WOA 2023
24th Workshop "From Objects to Agents"

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 21 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 17 papers were accepted for this volume, 17 as regular papers and 0 as short papers.

Session 1: Learning and advancements in Multi-Agent Systems

• RMLGym: a Formal Reward Machine Framework for Reinforcement Learning 1-16
  Hisham Unniyankal , Francesco Belardinelli , Angelo Ferrando , Vadim Malvone
• Capturing a Recursive Pattern in Neural-Symbolic Reinforcement Learning 17-31
  Davide Beretta , Stefania Monica , Federico Bergenti
• Curriculum–Based Reinforcement Learning for Pedestrian Simulation: Towards an Explainable Training Process? 32-48
  Giuseppe Vizzari , Daniela Briola , Thomas Cecconello
• Peer-Reviewed Federated Learning 49-65
  Mattia Passeri , Andrea Agiollo , Andrea Omicini
• Agents in Software Development Architectures 66-77
  Marco Loaiza , Claudio Savaglio , Niaz Hussain Arijo , Gianluca Aloi , Giancarlo Fortino , Raffaele Gravina

Session 2: Cognition, trust and reputation

• Agents Showing Self-Disclosure. A Preliminary Methodological Approach 78-91
  Valeria Seidita , Angelo Maria Pio Sabella , Antonio Chella
• A Strategy to Detect Colluding Groups by Reputation Measures 92-105
  Attilio Marcianò , Domenico Rosaci , Giuseppe M.L. Sarnè
• Dependence Networks and Trust in Agents Societies: Insights and Practical Implications 106-122
  Rino Falcone , Alessandro Sapienza

Session 3: Theoretical approaches

• N-Mates Evaluation: a New Method to Improve the Performance of Genetic Algorithms in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems 123-137
  Paolo Pagliuca , Alessandra Vitanza
• A Cognitive Approach to Model Intelligent Collaboration in Human-Robot Interaction 138-150
  Filippo Cantucci , Rino Falcone
• A Timed Epistemic Logic for Formalizing Cooperation among Groups of Agents 151-166
  Stefania Costantini , Andrea Formisano , Valentina Pitoni

Session 4: Applicative studies

• Agents for Industry 4.0: the Case Study of a Production Cell 167-180
  Matteo Baldoni , Cristina Baroglio , Valeriano Ditano , Roberto Micalizio , Stefano Tedeschi
• A System for Tracking Patients in the Operating Room - A Pilot Study 181-190
  Mattia Pellegrino , Gianfranco Lombardo , Monica Mordonini , Stefano Cagnoni , Eleonora Bottani , Valentina Bellini , Elena Giovanna Bignami , Agostino Poggi
• Modeling the Video Game Environment: the VideOWL Ontology 191-205
  Simone De Martino , Marianna Nicolosi-Asmundo , Stefano Angelo Rizzo , Daniele Francesco Santamaria
• A Declarative C++ Agent Platform for Agent-based Edge Computing 206-215
  Fabrizio Messina , Corrado Santoro , Federico Fausto Santoro

Session 5: The role of explainability

• Towards a Multi-Level Explainability Framework for Engineering and Understanding BDI Agent Systems 216-231
  Elena Yan , Samuele Burattini , Jomi Fred Hübner , Alessandro Ricci
• Unlocking Insights and Trust: The Value of Explainable Clustering Algorithms for Cognitive Agents 232-245
  Federico Sabbatini , Roberta Calegari