Projects

Completed

• Performing tasks on the cloud (Alex Grassi, Alessandro Foschi, Giacomo Fiore)
• Self-Organisation and Adaptation within MAS: the crowd evacuation example (Andrea Pagliarani, Karin Pasini, Alessandro Battelli, Michele Matteini)
• Condivisione di servizi con JADE (Cornel Moisuc)
• Bio-inspired Design Patterns in MAS (Pietro Brunetti, Angelo Croatti, Francesca Marchi)
• Hovering Information using JADE on Android (Luca Ricchi, Andrea Tomasello, Lorenzo Perlini)
• Home Automation in JADE (Alessandro Zoffoli, Mattia Baldani)
• Logiche di Produzione con Sistemi Distribuiti (Cristiano Bragagni)
• Systems Biology with MASs (Nicolò Sordoni, Davide Solazzi)
• Smart Buses: Agent Aided Management (Michele Amati, Matteo Corfiati, Federico Fucci, Fabrizio Masini)
• Indicizzazione di siti Web in JADE (Diego Alicata)
• Automated Agent-Oriented Real-Time Skidding Controller (Marco Carlo Cavalazzi, Mattia Castrichino)
• eChat: Facebook integrated chat using JADE on Android (Tomas Fedeli, Davide Gianessi)
• Sistema di gestione slot machine (Luca Lo Iacono, Andi Pavllo, Antonio Magnani)
• RSS-based sources of knowledge in MoK-News (Andrea Corzani, Elia Zoffoli, Claudia Capelli)
• UrbaNews (Emanuele Buccelli, Francesco Degli Angeli, Marco Leali)
• TuCSoN 4 JADE (Luca Sangiorgi)
• TOTA on TuCSoN (Fabio Paolucci, Roberto Togni)

Ongoing

• Ricerca ottimizzata dei PDI (Punti d'Interesse) (Stefano Morganti)
• Digital Pheromones in Distributed Systems (Riccardo Manduchi)
• Mobile Semantic XWiki: APICe as a case study (Andrea Buscarini, Pietro Antonio Nompleggio, Marco Zaccheroni)

Proposed

• Exploring Uniform Primitives' Expressiveness: A catalog of Self-Organising Patterns

Goal

• Modelling, designing and implementing a "catalog" of self-organising patterns/mechanisms/behaviours enabled by uniform primitives solely

References

• Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Sara Montagna, Mirko Viroli, Josep Lluis Arcos. Description and composition of bio-inspired design patterns: a complete overview. Natural Computing 12(1), 2013
• Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei, Luca Gardelli. A Self-Organising Solution to the Collective Sort Problem in Distributed Tuple Spaces. SAC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2007
• TuCSoN Home Page

• Situated ReSpecT for TuCSoN

Goal

• discussing and possibly implementing situatedness-related concepts and facilities within the TuCSoN infrastructure

References

• Matteo Casadei, Andrea Omicini. Situating A&A ReSpecT for Pervasive Environment Applications. 17th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises. Workshop on Coordination Models and Applications (CoMA 2008), 23-25 June 2008
• Matteo Casadei, Andrea Omicini. Situated Tuple Centres in ReSpecT. 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009), 8-12 March 2009
• TuCSoN Home Page

• Timed ReSpecT for TuCSoN

Goal

• discussing, experimenting and possibly implementing/extending/correcting time-related concepts and facilities within the TuCSoN infrastructure

References

• Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli. Time-Aware Coordination in ReSpecT. Coordination Models and Languages, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3454, April 2005
• TuCSoN Home Page

• (Biological) Simulation over TuCSoN Middleware

Goal

• discussing and possibly extending a coordination framework to towards biological simulations in a distributed setting

References

• Pedro Pablo González Pérez, Andrea Omicini, Marco Sbaraglia. A Biochemically-inspired Coordination-based Model for Simulating Intracellular Signalling Pathways. Journal of Simulation 7(3), August 2013
• TuCSoN Home Page (preferred)

• The GAMMA model within TuCSoN

Goal

• discussing and possibly implementing the GAMMA computational model within the TuCSoN infrastructure by exploiting ReSpecT reactions

References

• Jean-Pierre Banătre, Pascal Fradet, Daniel Le Métayer. Gamma and the Chemical Reaction Model: Fifteen Years After. Multiset Processing. Mathematical, Computer Science, and Molecular Computing Points of View, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2235, 2001
• Jean-Pierre Banătre, Daniel Le Métayer. The GAMMA Model and its Discipline of Programming. Science of Computer Programming 15(1), November 1990
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• LogOp as a spatial extension to Linda coordination primitives

Goal

• discussing and possibly implementing (part of) the LogOp model to enable scope-based coordination

References

• Ronaldo Menezes, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli. Dynamic Composition of Coordination Abstractions in LogOp. 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2013), September 2012
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• Co-fields on a tuple-based middleware

Goal

• discussing and possibly implementing (part of) the Co-fields model on TuCSoN to enable field-based coordination

References

• Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli, Letizia Leonardi. Co-fields: Towards a Unifying Approach to the Engineering of Swarm Intelligent Systems. Engineering Societies in the Agents World III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2577, 2003
• TuCSoN Home Page