[agents] WOA 2022 workshop and mini-school: registration deadline July 29th (strict)

[Angelo Ferrando]

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                                 WOA 2022
          23rd edition of the Workshop “From Objects to Agents” (WOA)
                     Genova, Italy, 1-3 September 2022
https://sites.google.com/view/woa2022/home-page

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Dear colleagues, the deadline for registering to WOA2022 (either the  
workshop or the mini-school, or both) is the 29th of July.

Registration is free but mandatory via this link:  
https://sites.google.com/view/woa2022/registration

Our invited speakers for the mini-school are Vadim Malvone (Telecom  
Paris, France) and Roberto Micalizio (University of Turin, Italy); the  
invited speakers for the workshop are Robert Kowalski (Imperial  
College London, UK) and Antonio Camurri (University of Genova, Italy).  
The technical program will feature exciting papers by well known  
researchers inside and outside Italy.

We are waiting for you in Genova (remote connection will be also possible).

Angelo Ferrando and Viviana Mascardi


About the Workshop

After the first successful 22 editions in Parma, Modena, Milano,  
Villasimius, Torino, Camerino, Catania, Genova, Palermo, Parma,  
Rimini, Rende, Milano, Torino, Catania, Napoli, Catania, Scilla,  
Palermo, Parma, Bologna (online) and Bologna, the 23rd edition of the  
Workshop “From Objects to Agents” (WOA) will be hosted by the  
University of Genova from September 1 to 3, 2022, in the beautiful  
location of Casa Paganini - InfoMus, in the recently restored  
monumental building of S.Maria delle Grazie La Nuova.

Following the significant interest that all facets of Artificial  
Intelligence (AI) have been recently obtaining, the topic for WOA 2022  
is

                              Emotional and Believable Human-Agent Interaction

WOA 2022 will bring together researchers to discuss those issues and  
to suggest future research questions and perspectives laying at the  
intersection among Emotional and Believable agents and MAS, and  
Human-Agent Interaction. Therefore, the workshop aims at working as an  
interdisciplinary hub for thinkers, students, researchers, and  
developers who wish to understand and exploit the impact and potential  
of agent- and MAS-based techniques, when combined with Human-Agent  
Interactions.

Topics of Interest:
     Agents theory and technology related to AI or Believable  
Human-Agent Interaction
     Software engineering techniques for agents involving Believable  
Human-Agent Interaction
     Languages and tools for agent-oriented and Believable Human-Agent  
Interaction intelligent systems
     Agent-oriented architectures for Believable Human-Agent Interaction
     eXplainable and ethical AI in agent-oriented models,  
architectures, or systems to support Believable Human-Agent Interaction
     Trust, security, and privacy in the design and development of  
agents capable of a Believable Human-Agent Interaction

Moreover, the following topics are also in the WOA scope:
     Adaptive, animated, and personality-driven agents
     Agent-oriented software engineering
     Agent-based languages and platforms
     Agent-oriented methods and development tools
     Agents and objects
     Agents and sensor networks
     Agent-based modelling and simulation
     Coordination, cooperation and communication for agents
     Formal models for agents and MAS
     Hardware and software infrastructures for agents and multi-agent systems
     Industrial applications of agents and MAS
     Learning, planning and reasoning for agents
     Security, trust and responsibility in MAS
     Software agents and the Web
     Standards and interoperability for agents and MAS
     Theoretical, conceptual and ontological basis of agents and MAS
along with any other MAS-related topic.

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