PhD Thesis (defended on January 29th, 2010)

Meta-Argumentation for Multiagent Systems: Coalition Formation, Merging Views, Subsumption Relation and Dependence Networks [PDF]

2010

JOURNALS

L. Sauro and S. Villata, Dependency in Cooperative Boolean Games. Journal of Logic and Computation, In press.

S. Villata, A Normative Multiagent Approach to Requirements Engineering. The Logic Journal of the IGPL, 18(1): 245-274, 2010.[PDF]

PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

G. Boella, D. M. Gabbay, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Arguing about Trust in Multiagent Systems. Procs. of the 11th Symposium on Artificial Intelligence of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA'10), In press, 2010.

G. Boella, D. M. Gabbay, A. Perotti, S. Villata, Coalition Formation via Negotiation in Multiagent Systems with Voluntary Attacks. Procs. of the 22th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC'10), 25-32, 2010.

G. Boella, D. M. Gabbay, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Support in Abstract Argumentation . Procs. of the Third International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA'10), IOS Press, 40-51, 2010.

L. Sauro and S. Villata, Optimizing the Core Computation with Social Networks . Procs. of Artificial Intelligence and Social Behavior Society Convention AISB 2010, Second Symposium on Social Networks and Multiagent Systems (SNAMAS'10), 2010.

PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS

G. Boella, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Trust in Abstract Argumentation. Procs. of the 4th Mahasarakham International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (MIWAI'10), In press, 2010.

G. Boella, D. M. Gabbay, S. Villata, Subsumption and Count as Relation in Arguments Ontologies. Procs. of the 13th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR'10), 2010.

2009

JOURNALS

G. Boella, D. M. Gabbay, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Meta-Argumentation Modelling I: Methodology and Techniques. Studia Logica, Springer, 93(2-3):297-355, 2009. [PDF]

G. Boella, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Analyzing Cooperation in Iterative Social Network Design. The Journal of Universal Computer Science, 15(13):2676-2700, 2009.[PDF]

LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

G. Boella, J. Broersen, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Representing Excuses in Social Dependence Networks. AI*IA 2009: Emergent Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence, 365-374, Springer LNCS 5883, 2009.[PDF]

G. Boella, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Conditional Dependence Networks in Requirements Engineering. COIN@AAMAS'09, LNCS, Springer, In press.[PDF]

L. Sauro, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Dependency in Cooperative Boolean Games, Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications. Third KES International Symposium (KES-AMSTA 2009), 1-10, Springer LNCS 5559, 2009.[PDF]

PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

G. Boella, V. Genovese, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Checking Consistency in role oriented Dependence Networks. BNAIC 2009: 21th Belgian - Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 27-34, 2009.[PDF]

G. Boella, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, On the Acceptability of Meta-Arguments. IAT 2009: Procs. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 259-262, IEEE 2009. [PDF]

G. Boella, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Four measures for the dynamics of coalitions in social networks. HYPERTEXT 2009: Procs. of 20th ACM Hypertext and Hypermedia Conference, 361-362, ACM 2009.[PDF]

L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Four Ways to Change Coalitions: Agents, Dependencies, Norms and Internal Dynamics. Procs. of Artificial Intelligence and Social Behavior Society Convention AISB 2009, First Symposium on Social Networks and Multiagent Systems (SNAMAS'09), 19-24, 2009.[PDF]

PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS

G. Boella, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Representing Coalitions Changes in Social Dependence Networks. Procs. of the Second Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops (MALLOW'09), 2009.

S. Villata, NorMAS-RE: a Normative Multiagent Approach to Requirements Engineering. Procs. of Fourth International Workshop on Normative Multi-Agent Systems, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 09121, 1-32, 2009.

2008

LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

G. Boella, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Changing Institutional Goals and Beliefs of Autonomous Agents. 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents (PRIMA'08), Springer LNCS 5357, 78-85, 15-16 December 2008.[PDF]

G. Boella, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Social Viewpoints for Arguing about Coalitions. 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents (PRIMA'08), Springer LNCS 5357, 66-77, 15-16 December 2008. [PDF]

PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

G. Boella, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Attack Relations among Dynamic Coalitions. 20th Belgian - Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC'08), 25-32, 2008.[PDF]

G. Boella, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Self Adaptive Coalitions in Multiagent Systems. Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO'08), 461-462, 20-24 October 2008.[PDF]

P. Caire, S. Villata, L. van der Torre, G. Boella, Conviviality masks in multiagent systems. Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'08), 1265-1268, 21-25 May 2008.[PDF]

D. Ienco, S. Villata, C. Bosco, Subcategorization frame extraction for Italian. Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), ELRA, 28-30 May 2008.[PDF]

G. Boella, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, Institutional Social Networks for Ambient Intelligence. Procs. of Artificial Intelligence and Social Behavior Society Convention AISB'08: Symposium on Intelligent Agents and Services for Smart Environments, Volume 8, 1-6, 1-4 April 2008.[PDF]

S. Villata, Towards Social Dynamic Dependence Networks for Institutions. Fourth European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS'08), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, 187-198, 21-25 July 2008.[PDF]

PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS

S. Villata, Institutional Social Dynamic Dependence Networks. Third International Workshop on Normative Multiagent Systems (NorMAS'08), 201-216, 15-16 July 2008.