posted Jan 24, 2012 4:55 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
Dear Friend of AI*IA,
thanks your interest in the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence!
We cordially invite you to become a member of the association for
2012. If you don't know your status as a member, please send an email to the
secretary Fabrizio Riguzzi fabrizio.riguzzi@unife.it
By becoming a member you will enjoy the following benefits
1. you will receive a Google Apps account with domain aixia.it if you
do not already have one
2. you will be able to access online Intelligenza Artificiale, the
journal of the Association that is now published by IOS Press.
See http://www.aixia.it/rivista-intelligenza-artificiale
3. organizers of scientific events in Italy will be able to apply for
AI*IA scientific support and for some scholarships for students for
attending the event.
4. students will be able to apply for the scholarships sponsored by
AI*IA for attending events supported by AI*IA. Only students that
are members of AI*IA at the time of the application deadline are
eligible for applying.
5. you will be able to participate in the main AI*IA yearly event.
6. AI*IA is a member of ECCAI (http://www.eccai.org/) the European
association for Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA members have the right
to access ECCAI services including discounted registration for events
organized by ECCAI, in particular the ECAI conference and the ACAI
school.
In even years, AI*IA organizes the Convegno dell'AI*IA that is a
collection of thematic workshops managed by the AI*IA working groups.
In odd years, AI*IA organizes the Congresso dell'AI*IA with several
technical sessions and formal proceedings.
This year the Congresso will be in Rome from June 14 to June 16 2012.
To learn more about the benefits of AI*IA membership visit http://www.aixia.it
To renew your membership, visit
http://sites.google.com/a/aixia.it/italiano/servizi-ed-iscrizioni/iscrizioni
Kind regards,
Paola Mello, AI*IA President
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posted Jan 12, 2012 6:43 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
Dear AI*IA members,issue Number 2, Volume 5, December 2011 of Intelligenza Artificiale is online.Members of AI*IA for 2011 and 2012 have free online access to the full text ofIntelligenza Artificiale.To access the full text, you have to go tohttp://iospress.metapress.com/content/122209/and login with your metapress account.If you do not have a metapress.com account or you are not able to seethe full text, you will have to complete a personalregistration at http://iospress.metapress.com (click 'register' on theleft of the screen and then 'register individual'). Once youlogin to the system, in the "Individual Home" page, you will have toinsert a token which is a string of characters.A token has been sent by email to current members of the association.This will allow you to access the full text of Intelligenza Artificiale athttp://iospress.metapress.com/content/122209/If you are a member of AI*IA for 2011 or 2012 and would like toreceive the journal issues in print, please send me your mail addressand we will send you a paper copy of the issues.The table of contents for the Number 2, Volume 5, December 2011 ofIntelligenza Artificiale isThe model-based approach to autonomous behavior: Prospects and challengesPages 163-169Author Hector GeffnerSampling-based lower bounds for counting queriesPages 171-188Authors Vibhav Gogate and Rina DechterSimulations on workflow management systems: A framework based on eventchoice datalogPages 189-206Authors Gianluigi Greco, Antonella Guzzo and Domenico SaccàEfficient recursive aggregate evaluation in logic programmingPages 207-215Author Mario AlvianoComputational models for short-term prediction of the stock marketPages 217-227Authors Lorenzo Menconi, Marco Gori and Marco LippiKind regards,Paola & Fabrizio |
posted Jan 9, 2012 6:45 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
Nominations are now invited for the 2011 Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award sponsored by ECCAI, the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. This Award includes a certificate signed by the ECCAI Chair and 1.500 Euros (which includes the travel grant for the Award ceremony). Nominations are due to Toby.Walsh@nicta.com.au by March 1st, 2012. Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended after December 1, 2010 in the general area of Artificial Intelligence. The dissertation must have been defended at an European university and the author must be a personal member of an ECCAI member society. In case a thesis is nominated for another national or international award before or during its review for the ECCAI dissertation award, the author is requested to inform the ECCAI dissertation award committee about this fact. To be considered, a dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor, who must submit the following items: - a link to the final version of the thesis (preferred) or 5 hard copies,
- a link to an extended abstract of 3 to 5 pages (preferred) or 5 hard copies in English,
- if the thesis was not written in English the nomination must include an English paper describing the core ideas of the thesis that has been submitted for publication in an international journal or a prestigious conference. The nominee must be the lead author of this paper.
- nomination letters from two referees selected by the dissertation supervisor, supporting the submission and stating their assessment of why the thesis should win the award.
The selection will be based on the originality, impact, and written quality of the work. Work that has been submitted to and/or accepted at workshops, conferences, or journals will be considered more favourably. Work that is primarily attributed to the student's own initiative will also be considered more favourably. Finally, the quality of the written document will be considered. The deadline for receipt of submissions is March 1st, 2012. The Award will be presented during ECAI 2012 in Montpelier.
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posted Oct 26, 2011 9:27 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
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News
| | ECCAI welcomes Romanian AI Society We are pleased to announce that the Romanian AI Society, ARIA, has joined ECAI. You may get information about the society's activities from its president, Professor Adina Florea
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Conferences
| ECCAI Conferences ECCAI Sponsored conferences National conferences |
Journals
| AI Communications Contents of latest issue (Volume 24, no.2 / 2011) - Marcello Balduccini and Stefan Woltran, Special issue on answer set programming
- Martin Gebser, Benjamin Kaufmann, Roland Kaminski, Max Ostrowski, Torsten Schaub and Marius Schneider, Potassco: The Potsdam Answer Set Solving Collection
- Mario Alviano and Wolfgang Faber, Dynamic Magic Sets and super-coherent answer set programs
- Marcello Balduccini, Learning and using domain-specific heuristics in ASP solvers
- Pedro Cabalar, A logical characterisation of ordered disjunction
- Christian Drescher, Oana Tifrea and Toby Walsh, Symmetry-breaking answer set solving
- Martin Gebser, Orkunt Sabuncu and Torsten Schaub, An incremental answer set programming based system for finite model computation
IEEE Intelligent Systems Contents of latest issue (Volume 26, no.5, September/October 2011) - Fei-Yue Wang, A Report on the San Francisco Board Meeting
- George Lawton, In the News
- Gu Yuan, Xin Zhang, Qingming Yao and Kunfeng Wang, Hierarchical and Modular Surveillance Systems in ITS
- Ning Zhong, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Jiming Liu and John G. Taylor, Brain Informatics
- John R. Anderson, Shawn Betts, Jennifer L. Ferris, Jon M. Fincham and Jian Yang, Using Brain Imaging to Interpret Student Problem Solving
- Jianhua Ma, Jie Wen, Runhe Huang and Benxiong Huang, Cyber-Individual Meets Brain Informatics
- Laura Astolfi, Jlenia Toppi, Fabrizio De Vico Fallani, Giovanni Vecchiato, Febo Cincotti, Christopher T. Wilke, Han Yuan, Donatella Mattia, Serenella Salinari, Bin He and Fabio Babiloni, Imaging the Social Brain by Simultaneous Hyperscanning during Subject Interaction
- Bin Hu, Dennis Majoe, Martyn Ratcliffe, Yanbing Qi, Qinglin Zhao, Hong Peng, Dangping Fan, Fang Zheng, Mike Jackson and Philip Moore, EEG-Based Cognitive Interfaces for Ubiquitous Applications: Developments and Challenges
- W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Young-Seon Jeong, Myong-Kee Jeong, Shabbar F. Danish and Stephen Wong, Pattern Recognition Approaches for Identifying Subcortical Targets during Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery
- Dong Sang, Bin Lv, Huiguang He, Ding Wen and Jiping He, Analyzing Neural Interaction Characteristics in a Monkey's Motor Cortex during Reach-to-Grasp Tasks
- Robert R. Hoffman, David Ziebell, Paul J. Feltovich, Brian M. Moon and Steven F. Fiore, Franchise Experts
- Trends & Controversies
- Sinan Aral and Dylan Walker, Identifying Social Influence in Networks Using Randomized Experiments
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posted Oct 26, 2011 4:05 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
Carissimi Soci,
e' con grande tristezza che scrivo questo messaggio. Come forse già' sapete, ieri è morto il Prof. John McCarthy, grande padre dell'Intelligenza Artificiale.
In questo momento la nostra Associazione e' in lutto e credo di interpretare il pensiero di tutti nell'esprimere verso di lui profonda ammirazione e nel ringraziarlo ancora una volta per l'enorme, incommensurabile contributo che ha dato alla disciplina dell'Intelligenza Artificiale. In questo momento non mi vengono altre parole.
Sara' nostra cura pensare poi come ricordarlo degnamente con iniziative dell'Associazione a sostegno dell'Intelligenza Artificiale.
cari saluti
Paola |
posted Aug 22, 2011 8:01 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Offered by Professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig
Oct - Dec 2011. Sign up now at ai-class.org
This course is the online version of Stanford CS211 Introduction to
Artificial Intelligence. Students can sign up and take this course for
free. All lectures are offered online, and students will have to take
the same homework assignments and exams as Stanford students taking
CS221 on campus. Anyone taking this course can interact with the
instructors online. Plus, students are graded the same way as Stanford
students, so you can compare your skills and knowledge to Stanford
advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Enroll (for free) and
learn about AI from two of the pioneers in the field. The course
starts Oct 10, 2011. Sign up now at http://ai-class.org.
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posted Jun 27, 2011 6:18 AM by Riguzzi Fabrizio
ECCAI Bulletin #2, June 2011| |
News
| New ECCAI Fellows Announced ECCAI is delighted to announce the following new Fellows: Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (France)
Stan Matwin (Poland/Canada)
Serafin Moral (Spain)
Michele Sebag (France)
Congratulations to each one of them! For more information on the ECCAI Fellows programme please check the dedicated web pages
Past ECAI Proceedings Online Thanks to ECCAI's valued collaboration with IOS Press, all ECAI Proceedings from 2000 onwards are now freely available online! Please follow the link at the ECCAI web site
2011 ECCAI General Assembly The next ECCAI General Assembly will take place during IJCAI 2011 at 20.00 - 21.00 on July 19th.
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Conferences
| ECCAI Conferences ECCAI Sponsored conferences National conferences - 22nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS-2011)
Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK, August 31 - September 2, 2011. - XIIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2011)
Palermo, Italy, September 15-17, 2011. - 3rd International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence - Technologies and Applications (ICCCI 2011)
Gdynia, Poland, September 21-23, 2011. - 34th Annual Conference On Artificial Intelligence (KI 2011)
Berlin, Germany, October 4-7, 2011. - 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2011)
Lisbon, Portugal, October 10-13 2011. - 14th International Congress of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (CCIA 2011)
Lleyda, Catalunya, Spain, October 26-28 2011. - 23rd BENELUX Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2011)
Gent, Belgium, November 3-4 2011. - 14th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA 2011)
Tenerife, Spain, November 7-11 2011. - 31st SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2011)
Cambridge, England, December 13-15 2011.
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Journals
| AI Communications Contents of latest issue (Volume 24, no.2 / 2011) - Marcello Balduccini and Stefan Woltran, Special issue on answer set programming
- Martin Gebser, Benjamin Kaufmann, Roland Kaminski, Max Ostrowski, Torsten Schaub and Marius Schneider, Potassco: The Potsdam Answer Set Solving Collection
- Mario Alviano and Wolfgang Faber, Dynamic Magic Sets and super-coherent answer set programs
- Marcello Balduccini, Learning and using domain-specific heuristics in ASP solvers
- Pedro Cabalar, A logical characterisation of ordered disjunction
- Christian Drescher, Oana Tifrea and Toby Walsh, Symmetry-breaking answer set solving
- Martin Gebser, Orkunt Sabuncu and Torsten Schaub, An incremental answer set programming based system for finite model computation
IEEE Intelligent Systems Contents of latest issue (Volume 26, no.3, May/June 2011) - Fei-Yue Wang, From AI to SciTS: Team Science and Research Intelligence
- George Lawton, In the News
- Huiji Gao, Geoffrey Barbier and Rebecca Goolsby, Harnessing the Crowdsourcing Power of Social Media for Disaster Relief
- Monica Tentori, Marcela Rodriguez and Jesus Favela, An Agent-Based Middleware for the Design of Activity-Aware Applications
- Junze Wang, Furong Wang, Zheng Yan and Benxiong Huang, Message Receiver Determination in Multiple Simultaneous IM Conversations
- Claudio Piciarelli and Gian Luca Foresti, Surveillance-Oriented Event Detection in Video Streams
- Huan Chen and Chih-Chuan Cheng, A Distortion-Aware Intelligent Context Aggregation Agent for Smart Environments
- Gang Pan, Yuqiong Xu, Zhaohui Wu, Shijian Li, Laurence T. Yang, Man Lin and Zhong Liu, TaskShadow: Toward Seamless Task Migration across Smart Environments
- Zi Yang, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li and Wenjun Yang, Social Community Analysis via a Factor Graph Model
- Alexandra Brintrup, Duncan McFarlane, Damith Ranasinghe, Tomás Sánchez López and Kenneth Owens, Will Intelligent Assets Take Off? Toward Self-Serving Aircraft
- Ding Wen, Gongjun Yan, Nan-Ning Zheng, Lin-Cheng Shen and Li Li, Toward Cognitive Vehicles
- Matthew Johnson, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Paul J. Feltovich, Robert R. Hoffman, Catholijn Jonker, Birna van Riemsdijk and Maarten Sierhuis, Beyond Cooperative Robotics: The Central Role of Interdependence in Coactive Design
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posted Jun 27, 2011 1:58 AM by Riguzzi Fabrizio
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THE TURING CENTENARY RESEARCH PROJECT:
MIND, MECHANISM AND MATHEMATICS
Research Fellowship and Scholar Competition
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?408
Submission deadline - December 16, 2011
More than any other figure, Turing has left a coherent scientific agenda
related to many of the 'Big Questions' concerning the relationship between
the human mind, mechanism in nature, and the mathematics required to
clarify and answer these questions. The very breadth and fundamental
nature of Turing's impact makes the centenary celebration a hugely
opportune period in which to reassert the role of basic thinking in
relation to deep and intractable problems facing science.
'The Turing Centenary Research Project - Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics',
supported by a major grant from the John Templeton Foundation, arises from
the above-mentioned scientific agenda, and is aimed at researchers still
within ten years of receiving their Ph.D. The participants in the research
project will be the winners of the 'Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics'
competition, designed to provide significant funding support for eight
young researchers. Five of the winners will become JTF 'Turing Research
Fellows' with an award of £75,000 each; and awards of £45,000 will be for
JTF 'Turing Research Scholars' in the 16 to 25 age-group.
The competition is organised in conjunction with the Turing Centenary
Celebration, to be held June 22-25, 2012, at the Manchester City Hall and
the University of Manchester. The award winners will be duly honoured on
the June 23, 2012 centenary of Turing's birth.
Further details:
__________________________________________________________________________
Honorary Chairs: Rodney Brooks and Sir Roger Penrose
Submission deadline - December 16, 2011
Award Notification - March 31, 2012
Award Ceremony - Turing Centenary Day, June 23, 2012
Commencement of the research project - July 1, 2012
Proposals will be judged relative to four research themes:
Chair of the Judges: S Barry Cooper (Leeds)
The Judges for Research Theme 1 (The Mathematics of Emergence: The
Mysteries of Morphogenesis):
Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
Stuart Kauffman (Vermont/Santa Fe)
Cris Moore (New Mexico/Santa Fe)
The Judges for Research Theme 2 (Possibility of Building a Brain:
Intelligent Machines, Practice and Theory):
Luciano Floridi (Oxford/Hertfordshire)
Barbara Grosz (Harvard)
Aaron Sloman (Birmingham)
The Judges for Research Theme 3 (Nature of Information: Complexity,
Randomness, Hiddenness of Information):
Eric Allender (Rutgers)
Rodney Downey (Wellington)
Manindra Agrawal (Kanpur)
The Judges for Research Theme 4 (How should we compute? New Models of
Logic and Computation):
Samson Abramsky (Oxford)
Gordon Plotkin (Edinburgh)
Robert I. Soare (Chicago)
Proposals should be made via the EasyChair submission page at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=turingresearch2012
For further details, see:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?408
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posted Mar 2, 2011 9:02 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
Due to the request of many authors and workshop organizers the
deadlines of AI*IA 2011 have been EXTENDED. Please consider the new
dates as *strict* dates.
Here follows the new CFP. We apologize for multiple copies.
AI*IA 2011
XIIth Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
“Artificial Intelligence Around Man and Beyond”
Palermo, Sept. 15-17 2011
Call For Papers
AI*IA 2011 is the twelfth International Conference on Advances in
Artificial Intelligence held bi-annually by the Italian Association
for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA).
The conference covers broadly the many aspects of theoretical and
applied Artificial Intelligence. Both regular papers and posters can
be submitted to AI*IA 2011. A series of workshops dedicated to
specific topics will complement the main conference program.
This year the main focus will be on the theme "Artificial Intelligence
Around Man and Beyond". Nowadays, AI-enabled technologies support a
sort of "distributed intelligent environment”. Men in this environment
are so better capable to manipulate information and perform tasks
involving a huge cognitive effort more efficiently.
Moreover, such technologies shift the theoretical speculation towards
philosophical themes that are "beyond the humans" like design of
metacognitive artificial agents and machine consciousness. The debate
is no more about merely intelligent or cognitive machines but it
rather focuses on their ability of being conscious and/or thinking
about their cognition.
Papers are invited on original, and unpublished research on all
aspects of artificial intelligence, including, but not limited to:
AI and digital entertainment
AI applications
AI architectures
AI in Learning Environments
Cognitive modeling
Cognitive Robotics
Constraint Satisfaction
Experimentation of Combinatorial Algorithms
Human Computer Interaction
Information Agents
Information Retrieval and Extraction
Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge Engineering
Knowledge Representation
Learning in adaptive systems
Machine Consciousness
Machine learning
Mathematical Foundations
Metacognition in Artificial Agents
Multiagent Systems, Distributed AI
Natural Language Processing
Ontologies
Philosophical Foundations
Planning and Scheduling
Reasoning
Search
Semantic Web
Soft and Evolutionary Computing
Temporal Reasoning
Uncertainty
Vision
Web and Data Mining
Papers will be published as a book in Springer LNAI series. Each paper
should be no more than 12 pages in the LNCS format. For detailed
instructions and materials, please refer to the Springer web site
www.springer.com/lncs/, under the section “Information for LNCS
Authors” http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
Important dates
Workshop proposals deadline: February 15, 2011
Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2011 DEADLINE EXTENDED
Workshops final program deadline: May 30, 2011 DEADLINE EXTENDED
Acceptance/rejection deadline: May 30, 2011 DEADLINE EXTENDED
Camera-ready submission: June 13, 2011 DEADLINE EXTENDED
Early registration deadline: June 15, 2011
Late registration: since June 16, 2011
Conference: September 15-17, 2011
Organizing Committee
General Chairs: Roberto Pirrone, and Filippo Sorbello, University of
Palermo, Italy
Program Chair: Salvatore Gaglio, University of Palermo, Italy
Refereeing Chair: Edoardo Ardizzone, University of Palermo, Italy
Workshop Chair: Antonio Chella, University of Palermo, Italy
Sponsorships Chair: Antonio Gentile, University of Palermo, Italy
Local Events Chair: Rosario Sorbello, University of Palermo, Italy
Other Info
Website: www.aixia2011.it
contact: aixia2011@dinfo.unipa.it
submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiia2011
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posted Feb 10, 2011 8:14 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
DALT School 2011
First International School on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
Bertinoro, Italy, April 10-15, 2011 (co-located with ISCL 2011)
http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/dalt_school
* EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MARCH 10, 2011 *
DALT is a well-established forum for researchers interested in sharing
their experiences in combining declarative and formal approaches with
engineering and technology aspects of agents and multi-agent systems.
Building complex agent systems calls for models and technologies that
ensure predictability, allow for the verification of properties, and
guarantee flexibility. Developing technologies that can satisfy these
requirements still poses an important and difficult challenge. Here,
declarative approaches have the potential of offering solutions
satisfying the needs for both specifying and developing multi-agent systems.
Moreover, they are gaining more and more attention in important
application areas such as the semantic web, service-oriented computing,
security, and electronic contracting.
The DALT School builds on the success of 8 editions of the international
AAMAS workshop series. The DALT School aims at giving a comprehensive
introduction to this exciting research domain and disseminate the
results of research achieved in this 9-year-long activity with a
perspective on the future. The school will include sessions dedicated to
PhD students, mentoring activities, focussed discussions and guided
brainstorming.
LECTURERS
Francesca Toni is Reader in Computational Logic in the Department of
Computing at Imperial College London and Leader of the Computational
Logic and Argumentation research group. She has been Principal
Investigator of several EU-funded projects in the areas of logic-based
agents and argumentation. She is one of the main researchers who
developed the KGP model of agency.
Birna van Riemsdijk is Assistant Professor at TU Delft, where she
develops techniques for engineering intelligent software systems that
can support humans in performing complex tasks. Her research focusses on
the use and development of declarative agent programming languages. She
is one of the developers of the GOAL language and a member of the DALT
steering committee.
Peter McBurney is Professor of Computer Science and Head of the ART
group at the University of Liverpool. He has been leading EU-funded
research initiatives and managed many research grants for agent-related
research worldwide and acted as a management consultant for leading IT
and Telecommunications companies. His research focusses on semantics and
pragmatics of agent communication and on multi-agent models of economic
markets and marketing.
Wamberto Vasconcelos is a senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen,
where he works on intelligent software agents and on knowledge
technologies. He has been involved in several international research
projects on information technologies and service sciences. He is a
member of the steering committee of the Coordination, Organization,
Institutions and Norms workshop series (COIN) and an organizer of the
DALT workshop in 2010 and 2011.
Rafael Bordini is Associate Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio
Grande do Sul. He is one of the main developers of the Jason framework
and author of several books on agent programming. His research interests
cover various aspects of software engineering for autonomous systems,
including programming, modelling, verification, testing, debugging and
application deployment.Agent and Multi-Agent Software Engineering: Modelling, Programming &
Verification
This course aims at providing an overview of three important parts of
the practical development of multi-agent systems: modelling,
programming, and verification. In particular, we will cover approaches
for multi-agent systems that are based on abstractions, techniques, and
tools that have been specifically tailored for autonomous agents and
multi-agent systems. Besides surveying various approaches that appeared
in the Agents literature for each of the three parts of the development
process, we will focus the concrete examples of the Programming part on
the recently put together JaCaMo platform (Lecturer: Rafael Bordini).
Agent Reasoning: Knowledge, Plans & Flexible Control Cycles
I will present the KGP (Knowledge, Goals and Plan) model of agency. This
model allows the specification of heterogeneous agents that can interact
with each other, and can exhibit both proactive and reactive behaviour
allowing them to function in dynamic environments by adjusting their
goals and plans when changes happen in such environments. The KGP model
provides a highly modular agent architecture that integrates a
collection of reasoning and physical capabilities, synthesised within
transitions that update the agent's state in response to reasoning,
sensing and acting. Transitions are orchestrated by cycle theories that
specify the order in which transitions are executed while taking into
account the dynamic context and agent preferences, as well as selection
operators for providing inputs to transitions. Cycle theories are means
to program the control of agents in a flexible and adaptable manner. I
will also present an argumentative variant of the KGP model, where
reasoning capabilities are supported by argumentation. (Lecturer:
Francesca Toni).
Agent Reasoning: Goals & Preferences
In this course we will investigate how motivational attitudes like
desires, goals and intentions have been and are being used to represent
and program agent reasoning. We will consider both theoretical
approaches for investigating these notions and their interplay, as well
as ways of using these notions to develop cognitive agents. The GOAL
agent programming language in which the notion of goal is important will
be used for illustration. Recent results from empirical studies on how
GOAL is used to program agents that control bots in Unreal Tournament
will be presented. (Lecturer: Birna van Riemsdijk).
Organisation, Coordination & Norms for Multi-Agent Systems
This course will introduce organisation theory concepts for agents and
multi-agent systems; some of these concepts are objectives, roles and
their relations, power, and capabilities, to name a few. We shall then
use organisation concepts to create/synthesise stereotypical agents
which will "embody" aspects of the organisation: these agents will
coordinate efforts in order to find and enact a joint plan to achieve
individual and organisational objectives. We explicitly represent norms,
that is, permissions, prohibitions and obligations, as means to
"fine-tune" the coordination/planning effort, ruling out certain courses
of actions or giving preference/priority to other courses of actions.
The course will make use of the tools and methodology of the EU-funded
ALIVE project. (Lecturer: Wamberto Vasconcelos).
Agent Interaction: Languages, Dialogues & Protocols
In this course we will explore the design and engineering of artificial
communications languages and protocols to enable autonomous, intelligent
software agents to communicate with one another. The design of these
languages and protocols draws on human linguistics, on the philosophy of
language and dialog, on formal logic, and on the theory of computer
programming languages. We will look at the syntax, semantics, and
pragmatics of multi-agent languages and protocols, and consider related
issues such as dynamic (run-time) composition of protocols and the
efficient storage and retrieval of protocols. (Lecturer: Peter McBurney).
FEES
Standard registration is 700 euro until March 10, 2011.
Standard registrations are ALL-INCLUSIVE and cover access to all
lectures and exams, mentoring program and student session, lodging (5
nights) in double room (subject to availability), welcome cocktail,
breakfasts, coffee breaks, lunches and canteen/restaurant dinners,
social trip (including dinner), Internet access. Daily registrations are
also possible, as well as separate fees for accompanying person,
upgrades to single room, and B&B accommodation for early arrivals and
late departures at convenient rates.
SPONSORS
AI Journal, COST Action IC0801 "Agreement Technologies", Foundation for
Intelligent Physical Agents, Spanish Association for AI, Catalan
Association for AI, Portuguese Association for AI, The British Society
for the Study of AI and Simulation of Behaviour, Italian Association for
AI, Italian Association for Logic Programming, SICStus Prolog, John
Wiley & Sons, Bertinoro International Center for Informatics.
ORGANISATION
School Organisers
Paolo Torroni, DEIS, University of Bologna
Andrea Omicini, DEIS, University of Bologna
Student Session Organiser
Federico Chesani, DEIS, University of BolognaLocal Organisers Marco Prandini, DEIS, University of Bologna Eleonora Campori, Bertinoro Center for Informatics Manuela Schiavi, Bertinoro Center for Informatics INQUIRIES For all visa-related and administrative concerns such as payment, registration, lodging, and local logistics, contact Eleonora Campori, ecampori@ceub.it.
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