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@inproceedings{AMP-SAC12,
  author = {Ancona, D. and Mascardi, V. and Pavarino, O.},
  title = {Ontology-based documentation extraction for
                   semi-automatic migration of {J}ava code},
  booktitle = {A{CM} {S}ymposium on {A}pplied {C}omputing ({SAC}
                   2012)},
  editor = {Ossowski, S. and Lecca, P.},
  pages = {1137--1143},
  publisher = {ACM},
  abstract = {Migrating libraries is not a trivial task, even under
                   the simplest assumption of a downward compatible
                   upgrade. We propose a novel approach to partially
                   relieve programmers from this task, based on the simple
                   observation that class, method and field names and
                   comments contained in a Java library should be a good
                   approximation of its semantics, and that code migration
                   requires knowing the semantic similarities between the
                   two libraries. Following this assumption, we borrow the
                   main concepts and notions from the Semantic Web, and
                   show how (1) an ontology can be automatically generated
                   from the relevant information extracted from the code
                   of the library; (2) semantic similarities between two
                   different libraries can be found by running a
                   particular ontology matching (a.k.a. ontology
                   alignment) algorithm on the two ontologies extracted
                   from the libraries. The main advantages of the approach
                   are that ontology extraction can be fully automated,
                   without adding ad-hoc code annotations, and that
                   results and tools produced by the Semantic Web research
                   community can be directly re-used for our purposes.
                   Experiments carried out even with simple and efficient
                   freely available matchers show that our approach is
                   promising, even though it would benefit from the use of
                   more advanced ontology matchers possibly integrated
                   with a component for checking type compatibility of the
                   computed alignments. },
  ftp = {ftp://ftp.disi.unige.it/person/AnconaD/AMP-SAC12.pdf},
  keywords = {agents, ontologies, refactoring},
  year = 2012
}
@inproceedings{ADM-DALT12,
  author = {Ancona, D. and Drossopoulou, S. and Mascardi, V.},
  title = {{Automatic Generation of Self-Monitoring MASs from
                   Multiparty Global Session Types in Jason}},
  booktitle = {Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT
                   2012). Workshop Notes.},
  pages = {1--17},
  abstract = {Global session types are behavioral types designed for
                   specifying in a compact way multiparty interactions
                   between distributed components, and verifying their
                   correctness. We take advantage of the fact that global
                   session types can be naturally represented as cyclic
                   Prolog terms - which are directly supported by the
                   Jason implementation of AgentSpeak - to allow simple
                   automatic generation of self-monitoring MASs: given a
                   global session type specifying an interaction protocol,
                   and the implementation of a MAS where agents are
                   expected to be compliant with it, we define a procedure
                   for automatically deriving a self-monitoring MAS. Such
                   a generated MAS ensures that agents conform to the
                   protocol at run-time, by adding a monitor agent that
                   checks that the ongoing conversation is correct w.r.t.
                   the global session type. The feasibility of the
                   approach has been experimented in Jason for a
                   non-trivial example involving recursive global session
                   types with alternative choice and fork type
                   constructors. Although the main aim of this work is the
                   development of a unit testing framework for MASs, the
                   proposed approach can be also extended to implement a
                   framework supporting self-recovering MASs.},
  ftp = {ftp://ftp.disi.unige.it/person/AnconaD/ADM-DALT12.pdf},
  keywords = {agents, behavioral-types},
  year = 2012
}
@inproceedings{ABM-ICTCS12,
  author = {Ancona, D. and Barbieri, M. and Mascardi, V.},
  title = {Global {T}ypes for {D}ynamic {C}hecking of {P}rotocol
                   {C}onformance of {M}ulti-{A}gent {S}ystems ({E}xtended
                   {A}bstract)},
  booktitle = {13th {I}talian {C}onference on {T}heoretical
                   {C}omputer {S}cience ({ICTCS} 2012)},
  editor = {Massazza, P.},
  pages = {39--43},
  abstract = {In this paper we investigate the theoretical
                   foundations of global types for dynamic checking of
                   protocol compliance in multi-agents systems and we
                   extend the formalism by introducing a concatenation
                   operator that allows a significant enhancement of the
                   expressive power of global types. As examples, we show
                   how two non trivial protocols can be compactly
                   represented in the formalism: a ping-pong protocol, and
                   an alternating bit protocol, in the version proposed by
                   Deni\backslash{}'elou and Yoshida. Both protocols
                   cannot be specified easily (if at all) by other global
                   type frameworks, while in our approach they can be
                   expressed by two deterministic types (in a sense made
                   precise in the sequel) that can be effectively employed
                   for dynamic checking of the conformance to the
                   protocol.},
  ftp = {ftp://ftp.disi.unige.it/person/AnconaD/ABM-ICTCS12.pdf},
  keywords = {agents, behavioral-types},
  year = 2012
}
@inproceedings{AnconaMascardi-MALLOW-AWESOME09,
  author = {Ancona, D. and Mascardi, V.},
  title = {Exploiting {A}gents and {O}ntologies for {T}ype- and
                   {M}eaning-{S}afe {A}daptation of {J}ava {P}rograms},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {MALLOW}-{AWESOME} 2009 workshop},
  volume = {494},
  publisher = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  abstract = {This paper discusses an application of intelligent
                   software agents and ontologies to solve the problem of
                   semi-automatic porting of Java programs. We have
                   designed a system for aiding users to adapt Java code
                   in a type- and meaning-safe way, when an application
                   has to migrate to new libraries which are not fully
                   compatible with the legacy ones. To achieve this, we
                   propose an approach based on an integration of the two
                   type-theoretic notions of subtyping and type
                   isomorphism with ontology matching. While the former
                   notions are needed to ensure flexible adaptation in the
                   presence of type-safety, the latter supports the user
                   to preserve the meaning of names that appear in the
                   program to be adapted. Intelligent agents control the
                   different components of the system and interact with
                   other agents in order to provide the final user with
                   the semi-automatic porting service he/she required.},
  ftp = {http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-494/mallowawesomepaper6.pdf},
  keywords = {agents,refactoring},
  year = 2009
}
@inproceedings{MDA-WOA05,
  author = {Mascardi, V. and Demergasso, D. and Ancona, D.},
  title = {Languages for {P}rogramming {BDI}-style {A}gents: an
                   {O}verview},
  booktitle = {W{OA} 2005 - {W}orkshop {F}rom {O}bjects to {A}gents},
  editor = {Corradini, F. and De Paoli, F. and Merelli, E. and
                   Omicini, A.},
  pages = {9--15},
  abstract = {The notion of an intelligent agent as an entity which
                   appears to be the subject of mental attitudes like
                   beliefs, desires and intentions (hence, the BDI
                   acronym) is well known and accepted by many
                   researchers. Besides the definition of various BDI
                   logics, many languages and integrated environments for
                   programming BDI-style agents have been proposed since
                   the early nineties. In this reasoned bibliography, nine
                   languages and implemented systems, namely PRS, dMARS,
                   JACK, JAM, Jadex, AgentSpeak(L), 3APL, Dribble, and
                   Coo-BDI, are discussed and compared. References to
                   other systems and languages based on the BDI model are
                   also provided, as well as pointers to surveys dealing
                   with related topics. },
  ftp = {http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MascardiV/Download/ancona-demergasso-mascardi-WOA05-final.pdf},
  keywords = {agents},
  year = 2005
}
@inproceedings{BMAB-EUMAS05,
  author = {Bozzo, L. and Mascardi, V. and Ancona, D. and Busetta,
                   P.},
  title = {C{OOWS}: {A}daptive {BDI} {A}gents meet
                   {S}ervice-{O}riented {C}omputing},
  booktitle = {E{UMAS} 2005 - {P}roceedings of the {T}hird {E}uropean
                   {W}orkshop on {M}ulti-{A}gent {S}ystems, {B}russels,
                   {B}elgium, {D}ecember 7-8, 2005},
  editor = {Gleizes, M. P. and Kaminka, G. A. and Now\'e, A. and
                   Ossowski, S. and Tuyls, K. and Verbeeck, K.},
  pages = {473},
  abstract = {Mainstream research in Web Services is currently
                   looking at two main aspects, namely formally describing
                   interactions among services, and finding and combining
                   services. Much work made in the intelligent agents area
                   is being applied to these issues. In this paper, we
                   investigate the application of agent research to Web
                   Services from a different perspective, that is,
                   procedural learning. The final objective is to enable
                   an adaptive system (an agent in our terminology) to
                   discover or being fed with knowledge concerning how to
                   solve a specific set of problems in a specific software
                   or physical environment. Our work is a very preliminary
                   step into the issue, with the main objective of
                   assessing how current Web Services technology can
                   support a component, described in terms of beliefs,
                   desires and intentions, dynamically adapting its
                   behaviour to new environments. },
  ftp = {http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MascardiV/Download/coows4eumas.zip},
  keywords = {agents},
  year = 2005
}
@inproceedings{AMHB-AAMAS04,
  author = {Ancona, D. and Mascardi, V. and H\"ubner, J.F. and
                   Bordini, R. H.},
  title = {Coo-{A}gent{S}peak: {C}ooperation in {A}gent{S}peak
                   through {P}lan {E}xchange},
  booktitle = {A{AMAS} 2004 ({I}nt. {C}onf. on {A}utonomous {A}gents
                   and {M}ultiagent {S}ystems)},
  editor = {Jennings, N. R. and Sierra, C. and Sonenberg, L. and
                   Tambe, M.},
  pages = {698--705},
  publisher = {ACM press},
  abstract = { This paper brings together two recent contributions
                   to the area of declarative agent-oriented programming,
                   made feasible in practice by the recent introduction of
                   an interpreter for a BDI programming language. The work
                   on CooBDI has proposed an approach to plan exchange
                   which applies to BDI agents in general. The other
                   contribution is the introduction of special
                   illocutionary forces for plan exchange between
                   AgentSpeak agents. This has been implemented in Jason,
                   an interpreter for an extended version of
                   AgentSpeak(L). Jason also provides mechanisms that
                   allow the specification of plan permissions, which are
                   important in the cooperation context. This paper shows
                   how elaborate plan exchange can take place between
                   AgentSpeak agents implemented with Jason. It also
                   discusses an application in which plan sharing is
                   essential.},
  ftp = {ftp://ftp.disi.unige.it/pub/person/AnconaD/AAMAS04.pdf},
  keywords = {agents},
  year = 2004
}
@inproceedings{AM-DALT04,
  author = {Ancona, D. and Mascardi, V.},
  title = {Coo-{BDI}: {E}xtending the {BDI} {M}odel with
                   {C}ooperativity},
  booktitle = {Declarative {A}gent {L}anguages and {T}echniques,
                   {F}irst {I}nternational {W}orkshop, {DALT} 2003,
                   {R}evised {S}elected and {I}nvited {P}apers},
  editor = {Leite, J. and Omicini, A. and Sterling, L. and
                   Torroni, P.},
  volume = {2990},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  pages = {109--134},
  publisher = {Springer Verlag},
  abstract = {We define Coo-BDI, an extension of the BDI
                   architecture with the notion of cooperativity. Agents
                   can cooperate by exchanging and sharing plans in a
                   quite flexible way. As a main result Coo-BDI promotes
                   adaptivity and sharing of resources; as a by-product,
                   it provides a better support for dealing with agents
                   which do not possess their own procedural knowledge for
                   processing a given event. },
  ftp = {ftp://ftp.disi.unige.it/pub/person/AnconaD/DALT03.ps.gz},
  keywords = {agents},
  year = 2004
}

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