Nicoletta Fornara - Publications at USI

Key publications

• Fornara N., Tampitsikas C. (2013). Semantic Technologies for Open Interaction Systems. Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer Netherlands, ISSN: 0269-2821, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10462-012-9390-7.
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• Tampitsikas C., Bromuri S., Fornara N., Schumacher M. (2012). Interdependent Artificial Institutions in Agent Environments. Applied Artificial Intelligence 26(4):398-427.
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• Fornara N., Viganò F., Colombetti M. (2007). Agent Communication and Artificial Institutions. . Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Springer Netherlands, Volume 14, Number 2, pages 121-142, April, 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10458-006-0017-8.
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• Fornara N. (2011). Specifying and Monitoring Obligations in Open Multiagent Systems using Semantic Web Technology.. In A. Elçi, M. Tadiou Kone, M. A. Orgun (Eds). Semantic Agent Systems: Foundations and Applications, volume 344 of Studies in Computational Intelligence, pages 25-46. Springer-Verlag, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18308-9.
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• Fornara N., Okouya D., Colombetti M. (2012). Using OWL 2 DL for expressing ACL Content and Semantics. Massimo Cossentino, Michael Kaisers, Karl Tuyls, Gerhard Weiss editors, Multi-Agent Systems 9th European Workshop, EUMAS 2011, Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 14-15, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, LNAI 7541, pp. 97-113, Springer, Heidelberg, 2012. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-642-34799-3_7.
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Journal Articles (with peer-review)

• Chopra A., Artikis A., Bentahar J., Colombetti M., Dignum F., Fornara N., Jones A., Singh M., Yolum P. (2013). Research Directions in Agent Communication. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) Vol. 4, No. 2, 2013. Accepted in March 2011.
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• Fornara N., Tampitsikas C. (2013). Semantic Technologies for Open Interaction Systems. Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer Netherlands, ISSN: 0269-2821, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10462-012-9390-7.
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• Argente E., Boissier O., Carrascosa C., Fornara N., McBurney P., Noriega P., Ricci A., Sabater-Mir J., Schumacher M., Tampitsikas C., Taveter K., Vizzari G., Vouros G. (2013). The Role of the Environment in Agreement Technologies. Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer Netherlands, ISSN: 0269-2821, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10462-012-9388-1.
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• Tampitsikas C., Bromuri S., Fornara N., Schumacher M. (2012). Interdependent Artificial Institutions in Agent Environments. Applied Artificial Intelligence 26(4):398-427.
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• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2010). Representation and monitoring of commitments and norms using OWL. . In J. Sabater-Mir and P. Davidsson, eds., Special issue: European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS) 2009, AI Communications, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Volume 23, Number 4/2010, pages 341-356, ISSN 0921-7126 (Print) 1875-8452.
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• Fornara N., Viganò F., Verdicchio M., Colombetti M. (2008). 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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10506-007-9055-z.
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• Fornara N., Viganò F., Colombetti M. (2007). Agent Communication and Artificial Institutions. . Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Springer Netherlands, Volume 14, Number 2, pages 121-142, April, 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10458-006-0017-8.
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• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2004). A commitment-based approach to agent communication. Applied Artificial Intelligence an International Journal, Taylor & Francis Group, 18(9-10):853-866, 2004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08839510490509054.
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• Rizzoli A., Fornara N., Gambardella L. (2002). A Simulation Tool for Combined Rail-Road Transport in Intermodal Terminals. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Elsevier Science, 59/1-3 pp. 57-71.

Books

• De Vos M., Fornara N., Pitt J., Vouros G. (2011). COIN 2010 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 2010, COIN@MALLOW 2010, Lyon, France, August 2010, Revised Selected Papers. LNCS/LNAI 6541/2011, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-642-21267-3.
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• Noriega P., Vázquez-Salceda J., Boella G., Boissier O., Dignum V., Fornara N., Matson E. (2007). 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-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-74457-3.
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Book Chapters

• Fornara N., Lopes Cardoso H., Noriega P., Oliveira E., Tampitsikas C. (2013). Modelling Agent Institutions. In S. Ossowski (ed.), Agreement Technologies, Law, Governance and Technology Series, Vol. 8, pages 277-307, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013, DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5583-3_18.
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• Fornara N., Ježić G., Kušec M., Lovrek I., Podobnik V., Tržec K. (2013). Semantics in Multi-Agent Systems. In S. Ossowski (ed.), Agreement Technologies, Law, Governance and Technology Series, Vol. 8, pages 115-136, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013, DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5583-3_7.
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• Fornara N. (2011). Specifying and Monitoring Obligations in Open Multiagent Systems using Semantic Web Technology.. In A. Elçi, M. Tadiou Kone, M. A. Orgun (Eds). Semantic Agent Systems: Foundations and Applications, volume 344 of Studies in Computational Intelligence, pages 25-46. Springer-Verlag, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18308-9.
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• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2009). Specifying Artificial Institutions in the Event Calculus. 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..
• Colombetti M., Fornara N., Verdicchio M. (2003). Speech acts in artificial agent communication. In A. Giacalone Ramat, E. Rigotti, e A. Rocci, a cura di, Linguistica e nuove professioni, Franco Angeli, Milano, 70-92.

Conference Proceedings

• Urovi V., Olivieri A., Bromuri S., Fornara N., Schumacker M. (2013). A Peer to Peer Agent Coordination Framework for IHE based Cross-Community Health Record Exchange. In Proceedings of the 28th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2013), Coimbra, Portugal March 18-22, 2013..
• Urovi V., Olivieri A., Bromuri S., Fornara N., Schumacker M. (2012). An Agent Coordination Framework for IHE based Cross-Community Health Record Exchange. . Proceedings of the VII Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care, A2HC 2012, co-located with AAMAS 2012, 4th June 2012 Valencia, Spain. .
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• Okouya D., Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2012). An Infrastructure for Open Interaction Systems (Position paper). Proceedings of the AT 2012 First International Conference on Agreement Technologies, October 15 - 16, 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. pages 442-443, Vol-918 urn:nbn:de:0074-918-8, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-918/, ISSN 1613-0073.
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• Argente E., Boissier O., Carrascosa C., Fornara N., et al. .. (2012). Environment and Agreement Technologies (Position paper). . Proceedings of the AT 2012 First International Conference on Agreement Technologies, October 15 - 16, 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, pages 260-261, Vol-918 urn:nbn:de:0074-918-8, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-918/, ISSN 1613-0073..
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• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2012). Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions: Retrospective Review. In Chiaki Sakama, Sebastian Sardina, Wamberto Vasconcelos, and Michael Winikoff, editors, International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2011), volume LNAI 7169, pp. 117–119 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg..
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• Fornara N., Okouya D., Colombetti M. (2012). Using OWL 2 DL for expressing ACL Content and Semantics. Massimo Cossentino, Michael Kaisers, Karl Tuyls, Gerhard Weiss editors, Multi-Agent Systems 9th European Workshop, EUMAS 2011, Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 14-15, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, LNAI 7541, pp. 97-113, Springer, Heidelberg, 2012. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-642-34799-3_7.
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• Fornara N., Tampitsikas C. (2012). Using OWL Artificial Institutions for dynamically creating Open Spaces of Interaction. Proceedings of the AT 2012 First International Conference on Agreement Technologies, October 15 - 16, 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, pages 281-295, Vol-918 urn:nbn:de:0074-918-8, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-918/, ISSN 1613-0073.
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• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2010). Ontology and Time Evolution of Obligations and Prohibitions using Semantic Web Technology. In M. Baldoni, J. Bentahar, and M. v. R. J. Lloyd, editors, Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VII, volume 5948/2010 of LNCS, pages 101¿118. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2010.
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• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2009). Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions. In M. Baldoni, T. Son, B. van Riemsdijk, M. Winikoff editors, Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VI: 6th International Workshop, DALT 2008 Estoril, Portugal, May 2008 Revised Selected and Invited Papers, volume 5397 of LNCS, pages 1-17. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2009 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93920-7, ISBN 978-3-540-93919-1..
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• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2008). Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions (Short paper) . Proc. of 7th Int.Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Padgham, Parkes, Müller and Parsons (eds.), May, 12-16., 2008, Estoril, Portugal, pp. 1481-1484..
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• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2007). Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions. 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.
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• Fornara N., Viganò F., Colombetti M. (2005). 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, vol. 3396 of LNAI, pages 1¿17. Springer Verlag, 2005.
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• Viganò F., Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2005). An Event Driven Approach to Norms in Artificial Institutions. In O. Boissier, et al. editors, Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems ANIREM 2005, OOOP 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2005, LNCS, Volume 3913, Jan 2006, pages 142-154.
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• Fornara N., Viganò F., Colombetti M. (2004). 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.
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• Colombetti M., Fornara N., Verdicchio M. (2004). A Social Approach to Communication in Multiagent Systems. In J. A. Leite, A. Omicini, L. Sterling, and P. Torroni, editors, Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, volume 2990 of LNAI, page 121-150. Springer.
• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2003). A Commitment based Agent Communication Language. Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems EUMAS.
• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2003). Defining Interaction Protocols using a Commitment-based Agent Communication Language. . In J. S. Rosenschein, T. Sandholm, M. Wooldrige, M. Yokoo, editors. Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2003), ACM Press, Melbourne, Australia, 520-527.
• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2002). Operational Specification of a Commitment-Based Agent Communication Language. Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS02) pp. 535-542, July 15-19, Bologna, Italy .
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• Colombetti M., Fornara N., Verdicchio M. (2002). The role of institutions in multiagent systems. Ottavo Convegno Associazione Italiana per l\'Intelligenza Artificiale AI*IA 2002, 10-13 Settembre 2002 Siena, Italia .
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• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2001). 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.
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Contributions to Conferences

• Fornara N., Colombetti M., Okouya D. (2011). A Framework of Open Interactions based on Web Services and Semantic Web Technologies. Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems EUMAS 2011, Maastricht, NL, 14th-15th November 2011..
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• Fornara N. (2009). Open Interaction System Specification and Monitoring Using Semantic Web Technology. in Proceedings of the MALLOW (Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops) Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent systems in On-line Communities (COIN@MALLOW09) (http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/coin-at-mallow-2009/) Work in Progress, Torino, Italy, 7th-12th September, 2009.
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• Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2006). 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), Lisbona, Portugal, 14th-15th December 2006..

Journal Articles (without peer-review)

• Colombetti M., Fornara N., Verdicchio M. (2003). 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.
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