WOA 2007: Genova, Italy

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Foreword of the Editors

• Matteo Baldoni, Antonio Boccalatte, Flavio De Paoli, Maurizio Martelli, Viviana Mascardi:
  Preface to the Proceedings of WOA 2007.
  

Invited Paper

• Giovanni Rimassa, Birgit Burmeister:
  Achieving Business Process Agility in Engineering Change Management with Agent Technology. 1-7
  

Demo Session

• Erik Arnaudo, Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, Valerio Genovese, Roberto Grenna:
  An implementation of roles as affordances: powerJava. 8-13
  
• Giancarlo Fortino, Alfredo Garro, Samuele Mascillaro, Wilma Russo:
  ELDATool: A Statecharts-based Tool for Prototyping Multi-Agent Systems. 14-19
  
• Fabio Centineo, Angelo Marguglio, Vito Morreale, Michele Puccio:
  The PRACTIONIST Development Tool. 20-21
  
• Giuseppe Vizzari, Giorgio Pizzi, Flávio S. Corrêa da Silva:
  A Framework for Execution and Visualization of Situated Agents Based Virtual Environments. 22-25
  

Logical Models for Agent Systems

• Vincenzo Deufemia, Giuseppe Polese, Genoveffa Tortora, Mario Vacca:
  Conceptual Foundations of Interrogative Agents. 26-33
  
• Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Giuseppe Berio, Elisa Marengo:
  Declarative representation of curricula models: an LTL- and UML-based approach. 34-41
  

Technologies and Approaches for Semantic-Driven Resource Retrieval

• Nicola Cannata, Flavio Corradini, Francesca Piersigilli, Emanuela Merelli, Leonardo Vito:
  Semantic Resource Management in MAS. 42-47
  
• Andrea Addis, Giuliano Armano, Francesco Mascia, Eloisa Vargiu:
  News Retrieval through a MultiAgent System. 48-54
  
• Viviana Mascardi, Valentina Cordì, Paolo Rosso:
  A Comparison of Upper Ontologies. 55-64
  

Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems

• Davide Anghinolfi, Antonio Boccalatte, Alberto Grosso, Massimo Paolucci, Andrea Passadore, Christian Vecchiola:
  A Swarm Intelligence Method Applied to Manufacturing Scheduling. 65-70
  
• Christian Vecchiola, Alberto Grosso, Andrea Passadore, Davide Anghinolfi, Antonio Boccalatte, Massimo Paolucci:
  An Agent Based Solution for Dispatching Items in a Distributed Environment. 71-77
  
• Stefania Costantini, Arianna Tocchio, Panagiota Tsintza, Leonardo Mostarda:
  Agents and Security in a Cultural Assets Transport Scenario. 78-86
  
• Andrea Passadore, Giorgio Pezzuto:
  A Multi-Agent Platform Supporting Maintenance Companies on the Field. 87-95
  

Agents Situated in the Environment

• Giuseppe Vizzari, Giorgio Pizzi, Flávio S. Corrêa da Silva:
  A Framework for Interacting Situated Agents in Virtual Environments. 96-103
  
• Michele Piunti, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falcone:
  Expectations driven approach for Situated, Goal-directed Agents. 104-111
  

Roles and Trust among Agents

• Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, Leendert W. N. van der Torre:
  Adding Roles to Relationship Patterns. 112-125
  
• Agostino Poggi, Michele Tomaiuolo:
  XML-based Trust Management in MAS. 126-131
  

Agents and Service-Oriented Approaches

• Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Alberto Martelli, Viviana Patti, Claudio Schifanella:
  Preserving players goals: a choreography-driven matchmaking approach. 132-139
  
• Alessandro Ricci, Enrico Denti:
  simpA-WS: A Simple Agent-Oriented Programming Model & Technology for Developing SOA & Web Services. 140-156
  
• Agostino Poggi, Michele Tomaiuolo, Paola Turci:
  An Agent-Based Service Oriented Architecture. 157-165