Autonomic Systems, Grid Computing

8. The W4 Model and Infrastructure for Context-aware Browsing The World
   Gabriella Castelli, Alberto Rosi, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
9. Mechanisms of Self-Organization in Pervasive Computing
   Nicola Bicocchi, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
10. An Agent Model for Future Autonomic Communications
    Francesco De Mola, Raffaele Quitadamo
11. A QoS-Aware Architecture for Multimedia Content Provisioning in a GRID Environment
    Fabrizio Messina, Giovanni Novelli, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Corrado Santoro, Emiliano Tramontana

### Agent-based Applications

12. A Heterogeneous Multi-Agent System for Adaptive Web Applications
    Andrea Bonomi, Giuseppe Vizzari, Marcello Sarini
13. MAST: an Agent Framework to Support B2C E-Commerce
    Salvatore Garruzzo, Domenico Rosaci, Giuseppe M. L. Sarne'
14. J-ALINAs: A JADE-based Architecture for Linguistic Agents
    Savino Sguera, Armando Stellato, Donato Griesi, Maria Teresa Pazienza
15. Software Agents for Autonomous Robots: the Eurobot 2006 Experience
    Vincenzo Nicosia, Concetto Spampinato, Corrado Santoro
16. Building a MultiAgent System from a User Workflow Specification
    Ezio Bartocci, Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli
17. Agent-Based Virtual Communities for Interactive Digital Television
    Federico Bergenti, Lorenzo Lazzari, Agostino Poggi
18. Distributed Workflow Enactment: an Agent-based Framework
    Giancarlo Fortino, Alfredo Garro, Wilma Russo
19. A Lightweight Architecture for RSS Polling of Arbitrary Web sources
    Sergio Bossa, Giacomo Fiumara, Alessandro Provetti

### Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Simulation, Agent Languages

20. Building Agents with Agents and Patterns
    Luca Sabatucci, Massimo Cossentino, Salvatore Gaglio
21. A repository of fragments for agent system design
    Valeria Seidita, Massimo Cossentino, Salvatore Gaglio
22. Expressing preferences declaratively in logic-based agent languages
    Stefania Costantini, Pierangelo Dell'Acqua, Arianna Tocchio
23. Models, Abstractions and Phases in Multi-Agent Based Simulation
    Mizar Luca Federici, Stefano Redaelli, Giuseppe Vizzari

### Coordination, Interoperability, Semantics

24. Conformance and Interoperability in Open Enviroments
    Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Alberto Martelli, Viviana Patti
25. Importing Agent-like Interaction in Object Orientation
    Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre
26. Integrating Ontology Support within AgentService
    Christian Vecchiola, Alberto Grosso, Antonio Boccalatte
27. Collective Sorting Tuple Spaces
    Matteo Casadei, Luca Gardelli, Mirko Viroli
28. Minority Game: A Logic-Based Approach in TuCSoN
    Enrico Oliva, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini
29. Reasoning about Goals in BDI Agents: the PRACTIONIST Framework
    Vito Morreale, Susanna Bonura, Giuseppe Francaviglia, Fabio Centineo

submitted by Corrado Santoro, 08-Oct-2006
published on CEUR-WS.org, 09-Oct-2006