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# WOA 2023
24th Workshop "From Objects to Agents"

### Proceedings of the 24th Workshop "From Objects to Agents"

### Roma, Italy, November 6-8, 2023.

Edited by

### Rino Falcone *
Cristiano Castelfranchi *
Alessandro Sapienza *
Filippo Cantucci *

* Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, ISTC-CNR, Roma, Italy

## Table of Contents

- Preface
  Summary: There were 21 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: Learning and advancements in Multi-Agent Systems

- RMLGym: a Formal Reward Machine Framework for Reinforcement Learning 1-16
  Hisham Unniyankal, Francesco Belardinelli, Angelo Ferrando, Vadim Malvone
- Capturing a Recursive Pattern in Neural-Symbolic Reinforcement Learning 17-31
  Davide Beretta, Stefania Monica, Federico Bergenti
- Curriculum–Based Reinforcement Learning for Pedestrian Simulation: Towards an Explainable Training Process? 32-48
  Giuseppe Vizzari, Daniela Briola, Thomas Cecconello
- Peer-Reviewed Federated Learning 49-65
  Mattia Passeri, Andrea Agiollo, Andrea Omicini
- Agents in Software Development Architectures 66-77
  Marco Loaiza, Claudio Savaglio, Niaz Hussain Arijo, Gianluca Aloi, Giancarlo Fortino, Raffaele Gravina

### Session 2: Cognition, trust and reputation

- Agents Showing Self-Disclosure. A Preliminary Methodological Approach 78-91
  Valeria Seidita, Angelo Maria Pio Sabella, Antonio Chella
- A Strategy to Detect Colluding Groups by Reputation Measures 92-105
  Attilio Marcianò, Domenico Rosaci, Giuseppe M.L. Sarnè
- Dependence Networks and Trust in Agents Societies: Insights and Practical Implications 106-122
  Rino Falcone, Alessandro Sapienza

### Session 3: Theoretical approaches

- N-Mates Evaluation: a New Method to Improve the Performance of Genetic Algorithms in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems 123-137
  Paolo Pagliuca, Alessandra Vitanza
- A Cognitive Approach to Model Intelligent Collaboration in Human-Robot Interaction 138-150
  Filippo Cantucci, Rino Falcone
- A Timed Epistemic Logic for Formalizing Cooperation among Groups of Agents 151-166
  Stefania Costantini, Andrea Formisano, Valentina Pitoni

### Session 4: Applicative studies

- Agents for Industry 4.0: the Case Study of a Production Cell 167-180
  Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Valeriano Ditano, Roberto Micalizio, Stefano Tedeschi
- A System for Tracking Patients in the Operating Room - A Pilot Study 181-190
  Mattia Pellegrino, Gianfranco Lombardo, Monica Mordonini, Stefano Cagnoni, Eleonora Bottani, Valentina Bellini, Elena Giovanna Bignami, Agostino Poggi
- Modeling the Video Game Environment: the VideOWL Ontology 191-205
  Simone De Martino, Marianna Nicolosi-Asmundo, Stefano Angelo Rizzo, Daniele Francesco Santamaria
- A Declarative C++ Agent Platform for Agent-based Edge Computing 206-215
  Fabrizio Messina, Corrado Santoro, Federico Fausto Santoro

### Session 5: The role of explainability

- Towards a Multi-Level Explainability Framework for Engineering and Understanding BDI Agent Systems 216-231
  Elena Yan, Samuele Burattini, Jomi Fred Hübner, Alessandro Ricci
- Unlocking Insights and Trust: The Value of Explainable Clustering Algorithms for Cognitive Agents 232-245
  Federico Sabbatini, Roberta Calegari

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