News and upcoming events

• 01/01/2023: The F.A.I.R. (Future Artificial Intelligence Research) Project starts! I will lead the Task 9.5.5-Tradeoff in practical reasoning of green-aware agents

I am a senior research scientist with the ICAR (Istituto per il CAlcolo e le Reti ad alte prestazioni/ High Performance Computing and Network Institute) institute of the CNR (National Research Council of Italy) in Palermo. I have been working at ICAR since from December 2001. I am heading the ECOS lab.

My research interests lie in the artificial intelligence/software engineering fields with a specific focus on goal-oriented systems, self-organization/self-adaptation issues, workflows and design processes. I am currently exploring the implications of some of these researches in the adaptive management of emergency procedures.

I am listed in the top 2% researchers in the field by the paper Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators based on Scopus 2019 database (here the Mendeley dataset).

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).

Research Interests (see also the ECOS LAB website)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Goal Oriented Systems
• Partial Goal Satisfaction, metrics and heuristics
• Practical Reasoning
• Multi-Agent Systems Architectures and Design Methodologies
• Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising (SASO) systems
• holonic systems
  
• Software Engineering
• Adaptive workflows, MUSA (a Middleware for User-driven Service Adaptation)
• 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) 
• Metamodeling techniques and model driven engineering

Publications

• Ordered by year 

• Ordered by topic (Updated less frequently than yearly list)

• Google Scholar Profile

• SCOPUS ID: 8681740500
• ORCID: 0000-0003-1258-9767
• ResearcherID: I-6097-2012
  

Past courses

• Software Engineering - University of Palermo (2016-17) (Italian)

• Software Engineering - University of Palermo (2015-16) (Italian)

• Software Engineering - University of Palermo (2014-15) (Italian)

• Software Engineering - University of Palermo (2012-13) (Italian)

• Information Systems (Sistemi Informativi Aziendali) - University of Palermo (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)

Current and Past Research Projects

• Net de l'Environnement Transfrontalier TUNisie-ITalie (N.E.T.TUN.IT.) funded within the Cross-border Cooperation Program Italy-Tunisia 2014-2020 of the European Union (2020-2023)
• Cloud4City, PO-FESR project funded by the Regional Government of Sicily (2020-2022)
• Cloud for Europe (Realization of a Research and  Development Project (Pre-Commercial Procurement) on “CLOUD FOR EUROPE"), European project FP7-610650 (2016-2017).
  
• AMICO - Automazione e Monitoraggio Intelligente dei Consumi. Project funded by the Italian Government within the Industria 2015 initiative (2014-2015) (website)
  
• Smart Grid: Power & ICT. Contract as consultant for Elmi SW within a PO FESR 5.1.1.1 project funded by the Regional Government of Sicily (2014-2015). Principal Investigator. (website)
• Open Cloud Computing Platform a misura di organizzazioni agili (OCCP). PO FESR 4.1.1.1bis project funded by the Regional Government of Sicily (2014-2015) (website ). Principal Investigator.
• Innovative Document Sharing (IDS). PO FESR 4.1.1.1 project funded by the Regional Government of Sicily (2011-2013) (website ). Principal Investigator.
• 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. Principal Investigator.
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Other and past research activities

• Co-chair of the XIX Workshop From Objects to Agents (WOA 2018). Palermo, 28-29 June 2018.
  
• Co-chair of the Smart Environments and Information Systems session hold at 10th Int. KES Conf. on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS-17), Algarve, Portugal. 21-23 June 2017.
• I chaired the IEEE FIPA Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation Working Group (see WG website)
• Holons and System Adaptation. Invited Talk at 2015 Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2015), November 8 2015 - Lyon, FRANCE. Abstract , slides.
• Luca Sabatucci and Massimo Cossentino. From Means-End Analysis to Proactive Means-End Reasoning, in proc. of SEAMS 2015, 10th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, May 18-19, 2015 Firenze, Best Paper Award (FOCAS announce). Paper pdf
• FIPA Standardization activity on methodologies: Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation WG. Website.
  
• 'Cloud applications mashup and adaptive orchestration of services' talk at the CNR-ANITEC event on 'IoT and Manufacturing 4.0'. Rome, 03-05-2016.
  
• Smart Environments and Information Systems session to be held at 9th Int. KES Conf. on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS-16), Tenerife, Spain. 15-17 June 2016.
• Co-Chair of the 8th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S'14 ). Warsaw, Poland, 7 - 10 September, 2014
• Co-Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) @ AAMAS 2013 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. 6-7 May, 2013. See the call for paper.
• 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)
• I have been the contact for the ICAR Insitute (Palermo Dept.) of the European's Network of Excellence for Agent Based Computing (AgentLink III).
• 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

• Agents for Shipboard Power System Reconfiguration - CONFERENZA DIITET - A.S. Informatica. Pisa 30.11.2018 (video)
• Holons and System Adaptation. Invited Talk at 2015 Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2015), November 8 2015 - Lyon, FRANCE. Abstract , slides .
• "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)