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# WOA 2020
21st Workshop "From Objects to Agents"

### Proceedings of the 21st Workshop "From Objects to Agents"
Complete proceedings in one ZIP file

### Bologna, Italy, September 14–16, 2020.

Edited by

### Roberta Calegari *
Giovanni Ciatto **
Enrico Denti **
Andrea Omicini **
Giovanni Sartor *

* Alma Mater Studiorum—Università di Bologna, Alma Mater Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
** Alma Mater Studiorum—Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Informatica – Scienza e Ingegneria (DISI)

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Session 1: Simulation in MAS

- An Agent-based Simulator for Urban Air Mobility Scenarios 2–14
  Maria Nadia Postorino, Francesco Alessandro Sarné, Giuseppe M.L. Sarné
- Applying inferential processes to partner selection in large agents communities 15–27
  Pasquale De Meo, Rino Falcone, Alessandro Sapienza
- A preliminary experimentation for large scale epidemic forecasting simulations 28–36
  Gianfranco Lombardo, Agostino Poggi

### Session 2: Organisations, Norms & Argumentation

- A Multiagent Framework for Coordinating Industrial Symbiotic Networks 38–53
  Vahid Yazdanpanah, Devrim Murat Yazan, Henk Zijm
- Computable Law as Argumentation-based MAS 54–68
  Roberta Calegari, Andrea Omicini, Giovanni Sartor
- A Tool for the Automatic Generation of MOISE Organisations From BPMN 69–82
  Massimo Cossentino, Salvatore Lopes, Luca Sabatucci

### Session 3: Features of MAS: Robustness, Trust, Explainability

- Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Agents Exploring Environments: an Experimental Framework and Preliminary Results 84–100
  Nassim Habbash, Federico Bottoni, Giuseppe Vizzari
- Neuro-symbolic Computation for XAI: Towards a Unified Model 101–117
  Giuseppe Pisano, Giovanni Ciatto, Roberta Calegari, Andrea Omicini

### Session 4: Healthcare

- A Multi-Agent System for Simulating the Spread of a Contagious Disease 119–134
  Giuseppe Antonio Nanna, Nicola Flavio Quatraro, Berardina De Carolis
- Transcultural Health-Aware Guides for the Elderly 135–146
  Rafael H. Bordini, Viviana Mascardi, Stefania Costantini, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Yves Lespérance, Alessandro Ricci
- Voice assistants in hospital triage operations 147–159
  Simone Montali, Gianfranco Lombardo, Monica Mordonini, Michele Tomaiuolo

### Session 5: Agents & Actors for Data Science

- Calibration of an agent-based model for opinion formation through a retweet social network 161–173
  Loretta Mastroeni, Maurizio Naldi, Pierluigi Vellucci
- Actor-based architecture for Cloud Services Orchestration: the case of social media data extraction 174–183
  Stefano Cavalli, Stefano Cagnoni, Gianfranco Lombardo, Agostino Poggi
- An Early Warning System for seismic events based on the Multi-Agent Model 184–199
  Roberto Spina, Andrea Fornaia, Emiliano Tramontana

### Session 6: Tools and application

- A Reactive Cognitive Architecture based on Natural Language Processing for the task of Decision-Making using a Rich Semantic 201–218
  Carmelo Fabio Longo, Francesco Longo, Corrado Santoro
- 2P-Kt: logic programming with objects & functions in Kotlin 219–236
  Giovanni Ciatto, Roberta Calegari, Enrico Siboni, Enrico Denti, Andrea Omicini
- Suggesting Just Enough (Un)Crowded Routes and Destinations 237–251
  Claudia Cavallaro, Gabriella Verga, Emiliano Tramontana, Orazio Muscato

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