WOA 2020
21st Workshop "From Objects to Agents"

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
  

Session 1: Simulation in MAS

• An Agent-based Simulator for Urban Air Mobility Scenarios 2–14
  Maria Nadia Postorino , Francesco Alessandro Sarné , Giuseppe M.L. Sarné
• Applying inferential processes to partner selection in large agents communities 15–27
  Pasquale De Meo , Rino Falcone , Alessandro Sapienza
• A preliminary experimentation for large scale epidemic forecasting simulations 28–36
  Gianfranco Lombardo , Agostino Poggi

Session 2: Organisations, Norms & Argumentation

• A Multiagent Framework for Coordinating Industrial Symbiotic Networks 38–53
  Vahid Yazdanpanah , Devrim Murat Yazan , Henk Zijm
• Computable Law as Argumentation-based MAS 54–68
  Roberta Calegari , Andrea Omicini , Giovanni Sartor
• A Tool for the Automatic Generation of MOISE Organisations From BPMN 69–82
  Massimo Cossentino , Salvatore Lopes , Luca Sabatucci

Session 3: Features of MAS: Robustness, Trust, Explainability

• Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Agents Exploring Environments: an Experimental Framework and Preliminary Results 84–100
  Nassim Habbash , Federico Bottoni , Giuseppe Vizzari
• Neuro-symbolic Computation for XAI: Towards a Unified Model 101–117
  Giuseppe Pisano , Giovanni Ciatto , Roberta Calegari , Andrea Omicini

Session 4: Healthcare

• A Multi-Agent System for Simulating the Spread of a Contagious Disease 119–134
  Giuseppe Antonio Nanna , Nicola Flavio Quatraro , Berardina De Carolis
• Transcultural Health-Aware Guides for the Elderly 135–146
  Rafael H. Bordini , Viviana Mascardi , Stefania Costantini , Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni , Yves Lespérance , Alessandro Ricci
• Voice assistants in hospital triage operations 147–159
  Simone Montali , Gianfranco Lombardo , Monica Mordonini , Michele Tomaiuolo

Session 5: Agents & Actors for Data Science

• Calibration of an agent-based model for opinion formation through a retweet social network 161–173
  Loretta Mastroeni , Maurizio Naldi , Pierluigi Vellucci
• Actor-based architecture for Cloud Services Orchestration: the case of social media data extraction 174–183
  Stefano Cavalli , Stefano Cagnoni , Gianfranco Lombardo , Agostino Poggi
• An Early Warning System for seismic events based on the Multi-Agent Model 184–199
  Roberto Spina , Andrea Fornaia , Emiliano Tramontana

Session 6: Tools and application

• A Reactive Cognitive Architecture based on Natural Language Processing for the task of Decision-Making using a Rich Semantic 201–218
  Carmelo Fabio Longo , Francesco Longo , Corrado Santoro
• 2P-Kt: logic programming with objects & functions in Kotlin 219–236
  Giovanni Ciatto , Roberta Calegari , Enrico Siboni , Enrico Denti , Andrea Omicini
• Suggesting Just Enough (Un)Crowded Routes and Destinations 237–251
  Claudia Cavallaro , Gabriella Verga , Emiliano Tramontana , Orazio Muscato