Research Activities about CArtAgO and Artifact Programming Model

Different kinds of research activities are ongoing concerning CArtAgO and A&A programming model:

• Defining a formal model for artifacts and CArtAgO for MAS verification
• Investigating models and ontologies for artifacts manual
• Investigating the theory and practice of autonomous selection and use (including creation, composition) of artifacts by intelligent agents
• CArtAgO and friends: integrating CArtAgO with main agent platforms enabling towards heterogeneous open MAS. 
• Artifact catalogs: developing reusable special-purpose artifacts with specific functionalities:
  • Coordination
  • Organization
  • Integration with Web Service technologies (SOA context)
  • Integration with Virtual Machine technologies (Autonomic Computing context)
  • GUI
• Extensions: extending the basic (programming) model with new features
  • testing and management interface (besides usage and link interfaces)
  • "artifacts as workspaces" - exploring hierarchical approaches in composing artifacts

If you are interested to know more about or directly participate to these activities, please send an email to Alessandro (a.ricci@unibo.it).