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News and upcoming events

• Special issue on Holonic Multi-Agent Systems of the International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (IJAOSE). Deadline 15 December 2009. (cfp)

• FIPA Standardization activity on methodologies: Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation WG. Website. Join us!! 

• Special issue on "Simulation-based Design and Evaluation of Multi-Agent Systems", (G. Fortino, M. Cossentino, J. Pavon, M.P. Gleizes, eds.), Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory Journal, Elsevier. (website)

• AOse Methodologies, Infrastructures and Processes Track of the 25th Edition ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. Sierre, Switzerland, March 22 -26, 2010. website
   

I am a staff researcher of the ICAR (Istituto per il CAlcolo e le Reti ad alte prestazioni/ High Performance Computing and Network Institute), an institute of the CNR (Italian National Reseach Council) in Palermo, from December 2001. From September 2006 to August 2007 and from March to August 2008, I have been an invited associate professor at the University of Belfort-Montbelliard, UTBM (France). On October 2008 I got my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR)^1,2 from the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France).

I have been the contact for the ICAR Insitute (Palermo Dept.) of the European's Network of Excellence for Agent Based Computing (AgentLink III).

Current and old courses

• Sistemi Informativi Aziendali (2008-09) - Agrigento

• Project Management: Techniques and Tools - UTBM (2007-08)

• Génie Logiciel - UTBM (2007-08)

• ICT Systems for Network Business - University of Palermo (2007-08)

• Assurance Qualité et Gestion de Projects Logiciels - UTBM (2006-07)

• Génie Logiciel - UTBM (2006-07)

• Systèmes Multi Agents et Resolution Distribuée de Problèmes - UTBM (2006-07)

• Software Engineering - University of Palermo (2005-06) - Agrigento

• Software Engineering - University of Palermo (2004-05) - Palermo

• Software Engineering - University of Palermo (2004-05) - Agrigento

• Software Engineering University of Palermo (2003-04)

• Software Engineering - University of Palermo (2002-03)

• Software Engineering - University of Palermo (2001-02)

Other Learning Materials (in Italian)

Thesis proposals

Research Interests

• Agent Oriented Software Engineering

  • Design Methodologies

  • Agent Design Patterns

• Cognitive Robotics

Publications

• Ordered by topic ***NEW***

• Ordered by year

Current and Past Research Projects

• "Infrastruttura Tecnologica del Fascicolo Sanitario Elettronico" finanziato dal Dipartimento Innovazione e Tecnologie della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri.

• PASSI (Process for Agent Societies Specification and Implementation)

• Teschet

Other research activities

• 3rd International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S). Turin (Italy). 7-11 Sept. 2009. website

• Second International Workshop on Agent Supported Collaborative Work for Knowledge Management (ASCWKM 2009). Colocated with IEEE ICDIM Conference. Michigan (USA). November 2009. website

• Co-Chair of the AOMS (Agent-Oriented Methodologies and Systems) @ The 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing March 8 12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. (website) (call for papers)
• Co-Chair of the Sixth Agent Technical Fora. 17 December 2008, Bath (UK). (cfp) (website)

• Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) Technical Forum Group 6. 17 December 2008, Bath (UK). (cfp) (website)
  

• Co-Chair of the IX Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA'08). 17-18 November, Palermo (Italy). (website)

• Chair of the Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Technical Forum Group meeting. 12 Dec. 2007, Hammameth (Tunisia). (website).

• Chair of the Fifth Technical Forum Group meeting. 12 Dec. 2007, Hammameth (Tunisia). (website).

• Chair of the Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation 2007 (MAS&S'07). Malta. 22 October, 2007  (website)

• Chair of the First International Workshop on Agent supported Cooperative Work (ACW 2007). In conjunction with the Second IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2007).29 October, 2007, Lyon, France ( website)

• Chair of the Agents Theory and Practice for Industry Session at the IEEE Industrial Informatics Conference, 25 July, 2007. Vienna (Austria) (website)

• Chair of the Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Technical Forum Group meeting. 13 Dec. 2006, Lisbon (Portugal). (website).

• Chair of the Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation 2006 (MAS&S'06)  (website)

• Chair of the Agentlink III - Agent Oriented Software Engineering Technical Forum Group - Budapest. 14-17 Sept.2005 (further info here)

• Chair of the Agentlink III - AOSE Technical Forum Group - Ljubljana (Slovenia). 28 Feb - 02 Mar 2005

• Chair of the AOSE TFG at the AgentLink III Rome Event 30 June- 2 July, 2004

• Chair of the FIPA Methodology Technical Committee

• Chair of the OMASD session at KES 2003 4, Sept., 2003.

• Chair of the "L'ingegneria del Software e le tecnologie ad agenti" workshop (Palermo, 14-03-02)

Talks and Tutorials

• Tutorial on Agent Oriented Software Engineering at IEEE Industrial Informatics Conference, 23 July, 2007. Vienna (Austria). (website)

• Tutorial on Agent Oriented Software Engineering at 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS'05), 15 September, 2005. Budapest, Hungary. (website)