M9 – Nature-Inspired Coordination and Self-Organisation

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Nature-inspired coordination, from early to modern examples, its issues and trends: coordination for complex systems, for simulation, stochastic systems, and knowledge-oriented coordination.

course of the deck
Course_icon.svg Intelligent Systems Engineering (Module 1) (2nd cycle, 2024/2025) — Andrea Omicini
used in the lectures
reference publication
Publication_icon.svg Gamma and the Chemical Reaction Model: Fifteen Years After (book chapter, 2001) — Jean-Pierre Banătre, Pascal Fradet, Daniel Le Métayer
Publication_icon.svg The GAMMA Model and its Discipline of Programming (article in journal, 1990) — Jean-Pierre Banâtre, Daniel Le Métayer
Publication_icon.svg The Chemical Abstract Machine (article in journal, 1992) — Gérard Berry, Gérard Boudol
Publication_icon.svg Lectures on Gas Theory (book, 1964) — Ludwig Boltzmann
Publication_icon.svg Quantitative Information in the Tuple Space Coordination Model (article in journal, 2005) — Mario Bravetti, Roberto Gorrieri, Roberto Lucchi, Gianluigi Zavattaro
Publication_icon.svg A process algebraic view of Linda coordination primitives (article in journal, 1998) — Nadia Busi, Roberto Gorrieri, Gianluigi Zavattaro
Publication_icon.svg Coordination Models and Languages as Software Integrators (article in journal, 1996) — Paolo Ciancarini
Publication_icon.svg Coordination Technologies for Internet Agents (article in journal, 1999) — Paolo Ciancarini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
Publication_icon.svg Multiagent System Engineering: The Coordination Viewpoint (paper in proceedings, 2000) — Paolo Ciancarini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
Publication_icon.svg KLAIM: A Kernel Language for Agent Interaction and Mobility (article in journal, 1998) — Rocco De Nicola, Gianluigi Ferrari, Rosario Pugliese
Publication_icon.svg StoKlaim: A Stochastic Extension of Klaim (technical report, 2006) — Rocco De Nicola, Diego Latella, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Mieke Massink
Publication_icon.svg On the Expressive Power of a Language for Programming Coordination Media (paper in proceedings, 1998) — Enrico Denti, Antonio Natali, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Targeting RAS Signalling Pathways in Cancer Therapy (article in journal, 2003) — Julian Downward
Publication_icon.svg Designing Self-organising MAS Environments: The Collective Sort Case (paper in proceedings, 2007) — Luca Gardelli, Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Generative Communication in Linda (article in journal, 1985) — David Gelernter
Publication_icon.svg Coordination Languages and Their Significance (article in journal, 1992) — David Gelernter, Nicholas Carriero
Publication_icon.svg A Biochemically-inspired Coordination-based Model for Simulating Intracellular Signalling Pathways (article in journal, 2013) — Pedro Pablo González Pérez, Andrea Omicini, Marco Sbaraglia
Publication_icon.svg Investigations (book, 2003) — Stuart A. Kauffman
Publication_icon.svg Toward Nature-Inspired Computing (article in journal, 2006) — Jiming Liu, Kwok Ching Tsui
Publication_icon.svg Programming Pervasive and Mobile Computing Applications with the TOTA Middleware (paper in proceedings, 2004) — Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
Publication_icon.svg Introduction to Econophysics: Correlations and Complexity in Finance (book, 1999) — Rosario N. Mantegna, H. Eugene Stanley
Publication_icon.svg Molecules of Knowledge: Self-Organisation in Knowledge-Intensive Environments (paper in proceedings, 2013) — Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Probabilistic Embedding: Experiments with Tuple-based Probabilistic Languages (paper in proceedings, 2013) — Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Probabilistic Modular Embedding for Stochastic Coordinated Systems (paper in proceedings, 2013) — Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Self-Organising News Management: The Molecules of Knowledge Approach (paper in proceedings, 2013) — Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Tuple-based Coordination of Stochastic Systems with Uniform Primitives (paper in proceedings, 2013) — Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Information, Physics, and Computation (book, 2009) — Marc Mézard, Andrea Montanari
Publication_icon.svg Semantic Tuple Centres (article in journal, 2013) — Elena Nardini, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli
Publication_icon.svg Coordinating e-Health Systems with TuCSoN Semantic Tuple Centres (article in journal, 2011) — Elena Nardini, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli, Michael Ignaz Schumacher
Publication_icon.svg G Protein Pathways (article in journal, 2002) — Susana R. Neves, Prahlad T. Ram, Ravi Iyengar
Publication_icon.svg Agents Writing on Walls: Cognitive Stigmergy and Beyond (book chapter, 2012) — Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Nature-inspired Coordination for Complex Distributed Systems (paper in proceedings, 2013) — Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg From Tuple Spaces to Tuple Centres (article in journal, 2001) — Andrea Omicini, Enrico Denti
Publication_icon.svg Time-Aware Coordination in ReSpecT (paper in proceedings, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli
Publication_icon.svg The Multidisciplinary Patterns of Interaction from Sciences to Computer Science (book chapter, 2006) — Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli
Publication_icon.svg Timed Environment for Web Agents (article in journal, 2007) — Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli
Publication_icon.svg Coordination Artifacts: Environment-based Coordination for Intelligent Agents (paper in proceedings, 2004) — Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Luca Tummolini
Publication_icon.svg Coordination Models and Languages: From Parallel Computing To Self-Organisation (article in journal, 2011) — Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli
Publication_icon.svg MAS as Complex Systems: A View on the Role of Declarative Approaches (paper in proceedings, 2004) — Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
Publication_icon.svg A Survey of Environments and Mechanisms for Human-Human Stigmergy (paper in proceedings, 2006) — H. Van Dyke Parunak
Publication_icon.svg Digital Pheromone Mechanisms for Coordination of Unmanned Vehicles (paper in proceedings, 2002) — H. van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John Sauter
Publication_icon.svg Cognitive Stigmergy: Towards a Framework Based on Agents and Artifacts (paper in proceedings, 2007) — Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli, Luca Gardelli, Enrico Oliva
Publication_icon.svg Environment-Based Coordination Through Coordination Artifacts (paper in proceedings, 2005) — Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Tuple-based Technologies for Coordination (book chapter, 2001) — Davide Rossi, Giacomo Cabri, Enrico Denti
Publication_icon.svg The Architecture of Complexity (article in journal, 1962) — Herbert A. Simon
Publication_icon.svg Econophysics and the Current Economic Turmoil (article in journal, 2008) — H. Eugene Stanley
Publication_icon.svg Using Swarm Intelligence in Linda Systems (paper in proceedings, 2004) — Robert Tolksdorf, Ronaldo Menezes
Publication_icon.svg Social Coordination: Principles, Artefacts and Theories (SOCIAL.PATH) (edited volume, 2013) — Harko Verhagen, Pablo Noriega, Tina Balke, Marina de Vos
Publication_icon.svg Biochemical Tuple Spaces for Self-Organising Coordination (paper in proceedings, 2009) — Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei
Publication_icon.svg Towards a Pervasive Infrastructure for Chemical-Inspired Self-organising Services (paper in proceedings, 2010) — Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei, Elena Nardini, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg A Framework for Modelling and Implementing Self-Organising Coordination (paper in proceedings, 2009) — Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Coordination as a Service (article in journal, 2006) — Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Why Interaction Is More Powerful Than Algorithms (article in journal, 1997) — Peter Wegner
Publication_icon.svg Environment as a First-class Abstraction in Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2007) — Danny Weyns, Andrea Omicini, James J. Odell
Publication_icon.svg Socio-technical systems (encyclopedia entry, 2006) — Brian Whitworth
Publication_icon.svg Challenges and Research Directions in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (article in journal, 2004) — Franco Zambonelli, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Developing Pervasive Multi-Agent Systems with Nature-Inspired Coordination (article in journal, 2015) — Franco Zambonelli, Andrea Omicini, Bernhard Anzengruber, Gabriella Castelli, Francesco L. DeAngelis, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Simon Dobson, José Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Alois Ferscha, Marco Mamei, Stefano Mariani, Ambra Molesini, Sara Montagna, Jussi Nieminen, Danilo Pianini, Matteo Risoldi, Alberto Rosi, Graeme Stevenson, Mirko Viroli, Juan Ye
Publication_icon.svg On the Incomparability of Gamma and Linda (technical report, 1998) — Gianluigi Zavattaro