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Ob jects to Agents Agent-based technologies, developed in the Arti cial Intelligence area, have become more and more important especially in more traditional Computer Science areas, like Software Engineering, where the agent abstraction is considered a natural extension of the object abstraction. The importance of these techniques is also witnessed in the industrial sector by their use in the development of tools and applications.
Following the success of WOA 2000 in Parma, WOA 2001 in Modena, WOA 2002 in Milano, WOA 2003 in Villasimius, WOA 2004 in Torino, WOA 2005 in Camerino, WOA 2006 in Catania, WOA 2007 in Genova, WOA 2008 in Palermo, WOA 2009 in Parma, WOA 2010 in Rimini, WOA 2011 in Cosenza, WOA 2012 in Milano, WOA 2013 was hosted in Torino.
This year event, celebrating the forteenth workshop edition, was co-located with the conference of the Italian Association for Arti cial Intelligence. On this occasion we took stock of whether the agent technology can still be considered a scion of Arti cial Intelligence and to which extent it can still be considered as connected to the object technology. We were honored to have Rafael Heitor Bordini as an invited speaker. His talk was intitled \Jason Comes of Age: 10 Years of Progress in Multi-Agent Oriented Programming".
This volume contains sixteen papers, selected by the Programme Committee. Each paper received at least three reviews in order to supply the authors with helpful feedback that could stimulate the research as well as foster discussion.
We would like to thank all authors for their contributions, the members of the Steering Committee for the valuable suggestions and support, and the members of the Programme Committee for their excellent work during the reviewing phase.
November 25th, 2013
Matteo Baldoni Cristina Baroglio Federico Bergenti
Alfredo Garro Program Committee
Dipartimento di Informatica, Univ. di Torino Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Torino
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR Roma
Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Torino DIBRIS (Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering), University of GENOVA, IT
Alma Mater StudiorumUniversita di Bologna Austrian Research Institute for Arti cial Intelligence
WOA 2013 Additional Reviewers Additional Reviewers Giuliani, Alessandro Keyword Index actor model Agent Communication Infrastructure Agent Negotiation Agent-based Data Mining Agent-oriented Computing Agents agentbased modelling and simulation Ambient Intelligence BDI biochemical coordination biochemical kinetic laws biochemical simulation biopepa
Commitment and commitment-based protocol computer vision concurrent programming crowd analysis crowd synthesis Design Methodologies distributed systems Event-driven programming Expert system
Group Recommendation groups Health Information System (HIS) Home and Building Automation
Middleware mok Multi-Agent System (MAS) Multi-agent systems Multi-agent systems design
Online Social Networks Ontology parameter engineering parameter tuning Polarity Classi cation
rule-based systems
Semantic Web of Things Sentiment Analysis Smart Objects Social gaming Social Network software framework Spatial coordination Stochastic systems
Web services 54 60 16 24 73 66
8 73 66 16 16 78 54 97 97 47 78 60 85 78 91 1 8 78 97 1, 8 8 85 97 Author Index
Capuzzimati, Federico Claudi, Andrea Cossentino, Massimo Crociani, Luca
Di Napoli, Claudia Di Nocera, Dario Di Sciascio, Eugenio Dolcini, Gianluca Dragoni, Aldo Franco
Vizzari, Giuseppe 66 73 54 60 47 66 73 41 47 66 24