News and upcoming events

• 1st International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) @ AAMAS 2013 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. 6-7 May, 2013. See the call for paper.
  
  

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

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. I am responsible for the FACILE (cognitive agents for intelligent management and fruition of information and advanced services) group research activity.
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 am currently chairing the IEEE FIPA Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation Working Group (see WG website)

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

Research Interests (see also the AOSE website)

• Agent Oriented Software Engineering

  • Design Methodologies

  • Composition of design methodologies (see my publications on that)
  • ASPECS design methodology (Agent-Oriented Software Process for Engineering Complex Systems). (website) (publications)
  • PASSI design methodology (Process for Agent Societies Specification and Implementation). (website) (publications)
    

  • Agent Design Patterns

• Cognitive Robotics

Publications

• Ordered by topic

• Ordered by year 

• Google Scholar Profile
  

Current Courses

• Ingegneria del Software (2012-13)

Past 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

Current and Past Research Projects

• POR Innovative Document Sharing funded by the Regional Government of Sicily (2011-2013) (link)
  
• IMPULSO Funded by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development (2009-2011).
  
• ICT-E3 funded by the Sicily Region within the ICT Excellence programme of the Western Sicily (2010) (ICAR activities website)
• "Infrastruttura Tecnologica del Fascicolo Sanitario Elettronico" finanziato dal Dipartimento Innovazione e Tecnologie della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri. (2009-2010)  
• FRASI (FRamework for Agent-based Semantic-aware Interoperability). L. 297 Italian Ministry for Research and Education (MIUR).
• Agent Factory
• Teschet

Other and past research activities

• 10-01-2012: the FIPA Design Process Documentation Template has been approved by FIPA as a standard specification (SC00097B)
  
• 13th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE'12) to be held at AAMAS 2012, The Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Valencia, Spain.June 4, 2012. ( website, cfp)
• 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. (website)
  
• 9th European Workshop on Multi-agent Systems (EUMAS 2011), Maastricht, The Netherlands, Nov. 14th-15th, 2011. (website)
• Co-chair of the Seventh Agent Technical Fora. 15 December 2010, Paris (Fr).  (website)
• Co-chair of the Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) Technical Forum Group 7. 15 December 2010, Univ. Paris 6/Lip 6, Paris (Fr). (website)
• Co-chair of the IEEE FIPA Workshop on Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation to be held at The Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops (MALLOW 2010). 30th of August - 2nd of September, 2010.Domaine Valpré - Lyon, France (website)
• Co-Editor of the 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.  2010. (website)
  
• Co-Chair of the AOSE Methodologies, Infrastructures and Processes Track of the 25th Edition ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. Sierre, Switzerland, March 22 -26, 2010. website
  
• Special section on Holonic Multi-Agent Systems of the International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (IJAOSE). Deadline 15 December 2009. (cfp)
• Co-Chair of the 3rd International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S). Turin (Italy). 7-11 Sept. 2009. website
• Co-Chair of the AOMS (Agent-Oriented Methodologies and Systems) track @ 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)
• Co-Chair of the 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 Ontology and Multi- Agent Systems Design (OMASD'03) 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

• "Documentation and Fragmentation of Agent Oriented Methodologies" Tutorial at 12th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2010). Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France. 23 - 27 August 2010. (website)
• Tutorial on Documentation and Fragmentation of Agent Oriented Methodologies and Processes at the European Agent Systems Summer School 2010 (EASSS 2010) - St Etienne (France), 23-27 Aug 2010). (website)
• Tutorial on Agent Oriented Software Engineering at the European Agent Systems Summer School 2009 – Torino (Italy), 31 Aug- 4 Sept 2009.(website)
• 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)