AOSE - AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Overview		News & Events
Many fields of research, such as economics, biology, engineering, imply the study of highly complex scenarios in dynamic environments. In order to approach such difficult problems, agent paradigm is widely employed.  This is due to the natural capability of an Agent to react in a quasi-real time to changes occurring in the environment.  In addition, the increasing amount of successful agent oriented applications has validated the applicability of multi-agent systems (MAS) in industrial contexts. For these reasons the need of adequate software engineering support has become crucial. The definition of robust software process and techniques for the development of multi-agent systems (MAS) is a key element for the AOSE.		CISIS 29 Gennaio 2012 Track 3: Artificial Intelligence and Agent Technology @ The Sixth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2012). July 4th-July 6th, 2012, Sanpaolo Palace Hotel, Palermo, Italy. AOSE 2012 29 Gennaio 2012 13th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. June 4th, 2012, Valencia, Spain. Old Events

Research activities

The AOSE group is currently working on several research topics concerning:

• the definition of modelling languages for the specification of MAS;
• the analysis of architectures and methods for designing agents and their organizations;
  
• the implementation and deployment of MAS simulators;
• the developement of a specific CASE tool for MAS design;
  
• the definition of methodological approaches for the design of multi agent organizations;
• the study of the impact of system metamodels on software design;
• the definition of method engineering techniques for design process creation.
  

Active projects

• IMPULSO - Integrated Multimodal Platform for Urban and Extra Urban Logistic System Optimisation
• POR IDS - POR Innovative Document Sharing funded by the Regional Government of Sicily (2011-2013)
• FRASI - FRamework for Agent-based Semantic-aware Interoperability. L. 297 Italian Ministry for Research and Education (MIUR).
• ICT-E3 - Innovazione imprenditoriale a partire dalla ricerca marina.
  

Available Resources and Links

• J-MoT: A tool for design organization with Jason and Moise+.
• JT: A tool for designing MASs with Jason.
• MoT: An organizational design tool.

Publications

1. M. Cossentino, C. Lodato, S. Lopes, P. Ribino, V. Seidita and A.Chella. Designing MAS Organizations with the support of a UML CASE tool. In Proc. of the 9th European Workshop on Multi-agent Systems (EUMAS 2011), Maastricht (The Netherlands). Nov. 2011. (pdf)
   
2. M. Cossentino, C. Lodato, S. Lopes, P. Ribino. Multi Agent Simulation for Decision Making in Warehouse Management. In proc. of the Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation workshop (MAS&S 2011) at the Federated Conference on Cimputer Science and Information Systems 2011. Szczecin, Poland, September 18-21, 2011.(pdf)
3. M. Cossentino, C. Lodato, S. Lopes, P. Ribino, V. Seidita, A. Chella. A UML-Based Notation for Representing MAS Organizations. WOA 2011 Dodicesimo Workshop Nazionale "Dagli Oggetti agli Agenti". Rende (CS), Italy. Jul. 2011.(pdf)
4. M. Cossentino, C. Lodato, S. Lopes, P. Ribino, V. Seidita, A. Chella. A Notation for Modeling Jason-like BDI Agents.  Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Technical Report 12/01.(pdf)

See also:
Massimo Cossentino publications (by year, by topics)