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  • Massimo Cossentino

    Researcher

    He got his PhD in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Palermo and his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse in 2008. He is a Research Scientist of the National Research Council of Italy from 2001. In 2006-2008 he has been an invited Associate Professor at the University of Belfort-Montbelliard (UTBM). He is responsible for the FACILE (cognitive agents for intelligent management and fruition of information and advanced services) group research activity. He is currently researching on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, more specifically on adaptive workflows, simulation of complex systems, design methodologies. He is the author of more than one hundred and forty papers published in scientific journals, conferences and workshops. He is currently chairing the IEEE FIPA Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation Working Group. In the past he organized and chaired several international scientific events. He also got funded some national projects where he was the principal investigator and he participated in several others.

    Office Location:: Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 11. 90128 Palermo (Italy)
    Phone: +39 091 6529124 Mail: cossentino@pa.icar.cnr.it
    Web: http://www.pa.icar.cnr.it/cossentino/

  • Carmelo Lodato

    Researcher

    He is a staff researcher of ICAR - CNR since December 2001.
    Office Location: Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 11. 90128 Palermo (Italy)
    Phone: +39 091 23894265
    Mail: c.lodato@pa.icar.cnr.it

  • Salvatore Lopes

    Researcher

    He is a staff researcher of ICAR - CNR since December 2001.
    Office Location: Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 11. 90128 Palermo (Italy)
    Phone: +39 091 23894260
    Mail: s.lopes@pa.icar.cnr.it

  • Patrizia Ribino

    Researcher

    She received her Ph.D in Computer Engineering from the University of Palermo in 2011, proposing a thesis entitled “A Knowledge management System for Organizational Activity Support”. She is currently a junior researcher at the ICAR Institute of National Research Council of Italy where she is involved in the study of techniques and methodologies to design Multi Agent System. She has been and she is currently involved, somehow, in several research activities and projects. Her research interests are mainly in the field of Multi Agent Organization methodologies, Holonic System, Agent Simulation and Norms.
    Office Location: Via Ugo La malfa, N°153, 90128 Palermo (Italy)
    Phone: +39 091 6809257
    Mail: ribino@pa.icar.cnr.it
    Web: http://www.pa.icar.cnr.it/ribino/

  • Luca Sabatucci

    Researcher

    He is currently a researcher at the Software Engineering Group in the ICAR-CNR (National Council for Research). He worked as post-doc researcher at the Software Engineering Group in the Center for Information Technology, IRST, FBK (Trento, Italyh). In 2008 he defened his Ph.D. thesis by the title: ”A Framework for Rapid Development of Multi-Agent Systems”.
    Office Location: Via Ugo La malfa, N°153, 90128 Palermo (Italy)
    Phone: +39 091 6809257
    Mail: sabatucci@pa.icar.cnr.it
    Web: www.pa.icar.cnr.it/sabatucci/

  • Valeria Seidita

    Assistant Professor of Palermo University
    Icar-CNR Research associate

    She is a research assistant at the Robotic Lab and her research activities are in the areas of AOSE, specifically in the application of software engineering techniques for engineering and developing artificial consciousness models for robotic systems.
    Office Location: Viale delle Scienze, Ed.6. 3rd floor, room 12, 90128 Palermo (Italy)
    Phone: +39 091 23862626
    Mail: seidita@dinfo.unipa.it
    Web: www.dinfo.unipa.it/~seidita/Home_Page.html