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# WOA-2011
12th Workshop on Objects and Agents

### Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Objects and Agents

### Rende (CS), Italy, Jul 4-6, 2011.

Edited by

### Giancarlo Fortino *
Alfredo Garro *
Luigi Palopoli *
Wilma Russo *
Giandomenico Spezzano **

* University of Calabria, DEIS, Via P. Bucci cubo 41C, Rende (CS), Italy
** National Research Council, ICAR, Via P. Bucci cubo 41C, Rende (CS), Italy

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Session 1: INVITED TALKS

1. A Survey of Multi-Agent Systems for Optimization Problems (invited paper) 1
   Andrea Schaerf
2. Cloud Computing and Software Agents: Towards Cloud Intelligent Services (invited paper) 2-6
   Domenico Talia
3. Dynamical models of genetic regulatory networks (invited paper) 7-10
   Roberto Serra

### Session 2: AGENT-BASED INTERACTIONS AND PROTOCOLS

4. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly 11-18
   Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Elisa Marengo, Viviana Patti, Federico Capuzzimati
5. Coordinating Spatially-Situated Pervasive Service Ecosystems 19-27
   Mirko Viroli, Elena Nardini, Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
6. TRR: An integrated Reliability-Reputation Model for Agent Societies 28-33
   Domenico Rosaci, Giuseppe Maria Luigi Sarné, Salvatore Garruzzo

### Session 3: AGENT-BASED SIMULATION I

7. A Cellular Automata Model for Pedestrian and Group Dynamics 34-40
   Stefania Bandini, Federico Rubagotti, Giuseppe Vizzari, Kenechiro Shimura
8. Design and Implementation of a NetLogo Interface for the Stand-Alone FYPA System 41-50
   Daniela Briola, Viviana Mascardi
9. Crystals of Crowd: Modelling Pedestrian Groups Using MAS-based Approach 51-57
   Lorenza Manenti, Sara Manzoni
10. Managing Unavailabilities in a Dynamic Scenario Following an Agent-Based Approach 58-67
    Angela Locoro, Viviana Mascardi, Franco Mortara, Renato Sanna

### Session 4: AGENT-BASED APPLICATIONS

11. Semantic Web Services and Agents: A Reality Check 68-73
    Davide Cavone, Federico Bergenti, Danilo Gotta
12. A multi-agent approach for territorial emergency management 74-80
    Elton Domnori, Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi
13. BDI Intelligent Agents for Augmented Exploitation of Pervasive Environments 81-88
    Alba Amato, Beniamino Di Martino, Salvatore Venticinque

### Session 5: MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

14. Supporting Evolution in Learning Information Agents 89-94
    Domenico Rosaci, Giuseppe Maria Luigi Sarné
15. Multi Agent Resource Allocation: a Comparison of Five Negotiation Protocols 95-104
    Daniela Briola, Viviana Mascardi
16. An Agent-based Approach for Adapting the Behavior of a Smart Home Environment 105-111
    Davide Cavone, Berardina De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli, Nicole Novelli

### Session 6: AGENT-BASED DEVELOPMENT

17. Enacting BPM-oriented Workflows with Wade 112-116
    Federico Bergenti, Giovanni Caire, Danilo Gotta, Daniela Long, Giovanna Sacchi
18. DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS WITH HDS 117-122
    Enrico Franchi, Agostino Poggi, Michele Tomaiuolo
19. Agent-based Development of Wireless Sensor Network Applications 123-132
    Giancarlo Fortino, Stefano Galzarano, Raffaele Gravina, Antonio Guerrieri
20. A UML-Based Notation for Representing MAS Organizations 133-139
    Massimo Cossentino, Carmelo Lodato, Salvatore Lopes, Patrizia Ribino, Valeria Seidita, Antonio Chella

### Session 7: AGENT-BASED SIMULATION II

21. BaSi: Multi-Agent Based Simulation for Medieval Battles 140-149
    Ambra Molesini, Enrico Denti, Andrea Omicini
22. A Simulation Framework for Pervasive Services Ecosystems 150-157
    Danilo Pianini, Mirko Viroli, Sara Montagna
23. Performance Evaluation of Content Distribution Network Architectures through Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation 158-165
    Giancarlo Fortino, Alfredo Garro, Wilma Russo, Marino Vaccaro

### Session 8: DEMO

24. MAKKSim: Dealing with Pedestrian Groups in MAS-based Crowd Simulation 166-170
    Andrea Bonomi, Lorenza Manenti, Sara Manzoni, Giuseppe Vizzari
25. PROCE: an agent-based PROcess Composition and execution Environment 171-174
    Francesco De Luca, Andrea Tundis, Alfredo Garro
26. Description of the Self-Chord P2P Application 175-177
    Agostino Forestiero, Carlo Mastroianni

23-Jun-2011: submitted by Giancarlo Fortino, Alfredo Garro, Luigi Palopoli, Wilma Russo, Giandomenico Spezzano
27-Jun-2011: published on CEUR-WS.org