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Nicoletta Fornara

nicoletta.fornara AT lu DOT unisi DOT ch
Università della Svizzera Italiana,
Facoltà di Scienze della comunicazione,
Centrocivico, Via Giuseppe Buffi, 13,
6900 Lugano, Switzerland
Tel +41 (0)58 666 45 13;
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Books (editing)

2006

P. Noriega, J. Vázquez-Salceda, G. Boella, O. Boissier, V. Dignum, N. Fornara, E. Matson (Eds.)
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II AAMAS 2006 and ECAI 2006 International Workshops, COIN 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Riva del Garda, Italy, August 28, 2006 Revised Selected Papers
LNCS/LNAI 4386/2007, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg ISBN 978-3-540-74457-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-74459-7.

International Journal Papers

2008

N. Fornara, F. Viganò, M. Verdicchio and M. Colombetti. Artificial institutions: a model of institutional reality for open multiagent systems.
Artificial Intelligence and Law, Springer Netherlands Volume 16, number 1, pages 89-105, March 2008
DOI NUMBER http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10506-007-9055-z (pdf-file)

2007

N. Fornara, F. Viganò, and M. Colombetti. Agent Communication and Artificial Institutions.
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Springer Netherlands, Volume 14, Number 2, pages 121-142, April, 2007
DOI NUMBER http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10458-006-0017-8 (pdf-file)

2005

Amy Greenwald, Peter Stone et al.The First International Trading Agent Competition: Autonomous Bidding Agents.
Electronic Commerce Research, Springer Netherlands, 5(2):229-265, April, 2005
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10660-005-6158-z (written in 2002)

2004

N. Fornara and M. Colombetti. A commitment-based approach to agent communication.
Applied Artificial Intelligence an International Journal, Taylor & Francis Group, 18(9-10):853-866, 2004.

2002

Andrea E. Rizzoli, Nicoletta Fornara, Luca Maria Gambardella. A Simulation Tool for Combined Rail-Road Transport in Intermodal Terminals. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Elsevier Science, 59/1-3 pp. 57-71, 2002 MATCOM.

Italian Journal Papers

2003

Marco Colombetti, Nicoletta Fornara, Mario Verdicchio. Linguaggio e realtà sociale nei sistemi di agenti artificiali.
Networks rivista di filosofia dell'intelligenza artificiale e scienze cognitive (a journal of the philosophy of artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences) 1:48-67, 2003 (on line paper).

Chapter of a Book

2009

Nicoletta Fornara and Marco Colombetti, Specifying Artificial Institutions in the Event Calculus (Chapter XIV).
In V. Dignum editor, Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models,
IGI Global, pages 335-366 ISBN: 1-60566-256-9, March 2009.
Examples used to test the axioms described in the paper.

2003

Marco Colombetti, Nicoletta Fornara, Mario Verdicchio. Speech acts in artificial agent communication
Linguistica e nuove professioni, a cura di A. Giacalone Ramat, E. Rigotti, A. Rocci, FrancoAngeli, pp.70-92, 2003.

Ph.D Thesis

2003

Nicoletta Fornara. Interaction and Communication among Autonomous Agents in Multiagent Systems
Ph.D. Thesis, Università della Svizzera italiana, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione, June 2003
(pdf-file 827 Kb)

Conference and Workshop - Reviewed Papers

2009

Nicoletta Fornara and Marco Colombetti. Ontology and Time Evolution of Obligations and Prohibitions using Semantic Web Technology In Proceedings of the Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies DALT@AAMAS09, Budapest, Hungary, 11 May 2009.on-line paper
Ontology and Java program described in the paper.

2007

Nicoletta Fornara and Marco Colombetti. Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions.
In A. Omicini, B. Dunin-Keplicz, and J. Padget, editors, Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 06), Lisbon, Portugal, 14th-15th December 2006.
Revised version in G. Boella, L. van der Torre, and H. Verhagen, editors, Normative Multi-agent Systems, number 07122 in Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings. Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum fuer Informatik (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 2007. on-line paper.

2006

Francesco Viganò, Nicoletta Fornara, and Marco Colombetti. An Event Driven Approach to Norms in Artificial Institutions. .
In O. Boissier, J. Padget, V. Dignum, G. Lindemann, E. Matson, S. Ossowski, J. Simao Sichman, J. Vázquez-Salceda editors, Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems: AAMAS 2005 International Workshops on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems, ANIREM 2005, and Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems, OOOP 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25-26, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. LNCS Volume 3913, Jan 2006, Pages 142 - 154,
DOI: 10.1007/11775331_10 (pdf-file)

2005

Nicoletta Fornara, Francesco Viganò, and Marco Colombetti. Agent Communication and Institutional Reality. .
In R. M. van Eijk, M. P. Huget, and F. Dignum, editors, Agent Communication: International Workshop on Agent Communication, AC 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, volume 3396 of LNAI, pages 1-17. Springer Verlag, 2005. (pdf-file)

Francesco Viganò, Nicoletta Fornara, and Marco Colombetti. An Operational Approach to Norms in Artificial Institutions. .
In F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M.P. Singh, and M. Wooldridge editors, Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems AAMAS 2005, pages 1289-1290 (poster), 25-29 July, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2005. (pdf-file)

2004

Marco Colombetti, Nicoletta Fornara, Mario Verdicchio. A Social Approach to Communication in Multiagent Systems.
In J. A. Leite, A. Omicini, L. Sterling, P. Torroni, (Eds.): Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, First International Workshop, DALT 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. LNCS 2990, page 191-220, Springer 2004. (pdf-file)

Nicoletta Fornara, Francesco Viganò, and Marco Colombetti. A Communicative Act Library in the context of Artificial Institutions..
In C. Ghidini, P. Giorgini, and W. van der Hoek, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 04), pages 223-235, Barcelona, Spain, 2004. (pdf-file)

2003

Nicoletta Fornara and Marco Colombetti.
Defining Interaction Protocols using a Commitment-based Agent Communication LanguageProceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, pp.520-527, July 14-18, 2003, Melbourne, Australia (AAMAS 2003) (ps-file).

2002

Marco Colombetti, Nicoletta Fornara and Mario Verdicchio. The Role of Institutions in Multiagent Systems
Ottavo Convegno Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale AI*IA 2002, 10-13 Settembre 2002 Siena, Italia (AI*IA 2002). (pdf-file).

Nicoletta Fornara and Marco Colombetti. Operational Specification of a Commitment-Based Agent Communication Language
Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & MultiAgent Systems pp.535-542, July 15-19, 2002 Bologna, Italy (AAMAS 2002). (ps-file)

2001

Nicoletta Fornara and Luca Maria Gambardella.
An Autonomous Bidding Agent for Simultaneous Auctions
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA-2001)
Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence LNAI 2182, pp. 130-141, Modena, Italy, September 2001. (gzipped ps-file)
This paper describes agent Nidsia qualified for the final phase game of ICMAS-00 Trading Agent Competition

2000

Luca Maria Gambardella, Andrea E. Rizzoli, Nicoletta Fornara, A. Alessandrini and C. Epifani.
The use of simulation in the socio-economical evaluation of the management of an intermodal terminal
In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Harbour, Maritime & Multimodal Logistics Modelling and Simulation, Portofino - Italy, pages 71-76. Society for Computer Simulation, 2000.

1999

Andrea E. Rizzoli, Nicoletta Fornara, Luca Maria Gambardella.
A Simulation Tool for Combined Rail-Road Transport in Intermodal Terminals
Proceedings of International Congress on Modelling and Simulation MODSIM99, pages 901-906 Hamilton, New Zealand, 1999

1998

Monaldo Mastrolilli, Nicoletta Fornara, Luca Maria Gambardella, Andrea E. Rizzoli, Marco Zaffalon
Simulation for policy evaluation, planning and decision support in an intermodal container terminal
In: Merkuryev, Y., Bruzzone, A., Novitsky, L.(Eds.) Proceedings of the International Workshop "Modeling and Simulation within a Maritime Environment" 6-8 September, 1998, Riga, Latvia. Pp. 33-38. Society for Computer Simulation International.

Technical Report

  • Nicoletta Fornara, Francesco Viganò, and Marco Colombetti.
    Agent communication and institutional reality (extended version).
    Technical Report 1, Institute for Communication Technologies, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 2004. (pdf-file)
  • Francesco Viganò, Nicoletta Fornara, and Marco Colombetti.
    An Operational Approach to Norms in Artificial Institutions (extended version).
    Technical Report 2, Institute for Communication Technologies, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 2005. (pdf-file)
  • Nicoletta Fornara , Francesco Viganò, Mario Verdicchio, and Marco Colombetti.
    Artificial Institutions: A Model of Institutional Reality for Open Multiagent Systems.
    Technical Report 4, Institute for Communication Technologies, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 2006. (pdf-file)
  • Nicoletta Fornara and Marco Colombetti.
    Formal Specification of Artificial Institutions Using the Event Calculus.
    Technical Report 5, Institute for Communication Technologies, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 2008. (pdf-file)
    Examples used to test the axioms described in the paper.

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