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Each presentation should be no longer than 20 minutes, 10 minutes are for questions and discussion.

9 May 2016

13:50-14:00: Welcome

14.00-15.30: Invited Speaker (Joint Session with COIN 2016 Workshop)

Implementing Norms -- Why is it so difficult?
Frank P. M. Dignum (Utrecht University)
Many people have made implementations of norms or normative systems over the years. However, the implementations differ widely and no uniform methodology to implement normative systems seemed to have been developed. Why is it so difficult to implement norms? Can't we just have a Norms module that can be added to a system? I will discuss these issues and also point to some possible ways forward

16.00-17:30: Session I

16.00-16.30: A Namespace Approach for Modularity in BDI Programming Languages
Gustavo Ortiz-Hernández, Jomi F. H&uulm;bner, Rafael H. Bordini, Alejandro Guerra-Hernández, Guillermo De J. Hoyos-Rivera, and Nicandro Cruz-RamÃrez
16.30-17.00: ARGO: A Customized Jason Architecture for Programming Embedded Robotic Agents
Carlos Pantoja, Márcio Stabile Jr, Nilson Mori Lazarin, and Jaime Sichman
17.00-17.30: Monitoring Patients with Hypoglycemia using Self-Adaptive Protocol-Driven Agents: a Case Study
Angelo Ferrando, Viviana Mascardi, and Davide Ancona

10 May 2016

9.00-10:30: Session II

9.00-9.30: Limitations and Divergences in Approaches for Agent-Oriented Modelling and Programming
Artur Freitas, Rafael C. Cardoso, Renata Vieira and Rafael H. Bordinim>
9.30-10.00: A Multi-Agent Solution for the Deployment of Distributed Applications in Ambient Systems
Ferdinand Piette, Costin Caval, Cédric Dinont, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, and Patrick Taillibert
10.00-10.30: nDrites: Enabling Laboratory Resource Multi-Agent Systems
Katie Atkinson, Frans Coenen, Phil Goddard, Terry Payne, and Luke Riley

10.30-11.00: Coffee Break

11.00-12:30: Session III

11.00-11.30: How testable are BDI agents? An analysis of branch coverage
Michael Winikoff
11.30-12.00: Data and Norm-aware Multiagent Systems for Software Modularization (Position Paper)
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Diego Calvanese, Roberto Micalizio, and Marco Montali
12.00-12.15: Application Framework with Abstractions for Protocol and Agent Role
Bent Bruun Kristensen
12.15-12.30: Agent Oriented Methodology for Cognitive Agents in Serious Games
Wai Shiang Cheah, John-Jules Meyer, and Kuldar Taveter

12.30-14.00: Lunch Break

14.00-15.30: Invited Speaker

Designing and Programming Multiagent Organizations
Jaime Simão Sichman (Universidade de São Paul)
In the last years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become a major issue in MAS research. Recent applications of MAS on Web Services, Grid Computing and Ubiquitous Computing enforce the need of using these aspects in order to ensure some social order within these systems. One of the ways to assure such a social order is through the so-called multiagent organizations. Multiagent organizations are of two types: either the organization emerge from the activity of the individual agents or it is designed to facilitate and guide some specific global behavior. In the latter case, systems are characterized by the autonomy of the individual participants that however must be able to collaboratively achieve predetermined global goals, within a globally constrained environment. However, there is still a lack of a comprehensive view of the diverse concepts, models and approaches related to multiagent organizations. Moreover, most designers have doubts about how to put these concepts in practice, i.e., how to design and how to program them. This invited talk aims to give some possible answers to such questions

16.00-17.00: Session IV

16.00-16.30: Augmenting Agent Computational Environments with Quantitative Reasoning Modules and Customizable Bridge Rules
Stefania Costantini and Andrea Formisano
16.30-17.00: Reasoning about the Executability of Goal-Plan Trees
Yuan Yao, Lavindra de Silva and Brian Logan

17.00-17.30: Closing