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 @phdthesis{such-phdthesis11,
    address = {València, Spain},
    author = {Such Aparicio, Jose Miguel},
    institution = {Universitat Politècnica de València},
    month = nov,
    school = {Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació},
    title = {Enhancing Privacy in Multi-Agent Systems},
    year = 2011
} 

 @phdthesis{montagna-phdthesis11,
    address = {Bologna, Italy},
    author = {Montagna, Sara},
    institution = {Alma Mater Studiorum--Università di Bologna},
    keywords = {Morphogenesis, Developmental Biology, Self-Organisation, Computational Biology, Multi-level Models, Formal Methods, Agent-based Model, Stochastic Simulation, Meta-heuristic, Parameter Optimisation},
    month = mar,
    school = {Dottorato in Ingegneria Elettronica, Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni},
    title = {Multi-level models and infrastructures for simulating biological system development},
    year = 2011
} 

 @phdthesis{thesisMP,
	author = {Piunti, Michele},
	title = {Designing and Programming Organizational Infrastructures for Agents situated in Artifact-based Environments},
	year = 2010,
	institution = {Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna},
	abstract = {Actual trends in software development are pushing the need to face a multiplicity of diverse activities and interaction styles characterizing complex and distributed application domains, in such a way that the resulting dynamics exhibits some grade of order, i.e. in terms of evolution of the system and desired equilibrium. Autonomous agents and Multiagent Systems are argued in literature as one of the most immediate approaches for describing such a kind of challenges. Actually, agent research seems to converge towards the definition of renewed abstraction tools aimed at better capturing the new demands of open systems. Besides agents, which are assumed as autonomous entities purposing a series of design objectives, Multiagent Systems account new notions as first-class entities, aimed, above all, at
modeling institutional/organizational entities, placed for normative regulation, interaction and teamwork management, as well as environmental entities, placed as resources to further support and regulate agent work.

The starting point of this thesis is recognizing that both organizations and environments can be rooted in a unifying perspective.
Whereas recent research in agent systems seems to account a set of diverse approaches to specifically face with at least one aspect within the above mentioned, this work aims at proposing a unifying approach where both agents and their organizations can be straightforwardly situated in properly designed working environments. In this line, this work pursues reconciliation of environments with sociality, social interaction with environment based interaction, environmental resources with organizational functionalities with the aim to smoothly integrate the various aspects of complex and situated organizations in a coherent programming approach. Rooted in Agents and Artifacts (A&A) meta-model, which has been recently introduced both in the context of agent oriented software engineering and programming, the thesis promotes the notion of Embodied Organizations, characterized by computational infrastructures attaining a seamless integration between agents, organizations and environmental entities. },
	keywords = {Multiagent Systems, Agent Oriented Programming, Agents, Organizations, Environments, Norms, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructures, Artifacts},
	status = {Published},
	venue = {--},
	school = {Research Doctorates in Electronics, Computer Science and Telecommunications},
	month = {April}} 

 @phdthesis{abdelnaby-phdthesis,
	Address = {Trento, Italy},
	Author = {Abdel-Naby, Sameh},
	Institution = {Universit{\`a} di Trento},
	Keywords = {Multi-Agent Systems, Negotiation, Nomadicity, Pocket Computing Devices},
	Month = {10}}},
	Year = 2010} 

 @phdthesis{nguyen-phdthesis09,
	Author = {Nguyen, Cu Duy},
	Keywords = {software agent testing, goal-oriented testing methodology, multiagent systems, agent-oriented software engineering},
	Month = jan,
	Organisation = {DISI, Universit{\`a} di Trento},
	School = {International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies},
	Title = {Testing Techniques for Software Agents},
	Year = 2009} 

 @phdthesis{birukou-phdthesis09,
	Author = {Birukou, Aliaksandr},
	Keywords = {culture, communities, behavior transfer, agents, recommendation systems},
	Month = mar,
	Organisation = {DISI, Universit{\`a} di Trento},
	School = {International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies},
	Title = {Implicit Culture Framework for behavior transfer. Definition, implementation and applications},
	Year = 2009} 

 @phdthesis{casadei-phdthesis09,
	Address = {Bologna, Italy},
	Author = {Casadei, Matteo},
	Institution = {Alma Mater Studiorum--Universit{\`a} di Bologna},
	Month = mar,
	School = {Dottorato in Ingegneria Elettronica, Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni},
	Title = {Self-Organising Coordination Systems},
	Year = 2009} 

 @phdthesis{gardelli-phdthesis08,
	Address = {Bologna, Italy},
	Author = {Gardelli, Luca},
	Institution = {Alma Mater Studiorum--Universit{\`a} di Bologna},
	Month = mar,
	School = {Dottorato in Ingegneria Elettronica e Informatica},
	Title = {Engineering Self-organising Systems with the Multiagent Paradigm},
	Year = 2008} 

     @phdthesis{olivaphdthesis08,
    	Address = {Cesena, Italy},
    	Author = {Oliva, Enrico},
    	Institution = {Alma Mater Studiorum--Universit{\`a} di Bologna},
    	Month = mar,
    	School = {Dottorato in Ingegneria Elettronica, Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni},
    	Title = {Argumentation and Artifacts for Intelligent Multi-agent Systems},
    	Year = 2008}

 

 @phdthesis{muldoon-phdthesis08,
	Address = {Dublin, Ireland},
	Author = {Muldoon, Conor},
	Institution = {University College Dublin},
	Month = feb,
	School = {School of Computer Science and Informatics},
	Title = {An Agent Framework for Ubiquitous Services},
	Year = 2008}
 

 @phdthesis{molesini-phdthesis08,
	Address = {Bologna, Italy},
	Author = {Molesini, Ambra},
	Institution = {Alma Mater Studiorum--Universit{\`a} di Bologna},
	Keywords = {Multi-agent Systems, Agent-oriented Software Engineering, Agent-oriented Methodologies, Environment, Infrastructures, Meta-models, Layering Principle, SODA},
	Month = feb,
	School = {Dottorato in Ingegneria Elettronica, Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni},
	Title = {Meta-Models, Environment and Layers: Agent-Oriented Engineering of Complex Systems},
	Year = 2008}
 

 @phdthesis{ricci-phdthesis03,
    address = {Bologna, Italy},
    author = {Ricci, Alessandro},
    institution = {Alma Mater Studiorum -- Università di Bologna},
    keywords = {Coordination, Multiagent Systems, Activity Theory, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Coordination Infrastructures, Agent Societies, Coordination Artifacts},
    month = mar,
    school = {Dottorato in Ingegneria Elettronica, Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni},
    title = {Engineering Agent Societies with Coordination Artifacts and Supporting Infrastructures},
    year = 2003
} 

 @phdthesis{phdthesis-tessaris01,
	Author = {Tessaris, Sergio},
	Month = apr,
	Organisation = {Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester},
	School = {Doctorate of Philosophy in the Faculty of Science and Engineering},
	Title = {Questions and Answers: Reasoning and Querying in Description Logic},
	Year = 2001} 

 @phdthesis{fielding-phdthesis00,
	Address = {Irvine, CA, USA},
	Author = {Fielding, Roy Thomas},
	School = {University of California},
	Title = {Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures},
	Url = {http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm},
	Year = 2000}
 

 @phdthesis {D-phdthesis,
   author       = {Denti,Enrico},
   title        = {Coordination of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems: Programming the Interaction}, 
   year         = {1998},
   school       = {Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (DEIS)
	           Viale Risorgimento 2, I-40136 Bologna, Italy},
} 

 @phdthesis{rowstron-thesis,
	Author = {Rowstron, Antony Ian Taylor},
	School = {The University of York},
	Title = {Bulk Primitives in {L}inda Run-Time Systems},
	Year = 1996} 

 @phdthesis{omicini-phdthesis95,
    address = {Bologna, Italy},
    author = {Omicini, Andrea},
    institution = {Alma Mater Studiorum -- Università di Bologna},
    month = feb,
    pages = {IV, 149},
    school = {Dottorato in Ingegneria Elettronica e Informatica},
    title = {Programmazione Logica Orientata agli Oggetti},
    year = 1995
} 

 @phdthesis{suchman-thesis85,
	Author = {Suchman, Lucy A.},
	Keywords = {situated action},
	Pages = {viii, 143},
	School = {Xerox Corporation},
	Title = {Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication},
	Url = {http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/ISL-6\_Plans\_and\_Situated\_Actions.pdf},
	Year = 1985}