WOA 2019

XX Workshop "From Objects to Agents"
Parma, Italy, 26/06/2019–28/06/2019

After the first successful nineteen editions, the twentieth edition of the Workshop “From Objects to Agents” (WOA) will be held in Parma to serve as a forum for researchers and practitioners working on all aspects of agents and multi-agent systems. Following the significant interest that all facets of Artificial Intelligence have been recently obtaining, the theme of the twentieth edition of WOA is

<i>Software Agents in the Age of Artificial Intelligence</i>

The workshop is intended to foster discussions on the intricate relationship between software agents and Artificial Intelligence in the view of the opportunities that the vivid interest in Artificial Intelligence brings to software agents and agent-based software development.

topics of interest

Topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

  • Adaptive, animated and personality-driven agents
  • Agent-based software engineering
  • Agent-based languages and platforms
  • Agent-oriented methods and development tools
  • Agents and objects
  • Agents and supporting technologies for cooperation
  • Agents and e-commerce
  • Agents and sensor networks
  • Coordination, cooperation and communication for agents
  • Hardware and software infrastructures for agents and multi-agent systems
  • Learning, planning and reasoning for agents
  • Relations between software agents and Artificial Intelligence
  • Relations between software agents and other software technologies
  • Security, trust and responsibility in multi-agent systems
  • Software agents and the Web
  • Standards and interoperability for agents and multi-agent systems
  • Theoretical, conceptual and ontological basis of agents and multi-agent systems
works as
origin event for publication
page_white_acrobatInterpretable Narrative Explanation for ML Predictors with LP: A Case Study for XAI (paper in proceedings, 2019) — Roberta Calegari, Giovanni Ciatto, Jason Dellaluce, Andrea Omicini
page_white_acrobatOn the integration of symbolic and sub-symbolic techniques for XAI: A survey (article in journal, 2020) — Roberta Calegari, Giovanni Ciatto, Andrea Omicini
hosting event for talk
page_white_powerpointInterpretable Narrative Explanation for ML Predictors with LP: A Case Study for XAI (WOA 2019, 28/06/2019) — Roberta Calegari (Andrea Omicini, Giovanni Ciatto, Jason Dellaluce, Roberta Calegari)
series event