PhD

Boards & Committees

• Boards
  • Member of the Board of the PhD School in Data Science & Computation, Università di Bologna, Italy (2026— 
  • Member of the Board of the PhD School in Computer Science & Engineering, Università di Bologna, Italy (2013—2026) 
  • Member of the Board of the PhD School on Computer Science & Law, Università di Bologna, Italy (2006—2012)

• Committees
  • Member of the Final Exam Committee of the XXV PhD Courses in Information Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Italy (22/3/2013)
  • Member of the Final Exam Committee of the XXI & XXII PhD Courses in Industrial Innovation Engineering, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy (30/3/2010)
  • Member of the Jury for Awarding PhD Degree of the XIX PhD Courses in Informatics, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Milano-Bicocca, Italy (25/1/2007)
  • Member of the PhD Thesis External Review Committee, ICT International Doctorate School, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy (2005—2007)
  • Member of the Final Exam Committee, XV PhD Courses in Information Technologies, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy (21/5/2003)

Theses

• International
  • Valeri Katerinchuk, Heuristic Multicast Routing Algorithms in WSNs with Incomplete Network Knowledge (15/12/2017)
  • Francesco Luca De Angelis, A Logic-Based Coordination Middleware for Self-Organising Systems: distributed reasoning based on many-valued logics (03/07/2017)
  • Emilia Garcia, Engineering Regulated Open Multiagent Systems (19/04/2013)
  • Bin Lu, Supporting Agent-Oriented Models within the Software Life Cycle (15/08/2012)
  • Victor Noël Multi-Agent Systems and Component-based Software Architectures: Mutual and Complementary Contributions for Supporting Software Development Université  "Paul Sabatier", Toulouse, France, July 2012
  • Jose Miguel Such Aparicio, Enhancing Privacy in Multi-Agent Systems (2011)
  • Wai Shiang Cheah, "Patterns for Agent-Oriented Software Development", Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2010
  • Matteo Vasirani, "Vehicle-centric Coordination for Urban Road Traffic Management: A Market-based Multiagent Approach", Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, 2009
  • Conor Muldoon, An Agent Framework for Ubiquitous Services (2008)
  • Andrew Wilkinson, "Type Representations and Coordination", Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK, 2007
  • Regine Endsuleit, "Robust and Private Computations of Mobile Agent Alliances", Fakultät für Informatik, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, 2007
  • Kurt Schelfthout, "Supporting Coordination in Mobile Networks: A Middleware Approach", Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2006
  • Susannah Jane Soon, "Multi-agent Teamwork Coordination: a Graph-Based Intention Recognition Approach", Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2006
  • Abdelkader Gouaich, "Movement, Interaction, Calculation as Primitives for Everywhere & Anytime Computing", LIRMM, CNRS & Université de Montpellier, France, July 2005
  • Sehl Melloui, "FATMAS: A Methodology to Design Fault-tolerant Multi-agent Systems", Faculté des Sciences et Génies, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada, April 2005
  • Stefan J. Johansson, "On Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems, Blekinge Institute of Technology", Ronneby, Sweden, May 2002
  • Michael Schumacher, "Designing and Implementing Objective Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems", Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, March 2000

• Italian
  • Matteo Magnini, Symbolic Knowledge Injection & Extraction for Autonomous Learning (09/06/2026)
  • Andrea Rafanelli, Towards an integration of learning and reasoning in agent and multi-agent systems  (19/02/2025)
  • Giuseppe Pisano, Argumentation for Legal Reasoning: Meta-models, Technology and Beyond (04/07/2024)
  • Andrea Agiollo, Embedding AI into Constrained Devices: A Multi-Faceted Approach (24/06/2024)
  • Marco Piangerelli, A topological classifier for detecting the emergence of anomalous synchronization in brain activities (25/07/2017)
  • Giovanni Ciatto, On the role of Computational Logic in Data Science: representing, learning, reasoning, and explaining knowledge (16/06/2022)
  • Roberta Calegari, Micro-Intelligence for the IoT: Logic-Based Models and Technologies (20/04/2018)
  • Adane Letta Mamuye, Simplicial Complexes and Graph Rewriting for Modelling RNA Folding (25/07/2017)
  • Stefano Mariani, Coordination Issues in Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Self-Organisation of Knowledge in MoK (13/05/2016)
  • Elena Nardini, Semantic Coordination Through Programmable Tuple Spaces (28/04/2011)
  • Sara Montagna, Multi-level models and infrastructures for simulating biological system development (28/04/2011)
  • Migle Laukyte, Law and Science through the Lens of Patent Law and Software Agents (14/07/2010)
  • Michele Piunti, Designing and Programming Organizational Infrastructures for Agents situated in Artifact-based Environments (30/04/2010)
  • Sameh Abdel-Naby, A Nomadicity-driven Negotiation Protocol, Tactics and Strategies for Interacting Software Agents (2010)
  • Aliaksandr Birukou, Implicit Culture Framework for behavior transfer. Definition, implementation and applications (2009)
  • Cu Duy Nguyen, Testing Techniques for Software Agents (2009)
  • Maurizio Cimadamore, Constructs and Applications of Generic Programming in Object-Oriented Languages (30/04/2010)
  • Matteo Casadei, Self-organising coordination systems (08/09/2009)
  • Luca Gardelli, Engineering Self-organising Systems with the Multi-Agent Paradigm (02/04/2008)
  • Enrico Oliva, Argumentation and artifacts for intelligent multi-agent systems (07/04/2008)
  • Ambra Molesini, Meta-models, environment and layers: agent-oriented engineering of complex systems (07/04/2008)
  • Matteo Palmonari, "Pervasive Computing and Space: A Knowledge Representation Approach", Scuola di Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze, Dottorato di Ricerca in Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy, June 2006
  • Marco Loregian, "Supporting Interaction in Contextualized Knowledge Sharing", Scuola di Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze, Dottorato di Ricerca in Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy, January 2006
  • Giuseppe Vizzari, Dynamic Interaction Spaces and Situated Multi-Agent Systems: From a Multi-Layered Model to a Distributed Architecture (15/02/2005)
  • Alessandro Ricci, Engineering Agent Societies with Coordination Artifacts and Supporting Infrastructures (15/04/2004)
  • Mirko Viroli, Full-Fledged Generics for Object-Oriented Programming Languages (14/03/2003)
  • Enrico Denti, Coordination of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems: Programming the Interaction (20/02/1998)